The Ten Greatest CONCEPT ALBUMS Ranked | All Waffle, No Content
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I CAME FOR THE RANT, I STAYED FOR THE WAFFLE.
great list sir!
When searching for "War of the Worlds" and he said "what are the chances of finding it?" it was impossible for me not to think "a million to one he said".
brilliant
If only they were filed in some sort of order 😂
dAMMIT! I spotted that too, but I only saw this video seven days after it went up. Just posted a similar comment, feeling very proud of myself... scrolled down, saw yours, booom! Destroyed! Deletes comment in shame. Well played, Foobar476!!!
Weee woo, weeo, wee oo
"Have you seen any Martians?"
I WANT Waffles....and I REQUIRE Rants!!!! Please carry on!!
Am only 7 minutes in and it's already framing to be a classic Andy video! 😂😂😂
15:54 -- 16:03 'There's not one ounce of blackness in Rick Wakeman ... and that's always *colored* my opinion of him" LOL good one Andy!
Dat's a good bobservation Andy, yessum. Rick comes from a European classical training.
Andy’s list for those with crippling A.D.D.:
10. Beyoncé - Renaissance
9. Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
7. Kenny G - Breathless
6. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
5. Enya - Watermark
4. Lil Wayne - Rebirth
3. Aqua - Aquarium
2. Crazy Frog - Crazy Hits
1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
😂
You are definitely in my gang.....
It’s quite easy to build your own concept album. Just take any audiobook say Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut and play simultaneously with an instrumental album like say Zeit by Tangerine Dream. You can mix and match to your hearts content.
Thanks, now I can avoid all his bloody waffling on
All Waffle No Content is hilarious Andy -- needs to be on a T-shirt!
I’m here for the waffle, exclusively. Apparently, Ike Willis’s impersonations helped to inspire ‘Thing Fish.’ There’s an interview in which he talks at length on this very topic. Guy’s a natural comedian, as well as being a brilliant vocalist and guitarist.
I ❤the waffle
Ike Willis I saw w Zappa 1984 and I loved the show very much
CAMEL-Snow Goose💯💜🔥🦢(Also i salute you with the old song Blah Blah Blah)! Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷🥁
Your rants are really great! Work was really hard this week and I needed a good laugh
Great video. Top tier cranky ! Loved it. The AndyQuarium had me in stitches.
The fish with the ranting at chipmunk speed was priceless.
Great rant on Dream Thatre! Kudos!
Just discovered you. I'm 75 and have lived through most of the music you discuss. You make me revisit them with a refreshing view I think you're amazing. Keep it up. And keep pissing off those trolls.......
Nurse! He's out of bed again!
The mother of all rants, I love it!
love the rant!
Six minutes in and I'm sitting here chuckling away. Thanks Andy!
Absolutely I’m here for the waffle and the rant !!!👍
Bo Hansson's 'Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings' is an album I've listened to on and off for many years. It's so serene, pastel and atmospheric (albeit with some nerdy moments) and reflects the book, but certainly not the film! Musically, it tells a great story already written, and allows the listener, who has read the book, to revisit Middle Earth!
Keep up the good work!
Another brilliant vid! I just discovered you a couple of weeks ago. Rant away, Andy, rant away! I'll watch every time,
This was soooo funny! Love how you wind up the "Prog Fan" ( obviously being one yourself). Not a great fan of concept albums myself.. but I loved the show. Your summary of late Floyd was spot on and hilarious... expensive hi-fi music.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Think the fact the reviewer was 11 years old when The Wall came out says it all regarding why he (and other younger Floyd listeners) doesn’t get the Gilmour lead stuff, which was basically cozy nostalgia for us old gits who followed Floyd from the start. A time before Roger Waters dragged the rest of the band by the bollocks away from whimsical and pastoral collections of songs tied up with long spacey instrumentals, into dark and cynical concepts and the murky world of politics. The guy wouldn’t have been out of nappies when Atom Heart Mother was released, so would have no idea how groundbreaking that was, especially given the technology and equipment available at the time (1970).
@@glumonion1454 Which is why I mentioned Atom Heart Mother in my list of greatest epics of all time....
Congratulations Mr. Edwards, this is the most entertaining program I watched this year so far! Very amusing. I am very happy to see Zappa present on the list, twice! I would like to know if you forgot "Thick as A Brick" and "Passion Play", or omission was intentional?
Many thanks!
Best video I've watched on RUclips in ages!
Glad you enjoyed it
Fantastic! Laughed my socks off at this. 😂
Love your shows andy
Middle-aged and XXL here, and man did I love the hour long rant and waffle. And you reminded me about some albums I’ve not listened to in an age so cheers and digging the rantiness.
You have good choices. I love your style. I differ on some of them but you make your case and that is what I need to hear.
Makes a change to hear domeone else having a rant, loved this, please rant more!!
An entertaining 2 cups of tea podcast/rant. Thanks Andy I’ll give some of these, that I haven’t heard before, a listen.
