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Porcupine Tree — Sleep Together
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blotto
(127.0.0.1)
Posted: Apr 03, 2013 - 15:48
 
I'd give this a 10+ if I could, such a powerful song.

scrubbrush
(All lost in the supermarket)
Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 13:50
 
I really like the sound these guys produce. The lyrics to this one however... don't quite do it for me.

still a solid 7. especially the end 

DJ_BellsEye
Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 13:49
 
I <3 Porcupine Tree!! {#Bananapiano}

Dinges,_the_Dude
(below sea-level, N52°37', E4°88')
Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 13:21
 
 guielmo wrote:
Pearl Jam then Pink Floyd and then Porcupine Tree... {#Hearteyes}

3 x double name, 3 x starting with P and 3 x great band  {#Crowded}

Is Bill trying to reach us with some subliminal message?   {#Stupid}
 
and again:
Porcupine Tree — Sleep Together
("copy - paste" doesn't seem to work here...)

GREAT!!

Pearl Jam is not really my cup of tea, but Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree are!
And in a way PT sometimes reminds me of PF...

Ahnyer_Keester
(Chicago Il)
Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 13:19
 
Wow, we were just talking about this on that other Pink Floyd thread! What a coincidence. {#Liar}

cShaggy
(..in the general vicinity..)
Posted: Nov 29, 2012 - 03:51
 
 Marzz_13 wrote:

Well, let's take a look at the lyrics and decide...

This means out 
This is your way out 
Do or drown 
Do or drown in torpor

Leave no trace 
All my files erased 
Burn my clothes 
Burn my Prada trainers

Let's sleep together right now 
Relieve the pressure somehow 
Switch off the future right now 
Let's leave forever

This is fate 
This is your escape 
Leave here now 
Leave here like it's over

Let's sleep together right now 
Relieve the pressure somehow 
Switch off the future right now 
Let's leave forever  

Sounds like a suicide pact to me- I'm thinking a Heaven's Gate cult suicide pact reference here.  Great song, btw. 
 



..i dunno..could also read it as escaping consumerism (Prada) & contemp society/standard expectations (off the grid/"all my files erased")..

..the sleeping together is just another form of escape..living in that sexual moment away..

..just a thought..prolly off base..

DoctorHooey
(/etc)
Posted: Oct 01, 2012 - 19:07
 
Jeez I love this song. I can't say enough about it.

blotto
(127.0.0.1)
Posted: Sep 27, 2012 - 08:04
 
this song is amazing. just seems like it is so full of sound.

Rockit
(Ottawa ON)
Posted: Aug 31, 2012 - 06:16
 
This song gives me goosebumps!!!!

Marzz_13
(Counting out the waves as they break on the shoreline.)
Posted: Jul 26, 2012 - 11:19
 
 Bluesgrrl wrote:

Suicide pact? I dunno, but I bought the CD on Itunes cause of RP,love the 90"s chord progs. Wish I could hear them live.
 
Well, let's take a look at the lyrics and decide...

This means out 
This is your way out 
Do or drown 
Do or drown in torpor

Leave no trace 
All my files erased 
Burn my clothes 
Burn my Prada trainers

Let's sleep together right now 
Relieve the pressure somehow 
Switch off the future right now 
Let's leave forever

This is fate 
This is your escape 
Leave here now 
Leave here like it's over

Let's sleep together right now 
Relieve the pressure somehow 
Switch off the future right now 
Let's leave forever  

Sounds like a suicide pact to me- I'm thinking a Heaven's Gate cult suicide pact reference here.  Great song, btw. 

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Jul 26, 2012 - 09:56
 
 kaybee wrote:
kaybee wrote:I really like most of Porcupine Tree's album covers althoug this one is really, really creeping me out.At least it doesn't make me want to toss like the "In Absentia" cover. 

 
Another example of, erm, 'linguistic diversity' either side of the Pond. Over this Eastern side, the verb "to toss" has a rather different colloquial meaning from that which you mean :o)

Keef
(Confluence of the American River)
Posted: Jul 26, 2012 - 09:52
 
 ShaunJ wrote:

Much heavier/killer version of this on the Anesthetize DVD {#Drummer}
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpw7cBBrSA4

eddiethebus
Posted: May 24, 2012 - 03:39
 
starting to really like these guys! :)

westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 18:54
 
 ShaunJ wrote:

Much heavier/killer version of this on the Anesthetize DVD {#Drummer}
 

Good to know.  Next....

