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The beauty is a roller-coaster

"I'm only 4 minutes into the track" - gotta love prog!

Porcupine Tree: Hatesong LIVE One of the BEST Live Performances.

This song is a masterpiece, just takes me away to a different reality

An interesting choice for a PT song. Definitely one for the more dedicated PT fans and I really enjoyed listening to your perspective. Fingers crossed one day you might have a listen to 'start of something beautiful' or more predictably, but deservedly 'sound of muzak'.

One of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard tbh

I have Steven Wilson to thank for really opening up my taste in music, especially my love of Opeth. Also don't sleep on his surround sound mixes of classic records. He's one of the best in the business.

I only found the PT rabbit hole about 7 years ago, and looked at all my musician friends and went "What is this? Why hasn't anyone told me about this?" And I'm still in freefall down the rabbit hole, so many projects he runs, and when I wander around the house doing chores, any one of his albums/projects is on RU-vid filling the house! Thank you, love your insights and explanations of many genres of music

Nice. This is an overlooked song in their catalog but one that I always go back to.

Steven Wilson has that talent to make a simple idea sound so huge

Chris Maitland was still the drummer for this, his last album, but what a talent. He went on to Cirque du Solei but eventually got into another SW band, Blackfield. Great song choice.

This song introduced me to Porcupine tree first hearing it in 2005 or so, am hooked ever since

Thank you very much for your reaction!

You absolutely MUST hear their new single "Harridan". You will love it!

One of my fave PT songs, it just does something to my soul.

Steven Wilson is the main man in this genre of music. Studio goat.

My fav Porcupine tree song 👍 , so calm then funky then heavy af 👍

How did I not know this song, I listened to steve wilson stuff for years now. thx for chosing this song!

This was the first pt song I ever heard... about 20 years ago... it took a few listens to get into it... but they later became an all time favorite band.

I love Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson and all his work. BUUUT! I will love to see a reaction of DEATH !! Bite the Pain is one of my fav. Also Spirit Crusher, Pull the Plug, Trapped in Corner.... I love to hear a reaction of you about Death and Chuck, Cheers!! have a great 20 22

A perfekt way to start a weekend Happy awesomeness all

Yes! This is a great choice for a song! I've always loved this one and think it's a total sleeper of a song.

Love this. You should do more! You should also give Pineapple thief a listen. Gavin Harrison the drummer of the newer albums joined them and created some truly beautiful music. "In Exile" is a must, and you'll probably stumble into the rabbithole of Pineapple Thief!

I think the end section of this track was Chris Maitland's finest moment with the band. Colin Edwin was great on this one too. Love those harmonics! I think this is my favorite Porcupine Tree album. Part of that's probably nostalgia because this was my introduction to the band, but all these years later it never gets old. That's for bringing us more PT and Steven Wilson, Geebz.

Phenomenal tune

omg I'm so glad this song got a listen to. It's one of the songs where going on a journey really feels like you are going on a journey and it's really leading you somewhere dark. Because of that kind of slowish start, I didn't think I could get pulled into the song but it really really pulls you in and then that ending just makes that build up so worth it. It's enjoyable from start to finish. Like some slow starts can drag and feel like they're milking every moment but this feels like you're stuck on a snowy mountain lost and this is the only sound you can hear that helps you keep your sanity. Other future porcupine tree songs I'd suggest which others might have already suggested- hatesong, gravity eyelids, start of something beautiful, drown with me, wet ribbon, sleep together, blind house, signify among many more. I suggest these more than other good tracks because you'd get something new from it. Whether you react to it or just listen to it in your own time doesn't matter.

One of my favourite PT albums! You should 100% check out another from this album - Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled

Strings arranged by Dave Gregory from XTC, I feel his work on Lightbulb Sun gets overlooked

I just looked up Steven Wilson and I see we share the same birthday....same year and everything! This is my first listen of Porcupine Tree. I will have to explore them further!

That stringed instrument in the second half is guimbri. played by the bass player Colin Edwin

The plucked bass instrument is a Guimbri played by Colin Edwin. It's a 3-string Arabic bass plucked lute.

