The Dark Secret of Porcupine Tree 

love how everyone's first porcupine tree song is always the most random song in their entire discography

The dark secret is that once you listen to them, everything else becomes boring. Damn you, Steven.

Blackest Eyes is the song that introduced me to Porcupine Tree. Was at an Incubus concert, on their 'Morningview' tour, and that song came on during the pre-show house music. Luckily, the dj named the band and the song. I spent the entire concert repeating it to myself so I wouldn't forget and could look them up when I got home. That moment is actually more memorable to me than the Incubus show itself... and it was a good show.

You trolled me with the title of the video, and I love it. I share your respect for Steven Wilson, he's genius. I appreciate your versions of the PT songs, you are definitely a talented guy!

Jack Black covers Porcupine Tree !? Mind Blown

Your version of "Collapse The Light" is so beautiful, just got goosebumps! Love this video, Steven Wilson is my favourite inspiration ever :)

God damn, I dont know how it happened but this band has evaded my ears. Thanks for the awesome introduction

I am half way the video and I find this already a very fun format with the self made musical intermezzo's. Love it!

10:14 Colin didn't actually decide not to be a part of CC... It's been stated in interviews with both Steven and Colin that they just didn't stay in touch through the years, which for Steven meant that Colin wasn't interested in doing more Porcupine music anymore. Colin's perspective though was that he just never got informed that the band was getting back together, and since the bass on the whole album was already done, he was kicked out.

You have earned a subscription, as a long time SW fan I felt you captured his genius very well. Minor history note: according to Steven's autobiography the first 3 albums were just him, the band as we know it was put together when the record company recommended a tour. Looking forward to more of your videos!

fear of a blank planet is literally my favourite song thank god it was included, porcupine tree are brilliant.

i discovered them during the in absentia album cycle, and fell in love. since then i've seen every tour, bought the deluxe blu ray surround versions of the albums, all the concert dvds and blurays... i adore that band, steven is my musical hero. he can seemingly do no wrong. i see his name on a product, i buy it...

Man I love all the effort you have put in this video. The recording quality is incredible, it is really well edited and your covers are just MINDBLOWING. Keep it up (+1 sub).

PT's Trains was the first song that introduced me to modern prog music, since then I consumed most of their discography, but in absentia is still my fav one from them. Awesome video man! Greetings from Sardegna😉

Bravo Gianluca!!!

I love this! Gave a sub. Sending love from USA, good shit man!!

I really love your un pretended passion for what you doing, this piece about PT is great. Keep on man. Good luck

This was fantastic. What a joy to watch! I have been sucked into a Porcupine Tree portal for the last 2 years of my life and its the best portal i've stumbled into yet

I had pretty much given up on ever hearing any new music that interested me , and then I heard Porcupine Tree live on XM one evening, and my life changed forever in terms of music. I've been lucky enough to see PT live four times and Steven Wilson live two times , and every show made me cry. He has been my personal savior when it comes to also driving me to explore other great Prog bands since.

high quality video, enjoyable to watch, you deserve more subs bro

Grande Gianluca!

I share your adoration of Porcupine Tree. Subscribed! 🎶

This is the best video I've seen in ages. Despite the fact I am familiar with them I really enjoyed watching this. Your covers are just brilliant. Cheers, for the time and effort you put into making this, from over here in Britain. Great content.

Steven WIlson is f-ing genius and f-ing hard working guy! I wish all talented artists were that hard working, we could have much more art to admire to.

Great musicianship man, very talented.

Stupende cover, bel lavoro, che talento !

I love your love-letter to Porcupine Tree ❤

Gianluca, excellent and entertaining cast of Porcupine Tree! I almost thought you were trashing them, but your delivery was great! I also discovered them late, and thankfully saw them in Chicago for their farewell tour...I was blown away! I'll try to check out your channel more in the future, keep ROCKING!

Nice man! Totally agree!

In Absentia actually began to be recorded with Chris Maitland as the drummer but he was kicked out because he wasn't taking the metal parts seriously. The change in musical direction was completely led by Steven, in part due to his friendship with Opeth's Michael Akerfeldt. Also, Steven used to listen to some metal as a teenager so it was, in part, a reawakening of appreciation. Gavin was brought in as Chris' replacement but was previously a jazz drummer and played on many pop albums. He said he had to adjust to the heavier metal style of playing which he was not used to. So the change in drummer did not lead to a change in sound - the change in sound led to a change in drummer. 😁

I keep praising you because DAMMIT I Want To !! You are an inspiration and the best channel maker music maker on this You Tube thingy for me ! By a f#*ing MILE. Bravo ! 🌟

What a great video. I accidentally discovered PT in August of 2022 and the song was Anesthetized. I was blown away. I must have watched the live video a dozens times. I then began my journey and realized they were getting ready to tour the USA. I bought every thing I could find. Long story short. I went to 4 shows. Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas and Colorado. All in 6 days. I’d never done that in my 60 yrs. The closest was back to back Pink Floyd shows. It was exhausting but so worth it. Up until I discovered PT my favorite band was Pink Floyd and then Rush. Of course now, it’s Porcupine Tree. I know now, after a year of listening, no one will replace them at the top.

