When searching for "War of the Worlds" and he said "what are the chances of finding it?" it was impossible for me not to think "a million to one he said".
dAMMIT! I spotted that too, but I only saw this video seven days after it went up. Just posted a similar comment, feeling very proud of myself... scrolled down, saw yours, booom! Destroyed! Deletes comment in shame. Well played, Foobar476!!!
Just discovered you. I'm 75 and have lived through most of the music you discuss. You make me revisit them with a refreshing view I think you're amazing. Keep it up. And keep pissing off those trolls.......
Andy’s list for those with crippling A.D.D.: 10. Beyoncé - Renaissance 9. Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication 7. Kenny G - Breathless 6. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade 5. Enya - Watermark 4. Lil Wayne - Rebirth 3. Aqua - Aquarium 2. Crazy Frog - Crazy Hits 1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
It’s quite easy to build your own concept album. Just take any audiobook say Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut and play simultaneously with an instrumental album like say Zeit by Tangerine Dream. You can mix and match to your hearts content.
This was soooo funny! Love how you wind up the "Prog Fan" ( obviously being one yourself). Not a great fan of concept albums myself.. but I loved the show. Your summary of late Floyd was spot on and hilarious... expensive hi-fi music.
Think the fact the reviewer was 11 years old when The Wall came out says it all regarding why he (and other younger Floyd listeners) doesn’t get the Gilmour lead stuff, which was basically cozy nostalgia for us old gits who followed Floyd from the start. A time before Roger Waters dragged the rest of the band by the bollocks away from whimsical and pastoral collections of songs tied up with long spacey instrumentals, into dark and cynical concepts and the murky world of politics. The guy wouldn’t have been out of nappies when Atom Heart Mother was released, so would have no idea how groundbreaking that was, especially given the technology and equipment available at the time (1970).
Good to see the Zappa concept albums in your list, Andy. You might have included 'Flying Teapot' and 'Angels Egg' which tell some sort of yarn about Zero the hero... Patrick Moraz's 'Story of I' is another memorably zany concept album. But my favourite concept/story album is Jethro Tull's 'Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!' which many Tull fans don't like. I think you've got to be British and knowledgeable of a certain era to understand the references on that album and enjoy its wistful nostalgia and humour.
I’m here for the waffle, exclusively. Apparently, Ike Willis’s impersonations helped to inspire ‘Thing Fish.’ There’s an interview in which he talks at length on this very topic. Guy’s a natural comedian, as well as being a brilliant vocalist and guitarist.
Congratulations Mr. Edwards, this is the most entertaining program I watched this year so far! Very amusing. I am very happy to see Zappa present on the list, twice! I would like to know if you forgot "Thick as A Brick" and "Passion Play", or omission was intentional?
I expected Thing Fish and lo and behold...🙂 It's a great piece. Zappa at his most unapologetic. One can only speculate what he would've done in these times but I bet there'd be hordes of people frothing at the gills. You're right, we really need someone like Frank right now!
Heard the Lamb live and complete opening the U.S. tour in Chicago before I settled in with the studio album. It had a great impact on me, the vision, the lyrics. For years I considered it my microcosm of the 1970's, Double, gatefold, visual, pre-punk prog-pop, open to impression, trippy and gritty. It's chock full of conceptual levels, like Dante on a good day. Fly on the Windshield and Broadway Melody, Peter's lyrical, namedropping nuances, fabulous. Hey, even the waffling within the content holds up. Got to love the Lamb.
I have loved The Lamb for almost 50 years. It has always been my favourite album since first hearing. I don't care if Tony Banks doesn't like it, he should be proud of the music and his best playing. Peter's lyrics can be too wordy and clever, and the concept is far from their bucolic English pastoral fare but it's the music for me.. oh that music!
What a brilliant rant ... we need a video of "Andy's Biggest Rants" ... Your No.1 pick was the only one you could put in that position ... unbelievable album and one of the reasons I play keyboards ... you could have really stirred the pot and included Plan B's "The Deformation of Strictland Banks" ... Soul rather than Prog ... but a brilliant album the tells a great concept/story from the very start to the final note ... would have really triggered the early Genesis fans!
Middle-aged and XXL here, and man did I love the hour long rant and waffle. And you reminded me about some albums I’ve not listened to in an age so cheers and digging the rantiness.
