We have a song called 'Highway to Hell' and one called 'Stairway to Heaven,' but I feel like we're missing out on one. We should have a song called 'Service Road Through Purgatory.'
I am a little jealous of your ability to have such interesting philosophical discussions and conversations by yourself. (mine always tend to end in a huge fight ;))
@@schrodingerszombie2401 I skip The Song is Over, and frankly, find 5:15 and Drowned on Quadrophenia excessively dull. In fact, I didn't listen to Quadrophenia for a long time because 5:15 was such a weak song.
@@blairmulholland I consider Quadrophenia my absolute favorite album for over 50 years, and I agree that 5:15 and Drowned are perhaps my least favorite. But "The Song is Over" is exquisite. I love the parallels to "Pure and Easy" and how the 2 songs reference the magic, joy, and power of music.
I consider Thick As A Brick a perfect album. It's far more interesting musically then casual listeners think. It's a single song with a simple theme that nevertheless goes for two whole sides without anything ever repeating. Nothing is played or sung exactly the same way twice. And when you throw in the brilliant silliness of the lyrics, the "concept," and the packaging, I just see in it a perfect whole...a perfect circle, without blemish.
@@per-hakansvahn8044 Why did you say that? I mean genuinely. Aqualung is their most famous album by far - loved even by people with no interest in prog. Its one of the most obvious classic classics that appears on all manner of lists that everyone knows about. Check out The Beatles - another gem.
Agreed with Thick as a Brick. Entire album is packed with musical and lyrical genius. Best part for me is the final five minutes of side one where Ian Anderson shuffles in the courtroom with rings upon his fingers.
So Completely agree with the list. But, Andy I will mention that you will absolutely not agree with. This album to me is the bands best and most nearly perfect album. It has all the elects of rock, blues, soul, swagger and melon collie atmosphere and I have to mention Sticky Finger. Even without being a Stones fan most people will regard this as an apex listening experience. It is right behind Led Zep IV for me.
The Cars by The Cars, and Boston by Boston. Nothing but net, all the tracks. The Cars in particular is practically a greatest hits album. Every track on there could have been a single.
One of the things that keeps me coming back for more is I know by now I'm going to get the contrarian, the jester, the expert, the love of tendentious discourse and somewhere the spirit of finding the synthesis of the absurd with the profund snatches of Truth always shines through. Hegelian dialetics or slapstick hypotheticals; that search for the numinous is king. I love that xMx
Andy, you really should get Robert Plant on for an interview. I'd love hear the two of you talk about the good & bad times you had playing together, along with many other topics.
The Beatles- Rubber Soul. The Doors- The Doors. Nick Drake- Five Leaves Left. The Beatles- Abbey Road. Joni Mitchell- Blue. Fleetwood Mac- Rumours. Bob Dylan- Blood On The Tracks. Radiohead- The Bends. Pink Floyd- Dark Side Of The Moon. Paul Simon- Graceland.
Kinks- Village Green Preservation Society Bob Dylan- Blonde On Blonde Beach Boys- Pet Sound Joni Mitchell- Hissing Of Summer Lawns Marvin Gaye- What's Going On Randy Newman -Sail Away The Band- Music From Big Pink Beatles- Revolver Smiths- The Queen Is Dead Dusty Springfield- Dusty In Memphis Byrds- Sweetheart Of The Rodeo John Cale- Paris 1919 David Bowie- Hunky Dory Love -Forever Changes John Coltrane- A love Supreme
The Band (brown cover) in a dead heat with Big Pink for me. Regardless. The albums Big Pink, The Band, Stage Fright, Cahoots, Live at the Academy and Northern Lights, Southern Cross are a body of work practically without peer. Fifty-plus years on the music is as fresh and alive as it was back in the day. A remarkable group.
3:07 I'm lukewarm on most jazz (love big band), prog, and fusion. I come here for your extensive knowledge of music history (and your enthusiasm thereof), and your humor and rants, as well as your raw approach. In other words, I come _despite_ the jazz, prog and fusion. 😁
Albums I wouldn't change a note of ---- Paul McCandless-All The Mornings Bring; Steely Dan-Aja; Gentle Giant-The Power & The Glory; Discipline-Unfolded Like Staircase; UK-s/t; Hatfield & The North-s/t; National Health-s/t; PFM-Per Un Amico; Happy The Man-s/t; Al Stewart-Year Of The Cat; Yes-CTTE & Relayer; Pat Metheny-The Way Up; VDGG-Godbluff
Great stuff Andy, 2025 starting well! My list (goes to 11+1): Too Tough To Die - Ramones Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk Completion Backward Principle - The Tubes Ocean Rain - Echo & the Bunnymen Presence - Led Zeppelin Tin Drum - Japan The Man Machine - Kraftwerk Station to Station - David Bowie The Trident Sessions - Mahavishnu Orchestra Sabatage - Black Sabbath Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield Protection - Massive Attack
Tea For One astonished me when I first heard it. It's all about pain. I wonder if people who don't like it either can't take that feeling or they are fortunate enough to have never had such pain of their own.
I think it's one of their most underrated songs. It's kind of a successor to Since I've Been Lovin' You, which to me is their best slow blues bar none.
My list 1, Chick Corea's Electric Band 2. Black Sabbath - Sabotage 3. Yes The Yes Album 4. Jean Luc Ponty - Fables 5. Ac/Dc Back in Black 6. Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries 7. Kiss- Rock and Roll Over 8. Weather Report - Heavy Weather 9. Yellowjackets 1st album 10. Dave Brubeck - Take Five
Love Presence was my first Led Zeppelin album and "Achilles Last Stand" was one of their all-time greats, the bonus is that it is not overplayed. Great album. If you do not follow my opinion it is "nobody's fault but mine".
Brilliantly funny and very informative. Thank you, I’ve still got ‘ear worm’ from your rendition of ‘Just like a woman’ the other week. I also liked your best albums of the middle of each decade videos. Couldn’t believe ‘The Wombles’ didn’t make it onto your list for 1975 though.
Rick Beato must be in the list, but what about that US prog guy with “peace, happiness and understanding” or whatever he’s saying 🤔. Yeah we need people like mr Edwards and mr Beato. Even their truth isn’t the true truth always, they e like the slaves sitting next to the Roman emperors whispering “remember that you are mortal”.
Stevie Wonder's Innervisions. All in Love is Fair doesn't quite stand up to the rest of the album's eight tracks but for me this is still perfection. To give this brilliant album of work even further context, it was written and produced by Stevie at the ridiculously young age of 21-22 years old. Plays most of the instruments. On Living for the City for example, he plays every instrument. The work of one of the greatest singer/songwriter/musicians at his absolute peak.
Agreed. And I was particularly happy to hear the shout out for Tea For One. I thought I was the only one in the world who considers it one of the greatest Blues Rock tracks ever recorded.
