@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Another idea for a video is the top albums that _must_ be listened to fully (in one sitting) in the order the tracks were pressed in order for them to be fully appreciated . . . does that make sense?
Thanks! I got curious and paused the video and listened to Allan Holdsworths “Secrets”. I thought the tracks “Joshua” and “Peril Premonition” were interesting but I found the whole experience frustrating. It’s like a lot of left turns. Every time something cool was happening that I could latch onto, it quickly transitioned into something obtuse and unsatisfying to my ear. After the album, Apple Music starting auto playing John Schofields “A Go Go” and I immediately loved it. It was funky and I could understand it. Maybe Schofield is my guy😂
As Robert Fripp said in an interview when Islands was released it's got the ideas of the first album, the atmosphere of the second and the musicianship of the third. The title track is an existential tour de force, made all the more effective by Boz Burrell's faultless interpretation of the lyrics. Some may argue that Mark Charig's cornet sounds more intrusive than an oboe might have done, but that's the point. You have to tune it out and let the mellotron take over so you can join hands 'neath heaven's sea.
Wow. I can see how "Islands" could be your favorite. I must not be that sophisticated. I really like the Fripp, W 36:23 etton, Bruford, Cross, and Muir years. I got into the DB3 era, but the previous incarnation was magical.
Glad there's a new video to comment on. When Andy did his top ten KC albums and neither Lizard nor Islands were included, I did my own top ten, and Islands was #2 (behind LTiA). Sailor's Tale is genius. Song of the Gulls isn't complex, but it's beautiful and brings me to tears. Weakest part of the album is the lyrics on Ladies. Lizard didn't make the cut, only because side 1, apart from Cirkus, is meh for me. The Lizard Suite may be Fripp's masterpiece, it's got EVERYTHING. Keith Tippett and Robin Miller elevate both albums. Dawn Song is Haskell's finest vocal moment. Also, Heavy Construction is my favorite live album. Yes, I'm weird. I love Moonchild too! So there. While I'm reviewing, I'll also say that the live Islands lineup, on Get Thy Bearings and the 21CSM solo breaks, Fripp and Collins approach Sharrock/Brotzmann territory.
Islands isn't quite my favorite KC album but it's certainly got my favorite cover. A large picture of the Trifid Nebula, taken by the Anglo Australian Observatory, hangs on my office wall.
Lizard is probably my favorite - "cold jazz" is the term I've heard used - fits well. Then Red. Only thing I don't like on Lizard is Jon Anderson's guest spot - because I don't like Anderson generally - blasphemous words on this channel.
With King Crimson, the period of Poseidon thru Islands actually highlights Keith Tippett and Mel Collins - (apart from Fripp himself) they are the most consistent presence on those three albums. The song I Talk To The Wind, sung beautifully by Greg Lake on the first KC album, was written by Peter Sinfield and Ian McDonald even before they met Giles Giles & Fripp!!! Before Crimson ever formed, there were recordings of that song with Peter Giles singing and with Judy Dyble singing. Setting aside prog, I Talk To The Wind is one of the most iconic ubiquitous hippie songs of the period.
And yet, with KC this song received a very unique and atmospheric feel with the mellotron and the wonderful arrangement of the band which is so haunting, you completely forget it's a hippie tune
Andy, I feel like I'm right with you on Yes; Close to the Edge is definitely their best album of the ones I've heard, but The Yes Album is perhaps my favorite of theirs. The lushness and virtuosity Rick Wakeman brought to Yes is terrific, but most days of the week I actually prefer the purity and rawness that Tony Kaye gave them. That album is as radical and complex as their subsequent works, yet at the same time has an intimate and personal feel.
Here’s a bit of Lizard trivia I was unaware of until recently. In the song Prince Rupert Awakes one of the lyrics is “…Prince Rupert’s Tears of Glass…” I thought that was just part of Peter Sinfield’s weird “airy-fairy” lyrics. What TH-cam’s algorithm led me to was this weird phenomenon the real Prince Rupert discovered in his travels and brought back to England. If you pour a drop of molten glass into cold water it forms a teardrop looking thing with a fatter side on one end and a “tail” trailing it. If you hit the large part with a hammer it’s so hard it won’t break. But if you snip off just a small portion of the tail the entire thing just kind of explodes into dust. If you type Prince Rupert’s Drops into TH-cam search you will see a number of video demonstrations. By the way, I love the album if only because Robin Miller’s oboe/ cor anglais is one of my all time favorite music performances.
Another interesting and informative video, thank you Andy. Just one thing - i believe the Saurez in South Bound Saurez on LZ's In Through The Outdoor is pronounced Swah-ray, not Sorrez. Robert even shouts it at the end of the song. As you know, a Saurez is a type of enjoyable gathering or party. It reminds of those zeebs who pronounce Houses Of The Holy's D'yer Mak'er "Dee Yer Make Er" instead of a homophone of Jamaica. As you know, it's from an old joke about a bloke taling about his wife going on holiday. It's a reggae song you see. Anyways, a great video, thanks Andy
Late to the party - great vid. Your thoughts on LZ's In Through.. and Coda are so spot on. It makes ITTOD even worse the fact that those tracks were left off. What were they thinking? Coda is hugely underrated, great tracks - We're Gonna Groove...what an opener!
Thanks Andy, great description of Bitches Brew. they "writhe". when I first went to University i took a course called "music appreciation" the first day the prof made us listen to BB! maybe the reason why the Coltrane bands were so together and stuff like Miles' fusion is so great is also cultural! not English aestetic but pure Black American humanness (except for JM who seems to fit in in a very contrasting sort of way). you really really really really -can you see me jumping up and down? - need to listen to Calvin Keys Detours into Unconscious Rhythms. you would love it because a machine could never do this.
I love Miles Davis, but struggled with Bitches Brew (it seemed to be all over the place, almost trying too hard to be clever). Was interesting to hear your experience with the album, so I’ll definitely give it another go!
I've always rated 'Islands' as only second behind 'Lark's Tongues in Aspic' as my favourite KC album. IMO this was as radical a change in direction between two consecutive albums as that between 'Blonde on Blonde' and 'John Wesley Harding'. As for RTF: just how disappointing was 'Musicmagic' as a follow-up to 'Romantic Warrior'?
