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Full and unedited episodes please! (best podcast ever )👹

Finally Peter Hammill’s solo work is getting the attention it deserves! And on top of that, it’s being done by two of the best music commentators. He is my personal favourite musician! Emotional, courageous, and can eloquently say so much about the human experience.

Ha! My "Where's Prince?" question made it to the podcast!

You could spend many years trying to digest all of Peter Hammill’s solo (and with VdGG) records - so much great stuff

You should invite Peter Hammill as a guest at some point.. and maybe run through his solo discography in 15 parts or something

Talk Talk...top of the list, should be!

The most surprising thing about this live podcast is the fact that Steven Wilson is wearing shoes.

I am delighted that Peter Hammill came top. Considering he has been releasing albums once or twice a year through the period covered by the Album Years, and you have been referencing him regularly, I would have been surprised if he did not feature. I discovered PH in the late 1970s with the PH7 album. I went off and collected his back catalogue and the VDGG catalogue over the next few years. What an eclectic mix of music this is!! As Steven says, there is no obvious “in door” album to start with. His voice can be “marmite”. I sometimes struggle with his shouty barking style myself. (Enough with the existential angst, just sing it Peter!)

Love you guys give some love to Peter Hammill

Concerning Hammill: you forgot one CRUCIAL point: his voice. It's a love or hate thing. Since all his music is very centered on his singing and his delivery is very unusual for the most part, lots of people will never dive into his large, beautiful, strange, unique body of work

Timelord, Otto Spooky, The Ultraconformist. 3 great Momus albums. I started getting into Momus about 3 years ago and there's so much to discover.

I know you got Battiato' covered, but there's another mainstream Italian artist who was gattin' 'sperimental in 1974 and made a "concept" album with a prog group. The opening track is kinda somewhere between Talk Talk and The Blue Nile FFS (and not a little Floyd, now I'm listening again,) and that's just for starters (literally.) I am speaking of Lucio Battisti's Anima Latina.

Steven Wilson must be now the happiest person on this planet. This is why having loving family is so important.

PH has a very devoted following. Am happy to be one of them.

I like the term “a moving to silence”. As an older song writer I can really appreciate a concept of silent music aka ambience, tone building.

You forget Peter Gabriel Tim mentions him often

Can't believe ABBA isn't top 1

Had to be ‘The Ham’ even tho’ was rooting for ELO (who have been mentioned a time or two). 😊

The only time i didn’t want Bowie to change just for one record would be for a Brother release to Station to Station. How good would that have been !

Todd Rundgren should be mentionned on each and every show about good music. What about Steely Dan ?

Wonderfull The Album Years boys

What I wouldn’t give to have Steven Wilson remix some of Peter Hammill’s solo albums!!! Please make it happen one day @StevenWilsonHQ and @cherryredgroup! You could make it a labor of love 😉

hahahah, of course, THE HAM!

The end of an Album Years video is the low point of my week.

Loving these videos as of recent. Keep it up guys 👍

I love the interplay, you guys!

i think the meat that had been beaten for Clara was actually pork and not beef. Just in case someone needs the recipe,

I really enjoy the 'Tube vids, but please, please, please put the full podcasts online too fellas... :D

John Cale definitely ought to be mentioned more.

I didn't grow up with David Bowie, so I never really knew his music apart from the hits. Recently (Im 41 by the way) I decided to listen to all his albums in chronological order. I have always loved Bowie as an artist, I have watched hours of interviews with him, but I'm (genuinely) sad to say his music does very little for me. Of course there are absolutely genius songs (I mean genius to me, to lots of others everything he did is genius of course), but as a whole I'm not really impressed by his repertoire. I know I'm in the minority though. I want to say that maybe with time his music will grow on me, but I don't think it will.

Nice! Looking forward to more of this. Wish there was no editing on the live episodes though.

It is so weird that Common One is not way up there for everyone...I cannot imagine his catalog without it.

You can keep Floyd 🙉 but the rest are cool. Steve - I really enjoyed your work on the Deluxe Ultravox albums. I was hoping they were going to make some similar editions of the first three Foxx era records but I get the feeling that ship has sailed. Would be very keen to hear what you would do to Systems Of Romance, one of my most influential records of all time. Were the Foxx Vox albums ever discussed with you ?

As for Van, railing, yeah...in fact, he has become GET OFF MY LAWN central if not adjacent.

You guys got me to finally investigate John Martyn...got a ton of releases.

Can't believe XTC aren't in the top 10 - Talk Talk are in it, though, so it's ok.

Lol...in whatever situation (solo or with PT), I've never had any kind of obvious connection between Steve Wilson and Pink Floyd. In fact, I'll see comments all the time about how folks like the Pink Floyd essence or sound in a SW or PT tune, and 95% of the time, I don't see it. I would say Wilson's approach to MAKING music has more of a PF approach versus a direct steal from the sound. And just to qualify, I love most of the SW's or PT's catalogue, and I think more so because any Pink Floyd influence isn't so obvious (I'm also a massive Floyd fan).

Nice candles.

The ham???

I never saw no 1 coming. great choice !!!!!!!!

Missing: Abba, Donna Summer, Tears for Fears and Frank Zappa

Excluding one name that I personally cannot put in any list...there are Huge names...in there.... Thank youuuuu...for another SUPER LOVELY PODCAST... Tim and Steven!!!🙏👍💯💎🎙💎📀💎💞💗💕💞🌬🌊🎶

I often wish Sufjan Stevens would have come along earlier, because I feel like he would sit so perfectly in the stuff you cover, esp the top ten.

Very entertaining dialog as usual! But please check again, i think the most pronounced word by both of you was "pastiche"

Frank Zappa is really missing here

I DEMAND JUSTICE FOR XTC

I was hoping Taylor Swift to be number 1.

So anything pale and male, then 😂 there's a window into the KZfaq demographic right there. 🎉

And women ??? When come the list???

No women made it to this list? Really?? Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Laura Nyro, PJ Harvey, Jane Siberry??? Really????

Pink Floyd sucks lol. Yes and all the other prog rock bands are way better