Andy.... you are brilliant and a fellow west Midlands dude.... here are my perfect albums as I remember them at this moment... Jellyfish- Spilt Milk Jeff Buckley- Grace Tom Waits - Blue Valentine Rush- Moving Pictures Van Halen - 1st Sparklehorse- It's A Wonderful Life Opeth- Ghost Reveries White Sister - 1st It Bites- Eat Me In St Louis Kansas- In The Spirit Of Things Sorry that I am not versed in jazz fusing, sir... I can only go by my own experience
Revisited Four Sticks, thanks to you. Was always a minor piece to me and generally ignored. Not anymore. Yes! on that middle section! Sublime. How has it taken me fifty-three years to discover a gem lost to me in their deep treasure-chest canon? I adore the first album, though. I love the in-your-face-mix (different from everything to follow), the blues, the extended solos, the breathtaking wailing vocals, the drama and dynamics. It's my favorite Zep album.
Your favorite albums: Astral Weeks and Blonde On Blonde. Two unpretentious albums. /s On a serious note, I hope Allan Holdsworth is on the list. Im trying to get into his music and it would be good to know which one is the best, as we have very similar taste. One of the key components of a round character (vs flat character) is that their actions and tastes surprise the reader. They are usually round if they do the unexpected. The jock that listens to classical and jazz. Flat characters are cookie cutter people, all the same, doing what youd expect them to do. There are too many flat characters in the world. What I see is you promoting the importance of being well rounded and not shallow.
Finally someone that doesn't hate Presence. My favorite Zep album and I'm a huge fanboy. I love all of their stuff but Presence is definitely my favorite. It's amazing to me that so many people consider it their worst album. It's Page's ultimate guitar statement. Every track is a masterclass guitar layering and studio genius. Presence has funk and bounce alongside heavy rock - prog brilliance and it works! That's what I hear anyway. I know I am the minority but I also know that I am correct. It's is the ultimate expression of what Led Zeppelin was in the mid to late 70's. Trust me I'm old and wise and stuff.
To save time watching time, here are the Top 5: 1) Love Beach - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer 2) Space Jazz - L. Ron Hubbard 3) The Ramones- The Ramones 4) Horses - Patti Smith 5) Greatest Hits - Kenny G
I just want to thank you for your channel, I'm 65, getting very heavy into listening to music, I just watch your channel on my Apple TV, RUclips channel, pause your video, jump over to Apple Music, add the album to my playlist, go back to your channel to finish and repeat. I usually agree with about 80%-85% of what you like, about 30% of the albums you suggested I don't have, some I have never heard of, (Mahavishnu for example), and get to enjoy for the first time so thank you for your channel. Paul Elliott
Those drums sound terrific in that space. Nice ending to the video. Totally agree with "Visions of the Emerald Beyond". I've always said it sounded 20 years ahead of its time when recorded and every year it seems to stay that way.
Two things. Never change, and Led Zeppelin’s Presence is a wonderful album, one of my favourites of theirs. I also, for once, completely agree with your choices so all I can do is extend the list. 11. The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell 12. Aladdin Sane, David Bowie 13. Abandoned Luncheonette, Hall & Oates (you should give it a listen) 14. Rumours 15. Going For The One, Yes 16. Rainbow Rising 17. Automatic For The People, R.E.M. 18. Hotel California 19. Making Movies Dire Straits 20. The Planets, Gustav Holst.
For me the sublime in music is the female choir in 'the planets' slowly disappearing into infinity until both sound and vibration eventually vanish once more into emptiness and silence.
I don't know nuthin' 'bout no jazz (though I have enjoyed some on occasion), so here is my jazz-less list: 1. Deep Purple: Made in Japan 2. David Bowie: Station to Station 3. Depeche Mode: Violator 4. XTC: English Settlement 5. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here 6. Frank Zappa: Apostrophe (') 7. Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark 8. Black Sabbath: Paranoid 9. Elton John: Madman Across the Water 10. Jethro Tull: Aqualung Honorable mentions: - The Guess Who: Live at the Paramount - Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols - The Moody Blues: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour - King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King - Elvis Costello: Imperial Bedroom - Lana Del Rey: Born to Die - Yes: The Yes Album - Genesis: Selling England by the Pound - Soundgarden: Superunknown - Thomas Dolby: The Flat Earth - Gordon Lightfoot: Sundown - Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman - The Beatles: Abbey Road - Tangerine Dream: Stratosfear
I've noticed for a while now Andy, that your vids are full of Freemasonic symbolism and imagery. And that thumbnail is right up there with the best of them. 👏
Thankyou for posting "Red"!! Your top 2 is like the John/Carlos "Love Devotion, Surrender". Johns, Devotion from '70 never gets mentioned...brooding psychedelic jazz...what could be better? Great video!
The title cut is fantastic, although the rest of the album is a little "noodle-y" and plodding, for me at least. I remember when "Birds of Fire" was the 'hot' (haha) record for a bit, around the same time Jeff Beck was getting into a fusion type groove with "Blow By Blow"... that was the thing for a while, Weather Report comes to mind as well...
While I can't argue with Red, I've recently come to the surprising conclusion that Discipline is my favorite KC album, precisely because it is so "near perfect"...not a bad track, and Sheltering Sky is the best of the obligatory meandering tracks. Sublime.
Another great video! Highway to Hell is also my favorite AC/DC album. But you made a boo-boo. “Love Hungry Man” is the second-to-last track on the album, not the second track.
Nice song and promo. Many thanks for the bit of drumming. Great choices for the 10. Your word jazz and word prog make sense to me. “Misty Mountain Hop” is my favourite Led Zeppelin song and maybe because of it “Uncontrollable Urge” is my favourite DEVO.
Andy we gonna getcha to 100k - top 10 classic rock songs, top 10 prog songs, top 10 female artists, top 10 jazz songs, top 10 funk songs, top 10 jazz fusion, top 10 blues, top 10 American bands, top 10 soul, top 10 hip hop, top 10 do you get my drift yet? Carry on Andy.
@@AndyEdwardsDrummerthe top ten of possible top ten lists should be the next level 😅 meanwhile I was pondering, some 'contentious' drummers Ginger Baker, Ringo Starr, Stewart Copeland. They seem to elicit quite some negative comments, GB is crap, RS is the weakest of the Beatles etc. Some further insight would be welcome.
@ one more thing: I feel you need to widen the range of music a little right now because you can pull in people who aren’t into your core music but they’ll come back for your quirky sense of humor and personality. Once you get to a certain level you’ll grow organically by people sharing your videos because of things other than jazz or prog. Here we are now. Entertain us!
