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4Influenced by:
5+ Music/PinkFloyd, Music/{{Opeth}}, Music/{{Camel}}, Music/DonnaSummer, Music/{{ABBA}}, Music/{{Cardiacs}}, Music/{{XTC}}, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Music/{{Gojira|Band}}, Music/{{SunnO}}, Music/{{Meshuggah}}, Tangerine Dream, Music/AphexTwin, Music/NineInchNails, Music/{{Neurosis}}, Music/{{Can}}, Music/{{Squarepusher}}, Conrad Schnitzler, Klaus Schulze, Music/{{Neu}}
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8Porcupine Tree is an English ProgressiveRock group formed by Music/StevenWilson. They are known to combine elements of rock, {{Ambient}}, PsychedelicRock, {{Krautrock}}, electronica and (since ''In Absentia'') HeavyMetal into their music. Many critics have hailed them as the modern-day Music/PinkFloyd when their popularity increased in TheNineties, but Steven Wilson has expressed his dissatisfaction with this label, preferring that Porcupine Tree be known as "the old Porcupine Tree" or "the new Porcupine Tree" (as opposed to the "new" somebody else).
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10Porcupine Tree started in 1987 as a psychedelic/space rock band with only Steven Wilson, who was signed to Delerium Records after a period of distributing his own cassettes and passing off PT as an old forgotten FakeBand, like [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap Spinal Tap]]. On Delerium, Wilson released two and a half albums [[IAmTheBand largely recorded by himself with overdubbing and drum machines]] (some songs on ''The Sky Moves Sideways'' were performed by all the band members) before turning PT into an actual band. Their fourth album, ''Signify'', was their first album where all the band members played. Their next album, ''Stupid Dream'', slightly withdrew from the spacy, psychedelic, EpicRocking material on their earlier albums, adding elements of AlternativeRock and accentuating their ProgressiveRock influences. Starting with ''In Absentia'', their albums have started getting heavier and veering into progressive metal territory, although not to the extent of such bands as Music/{{Opeth}} or Music/DreamTheater.
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12Porcupine Tree went on hiatus in 2010 following Music/StevenWilson's interest in continuing his solo career; in 2018 Wilson declared Porcupine Tree "finished", but eventually announced a reformation in 2021 as a trio, with a new album titled ''Closure/Continuation'' released in June 2022.
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14Steven Wilson is known to be close friends with [[Music/{{Opeth}} Mikael Ã…kerfeldt]]; the two have collaborated with each other's bands: Wilson sang backing vocals on and produced four Opeth albums (''Blackwater Park'', ''Deliverance'', ''Damnation'', and ''Heritage'') while Ã…kerfeldt contributed backing vocals to three songs on ''Deadwing'' and a guitar solo to "Arriving Somewhere But Not Here". The two have even collaborated on a project entitled 'Storm Corrosion'.
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17!!Porcupine Tree's members are:
18* Music/StevenWilson (guitar, vocals, keyboards, [[IAmTheBand bass and drums/drum machine on the first few albums as well]], various other instruments)
19* Richard Barbieri (keyboards/synth since 1993, formerly a member of Music/{{Japan}})
20* Gavin Harrison (drums since 2002)
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22!!Former members and noteworthy guest appearances:
23* Colin Edwin - bass guitar (1993-2012)
24* John Wesley (guitar, vocals 2002-2012, touring member only)
25* Chris Maitland - drums (1993-2002)
26* [[Music/{{Opeth}} Mikael Ã…kerfeldt]] - guitar, backing vocals on Deadwing (Opeth member)
27* Adrian Belew - guitar on Deadwing (Music/KingCrimson member)
28* Alex Lifeson - guitar solo on "Anesthetize" (Music/{{Rush|Band}} member)
29* Robert Fripp - soundscapes on "Way Out Of Here" and guitar on "Nil Recurring" (Music/KingCrimson member)
30* Suzanne Barbieri - vocals on "Up the Downstair" and "The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 2" (Richard's wife, one of the few other vocalists on a PT album besides Wilson)
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33!!Discography:
34* ''On the Sunday of Life'' (1991) - consists of tracks from the early cassettes ''Tarquin's Seaweed Farm'', ''Love, Death & Mussolini'' and ''The Nostalgia Factory''. Wilson mentioned in the reissue's liner notes that this album is impossible to remaster because it was recorded directly to tape on various 4-, 8- and 16-track machines at his home, and the tracks would be wiped once he finished a song.
