I worked with Steven’s Dad on one of the early mobile phone projects, I spent a lot of time chatting to him about music in general and he told me about Steven because I did my own music recording as well. He was a really nice guy. He gave me a cassette of NoMan and I loved it, especially Days In The Trees. I’ve followed his progress ever since.
@@nectarinedreams7208 well, he's been dead many years now but yes, his dad was super supportive and an engineer who built him some cool stuff (see Insurgentes documentary)
Everything Steven spoke about is exactly like RUSH in every respect. No real "hits" and each album was very different from any other and was done outside the mainstream. Love both RUSH and Porcupine Tree and have never been disappointed with anything they've done. I have deep respect for bands like these.
I am not a Steven Wilson fan, came here just by accident, but that interview was GREAT, I really enjoyed it. There is so much vinyl talk on TH-cam and not much is good, but this is great, I want to become a Steven Wilson fan now. I will give his music a second chance, what a great guy.
@@ryancalhoun2910 As a Jazz musician I am very critical with Prog, there is not so much I like, I think this is the main reason. If I want to hear complex music, I go to Jazz or Classical. Some Prog Stuff, like Gentle Giant/King Crimson/Jethro Tull I like, some like Genesis I don't. And I tried it with Genesis, I had 90% of the Albums and finally sold them all. With Wilson I hear a brain, an intelligent person who has a great fantasy and is no doubly very creative, it just does not touch me, to me it is to cold. With the old Prog bands, they had way more roughness, more crazyness lets say. Wilson, specially with Guthrie Govan on the guitar (and this guy can really play) does not touch me, too perfect, too polished. But that's just me, I know he is a great musician and a real artist and I have a deep respect for that.
When you're talking about your frustration over not having a breakthrough album after 15 years of Porcupine Tree, (minute 25), Steven you are there already! Your body of work is amazing and have gone far and beyond any of the referral bands that they compare your music to, PF in particular... You only have to please yourself, the fans will gravitate to the quality of your music. If they don't, it's their loss, not yours. You are brilliant!
Thank goodness Steven existed, a very important figure in music who will become more legendary over time. Under-appreciated and unknown in his own time apart from the few million hardcore followers.
I absolutely loved this zoom interview, thank you so much for sharing it. The mutual respect you all have for each others opinions and anecdotes are a treat to hear. I'm relatively new to Steven's work, after I fell down a Nick Beggs wormhole a few years ago, and soon found the work of Steven with Porcupine Tree, and that led to another Richard Barbieri wormhole and I have consumed all of their individual and collaborations since. What a joy Steven is. I have got tickets to see Porcupine Three for later this year, and am eagerly awaiting my copy of Steven's book to arrive. I could listen to him all day. And for his music thats available I do! Thank you thank you. XX
Steven... your music is fantastic and deeply creative and satisfying...it reaches the parts of my soul that simple pop is incapable of...pop is like a little snack but your music is like a feast at a top high class restaurant...it's not about the artists so much being average or great...it's the listeners... they're unable to appreciate anything that is particularly special...new generation... brought up on happy clappy sickly sweet plastic commercial trash...or (analogy of food)... McDonald's... there's just no comparison..it goes without saying...I truly believed the best had been and gone forever...then you came along Steven... another confirmation that life will always have miracles here and there... now and then...!!!!!!!
Being of a similar age to Steven, I can identify with his experience of music at an early age. Buying 45's in Woolworths, cherishing my record collection and being impressed with many different musical styles. Everything from Prog to punk, to disco, jazz, funk and hip hop. If it moves you, then that's my only qualifier.
I should sneer as coming from Glasgow. Cardiff? ... where? I should mention that in the 70s, Glasgow had the most number of record shops per capita in the UK. And probably still does.
I stumbled into a concert, on a glorious summer day in 1969, that included The Chocolate Watchband. I was seven years old. It was mind altering. Great interview guys! I admire Mr Wilson.
Stumbled on the channel, and appreciate learning about bands I'm not familiar with. The part on "why people collect" was great. I have a large CD collection, and I thought it was great that I found a copy of "Infected" by "The The." That band name just had to be in my collection. And it turned out to be great music, too.
