Steven Wilson Discusses His Favorite Albums
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2024
- In this clip Steven Wilson discusses his favorite albums of all time.
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Steven will have remixed this interview by tomorrow :)
Best YT comment ever.
Even if he will remix an interview, it will definitely have his recognizable sound. He mixed some album a relative of mine sang on and it has a bunch of traits I would recognize as Wilson's.
And it will sound better. 😂
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Steve Wilson, the most famous unknown person in music.
He’s everywhere, but hiding in plain sight!
Steven Wilson, the man who changed my perception of music. His creativity is off the charts. Even after 35 years of composing, he can still come up with a masterpiece like Staircase. He is a legend guys, enjoy his art while he is still active and alive.
the entire album is mindblowing isn't it
His remix work of Gentle Giant albums has put the band back on the map, better than ever before!
his work with Opeth is magnificent, wish he still worked with them
Absolutely. Blackwater park is awesome!
Can we just take a moment to acknowledge that this articulate young man is FIFTY SIX FREAKING YEARS OLD!!!!
This is a very articulate man. His music is endlessly fascinating. I wish more people knew about his music
He certainly has to be one of the most underrated musicians in the world. He deserves to be much more popular.
His jethro tull remixes are terrific👍
I grew up with "Ummagumma" and "Zeit." Great stuff. Steven Wilson is a wonderful composer and musician. Thank you, Rick, for posting this great interview video.
I've been a huge PT/Steve Wilson fan for 20 years. And it pleases me to no end to see you and him talking about music and recordings.
SW is just such a musical genius. Incredible music. Smart guy too.
''such a genius smart guy too'' 😂😂
Steven has ears of GOLD. Always loved Porcupine Tree, and of course, his work with Opeth, and I’m now diving into the solo stuff. It’s VERY GOOD!
Opeth is how I arrived at Steven Wilson's music. Glad I made the effort to get to one of his shows in Sydney when he toured here! Great music and great performance
My favourite artist! It's amazing to see him on your channel, Rick. He is so talented and the best! Being a very big Pink Floyd fan for many years, his music speaks to me. PT, Blackfield and solo projects...❤
Steven Wilson never fails to captivate me in interview and music! Truly a visionary still too underseen.
I remember buying Tangerine Dream’s Encore album back when it came out and thinking it was terrible. 45 years later I have just about everything they recorded. Funny how some things sound different as you mature 😊
Steven Wilson is the Brian Wilson of our times. He simply creates music on a higher plane than almost all other mere mortals.
Love what he’s done with all the Great Progressive rock classics. His production work is brilliant.
100% agree with Steven about Ummagumma, still my fave Floyd album, light years ahead of its time. Once again well done Rick, you’re the consummate interviewer, just saying enough, but allowing your guest to express himself without needless interruptions.
Most of the people who don't like Ummagumma weren't around when it was first released and don't understand what Floyd were about in those days. Music off that Album was often used as the background music for various televised documentary programmes throughout the seventies, the instrumental from Set the Controls was even used as a backing track a few years ago during a documentary about Chinese history, apparently some of the lyrics were based on some ancient Chinese text. Floyd were more of a cult band back then anyway, you either loved them like me or hated them, like some of my mates. Needless to say I really liked Atom Heart Mother as well, another divisive album but the whole point back then was Floyd were completely different to anyone else and weren't trying to be heavier than Led Zeppelin, like some other bands at the time.
For me, prime Floyd was always 1968-1971, because they were between leaders and operated as a 4 man democracy. That made for their best music IMO. Ummagumma shows that clearly, although I do love *Atom Heart Mother* the best of all. I'm so grateful I had the chance to see Nick Mason's band two years ago, because they played nearly all my favourite Floyd. I enjoyed that show far more than I ever would have enjoyed any Floyd concert. Nick's show is purely about music and fun, not gigantic stage gimmicks. Just like the old days.
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The only part I skip on Umma Gumma's studio record is Roger Waters and his irritating critters. For a long time I found Roger's songs boring as f. He had one good song in the Syd Barrett era: 'Julia Dream', and fortunately his composing abilies became much, much better in later years.
But otherwise, Umma Gumma is so rich. I even like Nick Mason's solo part. He got the most out of percussion, 1001 Night magic.
