My favourite is 'A Space In Time' - their 1971 release - with 'One Of These Days', 'Hard Monkeys' and 'I've Been There Too' being particular personal highlights!... 🙂
A Space in Time changed my life,Cricklewood Greeen sooo good on headphones or really great stereo..great effects..I have A Space in Time on vinyl in Quadraphonic.I still have my sansui quad amp from way back then.
Their best album is their most unknown/under-appreciated album: "Undead" (Live). Amazingly-fast (and tasty), jazz/blues/rock fusion licks. One of the best guitar albums of all time, and the sound recording quality (especially for that era) is very good. "Woodchopper's Ball" and "I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Always" will blow any guitarist's mind.
@@domico5838 I never knew how good TYA really are some bands are way overrated they are the best British 70’s blues rock band I don’t know what TYA albums are good to get they all sound great and amazing
“Cricklewood Green” is my favourite, followed by “Stonedhenge”, and “Ssshhh”. What I liked about Ten Years After was that they were considered part of the late ‘60s British blues boom, but were a bit more experimental than other bands in the same genre.
(Cricklewood Green's) Love like a Man(one of the best rock guitar solos in that tune very close if not better than Comfortably numb) Alvin Lee so underrated, and so versatile , plus the band was great Leo Lyons, very fast bass lines, drummer Ric Lee, and Chick Churchill were very good as well/
Didn't mention their greatest track - "Standing at the station" on rock n roll music to the world. One of the greatest rock tracks of all time. An absolute monster.
@Joe King TYA are an amazing band my favorite albums by the whould be Rock N Roll Music to the world Crinklewood Green and Shhhh but everything they ever did is amazing
Loved Ten Years After! I have most of these. I'd rate them: 5. Ten Years After (debut album) 4. Undead 3. A Space in Time 2. Cricklewood Green 1. Ssssh The double live album, 'Recorded Live' (1973) has a whole lot of great stuff that can help get you through part of the work day with also!
I agree cant just stick to greatest hits with TYA. I love so much of their stuff, and by the way im really enjoying your program. I just recommended it to a friend. Ive made your channel almost a daily thing. Really great thanks Pete
Interesting side-note about Ten Years After. In the early days, like a lot of rock/blues bands they attempted to play what can be considered "jazz", but there was no jazz structure at all. It was basically "swung blues." But man, did they swing! Amazing guitar and bass playing that still holds up. And where's the UNDEAD album?
@@ralfbodemann1542 True, though the material is all new -- not live versions of previously released songs. Also, I feel UNDEAD is significant because it is, for the most part, a jazz album, making it an interesting stage in the band's development.
Hey Pete- thanks for Ten Years After; saw Alvin Lee open for Kansas on their "Audiovisions" tour and he was great; they were touring as Ten Years Later; dont recall how many original members were left other than Lyons. Had forgotten about TYA so thank you for the review.
Ten Years After "Recorded Live" 1972 double album set was my all-time favorite. They were a great band and best when they were live. Not even mentioned but not a studio release. If you never heard it, you are missing something if you like the way Alvin plays and the whole band shines when live. That version of "I'm Going Home" is really a masterpiece of rock.
@@joebloggs8636 well I like TYA so much it’s hard for me to decide what albums I like the best that’s a hard one Crinklewood Green Rock N Roll Music to the world Shhhh there an amazing band
Love Ten Years After. Guitar/Piano/Bass some of the best and most underrated. I am old so I will say they were fantastic live. I liked their arrangement songs more than the straight boogie. I like Cricklewood Green and Watt as 1 and 2
@Bumbles_Bounce13 I’m starting to get into these guys 2 I can’t believe how good they are they made some of the best music that I have ever heard they sound great all there albums are great or excellent I haven’t heard anything bad from them I should buy there cds some bands are way way overrated and not even that good
Thank you for everything you do on this channel, you're giving people a key to a treasure, and some of them are really ungrateful and disrespectful. Sometimes when I see you apologizing for having different opinion on some bands and their music quality, and people are writing negative comments bellow, it makes me so glad I don't have to work with millennials any more :) Rock on, Pete, I'm waiting for Kiss, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Metallica, Megadeth, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Nick Cave, Dead Can Dance...
I got to see Alvin Lee Band in 1986 in Vancouver at Expo Theatre, wicked show, did his usual songs, I'm Goin Home, Love Like a Man, plus did a bunch of his solo tunes as well
I love TYA!! And every album has a unique sound and style. I have to agree with you, that my favorite can change every week. Too hard to rank, for me!!
RRMTTW ~ my favorite. I had an 8 track of this one and the sequencing was changed to accomodate the 8 track but it was perfect. Drove down many a long dark road with a buzz and this album blasting on the stereo.
A great job, thanks! This ranking only applies to studio albums, not live albums. However, the live 1968 album 'Undead', their second release, is an amazing landmark album I just can't leave out of a TYA discussion. With a pre-Woodstock 'I'm Going Home', it also includes stunning versions of 'Woodchoppers Ball' and 'I May Be Wrong'. Even after hearing it for over FIFTY YEARS, I'm still amazed at their stunning virtuosity.