 

Yesterday On the Sunday of Life/early Porcupine Tree, and Steven Wilson's 2011 Grace for Drowning CD arrived in the mail.  Joy!



valeriogonzalez
(Quito, Ecuador)
Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 18:51
 
A little hard for Radio Paradise, but really cool!

ziakut
(The Windy City)
Posted: Mar 21, 2012 - 17:29
 
Gavin Harrison's drumming is stupendous! Steven Wilson's songwriting is awesome! This is just a cool and tense song! Love me my Porcupine 'Effin Tree!!!!

guielmo
(croatia)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 09:14
 
Pearl Jam then Pink Floyd and then Porcupine Tree... {#Hearteyes}

3 x double name, 3 x starting with P and 3 x great band  {#Crowded}

Is Bill trying to reach us with some subliminal message?   {#Stupid}



patrick_larson
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 09:11
 
This one goes to 11.

philbertr
(Roch New York)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 09:07
 
Geez!!!  I came on the site (listening on my home stereo in the background) to rate this a 10 and discovered I had already done that!  {#Embarassed}

{#Cheers}

TJS
(Bradley, Il)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 09:02
 
Sadly I can neither vote this up to 11 nor turn it up to 11.  I'll just sit here quietly and love it as the 10 it is.


ShaunJ
(Tsawwassen, BC)
Posted: Oct 19, 2011 - 14:22
 
 kayumann wrote:
Almost an element of the band "Stabbing Westward" rippling in the background...love this tune... solid 8.
 
Much heavier/killer version of this on the Anesthetize DVD {#Drummer}

kayumann
Posted: Oct 15, 2011 - 06:10
 
Almost an element of the band "Stabbing Westward" rippling in the background...love this tune... solid 8.

jberko
(Franklin, TN)
Posted: Oct 15, 2011 - 06:09
 
An amazing band.  I saw them live, twice last year, and they are every bit as precise.  True professionals.

Deadwing
(Cincinnati OH)
Posted: Sep 13, 2011 - 17:13
 
SW really does seem to enjoy and employ shock factor in his album covers/ videos etc.



kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Sep 13, 2011 - 16:55
 
kaybee wrote:I really like most of Porcupine Tree's album covers althoug this one is really, really creeping me out.
 horstman wrote:
But does it freak you out more than "In Abstentia"? That's the real test.{#Think}
 
At least it doesn't make me want to toss like the "In Absentia" cover. {#Smile}    Actually, I notice a lot of Porcupine Tree's album covers are creepy - Darkwing, The Incident, even the room on the "Signify" cover looks like an abandoned (haunted?) house.



Huey
(Netherlands)
Posted: Aug 13, 2011 - 07:43
 
 Canlistener wrote:
Could the tone of this song match the cover art any better?
 
I agree, this is f*k'n terrific. 8.

merkin_muffley
(Down the rabbit hole.....)
Posted: Jun 11, 2011 - 07:25
 
This so god damn good. I'm longtime fan of PT and always find something new in their music with every listen. Good to see that they have made a big impression on the other side of the Atlantic.
I've met Steven a few times (i'm good friends with the guy who does his artwork) and he always has fresh ideas into which to take his music either with PT, solo or other collaborations.

I have made a compilation CD with alternating PT and Radiohead (album tracks only) and they go well together.


coloradojohn
(Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan -- 15 min. west of Shinjuku, center of the freaking Universe)
Posted: Jun 11, 2011 - 07:17
 
THIS...IS SHAKING THE WALLS HERE...and I LIKE IT!  Hell of a set, going on hours now with jam after JAM!  Way to go, RP!


Relayer
(Gainesville, FL)
Posted: May 10, 2011 - 16:34
 
I say G0d Damn, that is one hell of a song.  I always thought this song sounded like it could have had John Paul Jones on keyboards.  I think the ending keyboard solo reminds me of some of the JPJ's stuff on his solo album Zooma.

socalhol
(Seattle)
Posted: May 10, 2011 - 16:34
 
This song is reminding me of those 90's Industrial rock bands — ala Stabbing Westward, Gravity Kills, NIN etc etc.  And that is a good thing, I liked that music back in the day, and nice to hear now & again.

Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: May 10, 2011 - 16:27
 
 kaybee wrote:
I really like most of Porcupine Tree's album covers althoug this one is really, really creeping me out.
 
It's the infant Riddick.

horstman
(Syracuse, New York)
Posted: Apr 09, 2011 - 06:15
 
 kaybee wrote:
I really like most of Porcupine Tree's album covers althoug this one is really, really creeping me out.
  But does it freak you out more than "In Abstentia"? That's the real test.{#Think}



kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Mar 08, 2011 - 18:14
 
I really like most of Porcupine Tree's album covers althoug this one is really, really creeping me out.

kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Mar 08, 2011 - 18:13
 
 fredriley wrote:

The dog's bollocks is the same as the cat's whiskers, the bee's knees or the kipper's knickers. As opposed to the dog's breakfast which is an awful mess.
 
Learn something new every day at RP!  I've heard of all the others, Fred but the kipper's knickers is new to me.  {#Roflol}
Obviously British slang! 

htowncoog
(Texas)
Posted: Mar 08, 2011 - 13:18
 
 redstorm wrote:
Just stand up and admit the truth, we all love rock and roll, and this boys and girls is a damn fine example of the subject matter  {#Devil_pimp}
 
Yep.