You knew this would come....Great video and another classic episode, Andy. Of course, I'm one of those who see the KC 2nd period of Islands and Lizard (1970-1971) as one of their transitional, yet super interesting periods. Lizard is one of my all time favorite albums and so is Islands. I agree that neither of them is Red or Larks, but the song Lizard is on the best epics in the genre, King Ruport? Lement? The Peaock? Definitely among Fripp's compositions ever. Islands doesn't have a great cover, true. But Sailor's Tale, Formentera lady? C'mon...experimental, quircky and beautiful. Any album between 1994 and 2003 would be a better choice over Islandsm but The Construkction of Light is probably the weakest of the lot. That's my take, anyway.
Dear Andy, I was lucky enough as a spotty teenager to see Yes at Kingston Poly ( as it was then) touring all the clubs and colleges to promote the Yes album. They blew me away and it is still a fave of mine generally and I think the best album Yes made. Seeing Steve Howe play Yours is no disgrace and The Clap, jaw dropping playing. One question I have never found an answer to...the very 1st performances of 'Yours is no disgrace' Jon Anderson plays some sort of keyboard(?) 'Box'...never seen one before and he only seemed to use it during the early days. What is that instrument? Chris Squire, awesome bass, vocal harmonies, Bill Bruford. I love Rick Wakeman but this album is brilliant and the keyboard player does fine.
I feel invigorated just listening to you. I have played on international stages and recently retired but l need your eBook to better my productions. Bravo Seids, these great postings make me want to hear your music too.
I'm with you, Andy, I love Johnny Mac. In the past few weeks, when I need a pick-me-up, I'll put on Eternity's Breath REALLY LOUD and I feel much better. I bought Is That So? and I never even listened to the whole thing once.
Thanks Andy, another one of your great videos. Can't argue with your Zeppelin choices as for the Jazz stuff I'm ashamed to say I don't know this music enough to really have an opinion. I love the Adrian Belew stuff, I've been watching him revisiting the Crimson 80s albums with BEAT and it's incredible and the the two new guys Mr Vai and Mr Carey are amazing and what BIG SHOES to fill and they really have added their own style on absolute classics . Thanks again and have a wonderful week and PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE ❤❤.
I’ve been waiting for us to agree and Coltrane’s Live at Birdland is it. I love that album. I remember where and (roughly) when I first heard it and how blown away I was by the experience of listening to it. Sometime between 15 April and 20 June 1982 in a listening room at the Yokosuka Naval Base library.
Really enjoyed this one. The Yes Album was my introduction to the band - what a revalation; honest, organic, dynamic, fresh composition groundbreaking. Whilst Anderson's voice and phrasing was often ethereal and inspired, I feel it could sometimes be painfully whiny and shrill, both live and in the studio. To give the new guys thier due, I saw Benoit David and thought he did a very credible job, and was never shrill or whiny! Davison too, he fits the bill, but moves the Yes sound forward positively, in my view. Footnote, saw Mclaughlin with Paco and Di Miola - nothing to add there, you can imagine it. Then later with De Francesco and Dennis Chambers - My Favourite Things took me days to come down from.
Thanks, Andy, another great video. I'm currently collecting Chick Corea albums but I'll look out for that L Ron Hubbard album - and remember to ignore it!! I thought you might have mentioned Genesis, but perhaps you're not a fan.
Thanks Andy. I am also a huge J McLaughlin fan and I start to wonder if you’ve missed his 2021 release “Liberation Time”. It’s up there with the many great albums he’s done. “As the spirit sings” should become a jazz standard, “Right here right on” could have been in Extrapolation, and Lockdown Blues and Liberation Time have some of his most voracious solos ever (at 79 years old!).
This was fun. You should do a video about bands lead by their drummers. I got thinking about it while listening to the album “Glitter Wolf” by the jazz drummer/composer/band leader/arranger/producer Allison Miller and her band Boom Tic Boom. One on my favorite jazz albums of the last five years. Give it a try, I think it will appeal to you. Peace.
I also settled on Black Market as my fav Weather Report album some time back. It was sublime then, and remains sublime. As a 17 yo when I first heard it early 1976, I was transfixed.
I can’t believe that I’m spending my Halloween evening watching this, but I put it on and can’t stop watching …. Frankenstein and Pinhead are going to be so mad at me! Thinking about your list , when I was young I use to serve Robert Fripp coffee and sandwiches at a cafe he would come to eat at, and later in my life I delivered cigars to McCoy Tyner . I passed music to both of them.
Hi Andy. This is one of those ‘if you like that then check this out’ posts. Based on your liking of Three Quartets. If you don’t already know it I heartily recommend Michael Brecker’s Tales from the Hudson. The compositions are fabulous and everyone in a stellar lineup is absolutely on fire. I saw this band live in the London Jazz Festival the same year TFTH came out and it was one of the best gigs of my life.
A great video, Andy, one of your best so far. My only slight quibble would be the absence of "A Kind of Blue". Even after first hearing it 50 years ago, I would still argue that it is the greatest album of contemporaneous music all time. Richard
Art is like catching lightning in a bottle even the greatest talents screw up occasionally. I'm a Todd Rundgren fan and though I rate perhaps 4 of his albums as essential listening there's probably an equivalent amount I'd rate as crap and tell people to avoid...the bad ones imo are Arena, Rundgrens Johnson, Reproduction and A Capella
"Pools" live on TV around 1983, I think from Pori Jazz Fest in Finland. THAT got me severely distracted from Judas Priest and other heavy metal stuff. Went out and bought Steps Ahead immediately! Fantastic album!
I have to agree with something stated by Scott Henderson in a 1980s interview. Much of the soloing in Chick Corea music happens over essentially one chord vamp, rather than soloing over changes (although Chick’s compositions have loads of beautiful changes) This apparently caused Henderson to quit after The Electric Band (which is shocking because that album was a huge commercial resurgence for Chick)
Hey Andy - interesting stuff as usual. One note - Allan Holdsworth played the Synthaxe. The Synclavier was used by Johnny Mac, Al Di, Pat Meth and Frank Zap. And Kate Bush! And Peter Gabriel!
SynthAxe was a midi controller. It didn’t actually make the sounds. So it could be used to trigger any electronic sound module. I think Holdsworth’s earliest use of it was triggering Oberheim modules - and then several others later. But on Metal Fatigue, before the SynthAxe, Holdsworth tried out the Roland guitar synth (unhappily). Besides the Synclavier, Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel made great use of the CMI Fairlight in the early 1980s.
