Composer Reacts to Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (REACTION & ANALYSIS)
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on Deadwing
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0:00 Intro
00:27 Reaction
10:19 Analysis - Everything Is Connected
20:13 Analysis - Metaphorically Stuck
22:59 Analysis - Wild Structure
29:28 Analysis - Lyrical Dive
34:50 Outro
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guest whispery vocals are the courtesy of Mikael Akerfeldt from Opeth :)
I thought I heard something Opeth, but didn't connect the voice. Nice 😊
Ha, I forgot that Adrian Belew guested on this album, but his playing is instantly recognizable as soon as it appears.
Porcupine Tree has been on my list for a while. I really enjoyed this. Definitely adding to my playlist.
Love how fast you caught that the synths are a 12-beat phrase! Yes!!!
Would you say it's a... Stupid Dream? (That's the title of their 1999 album). I love this album and that was a great analysis as always, never really thought about the structure of it being so weird, and the connections between things.
While In Abstentia is my personal favorite PT album, I think Deadwing is their most accomplished album. This song in particular has always made me feel an eerie unsettled urgency throughout, even the spacey section which calms the tempo and urgency a bit, has a sense of foreboding to it like a dream slowly becoming a nightmare. The repetitiveness also drives a lot of that unease. In some ways it feels like a bad trip because you keep looping around the same unfinished ideas, but it’s also driving and energetic which keeps it from being stuck in despair.
Wow - Haken, Wobbler, Sigur Ros, M. Efekt and now this! You are really in my teritory lately.
One of my favorite PT songs, never realized how depressing it is. Always liked the groove and, at occasionally, bursts of energy and relief.
I like your enthusiasm and knowledge, keep it up!
Ah man I love this album so much.
Damn great analysis as always! I always look forward to your Steven Wilson reactions.
Very astute reaction. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here is probably the centerpiece of Deadwing. Given that the theme of the album is an interactive haunting, I think the the sense of dislocation is perfectly suited. Good read, sir. 😎
I bought this record when it was new ('05 I believe) so it was nice to get a fresh perspective on this track. You picked up on a few things I've never thought about for sure, although I've never analysed the track that hard to be honest.
One note I might add: With your interpretation of the song being about worries in life, the synth that goes on throughout the song makes quite a bit of sense. Simply the time ticking on whatever we do. The driving nature of the drums and the bass also gives the impression of being in kind of a hurry.
I would say though that the periodical phrasing of the synth and it's accents is mostly a musical choice, as it might get a bit tedious if it lined up perfectly with a 4-bar phrase. It's just that I've done similar things when I write music and that was my reason for making the pattern a bit more diffuse. Not to say my mind works the same way as Steven's (or Barbieri's), but it's a simple enough approach that more than one person in the world would get the idea.
As someone who is a deeply avowed PT and Steven Wilson fan, totally agree with your speculation that these might be your best reviews. Deadwing is a really interesting album with a fascinating story behind its creation, as well as a narrative that runs through the whole thing, and as someone whose poured over that narrative, you hit on a lot of the beats of what the song means both in isolation and in context of the rest of the record. It’s about a lonely, depressed man living an unfulfilling life being haunted by a spirit that may or may not have some connection to him, as well as the many things about his tragic past he can’t change. I’m far less versed in technical compositional knowledge, but everything you said, particularly in regards to how everything being presented feels familiar but also not quite right, that uncanny feeling is a perfect distillation of how I’ve always felt the song captured a sense of creeping paranoia. We very much hope you’ll cover more of their stuff in the future, as it just uncovers a lot about a band we already love!
What an insightful reaction! Thank you.
Nice reaction, Bryan. Steven Wilson was very interested in getting into film and soundtracks around this time (horror and mystery films, especially), so he developed a story and shopped it around. But he wasn't able to get any interest, so he made it all the basis for this album.
So is "Close to the Edge" going to be part of this series? 😉
I had to double check but I've done Close to the Edge already. This is from quite some time ago though so I wonder if my thoughts on it would be any different today. ruclips.net/video/zfIw-la3NJI/видео.html
Love PT and love this album, which I rank just below In Absentia and Stupid Dream as my favorite from them. This is really where PT started to embrace contemporary metal influences, probably due to Wilson's friendship with Mikhael Akerfeldt from Opeth. At the same time they embraced metal they didn't abandon their Marillion-esque lush textures and dark, brooding atmospheres, and that combination of the metallic riffs with the neo-prog textures/atmospheres is such a sweet combination. I wouldn't say the title track is my favorite on the album, but it is a nice taste of what the album is like.
For the best title track from PT I would have chosen ‘Fear of a blank planet’ or maybe ‘lightbulb Sun’ but always happy to hear Porcupine tree or Steven Wilson whatever the excuse.++++++😊😊😊😊😊
This was my first PT album and it changed my life. One of the most important albums to me as a musician!
Somehow I've yet to listen to a full album from them but your comments makes me want to start here.
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My first song from them was Anesthetize haha. Hooked me after that journey XD
did you notice that there is no chorus? a lot of people don't notice this
I recommend Dutch band Navarone. Album oscillation. Songs? Snake. Or. Days of Yore.
Calling it a “fun” song doesn’t seem quite right, but I do like it. Track 3, “Lazarus,” is a straight up pop song and is just gorgeous - something you don’t often get from PT. I hope you get to it sometime, here or on your own time.
Second half of this album is far superior, imo. But still great music.
god this band is so corny lol. No matter how many times I give them a chance it doesn't work out.
how is it corny?
Are you saying Xbox ISN'T a god to you?
Totally. This is a cheesefest. Like they took all the Pink Floyd cliches and are rehashing them fifty years later. It is all so self-conscious, so phony, no real passion in it. Prog-rock without the "rock".
I tried to introduce a friend to Gesu no Kiwami Otome and he called them "Camel on a bad day"... well, PT is like a prog band "on a bad day".
@@greggerypeccary PT sounds nothing like Pink Floyd
@@greggerypeccary see kids, this is what happens when you "listen" to music by putting all importance to the lyrics. Even worse, is to do this with zero context of what the band is even about. I'm glad Steven decided to base PT upon that, to keep pretentious people like this away from the band.