Desert Island Discs | My 10 Favourite ROCK. PROG & FUSION albums
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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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Fortunately for me, Jean Luc Ponty was in Frank's band when I became a member, as was George Duke, Ian and Ruth Underwood, etc. You mention Jean Luc with Mahavishnu, also one of my favorite bands. I got introduced to them while on a bus tour with the Don Ellis Orchestra. We went wild when we heard Vital Information from their first album. Later, Zappa and the Mothers did 10 concerts with the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and they went on first. Holy Crap, Batman! I stood backstage and listened to every set they played. Billy was absolutely masterful and in total control of rhythm that I was aware of but not at such a high level of power and speed. He was a total inspiration to me. I was in love with Jan Hammer and Mahavishnu as well an to the music. What incredible high music. Thanks for putting Beyond as your first choice. I agree, also with the other albums. Have you done your favorite jazz albums yet, those from the 50's and 60's? Looking forward to that.
You know you've got people's attention when an actual Zappa drummer comments on your channel. Great stuff Andy
Pierre Moerlen’s Gong was amazing. All of the Gong albums under his leadership were stunning, even the smoothie ones that are from the 80s.
Oh dear, Andy, re: Regatta De Blanc, Stewart’s count-in and intro on the title track makes my heart flutter every freaking time I hear it. This is a surprise desert island disc from you, but in my estimation, it should be on so many lists.
I saw Jeff Beck in concert about 4 years ago. He is a true guitar god, if there ever was one.
Yes, agree. I got to see him open for Santana in the 90's. He was way better, I left wishing the show had been the other way around.
Beck's Bolero CLASSIC!
Fragile was my introduction to Yes in 71/72. I felt had crossed a new musical frontier! As for the rest some excellent stuff in there Andy.
Love the loyalty. Gateway albums earn the respect you'd show the mate who introduced you to your sweetie. I like Grand Funk Railroad - I chased chased producer Todd Rundgren all the way to Steve Hillage. So there's that.
I saw The Police in concert in 2008 as part of their final tour. The musicianship was amazing and Sting was so cool.
I bought the live album by Mahavishnu Orchestra 'Between Nothingness' from a record fair for about $7 a few years back.
There was scribble on the cover right in the centre of the yellow bit, I got home and googled what Billy Cobhams signature looked like, I discovered that my album is signed by Billy Cobham 😀
Awesome. I first heard him at length on Mahavishu(84). Fantastic album & Billy's thunderous wonderful drumming.
I identify so much with your experiences... but exactly 10 years earlier... I started playing in the Summer of 1970. I began playing the folk music we had at home and fingerstyle. Then my brother came home from the army that fall and had every great album released at that time... Overnight I became Hendrix "Experienced" at 12 yrs. old. Paul Kossoff became my "Rock God" My Fusion experience came to be... via our Album Rock radio station, when I heard someone playing Blues/Jazz guitar like Robben Ford... but in the early 70's. My quest was on to find this player... First was Larry Coryell... then I bought every early Fusion album I could find! This took me on a path far from the Blues... I love your "Birds of Fire" Story.
I recently found your channel and have been binging on your videos for days. You are right up there with Rick Beato. Great insight to some of my favorite albums.
I got the chance to co-produce a few tracks with the saxophonist, flutist on Visions of the Emerald Beyond: Premik Russell Tubbs.
I've worked as a NY pro musician with some incredibly talented people, but Premik was the most amazing musician I've ever recorded and played on stage with. The man NEVER ran out of ideas. The most terrifying time I had in the studio was double-tracking on guitar 16 bars of a part Premik originally came up with on the spot, like he was simply rolling out of bed. I sweated a quart trying to play in unison what he played with precision. Premik is also one of the nicest guys I've ever met; absolutely no ego, which is impressive considering he's played with EVERYONE, including Santana, and Jeff Beck. Anyway, keep up the great work, Andy.
That man is a legend...as is anyone who played on Visions...and Let Rick know what you said!!!
@@AndyEdwardsDrummerrick who?:)
I’m a fairly casual Police fan, but I really appreciate any band where absolutely no member is replaceable. The Police would never make a top ten list for me, but I agree that they are one of the greatest bands ever, because they are a shining example of a “perfect union”.
