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Did anyone order the reissue of Lightbulb Sun via the Porcupine Tree website? If so, you should have received your copy through the post by now, two weeks before commercial release. I'd like to know what people think.

Up until yesterday I had never listened to anything from this album, so as you can imagine I was eager to get home from work and put it on.

My first impression of it is that it is typical Porcupine Tree, arguably there are one or two dodgy tracks, but as a whole it is excellent. However I do not believe that it is as good as Stupid Dream. I can't put my finger on it yet, but there is something missing that Stupid Dream has.

I was disappointed to see that once again they have opted against adding the extra tracks to the standard CD, only including them in 5.1 format on the DVD. I don't have 5.1 so will never have the pleasure of listening to these, although I did receive the bonus CD which has two previously unreleased instrumental tracks on it from the Lightbulb Sun sessions which are not bad at all.

Stand out tracks for me are Russia On Ice, Shesmovedon, Feel So Low, Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before it is Recylced and Lightbulb Sun.

I look forward to hearing what anyone else thinks. 

I like Shesmovedon but don't know the others.

I bought this the other day, it's pretty good, but not up with their best (for the moment anyway).

You can tell it is the album between Stupid Dream and In Absentia.

Shesmovedon is probably the best track on there for me, but there are some songs which don't do anything for me. 'Four Chords that made a million' I find particularly repetitive (that is probably the whole point of it though).

Fortunately my DVD player broke on Friday.... so on Saturday I bought a super cheap (£89) 5.1 system which just happens to play the 5.1 DTS track on the dvd. It does not play the high resolution DVD-A layer though.

I've probably played the Stupid Dream 5.1 mix more times than Lightbulb Sun, and now I can finally hear the full version of 'Even Less'  ;D.

I agree, four chords that made a million is terrible!

Out of curiosity, what is the extended version of Even Less like?

All the extra stuff is at the end - it is a case of 'Even More'  .
At the end of the usual 7 minutes instead of the voice calling out the numbers, there is an ambient bit which eventually leads into some tribal/rhythmic drumming, this leads into some heavy riffing and eventually another verse which mentions the words 'Stupid Dream'. Another Chorus follows and that is more or less it.

Very good but not worth shelling out on new hardware purely to listen to it; best to break what you already have first  ;D >

Nice idea, I have just replaced my speakers with Bose Series V 301's after blowing out my old ones. I might as well go for jugular now....  >