I may not agree with all your choices but I absolutely love this joyful video. Thank you Andy and congratulations on 500 videos.

What terrific stuff and an awesome video. This format without edits all over the place and speaking off the cuff is so refreshing. Love it, much appreciated.

Really thoughtful and insightful ramble at the end of this video as well. Always worth hanging around for with Andy's videos

But Andy, I'm SO glad you didn't "just read the names"! Because it's your semi-madness, wild responsive extemporizations which make your album-artist talk so unique; and the other bit I love about you is how wide open you are, how unafraid to say "I love!" and your HEART is in there front and center guiding you to your honesty. And I know you'll have a different top 100 tomorrow, or later today. I love your spontaneity ❤

“Strange Fruit” is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by a white, Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx and a member of the Communist Party, Abel Meeropol wrote it as a protest poem, exposing American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans.

You provide endless hours of entertainment. When it comes to music I never tire. You have a drummer bias in your music choices but you speak in a very fluid way.

that was fun!

Great list Andy, beautiful words towards the end. Congratulations on 500 videos. Bad Mojo!

I kept saying to myself "Andy, what about The Roar of '74!?" I should have known it was on you list of the your favorites.

Andy - been in the sticks with you from the start and enjoyed learning from you and the fun you’ve provided.

So many musicians... so much talent. Thanks. Peace on earth.

Congrats on 500 Andy! Your channel is wonderful!!!

Well done Andy, great list, great video! 🤘🏻

congrats & feel an embrace and all the love!

Congratulations Andy. It's been great fun so far. Cheers Regards

Just the ability to do this, compile it then go for it in video form should be applauded. Great stuff.

Great to hear you talk about your favourites Andy! And whatever else comes to mind... you balance serious music/art discussion, humor and philosophy in a very compelling way. Inspiring stuff.

You've reached a milestone. Congratulations 🎶🎶🏆🏆Andy. Love following your success. I just see this video as a window to your pathway of your life thru music.

🌠 Congratulations on 500 video's !! your top 100 artists is very interesting...FZ 2 Love it... !

Congratulations on 500! I knew you first from these videos before I knew you were a drummer.

Hey Andy - I am a recent subscriber- although I am not a Prog fan - thank you for doing these amazing videos - youre on you way to 1m subs - keep up the bad work!

Congratulations Andy. Quite an achievement from probably my favourite KZfaqr. On the same day as a completely independent,( hasn’t even got a manager), artist I like has got a No.1 album in the U.K. Unheard of I would have thought. Congrats to you both. A good day in my music world.

Congratulations on the 500th video. More best biscuits please😊

Super epic 500th anniversary video. I totally agree that this is another form of art with improvisations around a structure which is not different from what we do when we play. It made me laugh and think and towards the end I was also very moved. Thanks for being such a beacon of reason and thought. Andy is not a zombie with an automated set of answers!!! There. I said it. And now...for the list, you so wonderfully talked about, and which is completely valid, I do like to make some important mentions which would get mentioned on my top 100 list for sure (I'm not objective, by all means), as there are really important musicians which are not on the list and that's fine. I am allowing myself to go beyond Rock and Jazz but I won't include classical or modern classical music and I might not include any UK artists, since you covered them really well: 1. Les Baxter/Yma Symac (US)- When it comes to third stream, early psychedelia, world music, fusion of genres, space age. He's a great influence on me and on music in general. 2. Ravi Shankar (India) - I don't know how the world of music would have looked without his presence in the 50s and 60s. 3. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Pakistan) - Perhaps the greatest male singer outside western culture which completely ignited world music as a spiritual celebration. His body of work, the side-long epics, the complexity and improvisational abilities along with his family-band is something which had a huge impact on me and my generation. Definitely needs more discussion. 4. Bob Dylan (US) - Not sure any list can be complete without him on it, regardless of what you think of him. 5. Bob Marley (Jamaica) - for placing Jamaican music and roots/reggea as a game changing genre worldwide. 6. Lee Scratch Perry (Jamaica) - As the founder of dub and electronic dance music which is just as important as Gong or Tangerine Dream but from a different angle (probably greater than Bill Laswell). 7. Little Richard (US) - More influential than Elvis or Prince and probably the first stage persona to combine music, dance, sexuality and rebelion in a rock'n roll act. I can go on about him for hours. 8. Tom Waits (US) - A world and a genre of its own. A magical world of music which cannot be defined or classified. Has one of the best and longest masterpiece album runs in music history. 9. Lou Reed/VU (US) - Take Dylan, Jack Caruac and Coltrane and stick them in a guitar amplifier and you get Lou Reed. They are the ones who put the DARK into music. Before KC, before Beefheart. If you don't include Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, Roky Erickson or any real noise, post rock and shoegaze bands, you might as well have Lou and the Velvets on. 10. Can (Germany) - probably the single most important, groundbreaking, influential and misunderstood band to ever exist east of the UK and West of LA. 11. The Wrecking Crew (US) - I could have gone with Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Jim Morrison and the Doors, Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, or even Freddie Mercury and Queen or any other great band which I absolutely love for a last eleventh pick...but I'll go with the band which played on thousands and thousands of top albums which would go to change the world. Those musicians probably were the greatest team of musicians that ever lived and played together like that. That would have been a beautiful body of work had they all been credited. They weren't, until very recently. Too little and too late. I give them my voice and vote here for them and all other unknown musicians out there who made their contribution as part of the musical hive mind we live in. In fact, I think it would be a great battle between my top 100 and Andy's. I would imagine it to have many similar picks but some really different ones too. Maybe that's just because it's less UK-centered, I don't know. Thank you Andy.

