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I CAME FOR THE RANT, I STAYED FOR THE WAFFLE.
great list sir!
When searching for "War of the Worlds" and he said "what are the chances of finding it?" it was impossible for me not to think "a million to one he said".
brilliant
If only they were filed in some sort of order 😂
dAMMIT! I spotted that too, but I only saw this video seven days after it went up. Just posted a similar comment, feeling very proud of myself... scrolled down, saw yours, booom! Destroyed! Deletes comment in shame. Well played, Foobar476!!!
Weee woo, weeo, wee oo
"Have you seen any Martians?"
Am only 7 minutes in and it's already framing to be a classic Andy video! 😂😂😂
I WANT Waffles....and I REQUIRE Rants!!!! Please carry on!!
15:54 -- 16:03 'There's not one ounce of blackness in Rick Wakeman ... and that's always *colored* my opinion of him" LOL good one Andy!
Dat's a good bobservation Andy, yessum. Rick comes from a European classical training.
I’m here for the waffle, exclusively. Apparently, Ike Willis’s impersonations helped to inspire ‘Thing Fish.’ There’s an interview in which he talks at length on this very topic. Guy’s a natural comedian, as well as being a brilliant vocalist and guitarist.
I ❤the waffle
Ike Willis I saw w Zappa 1984 and I loved the show very much
All Waffle No Content is hilarious Andy -- needs to be on a T-shirt!
This was soooo funny! Love how you wind up the "Prog Fan" ( obviously being one yourself). Not a great fan of concept albums myself.. but I loved the show. Your summary of late Floyd was spot on and hilarious... expensive hi-fi music.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Think the fact the reviewer was 11 years old when The Wall came out says it all regarding why he (and other younger Floyd listeners) doesn’t get the Gilmour lead stuff, which was basically cozy nostalgia for us old gits who followed Floyd from the start. A time before Roger Waters dragged the rest of the band by the bollocks away from whimsical and pastoral collections of songs tied up with long spacey instrumentals, into dark and cynical concepts and the murky world of politics. The guy wouldn’t have been out of nappies when Atom Heart Mother was released, so would have no idea how groundbreaking that was, especially given the technology and equipment available at the time (1970).
@@glumonion1454 Which is why I mentioned Atom Heart Mother in my list of greatest epics of all time....
Great video. Top tier cranky ! Loved it. The AndyQuarium had me in stitches.
The fish with the ranting at chipmunk speed was priceless.
Six minutes in and I'm sitting here chuckling away. Thanks Andy!
Heard the Lamb live and complete opening the U.S. tour in Chicago before I settled in with the studio album. It had a great impact on me, the vision, the lyrics. For years I considered it my microcosm of the 1970's, Double, gatefold, visual, pre-punk prog-pop, open to impression, trippy and gritty. It's chock full of conceptual levels, like Dante on a good day. Fly on the Windshield and Broadway Melody, Peter's lyrical, namedropping nuances, fabulous. Hey, even the waffling within the content holds up. Got to love the Lamb.
I have loved The Lamb for almost 50 years. It has always been my favourite album since first hearing. I don't care if Tony Banks doesn't like it, he should be proud of the music and his best playing. Peter's lyrics can be too wordy and clever, and the concept is far from their bucolic English pastoral fare but it's the music for me.. oh that music!
Congratulations Mr. Edwards, this is the most entertaining program I watched this year so far! Very amusing. I am very happy to see Zappa present on the list, twice! I would like to know if you forgot "Thick as A Brick" and "Passion Play", or omission was intentional?
Many thanks!
Great rant on Dream Thatre! Kudos!
Just discovered you. I'm 75 and have lived through most of the music you discuss. You make me revisit them with a refreshing view I think you're amazing. Keep it up. And keep pissing off those trolls.......
What a brilliant rant ... we need a video of "Andy's Biggest Rants" ... Your No.1 pick was the only one you could put in that position ... unbelievable album and one of the reasons I play keyboards ... you could have really stirred the pot and included Plan B's "The Deformation of Strictland Banks" ... Soul rather than Prog ... but a brilliant album the tells a great concept/story from the very start to the final note ... would have really triggered the early Genesis fans!