Another one of those bands I’ve never given the time to despite feeling I’d Love To Change The World is one of the very best 70s hard rock anthems ever !
They never played it live. I asked Leo Lyons why and he said Alvin had a thing about not playing "pop" songs and consciously avoided it. Similarly, they rarely played Here Me Calling too.
Agree with your list almost exactly except I would put Watt in second and bump the others down a notch. 2 songs you didn't mention I think are among their best. I would call them their philosophical songs. Think About The Times from Watt, which I see is the name of your compilation CD, and Religion from R and R Music To The World. Killer tunes with really brilliant lyrics. Those who categorize TYA as just another boogie band are missing the mark.
I still have a warm spot for Watt. I still play it often. The songs, the mood... great album. The rest are spotty to me with some great songs... although I haven't listened to some of these in years...
Yeah, i loved "Watt" also. Such a different sound and crystal production. With that killer live track to wind it up! It's 2nd to "Rock n Roll Music to the World" as my No1.
@@izitsomojo Bought Watt when it first came out. After Cricklewood Green it seemed very tired (the incessant touring gave them little time to write new material). The pointless and muddy sounding live track 'Sweet Little Sixteen' suggests inspiration was not at its highest.
I just started getting into this bad. I picked up some albums at my local record store: Rock & Roll Music..., Recorded Live, A Space in Time, Ssssh, and Cricklewood Green (3.00 each). So now i had to come back here and see what the consensus is on these albums. It looks like i did a good job. And I used to have that 1989 album on cassette way back IN 1989.
Thanks Pete For this ranking of this great British Blues Rock band.Led by the mercurial Alvin Lee, but what an impressive rhythm section they had, propulsive yet supple and dexterous but remaining highly skilled My favorites are 1 - Cricklewood Green 2 - Ssssh 3 - A space in time 4 - Rock's n' roll music to The world 5 - Watt
Hi pete......when i saw tya in the woodstock movie...i said.......wow....im going home was one hell of. A kick ass song.....love this band since.say hello to the mrs.for me.great information as usual.thanks.
Hi Pete, Although "Undead" is a Live-Album,it was the official Ten Years After Album No. 2.The Tracks on this Album were never released before on an Album.The Ranking of my favourite TYA Albums is: 1. Watt 2. Ssssh 3. Stonedhenge 4. A Space In Time 5. Cricklewood Green 6. Rock'n'Roll Music To The World 7. Ten Years After 8. Undead 9. Positive Vibrations 10. About Time
For me "Stonehenge" is my favorite because it is a very experimental/Psychadelic trip."Going to try" & "Hear me calling" are very strong but "Untitle" is unfuckin unreal-it's atmospheric tribal acid rock at it's finest.Your on point about one thing that solo on "I'm coming on" is so fuckin badass-The way Alvin elevates about half way thru takes shit to another level...
The 1st TYA I bought was their first. The rest followed. Luv Cricklewood Green, Space in Time & Stonehedge.Their LP’s on the Deram label sound exclnt...Thx 👍
Dont know who Ten Years After were so I kept trying to figure out which band he was revisiting "ten years after" lol, oh my, English as a second language sucks for this :)
I bought Cricklewood Green the day it came out, based on Alvin Lee's performance at Woodstock. It will always be my favorite even though I ended up buying all the other TYA albums over the years. There are great moments on all the albums, but for me, Cricklewood Green is all killer and no filler. I know you don't include live albums in your ratings, but Undead is an awesome record.
I have an original copy of the Ssssh album, havn't played it in years so put it on today, Good Morning Little School Girl got me goin'. Thanks for the reminder of the album!!!
About 40 years ago my brother took me to the record store and told me to buy Stonehenge and 2nd Winter for 1.99 and 2.99. About seven years ago I discovered it's Stonedhenge and not stonehenge.
Before I watch, my top three. 3. Cricklewood Green. 2. A Space in Time. 1. Rock & Roll Music to the World. Standing at the station is one of the best tracks by any artist on any album in my opinion.
Thx PETE for sticking with us/ especially during this difficult week. Like some viewer mentioned I never really gave this group much listen / i may need to re dig into their catalog . One thing I do remember / is supposedly LEE was obsessed with ELVIS and in 56 when he became famous . Alvin in 66- decide to call band/. Ten Years After. Thank you PETE !
My favorite was always Cricklewood Green. I had them all on vinyl back in the day. Sounds great on a good Pioneer system IMHO. ua-cam.com/video/4diIC2MRjiA/v-deo.html
Thanks Pete for giving us something to watch that lets us escape this twisted reality we are in right now. Please keep making these to keep us sane! 😀😀🤘🤘
Cool channel dude. In some of your next videos maybe you can rank the albums of some other great bands such as The Byrds, Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, Talking Heads...
