Just discovered "Lila's Dance" on "Visions of the Emerald Beyond" for the first time. Oh My Goddie. Thanks Andy! You always give great recommendations.

@AndyEdwardsDrummer

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@tonypeake467

Жыл бұрын

Classic piece of fusion

Vangelis' OSTs in the early 1980s with Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner and Missing were milestones. The mash up of John Williams and Wendy Carlos seems obvious today but not so in 1980. Hans Zimmer and countless modern movie composers wouldn't be the same without Vangelis. Not to mention Heaven and Hell in Cosmos - remains the best use of music in an intro, or the masterpiece of an album itself, or so many of his other works. A legend.

Thanks for introducing me to Mahavishnu. Incredible music. Cheers!

Oh man, I love your videos so much!!! Thanks!!!

@rocklanglois8378

Жыл бұрын

And I'm not really a fan of Vangelis :)

I’ve been getting more into Jazz lately like the Weather Report’s of the world, so this list is extremely useful and helpful. ❤

Hey Andy, Some thoughts on this video: 1) Appreciate your putting The Inner Mounting Flame at the top of the list. My intro to the Mahavishnu Orchestra was Birds Of Fire, which sounded weird to me when I first heard it. But I came to enjoy it once my ears adjusted. It was like nothing I'd ever heard. But Inner Mounting Flame (which I heard later) was just savage, and because of that I prefer it. 2) Having Cardiacs' Sing To God on your list probably puts you in the minority of people who even think of considering them. I didn't find out about them until sometime last year, when I saw one of their videos. I'm in full agreement with you: they're brilliant. And Tim Smith has a rightful place among such great English eccentrics as Robyn Hitchcock, Andy Partridge and Syd Barrett. 3) I don't have a great knowledge of Jan Hammer's discography. The solo album of his that really struck me in my fusion freak period was The First Seven Days. That's the one I would've picked if any. That was a conceptual showcase for his keyboard wizardry, particularly his way around a synth. 4) I'd have to reacquaint myself with Wired, but Blow By Blow is the Jeff Beck album I would keep coming back to (other than Truth. His cover of The Yardbirds' Shapes Of Things will blow your head off). 5) Picking Close To The Edge is a no-brainer to end all no-brainers. In retrospect, I don't think Yes ever topped it (fans of Tales From Topographic Oceans be damned). 6) Haven't done a deep dive on Billy Cobham. But outside of his Mahavishnu work, Spectrum is the album that hit me hard. And Tommy Bolin's guitar slinging on Quadrant 4 is incendiary, one of the greatest solos I've ever heard. I enjoyed your choices, Andy. Here are some of mine: Jeff Beck: Blow By Blow Tony Williams Lifetime: Emergency! Yes: Close To The Edge King Crimson: Red Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Inner Mounting Flame Weather Report: Black Market Miles Davis: On The Corner James Blood Ulmer: Odyssey Brand X: Unorthodox Behaviour John Zorn: Naked City Last Exit: Last Exit Gentle Giant: Octopus Return To Forever: Hymn To The Seventh Galaxy Cardiacs: Sing To God Genesis: Selling England By The Pound Pink Floyd: Animals Billy Cobham: Spectrum

Love your commentaries. I saw Gentle Giant in 1977 and was a huge fan. I love jazz also, and really felt elevated by the Paul Desmond and Chet Baker album called Together; with Ron Carter, Steve Gadd, Tony Williams, Bob James, Kenny Barron, Jim Hall, and Roland Hanna. What a line-up.

The connection Alice Coltrane - Pharoah Sanders - Bill Laswell is incredible. “With a Heartbeat” is right up there among my top favourites.

You have landed on so many of my pivotal albums with this list Andy: P.F.M. The Lamb, Wired, Visions of the Emerald Beyond, Inner Mounting Flame, One Size Fits All and a bunch of others. I think this is the best of your List videos yet. More is more!

@AndyEdwardsDrummer

Жыл бұрын

I don't know how many more lists I can do now...