Hi! Spanish lad here. I've just discovered you're channel and I'm recommending it left and right to all my musician friends. Quick question, when you talk about European Prog you usually talk about Magma, Premiata Forneria Marconi... Have you checked out Triana? They're our Genesis but instead of shot through the English aesthetic they're shot through flamenco. Maybe you mentioned them in a video but I still got a lot of hours of your content to watch! "Abre la puerta" is a good starting point, "Sombra y Luz" borders on Black Sabbath, "Recuerdos de una noche" is more flamenco... Worth checking out and if you already did it sorry! Also, thanks for not editing and keeping it real, cheers!
Thanks Andy! Id like to hear your thoughts on some more modern prog artists like Plini, Intervals , David Maxim Micic etc my Fav albums from those Artists; Plini - Handmade Cities. Check out the song Wombat Astronaut also. Intervals - Circadian. David Maxim Micic - Who bit the Moon. CHEERS!
Chick Corea’s Space Jazz - just gave it a quick listen (for the first time) and really couldn’t get past the first 5-6 minutes without bursting out laughing! It’s the cheese synth keyboards, Gale’s warbling and Stanley’s noodling that got me cracking up - and I absolutely love Chick but only when he’s good. This? I really don’t know what happened or was it a van load of money?😮😂
It it helps Andy, I genuinely believe you are one the smartest, most insightful, knowledgeable, entertaining and comprehensible chaps called Andy Edwards on the internet. There is another one who does very good cookery videos but I am not entirely certain that he is a chap. BTW I agree with you about Jon Anderson. All art uses light, dark and shades of grey and music is no exception. Yet some artists uplift the human sprit more than others.
I see that Paper still beats technology running on batteries :-) As a songwriter I decided early on that I would stop listening to music and just try to create it instead. In my teens I was mad on Genesis, Beatles, Frank Sinatra etc but then I actively stopped buying records and wrote over 100 song ideas. I still followed some of my favourites but didn't look into others. Your knowledge is amazing.
I actually only bought Heaven & Earth recently and I've never been so underwhelmed by a first listen of an album by one of the bands I really, really like - I've not listened to it since.
Yes, that amazing keyboard solo on Miles Runs the Voodoo Down is a hungry Chick Corea! It’s honestly one of his best solos. Very weird and avant garde but also incredibly beautiful. His note choice is just sublime and his tone is so agressive and fiery. I believe this was the moment where Miles truly unleashed the Chick we would grow to love to the world.
Yes, Album is so much like a Van Morrison disco dance song that you could dance to they were so good at the Astral weeks of their beginning it is like begging for a call up in dream land . Steve Howe is incredible he should have found a great place in a mix of Yes and no .
You are great when you speak subjectively, critically evaluate and honestly share with your audience your own experiences, thoughts, views about music, art, and society. Keep it up!
I can’t believe how similar many of my musical tastes line up with Andy’s. I say many because I love great blues and rock but never got into zappa ( I tried). My Miles Davis experience halted with Bitches Brew when I listened to it and was thoroughly confused at first…… then after reading about it and really listening to it I had that light break through the clouds and illuminate my very being. Everyone says inner mounting flame (fantastic) is much > than VOTEB, and I say no. I freakin love VOTEB in every way. Here’s where people say I’m f ****d : Chick Corea’s return to forever from 1972 is my all time fave and an album that takes me on a special journey to a special place that only the albatross on the cover can describe. Also, the only way to really hear & appreciate phenomenal music is via a well balanced, 2 channel audio system with a hi end CD player or TT…. ( it’s preference). There is no other way. Finally, Lou Reed's metal machine music is misundertood ............ kidding.
I agree with you regarding Mclaughlin's later stuff. I also was disapointed when he started playing the Johnny Smith guitar, although I know some people love that sound, I thought it did not suit him well because the dynamics were not good, nor was the articulation, You couldn't hear clearly the the amazing intricate lines he was playing. Especially after the amazing sound he had with the MO and the One Truth Band. Of course with his acoustic stuff you could hear his intricate right-hand work, so it was really that one guitar and the effects he used on it that I didn't like. Unfortunately for me, he played that guitar on a lot of recordings. And I tried hard to like that guitar, him being my favorite guitar player and guitar hero, but I was always left disapointed. I actually saw him live when he was playing that at the Charles Hotel in Boston and the sound was not good and really hard to hear what he was playing. We actually walked out and went across the hall to where Pharoh Sanders was playing who blew my mind. I still remember a lot of the music Pharoh was playing that night.
I saw Miles and the Gang at U.C.L.A. in 1972. The band had assembled, I knew none of them. They would almost Zappa their way into grooves and maybe 3 minutes in Miles strolls onstage and plays a note...there were 13 or 15 people onstage. This went on and on, mostly Bitch's Brew stuff and Miles played maybe 20 or 30 notes that night and the band always knew what the note was saying. Phenomenal.
Good vid Andy -but why are you wearing the Devil's beard ? very similar to Venom's Black Metal album cover too -Greetings-Geordie Dave -still in Thailand x
Francesco Zappa is a great Xmas album, and so I listen to it once a year :-) Surely Space Jazz does not count as a Corea album? It's a L Ron Hubbard album? That meltdown at the end was worth a sub :-)
Felt that comment about people making video suggestions and them usually being rubbish like a knife directly through my chest. For the record I've suggested Superiometer David Sylvian Vs David Bowie. A) They're both called David, which is reason enough as far as I'm concerned. B) Both are 80's pop titans, C) Both masterfully walked the tightrope between pop and avante garde music and D) Both have very interesting histories with prog to the point both have even done music with Robert Fripp! Please Andy give the people what we want!
Black market is one of my favourite albums ever ...Jacob playing is sublime ..track two cannon ball he just plays single notes sometimes and it’s perfect.
The cover to Secrets is actually dramatically improved by having that giant thumbs up in the foreground. The next time they reissue that album, they should redesign the cover to include that.
I also love Weather Report. For me it's a toss up between Mystrious Traveller or Tale Spinnin' (closely followed by Black Market). Unfortunately, I find their 80s stuff a bit tough to swallow. That said, you'll be surprised to hear that I love Mr. Gone.
My life changing album was Mother mainia . I also LOVE Crusin with Rubin and the jets . Zappa is the wiz . Met a few Grand Mothers in my time . Saw Dweezel at the Albert hall.
In Through the Out Door is one of my fave LZ albums ... lol. You kill me! And I'm surprised you didn't say 'Thing Fish' is Zappa's worst album, most people hate that one. I sort of find it charming, it came out not long after I started to get introduced to him and it was definitely odd. Oh, and no Tull? Tull doesn't make your 10? Dubious indeed. I think your rant is partly you're feeling the loss of Paul Andrews. RIP Up the Irons
An impressive list. Btw, Lizard is one of my favourite albums by KC. But the Wetton period truly is something out of this world. No one would blame you if you picked LTIA or SABB.
