Post by IhateMana on Feb 15, 2020 23:09:48 GMT
Associated Acts: Altamont (1983 - 1984), Karma (1983 - 1985), Porcupine Tree (1987 - 2010), No-Man (1987 - Present), Bass Communion (1994 - Present), Incredible Expanding Mindfuck (1996 - 2001), Blackfield (2001 - Present), Storm Corrosion (2010 - 2012)
Vocal Range: D2 - D5
{Vocal Summary}I awaken in a dimly lit room. As I slowly come to, I see pale spears of light creeping through drawn venetian blinds and onto a hard wood floor. More details build my picture of my surroundings the longer I look, shelves and shelves of... what look to be records, or comically thin books, covers the wall furthest from me. A gaudy turkish rug breaks up the wooden floor, pinned down by a desk topped by a massive interface of buttons and knobs. There is a man at the desk. He has not noticed I am awake yet, he remains hunched over a screen, absorbing the blue light through his bespectacled corneas. Cautiously, I try to shuffle away, get myself between him and a door on the other side of the room adjacent the bookshelf, but he senses the movement, flicks his long straight hair in my direction.
"It's finished, listen to this," his breathy lower register in use, almost spoken and not carrying a firm amount of resonance.
I bolt for the window, it's much closer and he'd be less likely to get in my way. I am devastated to discover it is barred.
"Such brilliant artistry here," he is playing music from the interface, a mixing desk, I realise. He sings along to it, a soft mezza-voce type tonality with a clearly defined flip between a somewhat limited chest register and a muted falsetto.
"What the fuck is this?" I ask, wishing he would turn this dinosaur ass prog off. I check my pockets. My phone! The fool has left my phone on me. I snatch it out, begin to dial the emergency services.
"You've got to put that down," he says
"Not a chance, you creep, I'm getting the hell out of here"
"But... phone bad," he reaches out to grab it.
Suddenly, there's a massive crash, two armed men crash through the door. I'm rescued, thank god. I rush over to the two men, but the push passed me and go for my abductor instead, checking him for injuries and seeking reassurance that he was alright.
"Mr. Wilson, has this man hurt you? We're officers ZeddSquared and RodneyRazorshorts with the paleontology society, we got word that a man was holding you hostage and forcing you to remaster old prog records, a process in which you excel."
Steven nodded, Steve to friends, fans, abductees, literally no one, no one calls him Steve, he looked pleadingly at his two knights in shining white armour.
"He... he... kept trying to make me reform Porcupine Tree," he began to sob, "I kept trying to tell him, my mission to save music was too important, that I have to go solo now, and almost but not quite make listenable pop music."
The two men looked at each other, shaking their heads in disbelief, then at me.
"Mana, you're going away for a long time,"
That's when I realised. Steven Wilson, the patron saint of prog music, wasn't holding me hostage. No, it was me who was keeping him.
Wilson spoke up again, having recovered his composure.
"I keep trying to tell him, just listen to a Pink Floyd record, they already wrote every Porcupine Tree song decades ago,"
"Well, he's going to have plenty of time for that where he's going," said one of the men, an attractive, meaty hunk, and he walked towards me with a pair of cuffs.
"No! you can't take me away from him, I love him! I'd do anything for him!" I pleaded.
"Then let him go, Porcupine Tree are never coming back," one of the long, tan and handsome men said.
"Never!"
Then like 6 cops bust in and shot me lol.
"It's finished, listen to this," his breathy lower register in use, almost spoken and not carrying a firm amount of resonance.
I bolt for the window, it's much closer and he'd be less likely to get in my way. I am devastated to discover it is barred.
"Such brilliant artistry here," he is playing music from the interface, a mixing desk, I realise. He sings along to it, a soft mezza-voce type tonality with a clearly defined flip between a somewhat limited chest register and a muted falsetto.
"What the fuck is this?" I ask, wishing he would turn this dinosaur ass prog off. I check my pockets. My phone! The fool has left my phone on me. I snatch it out, begin to dial the emergency services.
"You've got to put that down," he says
"Not a chance, you creep, I'm getting the hell out of here"
"But... phone bad," he reaches out to grab it.