I love the violent explosion of the drums at the end, reminiscent of Terry Bozzio. And yes, the drum sound is out front and fantastic!

This band never stops amazing me. Steve by himself too!!

this is my favorite pt song, loved this thanks

Geebz is the man. I requested this song yesterday and he posted a video on it today. I'm so stoked he's continuing to dive deeper into the PT discography. It is so worth the time. Steven Wilson has a ridiculous amount of masterful songs both in PT and his solo projects.

Love to hear these older PT songs being given an airing with a fresh point of view. It also puts a new coat of paint on it for those of us who knew these songs. I'd love to see a reaction to some of the less seen songs as I'm sure many PT fans would agree with. Songs like 'Heartattack In a Layby', 'I Drive the Hearse', 'Dark Matter', 'Waiting (phase 1 & 2) and 'Stop Swimming' are really emotional journeys for me every time I listen to them and that feeling has only become stronger with time. I think the thing that makes Steven's music incredible is how he can completely demand your emotional investment and then with respect for the listener gently pulls on that emotional thread in different ways. 'Heartattack In A Layby' is more of a yank on the thread though. Makes me cry most listens and I love it for that.

Finally! One of my favorite pt songs.

I appreciate you doing deeper cuts of artists Geebz. There's so much great material that is missed out on because it doesn't get highlighted by algoritihms on Spotify or other streaming platforms.

damn, I forgot how good this song is! doesn't feel like 13 minutes long

How'd I miss this one? Lol. Love Porcupine Tree! Big Time Pink Floyd influences in here from a pure listeners point of view

Oh I'd like to add if you enjoy pt then definitely listen to open cars that song is incredibly beautiful

Thank you so much for decomposing this song. It really gets ignored by most and is one of my favorites. And that's saying alot. Appreciate all you do.

Yahoo.. my most favorite band! Try the track what happens now

This song is just beautiful. I really njoy focusing on the violins in the background.

Geebs love your work man, can you please please do a reaction to A Perfect Circle - Weak And Powerless.

Omfg im so fucking glad you picked this one. One of my all time favorites!!

If you wanna hear more PT with strings in it, check out The Rest Will Flow. It’s a beautiful song.

Steven Wilson is very into creating ambient music, check out another of his side projects Bass Communion. He mixes that ambiance into Porcupine Tree's sound. Beautiful.

Great track from a great album. Probably My favorite album of theirs, was huuuuge for me when I was a lad. I think you would really dig their early work, its super Floydy as well. I think Steven Wilson is very much a master sound texturist, I wanna say? Anyway. Man the way those strings build into the like chorusy major key change part gets me every time. Good way to start the weekend. Bonus points for listening to all the end ambiance. It's actually the last track on the album so you didn't miss anything after :p

I was just listening to this in the background while working on something else, but I knew to look over when that tasty bass harmonic lick was coming up. I was not disappointed by your reaction. :)

Lightbulb Sun is just brilliant. Every second of it is magic..

Damn that was nice! I will definitely have to dig into them some more. Thanks for bringing up the vocal harmonies; that really helps build the ambient atmosphere just as much as the background effects, and selecting which harmony to use really impacts the mood of the song.

Steven Wilson (Lead singer of PT) is an outrageous producer. He has produced many great albums, hence why his albums are so layered and beautiful.

Geebz I still owe you so much for getting me into PT with your Arriving Somewhere reaction last year... Made me discover my new favorite band that became my most listened act in 2021 according to apple music! CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF PT!! And this song absolutely kicks ass. Love how subdued it is.

Thank u Geebz

Thanks so much, Geebz! This track always reminds me of how great Chris Maitland was as PT's drummer. I would love to see your reaction to "What Happens Now?" from the mini album "Nil Recurring" in surround sound. Another weaving journey thru the genius mind of Master Wilson. The most incredible swell of intensity from start to finish and the polyrhythmic complexity of Gavin Harrison in the last 2 minutes is awe inspiring.

