The 20 Greatest PROG & JAZZ ROCK Albums | Ranked
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Andy is a drummer, producer and educator. He has toured the world with rock legend Robert Plant and played on classic prog albums by Frost and IQ.
As a drum clinician he has played with Terry Bozzio, Kenny Aronoff, Thomas Lang, Marco Minneman and Mike Portnoy.
He also teaches drums privately and at Kidderminster College 
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Just discovered "Lila's Dance" on "Visions of the Emerald Beyond" for the first time. Oh My Goddie. Thanks Andy! You always give great recommendations.
My pleasure!
Classic piece of fusion
Vangelis' OSTs in the early 1980s with Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner and Missing were milestones. The mash up of John Williams and Wendy Carlos seems obvious today but not so in 1980. Hans Zimmer and countless modern movie composers wouldn't be the same without Vangelis. Not to mention Heaven and Hell in Cosmos - remains the best use of music in an intro, or the masterpiece of an album itself, or so many of his other works. A legend.
Thanks for introducing me to Mahavishnu. Incredible music. Cheers!
Hey Andy,
Some thoughts on this video:
1) Appreciate your putting The Inner Mounting Flame at the top of the list.
My intro to the Mahavishnu Orchestra was Birds Of Fire, which sounded weird to me when I first heard it. But I came to enjoy it once my ears adjusted. It was like nothing I'd ever heard. But Inner Mounting Flame (which I heard later) was just savage, and because of that I prefer it.
2) Having Cardiacs' Sing To God on your list probably puts you in the minority of people who even think of considering them. I didn't find out about them until sometime last year, when I saw one of their videos. I'm in full agreement with you: they're brilliant. And Tim Smith has a rightful place among such great English eccentrics as Robyn Hitchcock, Andy Partridge and Syd Barrett.
3) I don't have a great knowledge of Jan Hammer's discography. The solo album of his that really struck me in my fusion freak period was The First Seven Days. That's the one I would've picked if any. That was a conceptual showcase for his keyboard wizardry, particularly his way around a synth.
4) I'd have to reacquaint myself with Wired, but Blow By Blow is the Jeff Beck album I would keep coming back to (other than Truth. His cover of The Yardbirds' Shapes Of Things will blow your head off).
5) Picking Close To The Edge is a no-brainer to end all no-brainers. In retrospect, I don't think Yes ever topped it (fans of Tales From Topographic Oceans be damned).
6) Haven't done a deep dive on Billy Cobham. But outside of his Mahavishnu work, Spectrum is the album that hit me hard. And Tommy Bolin's guitar slinging on Quadrant 4 is incendiary, one of the greatest solos I've ever heard.
I enjoyed your choices, Andy. Here are some of mine:
Jeff Beck: Blow By Blow
Tony Williams Lifetime: Emergency!
Yes: Close To The Edge
King Crimson: Red
Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Inner Mounting Flame
Weather Report: Black Market
Miles Davis: On The Corner
James Blood Ulmer: Odyssey
Brand X: Unorthodox Behaviour
John Zorn: Naked City
Last Exit: Last Exit
Gentle Giant: Octopus
Return To Forever: Hymn To The Seventh Galaxy
Cardiacs: Sing To God
Genesis: Selling England By The Pound
Pink Floyd: Animals
Billy Cobham: Spectrum
Thank you for uploading. I was thrilled to hear the name of Vangelis and the title "Heaven and Hell." Vangelis' "Heaven and Hell" has been a very important album for me as well. I had just started to listen to progressive rock music when I first had a listen to the album for the first time and the album became a gateway for me to the world of progressive rock thank to the tune "So Long Ago, So Clear." I soon had a try on "Fragile" by Yes and numbers of progressive rock albums then followed. "Heaven and Hell" still sounds quite on the edge for me even today and it surely is one of the best progressive rock albums for me.