I am not surprised that War of the World's was at the top of the list. It is a great album. I also impressed that you worked in a reference to Sammantha Fish, a great blues guitarist, on a list about concept albums. Two other "concept" albums but maybe fall outside your narrow definition. I have to mention are Jesus Christ Superstar because it has Ian Gillan on it and Blind Guardian's Nightfall in Middle Earth because it is a great album and because it ties in with the whole nerd prog fan Tolkien obsession.
'SF Sorrow' by the Pretty Thing predated 'Tommy'. 'Reality' by band Second Hand is also good but my favorite storytelling album is 'Nigel Lived' by Murray (Judas) Head from 1973.
Keep taking the medicine Andy. Visiting my girlfriend's sister at university in the early 70s, and listening to Tommy on her boyfriend's reel to reel tape recorder late at night is a memory I will never forget.
I have only just found your channel and I have been working in the garage all day, loving the ‘waffling’ I feel you are funnelling Stuart Lee here. He’s let himself go.
I can't remember which of Andy's videos I watched first, but the ranting and waffling hooked me. There are other content providers who are tighter and more produced, but no one Andy is one of a kind.
Andy, you crack me up! And I bought Bo Hansen’s Lord of the Rings. Rushing home to put it on the stereo, I was so disappointed. No lyrics even. Nothing to do with hobbits, Gandalf, orcs, etc. I had completely forgotten the album existed til 10 minutes ago. Lovin your channel. 🎸 thanks!!
If you’ll permit some embarrassing American sincerity: David Gilmour’s solos never fail to stop me in my tracks, emotionally, and change my state of mind to one in which I reflect on my life, even on life itself, from 50,000 feet, and set me down in a better place, spiritually, than where I started. No other music, with the huge exception of J S Bach, does that for me. (Mahavishnu Andy is now turning aside to 🤮 throw up…) Now, Roger Waters, OTOH, I totally agree, he’s just a massive w*nker.
What I get with Andy is that his style aims to unite irony and sincerity. What I hear when listening to him take the mick out of something is that he is aware there exist two or more (seemingly) contradictory sides to a thing at the same time, side by side. Yes, David Gilmore’s less-is-more guitar playing is often taken up to legitimise attacks on fast, complex music by guys who don’t want to understand it. Yes, David Gilmore’s open, restrained playing touches a part within the soul of many people, at a time when contemporary players were obsessed with bashing you over the head with cocky virtuosity. And this is independent of how Andy feels personally about David Gilmore’s guitar playing.
This was the second video I’ve seen on your channel, the first being the Zappa retrospective which I thought was thoughtful and heartfelt and (for the most part) I agreed with. This video made me laugh uproariously! I know that a lot of the folks who watch YouTUBE can be obnoxious (to say the least), and we all react to commentary’s in our own way. And I love your approach by needling the needlers! TOUCHÉ!
Bo Hansson's 'Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings' is an album I've listened to on and off for many years. It's so serene, pastel and atmospheric (albeit with some nerdy moments) and reflects the book, but certainly not the film! Musically, it tells a great story already written, and allows the listener, who has read the book, to revisit Middle Earth!
great albums that tell a story from beginning to end : S.F. Sorrow - Pretty things Comus - first utterance Eloy - Ocean Mark of the Mole - Residents Rockpommersland - Grobschnitt
Hi Andy, love what you do. Thanks for every minute of ranting and waffling., thus always with lots of experience. You‘re a musical encyclopedia on legs. Regarding the subject of great concept albums, you might want to check out the Spliff Radio Show, produced in 1980 by the amazing German (unbelievable, isn‘t it?) band Spliff. It portrays a witty and sarcastic picture of the music industry in these days. Also the songs are connected very nicely with little funny interludes/jingles. Cheers Stephan
Great show, Andy! I would add Caught Up by Millie Jackson, which I trust is in your collection. For me, the 2nd greatest soul album ever made, down in Muscle Shoals with the brilliant Roger Hawkins on drums, David Hood on bass, Barry Beckett on keyboards, and Jimmy Johnson on guitar.
So to add one, if Lamb On Broadway is a Concept of America of sorts, then the ultimate concept album of the American experience, warts and all must be Nebraska by Springsteen. No waffling, no costumes, just straight to the heart of the matter.
8 minutes so far...comes to my mind a old Monty Python sketch with that ranting old lady. Lovely! As many said we are here for the rants and the waffels...all music is about taste and perspektiv. Thank you!