Re being judged by store owners, I remember buying about 4 CDs at the Red Eye Records store in Sydney, Australia. There were a couple of Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson albums and maybe a Camel album and an album by The Church. I remember feeling really satisfied that I had got them to fill my collection, and the store owner gave me a look of approval! All up, it cost $102, but the store owner charged me an even $100.
I am same age and similar music background and likes, love it all. This summer I want to get dad's old reel2reel. Most interesting artist in long time. Can't wait to see him play live again solo and with porcupine tree.
This is superb. What's strange, is that i wrote an article many moons ago, which reflected a lot of what Steven's saying. Especially the stuff about not skipping tracks when listening to albums. It's called 'Please Lord, Don't Let The Album Die'. Thank you for sharing this. 🌅
'12 Things I forgot' is one of those songs which I can see being a big radio hit. Why won't they play music on the radio based on the music itself rather than a presumed image of what one expects the music to be? Great interview. I am looking forward to the book.
Great video thanks guys, and Steven Wilson is such a great guy, very normal yet a fabulous talent. I got into PT around ten years ago with a purchase of Stupid Dream on DVD-A and wow, enough said, brilliant album. Got his latest album on LP and again superb music great sound as usual. I’d love to have a gab and chat to Steven, but we’ll done sir please keep making great music 😎👍
Great interview,you bounce off each other so well. Steve is such an incredible talent and I love that he does not stay still. It seems to me his passion for such a diverse range of music has informed his very diverse catalogue. Broke out the Get What You Deserve bluray tonight which is beautifully chilled one minute and scarey as f#€k the next. A true one off.
Good interview. I have really enjoyed his solo albums. He employs great musicians like Guthrie Govan, Theo Travis, and Adam Holzman (son of Elektra Records' founder, Jac Holzman) who can play jazz and rock. He has also done a great job remixing some classic prog albums. I could have done with more in-depth conservation about his musical interests.
I was so amazed, anybody knew Zzebra. I truly believed, I was the only one who would listen to bands like Zzebra, Riff Raff Mark-Almond & Nucleus. At least, in my circle of friends (back in the early 70s) would dig them. But, sorry Steven, Zzebra is anything but Disco Prog. The band derived from IF (Dave Quincy & Terry Smith), One (Alan Marshall), Mark-Almond & Riff Raff (Tommy Eyre) & Osibisa (Loughty Amao). It's some of the best Jazz/Afro/Prog Rock of its time. Give it a listen, mate.
I've been shedding 12" singles, as i don't have the patience to constantly go back to the record player now. my local record shop pays decent money for these as he sells them for a tenner each. great talk with Steve Wilson...
29:15 this little skit here, I thought he got a number one album with 'To The Bone'. i picked up a copy in HMV and sure it was positioned there so not so bad. And pariah got played some radio airtime I'm sure.
Heartbroken to hear Steven say that this might be PT's last! I'm a fan who got into them no more than 5 years ago and am dying to see them live and unfortunately they won't play even in my continent!
I wouldn't say that 'Walking on Sunshine' is the classic example of what they were talking about; Katrina & the Waves didn't exactly have loads of big hits. Also, 'Don't Stop Me Now' did make the top ten (#9).
Fantastic interview. Congratulations, Steven, on being a mover and a Shaker in the music industry. Your opinions are invaluable. On a positive note, I don't think physical media will die quick death anytime soon if records oh, a dinosaur of physical media, are any indicator. There are still new record players being made and new album being released on record. We just have to get a new generation interested in holding those physical, tangible items close to their hearts, as you say.
I totally understand what Steven is saying about being a completist. I have a compulsion to buy some stuff. The danger for Steven in selling this stuff is that in a few years he may feel the compulsion coming on again for these artists and he will have to buy them all over again.
Someone should tell Steven that ZZ Top does actually, alphabetically come BEFORE Zzebra, because of the space between "ZZ" and "Top". Come on, he has to know that, right? hehehe... Great interview however, I enjoyed it quite a bit!
I was about to say something similar. He speaks in the interview of continually releasing what you want -- and therefore turning off as many fans as you attract -- and not giving a damn! I definitely heard Todd in those words.
