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Rockpalast (album)

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Rockpalast
Live album by
ReleasedJuly 2006
Recorded19 November 2005
VenueLive Music Hall (Cologne, Germany)
GenreProgressive rock, progressive metal
Length97:25
LabelTransmission
ProducerSteven Wilson
Porcupine Tree chronology
XMII
(2005)
Rockpalast
(2006)
Fear of a Blank Planet
(2007)

Rockpalast is a live album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, named after the eponymous music festival and TV show, it was recorded at on 19 November 2005 at the Live Music Hall in Cologne, Germany. It was also filmed for a Rockpalast TV special, but not all songs made the broadcast. It is only available to download on the band's official website, and cannot be purchased in stores. The performance relies almost entirely on Deadwing and In Absentia material, with only one older song making the set list. The performances of "Futile" and "Radioactive Toy" were later included as bonus material on the Arriving Somewhere... DVD.

Track listing

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Disc one
No.TitleWriter(s)Original releaseLength
1."Intro"  2:45
2."Open Car"Steven WilsonDeadwing (2005)4:45
3."Blackest Eyes"WilsonIn Absentia (2002)5:37
4."Lazarus"WilsonDeadwing4:17
5."Futile"Gavin Harrison, WilsonIn Absentia bonus track6:29
6."Mellotron Scratch"WilsonDeadwing7:23
7."Mother and Child Divided"Harrison, WilsonDeadwing bonus track5:23
8.".3"WilsonIn Absentia6:22
9."So Called Friend"Richard Barbieri, Colin Edwin, Harrison, Wilson"Lazarus" b-side (2005)5:13
Disc two
No.TitleWriter(s)Original releaseLength
1."Arriving Somewhere But Not Here"WilsonDeadwing12:46
2."The Sound of Muzak"WilsonIn Absentia5:11
3."Start of Something Beautiful"Harrison, WilsonDeadwing7:27
4."Halo"Barbieri, Edwin, Harrison, WilsonDeadwing8:36
5."Radioactive Toy"WilsonOn the Sunday of Life (1992)7:48
6."Trains"WilsonIn Absentia7:18

Personnel

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