Fear of a Blank Planet (song)

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Name = Fear of a Blank Planet


Caption = Cover of the Roadrunner Records promo single.
Artist = Porcupine Tree
Album = Fear of a Blank Planet
Released = flagicon|EU April 16, 2007
flagicon|USA April 24, 2007
flagicon|JPN April 25, 2007
flagicon|Canada May 1, 2007
track_no = 1
Recorded = October - December 2006
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = Atlantic: 16:04
Roadrunner: 8:36
Writer = Steven Wilson
next = My Ashes
next_no = 2"Fear of a Blank Planet" is a Porcupine Tree song. It appears as the first track on the album of the same name. A promo single of the song was released in Europe and the .

Track listing

Atlantic

The Atlantic Records promo CD includes three different versions of the song, and is pressed to look like a 7" vinyl.

#Fear of a Blank Planet (Amended Edit) - 4:18
#Fear of a Blank Planet (Explicit Edit) - 4:18
#Fear of a Blank Planet (Album Version) - 7:28

Roadrunner

There is also a Roadrunner Records two-track promo which came housed in a cardboard sleeve with unique artwork and contains two radio-edit versions of the song.

#Fear of a Blank Planet (Clean Edit) - 4:18
#Fear of a Blank Planet (Dirty Edit) - 4:18

Personnel (song)

*Steven Wilson - vocals, guitar
*Richard Barbieri - keyboards
*Colin Edwin - bass
*Gavin Harrison - drums
*John Wesley - backing vocals

Music Video

On April 16, 2007, the same day as the European release date, the music video for the title track debuted on [http://myspace.com/porcupinetree 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launched on the "Fear of a Blank Planet" [http://fearofablankplanet.com/ microsite] to view in high resolution, but has been replaced by the live projection for "Sleep Together".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 "Fear of a Blank Planet".

Personnel (video)

*Lasse Hoile - director (music video)

References