@@Elise__Mae I find myself becoming more and more fascinated by Steven, the more I learn about him, very much the same as I did for Todd! I loved learning all about Todd when youtube first started! I def feel that Steven is an "old soul"!
@@MissAstorDancer Agreed. He's one of the very few artists whom I have to limit my exposure to because the material is so intense. I was like that with Todd when I first became a fan during my high school years in the early 80s.
Two points: 1st, I too remember seeking the approval of the record store clerk. That knowing nod when you picked a good album. 2nd, Steven has to have found the fountain of youth. He does not look like he will be turning 55 next year.
Interesting! I honestly feel the same way about Zappa... not a fan by any stretch of the Synclavier stuff! I thought it was a great way for him to get his ideas heard, but just can't dig that stuff!
32:46 Coincidentally, Start Me Up was the first Rolling Stones song that I ever heard on its release in Autumn 1981. For some reason I thought they were American!
@@apollomemories7399 I managed to get to 11 years-old without ever having heard of the Stones. And although I knew of The Beatles from an early age, the first time I heard the name John Lennon was when he died! Ditto for Elvis Presley.
@@jonathancole833 Where were you living... Albania? I can rmember the first time I heard The Beatles, "She Loves You" in summer 63, aged 4. I knew the Stones not long after from the radio. And the Beatles names from their TV films.
@@apollomemories7399 I guess that in the UK at least, acts like the Stones and even The Who (who were still occasionally releasing material) were not of great interest to the music journalism of the early 80s. Massive live acts maybe, but their LP and single releases did not create the interest that they had done in the 60s and 70s. I do remember the Beatles' Yesterday when it was first released as a 45 in the UK, around 1974/75.
@@jonathancole833 I would agree with that. By then if you weren't dressed in a trench coat and mascara looking like an extra from a French Resistance movie, the press didn't want to know. I'm pretty certain Yesterday was the only one that I didn't buy. Had forgotten all about that one.
23:07 on List Culture...the reason many of us love lists is because by perusing them we may find a list which appears to have similar taste to ourselves, yet also includes a few unknowns. This makes us mega-curious to check out those unknowns...and sometimes those unknowns become one of our own favourites. So you get an urge to share your own lists, to maybe spread that discovery-joy to others. On that note, my top ten albums: 1. Pink Floyd - The Wall 2. Psykovsky - Tanetsveta 3. Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa 4. Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch 5. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians 6. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew 7. Sonic Youth - Sister 8. Harmonia - Musik von Harmonia 9. Magma - Theusz Hamtaahk (1st m. @ Trianon 2000) 10. Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
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I worked with Steven’s Dad on one of the early mobile phone projects, I spent a lot of time chatting to him about music in general and he told me about Steven because I did my own music recording as well. He was a really nice guy. He gave me a cassette of NoMan and I loved it, especially Days In The Trees. I’ve followed his progress ever since.
I find it very wholesome that Steven's dad talks about and shares his son's music
@@nectarinedreams7208 well, he's been dead many years now but yes, his dad was super supportive and an engineer who built him some cool stuff (see Insurgentes documentary)
The greatest songwriter of the 21st century for my money.
100%
Yep.
No its steve kilbey.
His music can be so emotional,seen him live and he’s amazing plus all the remixes he’s done that sound amazing
Absolutely agree, amazing artist
Everything Steven spoke about is exactly like RUSH in every respect. No real "hits" and each album was very different from any other and was done outside the mainstream. Love both RUSH and Porcupine Tree and have never been disappointed with anything they've done. I have deep respect for bands like these.
Superb in-depth Journalism from you two muso's..
lol when he said he never wants to hear dark side again i screamed "ME NEITHER!!" and then went and put it on
gotta love SW showing his music nerd self
Never fail to thoroughly enjoy listening to Steven Wilson talking music - insightful,entertaining,intelligent,humorous. Great stuff
Total admiration for Steven Wilson. Outstandingly brilliant musician and music historian.
Great interview- three folk who love music, just chatting about stuff they are obsessed with.
Love it!!!
I have to say that I discovered Porcupine Tree only recently. Just amazing.