@fairlyincomplete

Жыл бұрын

@@AndyEdwardsDrummer I get it. What next? ... "Andy's 10 Greatest Prog & Jazz Rock List Videos | Ranked"? 😆

Awesome video as usual! The “blood and rage” of which you speak about Mahavishnu happens with Gilmour on Animals for me. One of the reasons it’s tied for my fav Floyd. He leaves behind that dreamy ethereal sound for a really raw, sharp, and angry sound. The third solo in Dogs and the end of Pigs are brutal as hell. They never did anything like it again unfortunately. Love me some PFM too they manage to blend the symphonic classical stuff without being too corny imo lol. You’re doing so much for this music with these videos. Great perspectives and I love how you incorporate philosophy into a lot of it.

@jimmycampbell78

Жыл бұрын

Yes during the fade out of Pigs and just before the sheep start baaa-ing, David Gilmour SHREDS 🎸 its awesome.

@mononoaware1960

Жыл бұрын

@@jimmycampbell78 hell yea, it’s my favorite solo of his by far. There’s some even better live versions here on YT where they really stretch the song out. Can’t get enough of that brutal animals tone he had, really wish he played more stuff with that setup.

4:17 The list starts here.

What a great list. I have 13 of the albums you mentioned here and you've definitely mentioned more than 7 other bands and/or albums that I've yet to encounter/listen to. Ta. I like how you concede your own tastes are fluid and choices change over time. I remember telling my local record store owner I liked the theme music/jams on the stop motion show Gumby and he gave me Romantic Warrior by Return to Forever - this precipitated a deep dive into Al Di Meola of course 😅. I think I was about 14 at the time ('88) so the album was already well old. A fan 🖖🏼🇦🇺

Thank you for uploading. I was thrilled to hear the name of Vangelis and the title "Heaven and Hell." Vangelis' "Heaven and Hell" has been a very important album for me as well. I had just started to listen to progressive rock music when I first had a listen to the album for the first time and the album became a gateway for me to the world of progressive rock thank to the tune "So Long Ago, So Clear." I soon had a try on "Fragile" by Yes and numbers of progressive rock albums then followed. "Heaven and Hell" still sounds quite on the edge for me even today and it surely is one of the best progressive rock albums for me.

Mr. Edwards, thanks for yor list ❤

Most original Top 20 ranking I've ever seen. Very cool.

Great list. Stoked for StG special with Mr Poole.

You have been an excellent guide to albums worth investigating. Best discovery so far is 'Oh Yeah' and now I'm definitely gonna check that Cardiacs album. Some artists I've known but maybe not given enough time and attention to (such as Return To Forever, Mahavishnu, Jeff Beck) - I've been relistening to them and discovering how good they are. Thank you for your enthusiasm and humour (I coiuldn't sit through an hour-long video without some laughs along the way).

Andy... Spot on about changing opinions and tastes about albums. I have an album collection that is now well above 11,000, having been a serious collector since 1970 or so. I have albums that for a long time I considered the most brilliant thing I ever heard, but then after years of listening to them and becoming intimate with music, I begin to see the things that will change my opinion. I dig Cardiacs being on this list... My view of what Prog is has a place for them.

Thanks for the video, Andy. Another interesting list. Very interesting, By the way, I remember hearing "The Friends of Mr. Cairo" by Jon [Anderson] & Vangellis on AM radio in the early '80s, before I'd heard of Yes, I'm not sure I'd say that it opened the door to prog for me, but it does stand as a good memory of my (pre-)formative years, in music terms.

Nice one Andy. I am listening to the John Serry album. Sounds like Jeff Lorber and Spyro Gyra.

I've been listening to Headhunters a lot lately. I love that there are only 4 songs, but they're great long jams. Herbie knows how to immerse himself into the groove and is in no hurry to get out.

Great closing speech.You actually stirred me. But I'm NOT embracing Vangelis.

I saw Visions of the Emerald Beyond in The Rochester Institute of Tech in the ice skating rink for $2.50! But by that time Ponty had quit.

3 Bruford albums... 🤩

@jbognap

Жыл бұрын

And I would include Discipline on this list - the band wasn't even going to be called King Crimson.

Loved the Narada reference! Great drummer and composer...

Glad you included Gong,, but I prefer Angel's Egg (absolute classic) over You (and also Gong Live Etc, Shamal, or Gazeuse)

Interesting list Andy. Nice to see Cardiacs get another plug by you. A much misunderstood and under appreciated group.

Another interesting show Andy. Heaven and Hell is a great album, both versions.