Love the vids. I'm not into prog, jazz or jazz fusion (I'm not sophisticated enough, I s'pose). I don't come here for them anyway. I come for the freestyle rambling humour of Andy grounded in a deep knowledge of music. Just the Brummie accent brings a smile. I watched a recent video right to the end that had the rambling Brummie monologue at the end wit the animation. Loved it. Reminiscent of Eric Idle's rant on the travel agent sketch in Python (could that be the first comedy rant?...). I watch these lists tightly gripping the arms of my chair praying that a Who album will get its due. Usually, I disappointed, but, as previously mentioned, I'm not very sophisticated. As a Canadian, I was glad to see Oscar Peterson on the list. Our artists never get enough recognition. As for getting words wrong and your philosophy regarding perfection, I'm a few years older than Andy and can empathize. I've always annoyed people with my ability to recall musicians, actors, directors etc... That has suddenly become more difficult. I can start a dinner conversation about a famous director then, suddenly, his name leaves my brain for a minute... It usually comes back within a few minutes but it is disconcerting. What a drag it is getting old... someone should work that line into a song... When it comes to Andy's mistakes therein lies the charm. I enjoy Andy for the spontaneity, the unbridled enthusiasm. If Andy was to present a perfect narrative, true to script like a politician reading off a teleprompter, I'd tune out. I want the unscripted energy. It's the same reason I prefer live performances of music over studio 'perfection'. It's just as Andy says, it's the odd sour note that makes it great. What would the Who (greatest live act in rock history) be without feedback? Keep up the good work. Oh nice move putting a beautiful woman into your video to reward those who stick around to the end.
Andy, I don't know as much about Fusion, know more about Jaz and know even more about Prog, but I can learn more. Anyway, even at almost 47, I love learning about music that hasn't been on my radar as much. If I want butt rock, I'll turn on a radio or something. Wait, I don't even own a radio.
The most perfect album I have ever listened to is the wonderfully titled 'How to Operate with a Blown Mind' by Lo Fidelity Allstars. Of course subjective. Of course personal taste. For me, this album was a one-off masterpiece that never puts a foot wrong. The whole thing is like a fever dream that sounds somewhere between a Tarantino aesthetic and Massive Attack having a drug-induced mental breakdown - all while a drunken homeless dude rants dark, incoherent nihilism poetry in the background. Floats my boat, big time. Perfection.
I love a nice, rambling HUMAN video intro Andy (and your 'commercial break' 😂) so more of that would be fine by me 😁 Incidentally (or fundamentally in fact given it's the subject) I love alot of your list too. Personally I would add one thing if it was mine, and that would be A Trick Of The Tail. Keep it up fellow Brummie, from a Brummie exiled in Oregon.
Oh, also, I'm disappointed the pipe-smoking under Spaghetti Junction video wasn't popular as I personally loved it. Maybe try it again but with music discussion or listening? I say this primarily because I was looking forward to the proposed fishing one that presumably got shelved. Ah well.
I have this weird theory that Tea for One is maligned mainly because it's the last song on the album. It kind of hangs off the end there apart from the other tracks, and ends the album on a downer. I reckon if it had swapped places with Hots On for Nowhere, it would be much more respected. People would have Hots On to cheer them up afterwards!
@ Had it been on Physical Graffiti the critics would have hailed it as sheer genius… the legendary, natural progression bookend to Since I’ve Been Loving You.
just out of curiosity, is British Drum Kit the brand of the drum kit?? and what brand are your cymbals? I have been taught since I was about 11 years old(now I am 75) Had to give it up due to age and pain, but i still love to hear a good drummer. Steve Gadd is my favorite followed by Dave Brubeck , Gene Krupa(who was my hero growing up. Who influenced you .?
I couldn't name ten. I could name 77, 99, 133 off the top of me head and if I did it again the next day the list would change a bit. Crime of the Century. Avalon. Zep One. Ray Charles sings Country and Western, volumes one and two. Help. Beggar's Banquet. Birds of Fire. The Shutov Assembly. Hot Rats. Axis: Bold as Love. Electric Ladyland. The Idiot. Scary Monsters. The Doors (first). Sweetnighter. All of Andy's choices. Perfection is or is not when categorizing albums.
Agree with most of these. Could easily have been a top 50. Gentle Giant have released at least two perfect albums - Acquiring the Taste and Octopus. What a band. Other purveyors of perfection: Focus - Hamburger Concerto Pat Metheny - Imaginary Day Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light Booker T & the MGs - Melting Pot Genesis - A Trick of the Tail Jean-Luc Ponty - Aurora Bill Bruford - One of a Kind Jeff Beck - Wired Jethro Tull - Aqualung Tempted to add Zappa's Overnite Sensation, but it loses a point for being too pervy. Naughty Frank.
Andy, you truly did a perfect video. Thank you so much. And it was quite entertaining! I agree with your number one, even though it's not my favourite album. However, it's near divine perfection.
This one was a banger. The deconstruction middle was genius. I'm in the minority though. Without Bon Scott AC/DC are a different band. Back in Black may be perfection but it's perfection of a different group.
Half way through your drums appear over your left shoulder before they were over your right shoulder and the radiators went from left shoulder to right, was that some prog rock light diffusion trick? Or what...
Mate I started writing Kind of Blue and Sunday at the Village Vanguard at the beginning of the video, luckily I waited till the end and you put them on the list! I should have known that you would choose those, they are really perfect.
Andy, philosophy aside, I've come to realize your channel is mainly music appreciation class. Took a while, eh? When I had music appreciation in grade school in the 60's none of these albums existed. I don't think I was exposed to anything more recent than Stravinsky. And, pop music, including jazz, wasn't considered serious music. I always look forward to your teachings Master. Peace out...
That's why I love music. I hate that album. I've owned it for 32 years and I still don't get it. I love sketches of Spain and In a Silent Way and many other Miles albums but after listening to kind of blue I reckon 50 times I've concluded that I really don't like it. I think our ears are like taste-buds, what's delicious to some is nauseating to others.
Brilliant video, Andy. Don’t be too hard on yourself, we all make mistakes and haters are going to hate. I’m going to listen through these gems over the next few days.
Bald bastard (shaved head) here. Normally I take the stance that hair is overrated, but your hair looks fabulous! Edit: Thoroughly enjoyed the drumming.
I have been in search of the perfect album my whole life. Even my favorites of all time have a track, or two, that I would kick off the record. Perfection is hard man!
I loved it, man. All the chaos with its core of your wanting to share the things that drive you through life. It’s like my ADHD expressed in ways I can’t seem to express. Arts take you where nothing else can. Thanks Andy, you hit the spot every time.
You’re brilliant!…simple as that👍 you must be so popular at parties, just start you off and sit back and be entertained. Hysterical! I bought a moody blues album from that same record shop in the late seventies as a hippy art student, and that had a bloody fault in it! Was it the record shop scratching the bloody vinyls!!
Blue, Pink Moon, Uncle Meat, Are You Experienced, Heliocentric World, Cellar Door Sessions, VU 1969, Clash, Impressions, Songs in the Key of Life, Astral Weeks
The Mahavishnu's 'Inner Mountain Flame' might be the apex of creativity combined with having just a lot of bloody fun playing! Anyway I loved this episode thank you!
I really appreciated you arguing with your other two personalities in the rant section. It makes you seem more human. I too am guilty of the same malady, only I don't have a RUclips channel. Thank God! Your drum grooves at the end are sublime. I thought for sure that Genesis ~ Selling England By The Pound would have been on your list...
Well Andy,you kept me enthralled to the very end,did not know what to expect.Should have realised that it would all end up philosophically ethereall,but really entertaining,as usual.Nice choices,by the way.