You have been an excellent guide to albums worth investigating. Best discovery so far is 'Oh Yeah' and now I'm definitely gonna check that Cardiacs album. Some artists I've known but maybe not given enough time and attention to (such as Return To Forever, Mahavishnu, Jeff Beck) - I've been relistening to them and discovering how good they are. Thank you for your enthusiasm and humour (I coiuldn't sit through an hour-long video without some laughs along the way).
Oh man, I love your videos so much!!! Thanks!!!
And I'm not really a fan of Vangelis :)
You have landed on so many of my pivotal albums with this list Andy: P.F.M. The Lamb, Wired, Visions of the Emerald Beyond, Inner Mounting Flame, One Size Fits All and a bunch of others. I think this is the best of your List videos yet. More is more!
I don't know how many more lists I can do now...
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer I get it. What next? ... "Andy's 10 Greatest Prog & Jazz Rock List Videos | Ranked"? 😆
Love your commentaries. I saw Gentle Giant in 1977 and was a huge fan. I love jazz also, and really felt elevated by the Paul Desmond and Chet Baker album called Together; with Ron Carter, Steve Gadd, Tony Williams, Bob James, Kenny Barron, Jim Hall, and Roland Hanna. What a line-up.
I’ve been getting more into Jazz lately like the Weather Report’s of the world, so this list is extremely useful and helpful. ❤
Awesome video as usual! The “blood and rage” of which you speak about Mahavishnu happens with Gilmour on Animals for me. One of the reasons it’s tied for my fav Floyd. He leaves behind that dreamy ethereal sound for a really raw, sharp, and angry sound. The third solo in Dogs and the end of Pigs are brutal as hell. They never did anything like it again unfortunately. Love me some PFM too they manage to blend the symphonic classical stuff without being too corny imo lol. You’re doing so much for this music with these videos. Great perspectives and I love how you incorporate philosophy into a lot of it.
Yes during the fade out of Pigs and just before the sheep start baaa-ing, David Gilmour SHREDS 🎸 its awesome.
@@jimmycampbell78 hell yea, it’s my favorite solo of his by far. There’s some even better live versions here on YT where they really stretch the song out. Can’t get enough of that brutal animals tone he had, really wish he played more stuff with that setup.
The connection Alice Coltrane - Pharoah Sanders - Bill Laswell is incredible. “With a Heartbeat” is right up there among my top favourites.
Thanks Andy I was so pleased that Vangelis snook in.
Great closing speech.You actually stirred me. But I'm NOT embracing Vangelis.
Glad you included Gong,, but I prefer Angel's Egg (absolute classic) over You (and also Gong Live Etc, Shamal, or Gazeuse)
Andy... Spot on about changing opinions and tastes about albums. I have an album collection that is now well above 11,000, having been a serious collector since 1970 or so. I have albums that for a long time I considered the most brilliant thing I ever heard, but then after years of listening to them and becoming intimate with music, I begin to see the things that will change my opinion.
I dig Cardiacs being on this list... My view of what Prog is has a place for them.
What a great list. I have 13 of the albums you mentioned here and you've definitely mentioned more than 7 other bands and/or albums that I've yet to encounter/listen to. Ta.
I like how you concede your own tastes are fluid and choices change over time.
I remember telling my local record store owner I liked the theme music/jams on the stop motion show Gumby and he gave me Romantic Warrior by Return to Forever - this precipitated a deep dive into Al Di Meola of course 😅. I think I was about 14 at the time ('88) so the album was already well old.
A fan 🖖🏼🇦🇺
Great video Andy. Which Prog musicians could cross over in to full on Fusion, such as Steve Howe, Steve Hackett, Keith Emerson, Robert Fripp, Rick Wakeman etc.? Bill Bruford, (who we know can cross over and indeed play anything he wants) said that Wakeman didn't have a blue note in his body!
I saw Visions of the Emerald Beyond in The Rochester Institute of Tech
in the ice skating rink for $2.50! But by that time Ponty had quit.
Nice one Andy. I am listening to the John Serry album. Sounds like Jeff Lorber and Spyro Gyra.