Regatta de Blanc is a good choice. The thing I like about it is that there's plenty of space. Each musician plays just what's needed, no less and no more.
Yes! Saw my first serious concert about 40 years ago in Calgary featuring Beck, Hammer, and Harvey Mandel. Very small venue, but it got me into jazz-rock fusion. I particularly remember Hammer's loose and groovy style on the piano, and the very frenetic violinist (Steve Kindler?) Great choice!
Blasphemy I got In a silent way in 1980 and it’s still a favorite.
For what it’s worth…
10. Road Games. A. Holdsworth
9. Word of Mouth. J. Pastorius
8. Blow by blow. J. Beck
7. First Circle. P. Metheny
6. Touchstone. C. Corea
5. 801 live
4. The Blues and the Absrtact Truth. Oliver Nelson
3. Larks Tongues in Aspic
2. One of a Kind. B. Bruford
1. Yessongs
I’m 81 years old and still working on “Bitches Brew”. LOL
It took me about 20 tries to get “Pharaoh’s Dance” off of “Bitches Brew”. It took me 4 or 5 to fall in love with Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”. Great music doesn’t always reveal its deepest secrets the first time.
An interesting way pf approaching the subject, i like the way you give personal history to show why all the albums were important to you, which got me thinking, what woukd I choose? What albuns (and book) infkuenced me the most? So, here goes, most are going to be from my formative years in my teens, the 70's:
1 - Kraftwerk - Autobahn
2 - Pink Floyd - Meddle
3 - Deep Purple - In Rock
4 - Yes - Close to the Edge
5 - Horslips - Aliens
6 - J. J. Cale - Shades
7 - Camel - Moonmadness
8 - Lone Star - Firing on All Six
9 - Ian Gillan Band - Clear Air Turbulence
10 - Faithless - To All New Arrivals
The last one is my choice from the 00's and just has to be on there, it had such a massive impact on me and i feel is the most emotional album of that decade and definitely of the new century.
As for a book, there is only one choice for me, the greatest novel ever written that opened my mind - Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockningbird
Please don't call Jimi Hendrix a British guitar player. He was just on loan for awhile. :)
He didn't have the English aesthetic.😂😂😂
😅 True though.
Super interesting….as always 🙏
Coltrane's "Alabama" is beautiful beyond words...
☝️😎
Well, I have 4 of those, vynil from when they came out. Wired is a complete monster of an album. So much joy and passion from all the players.
Gong Gazeuse !! Finally someone mention an album I was obsessed with. I saw Pierre M Gong live in that era ! And all the others are also among my epic collection, starting with Regatta
I have to agree with you on the John Coltrane's "Live at Birdland". I lived in the USA south during the year this album was released I can hear the anguish and emotion expressed by John Coltrane on the tune "Alabama". It is truly a remarkable recording capturing the turmoil of the time. Definitely on my list as well.
Here are my top ten desert albums in no particular order, off the top of my head;
1). “Relayer” - Yes,
2). “Kind Of Blue” - Miles Davis,
3). “Secret Treaties” - Blue Oyster Cult,
4). “Montrose” - Montrose,
5). “Out Of The Tunnel” - MX-80 Sound,
6). “Quark, Strangeness and Charm” - Hawkwind,
7). “Odyssey” - Terje Rypdal,
8). “Real Life” - Magazine,
9). “Wild Planet” - B-52s,
10). “In City Dreams” - Robin Trower.
That's an interesting range in styles and genres there, Michael.
Thank you Andy for another fun and insightful episode. I need to think about my Desert Island Discs but I would put Van der Graaf Generator’s Pawn Hearts album (in my top 10, no particular order) because of the great lyrics and musicianship from Mr. Hammill and his band mates. Cheers, Sal.
I struggle a bit with that album...i can appreciate its greatness though...
Always fighting for VdGG. You are right!
Some great albums in there. I feel the same about Fragile (it’s weird and wonderful). It’s hard for me to pick a Miles fusion album because so many of them are great but On the Corner is it for me. I know that some people hate it’s repetition but I love that aspect of it-truly mesmerizing.
I never knew that "Desert Island Lists" comes from a radio program. Fantastic! BTW sorry to hear the news about your Queen.
