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".
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!!!
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
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.
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.......
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!
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.
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).
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.
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?
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!
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.
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!
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.
great albums that tell a story from beginning to end : S.F. Sorrow - Pretty things Comus - first utterance Eloy - Ocean Mark of the Mole - Residents Rockpommersland - Grobschnitt
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.
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!
8 minutes so far...comes to my mind a old Monty Python sketch with that ranting old lady. Lovely! As many said we are here for the rants and the waffels...all music is about taste and perspektiv. Thank you!
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.
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.
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 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.
'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.
Hi Andy, love what you do. Thanks for every minute of ranting and waffling., thus always with lots of experience. You‘re a musical encyclopedia on legs. Regarding the subject of great concept albums, you might want to check out the Spliff Radio Show, produced in 1980 by the amazing German (unbelievable, isn‘t it?) band Spliff. It portrays a witty and sarcastic picture of the music industry in these days. Also the songs are connected very nicely with little funny interludes/jingles. Cheers Stephan
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.
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!!
Your best video, hands down. I laughed out loud more than once. The Pink Floyd rant was spot on. Fans and all. Poor Roger. I wonder (as I'm not finished) if Pro's and Cons gets a mention. I understand the story bugger all... But love the record. Concept... Maybe as much as The Elder is a film.
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 don't like Prog Rock BUT I like the films Tommy and Quadrophenia, they are great. I like 60s Zappa with the addition of Hot Rats. I think The Wall is excellent, and The War of the Worlds is wonderful, I was 12 in 1978 and was blown away by it, I bought the 45 by Justin Hayward, a beautiful song, I remember my peers being bemused by my buying it when shortly before I had bought Five Minutes by the Stranglers. My favourite music is generally 60s Folk Rock, Acid Rock, SF late 60s, 1980s Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit Pop.
I always saw The Wall as more of a soundtrack to the stage show rather than a stage show based on an album. Perhaps that’s because I saw the show live in Los Angeles in 1980 about the same time I had purchased the album. The show was an amazing spectacle that the album couldn’t really capture. Kind of like buying an original cast album to a Broadway play. The animated pieces you see in the film were in the live show, but at the live show they were projected in triptych with different things going on in each projection. I also saw Genesis perform The Lqmb live, and it was more a stage interpretation of the album. Personally I would have put Steven Wilson’s Hand Cannot Erase as #1.
Bravo! An amazing effort to totally alienate, repudiate and seduce your audience. Often brilliant information wrapped in a body guard of obnoxious rants delivered with highest order narrative putrescence.
@@AndyEdwardsDrummerto achieve an above parody position in the ever increasing universe of RUclips music commentary “thought leaders”. Your narrative style is also a perfect example of the so called (and controversial) “Purple Cow” marketing methodology. In my experience “Ignorance is bliss, until it isn’t”.
Surfed the rant wave quite well, thank you! I was surprised to see Wakeman and FZ in this list. A few other themed albums: 1. Jack Lancaster & Robin Lumley's (plus a cast including Chris Spedding, Stefane Graphelli, Manfred Mann,...) prog reworking of "Peter and the Wolf". 2. Stomu Yamashta's "Go" with Steve Winwood, Klaus Schulze, Al di Meola, et al. 3. Jon Anderson's "Olias of Sunhillow". Not the greatest of all time, but worth a listen.
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! 🎉
Love the rant sir. Great stuff. Haven’t read the comments, but at some point I’m sure some DT fanboy likely mentioned that ‘Metropolis part 2’ is effectively a plot from a movie; the film ‘Dead again’ - with Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh .. decent movie really, not my favorite DT album though. Keep up the good work sir 👍
I'm a bit late to the table, but my Dad used to play WotW when I was a kid. I was equally petrified and fascinated by it. I was recently amazed to see my 13 year old son had extracted it from the record shelf and is bang into it.
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 😂😂)
As Andy is well aware, like a great album, one must begin at the beginning; and enter into the tunnels, and commit to the fact that to truly appreciate what's really going on is to ferret away until you emerge from the out-hole; and into the sunshine. Thanks again Andy, I don't know what I'd do without your insight. ps. pIke and Tin'a Tuna
Top 5 concept albums 1) Quadrophenia / The Who 2) Tommy / The Who 3) Lonesome Dreams / Lords of Huron 4) Thick as a Brick / Jethro Tull 5) The Wall / Pink Floyd
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.
Absolutely spot on in terms of Genesis and Steve Hackett, Andy. I have always believed that Steve Hackett leaving Genesis had a greater effect on the band than when Peter Gabriel left. Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering are both up there amongst the band's creative peaks. Steve simply doesn't get the credit he deserves.
Maybe. Paranoid, I think, also might qualify. It's sometimes considered an anti-war album, with War Pigs and Iron Man being the most obvious songs, but I've heard it put forth that the drug themed songs on side two are partly inspired by war veterans and their tendency to turn to drugs to cope with their trauma.
