Gompers

I hope the Titans season is anti-preseason.

I know I have expressed my lack of appreciation for SW solo stuff...but I have really been mesmerized by the song Drive Home. Wow. I almost don't want it to end.

The last couple days I listened to all of Steven Wilson's solo material. Many tunes I skipped at halfway through the songs and forced myself to listen to what I did. It just doesn't have what I liked about PT. OK. Enough of that. No use wishing PT would return. Probably wouldn't be the same anyway.

If he wasn't 100% into it, but he carried on for the fans, how good would it be? It would most likely be shit. So he did what he had to do, ended it on a high and made the albums that he wanted to, or had to.

Except that The Incident wasn't a high in my opinion and was morphing into what sounded more like his solo stuff. I think Wilson's involvement with remastering classic Prog albums and the accolades for being the next Prog god pushed his solo writing beyond melodic and into experimental jazz almost, which I am not a fan of even a little. The PT Signify through FOABP to me are simply amazing. To me, there was a near perfect mix of melody and Progressiveness, like Rush in a way. Maybe PT ended when it needed to. I will carry a torch for the band as one of the best in its genre.

Whatever the case he's not that guy anymore, the PT guy you admire, and it seems very unlikely he ever will be again. So you may as well accept reality and just enjoy the PT stuff that exists and forget about the solo stuff. No point constantly bitching about it, you've already made these points several times already.

Yeah, I have a problem with missing great music and hoping for more. This thread was about just that. It won't come back and if it did, it will suck. However, I would really like to be happily surprised should it return.

PT will never be replicated or surpassed.

 

I have all the Steven Wilson solo stuff. The Japanese stuff, the limited boxes stuff.

 

Damn, what a waste of money and time to my ears as I type this.

 

"To The Bone" is pure shit.

 

Wilson wishes he could write quality pop like Tobias Forge.

 

When the money runs out just watch kids. Steven will get PT back for a cash grab album and reunion tour. All of you addicts will open up your wallets for it.

 

I'll give my money to GHOST.

 

A real pop prog rock band.

I listened to To The Bone and it really sounds like an attempt at mainstream pop radio. There may have been two songs I liked, Permanating being one. And Hand. Cannot. Erase. had a few as well, but again, no Wilson solo release is as immersive start to finish as PT. I will Spotify some Ghost I think. Currently Opeth has been one of my "new" favs.

The last couple days I listened to all of Steven Wilson's solo material. Many tunes I skipped at halfway through the songs and forced myself to listen to what I did. It just doesn't have what I liked about PT. OK. Enough of that. No use wishing PT would return. Probably wouldn't be the same anyway.

If he wasn't 100% into it, but he carried on for the fans, how good would it be? It would most likely be shit. So he did what he had to do, ended it on a high and made the albums that he wanted to, or had to.

Except that The Incident wasn't a high in my opinion and was morphing into what sounded more like his solo stuff. I think Wilson's involvement with remastering classic Prog albums and the accolades for being the next Prog god pushed his solo writing beyond melodic and into experimental jazz almost, which I am not a fan of even a little. The PT Signify through FOABP to me are simply amazing. To me, there was a near perfect mix of melody and Progressiveness, like Rush in a way. Maybe PT ended when it needed to. I will carry a torch for the band as one of the best in its genre.

Ultimately in the end, porcupine tree was a solo project.

I like to think the other musicians had more creative input.

The last couple days I listened to all of Steven Wilson's solo material. Many tunes I skipped at halfway through the songs and forced myself to listen to what I did. It just doesn't have what I liked about PT. OK. Enough of that. No use wishing PT would return. Probably wouldn't be the same anyway.

Nice find

I don't see anything online yet about Stern passing away. What's up, Gomp?

This was a substance without style. A play on the words rest in peace. Wiseguyism. Didn't anyone read the blurb within? If not it exemplifies how social media effects us.

 

Yeah, but putting "RIP" in the thread title, with all the celebrity deaths we've had the past two years, is not the coolest thing to do. Yes, I read your blurb -- I read it as a euphemism for Stern dying and doing his next show from heaven.

OK, poor choice. Got it.

I don't see anything online yet about Stern passing away. What's up, Gomp?

This was a substance without style. A play on the words rest in peace. Wiseguyism. Didn't anyone read the blurb within? If not it exemplifies how social media effects us.

Howard, I hope you can rest peacefully during your next nap and follow it up with another awesome show.

On the Signals release, Digital Man clearly says Analog Kid.

Yanny....that is all. How can the "Y" sound like the "L" sound. This is messed up. Even the end "anny" sounds nothing like "aurel".

The epicness of Hemi does it. NatSci is great but too short.

I don't know. I just picked up a few Big Big Train cds at a prog festival I was at over the past weekend in Pennsylvania and while there was some good and even great material on them I was sort of disappointed. Maybe the fact that they were so hyped up had something to do with it. Not a bad band just over rated imo. Then again maybe they'll grow on me as I explore more of their catalog.

 

I've never been a fan myself. I clearly don't get it.

Me too. So far anyway. That being said, it took over a year to get into Porcupine Tree.

I have been really digging this three piece with a huge sound. Dream the Electric Sleep https://youtu.be/8TKTy6Z5Hls

"Queen Of The Reich"

 

Ok I'm stop! LOL!

 

I don't want to hi"jack" my own thread! I mean "queen!" LOL!

Where is your thread on Opera/Classically trained rockers?

Queen is also in common with them. Killer Queen and March of the Black Queen. The Who, Acid Queen. Mountain, Mississippi Queen. Aerosmith, Kings and Queens. It goes on and on.

 

Me just now in Whitley Bay.

What are those ugly things in the background? Ooops...wrong sub.

Hem, PeW, Snakes

Me and the missus at the House of Blues in Disney Springs on my birthday last fall. Man the food was bountiful and delish.

 

"Is it legal to marry a song"....LOL!!!!

So I will put it here as Rush related. Pay attention to the singer's T, you high fiving m-f'er.

I am a fan, boy!