Gurdjieff created disciplines to remove the ego.
J.G. Bennet was a following colleague and can be heard proselytizing
on Fripp's first solo album - "Exposure."
Check it out kids.
Peace on earth.
Have you checked out my King Crimson and Gurdjieff video?
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer No. But I will check it out. Thanks.
One of these would also be on my list: Bitches Brew by Miles Davis. A really great album, I never get tired of it.
Would drive me crazy to have to pick just ten! Have decided not to go to the island.😀
With the radio format you get washed ashore with the ten albums and a record player...www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5qhJd1byxhTBYbSCFmw580y/desert-island-discs-podcasts
Astute insights .
Thanks for sharing .
Jeff Beck's Live At Ronnie Scott's (2007) , with Vinnie Colaiuta (drums) , is so representative of his inventory .
Wired/Blow By Blow still resonates .
Saw McLaughlin/Cobham in '76 ((Monterey, California) .
Staggered.
Cool list.
Being picky, guests are allowed 8 tracks, not 10.
However… I fully approve of ‘Wired’. So raw and energetic. The rest are pretty good too.
But I haven't taken the Bible or an object of pleasure
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer luxury item, not ‘pleasure’ 😜
Crack The Sky ... if you're not a fan you're about to be. Prog-Rock with emphasis on the Rock. Great lyrics. Ace musicians.
Start with their 1st album. Also called 'Crack The Sky'.
Listening now...this is great stuff...almost ahead of their time...
I seen crack at the bottom line nyc.fine band.
She's a Dancer is still one of my favourite tunes.
Weirdly as a teen i dismissed Yes as noodly prog (i was more into pop rock and metal punk) but got into them when i heard 90125 and enjoyed the riffs melodies and inventiveness so I checked their back catalogue and now like early Yes more than that era
I am liking the thumbnail's album...
Me 2
@@LR-oo8hq FRAGILE is one of those albums I bought because of the cover. IIRC, it was a Saturday morning at the NEX...mom let me pick out an album. Yes? Never heard of them...CAH album cover, though. At the time, I was on a diet of Hard Rock. "Roundabout" rocked my world. Unbelievable.
I used to agree that nothing sounds like Bitches Brew until I heard the three early 70 albums by the Herbie Hancock Sextant - Mwandishi, Crossings, and Sextant. Very similar in terms of vibe and texture. Really worth checking out.
My ten, no particular order... Beatles -- Sgt. Pepper; Coltrane -- My Favorite Things; Simon & Garfunkel -- Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme; Stravinsky: Le Sacre Boulez/Cleveland (1969); Elgar: Cello Concerto, Jacqueline du Pre, cello; Above & Beyond -- Acoustic; Allman Brothers -- At Fillmore East; CSNY -- Deja vu; Rolling Stones -- Some Girls; Pink Floyd -- Relics. 1929 Scottish Prayer Book
great choices. my proudest moment as a 14-year old drummer in my first band was figuring out how to play Black Dog . . . a few years later we had a go at covering Long Distance Around and I could sort of do the Bill Bruford part. Cobham was a major inspiration but I can't say I ever managed to pull off what he did. As for your No 1, I'd personally go with Inner Mounting Flame. I'd definitely have Coltrane on the list but I'm not sure which album, possibly Giant Steps. Darkness on the Edge of Town would be on my list for personal reasons, and at least one Beatles album . . .
Great choices, like your approach. I absolutely love the three McLaughlin Shakti albums from the mid '70s; over forty years later they still blow me away, utter ecstatic power and grace.
Jiddu Krishnamurti's "Notebook" would be my book pick ..........
Check out my Shakti video with Jack Jennings
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Many thanks just watched it, excellent.
Nice list , have 6 out of those.
My favorites to take along ( though changes often ) :
1. Aja - Steely Dan
2. Tales from topografic oceans - Yes
3. Cowboy in Sweden - Lee Hazelwood
4. Passarim - Antonio Carlos Jobim
5. Wind & wuthering - Genesis
6. On a hot afternoon - Paul Desmond
7. Hejira - Joni Mitchell
8. Pompeii - Pink Floyd
9. Look around - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
10. Even in the quietest moments - Supertramp
We used to tap out Billy's drum part in the first track of Crosswinds. We'd tap it out until we got it down (3 fours then a five). Almost as fascinating an odd meter as Pat Metheny's First Circle. Many thanks for your appreciation of Crosswinds because I don't think that it gets the due that it deserves.