Pete, Great list!! I would agree with you on this Top 10 List... My only departure from your list where the positions would deviate is Ten Years After "Ssssh" # 1 & "Cricklewood Green" #2 Please do a Top 10 list on some further Blue Horizon Records / Mike Vernon produced late 1960's / early 1970's British Blues Rock Bands... 1. Savoy Brown 2. Chicken Shack 3. Fleetwood Mac 4. The Climax Chicago Blues Band Along with... 1. Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated (Featuring Cyril Davies, Graham Bond, Long John Baldry, Art Wood, Davey Graham, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger) 2. Cyril Davies and His Rhythm & Blues All Stars (Featuring Long John Baldry, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Art Wood, Ian Stewart, Nicky Hopkins, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger) 3. Bluesology (Featuring Reginald Dwight aka Sir Elton John) 4. The Graham Bond Organization (Featuring Ginger Baker & Jack Bruce) 5. John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers (Featuring Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Mick Taylor, Aynsley Dunbar) 6. Long John Baldry & His Hoochie Coochie Men (Featuring Rod Stewart) 7. Steampacket (Featuring Long John Baldry, Rod Stewart) 8. Shotgun Express (Featuring Rod Stewart, Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood) Along with... 1. Rolling Stones 2. Animals 3. Pretty Things 4. Kinks 5. Who 6. Small Faces 7. Van Morrison’s Them 8. The Spencer Davis Group 9. Downliners Sect 10. Yardbirds 11. Cream 12. The Jimi Hendrix Experience 13. The Jeff Beck Group 14. Led Zeppelin 15. Jethro Tull 16. Blind Faith 17. Free 18. Humble Pie 19. Traffic 20. Spooky Tooth 21. Wishbone Ash 22. Trapeze 23. The Groundhogs 24. Status Quo 25. Rory Gallagher’s Taste 26. Gary Moore’s Skid Row 27. Art Wood’s Quiet Melon 28. Christine Perfect Band 29. The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation 30. Stone The Crows 31. Steamhammer 32. Blodwyn Pig 33. Bakerloo 34. Sam Apple Pie 35. Juicy Lucy 36. Killing Floor 37. Black Cat Bones 38. Ashkan 39. Red Dirt 40. Edgar Broughton Band 41. Medicine Head 42. Stack Waddy 43. Heavy Jelly 44. Brunning Sunflower Blues Band 45. Levee Camp Moan
Loved the review, always thought ten years after was a great yet underrated and ignored band. Alvin Lee was a guitar genius. Hope the family is doing well, prayers with all of you.
How about The Raspberries?? They only made 5 albums!! 1. Side 3 (1973) 2. Starting Over (1974) 3. Fresh (late 1972) 4. self titled 1972 debut (with the raspberry smell) 5. Refreshed (2000) (without Eric Carmen) (6 song EP) As for the solo members: Eric Carmen "Boats Against The Current" (1977) Wally Bryson Tattoo (self - titled) (1975) & Fotomaker debut (1978) & "Vis A Vis" (late 1978) Dave Smalley "Internal Monologue" (2004) Scott McCarl "Play On" (2000) & also the best from a Raspberries member!!!!
1) Cricklewood Green 2) A Space in Time 3) Sssssh 4) Rock & Roll Music to the World 5) Stonedhenge 6) Ten Years After 7) Watt 8) Positive Vibrations 9) Now 10) About Time 11) Evolution 12) A Sting in the Tail
My rank: 1 Cricklewood Green 2 Ssssh! 3 A Space in Time 4 Rock & Roll Music to the World 5 Ten Years After 6 Stonedhenge 7 Watt 8 Positive Vibrations 9 Now 10 About Time 11 A Sting in the Tail 12 Evolution
I discover lots of great music through this channel. for example each time Pete names the title of a song I immediately go check it out on youtube. and now I have a big list of albums to buy. some are difficult to find but most are available. love this channel. thank you Pete
OK..been a fan since 1969...so here is the definitive list: 10. Rock and Roll Music to the World..strengths..Religion, Choo Choo Mama, title song, and Standing at the Station. 9. Watt..Strengths...Gonna Run..She Lies in the Morning..I'm Coming On..I Say Yeah 8. Stonedhenge..Woman Trouble..Speed kills 7. Ssssh..Stoned Woman..Two Time Mama..Good Morning Little School Girl 6. A Space in Time.. I'd Love to Change the World, Baby Wont You Let Me Rock and Roll You..Here They Come (side note.ASIT was first album by TYA after leaving Deram label for Columbia. Clive Davis claimed this to be the first million dollar contract he gave a band.) 5. Positive Vibrations...Look Me Straight into the Eyes..I Wanted To Boogie and a great cover of Little Richard's "Going Back to Birmingham." Also. last TYA studio album in the 70's and done right around the time of Alvin Lee's star studded "On the Road To Freedom" solo album. 4. About Time.. Breakout for Leo Lyons as a song writer. Bad Blood is a mind blower. 3. Alvin Lee and Co. Cover of Crossroads is fantastic and Boogie On is a long jam that is great. 2. TYA self titled.. OMG great jazz blues fusion, Help Me, Spoonful are great covers. Don't want you woman is a mind blower, and Al Kooper's I Can't Keep From Cryin..Sometimes is really cool..This was recorded the Deram label BTW, a progressive label off shoot of Decca records, same label as Moody Blues. 1. Cricklewood Green.. First for a reason. Me and My Baby, Love Like a Man, Sugar the Road and Working On the Road,, are the bands best work. One last thing..when TYA reformed without Alvin Lee in 2002, guitarist Joe Gooch came in, first studio is called NOW..slick and suprisingly polished, produced by Leo Lyons, who also produced UFO has 8 really good songs, maybe not the standard TYA/Alvin blues rock fusion, but stands well on its own.