Great list. Stoked for StG special with Mr Poole.
I've been listening to Headhunters a lot lately. I love that there are only 4 songs, but they're great long jams. Herbie knows how to immerse himself into the groove and is in no hurry to get out.
Just watched this and searched out John Serry - found out he wrote and performed on Auracle's "Glider", an album I rescued from the bargain bin forty something years ago and I spin on occasion. Cool you mentioned him - his album in now on my (very long) to-buy list.
Mr. Edwards, thanks for yor list ❤
Loved the Narada reference! Great drummer and composer...
Great list! One album I was hoping would appear is ‘Third’ by Soft Machine. Groundbreaking, highly influential jazz rock from early 1970. I also think it’s cool how it influenced electronic music. The side-long epics Slightly All the Time and Out-Bloody-Rageous are jazz rock masterpieces.
I have never been keen on that album. Sounds like an inferior Burnt Weeny Sandwich to me....
Most original Top 20 ranking I've ever seen. Very cool.
4:17 The list starts here.
3 Bruford albums... 🤩
And I would include Discipline on this list - the band wasn't even going to be called King Crimson.
Thanks for the video, Andy. Another interesting list. Very interesting, By the way, I remember hearing "The Friends of Mr. Cairo" by Jon [Anderson] & Vangellis on AM radio in the early '80s, before I'd heard of Yes, I'm not sure I'd say that it opened the door to prog for me, but it does stand as a good memory of my (pre-)formative years, in music terms.
I don't know Heaven and Hell, but I really like Opera Sauvage. Your love for Sing To God makes me happy, looking forward to seeing Poole on here hopefully.
Another interesting show Andy. Heaven and Hell is a great album, both versions.
Romantic Warrior was my first RTF album then I bought all of the rest . Fortunately Ive seen them Several times and Al Dimeola to. Got to see Dweezil with RTF playing Zappa Plays Zappa. My wifes 1st RTF concert . Dweezil made her a believer .. Great List ! thx for your posts and opening peoples views..
Great list, Andy. Not really surprised that you love Wired……Jeff Beck, Jan Hammer, and Narada on the same album! Great stuff.
Wired is Beck's masterpiece
I'll say it again ...Horacee Arnold's Tale of the Exonerated Flea. Jan Hammer solos on each track and represents a high water mark for his minimoog genius. The whole album is great, influences such as Chick Corea, Headhunters, Mahavishnu can be heard, but if you were to just listen to the Jan Hammer contribution it will blow you away. You will thank me later.
The reason for lists is that it gives someone who is interested in "the genre" exposure to music that they might otherwise not know. I cut my teeth on the 70s scene; King Crimson & Rundgren will always have a special place for me. For years, I've known about Rush but ignorantly lumped them with more mainstream popular bands of the 1980s & never paid them much attention. These sorts of lists have prompted me to check out the groups with which I'm less familiar. They won't have that same impact on the serotonin & dopamine that I get from the music I heard in my teens but it broadens my horizons.
Interesting list Andy. Nice to see Cardiacs get another plug by you. A much misunderstood and under appreciated group.
Saw Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group twice in 1976. Terrific shows and Jan stole the show both times. Reviewed "Melodies" for my college paper along with one of the Beck shows. Delighted to see appreciation for "Wired."
1.Oops wrong planet (Utopia)
2. Ego (Tony Williams)
3. Crossings (Herbie Hancock Mwandishi band)
4. Fish Out Of Water (Chris Squire)
5. And Then There Were Three (Genesis)
6. Drama (Yes)
7. Songs From The Wood (Jethro Tull)
8. Danger Money (UK)
9. Polytown (Mick Karn, Terry Bozzio Dave Torn)
10. Moroccan Roll (BrandX)
11. Masques (Brand X)
12. I Sing The Body Electric (weather Report)
13. Venusian Summer (Lenny White)
14.Belonging (Keith Jarrett)
15. Cape Catastrophe (Percy Jones)
16. Some Shapes to Come (Steve Grossman)
17. Usfret (trilok Gurtu)
18. Live In NYC (Frank Zappa)
19. Make a Jazz Noise Here (Frank Zappa)
20. Marscape (Jack Lancaster, Robin Lumley, Percy Jones) Yes... Its MY list and
Special mention;
21. Believe it (Tony Williams)
22. It's Ok To Listen To The Grey Voice (Jan Garbarek Band)
23. Giraldilla (Gonzalo Rubalcaba)
24) Turn it Over Redux (T Williams Lifetime & B Laswell)
Jan Hammer's Too Much To Lose, on the albums Melodies and There And Back, is one of the best songs ever. And thanks for mentioning the self-titled UK album. Another fine album.