The first time I saw Jeff Beck was at the Paramount in Seattle for his US 'Wired' tour in '76, with Jan Hammer as the warm-up, performing 'First Seven Days.
'Just thought I'd rub that in.😄( jealousy for your access to many of my own personal faves). Nice selection, btw
Great video Andy 19:16 Love your story about Bitches Brew -- the first time I heard Bitches Brew (as a teenager) I had a similar reaction -- it baffled me -- twenty five years or so later and one day as I walked into a used record shop they were playing this album -- I had to ask the clerk "What are we listening too?" They told me and I was shook -- I've owned a CD copy for decades but only listened to it the one time as a kid -- I hung around until it was over (astonished), then went home and pulled it up -- it's been a favorite for a long time now
By the way, regarding Led Zeppelin (and LZ IV in particular) -- around 1980 (I was eleven) -- I was a comic book fan and the only bands I really knew about were KISS and a little bit of the Beatles -- friends of mine always had radios on so I heard music all the time but I never paid attention to who the artists were -- I saw a news program on television about how Led Zeppelin had put backwards satanic messages in their songs -- I became captivated -- were these Zeppelin guys really diabolical and clever enough to do such a thing? The "Here's to my sweet satan" clip that they played several times in the show grabbed me and I remember feeling that I HAD TO GET STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN somehow -- I ended up recording it onto cassette off the radio first, but I didn't have a way to run it in reverse to hear the satanic message -- eventually I scraped up a few dollars and bought the vinyl of Zep IV and the first time I listened to it I had an important revelation -- as each track played I realized that I had heard EVERY damn song from that album on the radio before (except maybe Battle of Evermore) and I was sitting there thinking -- FUCK!! Led Zeppelin is obviously the GREATEST ROCK BAND OF ALL TIME! How else are every one of their songs on the radio?!? I always thought the title of Black Dog was "Hey Hey Mama!" lol -- and I never heard my favorites KISS on the radio LOL! -- I was actually disappointed in a way, I wanted to hear something new (to my ears anyway)-- I remember my friends saying "LED ZEP is dead dude fuck that let's listen to Black Flag or the Clash" but I was consumed by LZ IV and later Physical Graffiti -- Bonham had just died -- Led Zeppelin was my #1 favorite for many many years -- thanks for the remembrances Andy!
Yep..Gazeuse! is wonderful
Absolutely! Yes/Fragile is in my top 10 favorite albums. Led Zeppelin/4, AC/DC/HIghway To Hell & The Police/Reggatta de Blanc rank very high as well for me.
If I ever have to live on a desert island and I can only listen to the Mahavishnu Orchestra it better be a really completely deserted place because listening to Jean-Luc Ponty's electric violin makes me homicidal.
Never seen you before but you won me over when you mentioned Holdswoth. I loved the Espresso stuff but in particular it was the "Bruford" albums with Bruford, Holdwoworth adn Jeff Berlin that blew me away. I've followed Bill from Yes to KC to Bruford, UK, to his jazz stuff. As for Allan, he's a genius and such a nice man. RIP. My little brother was an astonishing fusion player. I played "Feels Good to Me" for hi when he was in high school. That was it. Holdsworth was his idol. Not that uncommon except Brin (my brother) and his band opened for him here in Kansas City once. Allan loved him. He requested that they opened for him the next several visits. One night he came out with a bottle of ale and I saw him give my little brother "the nod" during a solo. Wish I have filmed it. Brian was not Holdswoth, no one is, but he was damn good. Unfortunately he died of cancer a bit later. Allan was contacted and sent gift packages, phone calls, and gave me his cell to be notified upon Brian's passing, which I did. Both gone now and music is the lesser for it. Thanks for the video.
Beautiful story which gives another tiny glimpse into Allan's character. There is a great interview on here with John Vullo about Allan, and a few other videos on him too. I also have a video on here about Bruford.