Pete, you obviously love a lot of classic bluesy rock, but I have often wondered if you like the classic blues players like Albert King, Robert Cray, Albert Collins, BB King, Muddy Waters, etc?
Cricklewood Green and Watt my number one and two as I met my wife during this period and they were played constantly. My cousin who was a bit more bluesy at the time had a copy of Sssshhh so that is when I started listening to them. A Space in Time completes my top four. A really solid band.
@Wes Matthews it’s hard to pick witch albums to get from TYA I whould for sure get Cricklewood Green don’t know what else ones to buy it’s hard to decide witch other ones to buy there all amazing albums blues rock
when I see your presentations I chuckle because you and I did the same thing: we held on to CDs until they became outdated technology. In my area, DVDs are now outdated too. I have a storage unit full of CDs, DVDs and records I got for free.
Cricklewood Green is my choice for number one as well andl don't forget the live set Undead and the compilation Alvin Lee And Company on the Deram Records Label !
this was my favorite band when i was a teanager I didn't have all their albums but I did have 6 or 7 including live albums A space in time way in the top it's only fault is it's a little short, SHH second even though the school girl song gives me the creeps Cricklewood Green three, then Rock and Roll Music four
Standing at the station off rock and roll music to the world top ten song of theirs you failed to mention . Pete you should do a Savoy Brown album ranking!!!
Honorable mention: Ten Years After's set at Woodstock. I think Alvin's playing was second only to Jimi Hendrix's during the festival. I'm Going Home is particularly good, after which Alvin drops his Gibson 335 on the stage, throws a watermelon over his shoulder which rolls across the stage out of nowhere, and walks off. Good stuff lol
A Space in Time is the Dog's Favorite, Obviously... Also, Spinal Tap sued 10YA over Stonehenge. They also sued Metallica, Ac/Dc & The Eagles for their Black Albums... 😉
I agree! A fantastic rock album. The track "wound up working in a parking lot" is an anthem as far as im concerned. This album never got the exposure it deserved. Any fans out there should revisit this one.
Cricklewood Green...Every home Should Have It
Shhh!
Yeah
Listen to it on shrooms.
David Ryan Absolutely!!
@@markhorton3041 nailed it!
My favourite is 'A Space In Time' - their 1971 release - with 'One Of These Days', 'Hard Monkeys' and 'I've Been There Too' being particular personal highlights!... 🙂
A Space in Time changed my life,Cricklewood Greeen sooo good on headphones or really great stereo..great effects..I have A Space in Time on vinyl in Quadraphonic.I still have my sansui quad amp from way back then.
Their best album is their most unknown/under-appreciated album: "Undead" (Live). Amazingly-fast (and tasty), jazz/blues/rock fusion licks. One of the best guitar albums of all time, and the sound recording quality (especially for that era) is very good. "Woodchopper's Ball" and "I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Always" will blow any guitarist's mind.
My favorite Ten years After album is usually the one I'm playing at the moment.
That's actually a good point. All of them are awesome!
@@domico5838 I never knew how good TYA really are some bands are way overrated they are the best British 70’s blues rock band I don’t know what TYA albums are good to get they all sound great and amazing
One of the greatest blues-rock bands of 70’s !!!!!! Alvin Lee is absolutely brilliant guitar player!!!!!!!!!
Nice one... Love Ten Years After!
Humble Pie in the future 🤔
yep!
“Cricklewood Green” is my favourite, followed by “Stonedhenge”, and “Ssshhh”. What I liked about Ten Years After was that they were considered part of the late ‘60s British blues boom, but were a bit more experimental than other bands in the same genre.
I have to go with my favorite as A Space In Time. I just love that album.
(Cricklewood Green's) Love like a Man(one of the best rock guitar solos in that tune very close if not better than Comfortably numb) Alvin Lee so underrated, and so versatile , plus the band was great Leo Lyons, very fast bass lines, drummer Ric Lee, and Chick Churchill were very good as well/
Didn't mention their greatest track - "Standing at the station" on rock n roll music to the world. One of the greatest rock tracks of all time. An absolute monster.
@Joe King TYA are an amazing band my favorite albums by the whould be Rock N Roll Music to the world Crinklewood Green and Shhhh but everything they ever did is amazing
Loved Ten Years After! I have most of these. I'd rate them:
5. Ten Years After (debut album)
4. Undead
3. A Space in Time
2. Cricklewood Green
1. Ssssh
The double live album, 'Recorded Live' (1973) has a whole lot of great stuff that can help get you through part of the work day with also!
Ten Years After - (Recorded Live - 1973)
I agree cant just stick to greatest hits with TYA. I love so much of their stuff, and by the way im really enjoying your program. I just recommended it to a friend. Ive made your channel almost a daily thing. Really great thanks Pete
Top to bottom A Space in Time is a perfect album. Love Cricklewood too.
There is a band in Greece called Ten Beers After...
