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Sky Moves Sideways | 
| Artist: Porcupine Tree
Label: Madfish Records UK
Category: Music
Buy New: $17.98
Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 28078
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.7 x 0.6
MPN: 883
UPC: 636551288323
EAN: 0636551288323
ASIN: B0002CU4Y8
Release Date: July 26, 2004
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1 | | • | Dislocated Day | | • | The Moon Touches Your Shoulder | | • | Prepare Yourself | | • | The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 2 |
Disc 2
| • | The Sky Moves Sideways | | • | Stars Die | | • | Moonloop (Improvisation) - Porcupine Tree, Edwards, Rick | | • | Moonloop (Coda) - Porcupine Tree, Edwards, Rick |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
Tree has Deep 70's Roots November 27, 2008
K. Ward (Spring Tx)
Great album all around, both disks make for delicious background or a deep insightful listen. If you liked Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream and the Rhythm Devils then you will surely enjoy this 2 hour flight. I just watched Resident Evil 3 (muted) while listening to this entire album. It was a much better movie. 70's classic Floyd sound with lots of twists, turns and surprises. Highly recommended.
 improvement over the other PT album I heard November 7, 2008
B. E Jackson (Pennsylvania)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
"The Sky Moves Sideways", while not perfect by any means, ends up being a delight to listen to nonetheless.
The first flaw I notice right away is that the first part of this 30-minute monster sounds like a complete ripoff of a late 70's song called "The Whale" by Electric Light Orchestra from the Out of the Blue album.
After that part is over, a tropical beach-like theme enters the picture for a split second before drifting into Pink Floyd-sounding guitar riffs that honestly give you the impression of waves splashing against the shore. Too bad those riffs sound stolen from the Dark Side of the Moon album.
Here comes the vocal melody. It's quiet and moody, and probably ripped off from something, but I don't know what. Actually, it's pretty good, and the short solo that comes afterwards is decent enough to keep my attention. On repeated listens, it's an even better solo than I thought. Good job there.
Then a really heavy instrumental jam appears next, which is shocking because the build-up doesn't make you think THIS is coming, and this part is pretty exciting, and the groovy part that comes after that is even better. This carries on for several minutes before a short flute solo appers and doesn't really add much of anything, to be honest.
Now the band tries jamming with the flute added, and it's not working nearly as effectively this time, however. Probably because the flute keeps repeating the same few notes over and over behind a heavy rhythm section, and the boring drumming don't help matters either. The band tried to make it interesting by speeding up the drums but it doesn't work.
What appears to be an acoustic guitar comes in next, and this is really average. Oh man, the entire song is starting to fall apart now. I guess this is what happens when you take yourself too seriously. They should have kept with the jamming theme and not progressed into a series of unmemorable bits.
Well, after all THAT is over, at least the mellow part of this extremely long tune is pretty good. It's putting me in a state of ease. The beautiful mellow section eventually drifts relaxingly into a Genesis-sounding instrumental jam somewhere around the 20-25 minute mark, and it's pretty good too.
Oh well, overall, it's pretty decent.
Dreamy atmospheric music par excellence October 26, 2008
Scott Hedegard (Fayetteville, AR USA)
Porcupine Tree, the London prog band, has more talent and versatility than they know what to do with. I note reviews that compare them to Yes, King Crimson and some other earlier prog outfits, but where Yes and ELP and their ilk could easily and often stepped into virtuosity blahdom, PT wisely stay away from the stuffiness and pretentiousness that makes me dislike that genre overall.
Much more acccurately, "The Sky Moves Sideways" fills a gap between Pink Ployd and "I Robot"-era Alan Parsons Project, and while one wouldn't think there was much room to squeeze in between those two spacy outfits, PT do, and what a delightful blend it is. Imagine David Gilmour rocking out just a tad harder, and Floyd's "Meddle" mellowness minus the Roger Waters' antisocial thematics, with a dollop of space music and you get the idea.
Far from dull, always intriguing, and extremely hypnotic, this double disc belongs in every home. No one track stands out - rather, the set is a cohesive workout, that moves seamlessly and takes us into the stars, away from the chaos and hatred of this vile world, even if it's only for a little while.
PORCUPINE TREE TAKING THE PATH OF THE ART October 6, 2008
Camilo Correa
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
THIS RELEASE IS A STRANGE BUT BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ART; THE BEST OF THE 90!'S PT ALBUMS.....
Where Floyd and Yes should have gone. June 25, 2008
David Spaulding (Chattanooga, Tn USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Having recently heard P.T.(thanks to Pandora)I discovered to my delight that there is a vast and credible Progressive movement in existance.Yes and Pink Floyd could/should have taken their music in this direction instead of selling out to the pop genre. This is an excellant CD for anyone who has not heard P.T. before. Progressive rock is still alive and todays artists rival the great ones that started it all back in the day.
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