Do TrekBBS users listen to music?

[Tyre]

If you like these guys and Pink Floyd, you should definitely sample some Porcupine Tree, particularly Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun. Trippy prog-rock stuff. In later albums they get more metal-y. Next week they're releasing an album that contains one 55 minute song.

Though, The Sky Moves Sideways and Signify (and Up the Downstair, though I haven't heard it) both sound more like Pink Floyd. Hell, TSMS is structured pretty much exactly like Wish You Were Here. I like Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun more, but they almost sound closer to 90s Radiohead than Pink Floyd.

 

[1001001]

If you like these guys and Pink Floyd, you should definitely sample some Porcupine Tree, particularly Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun. Trippy prog-rock stuff. In later albums they get more metal-y. Next week they're releasing an album that contains one 55 minute song.

Though, The Sky Moves Sideways and Signify (and Up the Downstair, though I haven't heard it) both sound more like Pink Floyd. Hell, TSMS is structured pretty much exactly like Wish You Were Here. I like Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun more, but they almost sound closer to 90s Radiohead than Pink Floyd.

Right. The trippier you want it, the further back you go. The harder you want it, the more recent.

 

[stoneroses]

I love music. If there is a thread here on the subject I usualy stick my oar in.
I would have thoought most people listen to some sort of music.

 

[Steve Roby]

With a user name like stoneroses, I'd expect you to be a music fan. (I like some of their stuff, like "She Bangs the Drum," a lot, but the Madchestery stuff doesn't appeal a lot to me.)

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Based on your post I gave them a bit of a listen. I heard Sleep, Rockets Fall, and Storm. Is this pretty much what they sound like?

I don't mind the slow build, but where's the payoff? I like the ambient quality of it, but it's more like listening to a soundtrack of a movie I'm not watching. Of those three, I liked Storm the best.

There's a lot of up and down (in the motion of the music) to their work sometimes with a payoff, sometimes not. f#a#(infinity) tends to have more payoffs than the other albums which is probably why it's my favorite. Also, you listened to two tracks from one album and one track from another and I have to say their music is best enjoyed as albums as a whole, much like Pink Floyd (and is it surprising that they are two of my favorite bands?). Like I suggested to Steve, check out f#a#(infinity) when you get the chance.

If you like these guys and Pink Floyd, you should definitely sample some Porcupine Tree, particularly Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun. Trippy prog-rock stuff. In later albums they get more metal-y. Next week they're releasing an album that contains one 55 minute song.

Cool, I'll definitely have to check them out when I can.

If you like these guys and Pink Floyd, you should definitely sample some Porcupine Tree, particularly Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun. Trippy prog-rock stuff. In later albums they get more metal-y. Next week they're releasing an album that contains one 55 minute song.

Though, The Sky Moves Sideways and Signify (and Up the Downstair, though I haven't heard it) both sound more like Pink Floyd. Hell, TSMS is structured pretty much exactly like Wish You Were Here. I like Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun more, but they almost sound closer to 90s Radiohead than Pink Floyd.

Right. The trippier you want it, the further back you go. The harder you want it, the more recent.

Good to know. I'll start with the earlier albums (along with the recommendations).

 

[Steve Roby]

I don't generally like much prog, aside from a little King Crimson once in a blue moon (and depending what you consider prog -- if you include Bowie, Roxy Music, Eno, Bebop Deluxe, and krautrock, I like a fair bit of it, but people usually mean ELP, Yes, and early Genesis, which don't do much for me).

But I'm getting a bit intrigued by Porcupine Tree. I keep forgetting Richard Barbieri is a member. He was in Japan, and I really like some of their albums (from Quiet Life on). Don't suppose there's any overlap in the bands' sounds, though.

 

[1001001]

I don't know anything about Japan, but I do think he's a great part of the band. They really know how to use keyboards to maximum effect without overwhelming the music. He's very subtle, and complex.

If you watch him live, he's like a mad scientist back there.

 

[Steve Roby]

Never too late to learn about Japan. The early albums are kind of post-glam rock, then Quiet Life is Roxy Music and Giorgio Moroder-influenced moody new wave disco; a couple years later, Duran Duran dumbed it way down and made a fortune. Gentlemen Take Polaroids is my fave. It's Japan being entirely their own band for the first time (even with a cover song) and it's hard to describe; there are some dance elements, but also some kind of proggish elements. Tin Drum is a much more austere album with Asian music influences.

Japan is generally classed as a new wave band, but its members have gone on to do a lot of proggy and fusiony stuff since then. David Sylvian did a studio album and a live album with Robert Fripp, and also recorded with Can's Holger Czukay. I don't like all the post-Japan stuff, and haven't heard a lot of it, but if you like adventurous musicians trying a lot of different things, they're worth investigating.