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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 30, 2011 14:20:46 GMT
well temporarily The first time for me was at MITG - it all became too boring ok there are a couple of great songs like Cold and Baker St however the album lacked the lushness of some of the previous ones and there was just a bit too much acoustic guitar and flute in the rest and the concept - if you like of a travelling minstrel was too narrow and not deep enough or interesting as say a Passion Play or Aqualung. So the Tull albums were thrown to the side and I reached for a complete contrast the likes of SAHB CSNY and Wishbone Ash. ;D
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 30, 2011 21:34:20 GMT
Tull was too sweet and ian was too well adjusted, satisfied, loved and grounded for me during my angry divorce...thus started at two year period of intense Guns and Roses fandom during which i made the argument that they outstoned the stones, out zepped zep and that Axl was the real new Dylan...telling the truth and calling it as he saw it....in the words of the monty python character who claimed to have been turned into a newt: 'I got better'.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2011 3:22:34 GMT
For me - Minstrel in the Gallery was hard to get into when it was first released. ;D I listened to it a lot until it carved a new pathway in my brain. It now stands as my favourite Tull album. I'm one of those that thought that was it at Too Old. Proving it's good to be wrong. Hey how! Hey now! lol
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 31, 2011 8:21:58 GMT
For me - Minstrel in the Gallery was hard to get into when it was first released. ;D I listened to it a lot until it carved a new pathway in my brain. It now stands as my favourite Tull album. I'm one of those that thought that was it at Too Old. Proving it's good to be wrong. Hey how! Hey now! lol Loved "Minstrel" from day one. The only album I've ever had difficulty with upon hearing it for the first time was "A" but it has steadily become one that I go back to often. Maybe that's the secret of IA's music?
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 31, 2011 8:27:31 GMT
I thought TOTRT...was a hop and a skip too far as well and I'm not a fan now either. The criticism aimed at Anderson then in the 70's not so sure about the 80's was over productivity. The creativity and diversity that he no doubt had was simply interpreted by some as a need to produce an album every year. My memory of bands, in general in the 70's was that albums were coming out by the bucket load some good some just fodder for the fans picked up from the last one. I'm not saying that MITG or TOTR.. were however a lot of fans drifted away at certain times myself included and jumped on again and the jumping on again wasn't for loyalty but for liking yet another new sound coming from the man. Broadsword picked up from where I was at when I drifted away and although it's criticised for sound to synthesised it was a return to form for me. Then I listened to SSFTW and HH and forgave them for getting too folky when I was against that. I suppose that's the point we didn't have to be exactly where Anderson was at the time but hooked enough to keep listening. It's funny to look back at my own musical tastes and how they've changed over the years I still don't like opera, I'm getting very comfortable with folk , drawn to a bit of Scandinavian metal and only like rap when someone's taking the piss out of it
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 31, 2011 18:32:42 GMT
Whilst I would agree that "Broadsword" was a "return to form", listening to "Underwraps" and "Walk Into Light" in the cold light of day of 2011 you can hear what a risk IA was taking in branching off into the electronic era. All credit to him for doing so.
"Walk Into Light" is a great album and has continued to impress these ears since it was first issued.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2011 21:48:07 GMT
I have no problem with the synthesised sound. Broadsword is my favourite '80's Tull. I love Under Wraps and Walk Into Light...because they are different is the appeal for me. + I liked these three albums right away.
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Post by tim on Apr 1, 2011 7:20:18 GMT
Gosh where to start! If we are talking albums, I too found "Too Old" to be very unsatisfying (and still only visit it occasionally). The next few albums were excellent until "Under Wraps" which had some great songs but I could not stand the overloud Drium machine (even worse on the remaster of course) Even worse I had seen the live tour a week before the album came out and it was excellent with Doane playing real drums so the album upset me even more. As for the "Passion running out" otherwise its a long list. No new album for Years,ever changing Personnel (even going out as "Jethro Tull" sometimes without Martin!!) Flogging to death a weak voice, and interviews which sound less and less like the interesting intelligent Man i used to love and more like the meandering ramblings of an old Guy {A bit like myself in fact!) I hate the "Ian Knows best " approach to everything from the overbright flat mix of the remastered albums to the mid song interviews on the official DVDs to make them "More interesting" More frustrating more like! No new album because "Nobody buys albums anymore" Set lists tend to lean heavily on the early albums because "Thats what fans like to hear". In fact Ian cant sing properly anymore so the early songs lend themselves to endless flute solos. I think his direction is all wrong its all about making money to an ever dwindling hard core of fans fed up of the same old stuff. I have never quite given up because as someone one said to me Tull is like a religion or a disease and once its in your system it never quite leaves you, but its been a sad few years for me
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