I've listened to Holdsworth and its honestly the biggest pile of crap I've ever heard. His dexterity is impressive but It literally sounds like completely random notes over a cheesy cruise ship music backing track. I don't mind improvised, experimental music but Holdsworth is excruciating
@@user-qb1sm3rk9r No accounting for tastes. I find your comment nothing short of amazing but whatever. You sound like my 90 year old mother when she is exposed to even slightly more adventurous jazz. Listen to what you like, obviously, but try not to show your.... never mind.
Number 1 - Visions. I just can’t enough of that record. It has everything done perfectly. Fusion, ambient, choral, funk, and so much more. Yes, I knew that your choice would be.
I love that album. It has everything I like except Jan Hammer's keyboard solos...
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Speaking of Mr. Hammer..I wonder what Max Middleton has been up to. I’ll have to search him out.
Excellent stuff Andy....very thought provoking....got me thinking about mine now....
Definately Birds Of Fire, Moving Waves (Focus), Miles Smiles, Pat Metheny Group (White Album), Sgt Pepper....Stanley Clarke, Black Market
Love Wired and Regatta too.....
Nice one!!!!!
Thanks Dave...this would be an interesting format for other musicians I know...
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer exactly.....it could be a whole new series....
Hey Andy I’m pretty sure DID had only 8 tracks but it’s your show so 10 is fine! The episode with Dave Gilmour was brilliant.
I know exactly what you mean about ways of listening. Ways of reading and ways of looking (or seeing, re-John Thurber) are equally valid. There's so much stuff I didn't get first time around but releasing an attitude or an ingrained view and coming to things fresh or open or unhindered by presuppositions and cloth-eared thinking is liberating. (God, that sound pretentious. I'm just having trouble wording it a bit less so. That'll be the beer talking).
You are so right about Fragile,DeBlanc,….I would have gone with Blow by Blow by Beck…still good list
Another great list! You've outdone yourself. My list would have included the Who, Who's Next or Quadrophenia. Black Sabbath Master of Reality, VDGG World Record, Weather Report Black Market. Gentle Giant Octopus, MF Doom Operation Doomsday and most importantly MO's Birds of Fire.
Thanks Tim
Crosswinds...thanks for this .my daughter is a classical Trumpet player but when young I exposed her to all this music that album I had her listen to it for the horn section...brilliant album
I once knew a classical trumpeter that was astonished by Randy Brecker's trumpet playing on Solarization off Total Eclipse.
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer my daughter was left out of school music extra curriculum so we took her to a concert band she was given a trumpet aged 7 and took 2 yrs to learn then she went into the adult band after a few weeks the old guy 1st trumpet and the mid 20s 2nd trumpet left the band...she was left in her own for a year..never clinched carried on...went through education a degree in music
Now she is an orchestral. Conductor and brass player .in between I had played to her most jazz fusion and prog rock stuff! She likes Focus! I'm sure she is a better player for my interference!
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Brecker bros with Frank Zappa..live in New York double album...track called Purple lagoon....epic!
Incidentally I'm 67 now my first album was Cream Live and 2nd album was Soft Machine vol 2...when I was 16 got my first job 6 quid a week £2 to my mum 2 quid for an album per week ..but most of the time I was broke by Wednesdays....
however today your showing me some albums I had never heard of... shows you just how much music was out there to discover..but most of your choices would be mine..
Hendrix a British guitarist ??? News to me ! 🇬🇧
I agree 300thousand% with Gazeuse... i got many A.H albums, including Metal Fatigue, but damn his playing with Gong in that record is just too freaking good. Cheers.
Nice list.
Gong Gazeusse! is a great choice. "Percolations" is where Pierre Moerlen plays the drum solo in 7/8 - it doesn't work on CD, it needs to be the record.
I love the Holdsworth compositions. These were from the failed Velvet Darkness album and they worked them perfectly.
No Oh Yeah! I was shocked 🤣
I listened to that for the first time last weekend - absolutely amazing.
I listened to Crosswinds for the first time yesterday! (It's a bit strange)
This is what I love about the channel; opening musical doors.
Thank you!
Crosswinds....listen to side two first...it will blow you away...THEN listen to side 1....
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer As a bookend to that how about the Billy Cobham Paradox self titled album from 1996 ?