Congratulations Andy. Your channel has been the find of my 2023. Thanks for the many hours of life enriching content.

Congrats Andy on your 500 vids. Your community greatly appreciates your knowledge, presentation and disposition. Cheers from Australia

Congrats and thanks!

Congrats. on your 500th Andy.

Glad I found your channel. Terrific choices. Madness is brilliant and underrated.

Congratulations Andy

Living Colour!! Love them !

Congratulations with 500 videos. Amazing. I know this will be a fun and interesting video to watch, so i just want to mention some of my favorite artists of all time. This is not in any particular order, except for the two on top: Tom Waits The Beatles Miles Davies Thin Lizzy Led Zeppelin The Kinks The Who Nick Cave Bob Dylan Deep Purple David Bowie Paul Simon Al Di Meola Randy Newman Frank Zappa Elvis Presley Charles Mingus Joni Mitchell King Crimson Black Sabbath David Sylvian Townes Van Zandt Neil Young Ramones Motörhead Jethro Tull Yes Genesis Terje Rypdal Queen Captain Beefheart The Yardbirds The Rolling Stones Rush Bill Evans Chet Baker Louis Armstrong PJ Harvey John Coltrane Freddie Hubbard Herbie Hancock Wayne Shorter Art Blakey Ornette Colman Van Halen The Jam Clash XTC Allan Holdsworth Thelonious Monk Charlie Parker Pink Floyd AC/DC Beck Peter Case Vic Chesnutt The Doors Tom Petty Warren Zevon Paul Weller Lou Reed Pat Metheny John Scofield Mike Stern Stevie Ray Vaughan Van Morrison Harry Nilsson Johnny Cash The Police Keith Jarrett Chick Corea Guy Clark John McLaughlin George Duke Weather Report Rory Gallagher Steely Dan Chicago Kansas Robert Plant Jimi Hendrix Lynyrd Skynyrd ZZ Top Richard Thompson Pepper Adams I’m quite a musical chameleon. There are many i’ve not mentioned, i’m sure. There’s nothing like the ecstasy of free thought. And i love the good things on KZfaq. The arts.

It is remarkable how aligned we are - eric dolphy and thin lizzy in the same breath

Congratulations: 👏Thank you for all your intricate musical, humorous and philosophical thoughts!🙏 I'm totally with you... Keep it up and all the best for you! 😎👍

Congratulations Andy, really enjoy your videos. Would love to see you do some film stuff. Powell and Pressburger are favourites of mine too, so that would be a good start. Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm, knowledge and humour.

Great list.

Congratulations, after 500 videos I´m still worried that the shelves in the background someday will collapse :)

Great job on reaching 500 videos on your channel. Another excellent list of your 100 favourite musicians. Why complain about it - they are your choices not mine. Keith Jarrett would have been in my Top Ten along with Rush and Cream. Keep it up 👍

CONGRATULATIONS ON 500 ANDY!!! CHEERS! BEST, DANIEL (WHY AM I YELLING??? 😂🎸)

Fab video celebrating Andy's 500th episode and his fave 100. Can't agree with all of it but that's the fun of it all. What escapes me though is why I've yet to hear him mention Jon Hiseman and Colosseum. I'm not a drummer but I think I have a reasonable grasp of music generally and what could be said to be quality in playing. Most of my favourite drummers are on Andy's list but not Jon Hiseman. Am I missing something? I don't understand, especially as the track 'Daughter of Time' is the best expression of Jazz/Rock/Prog in under three minutes it's possible to have - in my opinion 😮😊

OMG its an andy edwards world within an andy edwards world

Everyone on your list is great. No duds. Fun video.

