The Top Ten Greatest PROG ROCK Double Albums | Ranked

Mistakes:

Phaedra is not a double album!!! What a mistake to make, so in 10th place I have Sing To God by Cardiacs,
The Astonishing by Dream Theater is actually the third album Mike Mangini played on.

Andy is a drummer, producer and educator. He has toured the world with rock legend Robert Plant and played on classic prog albums by Frost and IQ.

As a drum clinician he has played with Terry Bozzio, Kenny Aronoff, Thomas Lang, Marco Minneman and Mike Portnoy.

He also teaches drums privately and at Kidderminster College

[AndyEdwardsDrummer]

I made a couple of mistakes on this video so before I get shot down in the comments:
Mistakes:

Phaedra is not a double album!!! What a mistake to make, so in 10th place I have Sing To God by Cardiacs,

The Astonishing by Dream Theater is actually the third album Mike Mangini played on.

[laurentlemoing]

I would have include Aphrodites Child "666" in that list, especially because it a concept album and is so unique.

[merlinman]

The Lamb is an excellent choice by far and away the best double album. A masterpiece indeed!

[BonafonteLeonardo]

1 - Joe’s Garage - Frank Zappa
2 - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
3 - The Wall - Pink Floyd
4 - Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes

[johnayres]

Glad to see Soft Machine in the list. I saw them 4 or 5 times in the Seventies a great band.

[thekeywitness]

Can’s Tago Mago — if Zappa’s Uncle Meat can be called prog, I think Can’s experimental opus qualifies.

[stuartraybould]

Interesting, just shows how different people's taste can be even when they like the same genres of music.
For me it's:
1. Yes-Topographic Oceans
2. Mike Oldfield-Incantations
3. Genesis-Lamb lies down on Broadway
4. Pink Floyd-The Wall
5. The Who-Quadrophenia
6. Motorsphyco-Death defying Unicorn
7. Led Zeppelin-Physical Graffiti
8. Frank Zappa-Joe's Garage part 2
9. Peter Gabriel-Passion
10. Klaus Schulze-X
11. Motorpsycho-The All is One
These could be in any order depending on my mood but Topographic Oceans is my desert island disc.

[jdmresearch]

Agreed about including Third. It's true that Facelift was recorded live.... but so were most of the songs included in Starless and Bible Black.

[allangrant]

The Lamb always NUMBER 1, seen it live twice AMAZING in the 70s and seen it live 2 months ago by the Musical Box AMAZING in the same venue Usher Hall Edinburgh, some days its great to be old and turn back the clock. Andy keep up the good work CHEERS.

[christophercoles]

In no particular order:
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Dream Theater - The Astonishing
Spock's Beard - Snow
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
I.Q. - Road Of Bones
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat
Haken - Aquarius
Jeff Wayne - War Of The Worlds
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans

[Dutchgo]

Proud that you listed Focus 3 in the top 5. Much of that album is “live in the studio”. I have their albums and they’re great to listen to.

[docbobster]

Phaedra was a single LP in its original release. 1st track on side 1 (17:45) and the other 3 tracks on side 2 (9:55 + 8:01 + 2:18)

[albarton]

My list would include several of from your list and also:
Aphrodite’s Child’s 666
Mike Oldfield’s Incantations
Kate Bush’s Aerial
Pink Floyd’s Endless River (definitely not a popular opinion, but I don’t care)
Renaissance’s Live at Carnegie Hall (I know it’s live, I don’t care, it’s my list)

[paulmortimer]

Andy thank you for mentioning Tangerine Dream you should listen to Zeit this is a double album it takes you on a journey through the universe on a spaceship being totally alone like the film alien where all the crew are dead. Fantastic album a true prog masterpiece. The rest of your list totally bang on glad you put Genesis. The lamb no 1 epic 🎼🎼🎶🎶👍👏🎹

[ambientideas]

The Who’s Tommy (double album) gets labeled rock opera or art rock or concept album, but I’ve always viewed it as very proggy, at very least a precursor to prog. How about a top ten reasons why Tommy is/isn’t prog?

Thanks for the nod to Tangerine Dream, much deserved.

[Hydrocorax]

Good choice for number one. When TLLDOB came out, I was 16 and Genesis, whom I'd discovered a year earlier, were already my favorite band. I loved their new album to an unhealthy degree, despite its single flaw, that the verse melody of "Lilywhite Lilith" was uncomfortably close to that of Harry Chapin's saccharine ballad "The Cat's In the Cradle, " which had come out around the same time and was omnipresent on the radio. Tony Banks is fond of saying that the album suffers under a mediocre story, but I couldn't agree less. It's the story that gives it much of its great strength and that evokes so many rare and bizarre emotions, all of which are perfectly carried by the music. I don't listen to it every day like I did as a teen, but I still consider it one of the great masterpieces of rock, and an album that's pretty much unsurpassed for taking the listener on a sweeping emotional odyssey.

[oolongoolong]

1. Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica (Oh yes it's prog!)
2. Soft Machine - Third
3. Mothers - Freak Out!
3. Mothers - Uncle Meat
4. Tangerine Dream - Zeit
5. Can - Tago Mago

[Pwecko]

I bought Phaedra when it came out, and it was a single album.

[geoffccrow]

CAN WE PLS HAVE THE TOP10 ANDY EDWARDS TOP 10 VIDS

[josephbennett]

Hi Andy - just discovered your channel, and I love it! I also love your work with IQ! Keep rockin'!