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A Smart Kid
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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It is Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt's favorite Porcupine Tree song. During the final show of the joint Porcupine Tree - Opeth tour (3rd Aug 2003 - Showbox, Seattle, WA) Åkerfeldt joined Porcupine Tree to sing A Smart Kid.
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Anesthetize
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song can be split into three sections, and in the album booklet, asterisk markings separate the lyrics to each of the sections. These sections are not named in the booklet, although during their BBC Radio 1 Rock Show performance, Gavin Harrison revealed that part two is called "The Pills I'm Taking"; the song "What Happens Now?" from Nil Recurring EP uses a sample of the opener riff for this second movement.
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Anesthetize
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song was initially called "The Beast" when the band premiered it during the Arriving Somewhere tour on 2006, but the name was later changed due to Wilson's own nonconformity with it.
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Anesthetize
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Submitted By: Big D
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It is the longest song on this album, clocking in at 17:42; this makes Fear of a Blank Planet the studio album containing the longest composition since The Sky Moves Sideways, not counting Voyage 34 (Phase III) in Voyage 34: The Complete Trip since it is a compilation album.
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Don't Hate Me
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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Don't Hate Me featured the first use of saxophone in the music of Porcupine Tree, courtesy of Theo Travis.
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Even Less
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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Steven Wilson said of "Even Less": "That track originally was seventeen minutes long and was recorded as a seventeen minute long track, and it had everything on it. Just ridiculous amounts of overdubs on that track."
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Fear Of A Blank Planet
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Submitted By: Big D
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On April 16, 2007, the same day as the European release date, the music video for the title track debuted on Porcupine Tree's MySpace, though it was temporarily removed a day later in the wake of the shootings at Virginia Tech due to the band finding the content, namely children wielding guns, distasteful at the present. On April 25, 2007, the video was launched on the Fear of a Blank Planet microsite to view in high resolution, but has been replaced by the live projection for "Sleep Together". The video is now included as a bonus along with the 17-minute film for Anesthetize on the DVD-A version of FoaBP.
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Fear Of A Blank Planet
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Submitted By: Big D
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Steven Wilson has mentioned that the title is a direct reference to the 1990 Public Enemy album, Fear of a Black Planet. He explained that race relations were a major issue when the album was released and he sees "coming to terms with information technology and...the 21st century" as a modern issue.
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Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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The track features a speech by the leader of the Heaven's Gate religious cult. This U.S. cult believed that they were from another planet and only visiting earth. In order to return to their own "dimension" before the earth was "recycled", such extraterrestrial entities must find each others and commit mass suicide. The words are taken from the video they made before killing themselves to explain the rest of the world why they had done it.
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My Ashes
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song was named after the final chapter of the Brett Easton Ellis novel Lunar Park, a heavy influence for the entire album.
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Piano Lessons
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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"Piano Lessons" was the first single for the album and was released just a week prior to the release of it. Steven Wilson has described Piano Lessons as "the most psychedelic Porcupine Tree recording since the early days."
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Pure Narcotic
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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The lyrics make a reference to Radiohead's album The Bends: "You keep me hating, You keep me listening to 'The Bends'."
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Sentimental
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Submitted By: Big D
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An early version of the song's chorus can be found on the track "Normal" from the Nil Recurring EP, which contains the B-Sides of Fear of a Blank Planet.
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Stop Swimming
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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According to some Stop Swimming song was heavily inspired by one of Steve Wilson's favourite bands, Talk Talk.
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This Is No Rehearsal
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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Steven Wilson said of "This Is No Rehearsal": "This song was directly inspired by a tragic UK event a few years ago. A child was taken from a shopping mall while his mother was momentarily distracted and was later found dead and tortured near a railway track. The most disturbing thing about the story was that the two abductors/murderers turned out to be children themselves."
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Tinto Brass
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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Tinto Brass is the only band composition on the album. This typical piece of instrumental Porcupine Tree was seemingly inspired by Italian director Tinto Brass and starts out with some Japanese spoken text.
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Way Out Of Here
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Submitted By: Limited On Death
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Robert Fripp (King Crimson) features as a guest artist on this song and performs the soundscapes in the song
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