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  • I think there are some positive things about digital music coming, so I can't say I'm 100% for CD only. But I do agree with him about the playlist mentality. If that continues bands will focus more on making singles than amazing collective albums, and I'm someone who likes hearing albums that are more than the sum of its parts.

  • ahjdkasjkdht it's just fascinating how he always talkes about things i never really found anyone to talk about or understand. he just always finds the perfect words for it, and once again it kinda makes me feel depressed that he doesn't know how much he means to me and what a huuge central role he plays in my life and he doesn't know that i even exist and feel the same about so many things. damnit

  • His observation of the transition to .mp3 playlists is relevant and has significant implications for recording artists. I can fully understand his view on the continuity and cohesiveness of his music, as this can be lost when a particular piece is listened to out of context.

  • SW is not dictating how music should be listened to. His commentary is sentimental as he reminiscences on purchasing newly released vinyl records and the wonder of opening the packaging, with gatefold sleeves, posters, lyric sheets, etc. Having grown up with vinyl, I appreciate his recollection and his recognition of its near extinction.

  • I'm a collector.

  • ELO!

  • wish i would have the money to buy all the albums that I wish to listen to...

  • some of those voices in the background sound like the intro to Deadwing.

  • I agree, i love buying vinyl's and CD's. i have a hard copy every PT album. they are nice.

  • Why the FLYING FUCK would you compare SW to Justin Beiber?!?

  • Also, he flatters himself that he's going against the grain. There were musicians, artists and writers going more against the grain in the 30s and 40s. In my opinion, destroying the concept of the album, questioning it, and re-forming it is what progress looks like. Steven Wilson makes a lot of generalisations about today's culture that make him seem edgy. Seems like he's just had a couple of bad experiences with young people and become very very bitter and nostalgic.

  • I have a physical CD and vinyl collecton and an even bigger non-physical mp3-collection

  • Interesting he mentioned ELO. I have the same album on vinyl (Out Of The Blue). I'm from the same era Steve is (Steve is a year older). ELO was my first favorite group back in the seventies. My appreciation for music and progression wasn't to dissimilar from Steve's. I suppose that's why I'm an ardent fan and, as a musician myself, approach music in a similar way.

  • you can hear the interviewer is dutch

  • Lovely

  • Steven Wilson is my thoughts from the last 5 years.

  • Vinyl is the best, i miss those days growing up in the late 70's and early 80's buying records. So happy i got to experience that.

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  • So sad that CDs and are dying. Music will never be the same ... By the way, WHY IS YOUR NEW ALBUM NOT ON ITUNES!

  • @BinaryPill It is. But buy the real thing it's so much better.

  • @willregnier In Australia it isn't

  • this guy instead of water use formol for showers

  • I was born in 89. I too share the "fetishism for owning art".

  • sme here and i was born in 92 Lol

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  • Steven Wilson is one of the greatest musicians of the past 20 years

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  • i keep being impressed how right he is...

  • I love (a lot of) his music, but I always found his selection for dark or subversive topics a bit heavy-handed and almost stereotypical.

  • Look at my idol Steve Wilson and then look at Justin Beiber...a faggot of society.

  • @Pryce2112 Even Wilson fans cant shut up about Bieber shame on you.

  • @Pryce2112 You know who else was gay? Fred Mercury. Stop using that word you bigot. Steven Wilson would probably punch you the face for using those terms.

  • @FPSFerret I never said anyone was gay...

  • Im 17 and still collect albums from bands i really love despite having the torrents at my fingertips. I agree with SW, owning a physical piece of art is special and helps support bands to create more great music.

  • *passed, lol

  • A lot of times in the past I'd heard from people about how he looked down on downloading, said that it was wrong, & he only wanted to do things the old school way, but I've been watching interviews on here, & that's actually not the case at all.

    He's a bit sad that the age of the "record" has past, but he understands, and grudgingly accepts, the rapid changes that have happened in the industry in the past decade. A very insightful guy.

    Just shows how some people only hear what they wish to.

  • I try as hard as possible to not hear an album before it comes out. It's so hard these days esp with youtube, leaks etc.

  • I still love the feeling of buying a brand new album. I disregard that limited-edition-mentality. Unfortunately, if I bought all the albums I love, I wouldn't be able to buy anything else for over a year...

  • I will always go for the physical item over digital. I like packaging as I am a collector of music.

  • 0 people like justin bieber

  • @SuperNorwegianBastar epic comment

  • Ahhhh, look at him with his Steve Wilson face. I want one so bad

  • The problem are not digital downloads themselves, it's the way people use them. If there would be sort of a culture of respect and an approach of: "Preview with downloads, but buy if you like it" then there wouldn't be a problem at all. Everyone is entitled to their oppinion of course, but I think record companies and musicians would be better of promoting such a culture of respect then saying over and over how much better things were in the Vynil-era.

  • If they don't want him to repeat himself they should ask different questions.

  • i agree with him, but he's definitely made his point clear now and should start talking about other stuff since he has pretty much been repeating himself in every interview for the past 5 years or so.

  • @loget3 I think he does it because he's not really aware that he's become a relative celebrity in the music scene in the last few years. Either that, or he's just old.

  • @MrOpenmind77

    LOVE YOUR wordsmMrOpenmind77!!

    Steven has really been a refreshing find for me, he is a real person who does not need to prove himself on any level...it just so happens anyhow. I wish Steven continual enthusiasm in his creative work.