At university had the same discussion :D I wonder what yours will be. Where we mostly agreed (that was 30 years ago) were News of the World (Queen), The Getaway (Chris de Burgh), A Hard Day's Night (Beatles), Black Celebration (Depeche Mode), Misplace Childhood (Marillion), Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) - but as you say already at the beginning these are albums that NEVER would be on your list and it will be very jazz-fusion heavy again... yes you said it. Okay, let's see what you have in store for us. Agree on Red - Islands will always be my fav KC album and ppl hate it, so should they! Starless is for me the best piece of music ever written after Echoes. And these two tracks I want to have played on my funeral.
News of the World? Seriously? For this Queen fan at the time, this album was the beginning of the end. It drew in lots of new fans who liked the whole thump thump thump yay for us thing for some reason, but this, and Jazz after it, lost me forever as a fan. I guess that doesn't exactly address its perfection. I suppose an album of crap could be a perfect album of crap--and no, I don't go that far with my hatred of it--but suffice it to say I see no perfection of any kind in it.
Tool -Aenima; The Ruts - The Crack; Oresund Space Collective - The Black Tomato; Joni Mitchell - For The Roses; Van Morrison - Moondance; Traffic - Low Spark of High Heel Boys; Toadies - Rubberneck; Frazey Ford - Obadiah; Yes - 90125; sElf - Subliminal Plastic Motives; Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions; The Police - Ghost in the Machine; Miles Davis - On The Corner; Wojchiech Kilar - The Ninth Gate; Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Falls Witchita; Magazine - Secondhand Daylight; John Denver - Rocky Mountain High; Squeeze - East Side Story; Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love; Dr. Hook - Bankrupt; Grateful Dead - Blues For Allah; Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle; Beth Orton - Daybreaker; Julieta Venegas - Si'; Vespero - SUBKRAUT - U-BOATS WILLKOMMEN HIER; Sergio Mendes - Encanto'; Aly & AJ - With Love; Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream
I know you think of Aerosmith as a garage band but I am older than you and Get Your Wings was the transformable album for me and as such, will always remain a fond favorite. Give me a LZ album just because I love them but think their production is terrible. Yes is awesome and of course Close To The Edge and Fragile have to be on the list. Give me Deguello by ZZ Top. Aja by Steely Band needs to be on the list. Love 2112. DSOTM by Pink Floyd has to be there. The best of the Alan Parsons Project had fantastic production. My only desert island need is Animals by Pink Floyd. I consider it to be the most moving album ever made based mostly on the unbelievable guitar work of David Gilmour.
I'm always thrilled when I see someone else giving love to Animals. It's a transformative listen, especially with some green, a psychedelic, or fine liquor, and you won't be the same person at the end of that album
King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic. Cyinic - Focus. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame. Metallica - Master of Puppets. Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage. Mr. Bungle - ST. Fantomas - The Director's Cut. Roger Waters - Pros and Cons of Hitchiking. Meshugga - Destroy, Erase, Improve, Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion. I'd need a top 20 or 50.
I don't think the average viewer realizes how deep these videos are. And either Andy puts more thought into these videos before he starts filming than he's willing to admit or he's one of the most spontaneously profound people I've ever come across.
We have a song called 'Highway to Hell' and one called 'Stairway to Heaven,' but I feel like we're missing out on one. We should have a song called 'Service Road Through Purgatory.'
Lift to Limbo?
There's Billy Fury's Halfway To Paradise
I suppose "Stuck in the Middle with You" might fit the bill.
Gravel trail through a country meadow
@@brianparker663 Soul Limbo would be more commercial
I am a little jealous of your ability to have such interesting philosophical discussions and conversations by yourself.
(mine always tend to end in a huge fight ;))
LMAO
@@martijn_yt you know you’re in trouble when you start punching yourself in the face. 😂
so do his
The Who - Who's Next. Not near perfect. Absolutely perfect.
Quadrophenia is a shade better, IMHO each song is great. Plus they sound even better when you listen to the whole album.
@@schrodingerszombie2401 I skip The Song is Over, and frankly, find 5:15 and Drowned on Quadrophenia excessively dull. In fact, I didn't listen to Quadrophenia for a long time because 5:15 was such a weak song.
@@blairmulholland I don't.
@@blairmulholland I consider Quadrophenia my absolute favorite album for over 50 years, and I agree that 5:15 and Drowned are perhaps my least favorite. But "The Song is Over" is exquisite. I love the parallels to "Pure and Easy" and how the 2 songs reference the magic, joy, and power of music.
I consider Thick As A Brick a perfect album. It's far more interesting musically then casual listeners think. It's a single song with a simple theme that nevertheless goes for two whole sides without anything ever repeating. Nothing is played or sung exactly the same way twice. And when you throw in the brilliant silliness of the lyrics, the "concept," and the packaging, I just see in it a perfect whole...a perfect circle, without blemish.
JT was absolutely brilliant in those days. Aqualung is another gem.
@@per-hakansvahn8044 Yes there's not a bad minute or whatever on both Aqualung and Thick as a brick.Perfect albums !
@@per-hakansvahn8044 Why did you say that? I mean genuinely. Aqualung is their most famous album by far - loved even by people with no interest in prog. Its one of the most obvious classic classics that appears on all manner of lists that everyone knows about.
Check out The Beatles - another gem.
Agreed with Thick as a Brick. Entire album is packed with musical and lyrical genius. Best part for me is the final five minutes of side one where Ian Anderson shuffles in the courtroom with rings upon his fingers.
So Completely agree with the list. But, Andy I will mention that you will absolutely not agree with.
This album to me is the bands best and most nearly perfect album. It has all the elects of rock, blues, soul, swagger and melon collie atmosphere and I have to mention Sticky Finger.
Even without being a Stones fan most people will regard this as an apex listening experience.
It is right behind Led Zep IV for me.
This video was like a epic prog song. Weird twist and turns, odd tempo changes and deep thought mixed with gags and jokes. I love it
Don’t forget virtuosity.
“Huge organs float my boat.” -Andy Edwards
LOL!!!
This is one of the best displays of ADHD as natural comedy ever.
Also I love how he can be humble about his hubris.
PERFECT imperfection!
LOL! Andy is an opinionated semi-asshole. I watch him because I am too.
I gave you a "like" just for telling everyone that this channel is about Prog, Jazz and Jazz Fusion. The list is good, too.
Music.....humor.....philosophy.....performance art. This channel has it all!
Not enough fish.
The Cars by The Cars, and Boston by Boston. Nothing but net, all the tracks. The Cars in particular is practically a greatest hits album. Every track on there could have been a single.
I was waiting for Boston-s/t. another perfect Boston (the city) album: "Real Kids"
Spirit----"The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus" is near perfect and still slaps hard, over and over.
So true! An overlooked gem by a band whose first four albums were all great, though 'The Twelve Dreams...' was/is/and will continue to be outstanding.