HAHAHAHA
That's awesome
Interesting side-note about Ten Years After. In the early days, like a lot of rock/blues bands they attempted to play what can be considered "jazz", but there was no jazz structure at all. It was basically "swung blues." But man, did they swing! Amazing guitar and bass playing that still holds up. And where's the UNDEAD album?
So they didn't do a 4 hour jazz Odyssey?
Yes Nelson , I knew there was something missing . I never had a copy of Undead , but a friend of mine did .
Isn't UNDEAD a live album? Pete restricted his ranking to studio releases only.
@@ralfbodemann1542 True, though the material is all new -- not live versions of previously released songs. Also, I feel UNDEAD is significant because it is, for the most part, a jazz album, making it an interesting stage in the band's development.
@@ralfbodemann1542 It's live, but I like it the best. I first saw Ten Years After in about 1971. Curved Air opened for them.
i really remember liking these guys when i was a kid! early 70's. thanks for keeping up with the posts.
Hey Pete- thanks for Ten Years After; saw Alvin Lee open for Kansas on their "Audiovisions" tour and he was great; they were touring as Ten Years Later; dont recall how many original members were left other than Lyons. Had forgotten about TYA so thank you for the review.
Actually, Ten Years Later had no members of Ten Years After except Alvin Lee.
Love my Ten Years After ‘Rock and Roll Music to the World’ ‘Sssssh’ and especially ‘Cricklewood Green’ . All great as usual Pete!
Ten Years After "Recorded Live" 1972 double album set was my all-time favorite. They were a great band and best when they were live. Not even mentioned but not a studio release. If you never heard it, you are missing something if you like the way Alvin plays and the whole band shines when live. That version of "I'm Going Home" is really a masterpiece of rock.
Everytime I think you have done a review on just about every band, you always come up with another great band, thanks Pete
SUCH GREAT ALBUMS!!! I generally agree, BUT I find myself listening to WATT more than the rest....
Wow, surprised, I like it too tho .
@@joebloggs8636 well I like TYA so much it’s hard for me to decide what albums I like the best that’s a hard one Crinklewood Green Rock N Roll Music to the world Shhhh there an amazing band
Man, that was rough! Damned great band. A tipical prog-psychedelic rock band. My top two: A Space in Time (masterpiece) and Sssssh.
Love Ten Years After. Guitar/Piano/Bass some of the best and most underrated. I am old so I will say they were fantastic live. I liked their arrangement songs more than the straight boogie. I like Cricklewood Green and Watt as 1 and 2
PS few better than Alvin at singing while playing the guitar
ditto
I am just really starting to get into these guys. Alvin Lee was awesome.
@Bumbles_Bounce13 I’m starting to get into these guys 2 I can’t believe how good they are they made some of the best music that I have ever heard they sound great all there albums are great or excellent I haven’t heard anything bad from them I should buy there cds some bands are way way overrated and not even that good
Thank you for everything you do on this channel, you're giving people a key to a treasure, and some of them are really ungrateful and disrespectful. Sometimes when I see you apologizing for having different opinion on some bands and their music quality, and people are writing negative comments bellow, it makes me so glad I don't have to work with millennials any more :)
Rock on, Pete, I'm waiting for Kiss, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Metallica, Megadeth, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Nick Cave, Dead Can Dance...
Cricklewood Green,Shhh
and Watt. Recorded Luve and..The Alvin Lee and Company In Flight and On the Road to Freedom ( Alvin Lee & Mylon Lafevre).
Always had an affinity with Watt, I played the grooves out of that album.
I loved Watt too but it was spoilt by that awful cover of Chuck's Sweet Little Sixteen. But for that it would have been one of their finest albums.
Yeh sweet little sixteen rocked but didn't fit with the other tracks.Watt rules. I'm coming on May have my fav guitar solo of ALL time.
I got to see Alvin Lee Band in 1986 in Vancouver at Expo Theatre, wicked show, did his usual songs, I'm Goin Home, Love Like a Man, plus did a bunch of his solo tunes as well
Pete the Expanse & Depth & Breadth of Your Rock Music Collection & Knowledge is Astounding !! 🙄😀🎸
love ten years after...good stuff...how are you fixed with three dog night...that would be interesting...
I love TYA!! And every album has a unique sound and style. I have to agree with you, that my favorite can change every week. Too hard to rank, for me!!
RRMTTW ~ my favorite. I had an 8 track of this one and the sequencing was changed to accomodate the 8 track but it was perfect. Drove down many a long dark road with a buzz and this album blasting on the stereo.
Always loved A Space in Time. A great album with some heavy cuts and great acoustic tracks as well. A classic album IMHO.
I have every release of Ten Years After and Alvin Lee on CD and I dig each one.
Love the album Recorded Live.
_"Und jetzt in der Festhalle in Frankfurt ...!"_
I love Undead. But that’s a live album.
Requesting: Vanilla Fudge, ranking the albums, Supertramp, ranking the albums
A great job, thanks! This ranking only applies to studio albums, not live albums. However, the live 1968 album 'Undead', their second release, is an amazing landmark album I just can't leave out of a TYA discussion. With a pre-Woodstock 'I'm Going Home', it also includes stunning versions of 'Woodchoppers Ball' and 'I May Be Wrong'. Even after hearing it for over FIFTY YEARS, I'm still amazed at their stunning virtuosity.