  • I love the playlist mentality. It helps to improve music; for example, Fear of a Blank Planet was a great album, but felt like it was missing something - stick it in a playlist with the Nil Recurring tracks interspersed throughout, and suddenly it becomes incredible. Also, buying vinyls is just showing off how much more musically refined you are than anyone else, it has no practical benefit.

    Oh, Steven, I love your music but you're such a pretentious cunt.

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  • Cmon, I love Porcupine Tree and I listen to their songs mostly through album but sometimes I just don't know what I want to listen to so I set at random and what the fuck is wrong with that? Just because Steven doesn't like it he doesn't need to be so against it.

  • So please mate, stop this pretentious throwing up of yours and at least try to focus on making some music that is actually good, not atrocities like The Indecent.

    It's the only advice I can give ya.

  • @HeavySoaddict Dude... I get that you might not agree with his opinions or like "The Incident" and, even though I think you're wrong, I'm not going to attack you for that. Although I think if you watched the rest of the interview then you would see that alot of what "Mr Steve" does now and has been doing for a long time is to please himself and make music which he feels in his heart and is not simply watered down, radio friendly, commercial stuff to please a large number of people.. see next...

  • @HeavySoaddict You might say that this is self centered, and it is, however it does make for genuine, heart felt and moving music which is what I love, and would expect from any progressive or even any decent band, such as porcupine tree. I also think that he doesn't attack downloads for the reasons you say. I believe it has more to do with the concept of an album. An artist makes an album from start to finish and intends ever song to be heard in the context of the album, ... see next....

  • @HeavySoaddict and they do not intend or just the favourite song to be purchased and the rest of the album disregarded. I also think that a lot of effort goes into the physical production of the CD and any fan should appreciate how satisfying it is to have the artwork and the booklet in physical form.

    All I really think of your opinion is that it is poorly thought through, not that it is bad, so please don't take offence.

    Sorry for the huge length of my reply...

  • @HeavySoaddict The dude is over forty. vynils weren't gimmick at all, it was the normal thing. they weren't expensive like they are now. Or Did you expect him to download music back in the eighties??

  • @HeavySoaddict I completely agree with you! He annoys me SO SO SO SO much. I used to really like his music but now I just can't listen to it because I just hear him talking in my head! What does want???? Is he actually saying we should all think like him? It also annoys me how your brilliant comment has been silenced simply because all the Wilson-worshippers have disliked it. It's completely undemocratic!

  • @ajd626 annoyance does not mean you cannot enjoy his music. For example Dave Grohl's voice (when he speaks) really gets on my nerves but I don't refuse to listen to his music because of that. Equally Yngwie Malmsteen, he is a dick... but an awsome guitarist so I would have a guitar lesson with him any day of the week. I also think that you shouldn't just say his point is invalid because he keeps saying it. Martin Luther King said the same thing for years but you wouldn't say he was...

  • @06KingDave I don't think I said his point was invalid because he keeps saying it?

  • @ajd626 getting annoying because his point was valid. I think you should consider the validity of his point and the quality of his music rather than your opinion of him as a person or his view of progress.

  • @06KingDave I am annoyed because I don't think his point his valid. Also, I don't think his music is that great anymore. It's stuck in a rut and derivative. Also his view of what constitutes progress IS the point I think is invalid. I don't like him as a person, his views or his music. He is completely two-faced about lots of things. People need to stop being impressed at how many bands he knows about, how well he can talk and how confident he is. NONE of these things mean anything.

  • @ajd626 Fair enough. I disagree about his music but honestly I haven't listened to enough of his interviews to pick up on his two face'dness and I'm not really impressed by how much obscure stuff he knows. Really i think that the concept of the album should be kept alive because if I was a releasing artist I would want people to listen to the music I made in the way I intended it to be listened to which would be in the form of a cohesive album. Why do u think that it should be destroyed

  • @06KingDave I think it should be destroyed, questioned and reformed not flat out destroyed. I think it's always impossible to perfectly preserve stuff in life. The concept of an album as Wilson understands it is all well and good for him but he's got a lot of nerve to say that it is wrong for his albums to be used in a different way to how he would use it. It's impossible for him to have control over the use of his music. He laments this but I think it's the best thing about art - ambiguity.

  • @06KingDave I think it should be destroyed, questioned and reformed not flat out destroyed. I think it's always impossible to perfectly preserve stuff in life. The concept of an album as Wilson understands it is all well and good for him but he's got a lot of nerve to say that it is wrong for his albums to be used in a different way to how he would use it. It's impossible for him to have control over the use of his music. He laments this but I think it's the best thing about art - ambiguity.

  • @06KingDave I don't think the album needs to be completely destroyed but questioned and redefined. Wilson seems to be saying that people should listen to his music the way he would listen to his music, the way music was listened to in the 70s. That's outrageous. He cannot reasonably expect to have control over his listeners. One of the best things about art is its ambiguity. Steven Wilson is just expressing nostalgia in intellectual language. It's nothing more than nostalgia. Boring.

  • @ajd626 I get your point but I don't think that nostalgia is neccessarily boring. The 70's were an increadibly creaive era in music but now there has really been a lack of originality in the mainstream. Therefore I think that remebering that time and saying that "I miss that and I really want attitudes towards music to return to what they were" is valid and more refreshing than shouting "Pump out the hits and breakdowns!"

  • @ajd626 sorry for the contraction of you to u but the youtube character limit forced me to do so...

  • he' saying the same things for probably a year now... fucking boring.

  • I like that some record companies offer you the LP with a free digital download. That's the best package deal I'd say.

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