I wasn't familiar with these guys until RP. Thanks!


redstorm
(East Coast!........ Lou!)
Posted: Nov 02, 2010 - 15:02
 
Just stand up and admit the truth, we all love rock and roll, and this boys and girls is a damn fine example of the subject matter  {#Devil_pimp}

Canlistener
(Ontario Canada)
Posted: May 27, 2010 - 06:39
 
Could the tone of this song match the cover art any better?

westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Feb 21, 2010 - 14:29
 
 fredriley wrote:

The dog's bollocks is the same as the cat's whiskers, the bee's knees or the kipper's knickers. As opposed to the dog's breakfast which is an awful mess.
 
Beauty in testicles.  I get it!


a_genuine_find
(not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway)
Posted: Feb 21, 2010 - 09:13
 
{#Arrowu}8

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Feb 21, 2010 - 09:12
 


Spooky and simultaneously groovy— this song is good for the ears...



ambrebalte
(Beijing)
Posted: Jan 20, 2010 - 23:19
 
 fredriley wrote:

The dog's bollocks is the same as the cat's whiskers, the bee's knees or the kipper's knickers. As opposed to the dog's breakfast which is an awful mess.
 
you are becoming my teacher fred - lot's of expressions I didn't know (and thanks to wikipedia)

this song is quite dark, like purple dark, almost in the same way as are some poems by Rimbaud or Verlaine, les poetes maudits. I like to think about them more as free minds, and may be this is indeed a curse.
In some ways Steven Wilson reminds me of them
edit : from dog's bollocks to verlaine, quite a jump in just one comment

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Nov 19, 2009 - 02:58
 
 westslope wrote:

I also agree with fred and patiently await his explanation with regards to dog's bollox.

 
The dog's bollocks is the same as the cat's whiskers, the bee's knees or the kipper's knickers. As opposed to the dog's breakfast which is an awful mess.



Neil66
((stav) anger)
Posted: Oct 26, 2009 - 09:59
 
 Pyro wrote:
No band has moved me like PT, since the 70's when I first discovered bands like Yes, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, etc.  These guys are so damn good!

 
+1 and it gets better & better.....


westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Oct 18, 2009 - 17:28
 
 paulmack wrote:

Once again, fredriley, I find myself agreeing with you. I think (don't know what a 'dog's bollox' is.

 
I also agree with fred and patiently await his explanation with regards to dog's bollox.


paulmack
(the hissing swamps)
Posted: Oct 18, 2009 - 16:30
 
 fredriley wrote:
When I first heard this song on RP, before I got the album, I assumed on a 'skim-listen' that "let's sleep together" referred to sex. After getting the CD, which is the dog's bollox btw, I now know it's a much darker song about suicide pacts, the culmination of a concept album about the troubled male adolescent mind. A disturbing and inventive work.

As always, a big, big thanks to RP for introducing me to PT, as there's no way I'd have heard any of their stuff otherwise. I've not come across a duff album or song by them yet. This number gets a very rare 10 rating from the Nottingham jury.
 
Once again, fredriley, I find myself agreeing with you. I think (don't know what a 'dog's bollox' is.


Bluesgrrl
(New Orleans)
Posted: Oct 18, 2009 - 16:23
 
 fredriley wrote:
When I first heard this song on RP, before I got the album, I assumed on a 'skim-listen' that "let's sleep together" referred to sex. After getting the CD, which is the dog's bollox btw, I now know it's a much darker song about suicide pacts, the culmination of a concept album about the troubled male adolescent mind. A disturbing and inventive work.

As always, a big, big thanks to RP for introducing me to PT, as there's no way I'd have heard any of their stuff otherwise. I've not come across a duff album or song by them yet. This number gets a very rare 10 rating from the Nottingham jury.
 
Suicide pact? I dunno, but I bought the CD on Itunes cause of RP,love the 90"s chord progs. Wish I could hear them live.

rotoscoper
Posted: Sep 17, 2009 - 02:45
 
PT at their worst, I'm afraid. Bombastic, with a streak of amoral nihilism. So, many other better tracks...

snowcat
(Cold, Frozen Minnesota)
Posted: Aug 16, 2009 - 14:45
 
Gavin Harrison is one of the greatest drummers in rock.  Guy named Neil Peart agrees with me.


westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: May 13, 2009 - 10:40
 

LOL!   Hey Scott!  How goes?  

Whats up?  Been suckin' the the wrong end of a coal-bed methane pipe?  Worried about running out of parts for your Chevy? :-)



ScottFromWyoming
(Powell)
Posted: May 13, 2009 - 10:16
 
 westslope wrote:

To be difficult:   Actually it is possible to discuss politics and religion in a respectful manner.  Gotta dial into the core.

But dissing somebody else's music is rough.  It is like commenting on somebody's food choice with a loud yuck! or some other dismissal.  Usually denotes poor upbringing.

And this despite the fact that poor food choices along with physical inactivity constitute the number one biggest, most costly health problem in North America these days....

 

Love the industrial sound in Sleep Together.