The 100 Greatest Prog Albums | Ranked | Part One 100-50
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I was glad to see Gryphon on the list! Very underrated band!
hell yeah, they are great!
Indeed. Don’t miss out on “Treason,” the final album in their initial run. Great prog album, lots in common with Gentle Giant .
I got the first two on vinyl. Original pressings!
I got the first two on vinyl. Original pressings!
100% What a great band.
Rock Bottom was by Robert Wyatt, not John Wyatt.
Great to see England's 'Garden Shed' on the list, and also Gryphon - get yer crumhorns here!
Thank you Andy for taking on this monumental task... great picks. Obviously I am a huge VdGG fan but I respect your musical expertise and choices. Peter Hammill has some great solo albums you may want to explore in the future. Happy Holidays to you and your family.
What Is this? A list by someone whose opinión i actually care about? How rare!
Thrilled to get a glimpse at your honest, definitive preferences! Some channels are so audience-driven you can’t believe their rankings.
Actually Happy the Man best album is their third album "Better Late..." That band produced themselves after getting kicked off the Arista Label. They acquired the French drummer Coco Roussel. What was amazing about it was that it was recorded on a 4-track recorder in Stanley Whitaker house basement. It's definitely the best of their sound!
I have listened to Garden Shed by England (I'd never heard of them before) and really enjoyed it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. It's very English, as you might expect from a band with that name.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Andy, you need to listen to First Utterance by Comus, it's the best prog album ever made in the UK!
I had to take an assembly at school to drum up support for more guitar pupils. Inspired by you, Andy, I just winged it and got a lot of interest!
Voyage of the Acolyte... brilliant
Yay for the love for Gentle Giant's Interview! A masterpiece indeed.
More is always more! 100 is better than 10!
i can t wait maybe a lot of obvious choices but i hope you will suprise us with unexpected choices .that are the fun one .albums we almost forgot or unknown gems .
it will be fun
Beat...I love it.
Arrive in Neurotica...
A massive undertaking. I don`t think I could do it.
I do like epic lists! How about a top 5000 prog albums of all time? That would be cool!
5ooo + 1 😂
Thank you Andy, this is great. Have half of these, some in the wishlist and some to now check out.
Great list Andy and heartfelt and honest appraisal of all the albums that you mention.
Thank you kindly!
Another great video, I love that you just "roll tape" and don't edit these. Reminds me of how we all used to sit around in college and debate what the great albums were and why. I also appreciate that it's filtered through your sensibilities. Speaking of Canterbury scene bands, wonder if Egg will make an appearance...and if Days of Future Passed makes the top 10.
Appreciated your including Can on the list. It's an acknowledgement that what most people call Kraut Rock is also a part of the Prog Rock universe. Currently, I only have Monster Movie and Tago Mago in my music collection. I'm especially fond of Tago Mago. One of most innovative and influential bands of all time. Looking forward to one day doing a deep dive on both Future Days and Ege Bamyasi. Especially Ege Bamyasi, since it was a major influence on Public Image Ltd (with Flowers Of Romance) and who knows how many other bands. Same with Tago Mago. Kudos for including Tangerine Dream as well.
Can and Faust where never Prog, Eloy and Grobschnitt were, Hölderlin and others too but not Kraftwerk.
Neither Can, Faust or Kraftwerk were into German Romanticism (One of the most dangerous German Mindsets). Can, Faust and Kraftwerk became internationally Successful because they did not Fall for Progrocks faible for Romanticisms.
@@erikheddergott5514 ProgArchives would disagree. They have Kraut Rock as a sub-genre within Prog, along with Jazz-Fusion.
@@stuartfishman1044 I do dig why they include it: Because they are interested in Jazzrock and Artrock.
Krautrock in English speaking Countries is basically every Kind of Rock Music that was released between 1968 and 1980 in Western Germany.
When Germans took up the Term Krautrock they used it for everything that sounded German and had this highly German Romanticism. So some Krautrock was Prog. Some not.
Can, Faust and Kraftwerk became the most internationally wellknown Bands from Western Germany in the 70ties.