Another one of those bands I’ve never given the time to despite feeling I’d Love To Change The World is one of the very best 70s hard rock anthems ever !
the album that song comes from is one of the best rock albums ever made
It's acoustic. Limp. I hated it. But i respected where Alvin was going at this time. Each to their own, i know many people loved it. Great cover.
@@izitsomojo I guess we agree to disagree
They never played it live. I asked Leo Lyons why and he said Alvin had a thing about not playing "pop" songs and consciously avoided it. Similarly, they rarely played Here Me Calling too.
Alvin Lee , Ritchie Blackmore , Rory Gallagher , enough said
Alvin Lee never got the respect he deserved. Guitar Mag. once had a list of 100 Greatest Guitar Players...LEE DIDN'T EVEN MAKE THEIR LIST!!
Really...how are there 100 guitar players better than Alvin Lee? How are there 25 guitar players better than Lee?
Agree with your list almost exactly except I would put Watt in second and bump the others down a notch. 2 songs you didn't mention I think are among their best. I would call them their philosophical songs. Think About The Times from Watt, which I see is the name of your compilation CD, and Religion from R and R Music To The World. Killer tunes with really brilliant lyrics. Those who categorize TYA as just another boogie band are missing the mark.
I still have a warm spot for Watt. I still play it often. The songs, the mood... great album. The rest are spotty to me with some great songs... although I haven't listened to some of these in years...
I would have put Watt second after CG and just slid everything else down a spot. Otherwise I agree with Pete.
Yeah, i loved "Watt" also. Such a different sound and crystal production. With that killer live track to wind it up! It's 2nd to "Rock n Roll Music to the World" as my No1.
@@izitsomojo
Bought Watt when it first came out. After Cricklewood Green it seemed very tired (the incessant touring gave them little time to write new material). The pointless and muddy sounding live track 'Sweet Little Sixteen' suggests inspiration was not at its highest.
I just started getting into this bad. I picked up some albums at my local record store: Rock & Roll Music..., Recorded Live, A Space in Time, Ssssh, and Cricklewood Green (3.00 each). So now i had to come back here and see what the consensus is on these albums. It looks like i did a good job. And I used to have that 1989 album on cassette way back IN 1989.
Thanks Pete For this ranking of this great British Blues Rock band.Led by the mercurial Alvin Lee, but what an impressive rhythm section they had, propulsive yet supple and dexterous but remaining highly skilled My favorites are
1 - Cricklewood Green
2 - Ssssh
3 - A space in time
4 - Rock's n' roll music to The world
5 - Watt
Hi pete......when i saw tya in the woodstock movie...i said.......wow....im going home was one hell of. A kick ass song.....love this band since.say hello to the mrs.for me.great information as usual.thanks.
Hi Pete,
Although "Undead" is a Live-Album,it was the official Ten Years After Album No. 2.The Tracks on this Album were never released before on an Album.The Ranking of my favourite TYA Albums is:
1. Watt
2. Ssssh
3. Stonedhenge
4. A Space In Time
5. Cricklewood Green
6. Rock'n'Roll Music To The World
7. Ten Years After
8. Undead
9. Positive Vibrations
10. About Time
Great show pete.this has inspired me to go back and rediscover ten years after.i used to own some of these albums back in the day
For me "Stonehenge" is my favorite because it is a very experimental/Psychadelic trip."Going to try" & "Hear me calling" are very strong but "Untitle" is unfuckin unreal-it's atmospheric tribal acid rock at it's finest.Your on point about one thing that solo on "I'm coming on" is so fuckin badass-The way Alvin elevates about half way thru takes shit to another level...
This band had one of my favorite live albums live at Fillmore
Awesome band... Alvin was definitely one of the best!
I would have put "A Space in Time" at #1 and "Rock and Roll Music to the World" at #2!
The 1st TYA I bought was their first. The rest followed. Luv Cricklewood Green, Space in Time & Stonehedge.Their LP’s on the Deram label sound exclnt...Thx 👍
Dont know who Ten Years After were so I kept trying to figure out which band he was revisiting "ten years after" lol, oh my, English as a second language sucks for this :)
My dad lived with one of these guys
I bought Cricklewood Green the day it came out, based on Alvin Lee's performance at Woodstock. It will always be my favorite even though I ended up buying all the other TYA albums over the years. There are great moments on all the albums, but for me, Cricklewood Green is all killer and no filler.
I know you don't include live albums in your ratings, but Undead is an awesome record.
I have an original copy of the Ssssh album, havn't played it in years so put it on today, Good Morning Little School Girl got me goin'. Thanks for the reminder of the album!!!
About 40 years ago my brother took me to the record store and told me to buy Stonehenge and 2nd Winter for 1.99 and 2.99. About seven years ago I discovered it's Stonedhenge and not stonehenge.
Before I watch, my top three.
3. Cricklewood Green.
2. A Space in Time.
1. Rock & Roll Music to the World.
Standing at the station is one of the best tracks by any artist on any album in my opinion.
Thx PETE for sticking with us/ especially during this difficult week. Like some viewer mentioned I never really gave this group much listen / i may need to re dig into their catalog . One thing I do remember / is supposedly LEE was obsessed with ELVIS and in 56 when he became famous . Alvin in 66- decide to call band/. Ten Years After. Thank you PETE !