Andy’s list for those with crippling A.D.D.:
10. Beyoncé - Renaissance
9. Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
7. Kenny G - Breathless
6. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
5. Enya - Watermark
4. Lil Wayne - Rebirth
3. Aqua - Aquarium
2. Crazy Frog - Crazy Hits
1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
😂
You are definitely in my gang.....
It’s quite easy to build your own concept album. Just take any audiobook say Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut and play simultaneously with an instrumental album like say Zeit by Tangerine Dream. You can mix and match to your hearts content.
Thanks, now I can avoid all his bloody waffling on
The mother of all rants, I love it!
Hi Andy, love what you do. Thanks for every minute of ranting and waffling., thus always with lots of experience. You‘re a musical encyclopedia on legs. Regarding the subject of great concept albums, you might want to check out the Spliff Radio Show, produced in 1980 by the amazing German (unbelievable, isn‘t it?) band Spliff. It portrays a witty and sarcastic picture of the music industry in these days. Also the songs are connected very nicely with little funny interludes/jingles. Cheers Stephan
This is one of the best intro's to a video
War of the Worlds- 1978, my parents had this. Mesmerizing. I was glad to see this at the top of the list.
From what I've gathered,The Residents have made nothing but concept albums. Prolific!
40 people watched live, yer knocking it outta the park man,,,,,,
CAMEL-Snow Goose💯💜🔥🦢(Also i salute you with the old song Blah Blah Blah)! Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷🥁
I expected Thing Fish and lo and behold...🙂 It's a great piece. Zappa at his most unapologetic. One can only speculate what he would've done in these times but I bet there'd be hordes of people frothing at the gills. You're right, we really need someone like Frank right now!
'SF Sorrow' by the Pretty Thing predated 'Tommy'. 'Reality' by band Second Hand is also good but my favorite storytelling album is 'Nigel Lived' by Murray (Judas) Head from 1973.
Good to see the Zappa concept albums in your list, Andy. You might have included 'Flying Teapot' and 'Angels Egg' which tell some sort of yarn about Zero the hero... Patrick Moraz's 'Story of I' is another memorably zany concept album. But my favourite concept/story album is Jethro Tull's 'Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!' which many Tull fans don't like. I think you've got to be British and knowledgeable of a certain era to understand the references on that album and enjoy its wistful nostalgia and humour.
Nurse! He's out of bed again!
Middle-aged and XXL here, and man did I love the hour long rant and waffle. And you reminded me about some albums I’ve not listened to in an age so cheers and digging the rantiness.
Keep taking the medicine Andy. Visiting my girlfriend's sister at university in the early 70s, and listening to Tommy on her boyfriend's reel to reel tape recorder late at night is a memory I will never forget.
Bo Hansson's 'Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings' is an album I've listened to on and off for many years. It's so serene, pastel and atmospheric (albeit with some nerdy moments) and reflects the book, but certainly not the film! Musically, it tells a great story already written, and allows the listener, who has read the book, to revisit Middle Earth!
great albums that tell a story from beginning to end :
S.F. Sorrow - Pretty things
Comus - first utterance
Eloy - Ocean
Mark of the Mole - Residents
Rockpommersland - Grobschnitt
Fantastic! Laughed my socks off at this. 😂
I have only just found your channel and I have been working in the garage all day, loving the ‘waffling’ I feel you are funnelling Stuart Lee here. He’s let himself go.
Welcome aboard!
I'm a bit late to the table, but my Dad used to play WotW when I was a kid. I was equally petrified and fascinated by it.
I was recently amazed to see my 13 year old son had extracted it from the record shelf and is bang into it.
If you’ll permit some embarrassing American sincerity: David Gilmour’s solos never fail to stop me in my tracks, emotionally, and change my state of mind to one in which I reflect on my life, even on life itself, from 50,000 feet, and set me down in a better place, spiritually, than where I started. No other music, with the huge exception of J S Bach, does that for me.
(Mahavishnu Andy is now turning aside to 🤮 throw up…)
Now, Roger Waters, OTOH, I totally agree, he’s just a massive w*nker.
What I get with Andy is that his style aims to unite irony and sincerity. What I hear when listening to him take the mick out of something is that he is aware there exist two or more (seemingly) contradictory sides to a thing at the same time, side by side.
Yes, David Gilmore’s less-is-more guitar playing is often taken up to legitimise attacks on fast, complex music by guys who don’t want to understand it.
