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Mad As a Hatter by Larkin Poe live at The Covenant House is beyond awesome, man. PLZ react to it, then Every Bird That Flies by the same band. They're Edgar Allan Poe's great great great great grandkids, and they are AWESOME!!! Quote the Raven, FOREVERMORE!!!
Thanks for reacting to my request, made my day. This is only the short edit version. The live one is much better, but glad you finally get to hear Porcupine tree, and hopefully more reactions of their music to come
"Fear of a Blank Planet" is a fantastic concept album that should be heard in its entirety. Gavin Harrison's drumming on the live version of "Anesthetize" will blow your mind. Steven Wilson, the genius behind Porcupine Tree, has an interesting solo catalog along with many collaborative projects, and he has remastered many great progressive albums in recent years. Steven's cover of Alanis Morissette's "Thank U" is also an amazing performance. I love your reactions to progressive rock!
@@ericwilson5453 100% agree. This is where I heard Hate Song for the first time, then watched it 20 more times. One of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Shame you did not hear the live version but hopefully there will be another Porcupine Tree reaction that you can see them live. Their studio work is amazing as you would expect from a band led by the guy that is the go to dude for all the 70s and 80s prog bands who want their albums refreshing in digital format, but the live performances add just that extra sprinkling of pixie dust that makes them magical. ‘Anesthetize’ and ‘Arriving somewhere but not here’ are long but two of the best progressive rock tracks of any era.(both are live on YT)
Check out 'Anesthetize' - it is a phenomenal track by PT, with jaw-dropping drumming from Gavin Harrison. Singer and Guitarist, Steven Wilson, has made some great records too. Check out, 'Drive Home'.
:( Seriously missed the boat by not doing the live in Tilburg version. Porcupine Tree are an amazing band that have so much more force live. I recommend a redo on this one!
I went on a 3hr tour with Porcupine Tree Live …it was a highlight from last year …great musicianship all around … look foward to what you discover next from them Polo
There’s about 20 Porcupine Tree songs I would have suggested before Way out of here… Blackest Eyes Shallow Anesthetize Arriving somewhere but not here Trains For starters…
First saw PT 20 something years ago in a small club in Cincinnati ! Fantastic live show.....now own alot of their discography! Sometimes we are all little kids.....looking or hoping for way out of here!
When i first listened to Porcupine Tree it came about from listening to a lot of psychedelic rock in the late mid to late 80's, and the early music really did have that feel, i only just descaled them again a few years back and still slowly going through their catalog which is way more progressive rock now. but totally amazing. i could not even start to say what to listen to next.
So many great songs by Porcupine Tree. I would suggest listening to the album trio "In Absentia" (2002), "Deadwing" (2005) and "Fear of a Blank Planet" (2007). The live video from 2010, "Anesthetize" is also fantastic! Songs: "Trains", "Deadwing", "Arriving Somewhere but not Here", "Halo", "Fear of a Blank Planet" and of course "Anesthetize". Enjoy, looking forward to reactions 😃
PT is one of the most amazing bands! Watch the Anesthetized song live in Tilburg. FIRST CLASS !! THEY ARE AS GOOD LIVE AS THEY ARE IN THE STUDIO .Gavin Harrison the drummer is rated right up there with Danny Carey! The Hate Song live shows off his drumming finesse!
Really great song. I'm a recent convert to Porcupine Tree. Personally, I would have started with a different song. I love everything off Deadwing. They are a RABBIT HOLE worth tumbling in.
With Porcupine Tree you should always, and I mean ALWAYS, take the live video if possible (as was asked). Still, great reaction once again. And such a beautiful song of dark subject matter, as it is often with PT.
Rule of thumb, listen to all Porcupine Tree as live recordings. They are one of those bands that are way better live. Only a few exceptions where their videos are awesome and add lots of meaning to the song.
Opeth, Katatonia, Porcupine Tree (Steven Wilson and all of his projects).......you can never go wrong. These dudes have been with me for 2 and a half decades now.
Band- 10 years / the humming bird effect. You’ll love the whole album. It’s an early time in the band and they were very toolish at that time. Still love them. Getting hard to find new stuff. Nothing gets on the radio or even satellite any more. Love you’re reactions man!
One of my all time favorite song...........but it's the live version..........Tilburg version!!! Live version (Tilburg, is also better sounding)......and longer, more parts. One day you need to listen to it too.
Incredible band, especially live. They have a deep catalog of awesome music. The main creative force here is Steven Wilson who also has a brilliant solo career and several side projects. All of it is worth exploring. Lots of crossover with Tool and Opeth fans. You really can't go wrong with any of PT's music. When there's a choice always take the live versions. Best live band I've ever had the pleasure of seeing, hands down.