Ok Andy great video. I think I have seen The Cardiacs live about 9 times. With the big band and the smaller 4 piece, they were always amazing. The best non Cardiacs Cardiacs album is by a band called The North sea Radio Orchestra album I a Moon. It is band who are friends of Tim Smith and the Cardiacs. I think I read that the lyrics are based on Tim being ill at the time. It is not punk at all but is full of the "english ethos". Craig Fortnam from NSRO was in the Cardiacs.
Wonderful! With you all the way (except for Cardiacs; have to check them out). Once again, pleeease indulge in the phenomenal Eliane Elias's 30+ catalogue. Would add a slight female touch ;-) She's the Boss, so much more than Bossa ...
It must be at least 40 years since I heard 'Heaven and Hell' and TBH I can't remember anything about it at all. I'm going to give it a listen for old times sake. Also I now feel sufficiently browbeaten into checking out the Cardiacs. I'd never heard of them till you began mentioning them on here - you have worn me down!
It's not for everyone and certainely noty to the fainted hearts. They are a mix of super tight, very English prog with a sense of punk to it. Check out Songs for Ships and Irons before you go towards Sing to God. Andy really likes StG but it's much more of a harder listen compared with the Big Ship and Too many Irons era. Imagine if Madness and the Sex Pistols got together in the late 80s to play a Planet Gong album. I don't know, but it's really a world of its own. I absolutely love them.
Great albums!! 👍👊
Andy, you referred to albums that you didn't "get" when you were young, but you do "get" now. A case in point for me is "Solstice" by Ralph Towner which I bought in 1986 when I was a student. It confused and flummoxed me at the time so I stopped listening to it. Literally today I listened to it again - I absolutely love it! Four awesome musicians at the top of my game.
Their game?
OMG, Solstice is one of the greatest albums of all time! (It literally won the prize for jazz album of the year in Europe when it came out.). Oceanus, Sand, and (especially) Nimbus are some of the greatest tracks of Towner's career. If you haven't seen it, then you really must check out the RUclips video of the Solstice band rehearsing in Oslo in 1975. They are working out the parts to several tracks from that album. It's really fascinating to see Towner, Weber, Garbarek and Christensen trying to nail down those pieces. Towner is so chill, it's almost comical. Weber is also very fun to watch.
@@herculesrockefeller8969 Well spotted, Hercules! "Their" is what I meant, obvs!
@@docsketchy Thanks for the tip about the rehearsal video. It's weird that it's taken me this long to catch up with Solstice, particularly as I'm a big fan of Towner's more recent solo work. One other musician whom I'm also rapidly catching up on, after not really knowing where to start with his discography, is Terje Rypdal - what an awesome player and composer he is!
I bought that on name recognition only at flea market. 6 seconds in, I was hooked.
Fantastic point about music not being entirely subjective. The balance between objective and subjective is fascinating, almost alchemical.
Again, Andy, thank you! Your subjective (educated) perspective resonates with mine! I am now curious about The Cardiacs, which I've NEVER heard! I am SO with you on Mahavishnu, which I've been grooving on since 1974-5 and it NEVER gets old.
Approach with an open mind and prepare for it to be blown...