I am not a Steven Wilson fan, came here just by accident, but that interview was GREAT, I really enjoyed it. There is so much vinyl talk on TH-cam and not much is good, but this is great, I want to become a Steven Wilson fan now. I will give his music a second chance, what a great guy.
I think you can find something for everyone in all the work he's done
If nothing else just listen to the raven that refused to sing album. It is special.
@@Eleventhearlofmars I know that, I don't like it, sorry.
@@mymixture965 honestly curious: why don't you like it?
@@ryancalhoun2910 As a Jazz musician I am very critical with Prog, there is not so much I like, I think this is the main reason. If I want to hear complex music, I go to Jazz or Classical. Some Prog Stuff, like Gentle Giant/King Crimson/Jethro Tull I like, some like Genesis I don't. And I tried it with Genesis, I had 90% of the Albums and finally sold them all. With Wilson I hear a brain, an intelligent person who has a great fantasy and is no doubly very creative, it just does not touch me, to me it is to cold. With the old Prog bands, they had way more roughness, more crazyness lets say. Wilson, specially with Guthrie Govan on the guitar (and this guy can really play) does not touch me, too perfect, too polished. But that's just me, I know he is a great musician and a real artist and I have a deep respect for that.
Steven Wilson is my absolute most *FAVORITE* musician's of all time
When you're talking about your frustration over not having a breakthrough album after 15 years of Porcupine Tree, (minute 25), Steven you are there already! Your body of work is amazing and have gone far and beyond any of the referral bands that they compare your music to, PF in particular... You only have to please yourself, the fans will gravitate to the quality of your music. If they don't, it's their loss, not yours. You are brilliant!
Thank goodness Steven existed, a very important figure in music who will become more legendary over time. Under-appreciated and unknown in his own time apart from the few million hardcore followers.
I absolutely loved this zoom interview, thank you so much for sharing it. The mutual respect you all have for each others opinions and anecdotes are a treat to hear. I'm relatively new to Steven's work, after I fell down a Nick Beggs wormhole a few years ago, and soon found the work of Steven with Porcupine Tree, and that led to another Richard Barbieri wormhole and I have consumed all of their individual and collaborations since. What a joy Steven is. I have got tickets to see Porcupine Three for later this year, and am eagerly awaiting my copy of Steven's book to arrive. I could listen to him all day. And for his music thats available I do! Thank you thank you. XX
Steven... your music is fantastic and deeply creative and satisfying...it reaches the parts of my soul that simple pop is incapable of...pop is like a little snack but your music is like a feast at a top high class restaurant...it's not about the artists so much being average or great...it's the listeners... they're unable to appreciate anything that is particularly special...new generation... brought up on happy clappy sickly sweet plastic commercial trash...or (analogy of food)... McDonald's... there's just no comparison..it goes without saying...I truly believed the best had been and gone forever...then you came along Steven... another confirmation that life will always have miracles here and there... now and then...!!!!!!!
Best interview with Steven Wilson ever!
The Man.
Could listen to Steve talk for hours .
...and if you add up all of his interviews I've engaged with, HOURS would be correct.
Steven is a musicl genius. I love when he talks about Sparks. 😃👍❤
I wish this interview was longer. Always great to hear Steven talk about music. Iam a big music nerd as well.
Gonna see the Porky Pie Three later this year. Great live band!
Me too 😌
Being of a similar age to Steven, I can identify with his experience of music at an early age. Buying 45's in Woolworths, cherishing my record collection and being impressed with many different musical styles. Everything from Prog to punk, to disco, jazz, funk and hip hop. If it moves you, then that's my only qualifier.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful time with Steven Wilson!!!
A rarity in music today - erudite, smart and intelligent
and funny!
Can’t say I’d ever heard of him but I liked the interview. Makes me want to go and listen..
Perfect guest for this show.
Great interview. Thank you guys for interviewing Steven Wilson. Very real. Can't wait to get the book and write more songs.
Very great you guys named Jobriath. Very good and very underrated.
I used to work in Spillers Records in Cardiff and a review of the store in the late 70's with the headline "service with a sneer". We were so proud.
I should sneer as coming from Glasgow. Cardiff? ... where? I should mention that in the 70s, Glasgow had the most number of record shops per capita in the UK. And probably still does.
