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.Title | Album details | Notes |
Prayer for the Soul |
| The cassette released through Acid Tapes was deleted upon Wilson's request, but there was a promotional copy in circulation for some time. |
Untitled | 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.Title | Album details | Notes |
Panic Underneath the Arches |
| EP featuring tracks "City", "Bad Dreams" and "Love". Released as a limited numbered edition, available as marble vinyl and black vinyl. |
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.Title | Album details | Notes |
The Joke's on You |
| 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 | Contained tracks "Where Is the End If There's No Beginning?", "A Peace on Earth and Good Swill to All Pigs " 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
Live albums
Compilation albums
EPs
Soundtracks
Singles
Music videos
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 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 |
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." 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. 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
Album remixes
Steven Wilson has created 5.1 surround sound mixes for artists including King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Yes, XTC, Hawkwind, Gentle Giant, and Caravan, for the following albums:Year | Album details | Source |
2009 | Red
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2009 | In the Court of the Crimson King | |
2010 | Lizard | |
2010 | In the Wake of Poseidon | |
2010 | Islands | |
2011 | In the Land of Grey and Pink | |
2011 | Starless and Bible Black | |
2011 | Discipline | |
2011 | Aqualung | |
2012 | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | |
2012 | Tarkus | |
2012 | Larks' Tongues in Aspic | |
2012 | Thick as a Brick | |
2013 | Warrior on the Edge of Time | |
2013 | Red | |
2013 | Nonsuch | |
2013 | Close to the Edge | |
2013 | Benefit | |
2014 | The Yes Album | |
2014 | A Passion Play | |
2014 | The Power and the Glory | |
2014 | Drums and Wires | |
2014 | Relayer | |
2014 | Songs from the Big Chair | |
2014 | War Child | |
2015 | Sparkle in the Rain | |
2015 | Minstrel in the Gallery | |
2015 | Please Don't Touch | |
2015 | Spectral Mornings | |
2015 | Oranges and Lemons | |
2015 | Octopus | |
2015 | Fragile | - |
2015 | Damnation | |
2015 | ||
2016 | Aqualung | |
2016 | Tales from Topographic Oceans | |
2016 | Skylarking | |
2016 | Beat | |
2016 | Three of a Perfect Pair | |
2016 | Stand Up | |
2017 | Chicago | |
2017 | Songs from the Wood | |
2017 | Misplaced Childhood | |
2017 | Three Piece Suite | |
2017 | Black Sea | |
2017 | A Farewell to Kings | |
2018 | Roxy Music | |
2018 | Heavy Horses | |
2018 | Brave | |
2018 | This Was | |
2019 | In Search of Hades | |
2019 | Psurroundabout Ride | |
2019 | Stormwatch |