Ten Albums That Are Not As Bad As Everyone Thinks
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Love the ever changing Van Morrison picture. He is the dark overlord.
Andy just listened to this and had to play the Robert Plant bit again for my wife to hear. We were in stitches! Great story. Thanks. 😂👍🏻
Your Black Sabbath air drumming trance moment had me laughing out loud. Just too relatable
I'm pretty sure Andy is drunk in this video.
I see Van's baleful visage hanging in the background, gazing on at the proceedings in bemused disapproval.
Achilles Last Stand is one of the most intense and epic rock songs of all time.
One of my all time favourite tracks, needs playing loud
Junior’s Eyes is an absolutely incredible song
I came here just to say that.
Thank you for recognizing Come Taste The Band as a great lp.
Tommy Bolin's playing on Spectrum was iconic. His solo on Quadrant 4 alone rates as one of the greatest ever recorded. Brilliant guitarist.
Totally concur!
So glad you mentioned Geezer rhyming masses with masses during War Pigs. That has bugged me for years, I'm glad someone else noticed lol
Agree with Never Say Die. Some very cool tracks.
yep "some" 😒
@BarbarraBay which songs aren't great on Never Say Die?
Technical Ecstasy has the pub Rocky Rock n Roll Doctor, but that's about the only weak Ozzy Sabbath track I can think of.
Not bad over 8 albums
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Swinging the chain. Awesome riffs by Tony but the vocals 😖
@@Sabotage8675 what's wrong with the vocals? Great lyrics, one of my favourites! Voice does sound different, could be mistaken for Bill at times! Edit... it is Bill? Awesome if so!
But one of my favourites. Catch myself singing it loads
@@prestigepea1235 I'll let em have Never Say Die. It's pretty good. Technical Ecstasy though get's shit for good reason
People are always complaining about The Soft Parade couse "they have changed their sound" couse it has strings. I have always loved it
Most of The Soft Parade I enjoy. Sure it has strings and is "so different" from The Doors - Waiting for the Sun, but it's not at all a case where they mashed strings and a rock band together. It was intentionally arranged, and I liked it. Although I do struggle not to skip "Tell All the People" truthfully.
@@jordaneffinger2104 Yep. I love Tell All The People. Check out the 69 TV live version where Ray plays it on Vox Continental you might like that one
All the albums through LA Woman are pretty consistantly fabulous. I dunno what happened after Morrison popped his clogs, but the first two albums after were unlistenably bad. Which is bizarre because let's face it, the majority of the music on Doors albums was composed by the remaining three. I guess groups with one out and out nutcase need that nutcase to continue, Zeppelin, Who spring to mind. *edit* Oh, and Genesis can root my boot post Gabriel (a nutcase? probably the nutcase of that band).
@@jamesrowden303 Maybe that's true.There are those nutcases that prevent the band from even properly starting and the those like Morrison who drive it forward through chaos. I happen to like some of the jams on those trio albums like Ship's and Sails, Eye Of The Sun and few others but yeah they made them too quickly after Jim was gone i think and sound like a mourning country band when it comes to singing.
@@sinenkaari5477 three things here post LA Woman - having to write songs to accommodate two weak singing voices; lyrics - despite Jimbo's pretensions, there was certainly a style there - Krieger's lyrics even when Jim was alive were always a bit pedestrian; also, it is unclear how much impact Morrison had on the music itself even though he didn't really play an instrument - songs sometimes written around vocal phrasings for example.
Who thought Presence was bad? One of my favorite Zep albums. And Page discovers the whammy bar. What could be better?
Somewhat relieved you didnt include Trout Mask Replica. 😄
Captain Beefheart:
"What key should we play this song in?"
Band:
"Yes!"
Presence; you're not alone.
along with coda DIG IT
Presence is VERY present.
Presence is a sonic wonder - from the breathtaking, helter-skelter ride of the Leviathan that is Achilles Last Stand, to the the atmospherically chilling Siamese twin of Since I've Been Loving You - no apologies for this album are necessary.
