Looking for music like Porcupine tree's

[Marvin the Martian]

Originally Posted by musichound

Watershed has fantastic growls!!!

I'm generally not a fan of growls at all.....but I'll try to keep an open mind.

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[musichound]

Originally Posted by Marvin the Martian

I'm generally not a fan of growls at all.....but I'll try to keep an open mind.

I'm not a fan either, but I take exception for Opeth.

[Marvin the Martian]

I will say that Damnation is excellent.....I suppose I should give lestatar a shout out for recommending it to me, many months ago. I guess even he can be right about something once in a while!

Update....listening to Watershed now, and the growls....ugh! They just about drive me to the point where I want to stop the album, and then they end, and some perfectly nice music begins. This album will not be entering the regular rotation, if the first three songs are any indication of the rest of the album. I'm letting it play through, but I'm skeptical at this point...lol.

[steinburger1109]

You square.

[Marvin the Martian]

Originally Posted by steinburger1109

You square.

I'm no square......I have "refined" taste.

[musichound]

Originally Posted by Marvin the Martian

Update....listening to Watershed now, and the growls....ugh! They just about drive me to the point where I want to stop the album, and then they end, and some perfectly nice music begins. This album will not be entering the regular rotation, if the first three songs are any indication of the rest of the album. I'm letting it play through, but I'm skeptical at this point...lol.

Marvin, if you give the album three listens you'll be sold.

[Agent_milo]

Watershed has fantastic growls!!!

Dang! I'll never get used to that crap- it just is too, um, sick?

[musichound]

Is it only me or does Trains hark back to the Battle of Evermoore? By Led Zeppelin, my favorite all time band!

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[Marvin the Martian]

Originally Posted by musichound

Is it only me or does Trains hark back to the Battle of Evermoore? By Led Zeppelin, my favorite all time band!

I can see why you might think that, from the beginning of the song, but when you consider the song as a whole, I don't think so. And if I had to pick one all time favorite band, mine would be Zep too.

[Agent_milo]

Peter Gabriel seems to have a lot of albums under his name. Where do I start? I got UP from a friend, and I'm listening to it right now.

The initial guitar riff in the opening track 'Darkness' made me want to throw my Clip+. God, was it awful! Some of the other songs seem pretty atmosphere. Loving his crazy lyrics.

[Severian]

Don't know how you feel about greatest hits collections, but Shaking The Tree is a pretty good overview. most of the essential tracks are there.

3 (aka Melting Face) and Security are my personal favorites

"The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
James Branch Cabell

[Cynic]

Osi. Apologies if it's been mentioned previously.

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Just a heads up to any drummers out there (or anyone else for that matter). I have found a thread over at drummerworld where you can ask Gavin questions.

The thread is 138 pages long and has been running since 2005 and Gavin has replied to nearly every comment!! My respect for him has just grown even more. Easily one of the greatest drummers out there.

http://www.drummerworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=698

[Agent_milo]

I know I made this thread more than a year back or so, but I didn't find it necessary to make a new one simply to add some more suggestions.

For people who are still on the hunt for music like PT, I found (a while ago, but was too lazy to get up and post about it) two more bands-

The Pineapple Thief - I'm deadly serious when I say this guy sounds almost like Steven Wilson himself, forget the comparisons with the music. I'd say Bruce Soord (lead of TPT) can get a lot more tender and vulnerable than SW could, plus his range is a lot more wider too. Really solid band, especially Tightly Unwound (2008) and the spectacular Someone Here is Missing (2010). I'd say this is the band that matches the PTree sound the best.

I'm still trying to get into their new album 'All the Wars'. It's a different sound from what they had, but still good. I had a lot more difficulty getting into PT's The Incident, and honestly this isn't that 'hard'.

Pure Reason Revolution - Fairly unknown band I think. Their pattern is kind of weird though; starting at Prog roots and moving towards a lot more electronic sound. Their 2006 album 'The Dark Third' is simply fantastic! Well musically I'd say, cause I still can't make out half their lyrics plus what's audible doesn't make too much sense as well. Their later albums are not the kind of music I like, sounds a lot like Coldplay's newer offerings (which I despise- well maybe Viva La Vida, which was slick).

What mainly sets this band apart are the vocals- you have a female lead apart from the male front as well, and I absolutely love her voice. It adds a nice feeling overall, and somewhat make the sound different as well- but that may as well be placebo.

It sucks that they split up though- I was mesmerized by that one album, only to end up finding out that this was just a 'taste' with no exploration left to do.