Steven Wilson discography
This is a discography of Steven Wilson's solo albums, his work with the band Porcupine Tree, his side projects and collaborations with other artists.
Early projects and releases
Altamont
Altamont were an electronica and krautrock duo formed by Steven Wilson and Simon "Si" Vockings. It existed between 1983–1984; Wilson was 15 years old at that time. All of the music was improvised live onto cassette using primitive analog synthesizers and a home made echo machine.
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Prayer for the Soul |
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The cassette released through Acid Tapes was deleted upon Wilson's request, but there was a promotional copy in circulation for some time. |
Untitled |
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Picture disc edition limited to 300 copies, of which 250 were for sale. |
God
God were an art pop duo formed by Wilson and Richard "Ford" Leggott. It was active in 1987–1993 during which many recordings were made but not published in any way. In 2019, Wilson released three songs from God era as an EP.
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Panic Underneath the Arches |
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EP featuring tracks "City" (recorded in 1993), "Bad Dreams" (1993) and "Love" (1987). Released as a limited numbered edition, available as marble vinyl (333 copies) and black vinyl (666 copies).[1] |
Karma
Karma were a band that existed between 1982–1986. It featured Wilson and three of his schoolmates. Both albums were recorded and self-released by Wilson and Mark Gordon, the drummer of the band. There are also several existing live recordings of the Karma era, but they are single copy cassettes owned by Wilson that have never been published.
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The Joke's on You |
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Contained tracks "Intruder d'Or", "Tigers in the Rain", "Small Fish" and "Nine Cats". The latter two were later re-recorded and included on the Porcupine Tree albums Up the Downstair and On the Sunday of Life, respectively. |
The Last Man to Laugh |
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Contained tracks "Where Is the End If There's No Beginning?", "A Peace on Earth and Good Swill to All Pigs (Part 1 & 2)" and "Counterparts". The latter was 30 minutes of remixes and alternate takes of first two songs, under one title. |
Bass Communion
Blackfield
Continuum
Incredible Expanding Mindfuck
No-Man
Porcupine Tree
Storm Corrosion
Solo work
Studio albums
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UK [2] |
AUS [3] |
FIN [4][5] |
FRA [6] |
GER [7] |
NL [8] |
POL [9] |
US [10] | ||
Insurgentes |
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116 | — | — | 114 | 81 | 78 | 15 | — |
Grace for Drowning |
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34 | — | 30 | 96 | 22 | 22 | 7 | 85 |
The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) |
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28 | — | 17 | 51 | 3 | 16 | 25 | 57 |
Hand. Cannot. Erase. |
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13 | — | 4 | 44 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 39 |
To the Bone |
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3 | 30 | 1 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 58 |
The Future Bites |
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"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Live albums
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FIN [4] |
GER [7] |
NL [8] | |||||||
Catalogue / Preserve / Amass |
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— | — | — | CD edition, limited to 3,000 copies, was only available through pre-order directly from Wilson's website and at live shows from the Grace for Drowning tour. A Record Store Day vinyl edition, limited to 2,000 copies, featured condensed track list. | ||||
Get All You Deserve |
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1 | 52 | 4 | Released as DVD and Blu-ray versions with deluxe edition including both formats as well as concert's audio on two CDs. | ||||
Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall |
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— | 9 | 35 | Filmed on the third and final night of Wilson's Royal Albert Hall residence in March 2018. Available on Blu-ray, DVD, CD and vinyl (the latter being released in March 2019). | ||||
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Compilation albums
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Notes | ||||||
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UK [2] |
GER [7] |
NL [8] |
FR [6] |
POL [9] | |||||
Unreleased Electronic Music Vol. 1 |