Hey Rick. Thank you for the excellent questions and...the silence. I mean, letting the interviewee do the talking. It is rarer and rarer these days and much appreciated. Cheers
Genesis _'Genesis'_ was a full album record I came back to at minimum every 3 months, for 30 years after it was released. I broke that "habit" by playing 'The Platinum Collection' incessantly for a couple of years. I am so happy that Steven Wilson came in for an interview with Rick Beato !!
Great interview! TY!
I've learned so much from your interview with Steve. Thank you so much, Rick.
2:08!I was expecting you to say this about my fave Swedes (though kinda unexpected for many)and got so glad about it.Just Thank you Steve.!
This is such an entertaining conversation/interview!
So glad you’re interviewing him and what passion and talent. His carefully curated CD collection called “intrigue” is worth the price of admission and the harmony codex album is quite beautiful and powerful. Each song is its own little surprise and the depth and intensity of what he put into creating it is quite obvious. So look forward to his next projects. Thank you for this and Beato 2.
@Rick_Beato: I watched your full 1:1 with Steven Wilson. Besides his producer and mixing chops, his originals and catalogue are ABSOLUTELY worth a deep dive. His originality and diversity is unparalleled. I truly wish you’d bring him back and actually discuss all his bands as well as his solo work.🙏🏼🙏🏼
That would be awesome! I'm not sure that Steven would want to take the hour and half minimum to cover all his work, but Rick Beato is so good at having a good flow in his interviews that it could happen.
One of my favourite podcasters (The Album Years) and one of my favourite UA-camrs speaking together…this is great!
Steven's cover work is some of the best music that you will hear. While it is a cover, he adds so much to make it go beyond the original. It brings him into a classic niche that many people enjoy ! The Donovan materials just take me back to that time when I was hearing it live.
I only need two more hours of this to feel satisfied. As I alway say, Rick is a master interviewer and interviewing one of my favorite song writers is not a bad way to spend a bit of time. I know there’s more, so Rick, cough it up!
This is an old interview, it came out at least 1 year ago. It's called "The Steven Wilson Interview: The Modern Rock Producer". Look it up, it's probably in your list of recommended already (it is on mine, at least).
If u haven't already found it The link for the extended clip is in the description
The run of Bowie albums from 1970 to 1980 Man who sold the world to Scary Monsters is my top range of quality. I don't know too much about Wilson and his taste so I wonder what he thinks of Bowie?
he is a huge Bowie fan, look for a live cover of space oddity, really nice version
Love Tangerine Dream 👍👽 (Vangelis awesome too)
Love me some TD as well!! I always thought of Ricochet as like a forward thinking version of Pink Floyd Echoes from 100 years in the distant future! Love that record.
Agree, big Vangelis fan too, so sad when he died. What a legacy he left.
Love the TD fans gathering here. And Steven actually made mixes of Phaedra
What an excellent interview !! As a 23 year fan of PT, I’ve always liked Wilson but I’ve just gained more respect and admiration for this guy than ever before. Not only is he a genius, he’s a class act with a good sense of humor. And I loved his takes on Ummagumma and “ Zeit “ from TD. 😆 One can truly get lost with those albums. He obviously has great taste in old school, experimental compositions. But I can’t say enough for his talent and heavy influence from David Gilmour, the early PT in particular.
@StevenWilsonHQ is a legend and a fantastic mixer. I've had the privilege to meet him and listen to his mixes on an LISA system.
This is great! I'm hoping to find the whole long interview with Stephen. He's one of my favorite musicians of all time.
Link in description.
Its really difficult to find. In order to be granted access you have to pass the trial of Sorifipi, and its fabled only the direct heir of Morgola can pass this, anyone else who tries is consumed by hellfire.
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Wow! This is a great episode!
I couldn't agree more with Steven re the ABBA records. Having worked in the music / radio industry for the past 45 yrs those records would have to be some of the BEST produced records ever.
I give a lot of the credit to their engineer, Michael Tretow. Among other tricks, he took the girls’ combined voices and gave them the right artificial TWEAK, creating a unique and captivating vocal sound that listeners can’t get enough of.
@@markdaniels7174 Kudos indeed to Michael Tretow, one of those clever little tweaks was to ever so slightly speed up the vocals to give them that extra touch of brightness, a good engineer and producer can certainly add immensely to any recording.
I feel Visitors is not well produced, muddled and hard to make out what is happening
@@Ginlah It sounds excellent, but you should hear the original CD master from the 80's (Polydor)!