Got to give a shout out to Ayreon. The most "meta" concept album artist and certainly the artist who keeps the concept of the concept album alive in the age of streaming, where albums hardly have any significance anyway. Under the name Ayreon Arjen Lucassen not just only makes concept albums, the majority (I believe 7 of a total of 10) of those are part of an overall concept. I challenge anyone to show me an artist more conceptual than that 🧐
Fascinating to hear your comparison between Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson, as you were saying it my head was nodding, so right. Can’t see Rick doing Honky Tonk Blues! 🎉
1. Power and the Glory 2. Dark Side of the Moon 3. Animals 4. A Farewell to Kings 5. Thick as a Brick 6. Tommy 7. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 8. The Wall 9. Three Friends 10. Down to Earth
Top 5 concept albums 1) Quadrophenia / The Who 2) Tommy / The Who 3) Lonesome Dreams / Lords of Huron 4) Thick as a Brick / Jethro Tull 5) The Wall / Pink Floyd
I love your channel and laughed out loud at this video. Very happy to see Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime on your list. That album changed my life in 1988 as a kid listening to Tommy Vance under the duvet on headphones when I was meant to be asleep. It was the beginning of my prog journey. Keep up the good work. From a female prog nerd nurse (although my favourite ever concept album is Brave by Marillion, so don't get too excited 😂😂)
Surfed the rant wave quite well, thank you! I was surprised to see Wakeman and FZ in this list. A few other themed albums: 1. Jack Lancaster & Robin Lumley's (plus a cast including Chris Spedding, Stefane Graphelli, Manfred Mann,...) prog reworking of "Peter and the Wolf". 2. Stomu Yamashta's "Go" with Steve Winwood, Klaus Schulze, Al di Meola, et al. 3. Jon Anderson's "Olias of Sunhillow". Not the greatest of all time, but worth a listen.
I don't like Prog Rock BUT I like the films Tommy and Quadrophenia, they are great. I like 60s Zappa with the addition of Hot Rats. I think The Wall is excellent, and The War of the Worlds is wonderful, I was 12 in 1978 and was blown away by it, I bought the 45 by Justin Hayward, a beautiful song, I remember my peers being bemused by my buying it when shortly before I had bought Five Minutes by the Stranglers. My favourite music is generally 60s Folk Rock, Acid Rock, SF late 60s, 1980s Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit Pop.
Bravo! An amazing effort to totally alienate, repudiate and seduce your audience. Often brilliant information wrapped in a body guard of obnoxious rants delivered with highest order narrative putrescence.
@@AndyEdwardsDrummerto achieve an above parody position in the ever increasing universe of UA-cam music commentary “thought leaders”. Your narrative style is also a perfect example of the so called (and controversial) “Purple Cow” marketing methodology. In my experience “Ignorance is bliss, until it isn’t”.
Surly the Kinks deserved an honorable mention or something: Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire); Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround; Preservation.
I'm a bit late to the table, but my Dad used to play WotW when I was a kid. I was equally petrified and fascinated by it. I was recently amazed to see my 13 year old son had extracted it from the record shelf and is bang into it.
As Andy is well aware, like a great album, one must begin at the beginning; and enter into the tunnels, and commit to the fact that to truly appreciate what's really going on is to ferret away until you emerge from the out-hole; and into the sunshine. Thanks again Andy, I don't know what I'd do without your insight. ps. pIke and Tin'a Tuna
War of the Worlds. Omg I still have that album. I got it new as a teen and it scared the shyte outta me. Haven’t listened to it in decades. Zappa with Joe’s Garage, played it to death. Crew Slut…..lmao😅. You are absolutely correct in the male/female ratio, I am 60 and have never met a woman who like Prog …. Ever.
There's Andy's next video: 'Why more men than women listen to music' ? Is music a 'male thing' (The male brain) rooted in our cognitive/emotional development ? Do women hear and respond to sounds/music differently ? Go fetch boy...
Great ranting video but should have been titled the greatest prog concept albums...outside we have Hold Steady's Separation Sunday, Randy Newman's Good Old Boys, Bowie's Ziggy, late Leonard Cohen and one that got me even as a die hard athiest - Jesus Christ Superstar. Springsteen's The River. Probably some Radiohead.
Maybe. Paranoid, I think, also might qualify. It's sometimes considered an anti-war album, with War Pigs and Iron Man being the most obvious songs, but I've heard it put forth that the drug themed songs on side two are partly inspired by war veterans and their tendency to turn to drugs to cope with their trauma.
