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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 21, 2008 4:27:52 GMT
For those of you who are too impatient to await the scientific results of our communal poll of great Tull Songs...i am going to generously cut to the chase and list the two best songs on each Tull album. Controversy expected and respected....to paraphrase from the greatest Tull work of all time: " yours is the right to be wrong" !
This Was: Someday the Sun Won't Shine for You and My Sunday Feeling Stand Up: Nothing is Easy and We Used to Know Benefit: With You There to Help Me and Cry You a Song Aqualung: Aqualung and Locomotive Breath War Child: Skating Away and Back Door Angels Minstrel: Baker Street Muse and Minstrel Too Old: Big Dipper and Crazed Institution Songs: Velvet Green and Songs From The Wood HH: Acres Wild and Heavy Horses Stormwatch: Dark Ages and Dun Ringhill A: Black Sunday and Crossfire Under Wraps: European Legacy and Under WrapsII Broadsword: Seal Driver and The Clasp Crest: Budapest and Jump Start Rock Island: Whaler's Dues and Strange Avenues Catfish: White Innocence and Jesus Came to Play Roots: Harry's Bar and This Free Will Dot Com: Bends Like a Willow and Dot Com
Five hardest Omissions: My God, War Child, Pussy Willow, At Last Forever and Rock Island
Five Best non-Album Tracks: Up the Pool, Jack-a Lynn, Scenario, Man of Principle and Look at the Animals
Five Best IA Solo Songs: Fly By Night, Black and White Television, Sanctuary, SLOBII and Lost in Crowds
Four More Honourable Mentions: Wondering Aloud, Dun Ringhill, Farm on the Freeway, Orion .
Three Desert Island Discs: Thick as a Brick, Passion Play and Minstrel
Two Songs That Only Made it by being on Weak Albums: Crazed Institution and Crossfire
Second best song ever: Thick as a Brick
Grand Prize; A Passion Play
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Post by tommie on Dec 21, 2008 11:06:44 GMT
Great choices, Steel. And, more importantly, a much better idea and much funner since there aew so many albums and so much more material to choose from. And faster than going album to album. That's boring, loooong and bloody repetitious.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 4, 2009 18:48:28 GMT
As of today, I'm gonna quit voting...so I can sit back and watch and say 'I told' you so without having a thumb in the experiment...so far, my sneak preview has been pretty close...why would you go through all this trouble when you can just ask humble, little me? Have I ever been shy or cryptic in telling you which songs you should like and which you shouldn't? Thank God i have a kid who has taught me how to deal with stubborn know-it-alls!
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Post by rebecca on Jan 5, 2009 3:03:22 GMT
Yeah, yeah, we'll see how long this lasts.
You realize, of course, that if you sit out this is going to take at least one day longer per album.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 9, 2009 19:04:40 GMT
My Bad ( annoying Americanism #11) I forgot Life's a long song' is on LITP...make that and Up the pool, with Sweet dreams close behind, the best song!
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 15, 2009 0:31:58 GMT
Just thought it was time to bring this thread to the surface to remind you how much time and electrons we could have saved by simply ratifying my correct choices to begin with...jeez...you people!
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Post by fatman on Feb 15, 2009 2:53:08 GMT
For those of you who are too impatient to await the scientific results of our communal poll of great Tull Songs...i am going to generously cut to the chase and list the two best songs on each Tull album. Controversy expected and respected....to paraphrase from the greatest Tull work of all time: " yours is the right to be wrong" ! Two Songs That Only Made it by being on Weak Albums: Crazed Institution and Crossfire You know I love ya, Bernie, but neither TOTRNR nor A are "weak" albums. (Unfortunately you have fallen victim to that common misconception ;D.) TOTRNR was one of Tull's most original albums, and certainly the quirkiest, with some really odd, yet interesting touches, and the best cover and liner art of any Tull album, an entire cartoon and perceptive social commentary, and Ian even coined a phrase! A was one of Tull's strongest and most powerful albums, the last real heavyweight Tull album in my opinion, ranking around #7 or 8 in my Tull pantheon. The album was menancing, frightening and truly effective in accomplishing what it set out to do. Plus, it suddenly seems so relevant again. And Further On sends chills down my spine: 'We saw the heavens break, and all the world go down to sleep.' I was in NYC, less than a mile away from the World Trade Center the morning of 9/11, over 20 years after the song was written, and I saw the World Trade Center go down to sleep. Jeff
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 15, 2009 4:04:37 GMT
Don't get me wrong...I love both albums no end and can't disagree with any of the positive stuff you say about a and too old...everything is relative and i don't have either in league with passion play, brick or minstrel.....black sunday is, hands down, by miles...the Tull song i have heard most in my life...in about 1982 i developed my pre-work stretching routine to the tune of Black Sunday and listened to that song every single workday morning for over 20 f**kin' years....it's still my pre-bike tullercise on the 3 mornings a week i ride to work....and i'm not sick of it....i even watch an occaissonal live black sunday on you tube despite what should be enough of that song to last forever......anyway...I guess i do have a TOTRNR blindspot...it's the only album so far where one of my top two hasn't won....who's your daddy?