I love Vangelis!! Yes let’s talk more about one of the greatest self taught musicians. He doesn’t read sheet music. He jus gets inspiration from love and the cosmos. ❤
Unfortunately he died last year.
Heaven and Hell absolutely blew my mind when i first heard it in 1980/1981 being 12/13... gateway album to a lot of cool things to come...
Billy Cobham Pleasant Pheasant was a FM dj’s theme song every day at 10am. Inspiring. Shave and a haircut!
Two Mahavishnu. That's crazy but it makes sense.
A very interesting list, and yes one can argue endlessly about putting certain albums on it or not, but... where's the music of (Christian Vander's) MAGMA?
Heaven and Hell is a great album with à cool vocal sequence by Jon Anderson.
Among the great prog jazz rock albums:
Happy the Man : Happy the Man
David Sancious : Forest of Feelings (produced by Billy Cobham!)
Banco : Di Terra
The Muffins : Manna/Mirage
Area : Crac!
Arti+Mestieri : Tilt (Furio Chirico is the italian Billy Cobham)
Keep up the good work Andy!
Great list again. Thanks.
As you mentioned I’m also more into Jazz-Rock than Prog, so my additions come from that -or even more eclectic- direction.
My picks have in common that next to the main Artist the other musicians are unbelievable.
1. On Jan Hammers Melodies you’ll find the beautiful Too much to lose, and this amazing composition is also played on
JEFF BECK - THERE AND BACK.
With Jan Hammer, Tony Hymas, Simon Phillips a.o. this is the best.
2. Also known from Prog’s Focus my pick is that other Jan,
JAN AKKERMAN - JAN AKKERMAN
With Joachim Kühn, Pierre van der Linden, Bruno Castelluci playing fantastic compositions; funk, lute, …… you’ll get it all.
3. Dropped (?) from one of your other Top 10’s
JOHN SCOFIELD - STILL WARM
Oh man, Darryl Jones, Omar Hakim, Don Grolnick and great great compositions.
All three titles above share the perfect change in dynamics also due to the perfect order / sequence of the songs. Maybe that’s a nice Top 10 category (despite Spotify c.a.) to delve into.
Looking forward to your next Top XX of AB and/or C.
20 cracking albums! When I want to listen to prog or jazz fusion I don't reach for Vangelis, JM Jarre or Mike Oldfield but I still like them.
It’s most interesting to learn about why you like these records, they are all of course among the greatest albums ever made. Giving your personal perspective is breathing new life into these recordings. After you mentioned Vangelis you mentioned Prog gatekeepers, I am a Prog gatekeeper of the strictest order. The whole crux of the issue is these genre labels. What the English accomplished in Rock music is just incredible and the Prog sub genre was so unique and was nothing like what American bands were even thinking of doing. I guess I’m saying that it’s a special thing and we need new terminology to describe it. It’s more than just a musical style that Canadians and Italians can also play, it’s English in its dna. Most Americans Rock fans top twenty rock bands will have fifteen English bands. If I was King I would be building honorary megaliths everywhere. Great chat and list. Visions of the Emerald Beyond scares me too.
Hi Andy, thanks for the video, it‘s certainly worth seeing for everyone, and I would agree with perhaps 75% of your choices, but that’s probably due to different growing up influences.
That’s not the reason for this comment, but I have a related subject I’d like to bring up concerning the main niggle I have with both jazz and jazz fusion as opposed to prog (I mean actual progressive rock, not the regressive progressive rock). It seems to fit in quite well here.
When I listen to prog, I can hear by the composition, the construction, the instrumentation, the arrangements etc. from just about which era this work stems. It’s in the state of constant development for that genre; the ever-evolving flow.
In jazz and jazz fusion, I don’t get this. Apart from the obvious increase in sound and studio technology over the years, any solo recorded last year could, for my ears, equally well have been recorded thirty or so years ago. I can’t hear the progression.
This is not to put it down, but it’s a genuine difficulty I have when genuinely attempting to appreciate jazz and jazz fusion. Not that I don’t enjoy them; of course I do. But it does hamper my general admiration quite substantially.