TFO
Andy, I love your channel. Brings joy to my life. Keep up the great work.
I just love your videos Andy, you make this old prog guy happy, thank you !
Had to watch the Duran Duran White Lines video after yours. Absolutely brilliant! Thanks
Good to see some love for Never Say Die❤️Shock Wave is a favorite song of mine. Really creative stuff!
WOW! That Pharaoh Saunders clip with one of the Last Poets chanting - brilliant! I hadn't seen that one before. I like the creative use of this and the other clips too, to create a surreal show. P.S. you need to do a show on the drummer Bernard Purdie (who played on the Last Poets Delights Of The Garden and is one of the best funk session drummers of all time). Or you could do a show on the top 10 sidemen and include Idris Muhammed as well.
Speaking of Bernard Purdie if you don't know it watch the Aretha Franklin documentary 'Amazing Grace' a live performance from 1972 with choir and a band including Bernard Purdie, Cornell Dupree, and Chuck Rainey. Directed by Stanley Pollack and featuring a cameo by audience members Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts. Also, Bernard in Gato Barbieri's band circa 1971 live at Montreux. He was one of those musicians who made everything better.
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good on you, for your #1. 👏👏Never Say Die is brilliant. As pointed out, it does have all kinds of different elements, but you left one out - blue eyed soul, on the end of Swinging the Chain. Listen to the bass on Over To You - how this release could be slagged by the band or anyone else, is beyond me. What a refreshing change from some of the previous releases, in my opinion (which were epic, of course)
Looking forward to settling in with this new one soon!
Great, surprising choices as always! Presence is soooo undervalued.
I love your channel Andy.
Keep working it man!
Thanks! Will do!
I’m with you on the Zeppelin/Purple/Sabbath/Kiss choices…..All great albums that take some listens to really appreciate. 👍
Nourishment for the heart, soul and mind. Thanks Andy, for another tip top video. Love n light dude.
Here here Andy, Presence is perfection, Royal Orleans my favorite Zep track!!!! CODA too! Absolutely the tenth Zep album!
Herb Alpert and the Tijana Brass and the Shadows are my hidden pleasures!
Throughly enjoyed the two 'Black Sabbath trances' Andy. Story was cool too
Same here. Great story!
When someone has made the people ok with Herb Alpert albums, the world will know peace
I may make that my aim
Truth. I own many. The A in A&M records
Tijuana brass and Brazil 66 were early purchases
love the Brass
Chuck Berghofer's bass playing on 'Lollipops and Roses' is on another level entirely. Monster groove.
Great to see some love for mid nineties Prince, thanks Andy for the very positive video!
thank you for this vid. you just got a new fan.
I do enjoy you Andy. This is a part of your Art. Sometimes I listen to you too much and I have to step away, but when I come back you make me smile and laugh.
Wow, thank you
So great to hear you mention Duran Duran and this underrated album! I find that Thank You has quite a few little gems sprinkled throughout. I particularly enjoy the title track, Perfect Day, and Watching the Detectives, and Lay Lady Lay.
Class thoroughly enjoyed that, especially the war pigs cover haha
Watched this - great start to my day ❤
I would never have listened to Chaos and Destruction if I hadn't seen this video. I have to say I really enjoyed parts of it. Thank you.
Loved the video, Andy. I also enjoy your stories regarding Robert Plant, et al. I really appreciate your frankness and honesty. Keep up the good work!
So thankful for you giving "Calling All Stations" some love. I'll find myself coming back to it very often for a reason.
Totally agree on Prince's "Chaos & Disorder". Another one that's massively underrated in my opinion was "The Rainbow Children". Always loved it. Regardless of all the Jehovah stuff..
Agreed.
LOVE that final track and what we told Warner Bros. music what he thought of them.
Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day also happy Thursday Andy ❤😊
Andy! Awesome video! Was that interlude towards the end of the video The Last Poets?
