PT setlist

[dorian gray]

I know you wonderful people are now into either avant-garde jazz (Ken) or black metal (everyone else) but has anyone seen Porcupine Tree on their current tour? If so, what's the setlist? Is it mainly stuff from *The Incident* or what? The stuff from disc 2 is fantastic but I don't know if I could get into the stuff from disc 1 in a live setting. And if there's no time left to play "Open Car" from *Deadwing*, then I would be really sad.
I'm tentatively going to Bogart's in Cinci if anyone wants to join me.
If I go to Atlanta instead, Brann and Bill from Mastodon are going to join me so it sould be fun.

 

[J.]

i like Signify, Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun. After that, they turned into Opeth-lite.

-J.'s PT story.

 

[Krilons Resa]

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

i like Signify, Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun. After that, they turned into Opeth-lite.

-J.'s PT story.

Other way around methinks. Opeth went Porcupine Tree-lite.

 

[J.]

Whatever it was, it sucked.

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

Also, I can't find any U.S. tourdates listed? Also, Porcupine Tree is probably in my top five all time favourite band type groups. "The Incident" was easily my #1 from last years selection.

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

Whatever it was, it sucked.

Have you heard "The Incident" ? I can't say it is "like the earlier material" but it is definitely different than the last three releases from them.

 

[J.]

i really need to revisit PT. I really like Signify and Lightbulb Sun, but Stupid Dream is phenomenal. i dont recall hearing any material from before Signify, and the only other one Ive heard was In Absentia, which turned me completely off and i havent been back since.

who knows though, i'm a softy these days. i guess being a dad can do that to you.

 

[dorian gray]

Being a Dad *definitely* does that to you.
That said, I've had the opposite experience from yours. I have yet to even hear anything from the '90s mainly because I'm afraid I will not like it. I know that's gay but....

*In Absentia* has one of my all-time favourite songs on it - "Heart Attack in a Lay-by". Speaking of, can one of you Brits tell me what a "lay-by" is please?
The rest of the 2000s stuff is fantastic.

I'll have to ruminate for awhile on your idea of PT turning into Opeth-lite (or vice versa). It's obvious they heavily influenced one another and that's fine with me but I don't know about one becoming a version of the other.

 

[dorian gray]

Also, I can't find any U.S. tourdates listed?

http://www.porcupinetree.com/tour.cfm

Where you at these days, mate?

 

[J.]

I'll have to ruminate for awhile on your idea of PT turning into Opeth-lite (or vice versa). It's obvious they heavily influenced one another and that's fine with me but I don't know about one becoming a version of the other.

All i know is that after Blackwater Park was released, every metal listener suddenly had to have every PT release and wanted a piece of Steven Wilson's ass to suction their lips onto.

Later, Opeth would release an entirely acoustic album. Very PTish.

While PT released a heavy (for them, much heavier than the previous three) release with In Absentia.

THose are some fantastic coincidences

 

[J.]

http://www.porcupinetree.com/tour.cfm

Where you at these days, mate?

i just might attend that Houston show. typically, how much is a PT show? a metal show down here costs anywhere from $10-$20 to enter.

 

[Disgustipated]

*In Absentia* has one of my all-time favourite songs on it - "Heart Attack in a Lay-by". Speaking of, can one of you Brits tell me what a "lay-by" is please?
The rest of the 2000s stuff is fantastic.

If it means the same in Pomgolia as it does here, which I can only assume it as seein' as we're Poms at heart anyhoo, it's like what I believe you yanks call a 'raincheck'. Put an item on hold, pay it off, receive item.

But then again, that makes no sense, so with a quick google search I discovered it's actually a parking bay on the side of the road.

 

[dorian gray]

A raincheck would be if someone planned something for you and then it didn't work out. Like a blow job. And your lady got a headache or something. She'd say, "how about a raincheck on that blow job?" with the intention of fulfilling her plan at some later date.

I wonder if you're thinking about "layaway"?

Your definition of lay-by makes sense. I pictured it as a Rest Stop, which is what we call it here. I just thought it was maybe something really neat, which our American Rest Stops are definitely *not*.

 

[J.]

I have yet to even hear anything from the '90s mainly because I'm afraid I will not like it. I know that's gay but....

I went back and listened to a bunch of early PT stuff.Even from the beginning, he had some good stuff (and some crap). On the Sunday of Life is wholly inconsistent. It has some awesome songs (Radioactive Toy) and then some complete garbage.

Up the Downstair is awesome. My wife heard it and she said "stoner music". I like this one a lot. That being said, I can't say I liked The Sky Moves Sideways that much at all. More ambient soundscape stuff just bores me.

Signify is great. Stupid Dream still takes the cake for me, with Lightbulb Sun a close second.

You really need to check out Signify, SD and LS if you haven't.