If you want to apply the much wider Umbrella Term Artrock to describe them, i‘d agree. Pere Ubu and Captain Beefheart are Artrock too.
@@erikheddergott5514 Appreciate the feedback. Whatever your position may be, it's still a fun conversation to have. The fact is, we both love many of these bands. And thanks for mentioning Pere Ubu and Captain Beefheart, both of whom I love. Have fun listening!
@@stuartfishman1044 Those Style classifications are there to help direct Music to interested People. Once established People can have beautiful little Disputes about them.
I think it is a good Thing if a Progrock Site includes Stuff I would not consider to be Prog.
If somebody puts up the entire Catalog of Carla Bley and Annette Peacock on his Proglists (even though I do not know who would dare to) I am quite sure he would hype the Sales of these two Women.
Out of Nerdiness i‘d partly object but beeing glad they‘d be on the List.
"What elevates Dream Theater above everybody else is the quality of the songs and the song writing" - this is what takes them down for me, down to the level of pop songs in prog-metal sauce. And I'm not a I-IV-V blues guy or a metalhead, I grew up with classical music and forms. The moment the singer starts going, Dream Theater sounds like mainstream radio.
Many good choices, I will listen to part two.
Impossible task but im glad you
inkluded Micheal Mantler's Happless child album.
Im the one who recomended it.
I got another for you , Kalandra's debut album The line.🤏😊
Absolutely excellent. Thank you, Andy. Appreciate your opinions and musings. You are a sweet soul, my friend. Terrific list. ❤
Thank you kindly
Cardiacs x2 yay! I agree about Camel, I always found them dull and lifeless. Rock Bottom is by Tessa Wyatt, OBVIOUSLY 😊
My personal favorite Camel album is Breathless. Some amazing songs there.
Camel could do anything to a high degree !
Me too! That was the first Camel album I got but didn't sound much like the rest of their catalogue its far and away my fave.
Snow Goose and Mirage are on the list. Wasn't Snow Goose based on the WWII evacuation from Dunkirk? Andy referred to a documentary about a bird or it's eggs which sounded a bit strange to me.
Kickass drumming at the end👍
Let's see! I'm looking forward to it!
great description of Olias!
He forgot the milk round 😂
Obviously you are wrong 🙂. It's an interesting idea to take the popular format of a "top" list and bloat it to preposterous length. So much so, that it has to be done in two parts. I can't think what type of music it reminds me of... So far there have been several albums I like a lot but most, I don't care for. Not many I was unaware of which is equally reassuring and depressing. I must look to get hold of that Michael Mantler album. I was intrigued when it appeared in your earlier video and this is a timely reminder.
Showing number 49 at the end might well be genius. Controversial in itself but what other controversies lie ahead?
I hope to see some Magma at this list hahaha
MDK should be in the top 5!
@@bertkarlsson1421My ears hurt just thinking about them 😂
100. Caress Of Steel - Rush
99. Images And Words - Dream Theater
98. Three Of A Perfect Pair - King Crimson
97. Ever - IQ
96. Beat - King Crimson
95. Sin To God - Cardiacs
94. The Raven That Refused To Sing - Steven Wilson
93. On Land And Sea - Cardiacs
92. Warrior At The Edge Of Time - Hawkwind
91. Fly By Night - Rush
90. Garden Shed - England
89. Phaedra - Tangerine Dream
88. Red Queen To Gryphon Three - Gryphon
87. Drama - Yes
86. The Hapless Child - Michael Mantler
85. Operation: Mindcrime - Queesrÿche
84. Nothingface - Voivod
83. Metropolis- Dream Theater
82. Future Days- Can
81. Szobel - Hermann Szobel
80. Mirage - Camel
79. Hamburger Concerto - Focus
78. Happy The Man - Happy The Man
77. Passion Play - Jethro Tull
76. Three - Focus
75. Variations - Andrew Lloyd Webber
74. Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt
73. Leftoverture - Kansas
72. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd
71. Interview - Gentle Giant
70. Minstrel In The Gallery - Jethro Tull
69. Danger Money - UK
68. Snow Goose - Camel
67. Fish Out Of Water - Chris Squire
66. Utopia - Utopia
65. Voyage Of The Acolyte - Steve Hackett
64. Acquiring The Taste - Gentle Giant
63. Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd
62. Permanent Waves - Rush
61. Scheherazade and Other Stories - Renaissance
60. Aqualung - Jethro Tull
59. Godbluff- Van Der Graaf Generator
58. Freehand - Gentle Giant
57. Tarkus- ELP
56. Farewell To Kings - Rush
55. Olias Of Sunhillow - Jon Anderson
54. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
53. Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
52. Romantic Warrior - Return To Forever
51. Three Friends - Gentle Giant
50. Hemispheres - Rush
cheeky
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer I thought it would be handy. And I had nothing else to do while I was listening.