Oh yes!!! Let's go. I saw Duran Duran on the Thankyou tour. It was wild
For 45 yrs plus Never say die has been my #1 Sabbath LP! Love yor channel👍
Good stuff as usual
I'm a deep ritchie blackmore fan, but *come taste the band* is one of my all time favs!
I remember people calling that lp Come taste the Come.😂😂😂
@@davidgangemi3314 well but the point about it is whether those people you remember came or didn't?! 😅
I think you should do a video featuring an entire song with your incredible vocalization of all the instruments and vocals, switching from one to the other, like you did with War Pigs here. It's so funny every time you have me in stitches and it's very well done too 🤣
Keep name dropping, Andy ! And forgetting the titles of songs !
Loved the interlude
Andei!!! Thanks for turning me on to the Cardiacs & the Jan Hammer album Live in Dallas 1977. Brilliant stuff.
Enjoy!
I never agree with most peoples musical ideas, but I do with you!
This one was one of your best.
It's not name dropping. It is remembering past and ever so current loves. Your joyful geeking out makes this video more alive and real, in fact it is my favorite of yours so far.
On another note, are there actually people who dislike Presence? "Achilles" alone made me like the rest.
Come taste the band...Yesssss. The drumming is an absolute masterclass!
'Meet the Monkees' is a classic.
Your drumming vocal immitation is a crack up ! I listened to the Duran Duran LP - totally agree - really like most of the covers ! DD was a great band in the 80's -
massively important in New Wave Dance cross over in USA - There were many BR 12" remixes of all their top tunes - Next to listen is your Prince recommendation - cheers mate !
Ray Wilson later guested on Hackett's Genesis Revisited II, which was a lovely thing for Steve to do. He also worked with Anthony Philips as an acknowledgement of his contribution to the band's sound. Wilson is more of a prog artist now.
I agree about the Coda tracks and In Through the Out Door. But I would keep I’m Gonna Crawl too, great song.
I hope that album makes the list (and you didnt just like it as a thumbnail). There is some spectacular stuff on it. Perfect Day is near perfect, no wonder Lou Reed was so impressed. And Thank You is the bees knees.
It is
Blue oyster cult- club ninja
Black sabbath- technical extacy
Judas Priest- point of entry
Andy, this was bonkers, a little artsy fartsy as well or surreal as you say. I really wanted you to finish miming War Pigs. I'm going to rewatch that high. I mean were you behaving that way in front of Plant? That's just insane. The first two tracks of CODA blew me away first time I heard it. I love Presence. Tea for One is so beautiful. The whole Van Morrison transformation creeped me out.
Obviously, I'm familiar with these bands but I've never heard any of these records. You've piqued my curiosity, I think I'll check a few out, thanks Andy.
I've had a right f***ing week of it with one thing and another. I wont go into detail, I'll simply say that I don't just need your Sabbath Trance, I also deserve it. The highlight just now knocked your REO Speedwagon into a cocked hat and to be fair, that was pretty bloody good.
So, a quick rendition of the entire of War Pigs and I'll Paypal you twenty quid. Deal?
Nice to hear your list, Presence is top 3 LZ for me and love CO/DA. Always had a soft spot for Hot Space and Come Taste the Band is really good as well. Shockwave on NSD rocks. Never could understand the hate that record gets. Great video and really like the surreal touches.
I watched Magical Mystery Tour because of your opinion (Blue Jay Way episode) and you are right , it is great. So many absurdist echoes came from these Beatles skits.
I absolutely love both Presence and Never Say Die. For some strange reason, they are summertime albums for me. Can’t explain that.
In '76 i was 13 and really anticipated Presence's release having been a huge Zep fan by then. Yeah, it was different, but i grew to really appreciate it and could never understand all the critisism. Same with Never Say Die. I put it right up there with the other 70's Sabbath albums. It's just different, but so were every one of their previous albums. Maybe because i was still young and open to new things i gave it a go. To this day I'm still very open to all sorts of musical genres. Makes me a pretty happy musically minded guy. By the way, love your Duran Duran thoughts Andy! Appreciate your take on things, even if occasionally i disagree. Great job mate!
