Steven Wilson - Routine: Introducing metal genres (part 3) 'Prog'
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2019
- Short series of videos introducing a non metalhead to metal genres. Part 3: Prog
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Not embarrassed to say that I cried like a child for three hours straight when I saw Steven live last year
🤟 I love this series so far, such thoughtful explanations. Love your choice for prog too!
Edit: hugs for all of us crying for the nth time over this song
Steve Wilson is a genius and the woman's voice is so powerful...His former group Porcupine Tree is unreal!
I love the explanation of "prog". As a prog snob, I agree 100% with your definition :D. Great choice for a first prog experience!
Excellent choice. I knew the name of Steven Wilson. I never took the time to watch something of him. How ignoring. Very, very impressive.
I am a huge steven wilson fan and have seen him in concert. I have seen this video atleast 30 times and still tear up often with it the raven that refused to sing isnt too long and is really great too (and not as depressing as this one)
Nobody is ready for 'Routine' - but everybody who hears it (and sees it) is a much better person afterwards. Heavy choice for the first prog song mind!
Thanks for introducing me to Steven Wilson!
That guy's brilliant
100 times I've watched this video, 100 times I cried. Ninet Tayeb's haunting vocals, Stevens genius lyrics and composition, and Jess Copes animation is superb. Jess and Steven has done a few videos together, Drive Home, The Raven Refused to Sing, Drag Ropes. I think of the parents left behind to deal with school shootings and loss of their children. Everyday they deal with it and everyday Routine gets them through the day. 'Never let go, try to let go.'
It took three attempts over two days but I made it through the whole song! You really need to be in a specific mood to "enjoy" that. What a gut ripper.
Wow. Just, wow. Extremely good, but man that was rough to watch. I'll have to look up more Steve Wilson. By the way, I'm loving this series of "Introducing metal genres", can't wait to see what is next!
That song is a gut punch. Brilliant!
The animation is brilliant. It conveys SO MUCH emotion.
Good lads. This is how the song is meant to be "enjoyed" - and it is genius. Steven Wilson is a genius.
That was brilliant, and absolutely heart rending.
Charles Murphy try The Raven that refused to sing back him. The video is just as good.
@@PaulHilburger Wow, just amazing. That was beautiful. Thanks Paul!
Charles Murphy sure. That was the first video Steven Wilson did in his trilogy of make you cry music videos, the Raven, Drive Home, and Routine
This video was the perfect start to my day :P Love seeing people react to this song, I cry every time too. 100% subscribed :)
Prog rules
Well done - what a great example of quiet complexity in a 'simple' prog song! In recent times prog has quickly moved into a very forward spot in the list of things I love to listen to!! Thanks again for doing this series - love it!
Hope to see Pirate Metal one day! With the guys that started it all: Running Wild. Treasure Island or Ballad of William Kidd would be great(with lyrics in both cases).
This song is very difficult to bear. One of the best Steven Wilson songs for me. Thanks for your video :)
The lady is Ninet Tayab, a frequent collaborator with Steven Wilson
You could be doing these,for a very long time ,with the number of genres in metal.Bring it on i say.Cheers.
Wonderful podcast! I love the space station theme and background.
I recognised Hedgie right away, from a Porcupine Tree reaction/opinion vid. Love his humour!
I felt badly for his guest (Iron Mike? - wasn't sure what he said when he spoke his name). Yes, I heartily concur with him - it WAS unfair of host Hedgie to not prep him for the wondrous, astonishing, lachrymose catharsis to overwhelm him...I would have been a bit P.O'ed. (-:
The guest is a nice chap, for sure. During the song he reminded me of a pro golfer, or a golf broadcaster - it was his shirt and hair I s'pose... LOL I kept thinking "Why isn't he crying?" and "When is he going to cry?" When he rubbed his nose I thought "Aha! He is reaching for his eyes, to dry the tears." Then, after the song's final chord, I was so proud of him for having wept. That - and liking "Routine" and the masterwork of Steven Wilson in general - are signs of sanity, and humanity.
"Routine" always makes me weepy. Even sadder, and more tear-inducing, is "Back When You Were Beautiful", a classic song by No-Man, which is another of the brilliant Wilson's musical projects. Its official video is a surefire tearjerker as is "Routine"''s. They are both by Lasse Hoile.
In my perspective, "Routine" has elements of alternative rock, progressive rock, and folk rock. I don't detect any prog metal in it. The story seems to imply, in the latter third of the vid, that the woman's child had been killed in a shooting (perhaps a school shooting), hence the symbolic blood drops which appear during dishwashing time.
The final lines, about bees in the jasmine sway and never letting go while attempting to, are as beautiful, poignant, sublime, and heavenly as any passage of music to ever grace the race. I love that passage infinitely, and equally when sung by Steven or by Ninet Tayeb (as many reading this know, hers is the female singing and primal scream in the original studio verzh of "Routine"). Whether sung by a male or a female, the lyrics and melody are as touching as can be. The accompanying guitar charm helps a bit too!
Wilson is the supreme musical genius of this planet. He is also a master of melancholia. He is in the stratospheric level of music that Edgar Allan Poe was in poetry.
Ultimate kudos to both guys for being willing to cry "live" in the view of thousands. That requires courage and humility. I often wonder how SW avoids crying while performing his sadder tunes. I would never make it through even one of them.
Please try with " drive home" Steven Wilson
Speaking of prog, I would love to hear you go over your experience with Vektor since discovering them. You only gave us a taste, but it looked like you found something special.
Amazing Prog song. But see also - This Strange Engine, Invisible man, Neverland - Marillion.
I stand corrected: Neil Whitman, not Lasse Hoile, was the creator of the "Back When You Were Beautiful" video.
You couldn't find a Prog Rock song less than 20 mins long, Hedgy? 21st Century Schizoid Man is just a little over 10 mins! Unless you were trying to avoid Mr. Fripp's copyright "hounds"...
That song i very good, but i think its alittle bit sad.
Steven likes to focus on sad or scary themes. Some of them disguised as almost mockingly happy lyrics / melodical choices. He tackles topics people tend to avoid in normal conversation. Things people are REALLY afraid of.
FOR ME, WITHOUT VIDEO ITS MUCH BETTER,MUSIC IS REALLY GOOD,I AM STRANGE,BECAUSE I CAN CRY WHEN I LISTEN IZEGRIM-ENDLESS STRIVE OR SOME APOCALYPTICA SONGS,BUT THIS SONG IS NOT CRYING FOR ME AND MY HANKY STAYED DRY,BUT ITS GOOD,IF THIS THING MEANS A LOT FOR SOMEONE
Routine has the same effect on me at 47!
Not my words from 12 months ago.....“People decided a long time ago that I was a progressive-rock artist, and I’ve been at pains to point out that I never claimed to be,” Wilson said last week, ahead of a North American tour.
Prog rock is more 70s well at it's peak
Routine is not prog metal but prog rock lol
without the video you dontknow what the song is about.sure its heavy and gloomy and atmospheric but its only when you see the newspaper clip do you understand the songs story.If you dont get emotional over this then there is something wrong with you