I must be at least partially okay, I have Tommy (3 versions), and saw a ballet performance of it in Ottawa in 1972, Quadrophenia, The Wall and War of the Worlds
Absolutely spot on in terms of Genesis and Steve Hackett, Andy. I have always believed that Steve Hackett leaving Genesis had a greater effect on the band than when Peter Gabriel left. Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering are both up there amongst the band's creative peaks. Steve simply doesn't get the credit he deserves.
Thanks for the waffling and ranting. That was greatly entertaining! It's one of the reasons I watch your channel. It seems like you have to be British to be really good at ranting. I used to have an English colleague who was prone to Jonathan Pie-level ranting. I would go to the bar whenever he was there, just for the rants. 😂 Maybe it has something to do with that English esthetic you keep talking about. Glad you had Joe's Garage on the list. Your summary of the plot missed the mark rather spectacularly, but that album is not about the plot, so nothing to worry about. The key element of the story is the fact that the Central Scrutinizer is an unreliable narrator who makes it seem as if it's music that messes up Joe, when it's actually the government and a church, the organizations that the Central Scrutinizer represents, that mess him up.
Your best video, hands down. I laughed out loud more than once. The Pink Floyd rant was spot on. Fans and all. Poor Roger. I wonder (as I'm not finished) if Pro's and Cons gets a mention. I understand the story bugger all... But love the record. Concept... Maybe as much as The Elder is a film.
Metallica's "Re-Load" is a concept album about the fall of man in the garden East of Eden. KISS's "Music From The Elder" is a concept album about the prophesied Messiah. Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds" is a concept album about alien invasion. OMG ... I just noticed: this comment has conceptual value 😂
I CAME FOR THE RANT, I STAYED FOR THE WAFFLE.
great list sir!
I WANT Waffles....and I REQUIRE Rants!!!! Please carry on!!
Am only 7 minutes in and it's already framing to be a classic Andy video! 😂😂😂
you lasted 7 minutes?
When searching for "War of the Worlds" and he said "what are the chances of finding it?" it was impossible for me not to think "a million to one he said".
brilliant
If only they were filed in some sort of order 😂
dAMMIT! I spotted that too, but I only saw this video seven days after it went up. Just posted a similar comment, feeling very proud of myself... scrolled down, saw yours, booom! Destroyed! Deletes comment in shame. Well played, Foobar476!!!
Weee woo, weeo, wee oo
"Have you seen any Martians?"
All Waffle No Content is hilarious Andy -- needs to be on a T-shirt!
Great rant on Dream Thatre! Kudos!
Just discovered you. I'm 75 and have lived through most of the music you discuss. You make me revisit them with a refreshing view I think you're amazing. Keep it up. And keep pissing off those trolls.......
Andy’s list for those with crippling A.D.D.:
10. Beyoncé - Renaissance
9. Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
7. Kenny G - Breathless
6. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
5. Enya - Watermark
4. Lil Wayne - Rebirth
3. Aqua - Aquarium
2. Crazy Frog - Crazy Hits
1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
😂
You are definitely in my gang.....
It’s quite easy to build your own concept album. Just take any audiobook say Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut and play simultaneously with an instrumental album like say Zeit by Tangerine Dream. You can mix and match to your hearts content.
Thanks, now I can avoid all his bloody waffling on
This was soooo funny! Love how you wind up the "Prog Fan" ( obviously being one yourself). Not a great fan of concept albums myself.. but I loved the show. Your summary of late Floyd was spot on and hilarious... expensive hi-fi music.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Think the fact the reviewer was 11 years old when The Wall came out says it all regarding why he (and other younger Floyd listeners) doesn’t get the Gilmour lead stuff, which was basically cozy nostalgia for us old gits who followed Floyd from the start. A time before Roger Waters dragged the rest of the band by the bollocks away from whimsical and pastoral collections of songs tied up with long spacey instrumentals, into dark and cynical concepts and the murky world of politics. The guy wouldn’t have been out of nappies when Atom Heart Mother was released, so would have no idea how groundbreaking that was, especially given the technology and equipment available at the time (1970).
@@glumonion1454 Which is why I mentioned Atom Heart Mother in my list of greatest epics of all time....
Good to see the Zappa concept albums in your list, Andy. You might have included 'Flying Teapot' and 'Angels Egg' which tell some sort of yarn about Zero the hero... Patrick Moraz's 'Story of I' is another memorably zany concept album. But my favourite concept/story album is Jethro Tull's 'Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!' which many Tull fans don't like. I think you've got to be British and knowledgeable of a certain era to understand the references on that album and enjoy its wistful nostalgia and humour.