Great video Andy. You had me at "waffle"😄
Glad you enjoyed it
If you’ll permit some embarrassing American sincerity: David Gilmour’s solos never fail to stop me in my tracks, emotionally, and change my state of mind to one in which I reflect on my life, even on life itself, from 50,000 feet, and set me down in a better place, spiritually, than where I started. No other music, with the huge exception of J S Bach, does that for me.
(Mahavishnu Andy is now turning aside to 🤮 throw up…)
Now, Roger Waters, OTOH, I totally agree, he’s just a massive w*nker.
What I get with Andy is that his style aims to unite irony and sincerity. What I hear when listening to him take the mick out of something is that he is aware there exist two or more (seemingly) contradictory sides to a thing at the same time, side by side.
Yes, David Gilmore’s less-is-more guitar playing is often taken up to legitimise attacks on fast, complex music by guys who don’t want to understand it.
Yes, David Gilmore’s open, restrained playing touches a part within the soul of many people, at a time when contemporary players were obsessed with bashing you over the head with cocky virtuosity.
And
this is independent of how Andy feels personally about David Gilmore’s guitar playing.
40 people watched live, yer knocking it outta the park man,,,,,,
I like your talking/ranting!
We love 💞 you, Andy!
I like your style, carry on.
Oh yes, hilarious video!
Brilliant ❤
Heard the Lamb live and complete opening the U.S. tour in Chicago before I settled in with the studio album. It had a great impact on me, the vision, the lyrics. For years I considered it my microcosm of the 1970's, Double, gatefold, visual, pre-punk prog-pop, open to impression, trippy and gritty. It's chock full of conceptual levels, like Dante on a good day. Fly on the Windshield and Broadway Melody, Peter's lyrical, namedropping nuances, fabulous. Hey, even the waffling within the content holds up. Got to love the Lamb.
I have loved The Lamb for almost 50 years. It has always been my favourite album since first hearing. I don't care if Tony Banks doesn't like it, he should be proud of the music and his best playing. Peter's lyrics can be too wordy and clever, and the concept is far from their bucolic English pastoral fare but it's the music for me.. oh that music!
This is great! I didn't know I wanted to listen to a massive rant, but it turns out I am.
Ha ha, omg. Love this guy. Subscribed 😂
From what I've gathered,The Residents have made nothing but concept albums. Prolific!
So glad you included Joe's Garage!
I have only just found your channel and I have been working in the garage all day, loving the ‘waffling’ I feel you are funnelling Stuart Lee here. He’s let himself go.
Welcome aboard!
I came for the list but I stayed for the comedy. Funniest video I've seen in a while. Thank you.
Keep taking the medicine Andy. Visiting my girlfriend's sister at university in the early 70s, and listening to Tommy on her boyfriend's reel to reel tape recorder late at night is a memory I will never forget.
What a brilliant rant ... we need a video of "Andy's Biggest Rants" ... Your No.1 pick was the only one you could put in that position ... unbelievable album and one of the reasons I play keyboards ... you could have really stirred the pot and included Plan B's "The Deformation of Strictland Banks" ... Soul rather than Prog ... but a brilliant album the tells a great concept/story from the very start to the final note ... would have really triggered the early Genesis fans!
I expected Thing Fish and lo and behold...🙂 It's a great piece. Zappa at his most unapologetic. One can only speculate what he would've done in these times but I bet there'd be hordes of people frothing at the gills. You're right, we really need someone like Frank right now!
Man. The rant was sooo entertaining. It made me tempt4r to troll you in hopes of seeing another one.
Andy, have you had your blood pressure checked lately?
Waffle away Andy - that's one of the reasons I subscribed . Also , you're a naturally funny guy .
Almost 20k !
Brilliant!!!
Give 'em hell Andy!!
Thanks Andy. It seems I'm not a Prog fan according to your hilarious categorising.
'SF Sorrow' by the Pretty Thing predated 'Tommy'. 'Reality' by band Second Hand is also good but my favorite storytelling album is 'Nigel Lived' by Murray (Judas) Head from 1973.
Excellent rant
War of the Worlds- 1978, my parents had this. Mesmerizing. I was glad to see this at the top of the list.
So to add one, if Lamb On Broadway is a Concept of America of sorts, then the ultimate concept album of the American experience, warts and all must be Nebraska by Springsteen. No waffling, no costumes, just straight to the heart of the matter.
So glad you brought the 'Lamb Lies Down On Broadway' in. Had you not, I would have not been able to take you serious.
I love waffles, and enjoy your videos. Maybe I should start eating waffles while watching them.
Andy, you crack me up! And I bought Bo Hansen’s Lord of the Rings. Rushing home to put it on the stereo, I was so disappointed. No lyrics even. Nothing to do with hobbits, Gandalf, orcs, etc.
I had completely forgotten the album existed til 10 minutes ago. Lovin your channel. 🎸 thanks!!
Wonderful stuff Andy. The first Sabbath album would've made a great concept album. It sort of feels like one when I listen to it. More please.