Great list! One album I was hoping would appear is ‘Third’ by Soft Machine. Groundbreaking, highly influential jazz rock from early 1970. I also think it’s cool how it influenced electronic music. The side-long epics Slightly All the Time and Out-Bloody-Rageous are jazz rock masterpieces.

@AndyEdwardsDrummer

Жыл бұрын

I have never been keen on that album. Sounds like an inferior Burnt Weeny Sandwich to me....

Great list, Andy. Not really surprised that you love Wired……Jeff Beck, Jan Hammer, and Narada on the same album! Great stuff.

@tonypeake467

Жыл бұрын

Wired is Beck's masterpiece

Just watched this and searched out John Serry - found out he wrote and performed on Auracle's "Glider", an album I rescued from the bargain bin forty something years ago and I spin on occasion. Cool you mentioned him - his album in now on my (very long) to-buy list.

Great video Andy. Which Prog musicians could cross over in to full on Fusion, such as Steve Howe, Steve Hackett, Keith Emerson, Robert Fripp, Rick Wakeman etc.? Bill Bruford, (who we know can cross over and indeed play anything he wants) said that Wakeman didn't have a blue note in his body!

Romantic Warrior was my first RTF album then I bought all of the rest . Fortunately Ive seen them Several times and Al Dimeola to. Got to see Dweezil with RTF playing Zappa Plays Zappa. My wifes 1st RTF concert . Dweezil made her a believer .. Great List ! thx for your posts and opening peoples views..

Heaven and Hell absolutely blew my mind when i first heard it in 1980/1981 being 12/13... gateway album to a lot of cool things to come...

It must be at least 40 years since I heard 'Heaven and Hell' and TBH I can't remember anything about it at all. I'm going to give it a listen for old times sake. Also I now feel sufficiently browbeaten into checking out the Cardiacs. I'd never heard of them till you began mentioning them on here - you have worn me down!

@kzustang

Жыл бұрын

It's not for everyone and certainely noty to the fainted hearts. They are a mix of super tight, very English prog with a sense of punk to it. Check out Songs for Ships and Irons before you go towards Sing to God. Andy really likes StG but it's much more of a harder listen compared with the Big Ship and Too many Irons era. Imagine if Madness and the Sex Pistols got together in the late 80s to play a Planet Gong album. I don't know, but it's really a world of its own. I absolutely love them.

The reason for lists is that it gives someone who is interested in "the genre" exposure to music that they might otherwise not know. I cut my teeth on the 70s scene; King Crimson & Rundgren will always have a special place for me. For years, I've known about Rush but ignorantly lumped them with more mainstream popular bands of the 1980s & never paid them much attention. These sorts of lists have prompted me to check out the groups with which I'm less familiar. They won't have that same impact on the serotonin & dopamine that I get from the music I heard in my teens but it broadens my horizons.

Thanks Andy I was so pleased that Vangelis snook in.

Great albums!! 👍👊

I don't know Heaven and Hell, but I really like Opera Sauvage. Your love for Sing To God makes me happy, looking forward to seeing Poole on here hopefully.

Greatest solo album of all time, Jaco Pastorius. He combines straight ahead Jazz, Jazz/Rock, Funk, R&B, ballads, 3rd world soundscapes. Utterly unique and yet unmistakably...jazz.

@dcrook232323

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm. Keith Jarrett is a GOAT and the lead up (story) to the actual performance is crazy!

I'll say it again ...Horacee Arnold's Tale of the Exonerated Flea. Jan Hammer solos on each track and represents a high water mark for his minimoog genius. The whole album is great, influences such as Chick Corea, Headhunters, Mahavishnu can be heard, but if you were to just listen to the Jan Hammer contribution it will blow you away. You will thank me later.

Andy, you referred to albums that you didn't "get" when you were young, but you do "get" now. A case in point for me is "Solstice" by Ralph Towner which I bought in 1986 when I was a student. It confused and flummoxed me at the time so I stopped listening to it. Literally today I listened to it again - I absolutely love it! Four awesome musicians at the top of my game.

@herculesrockefeller8969

Жыл бұрын

Their game?