35** ''Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape'' (1992) is a compilation of the early leftover tracks that didn't make it on ''Sunday''. Includes the original cassette version of "Radioactive Toy", a song that was re-recorded for ''Sunday''. The CD version has a cover of "The Cross" by Music/{{Prince}}, while the vinyl version replaces that with "Out" (originally from ''Love, Death & Mussolini'').
36* ''Up the Downstair'' (1993) - features {{Early Bird Cameo}}s from Barbieri and Edwin; PT only became a functioning band after the album was released.
37** Remastered, partially re-recorded with the band and re-released in 2005, bundled with the ''Staircase Infinities'' EP.
38* ''The Sky Moves Sideways'' (1995) - ''almost'' their first band effort; time constraints during recording meant that "The Moon Touches Your Shoulder" and "Dislocated Day" were entirely recorded by Wilson alone.
39** Similarly remastered, re-recorded with Harrison's drums and re-released in 2003. None of the three editions (UK, USA, remaster) have the same tracklist, or the same version of "Moonloop".
40* ''Signify'' (1997) - their first full-band effort.
41** Remastered and re-released in 2003, bundled with the demos / outtakes disc ''Insignificance''.
42* ''Music/StupidDream'' (1999) - the album where they started moving away from psychedelia towards prog-rock.
43** Remastered in 5.1 surround sound for DVD-A in 2006.
44* ''Lightbulb Sun'' (2000)
45** Remastered in 5.1 surround sound for DVD-A in 2008.
46* ''In Absentia'' (2002) - the start of their move towards ProgressiveMetal
47* ''Deadwing'' (2005)
48** ''In Absentia'' and ''Deadwing'' were both remastered and reissued on vinyl in 2018, and a deluxe edition of ''In Absentia'' was released in 2020.
49* ''Fear of a Blank Planet'' (2007)
50* ''The Incident'' (2009)
51* ''Closure / Continuation'' (2022)
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53Plus the predictable [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcupine_Tree_discography bunch of EPs, compilations, rarities and live albums]].
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56!!Only apathy, from the tropes in me, it's all in me, all in you:
57* AfterTheEnd: "A Smart Kid" and "Radioactive Toy" are about a nuclear war.
58* AlbumIntroTrack: "What You Are Listening To", "Bornlivedie" and "Occam's Razor".
59* AlbumTitleDrop: The title of ''Up the Downstair'' comes from a spoken line from the separately released ''Voyage 34''. Averted with the {{TitleTrack}}s of ''On the Sunday of Life'', ''Up the Downstair'', ''Signify'' and ''Stupid Dream'', which are instrumentals (though ''Stupid Dream'' appears as a lyric elsewhere on the album, in "Piano Lessons"), whilst those of ''Deadwing'', ''Fear of a Blank Planet'' and ''The Incident'' don't mention the title at all. Played straight on ''The Sky Moves Sideways'' and ''Lightbulb Sun'', however.
60* AnimatedMusicVideo: "Bonnie the Cat"
61* ArcSymbol: Trains seem to show up a lot.
62* BlasphemousBoast[=/=]BiggerThanJesus: "Slave Called Shiver":
63-->I may be nothing now, but I will rise\
64I'll have more followers than Jesus Christ
65* {{Breather Episode}}: "Sentimental", which is stuck between [[{{Epic Rocking}} "Anesthetize"]] and "Way Out of Here", two of their bleaker songs.
66* CerebusSyndrome: Seen most from ''In Absentia'' onwards - while there were always darker themes present here and there in their music ("Radioactive Toy", much of ''Signify''), the earlier music was usually lighter, more whimsical and psychedelic, even when the lyrics were dark (compare the lyrics of "Radioactive Toy" to the almost Music/{{Pink Floyd}}ian arrangement). As time's gone on, both the music and the lyrics have become dark and pessimistic. For a good example, compare "Nine Cats" to "Fear of a Blank Planet". Same could be said about No-Man, Music/StevenWilson's band together with Tim Bowness. Compare "You Grow More Beautiful" to "Mixtaped"
67* {{Concept Album}}: Almost all their albums have uniting themes, although they aren't always concept albums in the strictest sense.