Suddenly, there's a massive crash, two armed men crash through the door. I'm rescued, thank god. I rush over to the two men, but the push passed me and go for my abductor instead, checking him for injuries and seeking reassurance that he was alright.
"Mr. Wilson, has this man hurt you? We're officers ZeddSquared and RodneyRazorshorts with the paleontology society, we got word that a man was holding you hostage and forcing you to remaster old prog records, a process in which you excel."
Steven nodded, Steve to friends, fans, abductees, literally no one, no one calls him Steve, he looked pleadingly at his two knights in shining white armour.
"He... he... kept trying to make me reform Porcupine Tree," he began to sob, "I kept trying to tell him, my mission to save music was too important, that I have to go solo now, and almost but not quite make listenable pop music."
The two men looked at each other, shaking their heads in disbelief, then at me.
"Mana, you're going away for a long time,"
That's when I realised. Steven Wilson, the patron saint of prog music, wasn't holding me hostage. No, it was me who was keeping him.
Wilson spoke up again, having recovered his composure.
"I keep trying to tell him, just listen to a Pink Floyd record, they already wrote every Porcupine Tree song decades ago,"
"Well, he's going to have plenty of time for that where he's going," said one of the men, an attractive, meaty hunk, and he walked towards me with a pair of cuffs.
"No! you can't take me away from him, I love him! I'd do anything for him!" I pleaded.
"Then let him go, Porcupine Tree are never coming back," one of the long, tan and handsome men said.
"Never!"
Then like 6 cops bust in and shot me lol.
Significant High Notes
D5 ("Lips of Ashes", "Half-Light", "Harmony Korine", "King Ghost", "Man of the People", "People Who Eat Darkness", "The Same Asylum as Before", "So Called Friend", "Waving")
C♯5 ("Detonation", "Drive Home", "Lazarus", "Once", "Song of I")
C5 ("Can Utility and the Coastliners", "DNA", "Drown With Me", "Family Man", "The Funeral Portrait", "Glass House", "Housewives Hooked on Heroin", "The One", "Personal Shopper", "Refuge", "Storm Corrosion", "Track One", "The Watchmaker", "What Happens Now?", "Your Unpleasant Family")
B4 ("1,000 People", "Always Recurring", "Detonation", "Drive Home", "Follower", "The Fountain", "Lightbulb Sun", "Lord of the Reedy River", "Man of the People", "My Ashes", "My Gift of Silence", "Nowhere Now", "People Who Eat Darkness", "Permanating", "Riverrun", "The Same Asylum as Before", "Shesmovedon", "shutDOWN", "Song of Unborn", "This Killer", "Where We Would Be")
B♭4 ("Blackfield", "Christenings", "Dark Origins", "Deform to Form a Star", "Drag Ropes", "Four Chords that Made a Million", "Gravity Eyelids", "Hello", "The Hole in Me", "Meantime", "Octane Twisted", "Open Car", "Permanating", "Pure Narcotic", "The Séance", "Sign 'O' the Times", "Some Day", "Time Flies", "Zigota")
A4 (".3", "Always Recurring", "An End to End", "The Break-Up for Real", "Can Utility and the Coastliners", "The Creator Has a Mastertape", "Christenings", "Detonation", "Don't Hate Me", "Drown With Me", "Eminent Sleaze", "End of the World", "Family Man", "Flicker", "Four Trees Down", "Futile", "Glass Arm Shattering", "Godfearing", "Harvest", "Heartattack in a Layby", The Hole in Me", "The Holy Drinker", "How is Your Life Today?", "The Jackal", "Like Dust I Have Cleared from My Eye", "The Map", "Master's Apprentices", "Mellotron Scratch", "My Ashes", "No Twilight Within the Courts of the Sun", "The Old Piece", "On the Plane", "Open Mind", "A Piece of Earth and Good Swill to All Pigs II", "Perfect World", "Prodigal", "Pure Narcotic", "Radioactive Toy", "Raider II", "Remember Me Lover", "Shallow", "Sleep of No Dreaming", "Sleep Together", "So Called Friend", "Strip the Soul", "Summer", "Synesthesia", "Thank You", "Trains", "Well You're Wrong", "What Happens Now?")