Thank you so much, Steven, for recommending the album 'Zeit'. I had never heard of the album until It turns out that this album is performing the same ambient effect on me as it does on you. Ever since hearing your recommendation, I am playing this album non-stop, as it makes the most amazing study aid! It is simply perfect in this regard!
The whole interview was fascinating. Rick has to be the best interviewer out there. He's treated as an equal so we gain so much insight into the creative minds of these great musicians.
Big Fan of Steven Wilsons work. Very, very talented man.
Very cool that Steven mentioned UmmaGumma. The live tracks from that record are awesome!
The album does contain its share of crap in my view, but the good stuff is astounding! And yes, the live tracks kick ass.
~~ at that point PF was lacking the quality of material that would make them such a juggernaut just a few years later - but they knew how to make the most of the freeform experimental pieces they had - and how to mesmerize an audience with it ..
The very reason he brought it up is because of the critiques of the studio recordings. He knows perfectly well what the popular sentiment is toward the studio vs live records.
Nice interview
You both are Great Talented Men !
When I was introduced to SW about ten years ago I was blown away. Then saw live show and more impressed.
A master musician that creates some of the best music.
A breath of fresh air in a music felid of not so clean air.
Finally! Thank you!
More please!
Great interview! Steven mentioned Tangerine Dream's 1972 ZEIT album: I just started listening to that and buying tracks on iTunes. Ethereal and beautiful. It was nice to hear Steven applaud those great early Elton John albums up through to 1976's BLUE MOVES which remains, to me, an understated mature gem of a record.
buying on itunes? you mean renting...
@@kaszaniarzyou can purchase songs on iTunes.
Back in high school, (I'm OLD!), I had joined the RCA record club, much to my mom's chagrin, and I was forced to "purchase" duplicate Three Dog Night records. I traded a classmate one of those records for ZEIT. She bought the Tangerine Dream record by accident (?!?!?!?!?!) and wanted the TDN record for her sister. Boy did I make out in that trade!
But! "3AM at the Border of the Marsh from Okefenokee" off of Stratosfear really shaped the way I look at music and patterned a few of my own tunes after that.
I love the early Elton John albums...Don't Shoot Me..was one of my first albums I ever owned. Now Blue Moves, by that time I wasn't into EJ anymore, in fact after Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, I gave up on Elton but your comment has made me wanna go back and give those albums a second go at.
Madman is my fav
Love the amused look on Rick’s face as he realises there that here is someone who loves to talk even more than he does. 😂
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Wilson is a such master of sonics and production - with a very exciting taste in music. Great interview!
Biggest takeaways from this interview: Steven seems to be a really nice bloke, and he has a fantastic taste of music!
The people who aren’t subscribed fast forward through your spiel. I listen to it every time like a good lil subscriber.
Hey now, some of us non subscribers also listen to the entire video *and the yt adds* . lol
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I've been a subscriber for a good while now, to both of his channels, and I always fast forward the spiel. Love Rick, but I can only listen to the same plead certain amount of times, now let me continue watching the interview, please 😂
I could listen to you guys talk for hours!!
That Elton run of albums is amazing, for sure. The only other real contender for long quality album run I can think of off the top would be Stevie Wonder... (For Once In My Life, My Cherie Amour, Signed, Sealed & Delivered, Where I’m Coming From. Music Of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, Fullfillingness’ First Finale, Songs In the Key of Life)
Stevie's quality's even more impressive than Elton's. Simply better, more innovative tunes. And, Stevie wrote and played most all of the instruments too!
Queen 2, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races, News Of The World, Jazz and The Game is another amazing long album run, of course by Queen. My favourite four album run probably is A Trick Of The Tail, Wind And Wuthering, And Then There Were Three and Duke by Genesis.
Of course you are right there what an incredible run of records by Stevie Wonder.I cannot choose so I will say Elton and Stevie joint best ever run of albums in Popular Music history no dissenter’s allowed 😂❤
Elton run is debatable. Caribou, don't shoot the piano player and even the blue moves album have many fillers and to me are not really great albums . He was run out of ideas and in fact after blue moves his career was over. After only sticking and useless albums. Lucrative but artistically disappointing.
@@fabiouk6764 Well I didn’t like Caribou when first released but it’s still good and Blue Moves I think is brilliant what major artist at that time would produce such a strange LP.