Re: King Crimson. I only have the first several albums on CD up to Red from 1974, which I think is great. My favourite is perhaps Lizard which I like from start to finish. However, I would also put Islands as least favourite. Love the track "Sailors Tale" but not keen on the rest of the track. Like Andy I don't like they lyrics to "Ladies Of The Road" . Bit of a "WTF???" moment when I first heard that.
When are you doing Long Island v Northern Ireland? (best bands, artists, guitar players, albums, etc.) [R Blackmore lives on LI since the 1990s - enjoys German restaurants.]
Here's a suggestion for a video: Albums by other artists/bands that are better than any albums by my 10 favourite artsis/bands. I'll give you an example. Steve Hillage is not in my top 10 favourite bands/artists but his album Green is my all time favourite album - it trumps anything done by any of my 10 favourite bands/artists.
Andy. you really made my day by calling out the Beato bundle as well as the ass-scratcher sdevices that many podcasters casters’hawk’ and celebrate! Laugh out loud !as I said before John Anderson is the heart and soul of YES- and always will be. He is the architect. he he is the visionary, he is the voice and the guy who came up with the commercial hooks and that’s why they sold millions of albums, ,, sorry, but with-King Crimson, the only two albums by them I’ve ever truly loved because they came out when I was still a teenager are: ‘IN THECOURT OFTHECRIMSON KING ‘ and’ in wake ofPoseidon’ perhaps because I so admire and love Greg Lake’sphenomenal singing and songwriting skills OK excellent show I hope you do a critique of the 10 best British jellies, jams, and marmalades one day! lol
I agree... Wurm is probably the best build up of tension in the history of rock (if not music). Then when, finally, Howe comes in with his solo, that tension is perfectly released with a huge sigh of musical relief.
You left out Fool in the Rain from your understandable pan of In Thru the Out Door. One of their best soulful Robert Plant groove songs, with that wonderful Bonham/Purdie shuffle.
Please do the Ten best Artists whose greatest Album I disliked, but then later began to like while simultaneously starting to dislike the Artist because it was revealed they were a bigamist!!
Holdsworth's recorded output has so many high points. Nearly every one of them has moments that are on a level where there really is no such thing as better...only different. His albums that I used to listen to the most aren't the ones that I listen to most now. Just about any one of them can be (for a number of good reasons) someone's favorite, but I do like Flat Tire the least.
Re: KC I believe Lizard was a step forward and Islands was a step back... Thank god for Larks Toung, Bible and Red... Do ya think Bill had anything to do with it? Re: Mahavishnu Visions is stellar, But my heart turns to ash with Birds. (I know, silly} Keep on keeping on... Peace on earth.
17:15 Just to clarify. In his book Steve Howe was talking about Roy Thomas Baker in regard to those 'bathroom breaks' - not himself. You didn't make that very clear but perhaps you were trying to protect yourself from libel 😂
I 100% agree with Andy about Led Zeppelin's best and worst. I HATE *'In Through The Out Door!'* Fortunately, when I was at Knebworth in 1979, in their 3 1/2? hour gig they mercifully only played 10 minutes (3 songs) of that dribble. 'Hot Dog' was the stinker #1, Still on the good side we all had a chance to 'relieve' ourselves without having to miss anything of value! So there is that. However, Kashmir, Achilles Last Stand and Whole Lotta Love were the stand out songs. MONUMENTAL! I was so glad when these tracks became available on DVD reviving my memories and proving it was not the hash but the playing that was INTENSE! Loved John McClaughlin's track *'Marbles'* from 1970 with Buddy Miles on drums. Post Hendrix genius! However Zappa is VERY overrated IMHO, even though 'Hot Rats is indeed a top 10 ever btw. The later stuff REALLY SUCKS. Just awful pretentious tedious pseudo classical GARBAGE IMHO! Unlistenable music torture.
Thanks for this . . . this was my suggestion.
Thank You CSEGUIN...brilliant suggestion! Sending my best wishes to you and yours.
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Another idea for a video is the top albums that _must_ be listened to fully (in one sitting) in the order the tracks were pressed in order for them to be fully appreciated . . . does that make sense?
@@cseguin What about the top albums that need to be listened to fully whilst smoking a large spliff? Bitches Brew
@@cseguin Now you’re just showing off.
This was amazing. Thank you for the original idea and thank you Andy 👍
Never Mind The Bollocks is my favourite and my least favourite album by the Sex Pistols.
Thanks! I got curious and paused the video and listened to Allan Holdsworths “Secrets”. I thought the tracks “Joshua” and “Peril Premonition” were interesting but I found the whole experience frustrating. It’s like a lot of left turns. Every time something cool was happening that I could latch onto, it quickly transitioned into something obtuse and unsatisfying to my ear.
After the album, Apple Music starting auto playing John Schofields “A Go Go” and I immediately loved it. It was funky and I could understand it. Maybe Schofield is my guy😂
Islands is my favorite album by KC. I just love the dark chamber-jazz atmosphere, and the title track moves me.
As Robert Fripp said in an interview when Islands was released it's got the ideas of the first album, the atmosphere of the second and the musicianship of the third. The title track is an existential tour de force, made all the more effective by Boz Burrell's faultless interpretation of the lyrics. Some may argue that Mark Charig's cornet sounds more intrusive than an oboe might have done, but that's the point. You have to tune it out and let the mellotron take over so you can join hands 'neath heaven's sea.
Wow. I can see how "Islands" could be your favorite. I must not be that sophisticated. I really like the Fripp, W 36:23 etton, Bruford, Cross, and Muir years.
I got into the DB3 era, but the previous incarnation was magical.
Glad there's a new video to comment on. When Andy did his top ten KC albums and neither Lizard nor Islands were included, I did my own top ten, and Islands was #2 (behind LTiA). Sailor's Tale is genius. Song of the Gulls isn't complex, but it's beautiful and brings me to tears. Weakest part of the album is the lyrics on Ladies. Lizard didn't make the cut, only because side 1, apart from Cirkus, is meh for me. The Lizard Suite may be Fripp's masterpiece, it's got EVERYTHING. Keith Tippett and Robin Miller elevate both albums. Dawn Song is Haskell's finest vocal moment. Also, Heavy Construction is my favorite live album. Yes, I'm weird. I love Moonchild too! So there. While I'm reviewing, I'll also say that the live Islands lineup, on Get Thy Bearings and the 21CSM solo breaks, Fripp and Collins approach Sharrock/Brotzmann territory.