I love Tool, Radiohead, and Porcupine Tree sort of marries aspects of both of them. Steven Wilson, the vocalist/song writer and producer is a genius to put it simply. The album this song is off, Fear of a Blank Planet is a masterpiece. Their more defined and popular sound sort of starts in the late 90s and especially when they got their godlike drummer Gavin Harrison in 2001 I know others have already said it, but this video was just an edit of the studio version, and heavily compresses the audio. Its normally quite a spacious and wide song, with help from Robert Fripp of King Crimson fame helping on sound design. Got to see then live last year and this song among all others was truly something awesome
If you ever want to do a long reaction, check out 'Arriving Somewhere, But Not Here' by Porcupine Tree. That single song is like a whole album with all the changes and emotions. PT is right up there with Tool for me. So innovative and every member is at the top of their field. On a tangent, Gavin the drummer is also in King Crimson, which has 3 drummers. He's the master of ghost notes, those extra little hits you hear outside of the regular quarter and eighth notes. They have an amazing discography and you've just entered another rabbit hole. :)
Hearing Dark eye tango by Al Dimeola gives me goose bumps still sometimes after all these years with incredible runs he plays as song builds to crescendo. It's an instrumental that starts out kind of dreamy and mystical feeling and by end of it full tilt mode on high! Definitely one of my favorite songs of all time by a truly amazing guitarist. I was 15 first time I ever heard Johnny Winter and was instantly floored.I was saying to myself Damn who is this?I've got to hear more of this stuff. I could write you quite at extensive essay on it but am going to wrap this up by encouraging you to listen to a song by Johnny that I think has most awesome slide guitar solo on it that I think I've ever heard.I think that if someone can hear that and not be moved in some way they need to check and see if they still have a pulse.I saw him do that song live once and it had to be at least 8 min. version in which the rest of the band left the stage leaving him sitting on stool with single spotlight trained on him. He had no peers when it came to playing slide.
For everyone saying that he should react to anesthetized live, he already has that was his first Porcupine Tree song but yes porcupine tree is an amazing band and I have the privilege of seeing them live in 2008!
Piease check out more porcupine tree. Anethatise live at Tilberg and Steve Wilson's solo work, "Drive home" for a truly great guitar solo. By the way Gavin Harrison is at least as good as Dany Carey and that's coming from a big Tool Fan. Really enjoy your reactions.
Polo, my guy. Always engaging and introducing new music to my ears. I haven't checked your whole library, but if you haven't done a take on The Cult, their song Edie(Ciao Baby) is quite a gem.
First time listener (ever)! I used parenthesis 😊 I can really relate with what you said about sad music at the end of the video. I have 11070 songs, each carefully selected, on my ipod. I think we might got along tremendously. Along those notes, you should watch the official video and listen to: Flower Face singing Pisces Moon, and also Another Life (no official video to this one). AND, check out Til Tuesday, the song Coming Up Close (the video is live but it sounds identical to the studio version). Thanks!
Anything from the live at Tilberg concert is awesome. "Anesthetize" is pretty much required viewing. Gavin Harrison is one of the best drummers currently playing.
Prog. Rock is some of the best music to really dissect and listen to because its often so complex and interesting. Bands like Rush, Dream Theater, Queensryche, Tool, Porcupine Tree all have a lot of dimensions to their songs, layers. They are never formulaic and that is what makes them great.
Please React To “Porcupine Tree” Recently Released Live Version From 2022 Concert Tour! The Song is Called: ‘Harridan’ From the Up Coming DVD/CD Live Concert Tour, Being Released Dec of 2023…
Polo i don't mean to be rude or anything but i would love it if you actually checked out the live dvd version as was requested by the person. You checked the video version. It's just that this version is short and cut to be fit into a video. But the live DVD version or even the album version is a bit long and does justice to this song. I don't mean that you should make a video out of it i just hope you give it a listen on your own. Cheers. Keep more Porcupine Tree coming!
This is an short edit. The album version is longer and better in my opinion. There are SO many good PT songs - Perhaps try checking the clever lyrical links between Signify and Anaesthetise (sorry, I'm English....and being a copyeditor, I'm compelled to spell it this way!) on the Fear of a Blank Planet album and and Normal on the Nil Recurring EP. Stephen's lyrics bring PT's beautiful and highly crafted music to another level (in my humble opinion).
FRI, This is a short version of this track. You're missing a middle section where it drops and gets heavy. Basically just need to listen to this album in its entirety. It's phenomenal, along with all their other albums! Can't go wrong with any one of their songs.
This song is so good. But in classic steven wilson fashion, so sad. It's written about a ture event where 2 young girls, one of whom started PTs MySpace page that had a suicide pact. They jumped in front of an Amtrack train in Wisconsin. One was reportedly listening to PT on her iPod when they jumped
And one of the girls, the one described, her favorite song, according to her, was “Darkest Eyes.” He mentions iPod b/c it was what she was listening to their song on. Train track deaths are brutal. The band reached out how they knew to do. You can even tell it’s a painful song. I’ve never heard them say they enjoy this song. They don’t want celebration tagged on the artwork. It’s an ode, not ballad. It’s sad. Great but nothing more in the end. They died.
What?! I searched and I cannot believe that you haven't done any Judas Priest! Jump into the deep end and listen to the greatest GREATEST metal song ever: Painkiller
The girl in this video is clearly going through a crisis. Possibly, maybe depression? At 5:29, the girl finds her "Way Out Of Here" and gets hit by the train. UNITED STATES SUICIDE AND CRISIS LIFELINE: 988
this is a cut version...hope you make a better choice, the band and the fans deserve so much better...nice reaction, but you really should go down the rabbit hole
This is nothing to do with this video but you need to check out luciani Pavarotti and James brown" it's a man's world" I don't know any other way of messaging you besides comments in this video but definitely check out that video of them
