The Ten Greatest CONCEPT ALBUMS Ranked | All Waffle, No Content 

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".

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

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!

CAMEL-Snow Goose💯💜🔥🦢(Also i salute you with the old song Blah Blah Blah)! Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷🥁

Am only 7 minutes in and it's already framing to be a classic Andy video! 😂😂😂

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!

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.

All Waffle No Content is hilarious Andy -- needs to be on a T-shirt!

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.

Another brilliant vid! I just discovered you a couple of weeks ago. Rant away, Andy, rant away! I'll watch every time,

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.

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.

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.

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?

Six minutes in and I'm sitting here chuckling away. Thanks Andy!

Nurse! He's out of bed again!

Great rant on Dream Thatre! Kudos!

'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.

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!

Great video. Top tier cranky ! Loved it. The AndyQuarium had me in stitches.

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.

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.

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!

So glad you included Joe's Garage!

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.......

Your rants are really great! Work was really hard this week and I needed a good laugh

From what I've gathered,The Residents have made nothing but concept albums. Prolific!

In NZ The Pretty Things SF SORROW would come in at number one - hands down.

No question about it, the rants are the best bit of these videos. Never change! 😂

Waffle on Andy, it's properly entertaining. Your rants are their own genre of art!

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.

Makes a change to hear domeone else having a rant, loved this, please rant more!!

40 people watched live, yer knocking it outta the park man,,,,,,

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.

I have discovered many an album because of you, my friend. Waffle at Will! I’m your huckleberry.

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

Olias of Sunhillow - Jon Anderson. Wonderful album.

Give 'em hell Andy!!

Thanks for the waffling and ranting. That was greatly entertaining! It's one of the reasons I watch your channel. It seems like you have to be British to be really good at ranting. I used to have an English colleague who was prone to Jonathan Pie-level ranting. I would go to the bar whenever he was there, just for the rants. 😂 Maybe it has something to do with that English esthetic you keep talking about. Glad you had Joe's Garage on the list. Your summary of the plot missed the mark rather spectacularly, but that album is not about the plot, so nothing to worry about. The key element of the story is the fact that the Central Scrutinizer is an unreliable narrator who makes it seem as if it's music that messes up Joe, when it's actually the government and a church, the organizations that the Central Scrutinizer represents, that mess him up.

War of the Worlds- 1978, my parents had this. Mesmerizing. I was glad to see this at the top of the list.

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.

My favourite album SF Sorrow by The Pretty Things

The mother of all rants, I love it!

Blues musicians with fishy names. It wasn't his name, but didn't lots of people think that Clapton was Cod?

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.

Thanks Andy. It seems I'm not a Prog fan according to your hilarious categorising.

The Kinks: Arthur, Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire". -Hard to believe how often this gem gets overlooked.

Peter Gabriel wrote the lyrics to The Lamb. But the music was done by the rest of the band, especially Tony Banks.

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!

I came for the list but I stayed for the comedy. Funniest video I've seen in a while. Thank you.

Ha ha, omg. Love this guy. Subscribed 😂

An entertaining 2 cups of tea podcast/rant. Thanks Andy I’ll give some of these, that I haven’t heard before, a listen.

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.

Prog and classic rock cant have all the fun here Classic Concept Albums not Classic Rock or Prog First one might be cheating but greatest band name ever : Schlong : Punk Side Story , yep exactly what it sounds like. West Side Story done by punk Band Willie Nelson : Red Headed Stranger , even the good ole boys couldn’t resist the attraction of the concept album The Horslip : The Tain Maybe a little proggy but more Folk . The story of Irish mythological figure Cu Chulainn Everyone should know the song Dearg Doom Stevie Wonder : Journey through the Secret Life of Plants R&B couldn’t help get in on the act . I find this just preposterous. Marvin Gaye’s What Going On might be a better choice Last but not least and reason i wrote comment My Favorite Concept Album Southern Rock Opera by Drive By Truckers Alt album about a bands relationship with the South and Lynyrd Skynyrd and all the baggage that comes with it And just like you I managed to get to end without mentioning Jethro Tull ( damn! Me and my big mouth )

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 🧐

love the rant!

