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Post by acreman on Oct 5, 2020 10:53:43 GMT
Have you ever been listening to a Tull album and thought that you would've ordered the tracks differently if it had been up to you? Perhaps you'd have gone with a different opener or closer--or rearranged the songs entirely. Here are a couple of examples for me:
Roots to Branches -- This is one of my favorite Tull albums, and I like every track on it. I just don't particularly like how it's paced, with two eight-minute epics right in a row, and with the whole second half of the album occupied by softer/slower material. I might have tried to mix things up a little more, perhaps like this:
Roots to Branches Rare and Precious Chain Beside Myself Valley Stuck in the August Rain Out of the Noise This Free Will Wounded, Old and Treacherous Dangerous Veils Another Harry's Bar At Last, Forever
Bursting Out -- This is more of a setlist issue, of course. The album gets off to an incredible start with super-intense renditions of No Lullaby and Sweet Dream...and then all of that comes to an abrupt half for three softer songs. All three of those songs are great, and they were performed wonderfully. I just wish the band had kept that rockin' momentum going for a little longer before getting to the slower stuff.
Those are the only "major" examples for me. I might not have placed Roll Yer Own and Rocks on the Road right next to each other on the Catfish Rising CD, as they sound fairly similar to me. Along those lines, I might not have put Mountain Men right after Budapest since its opening melody reminds me of Budapest's main one. But the idea in those cases might been that the similarities benefitted the flow of the albums.
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Post by huckleberryflynn on Oct 16, 2020 13:34:19 GMT
Hi Acreman, never really thought about this - Tull albums always seem to flow well. I'd probably have started Stand Up with "Nothing is Easy" - swapped places with New Day Yesterday
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 16, 2020 15:36:19 GMT
Hi Acreman, never really thought about this - Tull albums always seem to flow well. I'd probably have started Stand Up with "Nothing is Easy" - swapped places with New Day Yesterday Good call imo regarding Nothing is Easy on Stand Up and also as a fan of Wild Turkey and especially Blodwyn Pig. And, as a new member, welcome to the JT Forum
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Post by acreman on Oct 16, 2020 21:42:56 GMT
Hi Acreman, never really thought about this - Tull albums always seem to flow well. I'd probably have started Stand Up with "Nothing is Easy" - swapped places with New Day Yesterday With the way it ends, Nothing Is Easy might have been a good choice to close out a side too. And welcome to the forum, huck!
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 19, 2020 0:55:40 GMT
I think a lot of Tull albums start with a purposely weaker cut ( North Sea Oil, Mouse Police, This is not Love, Lap of Luxury, Kissing Willie, Spiral)….not a bad strategy if you can trust a listener or reviewer to stay the whole course, why lead with the main event, after all...but in the age of short attention spans and quick verdicts, I think Tull are better served by strong first cuts like War Child, SFTW and Minstrel in the Gallery. Turns out, their communications to me asking for advice have uniformly gone lost in the mail.
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Post by tullabye on Oct 19, 2020 5:51:58 GMT
Hi Acreman, never really thought about this - Tull albums always seem to flow well. I'd probably have started Stand Up with "Nothing is Easy" - swapped places with New Day Yesterday With the way it ends, Nothing Is Easy might have been a good choice to close out a side too. And welcome to the forum, huck! Every song on Stand Up is great. It is one that doesn’t need tweaking. IMO the opening songs on every album until Warchild were incredible. Warchild, Broadsword, Catfish, Under Wraps, Rock Island and possibly Horses all could have had better choices.
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Post by Jack -A- Lynn on Oct 19, 2020 6:46:23 GMT
Hi Acreman, never really thought about this - Tull albums always seem to flow well. I'd probably have started Stand Up with "Nothing is Easy" - swapped places with New Day Yesterday Welcome huckleberryflynn!!!
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Post by acreman on Oct 19, 2020 11:11:36 GMT
Ian might've thought of some of these openers as easily accessible gateways to the rest of the material. He has mentioned writing a number of them (Lap of Luxury, Spiral, etc.) with commercial appeal in mind.
I think pretty much all of Tull's opening tracks do a great job kicking off their respective albums. Perhaps Crossfire is a bit lackluster as an opener, though it's a very good song in general.
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 19, 2020 18:56:48 GMT
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