G♯4 ("Ancestral", "Chloroform", "The Day Before You Came", "The Fountain", "Hope Leaves", "Index", "The Joke's On You", "Lazarus" 2015 Recording, "Lightbulb Sun", "Lost Souls", "Luminol", "My Gift of Silence", "No Twilight Within the Courts of the Sun", "Nowhere Now", "shutDOWN", "Where We Would Be")
G4 ("The 78", "Access Denied", "All the Blue Changes", "Anesthetize", "Arriving Somewhere But Not Here", "Baby Dream in Cellophane", "Blackfield", "Blank Tapes", "Blood", "Bonnie the Cat", "Collapse the Light into Earth", "Cut Ribbon", "Death Whispered a Lullaby", "Drawing the Line", "Drown With Me", "Eminent Sleaze", "Even Less", "Every Home is Wired", "Faded Flowers", "Far Away", "Fluid Tap", "Footprints", "The Funeral Portrait", "Glass Arm Shattering", "Glass House", "Glow", "Halo", "Happy", "I Drive the Hearse", "Lips of Ashes", "Lord of the Reedy River", "Meantime", "Moment I Lost", "My Ashes", "My Book of Regrets", "Normal", "Nowhere Now", "Open Car", "Out", "Pain", "People Who Eat Darkness", "Permanating", "The Pin Drop", "The Raven that Refused to Sing", "Refuge", "The Rest Will Flow", "The Same Asylum as Before", "Sever", "Shesmovedon", "Springtime", "Stars Die", "The Start of Something Beautiful", "Tarkus", "Trains", "The Unquiet Grave", "Unself", "Vapor Trail Lullaby", "Way Out of Here", "A Western Home", "Where is My Love?")
F♯4 ("12 Things I Forgot", "3 Years Older", "The 78", "Baby Dream in Cellophane", "Bleak", "Colorflow in Mind", "Cure for Optimism", "The Day Before You Came", "Deform to Form a Star", "Don't Hate Me", "An End to End", "Faded Flowers", "From 44 to 48", "Grace for Drowning", "Half-Light", "Hand Cannot Erase", "Hatesong", "Home In Negative", "How Was Your Ride?", "I Fail", "Kneel and Disconnect", "Last Regret", "Lazarus", "A Life Rehearsed", "Lips of Ashes", "Ljudet Innan", "Master's Apprentices", "My Book of Regrets", "Once", "Open Mind", "Out", "Pariah", "People Who Eat Darkness", "A Piece of Earth and Good Swill to All Pigs II", "The Pin Drop", "Remember Me Lover", "Sears", "Stranger by the Minute", "Strip the Soul", "Summer", "Where is My Love?")
F4 ("Anesthetize", "Buying New Soul", "Cloudy Now", "Count of Unease", "Detonation", "The Drapery Falls", "Even Less", "A Fair Judgement", "Fear of a Blank Planet", "Four Chords that Made a Million", "Futile", "Get All That You Deserve", "Grace for Drowning", "Gravity Eyelids", "Hag", "Hello", "A Life Rehearsed", "Mellotron Scratch", "No Part of Me", "Normal", "Open Car", "Out", "Please Come Home", "Pretty Genius", "The Séance", "Sentimental", "shutDOWN", "Sign ‘O’ the Times", "A Smart Kid", "Space Oddity" Live at the Hammersmith Apollo 27/1/16, "The Watchmaker", "Way Out of Here", "What Happens Now?", "Your Unpleasant Family")
Significant Low Notes