@docsketchy

Жыл бұрын

OMG, Solstice is one of the greatest albums of all time! (It literally won the prize for jazz album of the year in Europe when it came out.). Oceanus, Sand, and (especially) Nimbus are some of the greatest tracks of Towner's career. If you haven't seen it, then you really must check out the KZread video of the Solstice band rehearsing in Oslo in 1975. They are working out the parts to several tracks from that album. It's really fascinating to see Towner, Weber, Garbarek and Christensen trying to nail down those pieces. Towner is so chill, it's almost comical. Weber is also very fun to watch.

@philjm3103

Жыл бұрын

@@herculesrockefeller8969 Well spotted, Hercules! "Their" is what I meant, obvs!

@philjm3103

Жыл бұрын

@@docsketchy Thanks for the tip about the rehearsal video. It's weird that it's taken me this long to catch up with Solstice, particularly as I'm a big fan of Towner's more recent solo work. One other musician whom I'm also rapidly catching up on, after not really knowing where to start with his discography, is Terje Rypdal - what an awesome player and composer he is!

@tookmyjob

Жыл бұрын

I bought that on name recognition only at flea market. 6 seconds in, I was hooked.

Ok Andy great video. I think I have seen The Cardiacs live about 9 times. With the big band and the smaller 4 piece, they were always amazing. The best non Cardiacs Cardiacs album is by a band called The North sea Radio Orchestra album I a Moon. It is band who are friends of Tim Smith and the Cardiacs. I think I read that the lyrics are based on Tim being ill at the time. It is not punk at all but is full of the "english ethos". Craig Fortnam from NSRO was in the Cardiacs.

Heaven and Hell is a great album with à cool vocal sequence by Jon Anderson. Among the great prog jazz rock albums: Happy the Man : Happy the Man David Sancious : Forest of Feelings (produced by Billy Cobham!) Banco : Di Terra The Muffins : Manna/Mirage Area : Crac! Arti+Mestieri : Tilt (Furio Chirico is the italian Billy Cobham) Keep up the good work Andy!

Saw Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group twice in 1976. Terrific shows and Jan stole the show both times. Reviewed "Melodies" for my college paper along with one of the Beck shows. Delighted to see appreciation for "Wired."

Two Mahavishnu. That's crazy but it makes sense.

It’s most interesting to learn about why you like these records, they are all of course among the greatest albums ever made. Giving your personal perspective is breathing new life into these recordings. After you mentioned Vangelis you mentioned Prog gatekeepers, I am a Prog gatekeeper of the strictest order. The whole crux of the issue is these genre labels. What the English accomplished in Rock music is just incredible and the Prog sub genre was so unique and was nothing like what American bands were even thinking of doing. I guess I’m saying that it’s a special thing and we need new terminology to describe it. It’s more than just a musical style that Canadians and Italians can also play, it’s English in its dna. Most Americans Rock fans top twenty rock bands will have fifteen English bands. If I was King I would be building honorary megaliths everywhere. Great chat and list. Visions of the Emerald Beyond scares me too.

20 cracking albums! When I want to listen to prog or jazz fusion I don't reach for Vangelis, JM Jarre or Mike Oldfield but I still like them.

1.Oops wrong planet (Utopia) 2. Ego (Tony Williams) 3. Crossings (Herbie Hancock Mwandishi band) 4. Fish Out Of Water (Chris Squire) 5. And Then There Were Three (Genesis) 6. Drama (Yes) 7. Songs From The Wood (Jethro Tull) 8. Danger Money (UK) 9. Polytown (Mick Karn, Terry Bozzio Dave Torn) 10. Moroccan Roll (BrandX) 11. Masques (Brand X) 12. I Sing The Body Electric (weather Report) 13. Venusian Summer (Lenny White) 14.Belonging (Keith Jarrett) 15. Cape Catastrophe (Percy Jones) 16. Some Shapes to Come (Steve Grossman) 17. Usfret (trilok Gurtu) 18. Live In NYC (Frank Zappa) 19. Make a Jazz Noise Here (Frank Zappa) 20. Marscape (Jack Lancaster, Robin Lumley, Percy Jones) Yes... Its MY list and Special mention; 21. Believe it (Tony Williams) 22. It's Ok To Listen To The Grey Voice (Jan Garbarek Band) 23. Giraldilla (Gonzalo Rubalcaba) 24) Turn it Over Redux (T Williams Lifetime & B Laswell)