Glad you have Zeppelin there. I feel the same . I`ve moved through great fusion and jazz and prog and metal and folk and jam and good pop albums over my life. But Zeppelin has always rumbled through and seem to mean more and deliver more over my 52 years. PS. One of my favorite books is The Razors Edge by Somerset Maugham.
I wonder if that is where AC/DC got there inspiration??
I completely forgot that I have a 77 German repress of "Gazeuse" and didn't know (or remember) that Holdsworth was on it. Listening to it now and "WOW!" what a great sounding LP. Not sure it makes my "Top 10" or "Island List", but I'm damn sure glad that it's in my collection.
👽✌️ "Na-nu"
PS - Just listened to side one. Hard to see how any drummer would be able to resist this LP. 👍
I learned about one new album from this: Gong's Gazeuse! What an album though! I've got a fever and the only cure is more marimba!
Great list. Would choose the following
Beatles No 1s
The Who - Who’s Next
Police Zenyatta Mondata
Bowie - Young Americans
Cream - The Very Best of
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Opeth - Pale Communion
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
Keith Jarrett Trio - Standards Vol1
Book. - Lord of the Rings
Electric and eclectic choices and get a lot of insights on a person with their choices
And who can dispute anyones list
Being one who “grew up” with McLaughlins music agree with the influences throughout the list
AS A DRUMMER POINT OF VIEW.
BOHNAM DRUMMING ON FOUR
STICK. IS FANTASTIC DRUMMING VERY HYPNOTIC
I doubt anyone knows about this one but Matthew Good Band- Beautiful Midnight goes on my list, also anything by WEEN
One of ABBA albums must be there for sure....
I won't list my 10 BUT a great album , a soundtrack actually , that I would take and one that I think is quite proggy is Chariots Of The Gods by the Peter Thomas Orchestra
Great selection Andy. I am also a big fan of Eric Coates, whose music is the theme to the show, as you probably know!
lovely tune....
yeah, wired did it for me also
YESSONGS
Rush is Technified Hard Rock ...
Great choices, from the Police & AC/DC to Mahavishnu & Coltrane
I listened to the Mahavishnu album and yes it,s a monster
I think the idea used by "Desert Island Discs" is a good filter to use for a list. We don't have to get into arguments over what album is the "best" album, because this list is about which albums meant the most to you. Not to me, but to you. Growing up in the US I had a vague idea of the radio program, but I didn't realize it had been around for such a long time. I thought it was a program which lasted maybe 10 years, but that people kept referring to "desert island discs" just because everyone understood the *idea* that the program operated by.
That said, I think I'd suffer a mental breakdown if I tried to limit my list of "personally meaningful" albums to just 10. And even just trying to start a list like that, I noticed that I was picking a lot of double albums, and wondered if maybe that was just a way I could cheat so I would have more hours of music with me. 🙂 Within 30 seconds I had thought of _"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road",_ _"Physical Graffiti",_ _"Out of the Blue",_ _"Afraid of Sunlight"_ (2-CD edition), _"Marbles"_ (definitely the 2-CD edition which includes _"Ocean Cloud")_ and _"The Wall"_ (although I'd need to include the song _"When the Tigers Broke Free"_ as part of that, because that song had a significant effect on me when I first heard it).
... oh, and _"Warsaw: The Poland Concert"_ by Tangerine Dream. I thought of so many of double-albums that I started forgetting titles in the time it took to write my comment! Another good album for "cheating" with would be "Yessongs" from Yes, although that one wouldn't make my own personal list.
If I included Holdsworth in the list, he may fill up a large portion of my list(Notice his solo work starting from IOU - Sixteen Men of Tain is exactly 10). He is so burned into me that I think I could play his songs in my head until my eyes shut. Also how could I choose one of his albums? His albums have always been revolving for my favorite throughout the years. This is why I am going to exclude him from the list. Making this list was pure hell as I left out so many artists that I love. Several of the albums below have been discovered because of this channel, so much thanks to that.
(Only 1 album per artist since I want my soundscape to be spread as wide as possible). In no particular order: 1)Aydin Esen - Timescape. 2) Michel Petrucciani - Michel plays Petrucciani. 3) Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up. 4) Tribal Tech - Thick. 5) Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior. 6) Chick Corea - Three Quartets. 7) Steve Coleman - The Tao of Mad Phat. 8) Medeski/Fiuczynski - Lunar Crush. 9) Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond 10) Jean Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger.