Islands isn't quite my favorite KC album but it's certainly got my favorite cover. A large picture of the Trifid Nebula, taken by the Anglo Australian Observatory, hangs on my office wall.
Lizard is probably my favorite - "cold jazz" is the term I've heard used - fits well. Then Red. Only thing I don't like on Lizard is Jon Anderson's guest spot - because I don't like Anderson generally - blasphemous words on this channel.
With King Crimson, the period of Poseidon thru Islands actually highlights Keith Tippett and Mel Collins - (apart from Fripp himself) they are the most consistent presence on those three albums.
The song I Talk To The Wind, sung beautifully by Greg Lake on the first KC album, was written by Peter Sinfield and Ian McDonald even before they met Giles Giles & Fripp!!! Before Crimson ever formed, there were recordings of that song with Peter Giles singing and with Judy Dyble singing.
Setting aside prog, I Talk To The Wind is one of the most iconic ubiquitous hippie songs of the period.
And yet, with KC this song received a very unique and atmospheric feel with the mellotron and the wonderful arrangement of the band which is so haunting, you completely forget it's a hippie tune
Andy, I feel like I'm right with you on Yes; Close to the Edge is definitely their best album of the ones I've heard, but The Yes Album is perhaps my favorite of theirs. The lushness and virtuosity Rick Wakeman brought to Yes is terrific, but most days of the week I actually prefer the purity and rawness that Tony Kaye gave them. That album is as radical and complex as their subsequent works, yet at the same time has an intimate and personal feel.
Here’s a bit of Lizard trivia I was unaware of until recently. In the song Prince Rupert Awakes one of the lyrics is “…Prince Rupert’s Tears of Glass…” I thought that was just part of Peter Sinfield’s weird “airy-fairy” lyrics. What TH-cam’s algorithm led me to was this weird phenomenon the real Prince Rupert discovered in his travels and brought back to England. If you pour a drop of molten glass into cold water it forms a teardrop looking thing with a fatter side on one end and a “tail” trailing it. If you hit the large part with a hammer it’s so hard it won’t break. But if you snip off just a small portion of the tail the entire thing just kind of explodes into dust. If you type Prince Rupert’s Drops into TH-cam search you will see a number of video demonstrations.
By the way, I love the album if only because Robin Miller’s oboe/ cor anglais is one of my all time favorite music performances.
Another interesting and informative video, thank you Andy.
Just one thing - i believe the Saurez in South Bound Saurez on LZ's In Through The Outdoor is pronounced Swah-ray, not Sorrez. Robert even shouts it at the end of the song. As you know, a Saurez is a type of enjoyable gathering or party.
It reminds of those zeebs who pronounce Houses Of The Holy's D'yer Mak'er "Dee Yer Make Er" instead of a homophone of Jamaica. As you know, it's from an old joke about a bloke taling about his wife going on holiday. It's a reggae song you see.
Anyways, a great video, thanks Andy
Great stuff! Would love to see your critique of the best and worst Andy Edwards vlogs.
Not a bad idea
Late to the party - great vid.
Your thoughts on LZ's In Through.. and Coda are so spot on. It makes ITTOD even worse the fact that those tracks were left off. What were they thinking? Coda is hugely underrated, great tracks - We're Gonna Groove...what an opener!
Loved the video, as usual, but the rant near the end (59:00) was comedy gold!
Thanks Andy, great description of Bitches Brew. they "writhe". when I first went to University i took a course called "music appreciation" the first day the prof made us listen to BB! maybe the reason why the Coltrane bands were so together and stuff like Miles' fusion is so great is also cultural! not English aestetic but pure Black American humanness (except for JM who seems to fit in in a very contrasting sort of way). you really really really really -can you see me jumping up and down? - need to listen to Calvin Keys Detours into Unconscious Rhythms. you would love it because a machine could never do this.
Got my fingers ready to add to my AndyEdwards playlist.
I love Miles Davis, but struggled with Bitches Brew (it seemed to be all over the place, almost trying too hard to be clever). Was interesting to hear your experience with the album, so I’ll definitely give it another go!
I think In A Silent Way is better.
The rant at the end is solid gold.Why is the Beato Bundle always on sale?Long Live the Big Room!
I'm thinking of creating some sort of bundle...perhaps Andy's Array
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I've always rated 'Islands' as only second behind 'Lark's Tongues in Aspic' as my favourite KC album. IMO this was as radical a change in direction between two consecutive albums as that between 'Blonde on Blonde' and 'John Wesley Harding'. As for RTF: just how disappointing was 'Musicmagic' as a follow-up to 'Romantic Warrior'?
You knew this would come....Great video and another classic episode, Andy. Of course, I'm one of those who see the KC 2nd period of Islands and Lizard (1970-1971) as one of their transitional, yet super interesting periods. Lizard is one of my all time favorite albums and so is Islands. I agree that neither of them is Red or Larks, but the song Lizard is on the best epics in the genre, King Ruport? Lement? The Peaock? Definitely among Fripp's compositions ever. Islands doesn't have a great cover, true. But Sailor's Tale, Formentera lady? C'mon...experimental, quircky and beautiful. Any album between 1994 and 2003 would be a better choice over Islandsm but The Construkction of Light is probably the weakest of the lot. That's my take, anyway.
Dear Andy, I was lucky enough as a spotty teenager to see Yes at Kingston Poly ( as it was then) touring all the clubs and colleges to promote the Yes album. They blew me away and it is still a fave of mine generally and I think the best album Yes made. Seeing Steve Howe play Yours is no disgrace and The Clap, jaw dropping playing. One question I have never found an answer to...the very 1st performances of 'Yours is no disgrace' Jon Anderson plays some sort of keyboard(?) 'Box'...never seen one before and he only seemed to use it during the early days. What is that instrument? Chris Squire, awesome bass, vocal harmonies, Bill Bruford. I love Rick Wakeman but this album is brilliant and the keyboard player does fine.
Brilliant suggestion. Great point Andy where you say that some of your favourite artists don’t have a bad album.
I feel invigorated just listening to you. I have played on international stages and recently retired but l need your eBook to better my productions. Bravo Seids, these great postings make me want to hear your music too.
I'm with you, Andy, I love Johnny Mac. In the past few weeks, when I need a pick-me-up, I'll put on Eternity's Breath REALLY LOUD and I feel much better. I bought Is That So? and I never even listened to the whole thing once.
