Recordings
by Porcupine Tree
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Recordings is ranked 11th best out of 46 albums by Porcupine Tree on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Porcupine Tree is Fear Of A Blank Planet which is ranked number 446 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,841.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Recordings track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/07/2025 12:53 |  Igtonumama | 10,791 | 63/100 |
| ! | 06/27/2025 14:23 | TonySayers61 | 23,705 | 64/100 |
| ! | 01/19/2023 11:39 |  AlexSVK | 1,087 | 62/100 |
| ! | 01/07/2023 21:40 | Sforge | 1,516 | 77/100 |
| ! | 07/13/2022 20:35 | Pepeov | 533 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.5.
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sageamagoo 05/27/2017 16:22 | #191521
One of the best Porcupine Tree albums. I really mean that. Yeah, it's a compilation, but it's also an album in every sense of the word and I find myself coming back to it more and more for the unique sound and atmosphere it has. Perfect for a long night after a hard day.
I don't normally like adding compilations to favourite albums as this is a collection of b-sides and new tracks from the Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun sessions. But this album really identifies the dearth of good material Steven Wilson had. Many of these tracks are good enough to be on a normal album. Particular favourites are Even Less (full length), Buying New Soul, Disappear and Untitled.
SquishypuffDave 07/08/2010 09:47 | #12295
Despite being comprised of songs that were left off of Porcupine Tree's 'Stupid Dream' and 'Lightbulb Sun', 'Recordings' is constructed just as well as either of the two, is more interesting, and has just as good a production value. Here the band well and truly establish their own unique brand of psychedelia. The music generally maintains a mellower vibe than most of Porcupine Tree's other outputs - an obvious influence being early Pink Floyd - and occasionally even harkens back to the heyday of bands like Blur and The Beach Boys.
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