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Post by fatman on Feb 15, 2009 5:48:51 GMT
Don't get me wrong...I love both albums no end and can't disagree with any of the positive stuff you say about a and too old...everything is relative and i don't have either in league with passion play, brick or minstrel.....black sunday is, hands down, by miles...the Tull song i have heard most in my life...in about 1982 i developed my pre-work stretching routine to the tune of Black Sunday and listened to that song every single workday morning for over 20 f**kin' years....it's still my pre-bike tullercise on the 3 mornings a week i ride to work....and i'm not sick of it....i even watch an occaissonal live black sunday on you tube despite what should be enough of that song to last forever......anyway...I guess i do have a TOTRNR blindspot...it's the only album so far where one of my top two hasn't won....who's your daddy? I wouldn't quite place those albums in the top tier either, but they are solid middle tier Tull albums, and A is vastly underrated. Personally, I place Broadsword and Catfish at the very bottom. I would say the same about Rock Island too if the accompanying tour hadn't been so freakin great. But the record contains some pretty weak Tull material like Kissing Willie, The Rattlesnake Trail (so annoying) and Undressed to Kill. Jeff
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Post by steelmonkey on Feb 15, 2009 16:18:15 GMT
The Rock island Tour was amazing...the brilliant surprise of starting with a steroid version of Strange Avenues...the preponderance of new material.....the energy and feel of it as a presentation of the latest work with 'greatest hits' as an afterthought....oh the good old days...except for part of the Roots tour which had a good dose of new songs...those days of new tour to feature new album seem long gone. Allcock was such a healthy dose of livelyness and rock and roll...they were so hot when Maart grabbed a stringed ax and joined Peggy and Barre up front.
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Post by steelmonkey on May 2, 2009 4:23:25 GMT
Some Day The Sun Won't Shine For You - Got this one We Used To Know - and this one With You There To Help Me - and this one Aqualung - too easy Thick As A Brick - yes, I'll count this Passion Play - and this Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day - I got this one Baker St Muse - and this one Life's A Long Song - I didn't include LITP at first but then called this in a later post (1-9-09) Pied Piper - First song I didn't predict...your fault, really Songs From The Wood - this one, I got Heavy Horses - Score me a point on this one Dark Ages - too easy...of course I got this Black Sunday - see above Slow Marching Band - You saps Later That Same Evening - I can tolerate this choice...but that doesn't make it right Farm On The Freeway - eee-diots---Budapest is the best non-epic Tull song ever..I did give FOTF an honorable mention Ears Of Tin - yeah....you have ears of tin to choose this one Rocks On The Road - I was wrong...you are right...this is the best song Summerday Sands - This is a great song...I didn't consider it in conjunction with any album. Jack A Lynn - I gave this a 'best non-album' mention...so I get a point Critique Oblique - this just re-affirms Passion Play votes Broadford Bazzar - this song has no bizness on this list Roots To Branches - you losers The Dog-Eared Years - see above First Snow On Brooklyn - refused to consider this album Lost In Crowds - mentioned this as best of solo I.A. Circular Breathing - Go listen to SLOB II till you get this right In The Pay Of Spain - didn't do divinities Looking For Eden - not in MY I.A. top 5
See....we could have saved all those electrons by just endorsing my list !
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Post by rebecca on May 2, 2009 6:15:41 GMT
Some Day The Sun Won't Shine For You - Got this one We Used To Know - and this one With You There To Help Me - and this one Aqualung - too easy Thick As A Brick - yes, I'll count this Passion Play - and this Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day - I got this one Baker St Muse - and this one Life's A Long Song - I didn't include LITP at first but then called this in a later post (1-9-09) Pied Piper - First song I didn't predict...your fault, really Songs From The Wood - this one, I got Heavy Horses - Score me a point on this one Dark Ages - too easy...of course I got this Black Sunday - see above Slow Marching Band - You saps Later That Same Evening - I can tolerate this choice...but that doesn't make it right Farm On The Freeway - eee-diots---Budapest is the best non-epic Tull song ever..I did give FOTF an honorable mention Ears Of Tin - yeah....you have ears of tin to choose this one Rocks On The Road - I was wrong...you are right...this is the best song Summerday Sands - This is a great song...I didn't consider it in conjunction with any album. Jack A Lynn - I gave this a 'best non-album' mention...so I get a point Critique Oblique - this just re-affirms Passion Play votes Broadford Bazzar - this song has no bizness on this list Roots To Branches - you losers The Dog-Eared Years - see above First Snow On Brooklyn - refused to consider this album Lost In Crowds - mentioned this as best of solo I.A. Circular Breathing - Go listen to SLOB II till you get this right In The Pay Of Spain - didn't do divinities Looking For Eden - not in MY I.A. top 5 See....we could have saved all those electrons by just endorsing my list ! Well, okay, you weren't completely off!
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Post by steelmonkey on May 2, 2009 16:35:46 GMT
Gee Rebecca, talk about faint praise!
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Post by rebecca on May 2, 2009 17:10:07 GMT
Sure, buddy, anytime! ;D
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Post by steelmonkey on May 2, 2009 17:57:31 GMT
I could track you down, out there in the briar country, tie you up and expose you to never ending tape loop of: Stitch in Time, Automotive, Science and engineering, 17, another Xmas song and 12 versions of Bouree....
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Post by rebecca on May 3, 2009 1:12:50 GMT
I kind of got distracted by "tie you up and expose you," but I'm pretty sure there's a crime in there somewhere!
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