I think I can create even a wider soundscape if I put more thought into it..............................
I own all of those except the first two. I have an Aydin Esen album called Trio with Eddie Gomez and its incredible. I have a Petrucciani best of that has some tunes off that one I think. The rest are absolute favourites of mine.
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Track 2 on the Petrucciani album is absolute gold. Him and John Abercrombie just smoke the melody and the song also gives me a melancholy, beautiful, blissful feeling. I need to get my hands on that Trio album. I would say our musical interests overlap by about 85%. There are some albums mentioned on here that I am not quite sure of, but I also understand I am a rookie listener compared to you, so I will for sure revisit those albums at some point. I understand much of Bill Laswell(about 70% of what I have listened to) and after about 5 listens of Song X, I can honestly say I get it. Machine Gunn and that Red Arrow album are still out of reach for me. Thanks again for the channel Andy!
I've been listening to alot of Miles Davis recently, but I have to say I keep going back to Bitches Brew (the first of his albums which I ever heard).. I've been listening to it for years now, and everytime I hear it, it never disappoints. Recently I've caught up with On the Corner (which I'm also loving).
BB has something special about it. I think it may well be the unique line-up he put together.
“On The Corner” is an underrated Miles Davis album. I think it is my second favorite Miles Davis album behind “Kind Of Blue”.
Here's a list in no order which includes a techno and a hip hop album because they're that good.
It's my island and it's my list. Deal with it.
Red
Wired
Fragile
Birds of Fire
Led Zeppelin IV
The Fat of the Land
Live: P-Funk Earth Tour
Stanley Clarke (2nd album)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
I love this...If I was to create a list like this it would include Two Pages by 4 Hero, Timeless by Goldie and To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamarr....all great prog albums IMO
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer
Kendrick is the real deal
miles davis jack johnson,jeff beck wired,led zeppelin physical graffitti,mahavishnu orchestra birds of fire,alice coltrane journey to satchidinada,john mclaughlin and carlos santana love,devotion and surrender,scientist rids the world of the curse of the evil vampires,john martyn one world,fela kuti zombie,frank zappa shut up and play yer guitar. in no particular order
Personally I don't think desert Island discs is the same as favorite discs. I think if you are trapped you'd probably prefer a more eclectic choice. Plus I don't think you could just bring one album of your favorite band. You'd be itching to hear the others. And then your circumstance of being on a island could sway a preference as well.
Always a fun scenario to think about.
10) Fields of the Nephilim-Elyzium
9) Vangelis- Bladerunner motion picture score
8) Roger Waters- Amused to Death
7) The D.O.C - No one can do it Better
6) The Police- Zenyatta Mondatta
5) IQ- Ever
4) Genesis- A Trick of the Tail
3) Dream Theater- Images & Words
2) Black Sabbath- Master of Reality
1) Killing Joke- Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
Oh good choice specially Bladerunner soundtrack
Sorry Andy you lost me holding up that Yes album. Absolute dross.
As the environment changes, the selected 10 are not necessarily the top 10 from home but are adapted to the future situation.
What I wouldn't want to miss on the lonely island are the voices of Jack Bruce and Rory Gallagher, Edith Piaf for the women.
If I were to pick along my socialization thread it would be The Shadows and Vanilla Fudge with Beat Goes On.
If I didn't have to be alone and someone like Andy was with me on the island, he would also bring something that I liked.
If it were dangerous on the island I would take the original Ton Steine Scherben with me. It was sold with a slingshot.(under the counter)
So have always in mind: New place New game
And if picking 10 out of 150 gets too hard, pick another deck. Maybe Robert Johnson and Roy Buchanan
Montaigne Essais a good choice for island lecture.
Yes...perhaps I should have considered the imagined situation I would be met with on the island...could I live without Ella or Louis?
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer And if we have to die there, we need suitable music for the funeral. I prefer Eric Satie, Metal Fatigue offers good pieces, Frank Zappas Civilisation III has some tracks No man's land, no longer here but not yet over there
Interesting points about The Police drawing on all those influences. Have you checked out Cardiacs, often described as punk prog, or if you will ‘pronk’.