D3 ("Always Recurring", "And the Swallows Dance Above the Sun", "Anesthetize", "Arriving Somewhere But Not Here", "Baby Dream in Cellophane", "The Beloved's Cry" Live in Tel Aviv, "Blackfield", "Buying New Soul", "Can Utility and the Coastliners", "Christenings", "Cloudy Now", "Collapse the Light into Earth", "Count of Unease", "Cure for Optimism", "Deform to Form a Star", "Disappear", "Even Less", "Fadeaway", "Family Man", "Fear of a Blank Planet", "Flicker", "Four Chords that Made a Million", "Four Trees Down", "Get All That You Deserve", "Glass House", "Halo", "Happy Returns", "Home Invasion", "How is Your Life Today?", "How Was Your Ride?", "Insurgentes", "King Ghost", "Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before it is Recycled", "Last Regret", "Lately", "Life is an Ocean", "London", "Lord of the Reedy River", "Luminol", "Men of Wood", "Normal", "Nowhere Now", "October", "Open Car", "Open Mind", "Perfect World", "Personal Shopper", "Phantoms", "Port Rubicon", "Prodigal", "Pure Narcotic", "Radioactive Toy", "Raider II", "Remainder the Black Dog", "Remember Me Lover", "Routine", "Russia on Ice", "Shallow", "Shesmovedon", "The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1", "Slave Called Shiver", "Sleep of No Dreaming", "Smiling Not Smiling", "The Sound of Muzak", "The Start of Something Beautiful", "Stoneage Dinosaurs", "Storm Corrosion", "This is No Rehearsal", "This Killer", "To the Bone", "The Unquiet Grave", "Veneno Para Las Hadas", "Waiting (Phase One)", "Wake As Gun 1", "Waving", "What Happens Now?", "Your Unpleasant Family")
C♯3 ("Can Utility and the Coastliners", "Dark Matter", "The Day Before You Came", "Drag Ropes", "The Fountain", "I Drive the Hearse", "I Fail", "Jupiter", "Jupiter Island", "My Gift of Silence", "Piano Lessons", "Pills", "Remember Me Lover", "Rising of the Tide", "Significant Other", "Small Fish", "Tigers in the Rain")
C3 ("Always Recurring", "An End to End", "Anesthetize", "Can Utility and the Coastliners", "Fadeaway", "Glass House", "Gravity Eyelids", "Hag", "Happy", "Hatesong", "Nine Cats" Acoustic version, "October", "Permanating", "Stranger by the Minute", "This Long Silence", "The Raven that Refused to Sing", "Space Oddity" Live at the Hammersmith Apollo 27/1/16, "Stars Die", "Veneno Para Las Hadas", "The Watchmaker", "Way Out of Here", "What Happens Now?", "Where is My Love?")
B2 ("A Life Rehearsed", "Colorflow in Mind", "Don't Hate Me", "Faded Flowers", "Kneel and Disconnect", "Men of Wood", "My Gift of Silence", "The Rest Will Flow", "Sears", "This Long Distance", "The Watchmaker", "Where We Would Be", "Zigota")
B♭2 ("1,000 People", "Hello", "Lately", "The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1", "Some Day", "Song of I", "The Watchmaker")
A2 ("Always Never", "Always Recurring", "The Beloved's Cry" Live in Tel Aviv, "Buying New Soul", "Cloudy Now", "The Creator Has a Mastertape", "End of the World", "Footprints", "The Incident", "It Will Rain for a Million Years", "Lazarus", "Life is an Ocean", "My Ashes", "On the Plane", "Only Child", "Out", "Radioactive Toy", "Riverrun", "The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1", "Summer", "Synesthesia", "Track One", "Trains")
G♯2 ("An End to End", "The Joke's On You", "Men of Wood", "Permanating", "What Happens Now?")
