🎵 2022-04-15 14:30:00 – Paris/France.
It's time I pumped some octane into my jams, which is why I'm finally picking a Porcupine Tree song that will get the weekend started with a bang.
Besides having the best drummer of all progressive rock bands (Gavin fucking Harrison!), Porcupine Tree is arguably the band that made Steven Wilson famous. That was before he went solo and then launched into some of the best pop music of the 2010s. And some of the saddest music of all the decades.
The man has Range, but Porcupine Tree was the most energetic and natural of his music. Well, maybe I remember it that way because I first heard it when I was a kid — just a freshman in high school — and I've been into it ever since.
Wilson's music calcified my love for the open road and the longest drives. Not only because the songs are long – like all good progressive rock – but because I used the Porcupine Tree and Steven Wilson gigs as excuses to go on solo road trips. Anywhere in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico to California. How many miles have I traveled just to hear this music? I lost count, but it was worth it every time. Hearing these songs, I feel like I'm on the road again.
And this track, "Arriving Somewhere But Not Here", is the origin of the Porcupine Tree album dead wing (2005.) This version is a live recording at Park West in Chicago, first released on a concert DVD, and later on a two-disc compilation named after the track. I like to think it's because the song is so good that the whole album revolves around it.
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Go blast this song on repeat and let its layers seep into you. Cymbals around 03:46 count guitar distortion at 04:16, and at 06:22 riffs that sound like Tool and Radiohead crashing into each other in the gravity of a black hole. All of this leading up to Gavin Harrison's drumming at 07:09, beating you over the head for over a minute straight. Meanwhile, a synthesizer floats above. God, I love this song – even though it's about dying in a car accident.
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