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Post by Equus on Feb 11, 2017 7:52:09 GMT
I can't believe I'm just seeing this poll for the first time. I also can't believe that Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young To Die scored so low! Come on! Crazed Institution is genius. Taxi Grab has some of Ian's best harmonica work. Pied Piper is delightful! John Evan's keyboard work is fantastic, and the bass on the album is some of Tull's best. In my opinion, this album absolutely KILLS This Was, Stand Up, Minstrel in the Gallery, A, Crest of a Knave, Catfish Rising, and a few others. Definitely in my top 5 albums list. I love this album too... The title, the artwork, the song's and lyrics... Great stuff if you ask me... so why don't they like this album? Of course there can be many different individual reasons for this... I have a theory that it's mostly the ever changing, and "strange" time signatures of some of the song's that puts people off, but then again... Jethro Tull has a tendency to do that a lot... Just think about Thick As A Brick... but Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll, And Too Young To Die, has a lot of these "strange" shifts in time signature... Could that be some of the explanation...? It's a mistory to me...
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Post by geostrehl on Feb 11, 2017 14:01:31 GMT
I can't believe I'm just seeing this poll for the first time. I also can't believe that Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young To Die scored so low! Come on! Crazed Institution is genius. Taxi Grab has some of Ian's best harmonica work. Pied Piper is delightful! John Evan's keyboard work is fantastic, and the bass on the album is some of Tull's best. In my opinion, this album absolutely KILLS This Was, Stand Up, Minstrel in the Gallery, A, Crest of a Knave, Catfish Rising, and a few others. Definitely in my top 5 albums list. I love this album too... The title, the artwork, the song's and lyrics... Great stuff if you ask me... so why don't they like this album? Of course there can be many different individual reasons for this... I have a theory that it's mostly the ever changing, and "strange" time signatures of some of the song's that puts people off, but then again... Jethro Tull has a tendency to do that a lot... Just think about Thick As A Brick... but Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll, And Too Young To Die, has a lot of these "strange" shifts in time signature... Could that be some of the explanation...? It's a mistory to me... You have a good point! I mean, I always ALWAYS skip "From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser" and "Bad-eyed and Loveless". Boring stuff. But the rest is heavenly. You're right, though. It really doesn't sound like any of the albums before or after it. It's an oddity. From a musician's point of view, it's heaven!
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Post by JTull 007 on Feb 11, 2017 15:44:28 GMT
I love this album too... The title, the artwork, the song's and lyrics... Great stuff if you ask me... so why don't they like this album? Of course there can be many different individual reasons for this... I have a theory that it's mostly the ever changing, and "strange" time signatures of some of the song's that puts people off, but then again... Jethro Tull has a tendency to do that a lot... Just think about Thick As A Brick... but Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll, And Too Young To Die, has a lot of these "strange" shifts in time signature... Could that be some of the explanation...? It's a mystery to me... You have a good point! I mean, I always ALWAYS skip "From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser" and "Bad-eyed and Loveless". Boring stuff. But the rest is heavenly. You're right, though. Hmmm ?
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Post by Equus on Feb 11, 2017 18:44:01 GMT
I love this album too... The title, the artwork, the song's and lyrics... Great stuff if you ask me... so why don't they like this album? Of course there can be many different individual reasons for this... I have a theory that it's mostly the ever changing, and "strange" time signatures of some of the song's that puts people off, but then again... Jethro Tull has a tendency to do that a lot... Just think about Thick As A Brick... but Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll, And Too Young To Die, has a lot of these "strange" shifts in time signature... Could that be some of the explanation...? It's a mistory to me... You have a good point! I mean, I always ALWAYS skip "From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser" and "Bad-eyed and Loveless". Boring stuff. But the rest is heavenly. You're right, though. It really doesn't sound like any of the albums before or after it. It's an oddity. From a musician's point of view, it's heaven! I guess we all have songs that we skip, but From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser, and Bad-eyed and Loveless sounds great to me... For me it's Hot Mango Flush... I'll just post the three songs in The Daily Song Thread... That way everyone can make up their own mind about it... especially if they don't know the songs...