Hi Key of Geebz, Since U Already Reacted to PTs: Anesthetize, Arriving Somewhere, Dark Matter, Russia On Ice and Trains! Let me please recommend 10 of my other personal favorites by PT: 1) 'Normal' Live, 2) 'Way Out of Here' Live, 3) 'Hatesong' Live', 4) 'Start of Something Beautiful' Live, 5) 'Even Less' Live, 6) 'Waiting Phase 1' Live, 7) 'The Sky Moves Sideways' Live, 8) 'Shesmovedon' Live, 9) 'Time Flies' Live, 10) 'Octane Twisted' Live,... I actually could give U another 50 plus song's but other PT fan's will surly recommend other song's I didn't recommend here... I would like to wish U and All your other music listener's a Very Happy New Year's! 💖✌☺

Oh man, such an underrated track! I can tell you got absorbed - for a moment I was listening along and forgot I was listening to a reaction video!

I love this song so much and it's my favorite by Porcupine Tree along with Stop Swimming 😉 I'm glad that you enjoyed.

Cheers Geebz! Anesthetize is a must from Porcupine Tree, also Arriving somewhere but not here.

Yes, more PT!

I've never heard this track before and was really pulled along with the journey. The patience and payoff was delightful and I was thrilled with the melodic modulation and changes in the middle. Strings and guitar section are beautifully composed. When writing music, we often discuss track length, and yet this epitomises the benefit of developing themes and remaining on the hook. Does anyone think the track is 'too' long, or wish for anything different? I don't, but wonder if others would? I suppose the harmonies at 6 minutes are similar to comfortably numb in their payoff, not to draw other parallels. I also hear similarities to a Blur track in the vocals at 10m when you press play again. The string arrangements are so brilliant! Was the 'ping' sound (just b4 18m) to represent a submarine radar? Omg those argeggiated strings into 12m, you clearly felt the same. Eargasm :) 14m, I can almost hear 'the edge' singing 'numb' over this. Only for a second though, then I'm bobbing my head along. Scrap that, Trent Reznor is a great shout. Such an etherial/ spiritual ending.

Mate, just a few days ago I was listening to this and admiring the strings, really thinking you would dig it and now here we are.

Sometimes I forget the genius of PT. But listening back to these songs once in a while, it all comes back. What a great song.

wow! that was quite a trip! they make me think of this band I've got into not long ago from a friend called Marillion... so many albums and so many songs though! from the 80's with their first singer to now with their new singer it's always quite a ride too! some nostalgia in there just makes you feel those vibes even if you don't always relate to the lyrics! you would like it! there's one song called "Montréal" that is just smoothe as silk! you should check them out! aaaawright!

My favorite tracks from PT are Anestesize and Fear of a blank planet, glad you're checking them and Steven wilson one of the better modern rock/prog composers around!

This has always been one of my fav PT songs.

Silverchair - Tuna in the Brine

Aloha from Seattle! Well, Geebz IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY! Let me just say, you posting a Porcupine Tree reaction on this day of days is such a nice treat for me. This has been a rough day, and seeing this just brightens it right back up again. Thank you for this! Also, if I may be so bold... It IS my birthday after all....lol. I have long been dying to hear your reaction to "Mordecai" by Between the Buried and Me. It's an absolute classic, and I know you'll dig it. Keep keepin' on, Geebz.

I have been so wanting you to do this one, just love how you broke it down, this for me is one of my fav PT songs, weird but it did take me some time to take to it but when I listen now I just hear a masterpiece, you hit the nail on the head “ let your brain take the journey” how true! I find that with most of PT and Steven Wilsons music! Great video Geebz! 😁👍

The way that opening movement resolves and drags you back and body slams you onto the 1 is devastating. Rich the Ancient Metal Beast

The atmospherics are a reworking of (Steven's sideproject) Bass Communion's 'World in a park'. Always loved the bass here. So constant and nearly taunting. The tragic tale of a person getting drunk and eventually dying by the hand of a bottle of wodka. Yeah, great track.

PT 🙌

The Raven Age - Grave of the Fireflies

OK I've been a PT fan for about 15 years and I've never actually listened to the 2nd half of this song. The first part never caught my attention all that much, so I never bothered to listen to the whole song. Looks like I've been missing out. Second half is unique and quite interesting! And Maitland does a great job on the drumming.

