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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 3, 2016 15:49:13 GMT
Don't think we've ever done this- in a thread anyway. It's interesting to read the negative as well as the gushing. I just came across the music critic Robert Christgau WikiHe's never really had much good to say about Tull over the years but then he says he's not a fan of prog so I suppose it kind of follows. He also has a scoring system. "Stand Up [Reprise, 1969] People who like the group think this is a great album. I don't like the group. I think it is an adequate album. B" More here from a 1972 article; www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Jethro+Tull The Tull Perplex- 1972" If Jethro Tull can be categorized at all, it is as a supercommercial Mothers of Invention." www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-aow/tull.php
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 3, 2016 16:10:45 GMT
I have always liked his deescription of Ian as the kind of guy you would love to meet in a small town but might have to ditch in the big city.
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 3, 2016 16:16:34 GMT
Despite Christgau's Tull blind spot that you could drive a tractor through, and other similar, uninformed, knee-jerk reactions to many of my favorites...I have always liked his writing, The guy does care.
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Post by JTull 007 on Sept 3, 2016 16:27:07 GMT
Don't think we've ever done this- in a thread anyway. It's interesting to read the negative as well as the gushing. I just came across the music critic Robert Christgau WikiHe's never really had much good to say about Tull over the years but then he says he's not a fan of prog so I suppose it kind of follows. He also has a scoring system The Tull Perplex- 1972" If Jethro Tull can be categorized at all, it is as a supercommercial Mothers of Invention." www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-aow/tull.php Yet Anderson is careful to give the audience its all-important money's worth. If the people pay for weird, he will be weird for a while. If they pay for heavy, he will program in one of those tedious unaccompanied solos. If they pay for rock, he will include several of the brilliant, intricate, hard-driving passages that are well within his reach as a composer and his band's reach as technicians. If they pay for meaning, he will perform religious commentary like "Aqualung" and "Windup."
Interesting points in this article. I've always felt there were times when the solos lasted too long. I'm glad to have been there and enjoyed every moment, but some people have short attention spans. Am I still gushing?
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 3, 2016 19:01:08 GMT
I have always liked his deescription of Ian as the kind of guy you would love to meet in a small town but might have to ditch in the big city. spot on
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