- Insignificance (album)
Infobox Album | Name = Insignificance
Type =Album
Artist =Porcupine Tree
Released = March, 1997
Recorded Genre =Rock
Length = 49:26 (1997 cassette)
46:24 (2003 remaster)
Label = Delerium
Last album = "Signify " (1996)
This album = "Insignificance" (1997)
Next album = "Coma Divine - Recorded Live in Rome " (1997)"Insignificance" consists of a series of demos, unused songs and outtakes by British
progressive rock bandPorcupine Tree . It was the second promotional item sent to subscribers of the band's "Transmission" information service, in 1997, in the form of a 50-minute cassette and limited to 500 copies. "Insignificance" was remastered and re-released in 2003 as the second disc of the expanded edition of "Signify ", with a slightly different track listing.Track listing
Original 1997 cassette release
SIDE A
#"Wake As Gun 1" – 3:24
#"Hallogallo/Signify" – 6:53
#"Waiting" – 6:45
#"Smiling Not Smiling" – 3:40
#"Wake As Gun 2" – 3:42SIDE B
#"Neural Rust" – 5:47
#"Sever Tomorrow" – 6:01
#"Door to the River" – 4:17
#"Insignificance" – 4:54
#"Nine Cats (Acoustic Version)" – 4:03CD 2 of the 2003 "Signify" expanded edition
#"Wake As Gun 1" – 3:29
#"Hallogallo" – 3:37
#"Signify" - 3:28
#"Waiting" – 6:56
#"Smiling Not Smiling" – 3:49
#"Wake As Gun 2" – 2:06
#"Neural Rust" – 5:53
#"Dark Origins" - 6:54
#"Sever Tomorrow" – 6:04
#"Nine Cats (Acoustic Version)" – 4:08ong details
Steven Wilson wrote this on the sleeve notes [cite web|url=http://www.voyage-pt.de/swdisco.pdf|title="Steven Wilson - The Complete Discography - 7th Edition"|accessdate=2008-04-10] :
Wake As Gun I/II: This song was demoed in various incarnations. It always sounded like it should be a part of something bigger and longer but I never found a happy home for it. At one stage it was part of another "Signify" unreleased track "Cryogenics" (never recorded but performed live once at the Roadmenders, Northampton – anybody have a tape of that show?).
Hallogallo/Signify: "Signify" was supposed to be P.T. play Krautrock, so much so that the demo actually starts off as a faithful (reasonably) cover version of the Neu! Classic "Hallogallo" (one of my top 5 desert island discs) – however clearly something went horribly wrong about 3½ minutes in and "Signify" was born.
Waiting: My original demo.
Smiling Not Smiling: Not used either.
Neural Rust: Later reborn as "The Sound Of No-One Listening". Richard Barbieri thought this sounded like a seventies spy theme so while I was trying to work on the drums with Chris he was jumping around the studio control room performing TV stunts and Starsky + Hutch impressions. He was probably right though – I think it’s the funky wah-wah guitar that does it.
Sever Tomorrow (or just Sever as it was to become): The demo version – seems slightly mellower + more melancholic than the album version...it’s certainly slower, like most of my demos.
Door To The River: This is a track that was originally improvised in the studio + then "recomposed" later (or decomposed). The piano, lead gtr and major processed bass were added later. Intended as an EP track (it still could be).
Insignificance: This is pure improvisation – just me, Colin + Chris, extracted from a 45 minute long jam recorded late one night at The Doghouse in Henley. The basic backing track for "Intermediate Jesus" comes from the same jam.
Nine Cats: Not strictly speaking a "Signify" out-take of course. This "On The Sunday ..." LP track gets more than a few requests at gigs. Unfortunately the band don’t play an arrangement of it, but bowing to audience pressure in Italy (late '95) I played it twice as an acoustic number. It sounded ok so I recorded it like this thinking it might be suitable as an EP track.References
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