One of the things that keeps me coming back for more is I know by now I'm going to get the contrarian, the jester, the expert, the love of tendentious discourse and somewhere the spirit of finding the synthesis of the absurd with the profund snatches of Truth always shines through. Hegelian dialetics or slapstick hypotheticals; that search for the numinous is king. I love that xMx
Andy, you really should get Robert Plant on for an interview. I'd love hear the two of you talk about the good & bad times you had playing together, along with many other topics.
The Beatles- Rubber Soul.
The Doors- The Doors.
Nick Drake- Five Leaves Left.
The Beatles- Abbey Road.
Joni Mitchell- Blue.
Fleetwood Mac- Rumours.
Bob Dylan- Blood On The Tracks.
Radiohead- The Bends.
Pink Floyd- Dark Side Of The Moon.
Paul Simon- Graceland.
I have all your selection except Fleetwood Mac. I have a few 'Peter Green' Mac albums, though.
In Rainbows
The Doors' first and last albums were perfect on their own terms. The ones in between retrod old ground or strayed. (But were still pretty good.)
nice selection
For me, Abbey Road would be "perfect without Maxwell's Silver Hammer".
Kinks- Village Green Preservation Society
Bob Dylan- Blonde On Blonde
Beach Boys- Pet Sound
Joni Mitchell- Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Marvin Gaye- What's Going On
Randy Newman -Sail Away
The Band- Music From Big Pink
Beatles- Revolver
Smiths- The Queen Is Dead
Dusty Springfield- Dusty In Memphis
Byrds- Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
John Cale- Paris 1919
David Bowie- Hunky Dory
Love -Forever Changes
John Coltrane- A love Supreme
The Band (brown cover) in a dead heat with Big Pink for me. Regardless. The albums Big Pink, The Band, Stage Fright, Cahoots, Live at the Academy and Northern Lights, Southern Cross are a body of work practically without peer. Fifty-plus years on the music is as fresh and alive as it was back in the day. A remarkable group.
3:07 I'm lukewarm on most jazz (love big band), prog, and fusion. I come here for your extensive knowledge of music history (and your enthusiasm thereof), and your humor and rants, as well as your raw approach. In other words, I come _despite_ the jazz, prog and fusion. 😁
Albums I wouldn't change a note of ---- Paul McCandless-All The Mornings Bring; Steely Dan-Aja; Gentle Giant-The Power & The Glory; Discipline-Unfolded Like Staircase; UK-s/t; Hatfield & The North-s/t; National Health-s/t; PFM-Per Un Amico; Happy The Man-s/t; Al Stewart-Year Of The Cat; Yes-CTTE & Relayer; Pat Metheny-The Way Up; VDGG-Godbluff
Noooice. :)
Gotta be some Gentle Giant - P&G, Three Friends or Free Hand all in the frame?🤔
@@brianparker663 Yeah. I chose "Power & The Glory" but "Three Friends" is actually my favorite by them so any of those would be good!
Godbluff - great call.
@ Yes. I'd heard the previous two and loved them - but "Three Friends" cemented it. It's seamless.
Great stuff Andy, 2025 starting well!
My list (goes to 11+1):
Too Tough To Die - Ramones
Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk
Completion Backward Principle - The Tubes
Ocean Rain - Echo & the Bunnymen
Presence - Led Zeppelin
Tin Drum - Japan
The Man Machine - Kraftwerk
Station to Station - David Bowie
The Trident Sessions - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Sabatage - Black Sabbath
Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield
Protection - Massive Attack
That's a pretty good list.
Any Magazine album.
Tea For One astonished me when I first heard it. It's all about pain. I wonder if people who don't like it either can't take that feeling or they are fortunate enough to have never had such pain of their own.
I think it's one of their most underrated songs. It's kind of a successor to Since I've Been Lovin' You, which to me is their best slow blues bar none.
Oh come on, Andy, the solos in 'Dogs' are bloody fantastic.. Pure intense psychedelia at the synesthesia level. Looks as good as it sounds. 😂
On Zeppelin’s Presence, the song Hots On For Nowhere always makes me smile.
Bonham is pure badass on that.
Perfection
LadadadadadaDAAAHhhh yeah! LadadadadadaDAH NAW BAY BE!
My list
1, Chick Corea's Electric Band
2. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
3. Yes The Yes Album
4. Jean Luc Ponty - Fables
5. Ac/Dc Back in Black
6. Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries
7. Kiss- Rock and Roll Over
8. Weather Report - Heavy Weather
9. Yellowjackets 1st album
10. Dave Brubeck - Take Five
Kudos for putting Michael Hedges on there. He rarely seems to get the respect he deserves.
Love Presence was my first Led Zeppelin album and "Achilles Last Stand" was one of their all-time greats, the bonus is that it is not overplayed. Great album. If you do not follow my opinion it is "nobody's fault but mine".
Well-done, Andy!
Entertaining and thoughtful. Nice bit of drumming at the end, too.
I’m forwarding this video to a couple of friends.
Brilliantly funny and very informative. Thank you, I’ve still got ‘ear worm’ from your rendition of ‘Just like a woman’ the other week. I also liked your best albums of the middle of each decade videos. Couldn’t believe ‘The Wombles’ didn’t make it onto your list for 1975 though.
It's not anti-youtubing, it's Andy-youtubing...and it's what we're here for
We need a list of youtube creators, over 50, with the best hair. I reckon you'd make the top 5.
Rick Beato must be in the list, but what about that US prog guy with “peace, happiness and understanding” or whatever he’s saying 🤔.
Yeah we need people like mr Edwards and mr Beato. Even their truth isn’t the true truth always, they e like the slaves sitting next to the Roman emperors whispering “remember that you are mortal”.
Stevie Wonder's Innervisions. All in Love is Fair doesn't quite stand up to the rest of the album's eight tracks but for me this is still perfection. To give this brilliant album of work even further context, it was written and produced by Stevie at the ridiculously young age of 21-22 years old. Plays most of the instruments. On Living for the City for example, he plays every instrument. The work of one of the greatest singer/songwriter/musicians at his absolute peak.
Beyond perfect: 10. Grand Funk Railroad: "E Pluribus Funk" - 9. Jimi Hendrix: "Electric Ladyland" - 8. Popol Vuh: "Hosianna Mantra" - 7. Genesis: "Nursery Crime" - 6. Slade: "Slayed?" - 5. Oscar Peterson: "Canadiana Suite" - 4. Journey: "Infinity" - 3.Miles Davis: "Birth of the Cool" - 2. Alexander Scriabin: "The Poem of Ecstasy"- 1. ELP: "Tarkus"
Good for you Andy on Presence could not have said it better myself
Agreed. And I was particularly happy to hear the shout out for Tea For One. I thought I was the only one in the world who considers it one of the greatest Blues Rock tracks ever recorded.
Andy.... you are brilliant and a fellow west Midlands dude.... here are my perfect albums as I remember them at this moment...