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— | — | — | — | — | Compilation featuring Wilson's experiments in electronic music between 1990–2003. Released as CD-R packed in a DVD case, with unique polaroid and signed index card.[a] The vinyl edition is limited to 500 copies and contains "Shortwave (Remix)" as a bonus track. | ||
Tape Experiments 1985–86 |
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— | — | — | — | — | Compilation featuring Wilson's early experimental material originally recorded on cassette. Released as digital download. The vinyl edition is limited to 180 copies. | ||
Cover Version |
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— | — | 60 | — | 46 | Compilation album consisting of six Cover Version singles released in 2003–2010. | ||
Transience |
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59 | 52 | 83 | 123 | — | Compilation album featuring songs from releases recorded in 2003–2015. | ||
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
EPs
Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Notes | ||||||
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UK [2] |
FIN [4] |
NED [8] |
FR [6] |
POL [9] | |||||
NSRGNTS RMXS |
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— | — | — | — | — | EP comprising remixed versions of songs featured on the Insurgentes album. | ||
Drive Home |
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68 | — | 8 | — | — | Video EP featuring unreleased songs and music videos with live material on both audio and video; released as Blu-ray/CD and DVD/CD versions.[11] | ||
4½ |
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21 | 13 | 9 | 55 | 49 | EP of songs that were written during the creation of albums The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) and Hand. Cannot. Erase. | ||
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Soundtracks
Title | Details | Notes |
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Last Day of June |
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Original score for a puzzle video game by Ovosonico and 505 Games; released as digital download. |
Singles
Year | Title | Album | Notes |
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2009 | "Harmony Korine"
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Insurgentes | Released as black, white and red vinyl editions, each limited to 1,000 copies. |
2010 | "Vapour Trail Lullaby"
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One track single given away with pre-orders of the Insurgentes music DVD. | |
2011 | "Postcard"
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Grace for Drowning | |
2016 | "Happiness III"
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4½ | Features "Space Oddity (Live)" as B-side. The vinyl edition is limited to 3,000 copies. |
2017 | "Pariah"
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To the Bone | Features radio, album and instrumental edits of “Pariah”. |
"The Same Asylum as Before"
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"Song of I"
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"Permanating"
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Features instrumental version of “Permanating” | ||
"Refuge"
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2018 | "How Big the Space"
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Features "People Who Eat Darkness (Ninet version)" as B-side. Limited Record Store Day release. |
Music videos
Year | Title | Album | Director |
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2009 | "Harmony Korine" | Insurgentes | Lasse Hoile |
2011 | "Track One" | Grace for Drowning | |
"Index" | |||
"Remainder the Black Dog" | |||
"Belle de Jour" | |||
2013 | "The Raven That Refused to Sing" | The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | Jessica Cope |
"Drive Home" | |||
2015 | "Perfect Life" | Hand. Cannot. Erase. | Youssef Nassar |
"Routine" | Jessica Cope | ||
2016 | "Hand Cannot Erase" | Lasse Hoile | |
"Happy Returns" | Youssef Nassar | ||
2017 | "Pariah" | To the Bone | Lasse Hoile |
"Song of I" | |||
"Nowhere Now" | |||
"Permanating" | Andrew Morgan | ||
2018 | "People Who Eat Darkness" | Jessica Cope | |
2019 | "Same Asylum As Before" | Lasse Hoile | |
"Song of Unborn" | Jessica Cope |
^ a – Each CD-R copy of Unreleased Electronic Music Vol. 1 contains its own one of a kind original Polaroid photograph taken by Lasse Hoile specifically for the project. David Schroeder has set up a webpage[12] dedicated to displaying Hoile's polaroids in numerical order along with their owner's names. Some of these Polaroids can now be found in the "Old Polaroids" album at Hoile's MySpace page.
Separate tracks
Tracks released separately by Wilson via Internet through his MySpace and SoundCloud accounts.
