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The Bean Identity

"Progressive" rock ironically has progressed very little

18 Mar 2023 at 10:00 | Open on octodon.social
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The Bean Identity

We've been too easy on Steven Wilson for years at this point.

18 Mar 2023 at 10:02 | Open on octodon.social
The Bean Identity

I'm sorry I have just put on Steven Wilson's THE FUTURE BITES once more to try to get into it and...

these first few tracks are rough. I do not understand why you would make music like this.

Why does this song try to be funky, and then slather the funk in effects so all the groove is lost?

This is the musical equivalent of getting some nice crunchy cornflakes and letting them get soggy.

18 Mar 2023 at 10:09 | Open on octodon.social
The Bean Identity

Wilson's always been quite full of himself. The type of guy to make a music video using deepfakes to turn himself into Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Mark Zuckerberg (among others),

without actually saying anything about them.

Just that "look what I referenced I am so smrt" style.

And see barely anyone calling him on it?

I don't want to slag off the guy, he can make great music. Porcupine Tree has some killer songs, and his solo output has some fantastic parts! ("Hand. Cannot. Erase" is probably my favorite album of his and it's quite recent, this isn't a case where he got bad, he was always this way)

But even PT had that pretentious streak - a lot of Fear Of A Blank Planet lyrically was just "kids nowadays aren't like kids in my day, which is bad".

(also he seems to hate prescription meds)

Wilson's always been quite full of himself. The type of guy to make a music video using deepfakes to turn himself into Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Mark Zuckerberg (among others),

without actually saying anything about them.

Just that "look what I referenced I am so smrt" style.

And see barely anyone calling him on it?

18 Mar 2023 at 10:18 | Open on octodon.social
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