68** ''Signify'' is about the ways that people try to feel that their lives matter.
69** ''Lightbulb Sun'' is concerned largely with relationships that are broken, ending or haunting people after they end.
70** ''In Absentia'': Loosely tells the story of a serial killer
71** ''Deadwing'': While not necessarily one, it does link together elements of a movie script Steven was writing. Most will theorize the album's plot to be a MindScrew of [[ISeeDeadPeople seeing spirits]].
72** ''Fear of a Blank Planet'': Told from the viewpoint of a teenager in modern-day society, isolated and alienated by prescription drugs and mass media. According to that other [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_a_Blank_Planet#Concept wiki]] it was heavily influenced by Creator/BretEastonEllis' novel ''Literature/LunarPark''.
73** ''The Incident'': Has a theme of moments that change someone's life forever. The title track was inspired by a car accident Wilson witnessed, and his thoughts that the word "incident" was a very cold way to describe an event that could destroy people's lives. Another song (The Blind House) was inspired by the US government raid on a cult's ranch in Texas where polygamous marriages to teenage girls were going on.
74* CoverVersion: The US version of ''Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape'' includes a cover of Music/{{Prince}}'s "The Cross", and ''Signify'' includes a cover of [[Music/{{Neu}} Neu!'s]] "Hallogallo".
75* CreepyChild: Whole gangs of these appear in the "Fear of a Blank Planet" video.
76* CultColony: "The Blind House" is about a particularly abusive example, inspired by actual polygamist cults in the US.
77* DarkerAndEdgier: More and more with each subsequent album, both musically and lyrically. While the band has always been morose, try comparing ''Lightbulb Sun'', which is essentially a proggy alt-rock record with some sad and macabre themes, to ''In Absentia'', a borderline progressive metal record which prominently deals with serial killers, to see just how much darker the band got later on.
78* DeadlyEuphemism: "Sleep Together" isn't about sleeping, or even about sex. [[spoiler:It's about a suicide pact.]]
79* DistinctDoubleAlbum: ''The Incident''[='=]s first disc is devoted to the fourteen-track, nearly-hour-long title suite, while four unrelated songs are included on the second disc. The album, at around seventy-six minutes long, is short enough to fit on a single CD, but Music/StevenWilson ''really'' wanted people to think of the bonus songs as unrelated. Averted with the DVD-Audio version, which is all on one disc, and arguably with the vinyl version as well, which is still on two [=LPs=], but the title suite takes three of the four sides.
80* DownerEnding: In a musical sense, every one of their albums from ''Stupid Dream'' onward. Also, if you view ''In Absentia'' as a story, it has this in a narrative sense no matter how you interpret the story.
81** Even more so with ''Fear of a Blank Planet'', in which the protagonist is [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide]].
82* DroneOfDread: Used quite often, most notably in "Light Mass Prayers".
83* EpicRocking: Oh god, where do we start. In the lengthy but not all too crazy category, "Dark Matter", "Deadwing, Burning Sky", "Up the Downstair", "Don't Hate Me", "Arriving Somewhere but Not Here", "Hatesong", and "Radioactive Toy", to name a few in the 8-12 minute range. "Anesthetize", "Russia on Ice", each half of "The Sky Moves Sideways", the full version of "Even Less", and the album version of "Moonloop" are all around 14-17 minutes (with the unedited version being 40 minutes - around the maximum amount of material you can fit on two sides of vinyl before you start risking audio quality sacrifices). The full version of "The Sky Moves Sideways" is around half an hour long, the album ''The Incident'' is a 55-minute "song cycle" (alongside a second 20-minute disc), and ''Voyage 34'' is made up of four lengthy parts that equal 70 minutes.
84* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Every single song on the first disc of ''The Incident'' (if you consider them to be individual songs), plus some others.