I’m here for the waffle, exclusively. Apparently, Ike Willis’s impersonations helped to inspire ‘Thing Fish.’ There’s an interview in which he talks at length on this very topic. Guy’s a natural comedian, as well as being a brilliant vocalist and guitarist.
I ❤the waffle
Ike Willis I saw w Zappa 1984 and I loved the show very much
Six minutes in and I'm sitting here chuckling away. Thanks Andy!
Congratulations Mr. Edwards, this is the most entertaining program I watched this year so far! Very amusing. I am very happy to see Zappa present on the list, twice! I would like to know if you forgot "Thick as A Brick" and "Passion Play", or omission was intentional?
Many thanks!
15:54 -- 16:03 'There's not one ounce of blackness in Rick Wakeman ... and that's always *colored* my opinion of him" LOL good one Andy!
Dat's a good bobservation Andy, yessum. Rick comes from a European classical training.
I expected Thing Fish and lo and behold...🙂 It's a great piece. Zappa at his most unapologetic. One can only speculate what he would've done in these times but I bet there'd be hordes of people frothing at the gills. You're right, we really need someone like Frank right now!
Great video. Top tier cranky ! Loved it. The AndyQuarium had me in stitches.
The fish with the ranting at chipmunk speed was priceless.
Heard the Lamb live and complete opening the U.S. tour in Chicago before I settled in with the studio album. It had a great impact on me, the vision, the lyrics. For years I considered it my microcosm of the 1970's, Double, gatefold, visual, pre-punk prog-pop, open to impression, trippy and gritty. It's chock full of conceptual levels, like Dante on a good day. Fly on the Windshield and Broadway Melody, Peter's lyrical, namedropping nuances, fabulous. Hey, even the waffling within the content holds up. Got to love the Lamb.
I have loved The Lamb for almost 50 years. It has always been my favourite album since first hearing. I don't care if Tony Banks doesn't like it, he should be proud of the music and his best playing. Peter's lyrics can be too wordy and clever, and the concept is far from their bucolic English pastoral fare but it's the music for me.. oh that music!
What a brilliant rant ... we need a video of "Andy's Biggest Rants" ... Your No.1 pick was the only one you could put in that position ... unbelievable album and one of the reasons I play keyboards ... you could have really stirred the pot and included Plan B's "The Deformation of Strictland Banks" ... Soul rather than Prog ... but a brilliant album the tells a great concept/story from the very start to the final note ... would have really triggered the early Genesis fans!
War of the Worlds- 1978, my parents had this. Mesmerizing. I was glad to see this at the top of the list.
Middle-aged and XXL here, and man did I love the hour long rant and waffle. And you reminded me about some albums I’ve not listened to in an age so cheers and digging the rantiness.
I am not surprised that War of the World's was at the top of the list. It is a great album.
I also impressed that you worked in a reference to Sammantha Fish, a great blues guitarist, on a list about concept albums.
Two other "concept" albums but maybe fall outside your narrow definition. I have to mention are Jesus Christ Superstar because it has Ian Gillan on it and Blind Guardian's Nightfall in Middle Earth because it is a great album and because it ties in with the whole nerd prog fan Tolkien obsession.
From what I've gathered,The Residents have made nothing but concept albums. Prolific!
The mother of all rants, I love it!
Your rants are really great! Work was really hard this week and I needed a good laugh
Thanks Andy. It seems I'm not a Prog fan according to your hilarious categorising.
'SF Sorrow' by the Pretty Thing predated 'Tommy'. 'Reality' by band Second Hand is also good but my favorite storytelling album is 'Nigel Lived' by Murray (Judas) Head from 1973.
You have good choices. I love your style. I differ on some of them but you make your case and that is what I need to hear.
40 people watched live, yer knocking it outta the park man,,,,,,
Keep taking the medicine Andy. Visiting my girlfriend's sister at university in the early 70s, and listening to Tommy on her boyfriend's reel to reel tape recorder late at night is a memory I will never forget.
I have only just found your channel and I have been working in the garage all day, loving the ‘waffling’ I feel you are funnelling Stuart Lee here. He’s let himself go.
Welcome aboard!
Side 3 of The Wall is the highlight of the album. Fantastic stuff. Bang on with the Hackett/post Hackett Genesis analysis.
I can't remember which of Andy's videos I watched first, but the ranting and waffling hooked me. There are other content providers who are tighter and more produced, but no one Andy is one of a kind.
