Reading Alexandra’s post this morning : 🔗 Striking a Chord - the Wry Writer

This caught my eye.

I’ve enjoyed it all. From nobodies starting out, to big name groups like Pink Floyd and Abba, to Emerson, Lake and Palmer, to the Rolling Stones before they were mega rock stars.

💬 Alexandra Wolfe

If you know anything about my musical taste at all - you will know that a dude called 🔗🎵 Steven Wilson looms large - starting with a growing collection of 50 albums (physical media - proper!) - and counting.

I’ve heard him say it many times … his mum loved Abba and his Dad played ‘Dark Side’ on ‘repeat’.

From: 🔗 one interview

My earliest musical memories are of hearing my parents playing records, and I was lucky that both of them had great musical taste. My mum listened to Frank Sinatra, Abba, The Carpenters, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, basically the great pop music of the late 70s, and my dad would play conceptual rock stuff like ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, and ‘Tubular Bells’. At that age, I had no concept of musical genre or musical snobbery, so it was just all magical to me, and in many ways that is still the way I feel now. I don’t really understand the concept of listening within a genre or making music within a set of stylistic limitations.

💬 Steven Wilson

I put Steven in the category of probably ‘the biggest rock star that you have never heard of’.

Anyone who wants to explore his work - it can get confusing .. diverse and many entry points - but if you love Abba and Pink Floyd - his Blackfield project is well worth diving into.