Hi Andy, thanks for the video, it‘s certainly worth seeing for everyone, and I would agree with perhaps 75% of your choices, but that’s probably due to different growing up influences. That’s not the reason for this comment, but I have a related subject I’d like to bring up concerning the main niggle I have with both jazz and jazz fusion as opposed to prog (I mean actual progressive rock, not the regressive progressive rock). It seems to fit in quite well here. When I listen to prog, I can hear by the composition, the construction, the instrumentation, the arrangements etc. from just about which era this work stems. It’s in the state of constant development for that genre; the ever-evolving flow. In jazz and jazz fusion, I don’t get this. Apart from the obvious increase in sound and studio technology over the years, any solo recorded last year could, for my ears, equally well have been recorded thirty or so years ago. I can’t hear the progression. This is not to put it down, but it’s a genuine difficulty I have when genuinely attempting to appreciate jazz and jazz fusion. Not that I don’t enjoy them; of course I do. But it does hamper my general admiration quite substantially. I’d be quite interested in your take on this. P.S.: I just noticed that I wrote jazz rock instead of jazz fusion above. I've now corrected that.

Great list again. Thanks. As you mentioned I’m also more into Jazz-Rock than Prog, so my additions come from that -or even more eclectic- direction. My picks have in common that next to the main Artist the other musicians are unbelievable. 1. On Jan Hammers Melodies you’ll find the beautiful Too much to lose, and this amazing composition is also played on JEFF BECK - THERE AND BACK. With Jan Hammer, Tony Hymas, Simon Phillips a.o. this is the best. 2. Also known from Prog’s Focus my pick is that other Jan, JAN AKKERMAN - JAN AKKERMAN With Joachim Kühn, Pierre van der Linden, Bruno Castelluci playing fantastic compositions; funk, lute, …… you’ll get it all. 3. Dropped (?) from one of your other Top 10’s JOHN SCOFIELD - STILL WARM Oh man, Darryl Jones, Omar Hakim, Don Grolnick and great great compositions. All three titles above share the perfect change in dynamics also due to the perfect order / sequence of the songs. Maybe that’s a nice Top 10 category (despite Spotify c.a.) to delve into. Looking forward to your next Top XX of AB and/or C.

I love Vangelis!! Yes let’s talk more about one of the greatest self taught musicians. He doesn’t read sheet music. He jus gets inspiration from love and the cosmos. ❤

@thrak9

11 ай бұрын

Unfortunately he died last year.

A very interesting list, and yes one can argue endlessly about putting certain albums on it or not, but... where's the music of (Christian Vander's) MAGMA?

Fantastic point about music not being entirely subjective. The balance between objective and subjective is fascinating, almost alchemical.

I had the same feeling when I saw the Mahavishnu Orchestra as you did . I am a big fan of Yes but I’d found the music I was searching for at that MO concert .

Billy Cobham Pleasant Pheasant was a FM dj’s theme song every day at 10am. Inspiring. Shave and a haircut!

Jan Hammer's Too Much To Lose, on the albums Melodies and There And Back, is one of the best songs ever. And thanks for mentioning the self-titled UK album. Another fine album.

Your great point about prog being working man's music reaching for something more seems very appropriate to Vangelis' "Heaven and Hell". Even his classical elements would be/have been never really taken seriously by serious classical audiences although there is the sense that Vangelis' uses those to make the musical concept grand in a way that classical music can. Even the use of synths is a way to bring newer and accessible instruments to a level of respectability of more traditional classical ones. Vangelis' own themes emerge (like Chariots of Fire) more convincingly and the surreal vocal elements are fitting in the overall piece but Vangelis' achievement in H&H is unifying all the ideas into a single concept. The listener decides if this is one of those albums that adds up to more than the sum of its parts. He may not not be successful in a Stravinsky kind of way, but for the working class man wanting more, this is an intriguing and stimulating listen.

As for Rush for me Permanent Waves is their finest hour of their progressive period.

Again, Andy, thank you! Your subjective (educated) perspective resonates with mine! I am now curious about The Cardiacs, which I've NEVER heard! I am SO with you on Mahavishnu, which I've been grooving on since 1974-5 and it NEVER gets old.

@AndyEdwardsDrummer

Жыл бұрын

Approach with an open mind and prepare for it to be blown...