Andy, you crack me up! And I bought Bo Hansen’s Lord of the Rings. Rushing home to put it on the stereo, I was so disappointed. No lyrics even. Nothing to do with hobbits, Gandalf, orcs, etc.
I had completely forgotten the album existed til 10 minutes ago. Lovin your channel. 🎸 thanks!!
This is great! I didn't know I wanted to listen to a massive rant, but it turns out I am.
If you’ll permit some embarrassing American sincerity: David Gilmour’s solos never fail to stop me in my tracks, emotionally, and change my state of mind to one in which I reflect on my life, even on life itself, from 50,000 feet, and set me down in a better place, spiritually, than where I started. No other music, with the huge exception of J S Bach, does that for me.
(Mahavishnu Andy is now turning aside to 🤮 throw up…)
Now, Roger Waters, OTOH, I totally agree, he’s just a massive w*nker.
What I get with Andy is that his style aims to unite irony and sincerity. What I hear when listening to him take the mick out of something is that he is aware there exist two or more (seemingly) contradictory sides to a thing at the same time, side by side.
Yes, David Gilmore’s less-is-more guitar playing is often taken up to legitimise attacks on fast, complex music by guys who don’t want to understand it.
Yes, David Gilmore’s open, restrained playing touches a part within the soul of many people, at a time when contemporary players were obsessed with bashing you over the head with cocky virtuosity.
And
this is independent of how Andy feels personally about David Gilmore’s guitar playing.
This was the second video I’ve seen on your channel, the first being the Zappa retrospective which I thought was thoughtful and heartfelt and (for the most part) I agreed with. This video made me laugh uproariously! I know that a lot of the folks who watch YouTUBE can be obnoxious (to say the least), and we all react to commentary’s in our own way. And I love your approach by needling the needlers! TOUCHÉ!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Another brilliant vid! I just discovered you a couple of weeks ago. Rant away, Andy, rant away! I'll watch every time,
Bo Hansson's 'Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings' is an album I've listened to on and off for many years. It's so serene, pastel and atmospheric (albeit with some nerdy moments) and reflects the book, but certainly not the film! Musically, it tells a great story already written, and allows the listener, who has read the book, to revisit Middle Earth!
Absolutely I’m here for the waffle and the rant !!!👍
Ha ha 😂 I subscribed on the strength of your rants as much as the music, they’re brilliant!!
great albums that tell a story from beginning to end :
S.F. Sorrow - Pretty things
Comus - first utterance
Eloy - Ocean
Mark of the Mole - Residents
Rockpommersland - Grobschnitt
I came for the list but I stayed for the comedy. Funniest video I've seen in a while. Thank you.
Hi Andy, love what you do. Thanks for every minute of ranting and waffling., thus always with lots of experience. You‘re a musical encyclopedia on legs. Regarding the subject of great concept albums, you might want to check out the Spliff Radio Show, produced in 1980 by the amazing German (unbelievable, isn‘t it?) band Spliff. It portrays a witty and sarcastic picture of the music industry in these days. Also the songs are connected very nicely with little funny interludes/jingles. Cheers Stephan
Great show, Andy! I would add Caught Up by Millie Jackson, which I trust is in your collection. For me, the 2nd greatest soul album ever made, down in Muscle Shoals with the brilliant Roger Hawkins on drums, David Hood on bass, Barry Beckett on keyboards, and Jimmy Johnson on guitar.
An entertaining 2 cups of tea podcast/rant. Thanks Andy I’ll give some of these, that I haven’t heard before, a listen.
So to add one, if Lamb On Broadway is a Concept of America of sorts, then the ultimate concept album of the American experience, warts and all must be Nebraska by Springsteen. No waffling, no costumes, just straight to the heart of the matter.
Best video I've watched on UA-cam in ages!
Glad you enjoyed it
8 minutes so far...comes to my mind a old Monty Python sketch with that ranting old lady.
Lovely! As many said we are here for the rants and the waffels...all music is about taste and perspektiv.
Thank you!
Right on!!! I think that this is my favorite one of your vids! Rant on, mate!! Rant on!!
I appreciate that!
CAMEL-Snow Goose💯💜🔥🦢(Also i salute you with the old song Blah Blah Blah)! Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷🥁
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars should be on every list of thematic story telling albums.
Hmmm...It definitely has a theme. But what exactly is Five Years about?
So glad you brought the 'Lamb Lies Down On Broadway' in. Had you not, I would have not been able to take you serious.
The Wall is one of my favorite albums of all time (I’m 70). Your screed about the album and Gilmour had me laughing my ass off.