I’d be quite interested in your take on this.
P.S.: I just noticed that I wrote jazz rock instead of jazz fusion above. I've now corrected that.
Greatest solo album of all time, Jaco Pastorius. He combines straight ahead Jazz, Jazz/Rock, Funk, R&B, ballads, 3rd world soundscapes. Utterly unique and yet unmistakably...jazz.
Hmmm. Keith Jarrett is a GOAT and the lead up (story) to the actual performance is crazy!
Thank you for putting King Crimson 72 to 74 on the list,
over In the Court of the Crimson King.
And you're right: after Schizoid Man the rest of it is an anti-climax.
72 to 74 was the best band that ever was or will be.
Your great point about prog being working man's music reaching for something more seems very appropriate to Vangelis' "Heaven and Hell". Even his classical elements would be/have been never really taken seriously by serious classical audiences although there is the sense that Vangelis' uses those to make the musical concept grand in a way that classical music can. Even the use of synths is a way to bring newer and accessible instruments to a level of respectability of more traditional classical ones. Vangelis' own themes emerge (like Chariots of Fire) more convincingly and the surreal vocal elements are fitting in the overall piece but Vangelis' achievement in H&H is unifying all the ideas into a single concept. The listener decides if this is one of those albums that adds up to more than the sum of its parts. He may not not be successful in a Stravinsky kind of way, but for the working class man wanting more, this is an intriguing and stimulating listen.
I had the same feeling when I saw the Mahavishnu Orchestra as you did . I am a big fan of Yes but I’d found the music I was searching for at that MO concert .
As for Rush for me Permanent Waves is their finest hour of their progressive period.
I'm pretty broad in my tastes but progressive rock is my heart. Yet I've never heard John Sperry. I will seek out that album.
Miles Davis Jack Johnson soundtrack better be on the list!
I loved the Vangelis soundtrack for the movie Bounty, great movie too.
Vangelis...never have listened to. I'm just getting into prog
I’d rather listen to Black Sabbath than to Vangelis any time. Genesis are at their best in A Trick of The Tail. And yes, Visions of the Emerald is one of the most astounding pieces of music ever recorded. Thank you for another great video!
0.39 , I rest my case ma Lord !
"Heaven And Hell" is one of Vangelis' bests !
Heaven and Hell is such an amazing album. I actually really liked the albums Vangelis did with Jon Anderson (who appears here, of course) although they were a bit inconsistent.
I'm going to go and listen to some Zappa now - I really need to get my head around what he's doing...wish me luck...
Hey Andy, did you ever notice(I just did the other day) that part in the middle of YYZ, where they go into full Genesis mode, even the slow guitar part, more specifically like The Lamb Genesis. I think it’s right after the guitar solo, and then the keyboards are full Tony Banks, and the slow guitar part is full Steve Hackett. They must have known what they were doing. Just wondering if you ever noticed this part too? I just did last week.
Interesting!
I don't listen to a ton of jazz fusion but I do love romantic Warrior!!
Awesome! But surprised there was no mention of Allan Holdsworth, Sonny Sharrock, Tony Williams, James Blood Ulmer, Keith Tippett … I could go on. Awesome list nonetheless.
Demis Roussos 666 - prog went many places :)
It wouldn't be a stretch to consider a few of the E.L.P. albums for this list.
Vangelis is truly a pioneer in progressive rock. I miss him om the list.
shoud Bo Hanson's Magicians Hat be on any best of list? I love this record, but never hear it talked about. Share your opinion please!
My favourite book is probably Halliwell's Film Guide so, yeah, I love a list.
(The Record Collector Rare Record Price Guide is excellent too)
Yes...my favourite book too...he didn't like modern films did he....?
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer No he didn't. I enjoyed the bit in one of your videos where you talked about the soundtracks of 70s cop shows and movies, and how they introduced you to fusion music. Same for myself with cartoons and jazz (like Top Cat).
