I DIDN'T KNOW HE MADE MUSIC LIKE THIS // Steven Wilson - Home Invasion / Regret #9 // Reaction
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ค. 2024
- Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on Home Invasion / Regret #9
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0:00 Intro
00:45 Reaction
12:35 Analysis - A Series of Distinct Sections
21:12 Analysis - The Verse / Chorus Interpretation
23:14 Analysis - How The Story Ends
26:42 Analysis - More Notes Than Expected
29:02 Analysis - Great Drumming and Bass Work
30:10 Analysis - Lyrical Dive
35:05 Outro
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This song would make a ton more sense in album context, specially those lines from the verses that make little sense. This is part of a concept album you've already checked another track from (Routine). Honestly, I'd say if you ever check any Steven Wilson album, this should be it. Everyone has their opinion about which one might be the best, but imo no album encapsulates his craft and influences better than this one. Hand. Cannot. Erase. (that's the album) has everything, the atmospheric electronics, the emotional ballads, the dark synths, the progginess and tight musicianship, the pop sensibilities, even the metal sections from later PT. And it's also a perfect execution of concept imo. Loosely based on the real life story of Joyce Carol Vincent, a woman who was found dead on her apartment, three years after disappearing from everyone in her life without anyone noticing. Their own neighbours didn't realize as all services on her apartment kept on being debited from her bank account. It was when police went to force her out of her place for unpaid rent that they found her. The album doesn't exactly follow the story but it takes inspiration from it, narrating the progressive distancing and strangement that the protagonist experiences from family, friends, lovers, and ultimately every other single person. Also, this song is actually two different tracks, so the purely instrumental section in 3/4 is actually the Regret #9 section. Regret is one of the main themes of the album, as well as loneliness and coping with loss, aging and mortality. But it's all beautifully done imo!
seconded! This album is simply one of the best concept and prog albums that I know of. A lot of greatness to analyse. Music, emotions, lyrics, etc. This albums tells a beautiful (by which I mean; devastating,) story, and it is masterfully done on all levels.
The lyrics seem pretty obvious on its own to me. Home Invasion of technology that makes you escape from real life by trying to simulate it synthetically instead, in terms of a technological/psychological epidemic. It's typical preachy Steven Wilson (as much as I love it) 😅
@@StringHead92 💯% It’s like listening to an edit track from THICK AS A BRICK or TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS. Might still be beautiful and powerful, but hearing it in context is a huge force multiplier. Another analogy would be hearing one movement from a Beethoven Symphony. If you just hear the 4th movement of say, his 9th (with the “Ode to Joy” in it), it’s beautiful and moving. But if you hear it in context with the previous three movements, it’s overwhelming. So too, HAND CANNOT ERASE. I mean, the concept alone is overwhelming, even *without* the music.
If I recall, Marco Minneman was on drums and Guthrie Govan on guitar. He assembles personnel based on the album, so he doesn’t play everything. Thanks for the review!
I’m not great with lyrics, but maybe the home is being invaded by the internet and the constructed world we use it to build.
Lyrically I think it's about being a shut-in, using the internet as a replacement for more genuine experience (which we can hear at the end with kids playing outside). It reminds me a lot of Lightbulb Sun thematically.
Yup, it's the great Marco Minneman. Killer personel list on this album! Wilson couldn't play what they did like they did. But he sure can pick the musicians to create his masterpieces!
"Guthrie Govan on guitar." Partly explains why it is so bad
Absolutely stacked lineup then. All 4 members in this group are fantastic!
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I thanks
Thanks for the reaction. I had the privilege of seeing his band perform this album live. It’s a concept album, so good as this is out of context, it makes so much more sense *in* context.
Guthrie Govans solo in Regret #9 is brilliant. All improvised and done on 1 take.
Yeah, how mind boggling is that. Govan is just an absolute sacred monster.
No it isn;t, everything that regressive eejut does is HORRIFICALLY BAD
WAIT! That was Guthrie?!? No wonder it was so good!
The Keyboardist is from Miles Davis"s Elektrik Band.. Adam Holtzman
I remember a few weeks ago looking at the google sheet and thinking it was crazy that nobody had requested this song at that point. So... finally!
Sir Nick Beggs on Chapman stick. I saw Steven with the full recording band play this live in 2015 (and a few times since with some different band members) - an epic funky psychedelic spacey masterpiece with one of the greatest guitar solos of all time.
You need to check out his albums, "Grace for Drowning," as well as " The Raven Refused to Sing ", you will not be disappointed. Regret #9 has some of Rick Wakeman's Moog Synthesizer touches. Thanks for sharing this treasure piece of music.
loved your reaction and analysis
The guy's made 'only' 7 official solo studio LPs.
If you count all of the LPs in his discography, it'll be around 50, I think (and a few EPs). But it's all very different, and I haven't met many people who would be into _all_ of his works. There are early demos, cover song collections, techno, abrasive drone, pop rock, krautrock albums - all sorts of stuff. So just SW or PT studio releases might be enough.
For start. 🙂
I haven't met anyone who (a) has any taste in music at all, and (b) is able to tolerate 5 seconds of his horrific music
Bass is played on a chapman stick
...played by the great Nick Beggs. He can sing too.
"Man, what's going on there?" Answer: Guthrie Govan. (You know him from The Aristocrats as well as Marco Minnemann on drums)
Dude that's a stacked lineup!
Yeah, you should definitely do yourself a favor and check out this album in its entirety, it is an absolute masterpiece.
Steven Wilson did some Djenting with Porcupine Tree in the song Circle of Manias. Literally Djent
While you're talking about Timing and Rhythms, I just feel pure emotion...
I hope this is the only time I ever witness a reactor mumbling about the drummers time signature during Guthrie Goven literally improving one of the most epic solos we've ever heard and not acknowledge a single thing about it.
The instrument you can't place is a banjo.
This album is a masterpiece.
This is Wilson's "Young Lust"
Like, everything you used to describe this track, I was just like "Pink Floyd.. Yes, Pink Floyd... Right, Pink Floyd... Mhm, Pink Floyd... PINK FLOYD! 😂
The whole album is a masterpiece. The "chorus" sections of Home Invasion remind me of Alan Parsons Project, in a great way.
No it isn't, it is rubbish, like everything this boring fool has ever done
Exactly!
The live version of this from Home Invasion (2018) is better IMO. They killed it!👏🧝
Did you not? then wake up! 'Arriving Somewhere But Not Here" Fire.
The keybord part that starts at 3:48 it's almost identical to the part in Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part VI-IX. Amazing
This album is a blast. Listen to it in it's entirety.
Steven Wilson is a case study in everything wrong with music. I fist came across him in the 90s as he was dipping his toes in the world of really really embarassingly bad hippy-BS trance music. HORRIFIC, and most of what I've heard him do is much worse.
Recordings of this available?
Settle down fool…
What a deeply odd take. Baffling
You seem like the kind of person that just finds joy in hating everything unconventional, so I find it odd that you would be checking out a reaction to steven wilsons music, since you obviously hate everything his music represents🤔
The biggest disappointment of the year 🤮🤢