Ranking the Albums: Steve Hillage

[@thomascroft5076]

His playing on Gong's 'You' album is phenomenal.

[@ericbarrial64]

Steve Hillage made music you can't stop listening to because it is so adventurous and dream full

[@seethroughhead505]

Thanks for this. Steve has been fantastic when touring his solo material in recent years. My ranking: 7) For To Next/And Not Or 6) Rainbow Dome Musick 5) Open, 4) Fish Rising 3) L 2) Green 1) Motivation Radio

[@thekivster]

Have you ever heard of Arzachel from 1969? It’s the first album Steve Hillage appeared on and it’s amazing.

[@seaoftranquilityprog]

Yes indeed!

[@elfensteen5222]

Anthony and Pete, Thanks a lot for doing this ranking !! great to see you both talking about the Great Steve Hillage I have the same ranking, and his live stuff is Amazing , planet gong lives forever !!

[@Prog-t9d]

Love your enthusiasm, great show.

[@stuartwexelbaum9070]

Great show!! 1 L 2 Fish Rising 3 Green 4 Rainbow Dome 5 Motivation Radio 6 Open 7 For To Next..The L album was my introduction to Hillage. I absolutely Love his cover of It's All Too Much!!! Great musician and a fine catalog of music..

[@paulcoleman3081]

Fell in love with Hillage early on and the album was Live Herald.

[@crazymanmichael100]

At last! well done guys, love Steve Hillage, for me it's 1. Fish Rising, 2.Green, 3.L, 4.Motovation Radio, 5. Open/Studio Herald (love those four tracks), 6. Radio Dome Music, 7. For To Next/And Not Nor.

[@jeffreyrobinson9120]

Great ranking show, been waiting for this one. Those first three albums are essential. Also mandatory listening for any Hillage fan is the one and done Khan album he did with Dave Stewart. Outstanding.

[@abdulbasheer2207]

Love Steve Hillage. Having never known about him at all ,I first heard of Steve after reading a review of his L album. When it was mentioned there was a cover of Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man, that was all I needed to know. I immediately bought the album. I agree about the top 3 but L is my favourite. The Live Herald album is a classic . Love the non live tracks too on it.

[@markspooner1224]

Thank you both!

[@davidyeager8524]

Mine would be:1. Fish Rising. 2. Green. 3. L. Also love the Live in Germany 1977 cd. Great seeing Anthony on an album ranking show. Great video!

[@ericporter344]

Great job Anthony & Pete! I need to investigate the Hillage catalog

[@donaldanderson6604]

I saw Steve Hillage at a free festival in London in 76. Queen were top of the bill but SH was the reason I went and frankly I wasn't bothered about Queen. Love Fish Rising.

[@purpletemple1]

I grew up listening to Motivation Radio, so it'll always be my fav. Love his 70's output.

[@patrickmurphy4297]

every now and then, it would be cool to hear a brief description and some recommendations regarding live albums during the rankings, without actually being "part of" the rankings...particularly in this case where, it seems, Steve has a good number of them. That little, petty, insignificant gripe aside, I really enjoyed this "ranking" show. The commentors below are correct...Anthony is an excellent choice of "co-host" for further "ranking" shows.

[@joelwatkins4377]

Man I wish I would have seen Steve Hillage open for ELO in 1977! That would have been fantastic! Fish Rising is my favorite personally.

[@richardwillis6936]

Nice to see Anthony back on the channel! Great show!

[@63mckenzie]

There's a light in the sky - and it's Steve Hillage.

[@TheVinylOrchard]

Saw Steve Hillage in 1978 in Poole, Dorset, South U.K. coast. Lots of dope and funny hats! Green is my favourite album. great Om Riff,Palm trees are two of my favourite songs by him. Love Lunar Musick suite too

[@andykitson50]

I saw Hillage in '76 on the L tour, just superb. Next time I saw him was 2019, 43 years later, his first gig playing that 70s stuff for many many years. Still got it, what a player.

[@pkats9093]

Thanks guys. I haven’t listened very extensively to his solo stuff but I should. Right now I put fish rising one and green two. But I am going to cheat. Out of all his solo stuff and other work with gong, etc. Kahn is still my favorite!

[@monte.olson58]

Great job guys! Been looking forward to this ranking.

[@orchidcarpetcleaningrp6061]

Amazing how like Hawkwind.Steve Hillage influenced the indie/dance/Trance scene in early 90's.Working with The Orb and System 7. I agree with your choices. Wonder what young guys think of The Ozric Tentacles

[@craigburgess7105]

Great episode - We got into Gong the last couple of years at school and then college (early to mid 80's). That led me to Steve Hillage solo LP's which I was buying in the 90's (after my Indie and Rave years )on 2nd hand vinyl - first one and my favourite is Fish Rising (think I paid £1 for it !). Saw Gong (combo with Ozrics) with Travus on guitars a couple of years back in Brighton - 1st gig I have been to in years where I felt relatively young 😅

[@craigburgess7105]

Also seen System 7 a few times including at Glastonbury back in the 90's.

[@kennbrown4638]

1. L 2. Fish Rising 3. Motivation Radio 4. Rainbow Dome Musick 5. Green 6. For to Next/And Not For 7. Open

[@kevmaher8988]

7: For to Next/And Not Or 6: Open 5: Motivation Radio 4: L 3: Fish Rising 2: Rainbow Dome Musick 1: Green

[@NewWaveofBritishHeavyMetal]

Saw Steve on the Motivation Radio tour back in the late 1970s. To this day one of the finest concerts I've been to. His first three albums each a stone cold classic. Such an effortless and fluid guitarist. Up there with the likes of Bill Nelson, Martin Barre and Donald Roeser.