40:30 you made me imagine Bob Carolgees in Black Sabbath 🤣Geezer Butler does bear a passing resemblance

After all the top 10s, getting a top 100 is quite epic to say the least!

I like your sense of humor in these videos... even if I am appalled that you don't have RTF in the top 5

Congratulations. For your thousandth, you might do the 100 greatest musical events you've ever been part of, experienced second hand, or heard of? (Heard of is probably below the threshold of something. I'm just trying to cast a wide net.) That would allow you to give a number to something like *All That Glitters is a Mare's Nest* . The reason for doing this kind of list is obvious, I think? All the interconnections, all the things that come together at something like that. Hmm ... *Bursting Out* might even be a special case? A patched together, "great event". It seems more than just a "live album". If you break the research rule, you could find some seedy bar on the wrong side of some town during the Prohibition where something magical happened, if it did - and if you can locate it. So maybe the "heard of" option isn't going too far, given what really matters in such a Door of Perception.

oh my congradulations

Great video, can't begin to comment on everything. Charlie Parker is still astounding.

Both Edwards & Pardo have done an hilarious John Anderson impersonation this week. What's going on? Something cosmic & comedic! Let's have an Edwards/Pardo Anderson mash-up face off.

Terry Gross interviewed Sting and referred to Police's reggae beat. Sting corrected her, "It's an African beat". I grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs. I bought "A Love Supreme" in '69 when I was 17.. I saw Archie Shepp w/ Jimmy Garrison in the early '70s, Pharaoh Sanders too. I always regret missing Coltrane by a few years.

That’s the band you needed in 1968-72.

I’m on a train heading up the south coast to Sydney in the quiet carriage. Burst out laughing with you Jon Anderson impression 😂

Epic. If you need to chill, Eastern Horizons (1967) by the Charlie Munro Quartet. Very rare Australian Eastern modal jazz. The bassist, Neville Whitehead went on to play with Keith Tippet and Ian Carr.

Madness yes! Miles, Coltrane and Zappa, say no more!❤

Unlike the other aging rockers, Andy, you are getting better!

Lists like these are usually my personal favorite. Gives me an idea on what others think and how. Though, I'm surprised to see Emerson, Lake, and Palmer get mentioned. So many people seem to not mention them unless they are talking about those who were influenced by ELP. A fun fact about Keith Emerson in particular, he also was involved in the soundtrack to an anime called Harmagedon, which has lead many an anime fan who were interested to look into ELP. I hate to see what the landscape of some parts of music, especially from the Japanese artists, would be without ELP being a part of their musical influence. It's a fascinating thing that I didn't know until Bennet White, aka Bennet the Sage, did his review on that anime. After having looked further after that, I was surprised how much of my favorite music from there may have been influenced by ELP. Probably also why I'm going on an on about it. One more thing before the post, that ending did give me a chuckle, as childish as that may seem. Meh, it's okay to still be a child at heart, sometimes.

You managed to make this entire length entertaining and thought provoking. The whole while knowing doing a list of "greatests" is ridiculous, and then going on at another attempt to eff the truly ineffable.

Hats of to making 500 while remaining sane. Of course, the most interesting inclusions in such lists are always the guilty pleasures that are hidden at some point in your life so your mates don't see them. And that's the beauty of getting on - you simply don't give a damn any more about what others think.

Seem to be missing the Clarinet. Woody Herman, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Johnny Dodds.( Eric Dolphy was a Bass clarinet player).

I am writing Congrats, because I can’t spell Congrajlashins. I would like to add Kraftwerk, Oregon, Tangerine Dream, Jan Garbarek, John Surman, Bob Marley to the list.