You've done your homework
I'm so proud of you
My favorite was always Cricklewood Green. I had them all on vinyl back in the day. Sounds great on a good Pioneer system IMHO. ua-cam.com/video/4diIC2MRjiA/v-deo.html
One of the coolest bands ever - and one of my all-time favourites!
I went nuts when I first heard them on Woodstock.Still, their best album is the live one.
Thanks Pete for giving us something to watch that lets us escape this twisted reality we are in right now. Please keep making these to keep us sane! 😀😀🤘🤘
Cool channel dude. In some of your next videos maybe you can rank the albums of some other great bands such as The Byrds, Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, Talking Heads...
Don’t forget the Live Albums: Especially, Live at the Fillmore East 1970(ESSENTIAL!) & Undead (Smokin’).
Pete,
Great list!! I would agree with you on this Top 10 List...
My only departure from your list where the positions would deviate is
Ten Years After
"Ssssh" # 1
&
"Cricklewood Green" #2
Please do a Top 10 list on some further Blue Horizon Records / Mike Vernon produced late 1960's / early 1970's British Blues Rock Bands...
1. Savoy Brown
2. Chicken Shack
3. Fleetwood Mac
4. The Climax Chicago Blues Band
Along with...
1. Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated (Featuring Cyril Davies, Graham Bond, Long John Baldry, Art Wood, Davey Graham, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger)
2. Cyril Davies and His Rhythm & Blues All Stars (Featuring Long John Baldry, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Art Wood, Ian Stewart, Nicky Hopkins, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger)
3. Bluesology (Featuring Reginald Dwight aka Sir Elton John)
4. The Graham Bond Organization (Featuring Ginger Baker & Jack Bruce)
5. John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers (Featuring Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Mick Taylor, Aynsley Dunbar)
6. Long John Baldry & His Hoochie Coochie Men (Featuring Rod Stewart)
7. Steampacket (Featuring Long John Baldry, Rod Stewart)
8. Shotgun Express (Featuring Rod Stewart, Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood)
Along with...
1. Rolling Stones
2. Animals
3. Pretty Things
4. Kinks
5. Who
6. Small Faces
7. Van Morrison’s Them
8. The Spencer Davis Group
9. Downliners Sect
10. Yardbirds
11. Cream
12. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
13. The Jeff Beck Group
14. Led Zeppelin
15. Jethro Tull
16. Blind Faith
17. Free
18. Humble Pie
19. Traffic
20. Spooky Tooth
21. Wishbone Ash
22. Trapeze
23. The Groundhogs
24. Status Quo
25. Rory Gallagher’s Taste
26. Gary Moore’s Skid Row
27. Art Wood’s Quiet Melon
28. Christine Perfect Band
29. The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation
30. Stone The Crows
31. Steamhammer
32. Blodwyn Pig
33. Bakerloo
34. Sam Apple Pie
35. Juicy Lucy
36. Killing Floor
37. Black Cat Bones
38. Ashkan
39. Red Dirt
40. Edgar Broughton Band
41. Medicine Head
42. Stack Waddy
43. Heavy Jelly
44. Brunning Sunflower Blues Band
45. Levee Camp Moan
Loved the review, always thought ten years after was a great yet underrated and ignored band. Alvin Lee was a guitar genius. Hope the family is doing well, prayers with all of you.
How about The Raspberries?? They only made 5 albums!!
1. Side 3 (1973)
2. Starting Over (1974)
3. Fresh (late 1972)
4. self titled 1972 debut (with the raspberry smell)
5. Refreshed (2000) (without Eric Carmen) (6 song EP)
As for the solo members:
Eric Carmen "Boats Against The Current" (1977)
Wally Bryson Tattoo (self - titled) (1975) & Fotomaker debut (1978) & "Vis A Vis" (late 1978)
Dave Smalley "Internal Monologue" (2004)
Scott McCarl "Play On" (2000) & also the best from a Raspberries member!!!!
1) Cricklewood Green
2) A Space in Time
3) Sssssh
4) Rock & Roll Music to the World
5) Stonedhenge
6) Ten Years After
7) Watt
8) Positive Vibrations
9) Now
10) About Time
11) Evolution
12) A Sting in the Tail
My rank:
1 Cricklewood Green
2 Ssssh!
3 A Space in Time
4 Rock & Roll Music to the World
5 Ten Years After
6 Stonedhenge
7 Watt
8 Positive Vibrations
9 Now
10 About Time
11 A Sting in the Tail
12 Evolution
I discover lots of great music through this channel. for example each time Pete names the title of a song I immediately go check it out on youtube. and now I have a big list of albums to buy. some are difficult to find but most are available. love this channel. thank you Pete
OK..been a fan since 1969...so here is the definitive list:
10. Rock and Roll Music to the World..strengths..Religion, Choo Choo Mama, title song, and Standing at the Station.
9. Watt..Strengths...Gonna Run..She Lies in the Morning..I'm Coming On..I Say Yeah
8. Stonedhenge..Woman Trouble..Speed kills
7. Ssssh..Stoned Woman..Two Time Mama..Good Morning Little School Girl
6. A Space in Time.. I'd Love to Change the World, Baby Wont You Let Me Rock and Roll You..Here They Come (side note.ASIT was first album by TYA after leaving Deram label for Columbia. Clive Davis claimed this to be the first million dollar contract he gave a band.)
