phil
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Post by phil on Jan 1, 2012 13:11:27 GMT
Just a bit of fun, its new years day and I'm stuck at work until 19:00, have my laptop here and listening to Tull obviously..
Was just thinking how my choice of best Tull album/track changes from time to time
Current favorite album is "Aqualung" and track is "My God" the track is just awesome as is the album...but you know that already lol
What floats your boat at the moment?
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 1, 2012 13:32:31 GMT
The lyrics of Pussywillow at the mo. They perfectly sum up the disenchantment of her day to day life and her daydreams as she shuffles on down the 8am sheep run. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the half-tone light of a young morning she sighs and shifts on the pillow. And across her face dancing, the first shadows fly to kiss the Pussy Willow. In her fairy-tale world she's a lost soul singing in a sad voice nobody hears. She waits in her castle of make-believe for her white knight to appear. Pussy Willow --- down fur-lined avenue brushing the sleep from her young woman eyes. Runs for the train --- sees eight o'clock coming cutting dreams down to size again. She longs for the East and a pale dress flowing an apartment in old Mayfair. Or to fish the Spey, spinning the first run of Spring or to die for a cause somewhere. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ According to an old Polish legend, many springtimes ago a mother cat was crying at the bank of the river in which her kittens were drowning. The willows at the river's edge longed to help her, so they swept their long graceful branches into the waters to rescue the tiny kittens who had fallen into the river while chasing butterflies. The kittens gripped on tightly to their branches and were safely brought to shore. Methinks the headmaster used the name Pussywillow in accordance with this legend and the message of rescue .... and some people think it's about sex ;D
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Post by onewhiteduck on Jan 1, 2012 15:08:10 GMT
Still A Passion Play I hope Tull will reform in 2013 and play APP live ....... I'd sell my soul for that. Fave track at the mo is Dr Bogenbroom. Well I've tried my best to love you all, all you hypocrites and whores, with your eyes on each other and the locks upon your doors.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 1, 2012 17:55:27 GMT
My Sunday Feeling has had a few plays over the last 2-3 days as has the This Was album in general. Think I'm trying to recapture my youth, but it's not working
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 1, 2012 19:09:16 GMT
The 'Up The Pool' sketch on the new 'Lung has not gotten old after many plays...and, as always, the New Year starts with a nice, long listen to THE PLAY....APP is always the first album of the year...but 'Brick' is always the first CD played when I move and unpack/re-assemble the stereo. New years Eve is my Tull anniversary...on 12-31-72, as a 15 year old lucky to get a gig babysitting for the hip young couple down the street, after the kid was put to sleep I identified three LPs worth a listen based on the album cover: The Doors, Strange Days....vaguely satisfying...Santana Abraxas.....poorly disguised dreck...herb Alpert for hippies? and then Thick as a Brick....purchased two days later with the night's earnings ...soon followed by LITP, then the earlier albums in reverse order: aqualung, benefit, Stand Up and This Was...then whatever boots could be found...then APP on the day of release...and every other album thru Rupi on day of release. I can't inmgine life without Tull...I guess I would have been an even bigger Deadhead than I already was, fated to the likes of Phish and String Cheese when Jerry croaked. None of my other favorites...long term ( Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Lou Reed, Stranglers) or temporary ( Guns n Roses, Oasis, Strokes, Eels)...ever meant the same as Tull.
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Post by hawkmoth on Jan 1, 2012 23:05:57 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 1, 2012 23:16:45 GMT
Eels are a guy named Mark Everett, who went by 'E' as a solo artist, and calls his band the Eels. Easily found on you tube...try : Last Stop this Town, Flyswatter, Trouble with Dreams, Novacaine for the Soul or Rock Hard Times.....I'm too low tech to serve them up. They are relatively popular in Britan and Europe.....sprung from the LA scene most known for Beck. Endorsed by: Pete Townsend ( via his young girlfriend), Peter Buck and Tom Waits who have all collaborated.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 4, 2012 22:39:25 GMT
Son....now there's a song that has it all....seriously honest, real-life lyrics, the hard rock/acoustic contrasts that make Jethro Tull so unique and some guitar parts that evolved into the backbone of the rock songs on Aqualung....you all have permission to breathe...and re-visit this song ASAP.....loud
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Post by hawkmoth on Jan 5, 2012 19:16:21 GMT
Gonna stick Benefit,Stand Up,Minstrel,War Child,SFTW,Heavy Horses in me car cd tomorrow . Got 6 hour journey to make ,Golden Era of Tull all the way!!!
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 5, 2012 22:14:58 GMT
I thought War Child was a step down after TAAB and APP...I mean...no reason at that point to not expect yet another 1 piece masterwork, right? So after War Child...a return to multipart epic masterpiece was a welcome surprise...today's 'song': Baker Street Muse'
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Post by onewhiteduck on Jan 5, 2012 22:52:38 GMT
Brilliant Superb Tull ... Side 2 0f MITG is ( and always will be ) some of my fave of all time. Remember hearing Summerday Sands for the first time years later ..... 2nd best Tull album .... no doubt
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 5, 2012 23:02:35 GMT
In the Tull Himalayas MITG is right up there...APP is Everest....MITG is a few meters short of TAAB and War Child is in that range but only at the shoulders of the big three. I guess that makes us the Sherpa guides....