@@apollomemories7399 Right in the centre of the town. Spillers is the oldest record store in the world, opened in 1894
We love Steven always
Nostalgia, Weirdly one of my favourite albums of all time is Jim Reeves 12 Songs Of Christmas just so cool our Jim😎
the most brilliant yet of a brilliant series of brilliant shows!
I stumbled into a concert, on a glorious summer day in 1969, that included The Chocolate Watchband. I was seven years old. It was mind altering.
Great interview guys! I admire Mr Wilson.
Made my day. Amazing chat.
I'm convinced that some day "Nine Cats" will become a HUGE hit for Steven. It's his density.
Possibly. I'm leaning more towards Lazarus or Piano Lessons. Who knows, there's a few shorter ones that might chart. God knows he/they deserve it.
54 years old? He's got a painting in his attic
that painting is of a veggie burger.
10cc things you do for love,i remember hearing this on the radio as a kid.moreso than the beatles
Stumbled on the channel, and appreciate learning about bands I'm not familiar with. The part on "why people collect" was great. I have a large CD collection, and I thought it was great that I found a copy of "Infected" by "The The." That band name just had to be in my collection. And it turned out to be great music, too.
Re being judged by store owners, I remember buying about 4 CDs at the Red Eye Records store in Sydney, Australia. There were a couple of Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson albums and maybe a Camel album and an album by The Church. I remember feeling really satisfied that I had got them to fill my collection, and the store owner gave me a look of approval! All up, it cost $102, but the store owner charged me an even $100.
46:22 His passing mention of a brother left me completely puzzled. I always thought Steven was an only child.
I am same age and similar music background and likes, love it all. This summer I want to get dad's old reel2reel. Most interesting artist in long time. Can't wait to see him play live again solo and with porcupine tree.
Nice interview.I can say definitively that Bach invented a musical world his own.Perhaps the best example of Doing your own thing your way we have.
I really enjoyed that "home invasion".
I'll get my coat...
Delightful….! Thank you for this. The most intriguing artist for me since Roger Waters. SW’s lyrics and melodies are incomparable.
Thoroughly enjoyed this.
This is superb. What's strange, is that i wrote an article many moons ago, which reflected a lot of what Steven's saying. Especially the stuff about not skipping tracks when listening to albums. It's called 'Please Lord, Don't Let The Album Die'.
Thank you for sharing this. 🌅
I follow that rule but Revolution #9 is a glaring exception. I probably could count on one hand how many times I've listened to that.
No puedo creer que Steven Wilson tenga una copia de un disco tan desconocido y bueno como es el Aardvark..me ha sorprendido
steven is my ideal man. great interview!
Gracias Steve por todo !! Te esperamos con los brazos abiertos en España !!❤️💛💜🤟🤟
Great interview and discussion guys.
'12 Things I forgot' is one of those songs which I can see being a big radio hit. Why won't they play music on the radio based on the music itself rather than a presumed image of what one expects the music to be? Great interview. I am looking forward to the book.
Great video thanks guys, and Steven Wilson is such a great guy, very normal yet a fabulous talent. I got into PT around ten years ago with a purchase of Stupid Dream on DVD-A and wow, enough said, brilliant album. Got his latest album on LP and again superb music great sound as usual. I’d love to have a gab and chat to Steven, but we’ll done sir please keep making great music 😎👍
SW he is young and wise...he is a wonderful composer! Love his music.
Great interview…will definitely buy the memoir!
Fantastic interview thank you!
Great interview,you bounce off each other so well. Steve is such an incredible talent and I love that he does not stay still. It seems to me his passion for such a diverse range of music has informed his very diverse catalogue.
Broke out the Get What You Deserve bluray tonight which is beautifully chilled one minute and scarey as f#€k the next. A true one off.
Best music ever is DISCO!
Good interview. I have really enjoyed his solo albums. He employs great musicians like Guthrie Govan, Theo Travis, and Adam Holzman (son of Elektra Records' founder, Jac Holzman) who can play jazz and rock. He has also done a great job remixing some classic prog albums. I could have done with more in-depth conservation about his musical interests.