Birds of a feather...In your commentary you mentioned that great artists are likely to associate with one another. There was one artist who had ties with and/or shared performances with the following other of your 100: Tina Turner, Kate Bush, Sting (The Police), Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Narada Michael Walden, Jan Hammer, Frank Zappa (Vinnie Colaiuta), Stevie Wonder, Billy Cobham, Eric Clapton of Cream, Jimmy Page, J P Jones, and Robert Plant (Led Zepplin), Jan Hammer, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and your #1 the worthy John McLaughlin. That artist was Jeff Beck. Jeff may have had the widest breadth of accomplishment in varied genres of any musician, ever. He performed and composed in: blues, blues/rock, jazz, fusion, pop, techno, rock-a-billy, country, ballads, pure rock, classical, iternational - Celtic, middle eastern, Indian, Bulgarian, African, Vietnamese, etc. His mastery of the electric guitar was at the pinnacle as acknowledged by Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Brian May, Billy Gibbons, David Gilmore, John McLaughlin and other masters. He was particularly outstanding as an accompaniest to singers of great ability, including: Pavarotti, Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Sting, Imelda May, Billy Gibbons, Van Morrison, Stevie Wonder, BB King, Buddy Guy, and dozens of others. Close listening to many of his "duets" reveals a virtual perfect match in tone and phrasing to key segments of the vocalist's performances. #13 ?

Do you pat or pet an animal? Contrats on 500! Really enjoying the content.

Sea of Tranquility have some brilliant content. I’d love to see you join them for a discussion. Keep up these amazing videos, Andy…have learned so much

You really are Prog and fusion guy and that’s ok with me.

Hilarious ending with Mojo

Great list. Of course I don’t agree with all of it. But I love and share the breadth of it. P. Enemy, Szobel, White Snake, Eric Dolphy…

love the barker sound. Cheap Jakob...how much discount for all 100 in total? But where did the greatest jazz composer of the last 60 years suddenly disappear?

What no Darkthrone?! 😂 Love your list. 85% agreeing.

Congratulations, old son.

I watched the whole damn thing! And here is the list I kept as you went, listing the artists who are most important to me: 97. Tina Turner 95. Whitesnake (Coverdale-Page is a phenomenal album, come at me) 87. Bill Bruford 80. Living Colour 78. Mr. Bungle 72. Michael Jackson 69. Chaka Khan 68. Cream 67. Prince 55. Pink Floyd (Echoes, DSOTM, WYWH and Animals are best) 54. The Beatles (can't believe I found a classic rock fan who isn't gaga over the Stones!) 45. Knower (JUST discovered these guys a few weeks ago, but yeah. Brilliant.) 42. Dave Brubeck 40. Red Hot Chili Peppers (not a huge fan, but they're excellent) 39. Stevie Wonder (I have to start being more selective from here on in... same as above, not a megafan but excellent) 28. Black Sabbath 14. Yes (I can't keep up with the Yes, Yes#2, etc!) 11. Jimi Hendrix (a short, blazing light of creative brilliance) 10. Led Zeppelin (first band I fell in love with, and listened to nothing but for several early teenage years) 8. King Crimson (curiously, I mostly like the early 80s Fripp/Bruford/Levin/Belew stuff) 3. Miles Davis 2. Zappa (you got it.) Rather commercial and rock/pop-oriented, I guess. But there it is. Thanks for the video and congrats on your continued KZfaq success. (You mentioned Faith No More, but I think they should have earned a place. ☺)

Nonono you can't move on from "Jazz Milk" that easily!🤣 Now when I hear O.P I'm going to think "Jazz Milk" from now on, thanks Andy!

Surprised Andy rated the Beatles so low but great video as always. I know they are not exactly this channels type of band but i would have Abba right up there. So many completely different types of songs on their albums.I bet Andy doesnt know they are liked by the likes of Steve Howe, Robert Fripp and Steve Wilson from Porcupine Tree. Johnny Rotten, Lemmy, Joe Strummer, Kurt Cobain to name a gew more rock start fans. Elvis. Marvin Gaye. Stone Roses. Diana Ross (strictly pre 80's) ELO - underrated imho. The Jam. Bowie. Roxy Music. One band on the list which used to love but no longer do is The Police. Bought their first two albums which i played to death for a few years but these days those songs don't do anything for me.

Gong ahead of RTF and Rush.Farkorf.Happy 500th mate much love

Never cared about the Sex Pistols and I think I may have purchased one or two PIL albums, but John Lydon is definitely a great character. Smart and honest. September by EW&F is indeed an alltime great. Stevie Wonder early 70s albums are genius, especially Innervisions. Gentle Giant is an interesting band indeed. Personal favorites : First, Todd Rundgren. Then Steely Dan. Then, in no particular order : The Tubes, The Damned, The Stranglers, Jason Falkner. After that, it's more about particular albums than about particular artists : some Magma and Christian Vander, some Queen, some Beatles, some Utopia, some Beach Boys, some Stereolab, some Stevie Wonder, some Laura Nyro...