85* TheFashionista: Near the beginning of "Shesmovedon", there's a sarcastic remark about someone who buys/subscribes to "culture magazines" purely for the purpose of keeping up with fashion trends, paying no attention to anything in them other than the fashion photos:
86-->Your newest craze\
87Straight out of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Face_(magazine) The Face]], by the bed, unread
88* TheFourChordsOfPop: Discussed in "Four Chords That Made a Million".
89* FunWithAcronyms: "Linton Samuel Dawson"
90* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: The re-released editions of ''Up the Downstair'' and ''The Sky Moves Sideways'' replace the programmed drums with real recorded drumming from Gavin Harrison. This is a case of a major change to an album being generally well-received among a band's fan base, as most are quite fond of Harrison's drumming ability.
91* IAmTheBand: Music/StevenWilson was the only member for the first few years of the band's existence and played almost all the instruments himself on the early albums. Afterwards, he still wrote the majority of the songs by himself. After more than a decade of maintaining a solo career, he defied this with ''Closure/Continuation'' by having more prominent contributions from the other members to keep the album from sounding too much like his solo output.
92* {{Instrumentals}}: They have several. "Mother & Child Divided" (from the ''Deadwing'' era) is one example, as is "Nil Recurring" from the EP of the same name; several movements from ''The Incident'' are also examples.
93* ISeeDeadPeople: The plot of ''Deadwing'' is essentially this.
94* LastOfHisKind: "A Smart Kid", about the only survivor of a nuclear war:
95-->A spaceship from another star\
96They ask me where all the people are\
97What can I tell them?\
98I tell them I'm the only one\
99There was a war but I must have won
100* LeadDrummer: Gavin Harrison is legendary for his technical ability, creativity, extremely distinctive and recognizable style, and prolific output between his other bands (most notably Music/KingCrimson) and session work, and Steven Wilson has credited him with being the missing element that pushed the band in the heavier and more overtly progressive direction that made them famous.
101* LighterAndSofter: ''Closure/Continuation'' is significantly less heavy and guitar-oriented than the rest of their post-''Lightbulb Sun'' output, with almost no metal elements and one song ("Walk the Plank") that does not feature any guitar. As per Steven Wilson, this was primarily because he had grown tired of heavy music and partially blamed the increase in metal elements for the creative impasse that helped cause the band's hiatus.
102* LiteraryAllusionTitle:
103** "Occam's Razor" refers to the observation commonly attested to the English Franciscan friar William of Ockham, "Entities should not be multiplied without necessity." (Ockham did not actually use these exact words, but they are a close paraphrase of statements he did actually make.) In other words, when choosing from among competing hypotheses that offer the same explanation, one should choose the simplest hypothesis. This is sometimes oversimplified into "One should always choose the simplest explanation," which is not what the razor actually says. The razor is also not an ironclad rule of logic; it is meant to be a guide rather than a final arbiter.
104** "Great Expectations" shares its name with a [[Literature/GreatExpectations famous novel]] by Creator/CharlesDickens.
105* LiveAlbum: Several, the latest being 2012's ''Octane Twisted''.
106* LongestSongGoesLast: ''Closure/Continuation'' ends with "Chimera's Wreck" (9:39).
107* LoudnessWar: Steven is opposed to this, including a disclaimer in the inner sleeve of ''Deadwing'' that the album is mastered less loud to maintain dynamics.
108** The CD versions are still fairly compressed, though, most likely due to ExecutiveMeddling. There is audible clipping on the CD versions of ''In Absentia'' and especially ''Deadwing,'' but the mastering on later [=CDs=] is less crude. This is largely averted on the DVD-audio 5.1-channel mixes, however, except ''In Absentia'', which, for some reason, is still clipped. (There is still some compression on some channels of the other 5.1 mixes, but not all, and it is not as bad as on the CD versions. The only 5.1 mix that is badly clipped is ''In Absentia''). It is quite possible that the ExecutiveMeddling with his own albums is what sparked Wilson's interest in remixing seemingly every ProgressiveRock album released in TheSeventies (and then some).
109** Averted with Gavin Harrison's solo album ''Cheating the Polygraph'', which is [=DR12=] and sounds great.
110* LyricalDissonance: Oh yes. For a band that mostly makes dark music, some of their more uplifting-sounding songs have this. Perhaps the best examples come from the ''In Absentia'' sessions (given the theme of serial killers), especially "Drown With Me".