Wait... what happened to the quality of the video? New camera 😃 - Looks excellent! 👌
Thanks Andy, another one of your great videos. Can't argue with your Zeppelin choices as for the Jazz stuff I'm ashamed to say I don't know this music enough to really have an opinion. I love the Adrian Belew stuff, I've been watching him revisiting the Crimson 80s albums with BEAT and it's incredible and the the two new guys Mr Vai and Mr Carey are amazing and what BIG SHOES to fill and they really have added their own style on absolute classics . Thanks again and have a wonderful week and PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE ❤❤.
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You get me onto them
And then you break my heart andy
Best band ever.
But then again, what’s their worst album? 😂 They’re just too good. Also, I think Andy Edwards knows that Cardiacs won’t give him views and likes 😅
Wow, that's like a haiku. Beautiful.
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Epic response
I'd so be up for an Andy style Cardiacs deep dive, haha! Anyway, one of the best channels on yt right now.
I’ve been waiting for us to agree and Coltrane’s Live at Birdland is it. I love that album. I remember where and (roughly) when I first heard it and how blown away I was by the experience of listening to it. Sometime between 15 April and 20 June 1982 in a listening room at the Yokosuka Naval Base library.
That first close-up scared the shit out of me, and I never got used to them. Also, "Ladies of the road" is great.
Excellent video! Always a good watch!!
Really enjoyed this one. The Yes Album was my introduction to the band - what a revalation; honest, organic, dynamic, fresh composition groundbreaking. Whilst Anderson's voice and phrasing was often ethereal and inspired, I feel it could sometimes be painfully whiny and shrill, both live and in the studio. To give the new guys thier due, I saw Benoit David and thought he did a very credible job, and was never shrill or whiny! Davison too, he fits the bill, but moves the Yes sound forward positively, in my view. Footnote, saw Mclaughlin with Paco and Di Miola - nothing to add there, you can imagine it. Then later with De Francesco and Dennis Chambers - My Favourite Things took me days to come down from.
Thanks, Andy, another great video. I'm currently collecting Chick Corea albums but I'll look out for that L Ron Hubbard album - and remember to ignore it!! I thought you might have mentioned Genesis, but perhaps you're not a fan.
Thanks Andy. I am also a huge J McLaughlin fan and I start to wonder if you’ve missed his 2021 release “Liberation Time”. It’s up there with the many great albums he’s done. “As the spirit sings” should become a jazz standard, “Right here right on” could have been in Extrapolation, and Lockdown Blues and Liberation Time have some of his most voracious solos ever (at 79 years old!).
This was fun. You should do a video about bands lead by their drummers. I got thinking about it while listening to the album “Glitter Wolf” by the jazz drummer/composer/band leader/arranger/producer Allison Miller and her band Boom Tic Boom. One on my favorite jazz albums of the last five years. Give it a try, I think it will appeal to you. Peace.
Great idea. The Dave Clark Five should be number one.
Not that many spring to mind. Jon Hiseman, Christian Vander, Ginger Baker...
@@ScotP-isb Bruford, and Earthworks, Tony Williams Lifetime, the Moerlen era Gong. Magma. Univers Zero
Magma? Ginger Baker's Air Force??
I also settled on Black Market as my fav Weather Report album some time back. It was sublime then, and remains sublime. As a 17 yo when I first heard it early 1976, I was transfixed.
I can’t believe that I’m spending my Halloween evening watching this, but I put it on and can’t stop watching …. Frankenstein and Pinhead are going to be so mad at me! Thinking about your list , when I was young I use to serve Robert Fripp coffee and sandwiches at a cafe he would come to eat at, and later in my life I delivered cigars to McCoy Tyner . I passed music to both of them.
Hi Andy. This is one of those ‘if you like that then check this out’ posts. Based on your liking of Three Quartets. If you don’t already know it I heartily recommend Michael Brecker’s Tales from the Hudson. The compositions are fabulous and everyone in a stellar lineup is absolutely on fire. I saw this band live in the London Jazz Festival the same year TFTH came out and it was one of the best gigs of my life.
I love Coltrane's Live At The Village Vanguard Again! It is certainly a one-thing Coltrane album, but the intensity is incredible.
A great video, Andy, one of your best so far. My only slight quibble would be the absence of "A Kind of Blue". Even after first hearing it 50 years ago, I would still argue that it is the greatest album of contemporaneous music all time.
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Really good chat. It’s amazing how great bands inevitably make a “bad” album.
Art is like catching lightning in a bottle even the greatest talents screw up occasionally. I'm a Todd Rundgren fan and though I rate perhaps 4 of his albums as essential listening there's probably an equivalent amount I'd rate as crap and tell people to avoid...the bad ones imo are Arena, Rundgrens Johnson, Reproduction and A Capella
Very good list. I might have had Steps Ahead in there..
"Pools" live on TV around 1983, I think from Pori Jazz Fest in Finland. THAT got me severely distracted from Judas Priest and other heavy metal stuff. Went out and bought Steps Ahead immediately! Fantastic album!
I have to agree with something stated by Scott Henderson in a 1980s interview.
Much of the soloing in Chick Corea music happens over essentially one chord vamp, rather than soloing over changes (although Chick’s compositions have loads of beautiful changes)
This apparently caused Henderson to quit after The Electric Band (which is shocking because that album was a huge commercial resurgence for Chick)
Hey Andy - interesting stuff as usual. One note - Allan Holdsworth played the Synthaxe. The Synclavier was used by Johnny Mac, Al Di, Pat Meth and Frank Zap. And Kate Bush! And Peter Gabriel!
SynthAxe was a midi controller. It didn’t actually make the sounds. So it could be used to trigger any electronic sound module. I think Holdsworth’s earliest use of it was triggering Oberheim modules - and then several others later. But on Metal Fatigue, before the SynthAxe, Holdsworth tried out the Roland guitar synth (unhappily).
Besides the Synclavier, Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel made great use of the CMI Fairlight in the early 1980s.
@@howardduck2851 Actually you're right - Kate and Peter were Fairlight users, not Synclavier. It's all so long ago!
Hi! Spanish lad here. I've just discovered you're channel and I'm recommending it left and right to all my musician friends. Quick question, when you talk about European Prog you usually talk about Magma, Premiata Forneria Marconi... Have you checked out Triana? They're our Genesis but instead of shot through the English aesthetic they're shot through flamenco. Maybe you mentioned them in a video but I still got a lot of hours of your content to watch! "Abre la puerta" is a good starting point, "Sombra y Luz" borders on Black Sabbath, "Recuerdos de una noche" is more flamenco... Worth checking out and if you already did it sorry! Also, thanks for not editing and keeping it real, cheers!
