Sky Moves Sideways

Artist: Porcupine Tree Label: Delerium Records Category: Music Average customer rating: Format: Original recording remastered Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 636551287722 EAN: 0636551287722 ASIN: B0001933B8 Release Date: 2004-01-27

Sky Moves Sideways

Tracks:

1. Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1
2. Dislocated Day
3. Moon Touches Your Shoulder
4. Prepare Yourself
5. Sky Moves Sideways Phase 2

Tracks:

1. Sky Moves Sideways [Alternate Version]
2. Stars Die
3. Moonloop (Improvisation)
4. Moonloop (Coda)

Customer Reviews:

An epic similar to Wish You Were Here..........2004-06-09

PT is often compared to Pink Floyd and with good reason. They are both outstanding band from England not afraid to experiement with their sound. Both can create dreamy, lush soundscapes as well as jammin rockers. However, they are both their own entities and thank goodness for that.

I had one of the original releases of TSMS and was amazing to hear how much the re-master improved upon the original. There is much more dynamic range and I hear things I missed the first time. Plus you get a bonus CD of alternate takes and songs that didn't make the original album.

I bought both and feel it was money will spent. I think you will to. This is not the easiest music to get into, spiral_mind was right about that. But it is well worth repeat listenings, a true 5 star album in my humble opinion. Most PT albums are.

Rapture........2004-05-22

The title track is of course the main body of TSMS, and it's a mesmerizing journey: a moody passage enhanced with sumptuous atmospherics filling the room.. a powerful crashing chorus.. wild trippy phases of pulsing synths, airy flutes and fiery guitars echoing vastly across the heavens, sounding like a wondrous blend of Brian Eno, Pink Floyd, Ozric Tentacles and the Orb (though it really doesn't sound like any one of them). Its two halves bookend the other tracks with one ultra-tasty panorama of rapturous sounds & atmospheres after another.

The other offerings are nicely varied as well, from psychedelic groove (the hypnotic 20-minute "Moonloop") to atmospheric ballads ("Stars Die," which was strangely left off the original album) to nasty outright rock ("Dislocated Day"). Rounding off this expanded edition is an alternate earlier version of the title track, giving a fascinating new perspective - it isn't split in half, it's got different sections and passages that didn't make the final cut, and some of the lyrics are changed.

If a mere couple vocal tracks amid so much sprawling instrumental work doesn't sound like a good first pick, or you're looking for something a little more rocking & energetic, just go for either Signify or their latest masterwork In Absentia instead (although you can't really go wrong with anything under the PT name). But this one is always worth a serious good look - and it really has to be heard to be believed.

Music Album:

1. Glass House
2. Driving Blind ~ Driving Blind
3. Horse of the Dog ~ Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
4. Vegas Car Chasers ~ Silage
5. Livin' Lovin' Played: A Led Zeppelin Tribute ~ Various Artists
6. Jettingham ~ Jettingham
7. Ocrilim ~ Octis
8. Audience ~ Audience
9. I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself ~ The White Stripes
10. North of a Miracle ~ Nick Heyward

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Triple Concerto ~ David Amram

Remembrance ~ Trilok Gurtu

Contrapunkt

Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot, Vol. 2 ~ Eric Dolphy

Welcome ~ When Granny Sleeps

Young Woods ~ Phil Woods

Introduccion a la Musica Popular ~ Various Artists

Sangue Latino: Classic Brasilian Jazz Funk Groups ~ Various Artists

Sebah... Tehebbak ~ Hisham Abbas

Mariachi de Mexico ~ Various Artists