Love his GG remixes, especially The Power and the Glory (which is 50 years old this year, but sounds like it could of been made yesterday).💯😎
Very interesting what Steven Wilson has to say. I appreciate that you kept yourself back, Rick.
Steven: "I am not a particularly great musician". Whaaaaaaaaaat??? Are you crazy?
Love these two guys sooo much! :) :) :)
Wilson is a musical force of nature. Great interview, Rick!
Very modest genius...
Wedding nails is the song i keep coming back to...the first time i head the solo i knew there were no rules and music was another form of art. 🙂
Umma Gumma? Tangerine Dream? I see you’re a man of taste! ❤
Yeah. He had me at Ummagumma. My favorite.
Abba ? Elton John ? 😂
SW sounded very intelligent and articulate for someone who doesn't like the Beatles much.
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Agree with Steven on Elton- an incredible run, you could easily hear at least 2 of his singles in heavy rotation top 40 mid-70's AM radio. Great interview.
This interview will be remixed and remastered in Atmos in a few days.
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Incredible .. I am a swilson fan.. and i often listen Tangerine Dream with my miss.,looking landscapes, dreaming, dancing..
His Tull , Marillion and Tears for Fears mixes are brilliant.
If you never heard Porcupine Tree you’d think Steven Wilson would look exactly like Steven Wilson does.
Steven Wilson is true brilliance and a musical genius!
All hail ABBA! Nice to see support for the juggernaut of pop!
SW is a fantastic musician, both PT and his solo work are brilliant. The collaborations with Ninet Tayeb are priceless!
Well if this wasn't a surprise. PT live is a force of nature. Wilson does not possess the ability to craft a bad song. Kudos to Rick for this. And Steve likes TD - my only yoga/meditation music through the 1970s. I was blessed to see TD live. Blessed to discover PT. And blessed to actually hear this man speak! As he says very very little in concert lol...
I love Zeit, it's so immersive and textural. I always put it on when I'm having trouble sleeping, and I say this as a huge compliment. It's like music from the deep of the cosmos.
I love Tangerine Dream "Zeit" from 1972. Steven Wilson remixed Ricochet magnificently in 2019.
Wow! What a coincidence...just stumbled into Porcupine Tree and Mr. Wilson's awesome music last night. It was meant to be. I am 60 and had never heard of PT or Steven's music. His musical influences are my music influences as a fan not a musician, right down to being introduced, by a teacher, to Tangerine Dream in 1979 in his art class. God bless you Rick, Steven and Mr. Turner (the art teacher).😊
God doesn't exist.
57 and discovered them a couple of years ago! Strange world
Wow you have a lot of catching up to do. And so much of what you are going to hear is epic, awesome, great (pay attention to the other band members too). Perhaps a few songs may not but those will be few and far between. Enjoy!
No-Man is worth a deep dive. Steven and Tim Bowness
First music i heard on CD was Tangerine Dream. My uncle and cousin had lots of money and they bought 2 CD players at 800$ a piece in 1984. And the whole family came over a individually put on headphone, layed on the bed and my cousin had 2 discs and Tangerine Dream was it. It was amazing, no hiss, no clicks i was 10 if the year is correct in my memory. Im gonna check them out, i totally forgot.
I had all the 1970s-80s TD on vinyl. BUT if any music could be violently disrupted by even the tiniest vinyl crackle or pop, it was the music of TD. Their music demands perfection of delivery into one's ears. So of course I had to re-buy all my albums on CD. Then imagine my despair upon finding that Edgar was starting to remix the CD re-issues, and even to dub 1990s digital synths onto them - NOOOOO!!! Today my go-to TD albums are the two mega boxes from recent years, which are sonically true to the originals. (Bonus that Steven Wilson was involved in the first one!) Of course I did keep my old vinyls too, just to have Monique Froese's fabulous artworks in a proper size.
I too always thought Elton John had the greatest run of records in rock history ... he released 10 studio albums in the space of less than 7 years, 9 of which were incredible (I think Rock of the Westies is pretty bad). And as Steven Wilson mentioned, two of them were double albums. Plus during that time Elton also released two live albums, 17-11-70 and Here and There. Moreover, based on a documentary I saw about the recording of Yellow Brick Road, what's also astounding is the fact that Elton was able to create songs in less than one hour!!! Incredibly prolific musician and songwriter. On top of everything, though his albums would be written and recorded in the space of 2 or 3 weeks, the production value was through the roof!!! Simply amazing.