111* MushroomSamba: "Voyage 34" is an hour long simulation of an LSD trip.
112* NewSoundAlbum:
113** ''Stupid Dream'' saw the band's focus shift from largely instrumental psychedelic rock to more song-oriented prog rock with occasional instrumentals but more prominent alternative rock leanings.
114** ''In Absentia'' toned down the alt rock leanings in favor of a more metal feel compared to the previous albums.
115* NewTechnologyIsEvil: Steven Wilson dislikes Platform/{{MP3}}s and [=MP3=] players, for decreasing the quality of music and the significance of it, respectively. He takes a few shots at iPods and video games on ''Fear of a Blank Planet''.
116** In his film ''Insurgentes'', he shows this by actually destroying iPods [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06JWDLTx4l0 in]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydaFKXrRjj8 a]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sad-xhIZgz8 number]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMsffbe87lY of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUjl0dXfr5s different]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIQr7HMOF-s ways.]]
117* NightmareFace: On the cover of ''In Absentia''.
118* OlderThanTheyLook: Steven, definitely. [[http://starsdie.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/sw-2014-1024x670.jpg Take a nice long look at this picture.]] He's 47.
119* PrecisionFStrike: There's a particularly effective one in the extended cut of ''Even Less.'' There's another one on "The Incident".
120* ProductionForeshadowing: ''Lightbulb Sun'' songs "Hatesong" and "Russia On Ice" have instrumental sections with distorted guitar riffs, hinting at the next album, ''In Absentia'', shifting towards a more ProgressiveMetal sound.
121* ProgressiveMetal: ''In Absentia'' onward. It helps that ever since that album, the metal community has considered them a member, with websites such as ''Metal Storm'' and ''Metal Underground'' reviewing their latest albums and adding their artist profile to their database.
122* PunBasedTitle:
123** ''Fear of a Blank Planet'' is a shout-out to Music/PublicEnemy's 1990 classic ''Music/FearOfABlackPlanet''.
124** Similarly, "The Creator Has a Mastertape" is named for Pharaoh Sanders' "The Creator Has a Master Plan", which first appeared as a thirty-three-minute epic on his 1969 album ''Karma'' and has been re-recorded several times since.
125** A particularly morbid example is "Sleep Together", which you'd expect to be an IntercourseWithYou song from its title. It is actually about something much, ''much'' darker: [[spoiler:it's the lead character suggesting a SuicidePact, and the end of the song heavily implies that he takes his own life.]]
126** "The Sound of Muzak", based off of Muzak (a brand of piped-in instrumental music that plays in many department stores) and ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''.
127* QuestioningTitle: "How Is Your Life Today?", "What Happens Now?"
128* RearrangeTheSong[=/=]InTheStyleOf: Gavin Harrison's solo album ''Cheating the Polygraph'' consists of big band jazz arrangements of Porcupine Tree material.
129** "Sentimental" (from ''Fear of a Blank Planet'') and "Normal" (from ''Nil Recurring'') share some melodic and lyrical elements, but take them in completely opposite directions. In particular, the singer of "Sentimental" twice says, "I never want to be old," while the singer of "Normal" repeats, "Wish I was old and a little sentimental" (to a BrokenRecord extent, in fact). Despite this, the songs share several musical elements and the lyrics of their chorus.
130** "Shesmovedon" from ''Lightbulb Sun'' was re-recorded in the ''Deadwing'' era and included as a HiddenTrack on several releases of the album.
131* RecordProducer: Steven Wilson does it himself, and has produced other bands (most notably Music/{{Opeth}}). He's also been remixing Music/KingCrimson's old albums for re-release. Other bands he's remixed include Music/{{Caravan}}, Music/JethroTull, Music/GentleGiant, Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer, and Music/{{Hawkwind}}.
132* {{Sampling}}: All of their earlier albums feature sampled speech at some point, especially ''Signify''. "Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled" from ''Lightbulb Sun'' samples a couple of videos of Marshall Applewhite (or "Do", pronounced "doe") (the leader of the religious UFO {{cult}} Heaven's Gate) that were recorded in mid-1996 and in early-1997, respectively, while "Voyage 34" samples Timothy Leary and various other people talking about the various positive effects of LSD.