Ok, slightly weird, I've just ordered the Japanese import cd of Vangelis' Heaven and Hell from cdjapan (alongside Close To The Edge).
Small world.
It'd be great to get a deep dive interview with Jon Poole on this channel, and more Cardiacs related "content" in general, why not. Did the dog really start barking at the mention of Sing To God? Appropriate!
Headhunters by Herbie Hancock is freaking brilliant! But so is Thrust. Edit: YES to Romantic Warrior! I just found a used copy that is in great shape! I love the recording! (Even that compressed 70s drum sound) It's truly a fun album.
I am glad you finally mentioned Tony Williams Lifetime, he should have been on your list, but it is all selective. On the whole I can agree you certainly picked an eclectic and worthy list. Vangelis !
Check out my up and coming video on Lifetime. I hope it fills the gap
Great video,
I think Wired definitely deserves to be high on the list, but question
Your pick of one size fits all as the best from Zappa.
Inca Roads is probably why
@@tonywebster5768 I agree. Inca Roads is amazing! Really out of this world.
And to be fair, Andy didn’t say it is the best, only a favorite of his. And that many albums could represent Zappa on his new list.
I can not pick my favorite and could never be as presumably to declare the best. Thanks for your input…. Led me a fresh listen to Inca Roads.
Absolutely amazing, thanks for that Tony.
One Size is the most to the point, tightest Zappa record. Best is subjective, but One Size is at least a top 3 or 4 Zappa record and fine pick to mention
@@colinburroughs9871 I completely agree with you.
Great list for march 2023.
I asked chatgpt how many greatest videos you can make with 50 bands and 500 albums.
Infinitely, if you can take your daily mood as a criterion.
Even when Andy does a top Biscuits list I’ll tune in. 😂
I have :)
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer I absolutely know. My wife and I had a good laugh given your enthusiasm for the ultimate biscuit. :)
I made it to the end three times, but I fell asleep the first two times.
Interesting point about objective and subjective.
So far one out of 6, Imma not getting these records...yet. Donald Byrd turned to Herbie, who was 22 that year. "Miles wants you, you go!" - "but you and the band, man, I owe you..." - "ya gotta grow up, kid.". True story
That would be my No.1 album as well. Andy, have you considered doing videos on song lists. The most complex prog songs, the most spiritual, the wackiest, the longest, the most influential, and the most wanky, etc.
Probably not the correct video for this comment but why have you never mentioned the band Renaissance? i feel they check almost all the boxes for prog.
I was hoping you’d come around on The Epidemics
never!!!
Journey to Love by Stanley Clarke
Inspired by your passion for Cardiacs, whom I've never heard, I thought I'd pop along to Spotify to check them out. Well, you can imagine my disappointment on finding there's not a single Cardiacs track on there. If you know a Cardiac personally, Andy, perhaps you could have a word and twist their arm into uploading an album or two. Great list, BTW; enjoy your podcasts very much.
Stream it all for free on a much better platform: alphabet-business-concern.bandcamp.com/
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Thanks Andy. Will do.
Nucleus? Soft Machine Bundles or Softs?
And a personal favorite, Pekka Pohjola, superb albums in the 70's from finish bass player (Harakka Bialoipokku or B the Magpie and Keesojen Lehto or The Mathematician's Air Display, both GREAT albums).
Ian Carr & Nucleus are the greatest kept secret in jazz fusion or music itself
Pekka's Visitation is pretty strong too
My favorite Gentle Giant album is always the last one that I listened to.
Keen list - line Crossroads in the 5 slot - John Abercrombie deserves his own episode
I made it to the end aaargghh!
Andy I know top 10 lists are very intellectual and mysterious, but would you mind covering something a bit more mainstream, say, Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine?
Please check out Shintokumaru by J.A.Caesar! You can listen to the full album on RUclips. It's 58 minutes. You can also watch the full opera on youtube if you want, it's about 2 hours. It's the progest prog ever made!
LISTS! LISTS!! MORE LISTS!!! ;)