I need to do a video on the Cardiacs...one of the greatest bands ever
Definitely !
Not watched this one. Have you ever reviewed or commented on Kevin Ayers The Confessions Of Dr Dream. This is my favourite album of all time
There and Back is regrettably never in the discussion for the best Jeff Beck albums. I heard Wired in the 70's around the time it was released and only in recent years did I purchase and play There and Back front to back. If you have Wired, love it but don't own the other, you owe it to yourself to get it. For me, it is basically a perfect album. You are so right about the 2nd Police album being so magical compared to the others - I get where you're coming from. I like Gazeuse significantly more than Expresso II because I think the former came across as really fresh and unique and the latter was, in too many spots, like I've heard it before.
I agree with all that...There and Back would be my second favourite Beck album...
BLOW BY BLOW would be a desert island disc for me...
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer glad you enjoy it that much, all the 'professional' ratings for this album are middling at best and they probably factored into why I delayed buying this for so long; I think it was shows like yours or SoT that made me think I might be missing out on something really good and thankfully I got it, thanks for another great video
Oh yeah. Book for a desert island: Miracle of Love by Ram Dass (modern day equivalent of the first 3 gospels)
I know of that book...I might do my top ten books...
Your choice of greatest fusion and greatest prog album ever made is also my choice: Mahavishnu Orchestra's Visions Of The Emerald Beyond. In my opinion, the prog musicians that don't lean a bit into fusion make cheese. Sometimes prog has a certain cringe factor that comes from a lack of the "fusion" element. The above album is the ultimate perfect mix of influences. Also, the sonics are great on this record. A life changer for sure.
Check out my Narada Michael Walden interview for some inside info on that album...
One question though...is the chain you are wearing by any chance from that far away land of drummers and rhythms...?Not that one ; to your South but farther West...And do you ALso have the matching boots, heels and all? Just wandering...
Pretty good list and taste. You dont send my brain spinning and shaking like mamy other Judgers of classic music do. 😂 OK first off, Led Zep and Rush weren't weird. LOL They were popular Hardrock yet Zep were a thousand times better. Though they were weird if you grew up in a Black neighborhood listening to Black music. Rock was not what they were listening to unless it was Black Rock Funk. Anyway, Fragile is amazing but The YES ALBUM is basically it's older twin though the FRAGILE Hits seem to strike a deeper nerve. But as you know, CTTE blew the roof off Prog and changed the world. Well in my world, it did.
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Good list..ones I have to listen to are Coltrane..bitches brew And gong....thanks
Side 2 of Gazeuse is some of the best fusion ever.
I'm as old as dirt, but I must admit that you have a lot of albums that I would I had, plus some that I've never heard of that you make sound too good not to have (Gong). Albums that I do have that I would take with me: (1)and(2)Yes (Yes Album,Relayer), (3)Robin Trower (Bridge of Sighs), (4)Jethro Tull (Songs from the Wood), (5)(Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group), (6)and(7)Pink Floyd (Ummagumma,DSOTM), (8)ELP (Trilogy), (9)Led Zeppelin (Physical Graffiti), and (10), and hard to believe...Evanescence (The Open Door)...No virtuosos, no solos, no screaming, just clever melodies, good lyrics, and of course, great singing.
It is hardest enough to come up with only 10 albums. How could anyone only take 10 tunes?
This guy is hilarios, good look to him.
Not sure why people take him siriously . Just his opinion ,he's having fun ffs.
There is tons of music of music he doesnt cover or he listens to...
Good day to to you all
OK, based on the fact that you like Beck, Mahavishnu, Bitches Brew, Zeppelin, and Fragile, I'll give AC/DC a chance (I never liked them growing up).
I love them, I think Angus is a mindblowing guitarist, way better than so many other 'legendary' classic rock guitarists. The band rock like no other and Bob was a fine songwriter. Then on top of that the production and arrangements were astonishing....
The first album I bought was If You Want Blood but tbh I find them too musically repetitive nowadays and almost a parody.sorry
No zappa 😮
There has to be Zappa
Zappa,, suicide on the island within a day's.
PROG?
AC/DC? Police? Okaaay, bye bye! 😎