One word: Anesthetize 💖

You need to react by Radiohead Weird Fishes/Arpeggi! My favorite song by them!!

Riverside - Left Out. Pleeeeaaaaase.

Nice! Please, please, please take a good look at The Tea Party!

Porcupine Tree is one of those bands you don't just listen to but EXPERIENCE and FEEL! To me every track is a journey and every album a story. I am looking forward to their new record!!! (June 2022) Geebz, what I dig about your videos is the natural reactions you show when you are listening/absorbing to what your ears pick up and your heart feels. Besides the professional and interesting feedback you throw out there above said is what makes me come circling back to your channel. About Wilson: you should check out the band BLACKFIELD (Collab between Wilson and Aviv Geffen), the first two albums (BLACKFIELD 1 and BLACKFIELD 2) are fantastic! Plus, he created an interesting, dark album with Mikael Akerfeldt (OPETH) under the name STORM CORROSION! (There are hardly any drums on this record, the drummer you hear though is Gavin Harrison of Porcupine Tree) Awwwwwwwwright!

Mind blowing, i will definitely check PT's albums with Chris Maitland, great drumming here!!!

Normal is also such an amazing song by them; also looking forward to you reacting to Ghost for the first time in the channel, Pro Memoria is my top recommendation

a few trivia bits... the second half of the song is credited to all 4 band members (first half, only Wilson), so likely it grew out of a jam, perhaps based on a riff by bassist Colin Edwin. And speaking of Colin - the mystery instrument you heard is a guimbri, played by him. String sections were arranged and produced by Dave Gregory (former XTC guitarist), who also arranged strings on PT's next album ("In Absentia"). Richard Barbieri (ex-Japan) did all the keys and synths (though SW is credited for samples). And as another commenter noted, drummer (and backing vocalist) here was Chris Maitland; this was his last PT album.

Related to this, i believe Storm Corrosion would be something so... different for you to hear, yet familiar. A (so far) one-time project from Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) and Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth). My personal favourite is Ljudet Innan but you could go with Drag Ropes as a more busy dive into that album.

BRO you totally heard the Korn influence too!!! That really shocked me. You're the real deal. Good react.

1st!🤘 Hope you're doing well my man. ALWAYS love your breakdowns! Have a great day my friend!

The Hirsch Effekt - Ira :)

I love the ring modulator and sine wave sub-bass. Mixed perfectly!

Being in my 50s brings me back, nostalgic. This song has a PINK FLOYD, YES BAND feel to me. (meshed with a few rock eras) Love the harmonies🙂

Great album!!!!!! Great song!!!!!

How cool would a Mick Gordon/Porcupine collaboration be!?

Old school PT! Much different feel compared to the material after Gavin joined the band, but I love both eras equally, for different reasons. Great choice, but I am also really looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the new PT song, Harridan!

Gotta love opening RU-vid to see a new Geez video!

This and Trains are my favorite PT songs. You should do Heart Attack in a layby or shesmovedon next.

Hi Geebz. You have really created a PT addict here. However, going in reverse chronological order I consider the 'Gavin Harrison - Drummer' albums the best.

17:32 that hook comes for me from a very specific place... WWE/WWF wrestling Stone Cold steve austin theme... monday night raw is was... attitude era... damn! is almost the same note by note In that riff. perhaps I open myself to much on that reference BUT... i got to get it out of my chest ... I did recall it every time I get this song on my ears and no one to tell about it ... hehe.

Reminds me of some of Pink Floyd songs with that opening. I could get into this on a cold, rainy PNW day.

This song got me into Porcupine Tree and I still love it. PT was a band, not just Steven Wilson. I always look for a live version of the song, I’m curious how a band performs such a complicated song live. And here we are: I absolutely love the delicate soundscapes by Barbieri, the incredible Chris Maitland on drums and beautiful background vocals at the same time. And of course Colin such a fine bassist, great vocals and guitar by SW. And although he might have written the song, without the band members it wouldn’t have the kind of energy I love to feel. For me that’s what makes my face melt. Watch it live: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZGRqQP0l1mo.html

What happens now? Is a must!

My most favourite PT song.