Makes a change to hear domeone else having a rant, loved this, please rant more!!
Fantastic! Laughed my socks off at this. 😂
Man. The rant was sooo entertaining. It made me tempt4r to troll you in hopes of seeing another one.
Got to give a shout out to Ayreon.
The most "meta" concept album artist and certainly the artist who keeps the concept of the concept album alive in the age of streaming, where albums hardly have any significance anyway.
Under the name Ayreon Arjen Lucassen not just only makes concept albums, the majority (I believe 7 of a total of 10) of those are part of an overall concept.
I challenge anyone to show me an artist more conceptual than that 🧐
The Human Equation should be on any respectable list, but it seems Ayreon is still like a best kept secret.
Fascinating to hear your comparison between Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson, as you were saying it my head was nodding, so right. Can’t see Rick doing Honky Tonk Blues! 🎉
Chris Thompson of Manfred Mann is singing “Thunder Child” on _Jeff Wayne’s - War of the Worlds._
He may be the most underrated vocalist of all times.
I hope we have plenty of waffle - looking forward to this. Remember we need waffle like on the Zep best 30
1. Power and the Glory
2. Dark Side of the Moon
3. Animals
4. A Farewell to Kings
5. Thick as a Brick
6. Tommy
7. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
8. The Wall
9. Three Friends
10. Down to Earth
Loved this!
Question at the end made me wonder if you think Nektar's Remember the Future would qualify.
Top 5 concept albums
1) Quadrophenia / The Who
2) Tommy / The Who
3) Lonesome Dreams / Lords of Huron
4) Thick as a Brick / Jethro Tull
5) The Wall / Pink Floyd
I love your channel and laughed out loud at this video. Very happy to see Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime on your list. That album changed my life in 1988 as a kid listening to Tommy Vance under the duvet on headphones when I was meant to be asleep. It was the beginning of my prog journey. Keep up the good work. From a female prog nerd nurse (although my favourite ever concept album is Brave by Marillion, so don't get too excited 😂😂)
Surfed the rant wave quite well, thank you! I was surprised to see Wakeman and FZ in this list. A few other themed albums: 1. Jack Lancaster & Robin Lumley's (plus a cast including Chris Spedding, Stefane Graphelli, Manfred Mann,...) prog reworking of "Peter and the Wolf". 2. Stomu Yamashta's "Go" with Steve Winwood, Klaus Schulze, Al di Meola, et al. 3. Jon Anderson's "Olias of Sunhillow". Not the greatest of all time, but worth a listen.
I don't like Prog Rock BUT I like the films Tommy and Quadrophenia, they are great. I like 60s Zappa with the addition of Hot Rats. I think The Wall is excellent, and The War of the Worlds is wonderful, I was 12 in 1978 and was blown away by it, I bought the 45 by Justin Hayward, a beautiful song, I remember my peers being bemused by my buying it when shortly before I had bought Five Minutes by the Stranglers. My favourite music is generally 60s Folk Rock, Acid Rock, SF late 60s, 1980s Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit Pop.
love the rant!
Between 1969 and 1976 The Kinks released 5 concept albums.
The first one, "Arthur", was their best.
Bravo! An amazing effort to totally alienate, repudiate and seduce your audience. Often brilliant information wrapped in a body guard of obnoxious rants delivered with highest order narrative putrescence.
But why would I do this?
@@AndyEdwardsDrummerto achieve an above parody position in the ever increasing universe of UA-cam music commentary “thought leaders”.
Your narrative style is also a perfect example of the so called (and controversial) “Purple Cow” marketing methodology. In my experience “Ignorance is bliss, until it isn’t”.
You are just so godamn entertaining to listen to
Surly the Kinks deserved an honorable mention or something: Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire); Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround; Preservation.
*Surely
Give 'em hell Andy!!
I'm a bit late to the table, but my Dad used to play WotW when I was a kid. I was equally petrified and fascinated by it.
I was recently amazed to see my 13 year old son had extracted it from the record shelf and is bang into it.
I’m digging the waffle! That’s why I am hear. To listen
As Andy is well aware, like a great album, one must begin at the beginning; and enter into the tunnels, and commit to the fact that to truly appreciate what's really going on is to ferret away until you emerge from the out-hole; and into the sunshine.
Thanks again Andy, I don't know what I'd do without your insight.
ps. pIke and Tin'a Tuna
War of the Worlds. Omg I still have that album. I got it new as a teen and it scared the shyte outta me. Haven’t listened to it in decades. Zappa with Joe’s Garage, played it to death. Crew Slut…..lmao😅. You are absolutely correct in the male/female ratio, I am 60 and have never met a woman who like Prog …. Ever.