Steven Wilson Christmas album confirmed!
New Steven Wilson solo Christmas album incoming? Remixed Greg Lake I believe in Father Christmas as the single. 💥
I really enjoyed this and could really relate to everything Steven said about record collecting. It also reminded me to play my Zzebra albums! - Phil
I was so amazed, anybody knew Zzebra. I truly believed, I was the only one who would listen to bands like Zzebra, Riff Raff Mark-Almond & Nucleus. At least, in my circle of friends (back in the early 70s) would dig them. But, sorry Steven, Zzebra is anything but Disco Prog. The band derived from IF (Dave Quincy & Terry Smith), One (Alan Marshall), Mark-Almond & Riff Raff (Tommy Eyre) & Osibisa (Loughty Amao). It's some of the best Jazz/Afro/Prog Rock of its time. Give it a listen, mate.
The last dozen or so Neil Young albums, I've listened to once each ! .... he was great in the 1970s.
I've been shedding 12" singles, as i don't have the patience to constantly go back to the record player now. my local record shop pays decent money for these as he sells them for a tenner each.
great talk with Steve Wilson...
Great show! Steve Hogarth would be a brilliant guest!!!
Great content. love SW
Have you done a video cast on favourite songs / albums people are too embarrassed or ashamed to admit to?
29:15 this little skit here, I thought he got a number one album with 'To The Bone'. i picked up a copy in HMV and sure it was positioned there so not so bad. And pariah got played some radio airtime I'm sure.
He reached number 1 in the midweek chart, at the end of the week was third. Therefore doesn’t count 😅
But still bloody cool for a pretty outside artist.
He was born in 67, the year of Sgt Pepper and Are You Experienced.
Brilliant
Heartbroken to hear Steven say that this might be PT's last!
I'm a fan who got into them no more than 5 years ago and am dying to see them live and unfortunately they won't play even in my continent!
Thing is they disbanded in 2011. It's a bit of a miracle that they got back together just for this project.
@@apollomemories7399 Yes, it indeed is a miracle. Just wishing it extended a bit more ;)
I wouldn't say that 'Walking on Sunshine' is the classic example of what they were talking about; Katrina & the Waves didn't exactly have loads of big hits. Also, 'Don't Stop Me Now' did make the top ten (#9).
I agree with Steven about Tangerine Dream's Zeit. I tend to relisten to it occasionally.
Excellent interview, thanks. I see a lot of similarities with Todd Rundgren
There is 2 ways you can help US 1 answer the comments and 2 get JJ Burnel on here
I studied jeff lynn's work and found out what an incredible producer he was
Fantastic interview. Congratulations, Steven, on being a mover and a Shaker in the music industry. Your opinions are invaluable. On a positive note, I don't think physical media will die quick death anytime soon if records oh, a dinosaur of physical media, are any indicator. There are still new record players being made and new album being released on record. We just have to get a new generation interested in holding those physical, tangible items close to their hearts, as you say.
New Records will be harder to make in the next 5 years due to shortage of petrolium oil
@@paulcollins5586 An engineered shortage.
Speaking of bands distilled to a single song due to placement on TV or movies:
Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime
Massive Attack Teardrop
I totally understand what Steven is saying about being a completist. I have a compulsion to buy some stuff. The danger for Steven in selling this stuff is that in a few years he may feel the compulsion coming on again for these artists and he will have to buy them all over again.
Tape and Record Exchange, in London, have always been intimidating to customers and taken pleasure in this.
Here for all the Ed Sheehan shade 😆
Someone should tell Steven that ZZ Top does actually, alphabetically come BEFORE Zzebra, because of the space between "ZZ" and "Top". Come on, he has to know that, right? hehehe... Great interview however, I enjoyed it quite a bit!
Not in any record shop will you find that.
@@apollomemories7399 oh I get it, he used the record store method, which makes sense actually hehe
@@vallaindigital Isn't that what we all use? At least it is in my world! Lol.
@@apollomemories7399 Not me. I guess I was even more anal about my alphabetical order than most people then ;)
@@vallaindigital I bet you filed in alpha order all those beginning with "The"...
The Steven Wilson song everyone always remembers will of course be "Trains". Nothing else is close.