Brian Downey superb underrated drum shuffle king

Congratulations! Love your channel despite not being in total agreement. Stones what !? Not enough weight given to true lyricists at the expense of twiddlers. Sometimes simplicity is elegance.

A very difficult list to compile. As Weather Report was mashed together, although Jaco ha his own spot, I would have had Lyle Mays alongside Pat Metheny.

Oh please someone tell me what place Cardiacs/Tim Smith got 🙏 I’ve been listening through Andy Edwards’ words but unable to find them!

Jethro Tull 71????? C"MON!!!!!!!

Hello Andy! Do you enjoy classical music? If so I’d love to hear a talk about it. Cheers!

BOWIE

Pls spare me the time. What numbers were milli and vanilli ?

Congrats Andy. Can you improve the audio of your voice? Bit of an echo there.

Having Lynard Skinnerd higher than Bruford is like holding me down a slapping me with a halibut for half an hour. Thanks

The only way you could leave Phish off this list. Is that you are not aware of Phish Or Ween for that matter

Andy, #99, Herbert something... I could not make out the last name.

A fine list, but very prog and somewhat punk oriented. I am going to mention several obvious omissions: Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Bill Monroe, Chet Atkins, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson, Lightening Hopkins, Elmore James, Little Richard, Elvis, Chuck Berry, The Who, Queen (Freddy Mercury in particular), Steely Dan, Dizzy Gillespie, The Eagles, The Rolling Stones, The Allman Brothers featuring Duane Allman, The Byrds, Les Paul, Eric Burdon, the Doors, and Van Morrison. My favorite jazz piano improvisor, Erroll Garner and flamenco virtuoso Manitas de Plata deserve mentions. Classical Musicans and composers were totally ignored. How about JS Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Nikola Paganini, Chopin, Lizst, Rachmaninoff, Jascha Heifetz, Luciano Pavorati. And finally for the moment, the Berlin and Chicago Philharmonic orchestras.

Not one biscuit in this list! What happened?

Ah, Captain Andy - I really (really!) don't think you needed to play the Beato card as a function of his audience - I don't know that I would consider you elitist as elitism tends to be less inclusive (which I don't think is your aim). The hegemony of your area of practice is quite specialized and likely isn't a body of work that would reward the "casual" observer. I have never found you to be a mean-spirited person by any stretch of the imagination, but referring to someone else's audience as "idiots" is beneath you - you are better than that. That said, congratulations on the 500th video - I appreciate your passion and humor and look forward to the next 500!

Dolphy plus Coltrane, with larger ensemble response, and perhaps orchestration for sextet, by Mingus. Sextet includes the three, and McCoy and Elvin, but perhaps Richard Davis or Cecil McBee on bass. Don Cherry would yell and scream until it became a septet, though.

So Cardiacs got 37! Not bad for perhaps the best prog band ever, though broader than the prog tag itself.

My reaction to the statement, "They're better than the Beatles!" is and will always be, "No."

Red Hot Chilli better than The Beatles #54 😂😂😂😂😂

So one great thing about this list is that you include ELP in a low rank… but then Emerson as one of the four most important figures in prog rock. I know that your relationship is complex with ELP but I could think about several hypotheses…. 1) the most obvious, just inconsistency. Don’t think so. 2) you hate ELP but you feel guilty about it (the Freudian hypothesis I guess). 3) you hate (or dislike) ELP but you realize how original they were in terms of mixing classical music and rock (and Emerson was instrumental in this). There are several others… but anyway, I’m very curious of why prog rock didn’t follow this line. I mean, yes, it could be the source of what they call “pretentiousness” of prog rock… but I see it as a natural progression. I mean, why not take advantage of all these great compositions and play them? And yes, some of them were great, others failed miserably. But still.

Jacob Collier ... come on.

Thumbs up for Charley Patton - even though he's so low down on your list. Just think how important he would have been if he was recorded a few years earlier... Now that can be put down to racism.

So you left Tim Smith/Cardiacs out?

Great choices Ella Fitzgerald greatest female Jazz singer

Very broad list, but you forgot classical music, how could you??? Where is Mozart on your list 🙂 btw Pat Metheny has a wig, that is NOT his real hair.

Jazz milk. Yes is not Yes without Jon. Crim is better than Weather Report. Frank and John are equals. And Jeff. (It's difficult, isn't it?) Sling yer hook! (I'm from Stafford.)