There's Andy's next video: 'Why more men than women listen to music' ? Is music a 'male thing' (The male brain) rooted in our cognitive/emotional development ? Do women hear and respond to sounds/music differently ? Go fetch boy...
Great ranting video but should have been titled the greatest prog concept albums...outside we have Hold Steady's Separation Sunday, Randy Newman's Good Old Boys, Bowie's Ziggy, late Leonard Cohen and one that got me even as a die hard athiest - Jesus Christ Superstar. Springsteen's The River. Probably some Radiohead.
Wonderful stuff Andy. The first Sabbath album would've made a great concept album. It sort of feels like one when I listen to it. More please.
Maybe. Paranoid, I think, also might qualify. It's sometimes considered an anti-war album, with War Pigs and Iron Man being the most obvious songs, but I've heard it put forth that the drug themed songs on side two are partly inspired by war veterans and their tendency to turn to drugs to cope with their trauma.
It might not make a top ten, but Home's The Alchemist definitely has a place in my heart.
I like your talking/ranting!
Olias of Sunhillow - Jon Anderson. Wonderful album.
Excellent rant
I must be at least partially okay, I have Tommy (3 versions), and saw a ballet performance of it in Ottawa in 1972, Quadrophenia, The Wall and War of the Worlds
Nurse! He's out of bed again!
Waffle away Andy - that's one of the reasons I subscribed . Also , you're a naturally funny guy .
I love waffles, and enjoy your videos. Maybe I should start eating waffles while watching them.
Love the waffle. Hollow displays a virtuality I love it.
Absolutely spot on in terms of Genesis and Steve Hackett, Andy. I have always believed that Steve Hackett leaving Genesis had a greater effect on the band than when Peter Gabriel left. Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering are both up there amongst the band's creative peaks. Steve simply doesn't get the credit he deserves.
Thanks for the waffling and ranting. That was greatly entertaining! It's one of the reasons I watch your channel. It seems like you have to be British to be really good at ranting. I used to have an English colleague who was prone to Jonathan Pie-level ranting. I would go to the bar whenever he was there, just for the rants. 😂 Maybe it has something to do with that English esthetic you keep talking about.
Glad you had Joe's Garage on the list. Your summary of the plot missed the mark rather spectacularly, but that album is not about the plot, so nothing to worry about. The key element of the story is the fact that the Central Scrutinizer is an unreliable narrator who makes it seem as if it's music that messes up Joe, when it's actually the government and a church, the organizations that the Central Scrutinizer represents, that mess him up.
Great video Andy. You had me at "waffle"😄
Glad you enjoyed it
Great list and fun video Andy -- 39:04 My girlfriend always refers to Thin Lizzy as "the guy from that War of the Worlds album I owned as a kid"
That is a girl comment for sure.
Also, by just listening to Thin Lizzy the greatest hits, You're missing out on a lot of great music......
I like your style, carry on.
I had the same reaction to The Wall as you. I liked “Dirty Woman,” but no other cuts. Animals was the last great Floyd album.
I’m astonished that you said “Walter Trout, who is the king of the fishy named, Jewish blues guitar players….” and kept a straight face
I thought he would've mentioned that other Jewish blues guitarist ;
Fleetwood Mac's Peter Bream
Your best video, hands down. I laughed out loud more than once. The Pink Floyd rant was spot on. Fans and all. Poor Roger. I wonder (as I'm not finished) if Pro's and Cons gets a mention. I understand the story bugger all... But love the record. Concept... Maybe as much as The Elder is a film.
Some Neal Morse stuffs come to my mind:
Spock's Beard - Snow
NM - Sola Scriptura
NMBand - The Similitude of a Dream
Metallica's "Re-Load" is a concept album about the fall of man in the garden East of Eden.
KISS's "Music From The Elder" is a concept album about the prophesied Messiah.
Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds" is a concept album about alien invasion.
OMG ... I just noticed: this comment has conceptual value 😂
"There's not one ounce of blackness in Rick Wakeman, and that's always colored my opinion of him." -Andy Edwards
I wish i had meant that joke!
Peter Gabriel wrote the lyrics to The Lamb. But the music was done by the rest of the band, especially Tony Banks.
The Kinks: Arthur, Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire". -Hard to believe how often this gem gets overlooked.