I bought Red in the bargain bin in 1978 or so. Mind blown!
Thanks Andy!
Id like to hear your thoughts on some more modern prog artists like Plini, Intervals , David Maxim Micic etc
my Fav albums from those Artists;
Plini - Handmade Cities. Check out the song Wombat Astronaut also.
Intervals - Circadian.
David Maxim Micic - Who bit the Moon.
CHEERS!
Bonus : Arch Echo - You Won't Believe what Happens Next!
The Remaster of Visions Of The Emerald Beyond from 2014 on BGO Records sounds fantastic!
Chick Corea’s Space Jazz - just gave it a quick listen (for the first time) and really couldn’t get past the first 5-6 minutes without bursting out laughing! It’s the cheese synth keyboards, Gale’s warbling and Stanley’s noodling that got me cracking up - and I absolutely love Chick but only when he’s good. This? I really don’t know what happened or was it a van load of money?😮😂
Space Jazz isn't a Corea album, it's a Hubbard album. Corea is only a sideman, no compositions from him... A big difference!
LOL...I thought you meant Freddie Hubbard.
And I was drawing a blank.
It it helps Andy, I genuinely believe you are one the smartest, most insightful, knowledgeable, entertaining and comprehensible chaps called Andy Edwards on the internet. There is another one who does very good cookery videos but I am not entirely certain that he is a chap.
BTW I agree with you about Jon Anderson. All art uses light, dark and shades of grey and music is no exception. Yet some artists uplift the human sprit more than others.
I see that Paper still beats technology running on batteries :-) As a songwriter I decided early on that I would stop listening to music and just try to create it instead. In my teens I was mad on Genesis, Beatles, Frank Sinatra etc but then I actively stopped buying records and wrote over 100 song ideas. I still followed some of my favourites but didn't look into others. Your knowledge is amazing.
I actually only bought Heaven & Earth recently and I've never been so underwhelmed by a first listen of an album by one of the bands I really, really like - I've not listened to it since.
What's your take on the Rock In Opposition bands (aka avant-prog)?
Yes, that amazing keyboard solo on Miles Runs the Voodoo Down is a hungry Chick Corea! It’s honestly one of his best solos. Very weird and avant garde but also incredibly beautiful. His note choice is just sublime and his tone is so agressive and fiery. I believe this was the moment where Miles truly unleashed the Chick we would grow to love to the world.
Yes, Album is so much like a Van Morrison disco dance song that you could dance to they were so good at the Astral weeks of their beginning it is like begging for a call up in dream land . Steve Howe is incredible he should have found a great place in a mix of Yes and no .
You are great when you speak subjectively, critically evaluate and honestly share with your audience your own experiences, thoughts, views about music, art, and society. Keep it up!
I can’t believe how similar many of my musical tastes line up with Andy’s. I say many because I love great blues and rock but never got into zappa ( I tried). My Miles Davis experience halted with Bitches Brew when I listened to it and was thoroughly confused at first…… then after reading about it and really listening to it I had that light break through the clouds and illuminate my very being. Everyone says inner mounting flame (fantastic) is much > than VOTEB, and I say no. I freakin love VOTEB in every way.
Here’s where people say I’m f ****d : Chick Corea’s return to forever from 1972 is my all time fave and an album that takes me on a special journey to a special place that only the albatross on the cover can describe.
Also, the only way to really hear & appreciate phenomenal music is via a well balanced, 2 channel audio system with a hi end CD player or TT…. ( it’s preference). There is no other way.
Finally, Lou Reed's metal machine music is misundertood ............ kidding.
YEAH! Love SECRETS and THREE QUARTETS as well - as all other suggested albums. Still have to find my love of Zappa. Comedy gold at the end
I agree with you regarding Mclaughlin's later stuff. I also was disapointed when he started playing the Johnny Smith guitar, although I know some people love that sound, I thought it did not suit him well because the dynamics were not good, nor was the articulation, You couldn't hear clearly the the amazing intricate lines he was playing. Especially after the amazing sound he had with the MO and the One Truth Band. Of course with his acoustic stuff you could hear his intricate right-hand work, so it was really that one guitar and the effects he used on it that I didn't like. Unfortunately for me, he played that guitar on a lot of recordings. And I tried hard to like that guitar, him being my favorite guitar player and guitar hero, but I was always left disapointed. I actually saw him live when he was playing that at the Charles Hotel in Boston and the sound was not good and really hard to hear what he was playing. We actually walked out and went across the hall to where Pharoh Sanders was playing who blew my mind. I still remember a lot of the music Pharoh was playing that night.
I saw Miles and the Gang at U.C.L.A. in 1972. The band had assembled, I knew none of them. They would almost Zappa their way into grooves and maybe 3 minutes in Miles strolls onstage and plays a note...there were 13 or 15 people onstage. This went on and on, mostly Bitch's Brew
stuff and Miles played maybe 20 or 30 notes that night and the band always knew what the note was saying. Phenomenal.
Good vid Andy -but why are you wearing the Devil's beard ? very similar to Venom's Black Metal album cover too -Greetings-Geordie Dave -still in Thailand x
Francesco Zappa is a great Xmas album, and so I listen to it once a year :-)
Surely Space Jazz does not count as a Corea album?
It's a L Ron Hubbard album?
That meltdown at the end was worth a sub :-)
Andy have you 3ver heard John McLaughlins album belo Horizonte ?
Felt that comment about people making video suggestions and them usually being rubbish like a knife directly through my chest. For the record I've suggested Superiometer David Sylvian Vs David Bowie. A) They're both called David, which is reason enough as far as I'm concerned. B) Both are 80's pop titans, C) Both masterfully walked the tightrope between pop and avante garde music and D) Both have very interesting histories with prog to the point both have even done music with Robert Fripp! Please Andy give the people what we want!
Black market is one of my favourite albums ever ...Jacob playing is sublime ..track two cannon ball he just plays single notes sometimes and it’s perfect.
The cover to Secrets is actually dramatically improved by having that giant thumbs up in the foreground. The next time they reissue that album, they should redesign the cover to include that.
I also love Weather Report. For me it's a toss up between Mystrious Traveller or Tale Spinnin' (closely followed by Black Market). Unfortunately, I find their 80s stuff a bit tough to swallow. That said, you'll be surprised to hear that I love Mr. Gone.
My life changing album was Mother mainia . I also LOVE Crusin with Rubin and the jets . Zappa is the wiz .