Yes, David Gilmore’s open, restrained playing touches a part within the soul of many people, at a time when contemporary players were obsessed with bashing you over the head with cocky virtuosity.
And
this is independent of how Andy feels personally about David Gilmore’s guitar playing.
Thanks Andy. It seems I'm not a Prog fan according to your hilarious categorising.
I came for the list but I stayed for the comedy. Funniest video I've seen in a while. Thank you.
Best video I've watched on TH-cam in ages!
Glad you enjoyed it
I am not surprised that War of the World's was at the top of the list. It is a great album.
I also impressed that you worked in a reference to Sammantha Fish, a great blues guitarist, on a list about concept albums.
Two other "concept" albums but maybe fall outside your narrow definition. I have to mention are Jesus Christ Superstar because it has Ian Gillan on it and Blind Guardian's Nightfall in Middle Earth because it is a great album and because it ties in with the whole nerd prog fan Tolkien obsession.
Andy, you crack me up! And I bought Bo Hansen’s Lord of the Rings. Rushing home to put it on the stereo, I was so disappointed. No lyrics even. Nothing to do with hobbits, Gandalf, orcs, etc.
I had completely forgotten the album existed til 10 minutes ago. Lovin your channel. 🎸 thanks!!
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars should be on every list of thematic story telling albums.
Give 'em hell Andy!!
Andy, have you had your blood pressure checked lately?
Thumbnails are killing me. 😂
He’s on a roll isn’t he 😂
@@davidwylde8426 he’s on something. :)
Your rants are really great! Work was really hard this week and I needed a good laugh
Another brilliant vid! I just discovered you a couple of weeks ago. Rant away, Andy, rant away! I'll watch every time,
This is great! I didn't know I wanted to listen to a massive rant, but it turns out I am.
Absolutely I’m here for the waffle and the rant !!!👍
So to add one, if Lamb On Broadway is a Concept of America of sorts, then the ultimate concept album of the American experience, warts and all must be Nebraska by Springsteen. No waffling, no costumes, just straight to the heart of the matter.
Chris Thompson of Manfred Mann is singing “Thunder Child” on _Jeff Wayne’s - War of the Worlds._
He may be the most underrated vocalist of all times.
Klaatu, Hope. Superb album.
Great video Andy. You had me at "waffle"😄
Glad you enjoyed it
I love waffles, and enjoy your videos. Maybe I should start eating waffles while watching them.
Bravo! An amazing effort to totally alienate, repudiate and seduce your audience. Often brilliant information wrapped in a body guard of obnoxious rants delivered with highest order narrative putrescence.
But why would I do this?
@@AndyEdwardsDrummerto achieve an above parody position in the ever increasing universe of TH-cam music commentary “thought leaders”.
Your narrative style is also a perfect example of the so called (and controversial) “Purple Cow” marketing methodology. In my experience “Ignorance is bliss, until it isn’t”.
Captain Lockheed and the starfighters
yes, yes, YES! vivian stanshall! which takes us of course to "sir henry at rawlinson end", too: clearly, andy has no clue what he`s missing; otherwise they wouldn`t be missing...
Ooh yes & Lucky Leif & the Longships.
This was the second video I’ve seen on your channel, the first being the Zappa retrospective which I thought was thoughtful and heartfelt and (for the most part) I agreed with. This video made me laugh uproariously! I know that a lot of the folks who watch YouTUBE can be obnoxious (to say the least), and we all react to commentary’s in our own way. And I love your approach by needling the needlers! TOUCHÉ!
Glad you enjoyed it!
8 minutes so far...comes to my mind a old Monty Python sketch with that ranting old lady.
Lovely! As many said we are here for the rants and the waffels...all music is about taste and perspektiv.
Thank you!
Surly the Kinks deserved an honorable mention or something: Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire); Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround; Preservation.
*Surely
Great show, Andy! I would add Caught Up by Millie Jackson, which I trust is in your collection. For me, the 2nd greatest soul album ever made, down in Muscle Shoals with the brilliant Roger Hawkins on drums, David Hood on bass, Barry Beckett on keyboards, and Jimmy Johnson on guitar.
Right on!!! I think that this is my favorite one of your vids! Rant on, mate!! Rant on!!
I appreciate that!
So glad you brought the 'Lamb Lies Down On Broadway' in. Had you not, I would have not been able to take you serious.
