Even Less (song)
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Even Less is a song from the album Stupid Dream, first released in March, 1999, by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree.
It was played live in 1998, as a 15+ minute epic.
Steven Wilson said of "Even Less": "That track originally was seventeen minutes long and was recorded as a seventeen minute long track, and it had everything on it. Just ridiculous amounts of overdubs on that track."
Eventually, Wilson only used the first half of the song on the album (Stupid Dream). The second part of the song was added as a bonus track on the CD single of "Stranger by the Minute", and the full-length version can be found on the Recordings album.
At the end of the track a woman can be heard reading out some mysterious numbers. About them, Wilson stated: "The counting in 'Even Less' is taken from a recording of a shortwave numbers station. It is understood that these stations are used by intelligence agencies to transmit coded messages to overseas operatives, although no government agency has ever acknowledged the existence of these stations or what their actual purpose might be. They are virtually impossible to decode without the key since the message and it's key are generated at random." [1]
