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I have to admit, when I first heard about this challenge, I was about 75% sure what song would get my top spot, but that didn't make assembling the rest of this list any less fun.
Thank you to everyone who joined me on this journey, it was short but fulfilling 🥹
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And now, for the number 1 spot... 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
Well, if Nowhere Now is my ideal self, this is my real self. Impossibly alone, but hopelessly romantic. Even if I like TTB more as an album, this song alone is his magnum opus.
From Hand. Cannot. Erase., the title track
youtu.be/A64J8mo8oZE?...
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Honorable Mentions - Veneno Para Las Hadas, Only Child, Index, Deform to Form a Star, Drive Home, The Holy Drinker, Routine, Transience, Ancestral, Happy Returns, First Regret/3 Years Older, To the Bone, Song of I, Blank Tapes, Song of Unborn, KING GHOST and What Life Brings
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Before I reveal my favourite Steven Wilson song to date (in about 10 hours), I'd like to also share some honourable mentions - songs that might not be top-10 worthy (or missed the list due to my rules), but are definitely mention-worthy.
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2. Well, if saying To the Bone is his best album (including the PT catalog) isn't enough of a hot take, what if I told you the best song on it is the most nakedly poppy one too? 😈😈😈
From To the Bone, "Permanating"
youtu.be/K0gryiltJo0?...
Yeah, usually, I need a few listens to memorize a song and form a solid opinion. But usually if I like a song or moment on first listen, I'll remember that fact.
This song was one of those cases because of that main riff. Same with the riff that starts The Same Asylum as Before.
TTB peak 😎
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3. From the kickass verse chord progression, the amazing pop sensibility, to the lyrics countering his usual darkness with genuine love for this planet, this song is the kind of musician and person I aspire to be.
From To the Bone, "Nowhere Now"
youtu.be/ENfI942SJTY?...
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4. This song represents its parent album the best - if you like this song, you most probably will like the rest of the album as well. And since (hot take) To the Bone is my favourite Steven Wilson work...
From To the Bone, "The Same Asylum as Before"
youtu.be/4Ine6gjxg48?...
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5. ...I mean, if this wasn't somewhere on my list, y'all would kill me 🔪 And I value my life, so 😰
(jk, the song's great, especially when the drums fully kick in. Goosebumps.)
From The Raven that Refused to Sing (And Other Stories), the title track
youtu.be/n8sLcvWG1M4?...
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6. If this really was the introduction of Steven Wilson's solo career, then you honestly can't ask for better. Man, those depressing-but-energetic guitars on the 2nd half, mirroring the doomer mood of the lyrics.
From Insurgentes, "Harmony Korine"
youtu.be/TtTSA8mr6kQ?...
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7. This song is mainly here because of its 2nd half. No, not Regret #9, but the super funky groove that could double as a wrestling theme song. HCE was my first album of his, this was proof I was in for a wild ride.
From Hand. Cannot. Erase., "Home Invasion"
youtu.be/6L1T7tfMQ88?...
Steven Wilson, musician, surrounded by greenery
I'm not sure if fans were all that welcoming of the newest, hottest rapper on the block, spitting his BARS 🔥💯
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8. Probably the most controversial pick on this list, and I'm still not a fan of the "guitar" solo... but man that Western-esque main guitar melody does things for me 😩
Steven is good at melody, if you didn't know
From The Harmony Codex, "Actual Brutal Facts"
youtu.be/4kovhU-utOg?...
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9. If the song is in G minor, I'll like it. If the song is also about loss of love, then you own my broken heart 🫠🥹
From Grace for Drowning, "No Part of Me"
youtu.be/OuamS7_jrtY?...
Album cover of The Harmony Codex by Steven Wilson
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10. If I didn't follow my first rule, Song of Unborn would've had a good shot at this list. But since we don't live in a fair world, let's replace the closer about hope from a new life... with a closer about paranoia from old age and dying...
From The Harmony Codex, "Staircase"
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My criteria for the top 10 list -
1. 3 songs per album, so that it's easier for me to make cuts.
2. I have to like every song part to a certain degree.
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