Fear of a Blank Planet (song)

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“Fear of a Blank Planet”
Cover of the Roadrunner Records promo single.
Single by Porcupine Tree from the album Fear of a Blank Planet
Released	April 16, 2007 April 24, 2007 April 25, 2007 May 1, 2007
Recorded	October - December 2006
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	Atlantic: 16:04 Roadrunner: 8:36
Writer(s)	Steven Wilson

"Fear of a Blank Planet" is a Porcupine Tree song. It appears as the first track on the album of the same name. A promo single of the song was released in Europe and the US, 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.

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet excerpt

An excerpt from "Fear of a Blank Planet"

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1 Track listing
- 1.1 Atlantic
- 1.2 Roadrunner
2 Personnel (song)
3 Music Video
4 Personnel (video)
5 References

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Atlantic

The Atlantic Records promo CD includes three different versions of the song, and is pressed to look like a 7" vinyl.

Fear of a Blank Planet (Amended Edit) - 4:18
Fear of a Blank Planet (Explicit Edit) - 4:18
Fear of a Blank Planet (Album Version) - 7:28

[edit] Roadrunner

There is also a Roadrunner Records two-track promo which came housed in a cardboard sleeve with unique artwork and contains two radio-edit versions of the song.

Fear of a Blank Planet (Clean Edit) - 4:18
Fear of a Blank Planet (Dirty Edit) - 4:18

[edit] Personnel (song)

[edit] Music Video

On April 16, 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 On April 25, 2007, the video was launched on the Fear of a Blank Planet microsite to view in high resolution, but has been replaced by the live projection for "Sleep Together".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.