Thank you very much.
@AndyEdwardsDrummer why cheeky ? I think that's great and that you should always do this, when you are ranking bands or records. It's a very useful list to get and try some albums you don't get already.That does'nt prevent me to listen to your videos. What's interesting is not the list itself, but what you've got to say on each one of these records. On a personnal note, i would rank Godbluff much much higher in my list, probably in the twenty first ones.
Thanks Pwecko for the list .
I can't wait to find out what is in the top 48. As several of my favourite albums have already been mentioned. I would say Levitation is in my top 3 Hawkwind albums.
Caress of Steel awesome 🙌
I'm glad to see this on the list...at one point the band was like "we were so stoned making that", lol. And they kind of dismissed it. Recent comments have been more along the lines of "some of it was out there, but there's some great music on that". I love it.
It's good when it's good and badly in need of some editorial direction when those spots pop up. Fly By Night and 2112 both more fully realize whatever it was they're trying to do on Caress, either from more ambitious songs or straight ahead rockers.
Just got in …. here we go !!
I'll watch this over the weekend, but I will state in advance, there better be quite a few Italian albums on this list, and the 50-100 also, or I will be very disappointed.
There are certainly quite a few that belong.
Andy. I think previously you have said you not much of a camel fan and yet they made it to this greatest albums list. Go figure:)
I do try to be objective
I own most of these albums. I would include: Mike Shrieve-Stilletto, Deodato 2, Gazeuse - Gong (featuring Holdsworth), Claude's Late Morning--Bobby Previte, Unspeakable--Bill Frisell.
To me Olias sounds way more like Yes than Fish Out of Water, love them both though.
Not being personal Andy but you can tell you are a drummer on this video! You started off slow - then speeded up! As I said, nothing personal - I'm a drummer too!
Impossible...but you can do it!
No sure what this actually saya about me or the list or about your taste. I own 8 of those in 100 to 50 list....9 if you include the tease of No 49. It probably simply means you've delved into more obscure areas rhan myself....thus far at least. Kudos for chucking yerself in and and giving me (and clearly many others) a good laugh and some chunks to chew on. 😊😊
Did you see fantanos top 20000 albums of all time? Dark side of the moon came in at number 20000!😂
On Tubular Bells, i thought that Mike Oldfield struggled to get any interest from record companies. That's why Richard Branson stepped in and created Virgin Recirds to put it out. But I could be wrong.
Madden and Harris (1975, Australia). Prog folk. Harris was a multi- instrumentalist lecturer at the Sydney Conservatory and Madden was an ex student. English aesthetic. Incredibly obscure album even in Australia.
Will check out being from Adelaide. Having said that, I'm not into folk
@@tonypeake467 Well worth a listen. The album is actually called Fool's Paradise. Harris did a rare solo album after that.
SEBASTIAN HARDIE FOUR MOMENTS (Epic brilliant intense melodic)
An interesting list to say the least .
These are some albums that would be on my list , if I was to compile one :
Starting with a band that many people tend to ignore , mainly , I guess , because they're largely viewed as an English folk rock band .
