Favourite Steve Hackett Albums?

I'm largely with HackettFan here, Spectral Mornings & To Watch the Storms top my list. One of the few musicians who has kept his creativity, productivity and taste through all these years (and his guitar skills anyway), and as BaldJean wrote, a true uncompromising artist.

Hmm...I missed this thread till now.

Number 1 for me is Spectral Mornings. I absolutely love Ballad of a Decomposing Man and The Tigermoth vocal that Tom Ozric dissed. S’okay. I dissed an album he was gung ho about once.

Number 2 for me would probably be To Watch the Storms, and then maybe Defector. I’d put Momentum in right after that. And then Guitar Noir, which doesn’t get enough acclaim, even from Hackett himself. Voyage of the Acolyte after that. Mmm I’d add Please Don’t Touch into the top tier too. Beyond the Shrouded Horizon? Maybe it too because of that wonderful bonus CD in particular. The top tier is very large. That’s okay.




Edited by HackettFan - February 24 2018 at 17:14

Very hard choice, Steve has so many wonderful albums. From Voyage through The Night Siren, his music is quite impressive. I certainly cannot choose.

How about that Two Towers song-phenomenal! I love his revisits to genesis, also.

^good points.  I remember once reading that when Peter Gabriel left Genesis lost their brain but when Steve Hackett left the lost their heart.  Oversimplification yes but it rings more true than not to me

Well...I only have the first 4....and of those Voyage is by far my favorite....as someone above said there are good tracks on all of his albums but for me many of them are hit or miss.

richardh wrote: To Watch The Storms is my favourite. I like pretty much everything on this record including his take on Thomas Dolby's The Devil Is an Englishman and the very beautiful 'Rebecca' one of his very best songs imo. He also pays homage to King Crimson's classic debut album on a few tracks as well. I can't imagine why anyone into prog would not like this album.

To Watch The Storms is my favourite. I like pretty much everything on this record including his take on Thomas Dolby's The Devil Is an Englishman and the very beautiful 'Rebecca' one of his very best songs imo. He also pays homage to King Crimson's classic debut album on a few tracks as well. I can't imagine why anyone into prog would not like this album.

Barbu wrote: My first Hackett purchase was Guitar Noir and it's still a favorite. Great, fun listen.

I adore Voyage of the Acolyte in its entirety and the majority of the next three lps. After that it did seem to become patchy studio wise though I always enjoyed the 1980's live concerts. Of the newer material I must say that I really enjoyed Wolflight and The Night Siren (his best in a long, long time in my view)