I must be at least partially okay, I have Tommy (3 versions), and saw a ballet performance of it in Ottawa in 1972, Quadrophenia, The Wall and War of the Worlds
I CAME FOR THE RANT, I STAYED FOR THE WAFFLE.
great list sir!
I WANT Waffles....and I REQUIRE Rants!!!! Please carry on!!
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?"
Great rant on Dream Thatre! Kudos!
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
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.......
All Waffle No Content is hilarious Andy -- needs to be on a T-shirt!
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.
Am only 7 minutes in and it's already framing to be a classic Andy video! 😂😂😂
you lasted 7 minutes?
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!
Six minutes in and I'm sitting here chuckling away. Thanks Andy!
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....
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.
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!
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!
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.
Great video. Top tier cranky ! Loved it. The AndyQuarium had me in stitches.
The fish with the ranting at chipmunk speed was priceless.
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!
War of the Worlds- 1978, my parents had this. Mesmerizing. I was glad to see this at the top of the list.
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
Your rants are really great! Work was really hard this week and I needed a good laugh
Side 3 of The Wall is the highlight of the album. Fantastic stuff. Bang on with the Hackett/post Hackett Genesis analysis.
best description of the Who ever!!! do you write for Rolling Stone magazine
The mother of all rants, I love it!
Loved this!
Question at the end made me wonder if you think Nektar's Remember the Future would qualify.
This is great! I didn't know I wanted to listen to a massive rant, but it turns out I am.
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.
great albums that tell a story from beginning to end :
S.F. Sorrow - Pretty things
Comus - first utterance
Eloy - Ocean
Mark of the Mole - Residents
Rockpommersland - Grobschnitt
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.
CAMEL-Snow Goose💯💜🔥🦢(Also i salute you with the old song Blah Blah Blah)! Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷🥁
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!
Thanks Andy. It seems I'm not a Prog fan according to your hilarious categorising.
8 minutes so far...comes to my mind a old Monty Python sketch with that ranting old lady.
Lovely! As many said we are here for the rants and the waffels...all music is about taste and perspektiv.
Thank you!
love the rant!
From what I've gathered,The Residents have made nothing but concept albums. Prolific!
Fantastic! Laughed my socks off at this. 😂
Hey Andy - talking of RIck Wakeman, his album "1984" is a fascinating one, imo. I love it.
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!
Another brilliant vid! I just discovered you a couple of weeks ago. Rant away, Andy, rant away! I'll watch every time,
I came for the list but I stayed for the comedy. Funniest video I've seen in a while. Thank you.
An entertaining 2 cups of tea podcast/rant. Thanks Andy I’ll give some of these, that I haven’t heard before, a listen.
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.
40 people watched live, yer knocking it outta the park man,,,,,,
Ha ha 😂 I subscribed on the strength of your rants as much as the music, they’re brilliant!!
You are just so godamn entertaining to listen to
Give 'em hell Andy!!
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 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.
Best video I've watched on RUclips in ages!
Glad you enjoyed it
'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.
Hi Andy, love what you do. Thanks for every minute of ranting and waffling., thus always with lots of experience. You‘re a musical encyclopedia on legs. Regarding the subject of great concept albums, you might want to check out the Spliff Radio Show, produced in 1980 by the amazing German (unbelievable, isn‘t it?) band Spliff. It portrays a witty and sarcastic picture of the music industry in these days. Also the songs are connected very nicely with little funny interludes/jingles. Cheers Stephan
I like your style, carry on.
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.
Absolutely I’m here for the waffle and the rant !!!👍
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!!
I’m digging the waffle! That’s why I am hear. To listen
Makes a change to hear domeone else having a rant, loved this, please rant more!!
Olias of Sunhillow - Jon Anderson. Wonderful album.
Right on!!! I think that this is my favorite one of your vids! Rant on, mate!! Rant on!!
I appreciate that!
Oh yes, hilarious video!
6:20 list starts. Jeez. I consider myself a huge Zappa fan. Thing Fish not so much. Love All of Joe's Garage, Act I, II and III.
Your best video, hands down. I laughed out loud more than once. The Pink Floyd rant was spot on. Fans and all. Poor Roger. I wonder (as I'm not finished) if Pro's and Cons gets a mention. I understand the story bugger all... But love the record. Concept... Maybe as much as The Elder is a film.
Man. The rant was sooo entertaining. It made me tempt4r to troll you in hopes of seeing another one.
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.
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.
Between 1969 and 1976 The Kinks released 5 concept albums.
The first one, "Arthur", was their best.
I love waffles, and enjoy your videos. Maybe I should start eating waffles while watching them.
