Porcupine Tree
Trains
In Absentia
(2002)

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hayduke2
May 14, 2013 - 17:25
was always taken by this song, and get transported by your comments, cheers all!!! Rock on


kellsens
May 14, 2013 - 17:14
Wonderfull song!

Carl
Feb 12, 2013 - 18:47
pontfarrer wrote:
ANOTHER band to discover :-)
I am doing my happy dance ....

Wish I had a dollar for every time I've seen *that* here since my signing on! (Of course, I'd donate it all to Bill & Rebecca! :-)


horstman
Feb 12, 2013 - 18:46
Deadwing wrote:

I had a similar situation occur with some neighbors I had back around 2003. We used to grill out quite a bit that summer and we usually had Signify playing. After a couple of weeks the next doors asked what the album that we kept playing was. We explained that it was a fairly obscure British band called Porcupine Tree, and we burned them a copy of Signify. After that we would hear it playing every now and then from their house.
I hope they kept up with them. They seemed pretty cool.
Of course, I have been listening to PT since 96.

The soundtrack of my life...
Wow, Deadwing, you got on the PT train really early!

Sorry, I couldn't resist.




Highlowsel
Dec 20, 2012 - 14:03
Good late night driving down the highway at 90mph music. You, the dashboard lights and a little PT. Just watch out for the fog banks and the 52 car pileup.

Highlow
American Net'Zen


pontfarrer
Dec 15, 2012 - 10:59
ANOTHER band to discover :-)
I am doing my happy dance ....


westslope
Dec 15, 2012 - 10:56
fredriley wrote:

Smoking's more a working-class habit in the UK. For the middle classes, fags are just so passé , my dear.

So the PT lads are honest to goodness working class?


Deadwing
Dec 01, 2012 - 20:44
Byronape wrote:

It could be said that good taste defies generations and ages... I'm a 30-something bald dude that will frequently be blasting everything from PT to Dar Williams to Beatles to Joe Bonamassa. My wife said it best (while under the influence of a chemical substance)... There are people that love types of music and people that just love music.

I had a similar situation occur with some neighbors I had back around 2003. We used to grill out quite a bit that summer and we usually had Signify playing. After a couple of weeks the next doors asked what the album that we kept playing was. We explained that it was a fairly obscure British band called Porcupine Tree, and we burned them a copy of Signify. After that we would hear it playing every now and then from their house.
I hope they kept up with them. They seemed pretty cool.
Of course, I have been listening to PT since 96.

The soundtrack of my life...


Deadwing
Dec 01, 2012 - 20:26
{#Sunny}


gypsyman
Dec 01, 2012 - 20:25
Quite likeable.


mistabird
Nov 14, 2012 - 02:14
EINFACH NUR GENIAL !!!!! OBERGENIAL !!!! {#Roflol} {#Dancingbanana}


lily34
Nov 10, 2012 - 16:39
caregiver wrote:
He hadn't played it yet when we saw them in Houston. And he didn't play it the night before in Dallas. Was holding our breath when they came out for the encore and I don't think he knew what he was going to play till that instant and he announced ... "Trains!" Phefrickkennominal.

nice i'd have liked to have seen/heard that.


westslope
Nov 04, 2012 - 08:32
stevendejong wrote:
Phew, a Steven Wilson song from before he discovered King Crimson. Wonderful.

LOL! Hilarious. I like his King Crimson style material too. Then I kinda like King Crimson too.

Signify through to Deadwing had some of his best more traditional melodic material.




sbegf
Oct 25, 2012 - 07:13
bulleminan wrote:
WELTKLASSE IN zURICH, PT best song together with The sound of muzak

I think I have to agree with this....absolutely love both songs! The live version of the sound of muzak is killer!


caregiver
Oct 25, 2012 - 07:11
He hadn't played it yet when we saw them in Houston. And he didn't play it the night before in Dallas. Was holding our breath when they came out for the encore and I don't think he knew what he was going to play till that instant and he announced ... "Trains!" Phefrickkennominal.


stevendejong
Oct 07, 2012 - 04:07
Phew, a Steven Wilson song from before he discovered King Crimson. Wonderful.


bulleminan
Sep 17, 2012 - 07:25
WELTKLASSE IN zURICH, PT best song together with The sound of muzak


Marzz_13
Sep 08, 2012 - 19:42
coloradojohn wrote:
I recall first hearing this on my first Mac on one of my first long listens with RP through my first truly kickass line-out speaker rig — and it blew me away...and happily, still does on even better set-ups now...thanks, RP, for rocking the wide world like nowhere else!

And the sound quality here on RP is phenomenal! I find it very close to CD and much better than most other internet stations. I too love to sit and listen to RP through a good DAC,quality Integrated and some nice speakers (with upgraded interconnects and power cables, of course). It blows me away sometimes...just like you said, John. Especially (but not limited to) SW and PT's production quality.

Whatever you're doing for sound quality Bill, keep doing it. It is much appreciated by these ears.


jnesser
Sep 05, 2012 - 15:01
I don't think I could love this song any more than I do.


gillespp
Sep 05, 2012 - 14:57
drews wrote:

"Train set and match spied under the blind Shiny and contoured the railway winds

And I've heard the sound from my cousin's bed The hiss of the train at the railway head

Always the summers are slipping away

A 60 ton angel falls to the earth A pile of old metal, a radiant blur Scars in the country, the summer and her

Always the summers are slipping away Find me a way for making it stay

When I hear the engine pass I'm kissing you wide The hissing subsides I'm in luck

When the evening reaches here You're tying me up I'm dying of love It's OK"


WOW! I love this song but I'd never paid attention to the lyrics. Awesome.


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