Art does give a direction to your life. Absolutely. So true.
Love the channel Greetings from Eastern North Carolina , USA. (not too far from where Thelonious Monk was born.)
block back wall makes "set" look like a crime boss prison cell ... SO COOL! can't wait to listen to this.. now
Superb. I was the same age as you when the Elder came out. For a fantasy/sci-fi/horror loving kid it was a great album (and produced by Bob ezrin). We're Gonna Groove is one my fave Zep tracks and yes, every Black Sabbath album up until Never Say Die is brilliant. For me, they're the best of the 'unholy trinity' of rock.
Thanks Andy, an epic.
Hot Space has a great track called Dancer which has some of the tastiest riffs I have ever heard is one of my favourite songs to crank on the stereo.
The beeps in this video had me checking my phone for text messages
He did!
I really enjoyed this video! Good fun! I've been a fan of Genesis since the late 70s. I am an old "prog head" and I am old enough to remember when Duke was released. After that their music went downhill for me. Because of this video I gave a listen to CAS again and I agree with your take on it. I bought the CD when it came out and I got all of the CAS singles as well. I like those two instrumentals too.
I dare say now that I like CAS more than the last two albums with PC. I think Ray Wilson is a great singer and I really like the opening track. I thought came to mind when listening to CAS, try to imagine if some of the CAS songs were by Steven Wilson or Porcupine Tree with a few differences other than SW would be singing and playing some guitar then I bet many would consider some of the songs as amazing just because of that. Or suppose if CAS was not labeled a Genesis album?
Holy Hell that is a cool story Andy!
Will check out the Prince record. Dismissed it for the reasons you mentioned plus I never heard it was more rock oriented.
Will advise.
I bloody love Come Taste The Band
Got most of the Albums and yes Duran Duran's Thank You IS a real master piece - no doubt !!!
When I saw the title of the video, the first thing I thought was 'The Elder', but didn't think for a second that you'd mention it.
OMG! Thank You was the first Duran Duran album I bought on the power of the White Lines video. When Duran Duran debuted, I was s teenager I thought they made chick music. I love those covers on Thank You. It showed me this band’s musical taste and depth by the original interpretations of these favorites.
Some of the albuns people need to revisit that were really good..
1. Van Halen 3
2. Motley Crue - Self Titled
3. Def Leppard - Slang
4. Kiss - Dynasty
5. Extreme - Waiting For The Punchline
6. Slaughter - Revolution
7. Bonham - Mad Hatter
8. The Cult - Ceremony
9. Dokken - Dysfunctional
10. Queensryche - Promised Land
Ok, I'll check out the Prince album, and I looked up the Hofmeister Bear. Cheers from Canada
Your videos are always kind of an art form of itself. I don't always agree with you (who does!? :D) but your explanations really make sense listening to you and your stories. You are kind of a music guru! I like the edge and the provocations and as I said, your videos are something else. I am kind of a musician myself and deep into prog, and just have to say: Keep it up!
My videos are not only about Prog, they are prog!
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer That's what I mean and that's the reason I like them! I said "Art". Well, I was grown up with "Prog" since I started to listen to music outside of "classical" (by my parents) and Europop (esp. by my mother) with 15. But it was not called prog. Bands like Pink Floyd, Genesis, Supertramp, Marillion, or artists like Kate Bush, Chris de Burgh (before Into the Light), Peter Gabriel were all labled "Art Rock" in the papers, magazines, everday life and sometimes by themselves... If the sound was a bit harder like with Queen, Rush, Uriah Heep etc. they were just put into the drawer labled Hard Rock. The differentiation between Prog and Art came only really in the later 80s/early 90s and the genres were getting more specific. At least this was the case here in Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy... I don't know about the UK or US. I was the first time in the UK in 86 and heard the term "Art Rock" quite often but never "Prog". I think it's easier nowadays when you have a finer labeling but a lot of these bands (like Marillion or Motorhead) never wanted to be put into a specific genre anyway and I totally can understand it.
