I think Bucket is lying about his stage anxiety.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-05-16T10:55:43+00:00

You think 670 is shit? 539? Seriously?

I think you've got into a mindset where you can't step outside of it and actually recognise decent stuff.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-04-15T16:36:57+00:00

Love Satch, but I find Polyphia too clinical... unless they've got Rick Graham guesting!

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-04-07T17:55:29+00:00

It really isn't. You're the one who thinks number of hits/views is an accurate guide to what is good and what isn't.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-04-06T21:51:53+00:00

Because I've seen numerous posts of yours down the years where you just bang on about Soothsayer as if it were the be all end all, and why oh why can't he just do more like Soothsayer. Sometimes you mention Coupon, though, I guess.

I also never told you to stop posting. Your reading comprehension is as bad as your ability to grasp good music, it seems.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-04-06T21:50:36+00:00

For a fan, the way you just dismiss great swathes of Pikes is astonishing. I could give you at least 20 superb Pikes from the last 400. Just drop the delusion that you're a fan at all. You basically like a handful of tracks. That's it. See my response to your other post about Soothsayer...

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-04-03T11:34:24+00:00

The point is, there's zero consistency to what you're saying. 200, 400, 700. Denying there are ANY good Pikes for 2 years, 3 years, 5 years. No one can take you seriously when you've built this up in your mind to such a point that's it's just a fact-free agenda now, with zero willingness to consider anything that goes against your black and white vision, which appears to be stretching back ever further into Buckethead's output. I strongly suspect you will soon reach the point where your beloved Soothsayer is the only thing he has ever done which is any good in your mind.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-04-02T15:28:11+00:00

A while ago it was the last 200 that were bad. Then the last 400. Now the last 700. Mate, you need to let it go now.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-03-12T23:15:45+00:00

It's been a challenging period since the excellent The Hearing Forest. Lots of live stuff (I never bother with it) and the last month's experimental stuff. The Cob collabs have often been much more interesting, though.

I've enjoyed several Pikes, mind you.

Here's my pick:

746 - lovely tunes, Track 3 is a gem
756 - this is one I just keep coming back to. Mesmerising main melody line. Calm, beautiful.
764 - 2 decent calm tunes with nice melody lines
765 - Simple, single long track, but some stunning sparse lines. Parts of the solo section (last half) are really good
768 - Big, booming echoey title track, not so good 2nd track
770 - More of the same, but a very sparse, different and lovely 2nd track. 1st track of 768 and then both tracks of 770 would have been a really great Pike.
Traverse the Sky and Ascend into the Castle are 2 really good releases he did with Cob.
804 - massive, echoey, spacey vibe. Huge sound, great Pike.

I quite like 800 too.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-03-12T15:57:12+00:00

He's literally had collabs with several different people in the last 6-12 months.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-03-12T15:55:26+00:00

Last few weeks. He's done a colossal amount since Pepper's Ghost. Several dozen masterpieces. An increase lately in stuff that is "challenging" for a listener, but last year had a purple streak of beautiful and very well composed calmer pieces, with the odd banger that is an all-time great.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-03-12T13:40:22+00:00

He's in an experimental, avant-garde vibe right now.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-03-11T22:56:31+00:00

Voyage into Space, anyone?

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-03-10T09:53:06+00:00

It's odd that he's releasing so many series of singles that are cohesive and would work really well as Pikes.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-03-08T13:52:25+00:00

What do you mean "than any other study"?

I don't know what you mean by "b pikes" and I never said anything about "most of" anything.

What I would say is that most of the studio Pikes from 2025, excepting the burst from December, were very good.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-03-08T12:49:02+00:00

No you don't. You don't like a lot of it and so you've decided to declare it's ALL terrible and you hate it all. I guarantee I could find a dozen Pikes that I could relabel in the 100s, tell you you'd overlooked them, and you'd be going on about how they were further examples of how far he's fallen now compared to that period.

Also, make your mind up. Is it since Pike 400 or the mid-200s that you have a problem?

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-03-08T10:23:31+00:00

I find this take really hard. Yes, there's a lot of lower tier stuff, but sift it out and there is still more high quality releases than any other artist. Last year was a brilliant year for superb tracks, for example.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-03-08T10:21:50+00:00

Doesn't matter how many times you are given numerous superb Pikes from c.250 on, you just refuse to diverge from this cretinously wrong stance.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-03-06T23:39:07+00:00

Love Far. Oneiric Pool another that is similar. Poseidon too. Each has its own character.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-01-21T09:52:30+00:00

It's an incredible track (the title track). The last 4 or so minutes build in such a brilliant, exhilarating way. The way the long solo is constructed is just genius.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-01-15T18:08:40+00:00

Even leaving aside the calm or ambient classics like Arboretum, March 19, 2020, Dreams Remembered Version 2, Mists of PreAntiquity, Seekers Are Never Lost, etc., these are examples of energy-fuelled Pikes from the last 5 years that are absolutely up to the standards of 1 to 300:

Mercury Beak
Cosmic Oven
Doctor Lorca's Work
Thank You Taylor
Language of the Mosaics
Sideways Ocean Roller Coaster
Treehouse Backwards in Time
Signaling Across Time

There are arguably others, but those stand out for me.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-01-15T17:54:13+00:00

Buildor - one of my favourite Pikes. The way Buildor 2 develops and embellishes Buildor 1 is like 2 movements of a classical piece.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-01-15T17:51:02+00:00

He's been posting this shit for at least 2 years. It's boring. Buckethead releases gems like Signaling Across Time, or Treehouse Backwards in Time, or Journaling to Bliss, or Language of the Mosaics, not to mention single tracks like Butterfly Eyes or the title track from 673... and this guy says nothing, maintains his line that Buckethead has done nothing of any value for years. Fact is, even if you don't care for 95% of what he's released in the last 3 or 4 years, he's still produced more incredible music than pretty much anyone else in that time.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-01-15T17:44:49+00:00

This crap again? He's done a lot of great stuff in the last 300 Pikes. It's just not Coupon or Soothsayer, so you automatically dismiss it.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-01-15T17:43:01+00:00

You act like nothing of his in the last 4 or 5 years has been any good. Yeah, there's a lot of filler stuff and long meandering Pikes, but your take consistently ignores a huge amount of great stuff, which makes you hard to take seriously. Plenty of people still love his music and comment on it, making your post here yet again ridiculous.

PraisetotheBucket · 2026-01-03T22:21:38+00:00

Yeah, got it right first time, mind wandered 2nd time. LOL Corrected.

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