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Blackfield — My Gift Of Silence
Album: Blackfield II
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Released: 2004
Length: 3:59
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If I compiled all my crimes and my lies into amnesty
Would you come back to me?
The smile on my lips is a sign that I don't hear you leaving me
And I don't hear my own soul scream

I'll read your lips, watch your scarf play at your hips and I know it's true
But I don't hear him call to you

Don't blame yourself
Don't change yourself
I just want to be over you, see, if you'll love
Don't hate yourself

If I compiled all my crimes and my lies into amnesty
Would you come back to me?
The smile on my lips is a sign that I don't hear you leaving me
And I don't hear my own soul scream

Don't blame yourself
(Don't blame yourself)
Don't change yourself
(Don't change yourself)
I just want to be over you, see, if you'll love
(Don't hate yourself)
Don't hate yourself
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SUPERB!!!
Steven Wilson sure has captured my ears since he started putting out music - keep it up.
Fantastic to hear this again, I think it has not received much play recently, or I have just been unlucky in my listening times.

My favorite Blackfield song
         tinypriest wrote:
 
 




 jlrivitti wrote:
 I agree.

anumidium wrote:
woah, I thought this sounded like Porcupine Tree! Thanks RP for introducing me to more of Steve's music. {#Propeller}

 


 

After a deep-dive with Porcupine Tree, there is more digging to be done?  O Boy!
 Greengrowth wrote:
 


Great way to start my morning with Steven Wilson...
The new Blackfield album just came out, and it is once again a Steven Wilson collaboration, so expect it to be great.  The last 2 Blackfield albums were just  Aviv Geffen, with some guest vocals/mixing by Wilson.  The new album, Blackfield V, has SW back in the songwriting and preforming function.  Can't wait for it to arrive from Amazon on Monday.
 kingart wrote:
All By Myself

Eric Carmen

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbn6o5tiPds
 

 
I vaguely heard "Don't Cry Out Loud" by Melissa Manchester in the chorus as well, but it's really just a four-note phrase/sequence which can sound reminiscent of a lot of tunes.
I am driven into thinking, that someone is breathing.
  Now I remember most of the people does I know.
 scrubbrush wrote:
How many bands can one guy lead?... He and Maynard from Tool/Perfect Circle/Puscifer should do '2GuysIn19Bands-palooza'

 
LOL!  Hilarious.  

Wilson's solo material (since Porcupine Tree) is phenomenal.  Never did like any of the material I sampled from the 3rd Blackfield CD and am not too unhappy that Wilson has moved on fromm Blackfield. 

Thanks for reminding me that I should explore Maynard's material.  Much of what I have heard from Puscifer — despite the adolescent lyrics — I like. 
 that third glass hits the spot right about now.. {#Cheers}
How many bands can one guy lead?... He and Maynard from Tool/Perfect Circle/Puscifer should do '2GuysIn19Bands-palooza'
Can I cash in that gift now?
 I agree.

anumidium wrote:
woah, I thought this sounded like Porcupine Tree! Thanks RP for introducing me to more of Steve's music. {#Propeller}

 


All By Myself

Eric Carmen

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbn6o5tiPds
 
woah, I thought this sounded like Porcupine Tree! Thanks RP for introducing me to more of Steve's music. {#Propeller}
 Hasan wrote:

Try yet another new word, stigmergent: a group that self-organizes around the trails blazed by predecessors.

 
Or a man in a visored helmet racing cars anonymously.
 zepher wrote:
Thanks RP for increasing my vocabulary in music and the English language....

A dystopia is a community or society, usually fictional, that is in some important way undesirable or frightening. It is the opposite of a utopia. Such societies appear in many works of fiction, particularly in stories set in a speculative future. Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society.

 
Try yet another new word, stigmergent: a group that self-organizes around the trails blazed by predecessors.
 Krispian wrote:
Dystopian album cover
 
Yeah; wonder where they found THAT?
Thanks RP for increasing my vocabulary in music and the English language....

A dystopia is a community or society, usually fictional, that is in some important way undesirable or frightening. It is the opposite of a utopia. Such societies appear in many works of fiction, particularly in stories set in a speculative future. Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society.
Dystopian album cover
Marvin Gaye on PSD...
Quite lovely....
 Hands down a much better CD than their newest release..bluecshells wrote:

I'm adding this to my collection when money allows...getting to like it more and more each listen.  Thanks RP.{#Angel}

 


oh, is that Steven?
nice tune but lyrics as deep as a Hallmark card.
For me, this is the no.1 album of the 2000's

I'm adding this to my collection when money allows...getting to like it more and more each listen.  Thanks RP.{#Angel}


Just saw SW solo show....wow does he surround himself with players!  Incredible show is all I can say.
 Deadwing wrote:


I think SW has done a great disservice to himself and also his long time fans by compartmentalizing his instincts and channeling his musical faces and moods into such strictly differentiated outlets.

ie

The hard stuff is now PT

The melodic melancholic stuff is now Blackfield

The experimental stuff is now SW solo

time was, PT had ALL those elements at the same time on every album.

(No Man doesn't really fit into this argument  LOL)

Still my favorite musical madman though   {#Music}

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Thanks for the excellent analysis DW.  Just saw SW's solo act live. Hearing this for the first time - recognized the voice instantly and kept waiting for change of tempo or crunching guitars and then....read your note.

Not knowing nearly as much as you I would have to agree that perhaps he ought to explore all territories under one moniker - or at least on one album. 

Porcupine Field.