Jellyfish- Spilt Milk
Jeff Buckley- Grace
Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
Rush- Moving Pictures
Van Halen - 1st
Sparklehorse- It's A Wonderful Life
Opeth- Ghost Reveries
White Sister - 1st
It Bites- Eat Me In St Louis
Kansas- In The Spirit Of Things
Sorry that I am not versed in jazz fusing, sir... I can only go by my own experience
Oh no..... I forgot Revolver 😅
Revisited Four Sticks, thanks to you. Was always a minor piece to me and generally ignored. Not anymore. Yes! on that middle section! Sublime. How has it taken me fifty-three years to discover a gem lost to me in their deep treasure-chest canon? I adore the first album, though. I love the in-your-face-mix (different from everything to follow), the blues, the extended solos, the breathtaking wailing vocals, the drama and dynamics. It's my favorite Zep album.
Excellent!
Your favorite albums: Astral Weeks and Blonde On Blonde. Two unpretentious albums. /s
On a serious note, I hope Allan Holdsworth is on the list. Im trying to get into his music and it would be good to know which one is the best, as we have very similar taste.
One of the key components of a round character (vs flat character) is that their actions and tastes surprise the reader. They are usually round if they do the unexpected. The jock that listens to classical and jazz.
Flat characters are cookie cutter people, all the same, doing what youd expect them to do. There are too many flat characters in the world. What I see is you promoting the importance of being well rounded and not shallow.
Finally someone that doesn't hate Presence. My favorite Zep album and I'm a huge fanboy. I love all of their stuff but Presence is definitely my favorite. It's amazing to me that so many people consider it their worst album. It's Page's ultimate guitar statement. Every track is a masterclass guitar layering and studio genius. Presence has funk and bounce alongside heavy rock - prog brilliance and it works! That's what I hear anyway. I know I am the minority but I also know that I am correct. It's is the ultimate expression of what Led Zeppelin was in the mid to late 70's. Trust me I'm old and wise and stuff.
Allan Holdsworth - The Sixteen Men of Tain
To save time watching time, here are the Top 5:
1) Love Beach - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
2) Space Jazz - L. Ron Hubbard
3) The Ramones- The Ramones
4) Horses - Patti Smith
5) Greatest Hits - Kenny G
Love Beach....a good album, Kenny G I could listen to all day, the rest are the work of Satan
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer LOL loved your ranting video, agree weith quite a few of your picks.
It’s the British accent, neuroticism and insights that make this bloke’s channel cool
"British accent"? What's that? There are a great many. This young gentleman is from the English West Midlands for sure.
I just want to thank you for your channel, I'm 65, getting very heavy into listening to music, I just watch your channel on my Apple TV, RUclips channel, pause your video, jump over to Apple Music, add the album to my playlist, go back to your channel to finish and repeat. I usually agree with about 80%-85% of what you like, about 30% of the albums you suggested I don't have, some I have never heard of, (Mahavishnu for example), and get to enjoy for the first time so thank you for your channel. Paul Elliott
Andy you have become the mate I look forward to bumping into. Love your videos.
I think I'm the only person alive that actually loves 'Love Hungry Man' (second to last song btw, not second) And mainly because of the 'disco' bass.
I nearly spit coffee out of my nose when he said “By-Tor and the Snowman”. 🤣🤣
Those drums sound terrific in that space. Nice ending to the video. Totally agree with "Visions of the Emerald Beyond". I've always said it sounded 20 years ahead of its time when recorded and every year it seems to stay that way.
Two things. Never change, and Led Zeppelin’s Presence is a wonderful album, one of my favourites of theirs. I also, for once, completely agree with your choices so all I can do is extend the list.
11. The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell
12. Aladdin Sane, David Bowie
13. Abandoned Luncheonette, Hall & Oates (you should give it a listen)
14. Rumours
15. Going For The One, Yes
16. Rainbow Rising
17. Automatic For The People, R.E.M.
18. Hotel California
19. Making Movies Dire Straits
20. The Planets, Gustav Holst.
If it's Joni, there's Song to a Seagull & Hejira. 🙂
1. The Hissing of Summer Lawns; 2. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Hold up. What's the issue with Aladdin Sane, or The Planets for matter, and don't say it doesn't contain Pluto!
For me the sublime in music is the female choir in 'the planets' slowly disappearing into infinity until both sound and vibration eventually vanish once more into emptiness and silence.
I don't know nuthin' 'bout no jazz (though I have enjoyed some on occasion), so here is my jazz-less list:
1. Deep Purple: Made in Japan
2. David Bowie: Station to Station
3. Depeche Mode: Violator
4. XTC: English Settlement
5. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
6. Frank Zappa: Apostrophe (')
7. Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark
8. Black Sabbath: Paranoid
9. Elton John: Madman Across the Water
10. Jethro Tull: Aqualung
Honorable mentions:
- The Guess Who: Live at the Paramount
- Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
- The Moody Blues: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
- King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
- Elvis Costello: Imperial Bedroom
- Lana Del Rey: Born to Die
- Yes: The Yes Album
- Genesis: Selling England by the Pound
- Soundgarden: Superunknown
- Thomas Dolby: The Flat Earth
- Gordon Lightfoot: Sundown
- Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman
- The Beatles: Abbey Road
- Tangerine Dream: Stratosfear
Great list. "English Settlement" 😍
I've noticed for a while now Andy, that your vids are full of Freemasonic symbolism and imagery. And that thumbnail is right up there with the best of them. 👏
Another “perfect” video, Andy. Loved every minute. Will probably listen to it again. Thank you.
Thankyou for posting "Red"!! Your top 2 is like the John/Carlos "Love Devotion, Surrender". Johns, Devotion from '70 never gets mentioned...brooding psychedelic jazz...what could be better? Great video!
The title cut is fantastic, although the rest of the album is a little "noodle-y" and plodding, for me at least. I remember when "Birds of Fire" was the 'hot' (haha) record for a bit, around the same time Jeff Beck was getting into a fusion type groove with "Blow By Blow"... that was the thing for a while, Weather Report comes to mind as well...
While I can't argue with Red, I've recently come to the surprising conclusion that Discipline is my favorite KC album, precisely because it is so "near perfect"...not a bad track, and Sheltering Sky is the best of the obligatory meandering tracks. Sublime.
Another great video! Highway to Hell is also my favorite AC/DC album. But you made a boo-boo. “Love Hungry Man” is the second-to-last track on the album, not the second track.
A perfect jazz album that no one talks about... Somethin' Else by Cannonball Adderley. Autumn Leaves and, especially, Love for Sale. Oh boy!
Same crew that made Kind Of Blue, and just about the same time.
drumming a little bit too " Conversation " ( just saying )
Anyway, Peace to all.
@johnreuter4916 Different Drummer ( Art Blakey ) Just saying.
Anyway, Peace to all.
Nice song and promo. Many thanks for the bit of drumming. Great choices for the 10. Your word jazz and word prog make sense to me. “Misty Mountain Hop” is my favourite Led Zeppelin song and maybe because of it “Uncontrollable Urge” is my favourite DEVO.