Metallica's "Re-Load" is a concept album about the fall of man in the garden East of Eden. KISS's "Music From The Elder" is a concept album about the prophesied Messiah. Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds" is a concept album about alien invasion. OMG ... I just noticed: this comment has conceptual value 😂

Captain Lockheed and the starfighters

Absolutely spot on in terms of Genesis and Steve Hackett, Andy. I have always believed that Steve Hackett leaving Genesis had a greater effect on the band than when Peter Gabriel left. Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering are both up there amongst the band's creative peaks. Steve simply doesn't get the credit he deserves.

This is great! I didn't know I wanted to listen to a massive rant, but it turns out I am.

Andy, have you had your blood pressure checked lately?

Absolutely I’m here for the waffle and the rant !!!👍

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!

Fantastic! Laughed my socks off at this. 😂

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!!

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.

You’ll never get woman to watch your channel Andy, if they want to hear a middle age man rant they only have to listen to their husband while wishing he’d go and mow the lawn 😂

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.

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.

6:20 list starts. Jeez. I consider myself a huge Zappa fan. Thing Fish not so much. Love All of Joe's Garage, Act I, II and III.

Love your shows andy

Home - The Alchemist

Man. The rant was sooo entertaining. It made me tempt4r to troll you in hopes of seeing another one.

Keep up the good work!

My mom got me that Rick Wakeman Journey to the Center of the Earth tape once as part of her pretty awesome idea of buying me a bunch of tapes like comedy tapes and old radio shows AND Journey to the Center of the Earth so that when I was sick and she had to go to school (she was in college after my dad died in 73 and I got heavily latchkeyed over the next 8 years after that) she could give me one and help keep me entertained while I was stuck home. Anyway, I LOVED THAT TAPE!!! Absolutely wore it out and had to fix it with a pencil the several times it almost came apart. Just the perfect mix of Prog that works to help tell that amazing Jules Verne story. The whole sea descent and sea serpent battle parts are just the best really transporting for me when I was like 6 or so. Great Album! FWIW.

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

I love waffles, and enjoy your videos. Maybe I should start eating waffles while watching them.

So glad you brought the 'Lamb Lies Down On Broadway' in. Had you not, I would have not been able to take you serious.

WHEN IS THERE NO WAFFLE. WAFFLE IS YOUR BREAD N BUTTER

Great video Andy. You had me at "waffle"😄

I like your talking/ranting!

Roger Waters take is spot on.

Waffle away Andy - that's one of the reasons I subscribed . Also , you're a naturally funny guy .

Best video I've watched on RU-vid in ages!

Great ranting video but should have been titled the greatest prog concept albums...outside we have Hold Steady's Separation Sunday, Randy Newman's Good Old Boys, Bowie's Ziggy, late Leonard Cohen and one that got me even as a die hard athiest - Jesus Christ Superstar. Springsteen's The River. Probably some Radiohead.

I wonder where is in your list the Animals by PF? This album is based on George Orwell's political fable Animal Farm and it's the perfect Prog album with spectacular solos and amazing sound effects!!! How can you do that??? -)

War of the Worlds. Omg I still have that album. I got it new as a teen and it scared the shyte outta me. Haven’t listened to it in decades. Zappa with Joe’s Garage, played it to death. Crew Slut…..lmao😅. You are absolutely correct in the male/female ratio, I am 60 and have never met a woman who like Prog …. Ever.

Brilliant!!!

If you pay really close attention, you would realize this video tells a story about the importance of putting your albums in alphabetical order. It's a timeless saga.

Ranty Edwards. The best Edwards of all.

"deliberately to get on the nerves...." Brilliant xxx

Thumbnails are killing me. 😂

I like your style, carry on.

Andy “How Many Buttons Can I Push In One Video” Edwards. Although I do prefer syrup with my waffles.

Excellent rant

This could be brilliant satire, a parody of new age primal scream therapy, but I fear you mean every word. Our online reality is a network of support groups for all and everything. Maybe the universe itself will eventually collapse into it and we will all be lost in an eternal round of self torture never to escape our own nightmares! Or is that just me?

Rant "n Roll, what a concept!

We love 💞 you, Andy!