Wonderful! With you all the way (except for Cardiacs; have to check them out). Once again, pleeease indulge in the phenomenal Eliane Elias's 30+ catalogue. Would add a slight female touch ;-) She's the Boss, so much more than Bossa ...

Even when Andy does a top Biscuits list I’ll tune in. 😂

@AndyEdwardsDrummer

Жыл бұрын

I have :)

@Nephilim-81

Жыл бұрын

@@AndyEdwardsDrummer I absolutely know. My wife and I had a good laugh given your enthusiasm for the ultimate biscuit. :)

0.39 , I rest my case ma Lord !

I loved the Vangelis soundtrack for the movie Bounty, great movie too.

Miles Davis Jack Johnson soundtrack better be on the list!

Thank you for putting King Crimson 72 to 74 on the list, over In the Court of the Crimson King. And you're right: after Schizoid Man the rest of it is an anti-climax. 72 to 74 was the best band that ever was or will be.

I'm pretty broad in my tastes but progressive rock is my heart. Yet I've never heard John Sperry. I will seek out that album.

Heaven and Hell is such an amazing album. I actually really liked the albums Vangelis did with Jon Anderson (who appears here, of course) although they were a bit inconsistent. I'm going to go and listen to some Zappa now - I really need to get my head around what he's doing...wish me luck...

I am glad you finally mentioned Tony Williams Lifetime, he should have been on your list, but it is all selective. On the whole I can agree you certainly picked an eclectic and worthy list. Vangelis !

@AndyEdwardsDrummer

Жыл бұрын

Check out my up and coming video on Lifetime. I hope it fills the gap

It wouldn't be a stretch to consider a few of the E.L.P. albums for this list.

I don't listen to a ton of jazz fusion but I do love romantic Warrior!!

So far one out of 6, Imma not getting these records...yet. Donald Byrd turned to Herbie, who was 22 that year. "Miles wants you, you go!" - "but you and the band, man, I owe you..." - "ya gotta grow up, kid.". True story

Great video, I think Wired definitely deserves to be high on the list, but question Your pick of one size fits all as the best from Zappa.

@tonywebster5768

Жыл бұрын

Inca Roads is probably why

@johannhauffman323

Жыл бұрын

@@tonywebster5768 I agree. Inca Roads is amazing! Really out of this world. And to be fair, Andy didn’t say it is the best, only a favorite of his. And that many albums could represent Zappa on his new list. I can not pick my favorite and could never be as presumably to declare the best. Thanks for your input…. Led me a fresh listen to Inca Roads. Absolutely amazing, thanks for that Tony.

@colinburroughs9871

Жыл бұрын

One Size is the most to the point, tightest Zappa record. Best is subjective, but One Size is at least a top 3 or 4 Zappa record and fine pick to mention

@johannhauffman323

Жыл бұрын

@@colinburroughs9871 I completely agree with you.

Vangelis...never have listened to. I'm just getting into prog

My favourite book is probably Halliwell's Film Guide so, yeah, I love a list. (The Record Collector Rare Record Price Guide is excellent too)

@AndyEdwardsDrummer

11 ай бұрын

Yes...my favourite book too...he didn't like modern films did he....?

@passenger62

11 ай бұрын

@@AndyEdwardsDrummer No he didn't. I enjoyed the bit in one of your videos where you talked about the soundtracks of 70s cop shows and movies, and how they introduced you to fusion music. Same for myself with cartoons and jazz (like Top Cat).

It'd be great to get a deep dive interview with Jon Poole on this channel, and more Cardiacs related "content" in general, why not. Did the dog really start barking at the mention of Sing To God? Appropriate!

Great list for march 2023. I asked chatgpt how many greatest videos you can make with 50 bands and 500 albums. Infinitely, if you can take your daily mood as a criterion.

Awesome! But surprised there was no mention of Allan Holdsworth, Sonny Sharrock, Tony Williams, James Blood Ulmer, Keith Tippett … I could go on. Awesome list nonetheless.

Headhunters by Herbie Hancock is freaking brilliant! But so is Thrust. Edit: YES to Romantic Warrior! I just found a used copy that is in great shape! I love the recording! (Even that compressed 70s drum sound) It's truly a fun album.

"Heaven And Hell" is one of Vangelis' bests !

