Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Talk Talk, Nick Drake, Van Morrison & more! | The Album Years Podcast Live

This week we have more from our live podcast debut in London last month, which is focused on our list of the artists we talk about the most on the podcast! Can you guess which ones?
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:42 Momus
00:02:09 John Martyn & Nick Drake
00:03:01 Van Morrison
00:05:55 Pink Floyd
00:08:27 David Bowie
00:11:15 Brian Eno
00:12:31 Talk Talk
00:14:48 Scott Walker
00:17:20 Robert Fripp
00:19:50 Peter Hammill
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[@thealbumyearspodcast]

Send us your album reviews and questions for inclusion on future episodes of The Album Years, we'd love to hear from you! fanlist.com/thealbumyears

[@nicolasbascunan4013]

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

[@mathieuleger8746]

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.

[@isashax]

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

[@lspiegel807]

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

[@ocelot972]

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

[@seghj]

Awesome idea! But that would be a loooong video😂

[@seghj]

Btw, does someone know what Hammill is up to at the moment? He went very off-radar since his health problems and is releasing way less music than in the past and almost no updates on sofasound.....I really hope he's ok!

[@kenmeyerjr57]

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

[@MrTrollerboy]

Top of the rest perhaps. Behind Peter Hammill

[@elrincondelocutre9884]

Love you guys give some love to Peter Hammill

[@JeffCooper10538]

The Ham!

[@seghj]

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

[@markfirth3204]

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!)

[@alansanchez810]

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

[@doggity5149]

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.

[@simonrice5741]

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.

[@eubique]

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.

[@stevemuzak8526]

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

[@GenrePeak]

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.

[@danielphillips8416]

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

[@tanis7050]

You forget Peter Gabriel Tim mentions him often

[@johns126]

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 !

[@h.m.7218]

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

[@ThatSteven20]

We’re lucky to have experienced Bowie’s brilliance first hand

[@mathieuleger8746]

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 😉

[@JeffCooper10538]

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

[@kenmeyerjr57]

hahahah, of course, THE HAM!

[@irrelevant8639]

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

[@norbertovelazquez7441]

Wonderfull The Album Years boys

[@allthatchas]

John Cale definitely ought to be mentioned more.

[@nicolasbascunan4013]

Can't believe ABBA isn't top 1

[@kenmeyerjr57]

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

[@kenmeyerjr57]

ohhhh, Veedon Fleece...may be my favorite of all of his.

[@kenmeyerjr57]

I love the interplay, you guys!

[@MattOLearyMusic]

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

[@electricwhiterabbit]

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

[@kettlezone]

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

[@juliankenning]

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

[@mpv2112]

Out of context, your two sentences are a beautiful abstract poem.

[@normanmorrow4897]

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

[@MrTrollerboy]

Where to start with Peter Hammill? Good question, and also good answer they give. It really depends. Fools mate, Nadir, Enter K maybe for those who like the more accessible song format. For those who are already into prog rock stuff, maybe they can do directly to Silent corner and In camera. Or maybe start with Flight from A black box.

[@MrTrollerboy]

Or what about a sampler/compilation: Part 1: PH-Easy listening/Karaoke , Part 2: It´s complicated

[@vickyp.3274]

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!!!🙏👍💯💎🎙💎📀💎💞💗💕💞🌬🌊🎶

[@Z-eb]

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

[@kenmeyerjr57]

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

[@bowness1]

I'd say the best period is from 1971's Bless The Weather (beautiful) to 1981's Glorious Fool (Don't You Go is devastating). Beyond and before, patchy offerings lie.

[@kenmeyerjr57]

@@bowness1 yeah, I have definitely noted stylistic and tone differences!

[@kenmeyerjr57]

@@bowness1 I meant, I went and got a ton of em!

[@EJK1965]

​@@bowness1have to agree.

[@nicolasbascunan4013]

best album to start with?

[@kenmeyerjr57]

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.

[@kenmeyerjr57]

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

[@ProckGnosis]

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).

[@patximartutena2929]

La primera vez que escuché PT pensé " WoW, alguien como Pink Floyd, nadie ha hecho eso" luego escuché Eloy y es un caso claro

[@nuisanceguru]

the most blatant example is voyage 34's delayed palm mutes and bird swells, but other than that i agree with you

[@ProckGnosis]

@@nuisanceguru Good point. In my comment, I almost typed "with the exception of some of his earlier stuff" which would be the majority chunk of that 5% of the time when I DO hear something of his that sounds Floydian.

[@diegoruizguitar]

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

[@micpoc4597]

Nice candles.

[@johansoderberg6546]

The ham???

[@AllMediaReviewsPodcast]

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

[@clust11]

Frank Zappa is really missing here

[@dh7314]

I DEMAND JUSTICE FOR XTC

[@miguelmelchior986]

But youre gay so…

[@nicolasbascunan4013]

I was hoping Taylor Swift to be number 1.

[@lms2932]

🙄

[@milenariarr8329]

@@lms2932 🙄X2.

[@peterbuckley9731]

People who don’t get her, dont get it ;)

[@lms2932]

@@peterbuckley9731 🙄🙄

[@nicolasbascunan4013]

@@peterbuckley9731 It was a joke, I was expecting ABBA.

[@OlafProt]

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

[@pyarcave]

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

[@ChrisYossarian]

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

[@bowness1]

We didn't come up with the list. It was apparently generated by an AI app. Given that we have discussed Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, Alice Coltrane and Jane Siberry a fair amount, we were surprised they didn't make the list. Ditto Sylvian/Japan and The Blue Nile.

[@nicolasbascunan4013]

@@bowness1 No ABBA was a surprise.

[@bobsbigboy_]

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

[@davideisenhower1342]

The Piper and Meddle are good