"DUH!!" -Perfection. Love it. And, Ive only listened to 4 minutes. Youre the best
How enjoyable was this, what a flow! 10/10 once again Andy, please don't stop!👍👍
Andy we gonna getcha to 100k - top 10 classic rock songs, top 10 prog songs, top 10 female artists, top 10 jazz songs, top 10 funk songs, top 10 jazz fusion, top 10 blues, top 10 American bands, top 10 soul, top 10 hip hop, top 10 do you get my drift yet? Carry on Andy.
Thank you for this, it's actually really useful...shall I just go for broke and do the bleeding obvious?
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer well why not? It’s about audience reach. I know nothing of jazz but thanks to you I’ve discovered lots of music I really enjoy
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Never over-estimate the intellect of your audience , mate...
@@AndyEdwardsDrummerthe top ten of possible top ten lists should be the next level 😅 meanwhile I was pondering, some 'contentious' drummers Ginger Baker, Ringo Starr, Stewart Copeland. They seem to elicit quite some negative comments, GB is crap, RS is the weakest of the Beatles etc. Some further insight would be welcome.
@ one more thing: I feel you need to widen the range of music a little right now because you can pull in people who aren’t into your core music but they’ll come back for your quirky sense of humor and personality. Once you get to a certain level you’ll grow organically by people sharing your videos because of things other than jazz or prog. Here we are now. Entertain us!
Love the vids. I'm not into prog, jazz or jazz fusion (I'm not sophisticated enough, I s'pose). I don't come here for them anyway. I come for the freestyle rambling humour of Andy grounded in a deep knowledge of music. Just the Brummie accent brings a smile. I watched a recent video right to the end that had the rambling Brummie monologue at the end wit the animation. Loved it. Reminiscent of Eric Idle's rant on the travel agent sketch in Python (could that be the first comedy rant?...).
I watch these lists tightly gripping the arms of my chair praying that a Who album will get its due. Usually, I disappointed, but, as previously mentioned, I'm not very sophisticated. As a Canadian, I was glad to see Oscar Peterson on the list. Our artists never get enough recognition.
As for getting words wrong and your philosophy regarding perfection, I'm a few years older than Andy and can empathize. I've always annoyed people with my ability to recall musicians, actors, directors etc... That has suddenly become more difficult. I can start a dinner conversation about a famous director then, suddenly, his name leaves my brain for a minute... It usually comes back within a few minutes but it is disconcerting. What a drag it is getting old... someone should work that line into a song...
When it comes to Andy's mistakes therein lies the charm. I enjoy Andy for the spontaneity, the unbridled enthusiasm. If Andy was to present a perfect narrative, true to script like a politician reading off a teleprompter, I'd tune out. I want the unscripted energy. It's the same reason I prefer live performances of music over studio 'perfection'. It's just as Andy says, it's the odd sour note that makes it great. What would the Who (greatest live act in rock history) be without feedback?
Keep up the good work. Oh nice move putting a beautiful woman into your video to reward those who stick around to the end.
Thank you for this! And Eva is beautiful but also extremely talented
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Both (beauty and talent) are very evident.
Andy, I don't know as much about Fusion, know more about Jaz and know even more about Prog, but I can learn more. Anyway, even at almost 47, I love learning about music that hasn't been on my radar as much. If I want butt rock, I'll turn on a radio or something. Wait, I don't even own a radio.
The most perfect album I have ever listened to is the wonderfully titled 'How to Operate with a Blown Mind' by Lo Fidelity Allstars.
Of course subjective.
Of course personal taste.
For me, this album was a one-off masterpiece that never puts a foot wrong.
The whole thing is like a fever dream that sounds somewhere between a Tarantino aesthetic and Massive Attack having a drug-induced mental breakdown - all while a drunken homeless dude rants dark, incoherent nihilism poetry in the background.
Floats my boat, big time.
Perfection.
I love a nice, rambling HUMAN video intro Andy (and your 'commercial break' 😂) so more of that would be fine by me 😁 Incidentally (or fundamentally in fact given it's the subject) I love alot of your list too. Personally I would add one thing if it was mine, and that would be A Trick Of The Tail. Keep it up fellow Brummie, from a Brummie exiled in Oregon.
Oh, also, I'm disappointed the pipe-smoking under Spaghetti Junction video wasn't popular as I personally loved it. Maybe try it again but with music discussion or listening? I say this primarily because I was looking forward to the proposed fishing one that presumably got shelved. Ah well.
Great job Andy! I have a couple of jazz albums I need to dig into now. 👍🏼
'Tea For One" is second only to 'Achilles' Last Stand' on Presence, and it's probably in Zep's top fifteen overall. Vastly underrated.
I have this weird theory that Tea for One is maligned mainly because it's the last song on the album. It kind of hangs off the end there apart from the other tracks, and ends the album on a downer. I reckon if it had swapped places with Hots On for Nowhere, it would be much more respected. People would have Hots On to cheer them up afterwards!
@ Had it been on Physical Graffiti the critics would have hailed it as sheer genius… the legendary, natural progression bookend to Since I’ve Been Loving You.
just out of curiosity, is British Drum Kit the brand of the drum kit?? and what brand are your cymbals? I have been taught since I was about 11 years old(now I am 75) Had to give it up due to age and pain, but i still love to hear a good drummer. Steve Gadd is my favorite followed by Dave Brubeck , Gene Krupa(who was my hero growing up.
Who influenced you .?
Who's Next. And then the outtakes from Who's Next would make a second perfect album.
I couldn't name ten. I could name 77, 99, 133 off the top of me head and if I did it again the next day the list would change a bit. Crime of the Century. Avalon. Zep One. Ray Charles sings Country and Western, volumes one and two. Help. Beggar's Banquet. Birds of Fire. The Shutov Assembly. Hot Rats. Axis: Bold as Love. Electric Ladyland. The Idiot. Scary Monsters. The Doors (first). Sweetnighter. All of Andy's choices. Perfection is or is not when categorizing albums.
Agree with most of these. Could easily have been a top 50. Gentle Giant have released at least two perfect albums - Acquiring the Taste and Octopus. What a band.
Other purveyors of perfection:
Focus - Hamburger Concerto
Pat Metheny - Imaginary Day
Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light
Booker T & the MGs - Melting Pot
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Jean-Luc Ponty - Aurora
Bill Bruford - One of a Kind
Jeff Beck - Wired
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Tempted to add Zappa's Overnite Sensation, but it loses a point for being too pervy. Naughty Frank.
Andy, you truly did a perfect video. Thank you so much. And it was quite entertaining! I agree with your number one, even though it's not my favourite album. However, it's near divine perfection.
This one was a banger. The deconstruction middle was genius. I'm in the minority though. Without Bon Scott AC/DC are a different band. Back in Black may be perfection but it's perfection of a different group.
Mine is Queensryche Operation mindcrime.the whole hour is progressive metal perfection
Yes
A video about musical perfection that ends with a broken drumstick is like a Buddhist sand painting being wiped away after it's completed.
Nice drumming at the end
Thank you
Half way through your drums appear over your left shoulder before they were over your right shoulder and the radiators went from left shoulder to right, was that some prog rock light diffusion trick? Or what...