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stevep
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Post by stevep on Jan 6, 2012 0:08:39 GMT
Strangely enough an album that i did not like when it was released is now one of my favourites. I was really was not very fond of "Too Old" but nowadays I seem to listen to more and more tracks from the album. Salamander, Taxi grab, Big Dipper, Dead Beat and others are all cracking songs. That Tull era now seems very strange with IA in his tuxedo and MB in his bikers outfit but it seemed quite a productive one. Minstrel is also another great album so those two top my list.
I think most Tull albums have many great points and some not so great ones. How the person that wrote European Legacy (great song) also wrote Automotive Engineering (dreadful) is just beyond me.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 6, 2012 16:30:04 GMT
I would say the quality drop-off between European Legacy and Automove etc might be the biggest...but other, same album contenders...and I know lots of people like the songs I'm putting on the bottom end, would include: Whaler's Dues/ Another Xmas Song, Rocks on the Road/ This is not love and Black Sunday/ 4 WD....but Eurpoean-Automotive remains the winner in the ' same guy wrote this masterpiece/dreck contest....I would add Lost in Crowds/ Grimelli's Torment but Tullist loves it so much i don't wanna give him another chance to defend it and futhur embrass himself,
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2012 16:47:44 GMT
Can't get away from these three at the moment. Wond'ring Aloud, Again (Full Morgan Version) Just Trying To Be (New Mix) My God (Early Version)
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 6, 2012 17:16:16 GMT
My daughter is sick and tired of early version 'Up The Pool' every morning....me? Not yet !
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stevep
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Post by stevep on Jan 7, 2012 2:03:06 GMT
Yes, Grimelli's torment is one that I could happily lose from my MP3 player too. It lasts around 8 seconds before being skipped. Actually I would be pleased if IA/Tull got away from the orchestral and sleazy porn jazz songs anyway. I wish he would just get back to the things he became famous for and is really good at.
How can someone that wrote Up the Pool, My God, Salamander, Aqualung, APP and so many others be happy playing "Bouree" concert after concert?
Sorry, rant over!!
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hipflaskandy
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Post by hipflaskandy on Jan 7, 2012 11:54:49 GMT
Can't stop listening to 'Weathercock' at present. Mesmerised by it, actually.
After verses and choruses, just LOVE the instrumental section, especially fond of the great BIG drum thump that heralds the beginning of the bar every now and then.
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 7, 2012 12:57:01 GMT
Can't stop listening to 'Weathercock' at present. Mesmerised by it, actually. After verses and choruses, just LOVE the instrumental section, especially fond of the great BIG drum thump that heralds the beginning of the bar every now and then. pure and utter gem
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Post by onewhiteduck on Jan 7, 2012 13:32:05 GMT
Been listening to Stormwatch and in particular Flying Dutchman which I think is just brilliant ..well I think so
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Post by hawkmoth on Jan 8, 2012 1:18:04 GMT
Every track on Stormwatch is brilliant. One of my fav Tull albums,love the theme throughout. Dark Ages is very special.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 8, 2012 21:02:41 GMT
Dark Ages is VERY special.
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hipflaskandy
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Post by hipflaskandy on Jan 12, 2012 21:49:46 GMT
'Mother Goose' has been well-cooked this week.
I finally (after all these years) had a look at how to play it myself! I had it on repeat a lot, till I'd copped all the 'bits'. Tricky little syncopated thing! Spent a deal of time on it till the deed was done. Yay!
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Post by asongforjeffrey2 on Jan 15, 2012 18:30:00 GMT
Really like your topic! Lately, "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of The New Day." I listen to it whenever I'm having a cup of Tea!
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 15, 2012 22:19:31 GMT
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 16, 2012 9:58:00 GMT
Mainly the lyric comes into my head first before the song;
"Once it seemed there would always be a time for everything.."
It's a great line and a great song.
Once it seemed there would always be A time for everything. Ages passed I knew at last My life had never been. I'd been missing what time could bring....
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phil
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Post by phil on Jan 16, 2012 11:48:14 GMT
Tull Song of the week for me is "Black Sunday" might be cos i worked 12 hours yesterday (Sunday) lol
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 16, 2012 19:16:00 GMT
Kelpie sounded good this morning...inevitable that the middle part was rescued from bonus cut obscurity to be a featured part of flute solo for many years...it's far too pefectly Tull to gather dust. This song could take the place of moths or one brown mouse on heavy Horses.
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Post by asongforjeffrey2 on Jan 16, 2012 19:34:06 GMT
Right now: "We used to know." Really like the electric guitar on this one!
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Post by futureshock on Jan 16, 2012 20:57:07 GMT
How about "Heavy Water"? Canada just found out today that we've had many serious spikes of radioactivity through 2011, and Calgary received one of the largest doses, well into unsafe levels, and Health Canada has been withholding information. Information gathering and reporting is the purpose for their existence, so political interference by our current far-right Conservative party, is obvious. That is most certainly their style. How many Calgarians have had cancer initiated in 2011 due to this? www.montrealgazette.com/news/Radioactive+iodine+rainwater+Public+dark/5995357/story.htmlBeware, as no company or country seems to be able to deal with the issue of nuclear power, whether it's in the dealing of nuclear waste in safe ways for 100,000 years, dealing with normal operations (highly unreliable and expensive) or dealing with spills or accidents. Fukushima has ruined the future for millions. That Heavy Water was the rain falling on Canada in 2011.
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