You are joking, right? ;) There might be a few more epic ones. ;)
Yeah, but try syncing Arriving Somewhere But Not Here in a romcom!
Give me a break...
I would have guessed Lazarus
The Mansell has such an ambiguous cover, the chap is looking at the lady with a mixture of lust, contempt and bewilderment.
Wilson just remixed remade remodeled all the gaps of silence on all the Barclay James Harvest records! Just joshin...love your ideas mate.
2:55 .... Well.... I LOVE ALL of Frank Zappa's Works....
Steven reminds me of his generation's version of Todd Rundgren.
I was about to say something similar. He speaks in the interview of continually releasing what you want -- and therefore turning off as many fans as you attract -- and not giving a damn! I definitely heard Todd in those words.
@@Elise__Mae I find myself becoming more and more fascinated by Steven, the more I learn about him, very much the same as I did for Todd! I loved learning all about Todd when youtube first started! I def feel that Steven is an "old soul"!
@@MissAstorDancer Agreed. He's one of the very few artists whom I have to limit my exposure to because the material is so intense. I was like that with Todd when I first became a fan during my high school years in the early 80s.
@@Elise__Mae Sounds like we had similar experiences, with both these geniuses!
;)
@@MissAstorDancer Awesome!
I too have the AARDVARK album
Steve Wilson is a musical genius
Music nerds love music nerds who love music nerds.
LOL! Most music nerds would prefer to be called 'audiophiles'.
Two points: 1st, I too remember seeking the approval of the record store clerk. That knowing nod when you picked a good album. 2nd, Steven has to have found the fountain of youth. He does not look like he will be turning 55 next year.
Interesting! I honestly feel the same way about Zappa... not a fan by any stretch of the Synclavier stuff! I thought it was a great way for him to get his ideas heard, but just can't dig that stuff!
32:46 Coincidentally, Start Me Up was the first Rolling Stones song that I ever heard on its release in Autumn 1981.
For some reason I thought they were American!
Good grief.
@@apollomemories7399 I managed to get to 11 years-old without ever having heard of the Stones. And although I knew of The Beatles from an early age, the first time I heard the name John Lennon was when he died!
Ditto for Elvis Presley.
@@jonathancole833 Where were you living... Albania?
I can rmember the first time I heard The Beatles, "She Loves You" in summer 63, aged 4. I knew the Stones not long after from the radio. And the Beatles names from their TV films.
@@apollomemories7399 I guess that in the UK at least, acts like the Stones and even The Who (who were still occasionally releasing material) were not of great interest to the music journalism of the early 80s. Massive live acts maybe, but their LP and single releases did not create the interest that they had done in the 60s and 70s.
I do remember the Beatles' Yesterday when it was first released as a 45 in the UK, around 1974/75.
@@jonathancole833 I would agree with that. By then if you weren't dressed in a trench coat and mascara looking like an extra from a French Resistance movie, the press didn't want to know.
I'm pretty certain Yesterday was the only one that I didn't buy. Had forgotten all about that one.
Its a bit funny that Steven says that Frank Zappa is one of the few people you can cast him as a genius. I say the same thing about Steven....
Rumbelows - good lad! Halcyon days 😆
Steven Wilson still looks like he's 20.
Definitely a vampire
23:07 on List Culture...the reason many of us love lists is because by perusing them we may find a list which appears to have similar taste to ourselves, yet also includes a few unknowns. This makes us mega-curious to check out those unknowns...and sometimes those unknowns become one of our own favourites. So you get an urge to share your own lists, to maybe spread that discovery-joy to others.
On that note, my top ten albums:
1. Pink Floyd - The Wall
2. Psykovsky - Tanetsveta
3. Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa
4. Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
5. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
6. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
7. Sonic Youth - Sister
8. Harmonia - Musik von Harmonia
9. Magma - Theusz Hamtaahk (1st m. @ Trianon 2000)
10. Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Grateful Dead = Touch of Grey as far as U.S. radio is concerned
Steven Wilson = alternative man
blimey ive gotta subscribe, thank you
If the Grateful Dead have "a" song, it's Casey Jones or Touch of Grey.