In a couple of recent interviews (including this one with Sound & Vision's Mike Mettler) Steven Wilson has talked a bit about how he's enjoying his new Atmos mixing rig, and that the 2020 lockdown gave him time to complete a bunch of surround remixes he wouldn't have otherwise been able to do.
There are a few we already know about (the three Gentle Giant albums mentioned in the S&V interview linked above) and Jethro Tull's A, but I was thinking it might be fun to play a little game here and try to predict what some of these may be.
So the rules are simple: choose only one album you think will be released in 2021 as a Steven Wilson remix, and post it in this thread. Discussion and banter are fine, but when I go back over the posts, if you've posted more than one guess only your first one will count and the rest will be disregarded. I'll tally up the posts in January, 2022 (presuming I haven't won the lottery by then) and we can see if anyone was correct.
There are a number of things you should factor into your prediction, among them the bands SW has professed liking or wanting to remix in the past, the record labels he's worked with before, and albums that are in an anniversary year, give or take a year, ie released in 1971-72, 1981-82, or 1991-92 would probably be greater candidates for 30th/40th/50th anniversary deluxe editions. If you want to explain the reasoning for your choice you can, but it's not mandatory.
Seeing as I'm starting this thread, I'll go first with a prediction for Moving Pictures by Rush. Reasoning being that it's the album's 40th anniversary this year, SW has remixed Rush in the past (and surely they've heard the unhappiness with the 5.1 mixes Chycki has done) and doing an Atmos remix of the album to me would represent a valid artistic and financial reason to milk that cow again.
There are a few we already know about (the three Gentle Giant albums mentioned in the S&V interview linked above) and Jethro Tull's A, but I was thinking it might be fun to play a little game here and try to predict what some of these may be.
So the rules are simple: choose only one album you think will be released in 2021 as a Steven Wilson remix, and post it in this thread. Discussion and banter are fine, but when I go back over the posts, if you've posted more than one guess only your first one will count and the rest will be disregarded. I'll tally up the posts in January, 2022 (presuming I haven't won the lottery by then) and we can see if anyone was correct.
There are a number of things you should factor into your prediction, among them the bands SW has professed liking or wanting to remix in the past, the record labels he's worked with before, and albums that are in an anniversary year, give or take a year, ie released in 1971-72, 1981-82, or 1991-92 would probably be greater candidates for 30th/40th/50th anniversary deluxe editions. If you want to explain the reasoning for your choice you can, but it's not mandatory.
Seeing as I'm starting this thread, I'll go first with a prediction for Moving Pictures by Rush. Reasoning being that it's the album's 40th anniversary this year, SW has remixed Rush in the past (and surely they've heard the unhappiness with the 5.1 mixes Chycki has done) and doing an Atmos remix of the album to me would represent a valid artistic and financial reason to milk that cow again.
) anniversary this year.... And Universal are pushing Atmos.... But most of all because I really want it to happen - I'm going to say.... 
Nevermind by Nirvana.