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Post by 61jtull on Oct 30, 2020 0:22:07 GMT
I'm a big Jethro Tull fan. When looking at their 20 studio albums(I Don't include live albums, compilations(Living in the past) or the Christmas album) I have concluded that they recorded 6 great albums, 11 good to very good albums, 2 weak albums("A" and Dot.com), and 1 awful album(Under Wraps). My top six wood include Aqualung, Songs from the woods, Stand up, Minstrel in the gallery, Passion play and Heavy horses. The top 4 are very close, but I love every song on Aqualung, and I can't say the same thing about any other album.
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Post by orion12 on Oct 30, 2020 8:30:05 GMT
2 weak albums("A" and Dot.com) I can't agree 'Dot. com' is weak album. I think people are too much negative because of dated album title, and awful album cover. In fact, it's a fine album with a lot of good songs: Wicked Windows, Hunt By Numbers, El Nino, A Gift Of Roses, Bends Like A Willow... Even the first side of 'A' album is very good. Black Sunday for example is deserved Tull classic. But, I respect your opinion '61jtull'.
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Post by acreman on Oct 30, 2020 11:53:27 GMT
I agree with orion12 on the quality of Dot Com. I don't want to sound like a "fanboy," but I don't believe Tull has made any particularly bad albums, though if I had to identify a bottom tier, it would consist of Too Old, This Was, and Catfish Rising. My personal top Tull tier would feature Benefit, Heavy Horses, Roots to Branches, Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, Crest of a Knave, and Minstrel in the Gallery, with War Child just barely missing out.
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Post by 61jtull on Oct 30, 2020 23:31:07 GMT
2 weak albums("A" and Dot.com) I can't agree 'Dot. com' is weak album. I think people are too much negative because of dated album title, and awful album cover. In fact, it's a fine album with a lot of good songs: Wicked Windows, Hunt By Numbers, El Nino, A Gift Of Roses, Bends Like A Willow... Even the first side of 'A' album is very good. Black Sunday for example is deserved Tull classic. But, I respect your opinion '61jtull'. I hear you! I like Hunt by numbers and Bends like a willow on Dot.com, but for some reason the rest of the songs don't inspire me. To be fair, a group like Jethro Tull has set a high bar for excellence and if I had never heard all of those other great albums I probably would have had a more favorable opinion of Dot.com and A, but I simply didn't like the musical style of "Under wraps" with the exception of the song "Under wraps 2".
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Post by 61jtull on Feb 24, 2021 23:14:12 GMT
Tull top 5: Aqualung, Songs from the wood, Stand Up, Heavy Horses and Minstrel in the Gallery. I think everything up to Broadsword is good, and while Tull had some strong albums in later years, Ian's diminished vocals prevented those albums from breaking the top 5.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jul 6, 2021 16:10:37 GMT
2 weak albums("A" and Dot.com) I can't agree 'Dot. com' is weak album. I think people are too much negative because of dated album title, and awful album cover. In fact, it's a fine album with a lot of good songs: Wicked Windows, Hunt By Numbers, El Nino, A Gift Of Roses, Bends Like A Willow... Even the first side of 'A' album is very good. Black Sunday for example is deserved Tull classic. But, I respect your opinion '61jtull'. Dot Com, only two votes? What is this board smoking?
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jul 6, 2021 16:21:11 GMT
I'm a big Jethro Tull fan. When looking at their 20 studio albums(I Don't include live albums, compilations(Living in the past) or the Christmas album) I have concluded that they recorded 6 great albums, 11 good to very good albums, 2 weak albums("A" and Dot.com), and 1 awful album(Under Wraps). My top six wood include Aqualung, Songs from the woods, Stand up, Minstrel in the gallery, Passion play and Heavy horses. The top 4 are very close, but I love every song on Aqualung, and I can't say the same thing about any other album. Now, I know why Ian shut off the proverbial Tull spigot after Dot Com was released. His most hard core fans were dissing it . Ian: "Dot Com is rubbish is it? Well, I'll show them. If that online poll of theirs happens to change, I'll reconsider."