That's too bad , because they put out 2 prog rock classics in the mid 70s :
The Strawbs : Hero & Heroine , and Ghosts . ( just listen to the the 2 title tracks to get a taste of what they can bring )
The Moody Blues :: On the Threshold of a Dream
Genesis : Selling England by the Pound. ( their best in my view )
Genesis : Wind & Wuthering
Chicago Transit Authority : Chicago Transit Authority. (. yes , they're jazz rock , but also very progressive )
Chicago : Chicago II
Supertramp : Crime of the Century
Rick Wakeman : Six Wives of Henry VIII TH
Triumvirate : Illusions on a Double Dimple. ( Spartacus is also good )
Renaissance : Turn of the Cards
Camel : Moonmadness
Camel : Rain Dances
Procol Harum : Grand Hotel
Be Bop Deluxe : Modern Music. ( and you can throw in Sunburst Finish as well ) ( yes , I view them as progressive )
10 CC : Deceptive Bends ( as well as Bloody Tourists and How Dare You )
Roxy Music : Stranded , and For Your Pleasure
Cheers !!!!!
36:37 "This is the most prog album ever made" … "but it doesn't do the things that prog does"
That's ok, we're here for the laughs ;)
33:31 l nearly s**t myself. Listening to this video with phone in my pocket lol.
Impossible...but you will do it!
Yes...but I do it pretty badly. This is a terrible video, the only entertainment is me trying to get through 100 albums....
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer It was quite good.
‘Future Days’ is a great pick.
Too much Crimson ,man even I’ve only got one, and I would put Banco , PFM, and Greenslade in top 100 !
I'm saving this video for the lunchtime heat wave. But I'm betting there will be no Antipodean albums. So if you are interested, here is a few:
Goolutionites and the Real People (1970) by Tamam Shud. Excellent vinyl will cost up to AUD $2000
Hush (1971) by Extradition. Prog Folk. AUD$4000.
A Toast to Panama Red (1972) by the Master's Apprentices, a favourite of Mike from Opeth. Panama Red is potent weed. Recorded at Abbey Road. $700
Scented Gardens for the Blind (1975) by Dragon (NZ) $700. The track Sunburst is the most glorious prog song ever.
Finally, for something current, the Rick Beato approved Plini - the Rickster has done video.
PS the hyper prolific King Lizard and the Gizzard Wizard (whatever) did an album completely in 7/4. That might be prog, or typically Australians taking the piss.
I have 20 of these first 50 picks. On vinyl of coarse. Not sure Zep should be here. Unless Sabatage or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is coming up.
National Health - only queues and cures
Hope Sky 2 gets a look in in part 2
Don't hope too hard....
I think I like Sky 1 better
@@bertkarlsson1421 I guess it’s more consistent - sky 2 has more classics but weird stuff on side 2
It's great to hear John Williams in a prog band!
...hey Andy, lemme first say: I hate prog rock lists... and I love them, as you stated quite rightly in the beginning: prog rock fans love lists, which is such a unjust, arrogant and strident statement... unfortunately its also true... OMG - I'm already in trouble here... okay, okay...
...if I would make a list and publish it, I would probably spend more time on excusing, apologizing, and making sure that everyone is fine, and their taste buds are not getting insulted... but, hey - its such a subjective matter - so: what the heck!!!
So, why am I, after all of that, actually watching your 100-50 best of list (and eagerly waiting for part 2)... three reasons...:
01 - I've recognized in your other clips, which I watched, how much you have listened to, right across any borders of any definitions of genres, and you are just interested in anything and everything, that produces some acoustic, digestive noises - which is that kind of horizon, that I love, adore and thrive for...
02 - I have come across so many interesting facts, reflections and suggestions, that I feel enriched every single time, watching your elaborations...
03 - you are ingeniously funny and entertaining, without even trying to be... its just you! I know I have a good time, when you're on, and that by itself is reward enough to justify my time and attention investment...
... and I don't care if your list is congruent to my own one (well this part 1 was roughly 50% representing my own imagined top 100, which isn't bad at all)
...keep on raving, Andy - you're doing great!!! 😎
Yes...it really is not about the list, it's about the attempt to make the list,,,
SPLIT ENZ - MENTAL NOTES
Not too many after 2010, are you suggesting PROG is dead?