Release date | Song | Notes |
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March 2006 | "Well You're Wrong" | That was the first song that Steven Wilson put up on MySpace. A re-recorded and slightly extended version of this song appeared later on Wilson's "Cover Version V" single. |
August 2006 | "Cut Ribbon" | According to the "Steven Wilson iOS App" : "This was originally written for a planned metal collaboration with Mikael from Opeth about 10 years ago, then later re-recorded for both ‘Insurgentes’ and more recently ‘Grace for Drowning’. Each time I couldn’t really make it fit in with the style of those records so here it finally finds a home, in its most recent 2010 mixed form."[13] It has been widely bootlegged, but incorrectly attributed to Porcupine Tree, since it comes from the same period as several demos for the In Absentia album circa 2002. Versions available include the 2002 leaked version, a slightly different 2006 mix from Wilson's MySpace, and the 2010 version left off of Grace for Drowning. |
August 2006 | "Collecting Space" | An instrumental demo made in 2003 during writing sessions for Porcupine Tree's Deadwing album, but never recorded by the band. A proper version of this piece was released on the limited edition of the 1st Steven's solo album called Insurgentes, while this demo appears as an extra track on the Insurgentes movie DVD. |
October 2006 | "Vapour Trail Lullaby" | According to Steven Wilson: "I found this on a CDR of demos from around 2000, and it's an early version of the song that was later recorded for the first Blackfield album with a much more stripped down piano and string quartet arrangement. Here I was obviously going for something a bit more epic (the full version lasts about 16 minutes, but this is the first 6). After Rush called their album 'Vapour Trails' I changed the title of the Blackfield version to just Lullaby." |
October 2006 | "Deadwing Theme" | This is a short piece written for the prospective soundtrack to the film "Deadwing", which exists at present only as a screenplay written by Steven Wilson and film-maker Mike Bennion. Although this piece was written during the Deadwing album sessions, it was not released on the standard or limited editions of the album of the same name. It was officially released in 2010 as an extra track on the Insurgentes movie DVD. It features melodies from an earlier demo "Godfearing" which was written - according to Wilson - circa 2001/2003. |
June 2012 | "Godfearing" | According to Steven Wilson: "I found this on an old computer – it's a demo for either the In Absentia or Deadwing albums, something that never got used – I can't be totally sure because while it shares lyrical themes with the songs on In Absentia, one of the melodies seems to relate to another piece from Deadwing era. I don't remember too much about it, other than I guess it wasn't good enough to get any further than this. Rescued from the abyss, so I only have a compressed audio file of this one, sorry about that." |
Guest appearances and contributions
Year | Album | Artist | Credit(s) |
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1994 | Flame | Richard Barbieri & Tim Bowness | Guitar on "Song of Love and Everything (Part I and II)" and "Flame" |
Seed | JBK | Guitar on "Prey" | |
1995 | The Exstasie | Psychomuzak | Producer |
The Tooth Mother | Mick Karn | Guitar on "Thundergirl Mutation" and "Plaster the Magic Tongue" | |
Stone to Flesh | Steve Jansen & Richard Barbieri | Guitar on "Mother London", "Sleepers Awake", "Ringing the Bell Backwards" and "Closer Than 'I'" | |
A Winter Harvest | Coltsfoot | Guitar and keyboards on "Walk Between the Lines" and "Wood for the Trees" | |
1996 | Live at the Milky Way | Steve Jansen & Richard Barbieri | Guitar |
1997 | Indigo Falls | Indigo Falls | Guitar on "The Wilderness" |
Sunsets on Empire | Fish | Producer, co-writer, keyboards and guitars on most tracks | |
1999 | No Ordinary Man | Cipher | Mixing, guitar on "The Waiting" and "Bodhidharma" |
Raingods with Zippos | Fish | Guitar on "Tumbledown", "Faithhealer" and "Plague of Ghosts" | |
marillion.com | Marillion | Additional production and mixing | |
New Worlds By Design | Spirits Burning | Guitar on "The Ticking of Science" | |
World of Bright Futures | Tim Bowness & Samuel Smiles | Producer and guitar on "Watching Over Me" | |
2001 | Blackwater Park | Opeth | Producer, keyboards, mellotron, backing vocals, lead vocals |
Heart of the Sun | Theo Travis | Co-producer, mixing | |