G2 ("Deadwing", "Far Away", "Footprints", "Glow", "The Guitar Lesson", "Stop Swimming", "Strip the Soul")
F♯2 ("A Western Home", "Bonnie the Cat", "Small Fish" Karma version)
F2 ("Glass House", "The Guitar Lesson", "The Joke's On You", "Strip the Soul")
E2 ("Blackest Eyes", "Bonnie the Cat")
D2 ("A Western Home")
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* Italics indicates non-sung or non-melodic notes
* Underlines indicates notes that are in harmonies, backing vocals or are otherwise obscured
* Boldface indicates notes that are exceptional examples of this vocalist’s capabilities
* Blue indicates falsetto (distinct from head voice)
{questionable notes}
E2 ("Always Never" implied)
E2 ("Always Never" implied)
{Discography}
No-Man
Studio Albums:
(1996) Wild Opera: N/A - C5
(2003) Together We’re Stranger: N/A - G4 - A4
(2008) Schoolyard Ghosts:
Mini Albums + Compilations
(1993) Speak
(1995) Heaven Taste
Porcupine Tree
Studio Albums:
(1992) On the Sunday of Life: G2 - G4 - A4
(1993) Up the Downstair: A2 - A4
(1995) The Sky Moves Sideways: A2 - N/A
(1996) Signify: C♯3 - A4
(1999) Stupid Dream: G2 - B2 - A4 - B♭4
(2000) Lightbulb Sun: B2 - B4
(2002) In Absentia: E2 - F2 - A4 - D5
(2005) Deadwing: G2 - A4 - C♯5
Fear of a Blank Planet (COMPLETED)
The Incident (COMPLETED)
EPs:
Tarquin’s Seaweed Farm (COMPLETED)
Love, Death and Mussolini (COMPLETED)
The Nostalgia Factory (COMPLETED)
Moonloop (COMPLETED)
Staircase Infinities (COMPLETED)
Futile (COMPLETED)
Nil Recurring (COMPLETED)
Compilations:
Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape (COMPLETED)
Insignificance (COMPLETED)
Metanoia (COMPLETED)
Voyage 34: The Complete Trip (COMPLETED)
Stars Die - Rare and Unreleased (COMPLETED)
Recordings (COMPLETED)
Stars Die: The Delerium Years 1991 - 1997 (COMPLETED)
Solo
Studio Albums:
Insurgentes (COMPLETED)
Grace for Drowning (COMPLETED)
The Raven that Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) (COMPLETED)
Hand.Cannot.Erase (COMPLETED)
To the Bone (COMPLETED)
The Future Bites (COMPLETED)
EPs:
Drive Home (COMPLETED)
4 ½ (COMPLETED)
Compilations
Cover Version (COMPLETED)
Transience (COMPLETED)
Blackfield
Studio Albums:
Blackfield (COMPLETED)
Blackfield II (COMPLETED)
Welcome to My DNA (COMPLETED)
Blackfield IV (COMPLETED)
Blackfield V: A2 - F♯4 - C5
Storm Corrosion
Storm Corrosion: C3 - D4 - G4 - C5
No-Man
Studio Albums:
(1996) Wild Opera: N/A - C5
(2003) Together We’re Stranger: N/A - G4 - A4
(2008) Schoolyard Ghosts:
Mini Albums + Compilations
(1993) Speak
(1995) Heaven Taste
Porcupine Tree
Studio Albums:
(1992) On the Sunday of Life: G2 - G4 - A4
(1993) Up the Downstair: A2 - A4
(1995) The Sky Moves Sideways: A2 - N/A
(1996) Signify: C♯3 - A4
(1999) Stupid Dream: G2 - B2 - A4 - B♭4
(2000) Lightbulb Sun: B2 - B4
(2002) In Absentia: E2 - F2 - A4 - D5
(2005) Deadwing: G2 - A4 - C♯5
Fear of a Blank Planet (COMPLETED)
The Incident (COMPLETED)
EPs:
Tarquin’s Seaweed Farm (COMPLETED)
Love, Death and Mussolini (COMPLETED)
The Nostalgia Factory (COMPLETED)
Moonloop (COMPLETED)
Staircase Infinities (COMPLETED)
Futile (COMPLETED)
Nil Recurring (COMPLETED)
Compilations:
Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape (COMPLETED)
Insignificance (COMPLETED)
Metanoia (COMPLETED)
Voyage 34: The Complete Trip (COMPLETED)
Stars Die - Rare and Unreleased (COMPLETED)
Recordings (COMPLETED)
Stars Die: The Delerium Years 1991 - 1997 (COMPLETED)
Solo
Studio Albums:
Insurgentes (COMPLETED)
Grace for Drowning (COMPLETED)
The Raven that Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) (COMPLETED)
Hand.Cannot.Erase (COMPLETED)
To the Bone (COMPLETED)
The Future Bites (COMPLETED)
EPs:
Drive Home (COMPLETED)
4 ½ (COMPLETED)
Compilations
Cover Version (COMPLETED)
Transience (COMPLETED)
Blackfield
Studio Albums:
Blackfield (COMPLETED)
Blackfield II (COMPLETED)
Welcome to My DNA (COMPLETED)
Blackfield IV (COMPLETED)
Blackfield V: A2 - F♯4 - C5
Storm Corrosion
Storm Corrosion: C3 - D4 - G4 - C5