For me Prog is not a genre per se but kind of an approach to the music they make. Syd Barrett was proggy, so was David Bowie, The Beatles, King Crimson etc. They played many "genres" but gave them a more progressive note, wanted to go somewhere "where no man has gone before". I Am the Walrus, God only Knows, White Rabbit, Interstellar Overdrive may be Art Rock, Barroque Pop, Acid, Space Rock - but they all have something in common: a composing and playing out of the box approach.
On the other hand I think that Art Rock/Pop/Metal is something else: this is a genre per se. It doesn't have to be progressive, but popular music on "a higher level". You take Johann Strauss which is "pop" within the "classical" genre (I don't like the term classic anyway, as you can't compare Barroque with Programmatic or Impressionist music) and Smetana which is "art". One is pure entertainment of the masses (or the one who payed for the composition) and the other one is an expression of the artist him/herself.
So my differenciation would be prog is an approach in any kind of music that is "out of the box", and art is you take something already existing and make more out of it. Sgt. Pepper for me is Art, Piper at the Gates of Dawn is Prog - both were recorded the same time and both bands were influenced by each other - but the outcome is different.
I don't know if you see the things the same way or if my thinking is totally wrong :D
And yes, your videos are Prog Art if I may conclude it like that!
That stuff about Robert Plant's inferior vocals that is repeatedly trotted out about Presence is a classic case of received wisdom.
Never Say Die is a solid album. The way people talk about it makes me wonder if they ever actually listened to it.
... when it comes to Saunders him and Henderson on Ptah, the El Daoud ... what the? outstanding
I have been telling people that 'Chaos And Disorder' is an amazingly great album since the 1990's. Thank you, I feel very affirmed.
Duran doing White Lines has Grandmaster flash in it too, it's an awesome track
I was at that Sabbath gig too. 👍
Love Nobody’s Fault But Mine.
Hi Andy, I 'm a huge classic rock fan but I get slightly confused and frightened when you start talking about Prog rock. How would you suggest I get into prog and are there any bands/albums I should check out as an introduction?
❤ More tales please!
The Doors' Waiting For the Sun or The Soft Parade?
Great albums, better than the two that followed, for me anyway.
@@daicullinane7746Actually the last two strike me as some of their darkest stuff. You can feel the depression oozing out of Morrison’s soul.
40 years ago I worked with someone who was a huge Doors fan...apart from Soft Parade which he absolutely hated. it irritated him no end that it's genuinely my favourite album by the band.
@@danielschaeffer1294 No denying that. I just find as albums, Waiting and Soft preferable.
Presence...
I also love it and I think one of the reasons it sounds 'different' is because of the studio, Polar studios, which was ultra modern and state of the art.
Agree with most. Prince album track from c&d Dinner with Delores .. is a favourite.
Come taste the band is brilliant. Presence is great, played it more than many others. Ordinary World by DuranD is one of my very favourite songs will give the album you mentioned a listen.
Props on Hot Space love -- Freddie waving his willy at the [f]rigid rockists -- I've always felt it was more consistent than at least The Game!
Nobody’s Fault But Mine IS one of Zep’s masterpieces. That whiplash interplay between Bonham, Jonesey, and Jimmy, with Plant’s squalling, wailing harmonica filling the spaces in between, never gets old, never reveals all its secrets.
The album that gets my vote has gotta be in this! 😊
Great Plant story, and absolutely brilliant Sabbath proto-trance!
Syd Barrett - Rhamadan. Ever heard of it? It's on YT. A jam from c1968, where no-one seems to know who played.
I came across it while veering off to listen to Coda, mid AndyE video, and up it popped as a recommendation. So it's your fault :)
All Hail Andy Edwards for the best "voice only" cover of "War Pigs" ever uttered. Bravo.