Porcupine Tree-Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape Archive Material 1984-91 (1994)

 

Artist: Porcupine Tree

Title:  Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape Archive Material 1984-91

Label: Gates of Dawn

Format: 2XLP

Cat #: GOD 005

Year of Release: 1994

Country and Year of Edition Issue:US 2000 Yellow

Listed Condition: VG+/G+ sleeve water damaged and stained, yellow vinyl unplayed

Sell Date: 1/8/22

Sell Price: $99.99

Discogs Last Sold: 5/25/21 $110.00 NM/VG+

Low: $73.81 NM/NM 7/3/20

Median: $110.00

Average: $105.07

High: $125.00 VG+/VG+

Current low price: $169.32

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 8

Have/Want: 206/164

Where Sold: Oneonta, AL

Time it took to sell: 7 years

Where and When Bought: promo

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

I had a couple copies from the label of this Porcupine Tree double album from when Rubric was happening and we were selling to The Wild Side distributor.  I think I got this at the Seattle Terrastock festival in the early aughts.  My memory of exactly how I got this is very fuzzy as many beers were drank all day three days straight while I was selling at my table. Many things we flying around as I was trying to sell stuff and keep the money straight with stuff in and out. 

This copy of Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape got hit in a storage flood.  I did actually break one of them open and listen to it once around the time I got the record and enjoyed it in that play it once and file away sort of way.  I'm streaming this now assuming the sealed on is the one still in storage but looking at the grading I'm not so certain.  

Oddities like a British "Hokey Pokey" sample and lo-fi ala Bevis Frond Miasma cassette recordings segue into a new age for psychedelia involving keyboards and unfortunately drum programming.  Still, these 4 sides are a sprawling example of what a psychedelic auteur may aspire to.  The listener that has been burnt out on Floyd and Crimson would do well to pick this up. Floydian pop sensibilities are all over the place, particularly in a song like "Radioactive Toy."   A track like "Out" has a more Hawkwind sort've feel.

Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape was a compilation of 3 early cassette albums of Steven Wilson's solo recordings somewhere in England before Porcupine Tree blew up into the famous commercial band entity.  It was originally out on CD in the UK in 1994, and this was pressed on yellow vinyl in the US in 2000 for the psychedelic collector market. It was repressed on green vinyl in 2005.   Now it's a sought after collectors item, the other one I had sold a few years back, so this is the last one I have.   Somebody in Alabama rolled the dice on paying $99.99 for this one, the one remaining is $169.62 so someone got a little bit of a deal for the damage.  The current high sell on this for Discogs last 10 sales is $125, but I managed to get $139.99 from someone in Canada in April 2019.

It dawned on me that I have never seen Porcupine Tree live and I probably should if the opportunity arises.  They last were in the US in 2010 in NYC at Radio City Music Hall.  Steven Wilson last toured in 2018 solo.  Until this very day I have been so out of it that I didn't realize Steven Wilson had maintained touring solo career or even care to know his name.  The prospect of potentially seeing Porcupine Tree "sometime" in the future was enough of a progressive concept for me.  I guess seeing Steven Wilson solo would fall into this category as well.

The bands vast catalog is the embodiment of "for further review" if I ever get around to it.

ED NOTE: It was indeed the opened one so I spun it again before shipping.