Well done Andy with The Lamb …. I’m here 😂
One of your best Andy! Love the waffle rant 🤪
😁
Good to see the Zappa concept albums in your list, Andy. You might have included 'Flying Teapot' and 'Angels Egg' which tell some sort of yarn about Zero the hero... Patrick Moraz's 'Story of I' is another memorably zany concept album. But my favourite concept/story album is Jethro Tull's 'Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!' which many Tull fans don't like. I think you've got to be British and knowledgeable of a certain era to understand the references on that album and enjoy its wistful nostalgia and humour.
I can't remember which of Andy's videos I watched first, but the ranting and waffling hooked me. There are other content providers who are tighter and more produced, but no one Andy is one of a kind.
Waffle on Andy, it's properly entertaining. Your rants are their own genre of art!
I hope we have plenty of waffle - looking forward to this. Remember we need waffle like on the Zep best 30
I am not surprised that War of the World's was at the top of the list. It is a great album.
I also impressed that you worked in a reference to Sammantha Fish, a great blues guitarist, on a list about concept albums.
Two other "concept" albums but maybe fall outside your narrow definition. I have to mention are Jesus Christ Superstar because it has Ian Gillan on it and Blind Guardian's Nightfall in Middle Earth because it is a great album and because it ties in with the whole nerd prog fan Tolkien obsession.
What eclectic taste!
I’m astonished that you said “Walter Trout, who is the king of the fishy named, Jewish blues guitar players….” and kept a straight face
I thought he would've mentioned that other Jewish blues guitarist ;
Fleetwood Mac's Peter Bream
I have discovered many an album because of you, my friend. Waffle at Will! I’m your huckleberry.
Right on!!! I think that this is my favorite one of your vids! Rant on, mate!! Rant on!!
I appreciate that!
Would love to hear your opinion on Janelle Monae's Metropolis concept album series.
Great list and fun video Andy -- 39:04 My girlfriend always refers to Thin Lizzy as "the guy from that War of the Worlds album I owned as a kid"
That is a girl comment for sure.
Also, by just listening to Thin Lizzy the greatest hits, You're missing out on a lot of great music......
This was the second video I’ve seen on your channel, the first being the Zappa retrospective which I thought was thoughtful and heartfelt and (for the most part) I agreed with. This video made me laugh uproariously! I know that a lot of the folks who watch YouTUBE can be obnoxious (to say the least), and we all react to commentary’s in our own way. And I love your approach by needling the needlers! TOUCHÉ!
Glad you enjoyed it!
In NZ The Pretty Things SF SORROW would come in at number one - hands down.
Fascinating to hear your comparison between Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson, as you were saying it my head was nodding, so right. Can’t see Rick doing Honky Tonk Blues! 🎉
I love your channel and laughed out loud at this video. Very happy to see Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime on your list. That album changed my life in 1988 as a kid listening to Tommy Vance under the duvet on headphones when I was meant to be asleep. It was the beginning of my prog journey. Keep up the good work. From a female prog nerd nurse (although my favourite ever concept album is Brave by Marillion, so don't get too excited 😂😂)
Blues musicians with fishy names.
It wasn't his name, but didn't lots of people think that Clapton was Cod?
Great show, Andy! I would add Caught Up by Millie Jackson, which I trust is in your collection. For me, the 2nd greatest soul album ever made, down in Muscle Shoals with the brilliant Roger Hawkins on drums, David Hood on bass, Barry Beckett on keyboards, and Jimmy Johnson on guitar.
I’m digging the waffle! That’s why I am hear. To listen
Straight into the rant 😊😂
best description of the Who ever!!! do you write for Rolling Stone magazine
WHEN IS THERE NO WAFFLE. WAFFLE IS YOUR BREAD N BUTTER
Love the fish tank section!
Captain Lockheed and the starfighters
yes, yes, YES! vivian stanshall! which takes us of course to "sir henry at rawlinson end", too: clearly, andy has no clue what he`s missing; otherwise they wouldn`t be missing...
Ooh yes & Lucky Leif & the Longships.
Dude you are the best ranter out there 😂
Thank you
Rant "n Roll, what a concept!
Hey Andy this is my pick today, "Roger Glover's The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast"..!! can you talk about it?.. Cheers
oooooh I love the ranting
Are Pink Floyd the Matisse of Prog?
Thumbnails are killing me. 😂
He’s on a roll isn’t he 😂
@@davidwylde8426 he’s on something. :)
Love the waffle. Hollow displays a virtuality I love it.
The Wall is one of my favorite albums of all time (I’m 70). Your screed about the album and Gilmour had me laughing my ass off.
Surly the Kinks deserved an honorable mention or something: Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire); Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround; Preservation.
*Surely
Chris Thompson of Manfred Mann is singing “Thunder Child” on _Jeff Wayne’s - War of the Worlds._
He may be the most underrated vocalist of all times.
Early on in this you mention a Sinatra album, and I'm not sure if you noticed but you called it "In the Wee Wee Hours". I've had quite a stressful week and I laughed so hard I think I've pulled something in my back. 👍
I enjoyed hearing your thoughts. How about "Gaudi" or "Freud" by Eric Woolfson? Or one of Alan Parsons' albums?