Met a few Grand Mothers in my time . Saw Dweezel at the Albert hall.
Check out Smokin’ in the pit by Steps! Live at the Blue note Tokyo. Incredible playing!👍🏻
Awesome video have a great day Andy 😊❤
Thanks! You too!
In Through the Out Door is one of my fave LZ albums ... lol. You kill me!
And I'm surprised you didn't say 'Thing Fish' is Zappa's worst album, most people hate that one. I sort of find it charming, it came out not long after I started to get introduced to him and it was definitely odd.
Oh, and no Tull? Tull doesn't make your 10? Dubious indeed.
I think your rant is partly you're feeling the loss of Paul Andrews. RIP Up the Irons
While I love Visions of the Emerald Beond (thanks for bringing it to my attention!), i feel about Sabbath Vol 4 the way you feel about VotEB.
I'm definitely tempted to subscribe 😄
An impressive list. Btw, Lizard is one of my favourite albums by KC. But the Wetton period truly is something out of this world. No one would blame you if you picked LTIA or SABB.
Here's an idea. I would really love to hear which are your favourite non- British, non-American (and of course, non- Canadian) solo artists and groups
Thanks for the guitar tuning advice Andy.
Re: King Crimson. I only have the first several albums on CD up to Red from 1974, which I think is great. My favourite is perhaps Lizard which I like from start to finish. However, I would also put Islands as least favourite. Love the track "Sailors Tale" but not keen on the rest of the track. Like Andy I don't like they lyrics to "Ladies Of The Road" . Bit of a "WTF???" moment when I first heard that.
When are you doing Long Island v Northern Ireland? (best bands, artists, guitar players, albums, etc.)
[R Blackmore lives on LI since the 1990s - enjoys German restaurants.]
Here's a suggestion for a video: Albums by other artists/bands that are better than any albums by my 10 favourite artsis/bands. I'll give you an example. Steve Hillage is not in my top 10 favourite bands/artists but his album Green is my all time favourite album - it trumps anything done by any of my 10 favourite bands/artists.
Andy. you really made my day by calling out the Beato bundle as well as the ass-scratcher sdevices that many podcasters casters’hawk’ and celebrate! Laugh out loud !as I said before John Anderson is the heart and soul of YES- and always will be. He is the architect. he he is the visionary, he is the voice and the guy who came up with the commercial hooks and that’s why they sold millions of albums, ,, sorry, but with-King Crimson, the only two albums by them I’ve ever truly loved because they came out when I was still a teenager are: ‘IN THECOURT OFTHECRIMSON KING ‘ and’ in wake ofPoseidon’ perhaps because I so admire and love Greg Lake’sphenomenal singing and songwriting skills OK excellent show I hope you do a critique of the 10 best British jellies, jams, and marmalades one day! lol
Yeah, but do you like any Fusion albums? ; )
Saw Holdsworth at the Cornbow center in Halesowen
I agree... Wurm is probably the best build up of tension in the history of rock (if not music). Then when, finally, Howe comes in with his solo, that tension is perfectly released with a huge sigh of musical relief.
Fool In the Rain is a pretty good song on In Through the Out Door.
they got that samba feel on the bridge
I prefer to listen to the isolated drum track, the song itself is weak and sounds like a Bavarian Oktoberfest singalong!
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That all our suggestions are rubbish. I suggested writing Brand X albums and you did it. You got them wrong, but you did it.😊
Now listening to Three Quartets for the first time. 'tis a BEAST. Thanks for the heads up.
Atavachron is my favourite AH album, where he plays the Synthaxe
Thanks Andy, beautiful rant.
You left out Fool in the Rain from your understandable pan of In Thru the Out Door. One of their best soulful Robert Plant groove songs, with that wonderful Bonham/Purdie shuffle.
Please do the Ten best Artists whose greatest Album I disliked, but then later began to like while simultaneously starting to dislike the Artist because it was revealed they were a bigamist!!
Holdsworth's recorded output has so many high points. Nearly every one of them has moments that are on a level where there really is no such thing as better...only different. His albums that I used to listen to the most aren't the ones that I listen to most now. Just about any one of them can be (for a number of good reasons) someone's favorite, but I do like Flat Tire the least.
Francesco Zappa was one of the first FZ albums I bought - it's brilliant.
Here's a show idea: The age of quantization - the grid vs. the groove, perfection vs. human excellence
Re: KC
I believe Lizard was a step forward and Islands was a step back...
Thank god for Larks Toung, Bible and Red...
Do ya think Bill had anything to do with it?
Re: Mahavishnu
Visions is stellar,
But my heart turns to ash with Birds. (I know, silly}
Keep on keeping on... Peace on earth.
Holdsworth's playing reminds me of how you can always come up with a nice sound if you only play the black notes on a piano.
17:15 Just to clarify. In his book Steve Howe was talking about Roy Thomas Baker in regard to those 'bathroom breaks' - not himself. You didn't make that very clear but perhaps you were trying to protect yourself from libel 😂
I 100% agree with Andy about Led Zeppelin's best and worst. I HATE *'In Through The Out Door!'* Fortunately, when I was at Knebworth in 1979, in their 3 1/2? hour gig they mercifully only played 10 minutes (3 songs) of that dribble. 'Hot Dog' was the stinker #1, Still on the good side we all had a chance to 'relieve' ourselves without having to miss anything of value! So there is that. However, Kashmir, Achilles Last Stand and Whole Lotta Love were the stand out songs. MONUMENTAL! I was so glad when these tracks became available on DVD reviving my memories and proving it was not the hash but the playing that was INTENSE! Loved John McClaughlin's track *'Marbles'* from 1970 with Buddy Miles on drums. Post Hendrix genius! However Zappa is VERY overrated IMHO, even though 'Hot Rats is indeed a top 10 ever btw. The later stuff REALLY SUCKS. Just awful pretentious tedious pseudo classical GARBAGE IMHO! Unlistenable music torture.
Now I really want to hear a track called 'Spiders In A Bottle' played by 'The Apex Arse Scratchers'!
16 Men of Tain is one of my favourite fusion albums ever ❤
Sixteen Men of Tain is so crazy good, once I start listening to it I can’t stop
Great video and a top notch rant!
25:11 Daryl’s house show played RED by King crimson which proves there’s always room for improvement
I’ve listened to Doo Bop many many times. I like it. I’ll take it over at least one of the many jazz albums before the 2nd quintet.
Could you do a sale on your tip jar. I want a sale. RICK gives me sales every weekend and twice on Wednesdays.