Tubular bells sold so many copies because the opening theme was used in the Exorcist movie...
It's far far far better than that film !
If Tales is rated higher than CTTE, Fragile or the Yes Album, I'll riot, swear to god!
If CTTE is rated higher than Måltid by Samla Mammas Manna, I'll riot!
@@bertkarlsson1421 this whole thing'll be a riot! lol
@@colinburroughs9871 Totally!
@@Spock105 yeah, no it's not and.. no it's not. Also, no.
I'd rather be stuck on an island with Tales...
Good video. Rush's "Caress of Steel" in the top 100, meh. You meant Robert Wyatt, not John Wyatt. Agree that "Rock Bottom" is a great album and should be on here. Bold choice to list "Interview" in your top 100; it is a good album. I would put Steve Hackett's "Voyage of the Acolyte" in the top 50. No Henry Cow yet? I would put them in my top 100 somewhere.
FLOWER TRAVELLING BAND - SATORI
Satori is a masterpiece! It should be in the top 10!
Have you heard Kokkyou Junreika by J.A.Caesar? Another japanese masterpiece!
@@bertkarlsson1421 cool thx. Check out the ultimate hehe KOENJI HYAKKEI - HUNDRED SIGHTS OF KOENJI
@@geoffccrow2333 I love Koenji Hyakkei! They are dynamite! Angherr Shispa is my favorite album by them!
I think we need to make a distinction between "essential" albums and very good albums by bands but are not "essential". For me that means King Crimson "Discipline" makes the list but not "Beat" or "Three of a Perfect Pair". Likewise, Rush "Caress of Steel" and "Fly By Night" are not essential. Again, underrated and good but not "essential". "Hemispheres" definitely essential. Gentle Giant "Interview" does not make my list but "Acquiring the Taste" does.
For Can take a listen to "Tago Mago". Essential. "Future Days" comes close. Tough choice.
Gryphon - it's more rock and vocal oriented but take a listen to "Treason". "Red Queen" makes my essential list.
Great list so far. I would persist with VDGG and Camel. They are both great bands.
Different as chalk and cheese !!
Stephen Duffy feat Dr Nigel Kennedy - Music in Colors
Punk destroyed Prog or Dinosaur Rock in the British Weeklies, NME, Melody Maker and Sounds but not in the Box Offices of Live Venues in All Europe (inkl. Great Britain).
Punk had big mouths - Prog had big crowds !
Great that Marillion get a mention.
I only now don't put them in to annoy Marillion fans...
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer That kind of attention to detail is much appreciated.
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Andy, I really think you need to re-appraise Marillion's Clutching at Straws (1987) album. It would definitely make my top 5 for the lyrics alone, plus Steve Rothery's very tasteful guitar work (and I speaks as a person whose favourite guitar player is Holdsworth, though I know Rothery is nothing like Allan - he's stylistically a Dave Gilmour kind of player). Example of wonderful lyrics from Warm Wet Circles (verse 2):
I saw teenage girls like gaudy moths
A classroom's shabby butterflies
Flirt in the glow of stranded telephone boxes;
Planning white lace weddings from smeared hearts and token proclamations
Rolled from stolen lipsticks across the razored webs of glass
Sharing cigarettes with experience
With her giggling jealous confidantes
She faithfully traces his name
With quick bitten fingernails
Through the tears of condensation
That'll cry through the night
As the glancing headlights of the last bus
Kiss adolescence goodbye
THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS BY BLACK FEATHER
I've got as far as number 90 on my viewing but what's intriguing me is when, or where, Camel will appear. A great British prog band who are largely ignored by Andy. Mirage and/or The Snowgoose have got to be in the top 50 ...... but exactly where will it appear? 😲
Richard
I hope you weren't left Breathless 😂
soft machine volume 2 ?? CURVED AIR 2nd? in the wake of poseidon????? BUNDLES SOFT MACHINE?? renaissance novella, turn of the cards, ashes??????
I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s telling you this but FYI- it’s Robert Wyatt, not John.
Who was #81?