Bravo 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻

Dude. If you really love them so much, you gotta make covers of their song. Not the once which are already on RU-vid but one's which are very rare songs but insane one's like hatesong..... This band is insane, I saw them play live in 2022 and I totally understand your crying at the end cause so did I. I hope you make some covers on them. You are fucking talented......

I feel your pain, Gianluca. I also discovered a band as they were in the process of coming to their end. I was going through a Surf Guitar phase when I discovered Laika and The Cosmonauts. Luckily, I was able to see them on their final tour as an opening act for Los Straitjackets, which was a cruel joke because they're SO much better! I was so impressed with them live that I grabbed a guitarist friend and dragged him to the next night's performance on the next stop of their tour. I got to talk with them and I told them how sad I was that they're breaking up as I'd just recently discovered their music. Great bunch of guys, very gracious. At least we'll always have their recordings..

Nice job Gianluca, congrats! My first PT song was Even Less, a long long time ago, and I've not stopped listening to PT ever since and even spread the virus to parents, friends and neighbours... 😅

I discovered PT back in 2000 and instantly fall in love with them. I´ve seen them 3 times here in Mexico City and every show was awesome; top notch concerts. No doubt PT is call to be one of the best progrock/metal bands ever.

Well done Friend cool video, I ell down in to Porcupine Tree with " Time Flies" and I'm fottuto! you got a new subscriber dalla Sardegna, Grandissimo :D

This is a great video! You are clearly an accomplished musician and passionate about Porcupine Tree! Yet you convey your thoughts with a great sense of humour. I discovered PT at the time of the release of FOABP (more or less like you, I guess) and since then my life has changed. Right now, I am reading SW's book and I have just gt to the point where he tells the story of the beginning of PT, i.e. as a side project to No Man, or, as you corretly put, as a f***ing joke! Ciao Gianluca, evviva la musica!

@Gianluca Pavan I saw them in the very early 2000 and it was AMAZING I’ll never forget the atmosphere they create...

Good job with the video. Hopefully this will boost your subscribers, you deserve a lot more.

Incredible band

So I'm italian but I'll still write in english as a form of respect to all other viewers that wouldn't bother using the embedded translator: in Fear of a Blank Planet Steven kinda demonized videogaming as a way for young dudes to blankly stare at a screen and isolate themselves. I'm a big fan of music AND videogames, I really love Steven but couldn't help but cringe every time the "Xbox is a god to me" part came up during the song and video. Fate is ironic though, as later in his career he happened to lend his music to a fantastic game (MADE IN ITALY by a couple of old friends of mine that I used to briefly work and play music with, many years before), and he finally had to acknowledge the art that frequently hides in so called videogames, after all. The game in question is Last Day of June and it's a little indie gem that made me all emotional from beginning to end. Thank you for reading this comment.

Great video

*"YOU ARE MY LUCKY MAN"* Well Gianluca as a new fan and subscriber then if Santa Claus leaves the grand prize winning Powerball ticket under my Christmas tree then I will be sure to share the luck 🍀 *BUON NATALE MI AMICO 🎄*

You are my new best friend because your top 3 albums are also mine. 1. Deadwing 2. In Absentia 3. Fear of a Blank Planet in that order. Other 2 are Stupid Dream and Closure/Continuation

your this vedio about my teacher of life got you a subscriber

It's fear of a BLANK planet. Blank!

Thank you. By offering your versions of Wilson's songs you simultaneously showed how fucking easy they are to play and at the same time debunked this myth that he's a 'genius'. Cheers.

Congrats for your channel. Make your own music. You can do it ❤

For the efforts and the investment that you've made in this video, I wish you get at least 50 times the number that you are enjoying. Cheers! Subbed!

Great Vlog Gianluca , my personal PT fav album is Fear of a blank planet . Colin Edwin tells a slightly different story of why he wasn't involved in the reunion, an interview with him exists on youtube.

No love for “The Incident”? It’s absolutely brilliant

I got really big into porcupine tree but haven’t listened in years! I should really give a listen

I was introduced to PT by my drum teacher with the song sound of muzak witch every drumer should learn because the intro drum beat is so cool yet so strange for a beat but so original!

Great work! I subscribe as well :)

I was at a drum clinic and everyone gave Gavin Harrison a standing ovation (he wasn’t even there) when they announced he was coming to do a future clinic. I was like who the hell is this band Porcupine Tree that everyone is obsessed with. I guess I better check them out. Changed my life.

What a great summary to introduce PT to new listeners! I’ll come to Rome on the 24th of June? Are you going to be there?

Have to admit, Wilson is one beautiful man.

You hit it right in the nail ..Porcupine is the band.....

impressive

Its now about 2 years since i discover PT and since then my live changed. I hear their Music almost every day mainly bc of Gavin. I hope to See them live one day 🙃

Love Porcupine Tree, saw them live last year

Wow - incredible cover versions - they could have done worse than asking you to join for the tour 👍

Yamaha BB, obviously a discerning bass player, good lad!

