This week’s – tardy – YouTube Pick of The Week is as the title suggests. I’ve never seen Emmy The Great perform, nor had I even heard of her before a good mate called ChrissyH brought her to my attention. He is one half of Every Other Ones, one of the legendary Hi-On Maiden (not Higher-on Maiden, they’re not the ‘official’ tribute band, if you wondered), and a jolly good chap. He ventured to write up his top ten albums of 2009 list and, being the inspirational man he is… inspired me to listen to a few albums I hadn’t heard before, via his wonderful Spotify playlist. See, good chap, I told you.

Anyhow, if you want to read his top ten albums of the year, it’s here and there’s the Spotify link and everything for you should you have the inclination. I did, and so Emmy The Great made her way here. Well, that and the fact that the other song I had chosen for this week hasn’t yet got an official video, as one half of that act himself told me (if you follow me on Twitter, you would have seen me ask :). But anyway, First Love, touching and poetic. Go get ‘em, Em:

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The reason I’m mentioning this here is because it was access to Spotify and a recommendation by a friend of mine, a musical maestro and member of Iron Maiden’s Official tribute band, Chris Harrison, which led me to check out Procupine Tree.  The band – as a quick wiki will tell you – is a Grammy Award winning Progressive Rock band, formed in 1987 and still going strong.  Anyhow,  this week’s ‘Midweek Music’ (YouTube Pick of the Week has moved to Thursdays for now) id by that band.

Trains is the second track off of the band’s 2002 album, In Absentia, and provides a clear slice of the technical ability and honestly joyfulnoise-making the band is capable of. To be honest, I’d ignored  them for sometime, but I think they’re well worth a listen, and Trains as good a palce as any to start.

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*Update* As pointed out in the comments by my good friend Ross, this is a cover. See the post above for a Porcupine Tree live version