So Tarkus got there basically for one track 😂 Which I think is their best track and maybe the only memorable one.
Trilogy is a longtime favorite of mine.
100 prog rock bands? I thought there were only about five: Yes, Genesis and ELP...
Want Giant!
UK was fusion!! and Return to forever.
Mojo surely is Prog ❤❤
Prog Dog
Yet not dogmatic. A proper Progressive pup. A conceptual canine with a proud English esthetic.
@@gregarruda112 Mojo appreciates these comments
You missed four albums out ???
Haaaa ha haaaaa ….. what a berk !!!!
( kiddin … love ya😉)
This video was rubbish, I know it....
Gentle Giant. Record sales would suggest they are prog irrelevant ! They seem to dominate the show. Weird.
*robert Wyatt not John
Will someone less lazy than me write out the entire list in the comments? Will make it a bit easier to go back to and discover some of these albums I haven’t listened to.
Full list over on my Patreon...
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Thanks Andy.
If its epic and great then it has to be in the list ..like RECYCLED BY NEKTAR
I was on board until John Wyatt. And you didn't correct yourself. Had to go away for a while.
Is by tor on fly by night?
It is...
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer did you ever listen to Bandolier by Budgie as a kid?
Since Robert Christgau and other Anti-Pretentious Pretenders consider Romantic Warrior the Worst of both Worlds I am baffled to see it on 52 and not in the Top 10. The Record is known as the one Jazz Record that Progfans do like, (It has no Horns on it.)
that guy has shit taste for someone who thinks they don't... but that's sort of the whole rock press for the last 50 years
I bought 'Romantic Warrior' the day it dropped, already heavy into Prog and Fusion, and still listen to it today. I must be tasteless because I don't pay attention to what others think or let them sway my liking or disliking something.
@@TribalResonance
Follow your nose, or ears 😂
I don't think we'll see much RIO/Avant-prog ☹
No........
All channels are self-centered. The Beato guy will mostly do American music and so on. Most guys commenting there will call a Dutch band “exotic”, almost as a slur. Similarly, this channel is too English to tolerate Stormy Six or Samla Mammas Manna. We’re lucky Cardiacs were English!
@Bert I can offer you from Belgium Brutus - Nest (2019)
They are loved there
@@narosgmbh5916 I'll check them out!
@@Quinceps Well said!
I don't think Andy will ever listened to Samla Mammas Manna or Stormy Six.
Hamburger Concerto @ #79 and Sing to God @ #95 ???!!!🤔
That's just wrong
Could you please give us your list?
No Italians? 😳
maybe....
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer I'm thinking of one classic that I love.
Devil Doll is an amazing wierd Italian/Slovenian band!
Who the F is 'John Wyatt'???
I never said this video was any good did I?
John Wyatt? Oops.
Yes...this video is pretty rubbish
Rock Bottom, you could say 😂
@@paulbrookes413😅😅
What a cookie-cutter list! 4 albums by Rush, 3 albums by Pink Floyd, 4 albums by Gentle Giant, and we're only half way through. You should have limited yourself to one album per band! So far you've got no japanese albums, no swedish albums, no finnish albums, no french albums, no Italian albums, no south american albums.... You even could have picked the 100 most popular prog albums on ProgArchives and you would have had a more original list!
That being said, most albums on your list are great! And you have great taste in music!😉
Andy says he despises European Prog 😂
maybe the japanese l the swedes, the finns, etc should start making some good prog then😂
@@fl1ppe958 Check out Flower Travellin Band, Koenji Hyakkei, Tipographica, J.A.Caesar(Japanese bands). Wigwam, Haikara, Tasavallan Presidentti(finnish bands). Bo Hansson, Samla Mammas Manna, Änglagård, Fläsket Brinner(Swedish bands). There are alot of great prog from these countries and anyone who is truely interested in prog would know that.
Sgt peppers for No1.
With a pinch of salt 😄
You don’t get Van Der Graaf Generator? Godbluff is a masterpiece and as a drummer you should revisit it and listen to Guy Evans drumming on that album. VDGG should have more representation IMO and Pawn Hearts should be #1.