133* SelfBackingVocalist: Wilson, most of the time. On several tracks, he does polyphonic arrangements with several vocal lines reminiscent of Music/GentleGiant, which is likely a deliberate homage given his love of classic prog.
134* SerialKiller: Several songs on ''In Absentia'', most prominently "Strip the Soul", are about this.
135* SoleSurvivor: "A Smart Kid" is about the last person left alive on earth after a nuclear holocaust. Eventually, they seem to encounter passing aliens and beg to be taken with them, though it could also be interpreted as a DyingDream.
136* TheStinger: After a few seconds of silence on "Dark Matter" (the last track on ''Signify''), a radio voice chimes in with this gem:
137--> "You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks. All those childhood traumas magically wiped away, along with most of your personality."
138* StoicSpectacles: Steven Wilson is a pretty man. More so with glasses than without.
139* ShoutOut:
140** "Pure Narcotic" has one in the first verse, to the Music/{{Radiohead}} album ''Music/TheBends''.
141** A slightly less subtle one would be ''The Sky Moves Sideways'', a psychedelic rock album with five tracks, the first and last of which are halves of the titular song. Does this remind any Music/PinkFloyd fans of [[Music/WishYouWereHere1975 anything]]?
142** And ''The Incident'' contains the song "Time Flies", which is about nostalgia and contains MANY musical and lyrical hat-tips to Music/PinkFloyd -- ''Music/{{Animals|1977}}'' was the first album Steven Wilson bought as a child. It also has passing references to Music/TheBeatles and Music/JimiHendrix.
143** ''Fear of a Blank Planet'' is named after Music/PublicEnemy's ''Music/FearOfABlackPlanet''.
144** Similarly, "The Creator Has a Mastertape" is named for Pharaoh Sanders' "The Creator Has a Master Plan", and part of its chorus lyrics ("The creator had a mastertape, but he left it in a cab") likely refers to an incident during the recording of ''Music/AxisBoldAsLove''[[note]]as described on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis:_Bold_as_Love its Wikipedia article]], and also [[https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/porcupine-tree-album-by-album-song-by-song-mostly.946466/page-52#post-24586658 in this forum thread]][[/note]] when Music/JimiHendrix lost a tape containing what was meant to be the finished mix for side one of the album by accidentally leaving it in the back of a taxi, thus requiring a new mix to be made quickly in order to meet the deadline for the album's release.
145* TheSomethingSong: "Hatesong".
146* TakeThat: A bunch to the music industry, such as "Piano Lessons" and "The Sound of Muzak". The entire ''Fear of a Blank Planet'' album can be seen as one to today's youth popular culture as a whole, with "Anesthetize" directly mentioning MTV.
147** Being as how ''Fear of a Blank Planet'' is told from the perspective of the son of ''Literature/LunarPark''[='=]s middle-aged protagonist, it's debatable whether Steven Wilson is more disgusted with the adult producers or the young consumers.
148** The title of "The Nostalgia Factory" is a swipe at the music press' short attention span (and hilariously, ''Melody Maker'' compared the song to Music/{{Ride}} when it came out, proving the point).
149-->'''Wilson''': One thing I've tended to experience with the British music press is that if you try to talk to them about the history of music, their knowledge often doesn't go back beyond Music/TheStoneRoses or Music/HappyMondays.
150* ThisIsASong: The opening lines of "Hatesong":
151-->This is a hate song just meant for you\
152I thought that I'd write it down while I still could\
153I hope when you hear this you'll want to sue
154* TitleOnlyChorus: "Every Home Is Wired" and "Four Chords That Made A Million".
155* UncommonTime: As PT are a ProgressiveRock band, this is pretty much obligatory. Large portions of "Strip the Soul" are in 5/4, for example, while "The Start of Something Beautiful" mostly switches between 9/8 and 5/4.
156* WordSaladLyrics: Mostly seen on the earlier work, like "Nine Cats".
157** Attributable, to an extent, to the fact that much earlier work featured lyrics which were gifted to Wilson by his friend Alan Duffy, along with the much more psychedelic direction of earlier albums.

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