5. Positive Vibrations...Look Me Straight into the Eyes..I Wanted To Boogie and a great cover of Little Richard's "Going Back to Birmingham." Also. last TYA studio album in the 70's and done right around the time of Alvin Lee's star studded "On the Road To Freedom" solo album.
4. About Time.. Breakout for Leo Lyons as a song writer. Bad Blood is a mind blower.
3. Alvin Lee and Co. Cover of Crossroads is fantastic and Boogie On is a long jam that is great.
2. TYA self titled.. OMG great jazz blues fusion, Help Me, Spoonful are great covers. Don't want you woman is a mind blower, and Al Kooper's I Can't Keep From Cryin..Sometimes is really cool..This was recorded the Deram label BTW, a progressive label off shoot of Decca records, same label as Moody Blues.
1. Cricklewood Green.. First for a reason. Me and My Baby, Love Like a Man, Sugar the Road and Working On the Road,, are the bands best work.
One last thing..when TYA reformed without Alvin Lee in 2002, guitarist Joe Gooch came in, first studio is called NOW..slick and suprisingly polished, produced by Leo Lyons, who also produced UFO has 8 really good songs, maybe not the standard TYA/Alvin blues rock fusion, but stands well on its own.
Pete, you obviously love a lot of classic bluesy rock, but I have often wondered if you like the classic blues players like Albert King, Robert Cray, Albert Collins, BB King, Muddy Waters, etc?
Thanks for this countdown Pete, such a great band. R.I.P. Alvin Lee.
Leo Lyons never seemed to get the props he deserved. Amazing player to watch.
Alvin Lee es uno de los mejores guitarristas blues-rock de la historia. Saludos desde Catalunya!!
Cricklewood Green and Watt my number one and two as I met my wife during this period and they were played constantly. My cousin who was a bit more bluesy at the time had a copy of Sssshhh so that is when I started listening to them. A Space in Time completes my top four. A really solid band.
1. Cricklewood Green
2. Shhh!
3. Rock and Roll Music To The World
@Wes Matthews it’s hard to pick witch albums to get from TYA I whould for sure get Cricklewood Green don’t know what else ones to buy it’s hard to decide witch other ones to buy there all amazing albums blues rock
@Wes Matthews maybe I should buy Rock and Roll Music To The World TYA they sure are an amazing band I never heard anything this good before
Hey Pete
Do you know the band TEN from England?
They released a bunch of albums 3 ofwhich were produced by top rock producer Mike Stone
ROCK & ROLL MUSIC TO THE WORLD is my favorite. Choo Choo Mama
Love the inside album sleeve for ‘Rock and Roll Music To The World’ That Album was my introduction to the band
1. About Time
2. A Sting in the Tale
3. Rock and Roll Music to the World
4. Ten Years After
5. Evolution
when I see your presentations I chuckle because you and I did the same thing: we held on to CDs until they became outdated technology. In my area, DVDs are now outdated too. I have a storage unit full of CDs, DVDs and records I got for free.
Cricklewood Green was my late father's favorite too, mine as well.
Cricklewood Green is my choice for number one as well andl don't forget the live set Undead and the compilation Alvin Lee And Company on the Deram Records Label !
Do Little Feat Pete! LoL
this was my favorite band when i was a teanager I didn't have all their albums but I did have 6 or 7 including live albums A space in time way in the top it's only fault is it's a little short, SHH second even though the school girl song gives me the creeps Cricklewood Green three, then Rock and Roll Music four
Standing at the station off rock and roll music to the world top ten song of theirs you failed to mention . Pete you should do a Savoy Brown album ranking!!!
Honorable mention: Ten Years After's set at Woodstock. I think Alvin's playing was second only to Jimi Hendrix's during the festival. I'm Going Home is particularly good, after which Alvin drops his Gibson 335 on the stage, throws a watermelon over his shoulder which rolls across the stage out of nowhere, and walks off. Good stuff lol
A Space in Time is the Dog's Favorite, Obviously... Also, Spinal Tap sued 10YA over Stonehenge. They also sued Metallica, Ac/Dc & The Eagles for their Black Albums... 😉
@Elvis Parker how can spinal tap sue TYA for Stonehenge TYA Stonehenge came out way before spinal tap or did TYA sue spinal tap
How could I forget ‘A Space In Time’ wow. My bad
What do you think of their 1973 album Recorded Live?
Rock and Roll Music to the World and A Space in Time are my favorites.
I'm probably in the minority, but I'd easily put Positive Vibrations in their top 5.
I had all the albums from Stonehenge to A space in time on vinyl. My number one is A space in Time
You really need to get About Time is is a good album.
I agree! A fantastic rock album. The track "wound up working in a parking lot" is an anthem as far as im concerned. This album never got the exposure it deserved. Any fans out there should revisit this one.
their poppiest album "A Space In Time" is my favorite.