Smiling & Waving | Anja Garbarek | Producer | |
Culinaire Lingus | Ange | Mixing on "Jusqu'où Iront-Ils" and "Cadavres Exquis" | |
Playing in a Room with People | JBK | Guitar | |
Postmankind | Ian Mosley & Ben Castle | Mixing | |
Henry Fool | Henry Fool | Mixing on "Poppy Q" and "Heartattack" | |
2002 | One Who Whispers | Cipher | Co-producer, mixing |
Deliverance | Opeth | Producer, backing vocals, piano, mellotron, additional guitar | |
2003 | Office of Strategic Influence | OSI | Co-writer and vocals on "shutDOWN" |
Damnation | Opeth | Producer, keyboards, piano, mellotron, backing vocals, co-writer on "Death Whispered a Lullaby" | |
Will I/Fly | Yoko Ono | Remixing on "Death of Samantha" | |
Time and Emotion Study | Ex-Wise Heads | Mixing on "Slender Threads" | |
2004 | Blah Street | Ben Castle | Mixing |
Marbles | Marillion | Mixing on "Angelina" | |
Kallocain | Paatos | Mixing | |
The DAC Mixes | Darkroom | Remixing on "After Dark" | |
Legacy | Vidna Obmana | Guitar solo on "Legacy" | |
Earth to Ether | Theo Travis | Mixing | |
2005 | Shiver | John Wesley | Mixing |
2006 | In My Father's House are Many Mansions | Andrew Liles | Remixing on "Something to Do with Hans Bellmer in a Pub at Last Orders Using 15th Century Rural Magic" |
With the Time | Aviv Geffen | Backing vocals on "Thousands of People" and "You, Me and the Dog" | |
2007 | Slow Life | Theo Travis | Performer on "Behind These Silent Eyes" |
The Bowing Harmony | Vidna Obmana | Vocals | |
Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent | Fovea Hex | Guitar on "Allure" | |
Systematic Chaos | Dream Theater | Spoken word on "Repentance" | |
Once We All Walk Through Solid Objects | Fear Falls Burning | Performer on "Fear Falls Burning vs Bass Communion" | |
Black Sheep | Andrew Liles | Performer on "537171NR848492C (Elongated)" | |
The Road Home | Jordan Rudess | Vocals on "Tarkus" | |
2008 | Stranger Inside | Richard Barbieri | Mastering |
Untitled | The Use of Ashes | Performer on "Mousehill" | |
I'm Not Here | Sand Snowman | Mastering | |
Wish of the Flayed | Muslimgauze | Engineering | |
No One’s Words | Ephrat | Mixing, mastering | |
Thread | Travis & Fripp | Mixing, mastering | |
2009 | Three Fact Fader | Engineers | Remixing on "Sometimes I Realise" |
Aviv Geffen | Aviv Geffen | Guitar on "Cloudy Now" and "Silence", guitar and backing vocals on "The One" | |
Quiver | KTU | Additional mixing | |
Two Way Mirror | Sand Snowman | Vocals on "Faded Flowers" and "Riverrun" | |
2010 | The Never Ending Way of ORWarriOR | Orphaned Land | Co-producer |
We're Here Because We're Here | Anathema | Mixing | |
Immersion | Pendulum | Co-writer and vocals on "The Fountain" | |
Soup | Stick Men | Mixing on "Soup" | |
2011 | Warm Winter | Memories of Machines | Engineering, mixing, guitar and keyboards on "Lucky You, Lucky Me" |
Heritage | Opeth | Mixing | |
The World's Not Worth It | Sand Snowman | Vocals on "A Life Rehearsed" | |
The Road to OR-Shalem | Orphaned Land | Vocals on "M i ?", guitar on "The Beloved's Cry" | |
2012 | Thick as a Brick 2 | Ian Anderson | Mixing |
Boing, We'll Do It Live! | The Aristocrats | Mixing | |
Genesis Revisited II | Steve Hackett | Vocals on "Can-Utility and the Coastliners", guitar on "Shadow of the Hierophant" | |
2013 | Follow | Travis & Fripp | Mixing |
2014 | Pale Communion | Opeth | Mixing |
Distant Satellites | Anathema | Mixing on "You're Not Alone" and "Take Shelter" | |
Disconnect | John Wesley | Mixing on "Window" | |
The Ghosts of Pripyat | Steve Rothery | Guitar on "Old Man of the Sea" | |
Abandoned Dancehall Dreams | Tim Bowness | Mixing, guitar, programming | |
Dream Tempest | 36 | Performer on "Redshift" | |
Ones and Zeros Reloaded | Saro Cosentino | Engineering on "Days of Flaming Youth" | |
Hello (single) | Revolution Harmony | Vocals | |
2015 | Stupid Things That Mean the World | Tim Bowness | Co-writer on "Sing to Me", remixing on "Best Boy Electric" |
Courting the Widow | Nad Sylvan | Engineering | |
Glare | North Atlantic Oscillation | Remixing on "Wires" | |
Lumen | Steve Jansen & Richard Barbieri | Guitar | |
2016 | 2112 (40th Anniversary Edition) | Rush | Cover version of "Twilight Zone" |
EP One | Paul Draper | Guitars, bass and keyboards on "No Ideas" | |
The Salt Garden I | Fovea Hex | Remixing on "Solace" | |
2017 | Lost in the Ghost Light | Tim Bowness | Mixing |
Face | Pat Mastelotto & Markus Reuter | Vocals on "Face" | |
2018 | Truth Decay | Adam Holzman | Guitar on "Phobia" |