I also didn't learn about Porcupine Tree until after they broke up. I've since purchased their entire collection and solo CD's also. For me, they are right up there with RUSH, Pink Floyd...

It's Fear of a BLANK Planet!!

voyage 34 is probably the album that I like the most

The amount of work that went into this must have been insane. Well done! Too bad Deadwing kind of got the short end of the stick here, though: Arriving Somewhere is one of my favorite PT tracks in their entire oeuvre. I also thought C/C was disappointing, or at least not strong on aspects of their music which initially pulled me in. That said, I’ve found folks listen to PT for different reasons. To me it’s mostly the melancholy expressed by the beautiful melodies; To others it’s the thunderous rock sequences (which I don’t mind if accompanied by the former!). Songs like Rats Return and Herd Culling don’t really resonate with me. But to each their own.

Decent covers!

I m sorry to spoil it for you,but the first albums-works-maxis-ep's,with the first drummer(Chris Maitland)are also amazing and great as good as the latter ones with Gavin..I love their psychedelic aspect on their music,and i had my best memories as a teenager,those years i also watched them 2 times live,with another crazy band which had great impact on me(Ozric Tentacles)...What can i say more..Signify,Up the downstair,The sky moves sideways,Voyage 34,Staircase Infinities, they are all AMAZING...AMAZING...!!!!Cheers..!!!

Porcupine Tree shifted in a heavier direction when Steven Wilson started working with and producing albuns for Opeth. The drummer change , while imo SIGNIFICANT, didn't influence the 'heaviness' of the sound, especially since that is neither his forté, nor background.

Why nobody mentions shesmovedon? :) And i really love the live version of 'Normal'. Especially on surround because of higher dynamic range too. But a great review bro, i liked your take.

I just found out about them last week! I'm pissed that I missed the whole thing! Great band how did I not get the memo?

Gavin Harrison is my second favorite drummer, saw him live playinf with Bruce Soord. What do you think about pineapple thief?

c'ero anche il al live a Milano, fu bestiale, stupendo.

10:15 I read somewhere, I can't remember where, that Colin wasn't even asked to join them. Maybe I'm wrong. 😅

My fav 2 albums r Lightbulb Sun n Stupid Dreams

il concerto di milano indimenticabile

Eyeroll.

The time signature is 1/1.

Italians...wadda you gonna do!🤣

dark secret is he is so addictive

Your covers are amazing! I subscribed and would love to see more!

Funny thing I also discovered them in 2010

That's great but in my opinion fear is their best

Ummm... the album is called Fear of a BLANK Planet. One letter makes a big difference lol. I mean I don't think they covered the Public Enemy album.

Adoro i PT!!!sono un batterista....cerco elementi per formare cover band di PT.Riverside.Brother Ape..ecc.ecc

No kidding... Steven Wilson doesn't want this band to "break" so to speak. I saw them in 2022 in Dallas, incredible. Saw them 10 years earlier during the FOBP tour in Dallas. Bottom line, if he wanted to make PT a HUGE band, he would have released the best two songs on the C/C album as singles. In Dallas, 2022 did they play those songs in that concert, NO... The songs I'm referring to are: Never Have and Love in the past tense.... Those two songs weren't actually on the basic album, only available for the diehard fans if they purchased the extended edition which includes 3 additional songs. All three are great songs, should have been on the album. Bottom line the 7 songs released were a great album after a decade of not hearing them, but the additional 3 songs would have made this album incredible. Which in retrospect, Steven didn't want PT to become, or in other words "have happen". He doesn't think that progressive rock is a profitable business for him to pursue with PT, so he'll just do the bare minimum unless it surprises him and makes him change his mind. The only reason he made C/C is because of the pandemic and he had nothing else to do. He was bored and started writing C/C with GH and GH said it sounds like a PT album... Hense the PT "resurface" in 2022. Hopefully they will release another album and market right to keep the only prog rock band alive moving forward. BTW, you forgot to mention one of greatest Prog Rock bands of all-time in your summary of PR, Rush...

John Wesley, anche lui ha lasciato i Porcupine. Grande chitarrista!

Scheiße, ist der Typ gut!

They came to south America but didn't came to Brazil, so unfair 😭😭😭

mine was Lazarus

The Creator had a Master tape for me

mio padre

I'm at 2:28 & I don't care already what he thinks of the god-king Steven Wilson, if offered I would instantly join Gianluca's band and almost as instantly be fired for drunken wildness but, I would at least have tried.

I'm not sure how you can talk about the greatest progressive bands ever and not mentioned Yes. I also like to put in a good word for an incredibly influential artist, although he is not exclusively in the progressive genre, Todd Rundgren. Yes produced what is either the number one or number two progressive album in the history of the genre. Rundgren was pushing boundaries no one knew or even there and then most cases doing it single-handedly.

Fear of a Blank Planet*

not only you're a goodusician..but you talk as rarely people do about one of the biggest genius of all time...for me and I pretend I'm right..anyone who tasted Tool and PT has understood what is great music.... I I add SuperTramp Genesis Pink Floyd and Dire Straits..that's the planets over the rest.

is this about prog rock?