Fear of a Blank Planet (song)

"Fear of a Blank Planet" is a Porcupine Tree song released in 2007. It appears as the first track on the album of the same name.

"Fear of a Blank Planet"
Cover of the Roadrunner Records promo single.
Promotional single by Porcupine Tree
from the album Fear of a Blank Planet
Released2007
RecordedOctober–December 2006
Genre
Length
  • 7:28 (album version)
  • 4:18 (single version)
LabelRoadrunner Records
Songwriter(s)
Fear of a Blank Planet track listing
6 tracks
  1. "Fear of a Blank Planet"
  2. "My Ashes"
  3. "Anesthetize"
  4. "Sentimental"
  5. "Way Out of Here"
  6. "Sleep Together"

A promo single of the song was released in Europe and the United States, by respective record labels. Both promos contain an edited version of "Fear of a Blank Planet" with the swearing removed.[1] The lyrics deal with two common neurobehavioural developmental disorders for teenagers in the 21st century: bipolar disorder and attention deficit disorder.

Music video

On 16 April 2007, the same day as the European release date, the music video for the title track debuted on Porcupine Tree's MySpace, though it was temporarily removed a day later in the wake of the shootings at Virginia Tech due to the band finding the content, namely children wielding guns, distasteful at the present. On 25 April 2007, the video was launched on the Fear of a Blank Planet microsite to view in high resolution and was replaced several months later by the live projection for "Sleep Together". The video is now included as a bonus along with the 17-minute film for "Anesthetize" on the DVD-A version of Fear of a Blank Planet.

Appearances

The song appears during the end credits of the video game Control.

Track listing
US promotional CD
No.TitleLength
1."Fear of a Blank Planet" (amended edit)4:18
2."Fear of a Blank Planet" (explicit edit)4:18
3."Fear of a Blank Planet" (album version)7:28
EU promotional CD
No.TitleLength
1."Fear of a Blank Planet" (clean edit)4:18
2."Fear of a Blank Planet" (dirty edit)4:18

Personnel

Porcupine Tree

Additional musicians

References
  1. "Guy Tkach hails the highly-collectable 'unknown' superstars of New-Prog". Record Collector, May 2008 issue, page 41. Retrieved 10 May 2008.
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