Moths | Jethro Tull | Remixing on "Moths" | |
2019 | Flowers at the Scene | Tim Bowness | Mixing |
The Salt Garden III | Fovea Hex | Remixing on "Is Lanza Light & Given" | |
North Sea Oil | Jethro Tull | Remixing on "North Sea Oil" and "Dun Ringill" |
Album remixes
Steven Wilson has created 5.1 surround sound mixes (usually also accompanied by a new stereo mix appearing on the same release) for artists including King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Yes, XTC, Hawkwind, Gentle Giant, and Caravan, for the following albums:[14]
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2009 | Red
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In the Court of the Crimson King
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2010 | Lizard
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In the Wake of Poseidon
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Islands
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2011 | In the Land of Grey and Pink
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Starless and Bible Black
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Discipline
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Aqualung
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2012 | Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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Tarkus
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Larks' Tongues in Aspic
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Thick as a Brick
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2013 | Warrior on the Edge of Time
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Red (2013 Stereo Mix)
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Nonsuch
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Close to the Edge
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Benefit
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2014 | The Yes Album
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A Passion Play
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The Power and the Glory
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Drums and Wires
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Relayer
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Songs from the Big Chair
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War Child
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2015 | Sparkle in the Rain
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Minstrel in the Gallery
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Please Don't Touch
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Spectral Mornings
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Oranges and Lemons
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Octopus
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Fragile
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Damnation
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Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!
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2016 | Aqualung (2016 Stereo Mix)
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Tales from Topographic Oceans
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Skylarking
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Beat
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Three of a Perfect Pair
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Stand Up
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2017 | Chicago (2017 Stereo Mix)
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Songs from the Wood
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Misplaced Childhood
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Three Piece Suite
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Black Sea
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A Farewell to Kings
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2018 | Roxy Music
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Heavy Horses
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Brave
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This Was
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2019 | In Search of Hades
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Psurroundabout Ride
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Stormwatch
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2020 | Vienna
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