I can't remember which of Andy's videos I watched first, but the ranting and waffling hooked me. There are other content providers who are tighter and more produced, but no one Andy is one of a kind.
Got to give a shout out to Ayreon.
The most "meta" concept album artist and certainly the artist who keeps the concept of the concept album alive in the age of streaming, where albums hardly have any significance anyway.
Under the name Ayreon Arjen Lucassen not just only makes concept albums, the majority (I believe 7 of a total of 10) of those are part of an overall concept.
I challenge anyone to show me an artist more conceptual than that 🧐
The Human Equation should be on any respectable list, but it seems Ayreon is still like a best kept secret.
I’m digging the waffle! That’s why I am hear. To listen
love the rant!
I’m astonished that you said “Walter Trout, who is the king of the fishy named, Jewish blues guitar players….” and kept a straight face
I thought he would've mentioned that other Jewish blues guitarist ;
Fleetwood Mac's Peter Bream
Rant "n Roll, what a concept!
The Wall is one of my favorite albums of all time (I’m 70). Your screed about the album and Gilmour had me laughing my ass off.
My favourite album SF Sorrow by The Pretty Things
Excellent rant
WHEN IS THERE NO WAFFLE. WAFFLE IS YOUR BREAD N BUTTER
Oh yes, hilarious video!
I hope we have plenty of waffle - looking forward to this. Remember we need waffle like on the Zep best 30
Wonderful stuff Andy. The first Sabbath album would've made a great concept album. It sort of feels like one when I listen to it. More please.
Blues musicians with fishy names.
It wasn't his name, but didn't lots of people think that Clapton was Cod?
Fascinating to hear your comparison between Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson, as you were saying it my head was nodding, so right. Can’t see Rick doing Honky Tonk Blues! 🎉
We love 💞 you, Andy!
Peter Gabriel wrote the lyrics to The Lamb. But the music was done by the rest of the band, especially Tony Banks.
Dude you are the best ranter out there 😂
Thank you
In NZ The Pretty Things SF SORROW would come in at number one - hands down.
Man. The rant was sooo entertaining. It made me tempt4r to troll you in hopes of seeing another one.
It was a great relief when the advertisment for how to cure a swollen prostate popped up
You have good choices. I love your style. I differ on some of them but you make your case and that is what I need to hear.
An entertaining 2 cups of tea podcast/rant. Thanks Andy I’ll give some of these, that I haven’t heard before, a listen.
I like your style, carry on.
Love the waffle. Hollow displays a virtuality I love it.
Waffle away Andy - that's one of the reasons I subscribed . Also , you're a naturally funny guy .
Andy “How Many Buttons Can I Push In One Video” Edwards.
Although I do prefer syrup with my waffles.
Ranty Edwards.
The best Edwards of all.
I like your talking/ranting!
Surfed the rant wave quite well, thank you! I was surprised to see Wakeman and FZ in this list. A few other themed albums: 1. Jack Lancaster & Robin Lumley's (plus a cast including Chris Spedding, Stefane Graphelli, Manfred Mann,...) prog reworking of "Peter and the Wolf". 2. Stomu Yamashta's "Go" with Steve Winwood, Klaus Schulze, Al di Meola, et al. 3. Jon Anderson's "Olias of Sunhillow". Not the greatest of all time, but worth a listen.
I must be at least partially okay, I have Tommy (3 versions), and saw a ballet performance of it in Ottawa in 1972, Quadrophenia, The Wall and War of the Worlds
Great list and fun video Andy -- 39:04 My girlfriend always refers to Thin Lizzy as "the guy from that War of the Worlds album I owned as a kid"
That is a girl comment for sure.
Also, by just listening to Thin Lizzy the greatest hits, You're missing out on a lot of great music......
It might not make a top ten, but Home's The Alchemist definitely has a place in my heart.
I had the same reaction to The Wall as you. I liked “Dirty Woman,” but no other cuts. Animals was the last great Floyd album.
Well done Andy with The Lamb …. I’m here 😂
Straight into the rant 😊😂
My vote...Pink World by Planet P Project (late edit. Or Go Out Dancing by Planet P Project I&II)
No question about it, the rants are the best bit of these videos. Never change! 😂
Your rant is priceless! Like watching an angry hogwarts teacher 😅