Best Porcupine Tree Album?

[MoreCowbell]

I put Stupid Dream right behind In Absentia, close, real close...

 

[Braver]

for me, everything before In Absentia was great. Lightbulb Sun stands out to me, but Signify is one of the best as well. I haven't given the newer stuff enought time yet...it's just not the same absolutele direct hits that those earlier ones were.

 

[fierce_freak]

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Originally Posted by AceOfWands /img/forum/go_quote.gif Im torn between Fear of a blank planet and In absentia.

same for me. It's a good sign of a great band that every album has a vote.

 

[Thelonious Monk]

probably Deadwing for me. it's just perfect from start to finish. Stupid Dream is a bit too poppy, Signify has a few clunkers, In Absentia is just barely behind Deadwing... The Sky Moves Sideways and Voyage 34 need "help" to be great. i dislike their stuff before those two. Lightbulb Sun is just missing something.

Fear Of A Blank Planet is mediocre. the first three tracks were pretty good, and the last three were throwaway for the most part. just not my thing.

 

[SysteX]

In Absentia. It just seems to me to be the quintessential PT album.

 

[Patu]

Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun got my vote. They're both equally good and the best albums by PT. Still every single one of their albums is amazingly good. It's very rare that a band has only good albums, but PT does.

 

[The Rover]

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Originally Posted by Patu /img/forum/go_quote.gif Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun got my vote. They're both equally good and the best albums by PT. Still every single one of their albums is amazingly good. It's very rare that a band has only good albums, but PT does.

Amen. Well one could argue about the debut album

 

[Bleeding Spark]

Today it's Stupid Dream, but tomorrow it could easily be any of their other albums. Steven Wilson's Blackfield albums (both of them) are as good, if not better, than his work with Porcupine Tree.

 

[reorx]

Another In Absentia vote here. It also happens to contain my all-time favorite PT song, Blackest Eyes.

 

[daveDerek]

the voting list is incomplete. i prefer their earlier proggier stuff to the later more metallic material (despite the fact that i'm listeing to FoaBP as i type (alternating between some loaner r10s and my darths!

). so my vote goes to that wonderful compilation set, Stars Die.

 

[LepakVT]

It's such a hard decision since I love everything by PT and also Steven Wilson's work with Blackfield.

My vote goes to Lightbulb Sun.

 

[catscratch]

For me, PT doesn't exist after Lightbulb Sun. Wilson lost everything that ever made him unique. I'm seriously shocked that so few people voted on anything prior.

Up The Downstair is the culmination of PT's electronic sound, and Sky Moves Sideways is the best thing they did as a band, though my favorite tracks were on On the Sunday of Life - Radioactive Toy and Nine Cats.

Haven't heard FoaBP yet.

 

[daveDerek]

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Originally Posted by catscratch /img/forum/go_quote.gif Up The Downstair is the culmination of PT's electronic sound, and Sky Moves Sideways is the best thing they did as a band, though my favorite tracks were on On the Sunday of Life - Radioactive Toy and Nine Cats. Haven't heard FoaBP yet.

radioactive toy is, for me at least, their signature song.
foabp, has been my most spun disc lately (though most of my collection is temporarily packed up).

 

[DarkAngel]

I remember getting both Opeth "damantion" and PT "in absentia" when they first came out and thinking what happened.........In Absentia sounds like the album that Damnation should have been, a more progressive Opeth that sounds great! Fortunately Opeth corrected things and got back on track with next album "ghost reveries"

Yes my vote for best PT is "in absentia"

 

[jules650]

In an interview Akerfeldt said Damnation was Opeth's best album. Go figure.

I voted for Deadwing.