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 don't like Prog Rock BUT I like the films Tommy and Quadrophenia, they are great. I like 60s Zappa with the addition of Hot Rats. I think The Wall is excellent, and The War of the Worlds is wonderful, I was 12 in 1978 and was blown away by it, I bought the 45 by Justin Hayward, a beautiful song, I remember my peers being bemused by my buying it when shortly before I had bought Five Minutes by the Stranglers. My favourite music is generally 60s Folk Rock, Acid Rock, SF late 60s, 1980s Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit Pop.
Waffle away Andy - that's one of the reasons I subscribed . Also , you're a naturally funny guy .
Excellent rant
I like your talking/ranting!
I always saw The Wall as more of a soundtrack to the stage show rather than a stage show based on an album. Perhaps that’s because I saw the show live in Los Angeles in 1980 about the same time I had purchased the album. The show was an amazing spectacle that the album couldn’t really capture. Kind of like buying an original cast album to a Broadway play. The animated pieces you see in the film were in the live show, but at the live show they were projected in triptych with different things going on in each projection.
I also saw Genesis perform The Lqmb live, and it was more a stage interpretation of the album.
Personally I would have put Steven Wilson’s Hand Cannot Erase as #1.
Some Neal Morse stuffs come to my mind:
Spock's Beard - Snow
NM - Sola Scriptura
NMBand - The Similitude of a Dream
Love your shows andy
Great video Andy. You had me at "waffle"😄
Glad you enjoyed 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.
Bravo! An amazing effort to totally alienate, repudiate and seduce your audience. Often brilliant information wrapped in a body guard of obnoxious rants delivered with highest order narrative putrescence.
But why would I do this?
@@AndyEdwardsDrummerto achieve an above parody position in the ever increasing universe of RUclips music commentary “thought leaders”.
Your narrative style is also a perfect example of the so called (and controversial) “Purple Cow” marketing methodology. In my experience “Ignorance is bliss, until it isn’t”.
Surfed the rant wave quite well, thank you! I was surprised to see Wakeman and FZ in this list. A few other themed albums: 1. Jack Lancaster & Robin Lumley's (plus a cast including Chris Spedding, Stefane Graphelli, Manfred Mann,...) prog reworking of "Peter and the Wolf". 2. Stomu Yamashta's "Go" with Steve Winwood, Klaus Schulze, Al di Meola, et al. 3. Jon Anderson's "Olias of Sunhillow". Not the greatest of all time, but worth a listen.
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! 🎉
Love the rant sir. Great stuff. Haven’t read the comments, but at some point I’m sure some DT fanboy likely mentioned that ‘Metropolis part 2’ is effectively a plot from a movie; the film ‘Dead again’ - with Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh .. decent movie really, not my favorite DT album though.
Keep up the good work sir 👍
Nurse! He's out of bed again!
I'm a bit late to the table, but my Dad used to play WotW when I was a kid. I was equally petrified and fascinated by it.
I was recently amazed to see my 13 year old son had extracted it from the record shelf and is bang into it.
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 😂😂)
As Andy is well aware, like a great album, one must begin at the beginning; and enter into the tunnels, and commit to the fact that to truly appreciate what's really going on is to ferret away until you emerge from the out-hole; and into the sunshine.
Thanks again Andy, I don't know what I'd do without your insight.
ps. pIke and Tin'a Tuna
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......
Top 5 concept albums
1) Quadrophenia / The Who
2) Tommy / The Who
3) Lonesome Dreams / Lords of Huron
4) Thick as a Brick / Jethro Tull
5) The Wall / Pink Floyd
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.
I hope we have plenty of waffle - looking forward to this. Remember we need waffle like on the Zep best 30
Absolutely spot on in terms of Genesis and Steve Hackett, Andy. I have always believed that Steve Hackett leaving Genesis had a greater effect on the band than when Peter Gabriel left. Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering are both up there amongst the band's creative peaks. Steve simply doesn't get the credit he deserves.
My favourite album SF Sorrow by The Pretty Things
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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.
Maybe. Paranoid, I think, also might qualify. It's sometimes considered an anti-war album, with War Pigs and Iron Man being the most obvious songs, but I've heard it put forth that the drug themed songs on side two are partly inspired by war veterans and their tendency to turn to drugs to cope with their trauma.
It might not make a top ten, but Home's The Alchemist definitely has a place in my heart.
I must be at least partially okay, I have Tommy (3 versions), and saw a ballet performance of it in Ottawa in 1972, Quadrophenia, The Wall and War of the Worlds
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Ha ha, omg. Love this guy. Subscribed 😂
I enjoyed hearing your thoughts. How about "Gaudi" or "Freud" by Eric Woolfson? Or one of Alan Parsons' albums?
So glad you included Joe's Garage!
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars should be on every list of thematic story telling albums.
Hmmm...It definitely has a theme. But what exactly is Five Years about?