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Post by adospencer on Jul 9, 2021 17:12:06 GMT
Like most of us I imagine, I struggle to pick a favourite album. Sometimes I leave a particular album alone for a while, then something will put it in my mind and it spins again. If pushed though my favourite has to be "Songs from the Wood" . Its just so joyous, so life affirming full of the images of a long hot English summer with the hum of Bees and birdsong. (I know Solstice bells is a Christmas favourite, but there is nothing that prevents it from being a celebration of the Summer solstice too). I love every song , and to play it on headphones as I walk alone across the aforementioned countryside is an absolute treat.
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Post by itullian on Jul 9, 2021 22:53:59 GMT
Well, i truly cannot choose. I love all the Tull albums and play them all often. And I don't skip any songs either.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jul 10, 2021 1:02:35 GMT
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Post by itullian on Jul 10, 2021 2:24:14 GMT
Same here. Same bands plus The Who. The Moodies are very under rated.
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Post by smint100 on Nov 20, 2021 11:30:08 GMT
Only 5? I start from the point that there are no wrong answers on this poll - except I'd need a LOT of persuading to include Under Wraps Songs From the Wood is my Number 1 and probably always will be as, not only are the songs exquisite, but it captures a specific time in my life when everything was exciting and possible. There's a song for every season and I'd play it on my Sony Walkman (remember those?) out on country walks until the batteries ran out, and seeing a tuft of grass on the pavement still brings to mind Jack in the Green. Solstice Bells is one of the few Christmas songs that bears repeat playing, Pibroch makes come over all emotional, and Fires at Midnight the perfect closing song. My others: Living in the Past, A Passion Play, Broadsword and Stand Up don't hold quite the same place in my heart (even though A Witch's Promise is one of my current favourites - possibly because it's Autumn so I'll be moving on to Solstice Bells afterwards - and I've already been dancing in the kitchen to it this morning in full-on hippie mode, especially during the "Keep looking, keep looking" section) But the fact there are so many opinions for as many different reasons just goes to show the versatility of Mr Anderson and his musicians - and long may that continue!
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Post by jackinthegreen on Nov 21, 2021 0:45:02 GMT
I love all the albums, maybe the one I didn't love when it came out, and still is not a favourite is Too Old......it's not one I listen to but has a couple of tracks I like..
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 21, 2021 7:11:49 GMT
I love all the albums, maybe the one I didn't love when it came out, and still is not a favourite is Too Old......it's not one I listen to but has a couple of tracks I like.. I too have mixed feelings about TOTRnR; as you say a couple of ok tracks but the rest "filler". I maybe being a bit harsh but the quality of the vinyl when it first came out was crap and hearing the title track in concert so many times over the years has been really off-putting for me.
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Post by jackinthegreen on Nov 21, 2021 15:16:15 GMT
I love all the albums, maybe the one I didn't love when it came out, and still is not a favourite is Too Old......it's not one I listen to but has a couple of tracks I like.. I too have mixed feelings about TOTRnR; as you say a couple of ok tracks but the rest "filler". I maybe being a bit harsh but the quality of the vinyl when it first came out was crap and hearing the title track in concert so many times over the years has been really off-putting for me. Yes MD....I like From a Dead Beat, and The Chequered Flag. Salamander is ok, nice sounding acoustic guitars. David Palmer's sax solo in "From a Dead Beat.." is sublime. For someone not renowned for playing the sax, it's awesome
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 21, 2021 16:08:36 GMT
I too have mixed feelings about TOTRnR; as you say a couple of ok tracks but the rest "filler". I maybe being a bit harsh but the quality of the vinyl when it first came out was crap and hearing the title track in concert so many times over the years has been really off-putting for me. Yes MD....I like From a Dead Beat, and The Chequered Flag. Salamander is ok, nice sounding acoustic guitars. David Palmer's sax solo in "From a Dead Beat.." is sublime. For someone not renowned for playing the sax, it's awesome I took my initial copy back to Landau's in Sutton and got a replacement copy which wasn't much better ; I think that '76 was a bad era for the plastics industry. Or I could have just been plain unlucky
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 22, 2021 2:21:44 GMT
As far from Landau's in Sutton is from Tempo records in Denver, Colorado...I had to bring back 2 copies of TOTRARTYTD, vinyl, to get one that played on my average but not at fault turntable, back in 1976
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Post by rredmond on Nov 22, 2021 18:49:32 GMT
I don't know, the older I get, the more I like the title track.
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