The only artists I would compare him to in terms of producing both incredible quantity and world-class quality are The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, David Bowie and Bob Marley. I can't think of anyone else at that level.
Interesting video, as usual. I admire Steven Wilson’s work solo and Porcupine Tree. Interesting to hear him mention Zeit. I am mainly a rock fan, put a good beat and some guitar in there with a great driving rhythm section ( Deep Purple great example ) and I am happy. I love blues, jazz, indie, electronic. I listen to Tangerine Dream almost every day at some point. Tan gram being a fav.
In college, 76-80, Pink Floyd Uma Gumma fascinated me because it was interpretated differently by everyone who listened to it...
It’s the ultimate psychedelic album. Absolutely love it.
He is 57y old, he looks 38. Lucky, talented bastard.
Just subbed Rick. Ty for the reminder 😂
I could listen to SW for days, really. His creativity is SO inspiring ! 🤩
Same here! I have really enjoyed Steven's work since I "discovered" here on UA-cam. A co-worker and fellow drummer were comparing what makes bands like Dream Theater sound different or "special", while we were working overnight at the triple A service call center. He pointed out that Porcupine Tree was kinda midway between his demonstration of what Dream Theater's "style", and my choice of Isis (band). I have been hooked on Porcupine Tree ever since that night, some 17 years ago. 😊
good times man, good times
@@williestyle35 I discovered PT in 2005 (Maaan, that’s been almost 20 years… 😱). A German Magazine „Visions“ had an excellent review on PT‘s then new album Deadwing and I was blown away by it. And than I discovered In Absentia… 🤩🤩🤩
It inspires me to lie in my bed eating crisps whilst listening to his music.
Me too. He's fascinating to listen to
@@Thorsten_Kueppers good way to discover Porcupine Tree! In Absentia still blows me away. Synthesia was a song that drew my attention.
I'm a big Steven Wilson fan. I've goot all his Gentle Giant remixes. I have just bought his Who's Next, and it is absolutely brilliant.
I knew Steven Wilson on a feat he did with Grand Island. Amazing band, amazing colab!
To me, I will keep praying that Steven remixes Animals by Pink Floyd. It's a dream of mine.
Love him. One of my absolute favourites - Porcupine Tree are simply amazing
Ummagumma is amazing!! Yesss
Steven's statement about "... coming back to a project a month later and hearing things you would've never heard before is so TRUE!" I'm always working on songs like they're on an assembly line at different stages of completion. Keeps you fresh!
When I was 15, in 1990, I discovered Tangerine Dream when I randomly found "Zeit" in the public library. It's still my favourite album of all time.
Many of my favorite albums, that I regularly go back to, are ones where Steven himself was involved. As a producer, contribitor, writer, or otherwise. :)
Youngest looking 56 year old on Earth. Interesting insights!
Glad to hear Tangerine Dream there, been a fan for a long time.
I agree about Elton’s output. Absolutely amazing. Only 6 years. I remember reading an interview with John Lennon, who said that Elton was probably the 1970s equivalent of the Beatles.
Steve? Rick - love that. He's sufficiently deep/obscure that I'm a bit shocked. But well done!
I liked 'Zeit' so much that I named one of my bands after it.
Didn't know you had this as another channel though i probably watched some of your interviews on this channel for quite sometime. Just hit the sub option now.
Love Zeit! So much!
I am one of the 13% who watch this channel that is subscribed. Love your content, Rick.
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Listen to his XTC remastered work..he's a big fan of the band, and has elevated it beyond brilliant
Love. Love. Luv. Your work. MINDSAUCE loves ya ! ❤ 🌵 ❤
So ... When is the new Todd Rundgren going to Collaborate with Todd Rundgren ? I'm going to ask Todd this summer. 🌵
Steven Wilson has the vision to create epic masterpieces then gets supreme musicians to bring them to life he is the architect of sound there is nothing without the ideas
I agree about Ummagumma. Just this morning 'Grantchester Meadows' came up on my shuffle as I was doing housework. I love the humor of the bee hunt at the end. I wonder if the generally negative opinions about that album aren't influenced more by being told it's bad than by actually listening to it.
Yeah. A good stereo system or headphones, and it is a fantastic album.