Steevo Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Fellow TRFers, I have great news to report: I decided to bring Deadwing to work today, and I guess taste changes with age more than I thought - I´m really digging it! Shallow and Lazarus are my favourite so far. I haven´t had a chance to listen to the longer tracks yet, but I´ll try Deadwing and "Arriving Somewhere..." in the afternoon. I guess this proves that some bands/albums take more than one or two listens to be fully understood, right? Especially PT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Ways Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Headphones and having the lyrics in front of you is the best way to see if you are gonna like something 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Fellow TRFers, I have great news to report: I decided to bring Deadwing to work today, and I guess taste changes with age more than I thought - I´m really digging it! Shallow and Lazarus are my favourite so far. I haven´t had a chance to listen to the longer tracks yet, but I´ll try Deadwing and "Arriving Somewhere..." in the afternoon. I guess this proves that some bands/albums take more than one or two listens to be fully understood, right? Sometimes, sure! I had In Absentia at home for over a YEAR (listened a couple times....meh!) before I dug it out, listened, and loved it. It happens. Arriving Somewhere is my all time favorite PT song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 ...once it clicked, I started devouring everything PT. Yeah, same with me. They certainly weren't an instant click for this fan, but once they were...they were. Then I found myself checking out Blackfield, No-Man, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted March 6, 2013 Author Share Posted March 6, 2013 Headphones and having the lyrics in front of you is the best way to see if you are gonna like something I always though that too, but it seems that there´s less and less oportunities to do that nowadays. Plus, there´s too much music on offer and accessible at just one click. Believe it or not, I think that easier access to music is sort of killing it - we hardly spend time waiting for songs to grow on us anymore like we used to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Indeed. I know people who have 10,000 + songs, many/mostly from downloading...and they've not listened to a third of them and when they do, if they're not instantly floored they're bored. Fewer and fewer people are taking their time with music like they used to when they had to save up to buy an album...and gave that record a chance. We're a slightly older than not group here, so I'm guessing that doesn't apply to most of us here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unattractive Truth Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 If you're interested in going further, they recorded the Deadwing Tour (live in Chicago) on DVD. It's called Arriving Somewhere... and it is a fantastic set. If you get a chance to check it out, I highly recommend it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Presto-digitation Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Yup. Great DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shail Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 http://www.amazon.com/Porcupine-Tree-Anesthetize/dp/B003BV8I54 Anesthetiz is a great dvd. you wont be the same person after seeing it. brilliant tunes and killer musicianship. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Not Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 My introduction to them years back was Time Flies. Still, I think, a bad song by them. That put me off outright for a while. Didn't like SW's voice much either. In 2011, I really liked Grace for Drowning, and at that time I got into the Deadwing and Up the Downstair albums exclusively. Late 2012 I decided to expand to other albums, and now I like pretty much every album by them, varying degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMCXII Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Just occured to me.. only a rush fan would say,"help me like this band" lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 My advice is go to youtube and listen to a bunch of PT songs. If after a while you still don't like them then you probably should give up and move onto something else... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod in Toronto Posted March 7, 2013 Author Share Posted March 7, 2013 Just occured to me.. only a rush fan would say,"help me like this band" lolYou know the feeling, right? Of knowing you'll eventually regret not having heard a band for such a ling time when you finally realize they're great? Come to think of it, the same happened with me and Rush...it took me several years to like them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dscrapre Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 (edited) Indeed. I know people who have 10,000 + songs, many/mostly from downloading...and they've not listened to a third of them and when they do, if they're not instantly floored they're bored. Fewer and fewer people are taking their time with music like they used to when they had to save up to buy an album...and gave that record a chance. I see this crap all of the time. I know this guy who will seriously listen to the first 30 or so seconds of a song and then switch it once the first chorus is over. Music is art, but the suits have turned it into a disposable commodity. Slap together a combination of commercially safe lyrics, 120 bpm 4/4 bass-snare beats, and a major key chord progression. Play it constantly for a month on the radio. Rinse, repeat. Music is downloaded for free at an alarming rate, so the only way to make money is over-expose stuff so that everybody hears it and at least some of those people actually buy the single. All they want are showers, nobody has time for growers. I can't imagine one of those types hearing Anesthetize. I wanted to turn it off the first time I listened to it, but I stuck with it. I gave it a few listens to get comfortable with the song, and by the 3rd time, I was hooked. I could see someone trying to make it through the first movement, giving up within a minute and switching to The Black Eyed Peas. Edited March 7, 2013 by Dscrapre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMCXII Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Just occured to me.. only a rush fan would say,"help me like this band" lolYou know the feeling, right? Of knowing you'll eventually regret not having heard a band for such a ling time when you finally realize they're great? Come to think of it, the same happened with me and Rush...it took me several years to like them. That's kinda what I was getting at. Best line I ever heard was from a girl I dated once.. She seemed impressed when I said I'm a rush fan, so I said, "oh, you like Rush too?"She says,"no but I like the fact that you like them because it means you know a lot about music"..I couldn't help but be impressed!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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