Good points Deadwing!  This apparent comparmentalization probably helps keep the musical creativity juices flowing.  But to be fair, the last two Porcupine Tree have had some range and different stuff that was probably written colloboratively in the studio.

 

How is the latest Blackfield?


 westslope wrote:

Well, I'd say the Blackfield sound is lighter, poppier, easier-listening really.

 

Porcupine Tree has definitely adopted a prog metal edge and is more adventurous melodically and rhythmically. 


 

I think SW has done a great disservice to himself and also his long time fans by compartmentalizing his instincts and channeling his musical faces and moods into such strictly differentiated outlets.

ie

The hard stuff is now PT

The melodic melancholic stuff is now Blackfield

The experimental stuff is now SW solo

time was, PT had ALL those elements at the same time on every album.

(No Man doesn't really fit into this argument  LOL)

Still my favorite musical madman though   {#Music}

.


 1wolfy wrote:
For me as well....I find their new CD lacking though.. robco1 wrote:
This album took several listens before I really warmed up to it. Now I can't stop listening to it...

 
 
I don't find it as warm maybe? More clinical? Hard to describe it. I feel you. Some of it I really like though.

I have heard some excerpts from SW's upcoming second solo album though, and, Oh My!

It sounds so promising.

It might be the best thing he has done in the last 3-4 years!

{#Cheers}


Somebody was hurtin quite bad when they cut this CD but it is a good one.. I like the whole thing..
For me as well....I find their new CD lacking though.. robco1 wrote:
This album took several listens before I really warmed up to it. Now I can't stop listening to it...

 


This album took several listens before I really warmed up to it. Now I can't stop listening to it...

 sirdroseph wrote:

{#Stupid}And you can tell them apart how??
 
Blackfield is the boring one. . .
 

Well, I'd say the Blackfield sound is lighter, poppier, easier-listening really.

 

Porcupine Tree has definitely adopted a prog metal edge and is more adventurous melodically and rhythmically. 


 vandal wrote:

Love Porcupine Tree, don't really care much for Blackfield. . . 
 
 
{#Stupid}And you can tell them apart how??

Pretty good stuff. I'm at a loss for why Steven Wilson has PT, this band, and a solo project too.  They seem to have the same sound to me, though maybe I could tell if I compared them side-by-side.

... Me Too ...
:)  {#Iamwithstupid}

I too thought it Porcupine Tree - esq .. yeah I have to spell it out else I forget how to spell.. but then the singer didn't sound familiar.. look at monitor 2, see the mini play list and not see P.T.'s name ... INVESTIGATE ... and here we are... a member of PT is in there and the sound is very good.. so have to rate highly ... Mainstream radio... loose your ground again..
This is really working today, but not always

 rtrudeau wrote:


Agreed. Volume UP.
 

New album and tour soon...go ahead google it!
I thought for a second Blackfield was ripping off PT's signature sound. Kinda like it.

Love Porcupine Tree, don't really care much for Blackfield. . . 
 

I was good until the chorus and then lost interest...{#Doh}


...two steven wilson songs in one morning?..c'mon, bill, you can do better than that...

Blackfield is a porcupine Astronaut!

PS
Haaaaaaa....!!!!

I had nooooo clue one of the guys was really
a member of PT till Bill just (!!!!) said it! Funny!

 ERERER wrote:
Beautiful, gentle and powerful.
 

Agreed. Volume UP.
 nigelr wrote:

Agreed, unmistakably wonderful. Loving the drum work...
 
{#Yes}

How well do artists like Blackfield and for that matter Porcupine Tree do when NOT in the mainstream?  I listen to far more "net" radio now than "car" FM/AM . . . thoughts?
Poets.
A masterpiece {#Exclaim}
Beautiful, gentle and powerful.
 garycha wrote:
Perfect 10.
 
Agreed, perfect.

Perfect 10.
Hey, the song title is misleading. ...(runs away)

I have the BF live DVD and it is quite good. Aven's band is ver very good. Quite different from the members of PT which provides their own unique sound. When you hear SW voice most would alway's associate the tune as being PT or PT light. I totally disagree with this as SW voice and playing ads a demension to BF but the music is can still stand on its own. I think a lot of this has to do with Avens writing as well and the part of the world he comes from that most of us , myself included have no clue what it would be like to live in.
This song is just beautiful.....makes me wanna cry!
 nigelr wrote:

Agreed, unmistakably wonderful. Loving the drum work...
 

Pretty sure this is Porcupine Tree's drummer on this song.
Hey there,

the result off the "Artist Website" link is wrong: 
The Artist website is https://www.blackfield.org/.


 robco1 wrote:
Unmistakable.
 
Agreed, unmistakably wonderful. Loving the drum work...


 crockydile wrote:
PT with a guest singer, that's all. Very PT. The jury is still deliberating...
 
Very true. I've seen them live, and I DO like them—they were quite enjoyable. But without SW we would never have known they exist. It's not that they're bad, they're not. But without SW the best they could hope for is ordinary.

It seems I like everything Steven Wilson has a hand in. His compositions are unmistakable to me as well.
 crockydile wrote:
PT with a guest singer, that's all. Very PT. The jury is still deliberating...
 
Not exactly. This is Steven Wilson from Porcupine Tree, with Aviv Geffen.

quite a cool song I think.  Surprised nobody has made a comment.  This one barely qualifies as that.
meanwhile.......
PT with a guest singer, that's all. Very PT. The jury is still deliberating...
Unmistakable.