[@oliviergeoffroy9823]

He also ^produced sons and fascination /sister feeling call from Simple Minds two brilliant albums

[@rockonthestone4907]

Great show Pete🔥

[@yestor1978]

Ya, big fan, searching for the spark, lunar music suite, green , great stuff

[@jimhawkes]

Great show - love Steve Hillage, my ranking would be the same as yours. You should also check out the Uriel album from 1968 (released under the name Arzachel) and also The Golden Vibe album released a few years ago.

[@progfrogian9226]

Steve is great. Fish Rising is basically a Gong album. All that stuff was composed and played live between 1974/75 when Hillage was still in the band. That's also why the backup band is Gong. You can even find some Fish Rising songs with Bruford on drums during his short stint with Gong. Dave Stewart organ solo on Solar Musick Suite is among his best stuff. The guitar riff that buildup to that fuzz organ explosion is divine. Essential space rock. As essential as anything Hawkwind, Pink Floyd and Gong did for the "space rock" genre. Oh, and another cool fact : that live video recording with Bunker on drum also has future Camel bassist Colin Bass on it. He had a great band.

[@eyeresearch]

System 7 are also great live when I saw them. Love his work he’s done with the ORB

[@jaybee7890]

Excellent ranking. I actually dig rainbow musik album if I just put it in a different category. It’s amazing tbh

[@oy6793]

A guitar hero of mine,heard him as a teenager when I heard the Gong trilogy.Fish Rising is my favorite

[@TomHolliday9]

I had a vinyl release "Aura" that was only released in the states that had cuts from Green, Open, Live Hearld as well as another Beatle cover Getting Better

[@Snowdog58]

Don't forget, Steve Hillage also did the System 7 albums

[@anthonyferraro9854]

I talked about that🙂

[@paulkazakoff9231]

My favorites of Mr,hillage are 1. Motivation Radio 2. Green 3. Fish rising.

[@mvjonsson]

Brilliant Canterbury scene and spacerock guitarist. My Hillage ranking is the same with Fish Rising as nr 1. Honorary mentions must also go to Khan - Space shanty where Hillage and Stewart creates magic together.

[@nickdowdell2441]

First concert i ever went to. Elder brother dragged me to see him 1978 i guess.

[@JasonSositko]

I am hoping for a Japan Jazz Fusion Ranking of Fragile? Maybe a 4 fusion friday supplement.

[@georgelamie7001]

That's a tall task! Could be fun

[@shaunogle530]

An informative tour through the Hillage Discography. Hard to disagree with your ranking, except I’d slip Green just ahead of L into second spot. Thanks.

[@terrynolan609]

L tour also had Colin Bass on bass who went on to be in Camel

[@elbib2446]

between l and green,saw him on the green tour,very funky space rock,black riddim section,i think from afro rock funk band osibisa if i remember,,2. fish rising 3.motivation radio 4.open

[@orchidcarpetcleaningrp6061]

Love Live Herald

[@AskoHolli74]

Oh no, Steve Hillage!

[@bryemycaz]

Hello Earth, this is starship captain Warlock from the planet freakout.

[@thomascroft5076]

Nice 'Young Ones' reference there. Steve got the last laugh when he secured the royalty payments.

[@kenl2091]

No arguments with the rundown placements though For To Next/And Not Or is still a good album. I have the original vinyl release of Fish Rising from when I was still young enough not to realise that writing my name on the cover was not a good idea.

[@garyjoyce2160]

Anthony / you crushed it. Do more rankings ! Great job. Thx Pete for your time 👍💯

[@anthonyferraro9854]

Ty!!!

[@garyjoyce2160]

@ 👍💯

[@lordprefab5534]

Saw Steve at his height in 1978, I'll be very interested in the rankings

[@logancollins7097]

Great job Anthony! Listened to Fish Rising and really enjoyed it! Need to investigate farther

[@rattyfus8218]

Green for me.

[@jimmypage2843]

Anthony of Sunhillow coming up!

[@NoineNoineNoine]

System 7!

[@StevenDavid-4q2]

Anthony - Good to see you on SoT. I know from passed comments you don't expect people to miss you, but you're wrong. Period! I purchased the top three albums based upon your recommendation. Also listened to many tracks on KZbin. Steve's rendation of Hurdy Gurdy Man is awesome so I also got the L album. All on CD.

[@orchidcarpetcleaningrp6061]

Green my favourite ,then L

[@charleshill9546]

No Open #2 caught this tour n Southampton UK - Trevor Rabin was the opening act

[@shivering23]

Boy, you guys left out a lot of Hillage stuff: the pre-Khan album by Arzachel (the Khan album was supposedly the music for a second Arzachel album), his collaborations with The Orb, all his ambient and techno releases, not to mention the Steve Hillage Band live albums. You are showing your age, guys.

[@seaoftranquilityprog]

How is ranking just the solo studio albums showing our age? Bizarre comment. We acknowledged the Khan and Gong albums, but nowhere does this video say it’s a ranking of every album he ever recorded on. That’s a huge number of albums.

[@christianhaynes1954]

Who ??

[@seaoftranquilityprog]

Watch and learn.

[@christianhaynes1954]

@seaoftranquilityprog yes sir I did 👍. Thanks for the education 🙏

[@joelwatkins4377]

You should talk about M Frog……if you have not. I’m a new Subscriber so I haven’t gone through your entire playlist yet. Cool channel!

[@joelwatkins4377]

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