And then it went back again, very mysterious...
Superb Andy. I had one of those in my list, more than usual!
Mate I started writing Kind of Blue and Sunday at the Village Vanguard at the beginning of the video, luckily I waited till the end and you put them on the list! I should have known that you would choose those, they are really perfect.
Great show, cosy place. Maybe I will listen one of these albums..
Andy, philosophy aside, I've come to realize your channel is mainly music appreciation class. Took a while, eh? When I had music appreciation in grade school in the 60's none of these albums existed. I don't think I was exposed to anything more recent than Stravinsky. And, pop music, including jazz, wasn't considered serious music. I always look forward to your teachings Master. Peace out...
Kind of Blue is my Fave album its just wow
That's why I love music. I hate that album. I've owned it for 32 years and I still don't get it. I love sketches of Spain and In a Silent Way and many other Miles albums but after listening to kind of blue I reckon 50 times I've concluded that I really don't like it. I think our ears are like taste-buds, what's delicious to some is nauseating to others.
Brilliant video, Andy. Don’t be too hard on yourself, we all make mistakes and haters are going to hate. I’m going to listen through these gems over the next few days.
Bald bastard (shaved head) here. Normally I take the stance that hair is overrated, but your hair looks fabulous!
Edit: Thoroughly enjoyed the drumming.
This is true...I got in the bath, took my glasses off then washed my hair with the dog's shampoo! I promise you this is actually true!
If he were an actor, he would play the roles of Greek philosophers.
Yes, one of the stoics. Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus MF Aurelius.
I have been in search of the perfect album my whole life. Even my favorites of all time have a track, or two, that I would kick off the record. Perfection is hard man!
I loved it, man. All the chaos with its core of your wanting to share the things that drive you through life. It’s like my ADHD expressed in ways I can’t seem to express. Arts take you where nothing else can. Thanks Andy, you hit the spot every time.
You’re brilliant!…simple as that👍 you must be so popular at parties, just start you off and sit back and be entertained. Hysterical! I bought a moody blues album from that same record shop in the late seventies as a hippy art student, and that had a bloody fault in it! Was it the record shop scratching the bloody vinyls!!
Blue, Pink Moon, Uncle Meat, Are You Experienced, Heliocentric World, Cellar Door Sessions,
VU 1969, Clash, Impressions, Songs in the Key of Life, Astral Weeks
Superb video, Andy. It flows like an Irish pint of Guinness.
The Mahavishnu's 'Inner Mountain Flame' might be the apex of creativity combined with having just a lot of bloody fun playing! Anyway I loved this episode thank you!
I really appreciated you arguing with your other two personalities in the rant section. It makes you seem more human. I too am guilty of the same malady, only I don't have a RUclips channel. Thank God! Your drum grooves at the end are sublime. I thought for sure that Genesis ~ Selling England By The Pound would have been on your list...
Well Andy,you kept me enthralled to the very end,did not know what to expect.Should have realised that it would all end up philosophically ethereall,but really entertaining,as usual.Nice choices,by the way.
GREAT drum solo Andy!
At university had the same discussion :D I wonder what yours will be. Where we mostly agreed (that was 30 years ago) were News of the World (Queen), The Getaway (Chris de Burgh), A Hard Day's Night (Beatles), Black Celebration (Depeche Mode), Misplace Childhood (Marillion), Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) - but as you say already at the beginning these are albums that NEVER would be on your list and it will be very jazz-fusion heavy again... yes you said it. Okay, let's see what you have in store for us.
Agree on Red - Islands will always be my fav KC album and ppl hate it, so should they! Starless is for me the best piece of music ever written after Echoes. And these two tracks I want to have played on my funeral.
News of the World? Seriously? For this Queen fan at the time, this album was the beginning of the end. It drew in lots of new fans who liked the whole thump thump thump yay for us thing for some reason, but this, and Jazz after it, lost me forever as a fan.
I guess that doesn't exactly address its perfection. I suppose an album of crap could be a perfect album of crap--and no, I don't go that far with my hatred of it--but suffice it to say I see no perfection of any kind in it.
I come here for the jazz, humor and rants. Well done once again sir.
Lemon Jelly wrote a song for you, it is called Ramblin' Man. Keep up the good work Andy.
I'm just wondering what he does in the bath!
@@davidcopson5800 All the ducks are swimming in the water, Fal-de-ral-de-ral-do. Fal-de-ral-de-ral-do
Tool -Aenima; The Ruts - The Crack; Oresund Space Collective - The Black Tomato; Joni Mitchell - For The Roses; Van Morrison - Moondance; Traffic - Low Spark of High Heel Boys; Toadies - Rubberneck; Frazey Ford - Obadiah; Yes - 90125; sElf - Subliminal Plastic Motives; Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions; The Police - Ghost in the Machine; Miles Davis - On The Corner; Wojchiech Kilar - The Ninth Gate; Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Falls Witchita; Magazine - Secondhand Daylight; John Denver - Rocky Mountain High; Squeeze - East Side Story; Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love; Dr. Hook - Bankrupt; Grateful Dead - Blues For Allah; Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle; Beth Orton - Daybreaker; Julieta Venegas - Si'; Vespero - SUBKRAUT - U-BOATS WILLKOMMEN HIER; Sergio Mendes - Encanto'; Aly & AJ - With Love; Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream
Tool, The Ruts, Magazine, good call.
I know you think of Aerosmith as a garage band but I am older than you and Get Your Wings was the transformable album for me and as such, will always remain a fond favorite. Give me a LZ album just because I love them but think their production is terrible. Yes is awesome and of course Close To The Edge and Fragile have to be on the list. Give me Deguello by ZZ Top. Aja by Steely Band needs to be on the list. Love 2112. DSOTM by Pink Floyd has to be there. The best of the Alan Parsons Project had fantastic production. My only desert island need is Animals by Pink Floyd. I consider it to be the most moving album ever made based mostly on the unbelievable guitar work of David Gilmour.
I'm always thrilled when I see someone else giving love to Animals. It's a transformative listen, especially with some green, a psychedelic, or fine liquor, and you won't be the same person at the end of that album
Brilliantly imperfect video! Well done sir.
Andy have you got a squeaky chair or ducks nesting in your studio .
Oh my, what will the Professor pull out of his big brain? Looking for forward it with my notepad handy.
King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic. Cyinic - Focus. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame. Metallica - Master of Puppets. Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage. Mr. Bungle - ST. Fantomas - The Director's Cut. Roger Waters - Pros and Cons of Hitchiking. Meshugga - Destroy, Erase, Improve, Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion. I'd need a top 20 or 50.
Bought your new album. Wow, I knew it woild be good, but it is sublime. 😻😻😻😻😻😻
Wow, thank you!
Gillan Mr Universe
I don't think the average viewer realizes how deep these videos are. And either Andy puts more thought into these videos before he starts filming than he's willing to admit or he's one of the most spontaneously profound people I've ever come across.
Are they crows in the background?
They sound great.