Inspired by your passion for Cardiacs, whom I've never heard, I thought I'd pop along to Spotify to check them out. Well, you can imagine my disappointment on finding there's not a single Cardiacs track on there. If you know a Cardiac personally, Andy, perhaps you could have a word and twist their arm into uploading an album or two. Great list, BTW; enjoy your podcasts very much.

@AndyEdwardsDrummer

Жыл бұрын

Stream it all for free on a much better platform: alphabet-business-concern.bandcamp.com/

@paulgmarriott

Жыл бұрын

@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Thanks Andy. Will do.

Hey Andy, did you ever notice(I just did the other day) that part in the middle of YYZ, where they go into full Genesis mode, even the slow guitar part, more specifically like The Lamb Genesis. I think it’s right after the guitar solo, and then the keyboards are full Tony Banks, and the slow guitar part is full Steve Hackett. They must have known what they were doing. Just wondering if you ever noticed this part too? I just did last week.

@AndyEdwardsDrummer

Жыл бұрын

Interesting!

That would be my No.1 album as well. Andy, have you considered doing videos on song lists. The most complex prog songs, the most spiritual, the wackiest, the longest, the most influential, and the most wanky, etc.

Vangelis is truly a pioneer in progressive rock. I miss him om the list.

Ok, slightly weird, I've just ordered the Japanese import cd of Vangelis' Heaven and Hell from cdjapan (alongside Close To The Edge). Small world.

Demis Roussos 666 - prog went many places :)

I’d rather listen to Black Sabbath than to Vangelis any time. Genesis are at their best in A Trick of The Tail. And yes, Visions of the Emerald is one of the most astounding pieces of music ever recorded. Thank you for another great video!

I made it to the end three times, but I fell asleep the first two times.

LISTS! LISTS!! MORE LISTS!!! ;)

I made it to the end aaargghh!

I was hoping you’d come around on The Epidemics

@AndyEdwardsDrummer

Жыл бұрын

never!!!

With regard advice coming at you about your content … I say trust your own judgement. There’s a KZreadr called .. the mercurial no.6 (fan of the prisoner hence the name), who’s a fun guy, who I used to listen to a fair bit, who was languishing around 8-9k subscribers and was talking about giving it all up over an Xmas holiday about four years ago. I remember sitting in a Wetherspoons eating a veggie breakfast and advising him to carry on searching for ways to game the algorithm because his content was great. That guy has over a 100k subscribers now. Not I hasten to add because of anything I said to him, (he was already on that path, I was just trying to give him some moral support kind of thing), but because he found a front end angle to draw people to his content. The rest was just down to his natural charisma/personality/content . I see the same happening to you. Now …. I’ve seen lists like this from you before. Looking forward to diving in right now ✌️

@davidwylde8426

Жыл бұрын

Ps your reference to the subjective/objective dichotomy is something that is possibly even more philosophically interesting than that between the dimensions of time and space which for me have always been at the heart of existence. What could be more fundamental than that ? Our categories of how we think about it of course

Keen list - line Crossroads in the 5 slot - John Abercrombie deserves his own episode

I read the comments parallel to the video and wondered why so many people here wrote about Vangelis. Then Vangelis wasn't in the top 20 at all and I was even more confused. Being a good viewer, I watched the video until the end. Okay. I got it. 😂

@AndyEdwardsDrummer

Жыл бұрын

Yes...I sometimes do that deliberately to confuse the casual viewer...sorry

It’s a shame Cardiacs removed themselves from Spotify, I’d like to take a listen.

@AndyEdwardsDrummer

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You can stream it all on Bandcamp, which is a much better platform anyway

@richardsinger01

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@@AndyEdwardsDrummer ok, thanks a lot for the tip.

Nucleus? Soft Machine Bundles or Softs? And a personal favorite, Pekka Pohjola, superb albums in the 70's from finish bass player (Harakka Bialoipokku or B the Magpie and Keesojen Lehto or The Mathematician's Air Display, both GREAT albums).

@beboprichie

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Ian Carr & Nucleus are the greatest kept secret in jazz fusion or music itself

@midivalmunk8029

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Pekka's Visitation is pretty strong too

shoud Bo Hanson's Magicians Hat be on any best of list? I love this record, but never hear it talked about. Share your opinion please!

Journey to Love by Stanley Clarke

My favorite Gentle Giant album is always the last one that I listened to.

Interesting point about objective and subjective.