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Post by steelmonkey on May 25, 2009 22:20:36 GMT
My Sunday Feeling - 10 A New Day Yesterday - 10 With You There To Help Me - 18 Aqualung - 10 Thick as a Brick (opening section - not the whole side, that isn't fair on the others) - 14 A Passion Play - (1-Lifebeats) - 13-not just the heartbeats..the tiger toon till the vocals War Child - 11 Minstrel In The Gallery - 10 Quizz Kid - 10 Songs From The Wood - 18 ...And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps - 10 North Sea Oil - 9 Crossfire - 10 Beastie - 10 Fly By Night - 13 Lap of Luxury - 06 Steel Monkey - 10 Kissing Willie - 3 This Is Not Love - 5 Roots To Branches - 08 In A Stone Circle - 09 Spiral - 4 The Secret Language Of Birds - 9 Birthday Card at Christmas - 10 Calliandra Shade (The Cappuccino Song) - 10
It's really too hard, nay, impossible to pick a best opening song...I'm voting more to trash 'This is not Good' than to settle on a best first song...so i voted for War Child today...alothough it is no better that 'SFTW, Minstrel, With You there, Aqualung .. or the first sections of Brick and Play, as an opening song
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Post by nonrabbit on May 25, 2009 23:06:20 GMT
My Sunday Feeling - 10 A New Day Yesterday - 10 With You There To Help Me - 19 Aqualung - 10 Thick as a Brick (opening section - not the whole side, that isn't fair on the others) - 14 A Passion Play - (1-Lifebeats) - 13-not just the heartbeats..the tiger toon till the vocals War Child - 11 Minstrel In The Gallery - 10 Quizz Kid - 10 Songs From The Wood - 18 ...And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps - 10 North Sea Oil - 9 Crossfire - 10 Beastie - 10 Fly By Night - 13 Lap of Luxury - 06 Steel Monkey - 10 Kissing Willie - 2 This Is Not Love - 5 Roots To Branches - 08 In A Stone Circle - 09 Spiral - 4 The Secret Language Of Birds - 9 Birthday Card at Christmas - 10 Calliandra Shade (The Cappuccino Song) - 10 I've just noticed that it's 5 mins past midnight UK time - so I missed yesterdays but it won't matter really WYTTHPM is a winner
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Post by tullistray on May 26, 2009 1:34:36 GMT
My Sunday Feeling - 10 A New Day Yesterday - 10 With You There To Help Me - 19 Aqualung - 10 Thick as a Brick (opening section - not the whole side, that isn't fair on the others) - 15 A Passion Play - (1-Lifebeats) - 13-not just the heartbeats..the tiger toon till the vocals War Child - 11 Minstrel In The Gallery - 10 Quizz Kid - 10 Songs From The Wood - 18 ...And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps - 10 North Sea Oil - 9 Crossfire - 10 Beastie - 10 Fly By Night - 13 Lap of Luxury - 05 Steel Monkey - 10 Kissing Willie - 2 This Is Not Love - 5 Roots To Branches - 08 In A Stone Circle - 09 Spiral - 4 The Secret Language Of Birds - 9 Birthday Card at Christmas - 10 Calliandra Shade (The Cappuccino Song) - 10
So many on either end merit inclusion. But for me TAAB, all of it, including those weird first 5 min of Side 2 nearly trump the entire catalogue, I would mark the last 17 min of Brick Tull's finest moment, and, though its often thought the entire thing was played in 72, it wasn't, though it took a good hour, roughly ten minutes of side 2 was not played, re In the clear white circles...maybe Tull can rectify that and only play those minutes next time? No, didn't think so. WYTTHM such an excellent choice, so evocative and nostalgic for me. And hearing them resuccitate that and Beggars Farm in 92 certainly got my fist in the air. For all the extraordinary stuff you can find on the net, I would love a film of Ian in the recording studio recording that frightening laughter heard at the beginning or end. Or maybe he enlisted Jeffrey for the job who was never credited, sounds very down his street.
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Post by fatman on May 26, 2009 5:39:11 GMT
My Sunday Feeling - 10 A New Day Yesterday - 10 With You There To Help Me - 18 Aqualung - 10 Thick as a Brick (opening section - not the whole side, that isn't fair on the others) - 14 A Passion Play - (1-Lifebeats) - 13-not just the heartbeats..the tiger toon till the vocals War Child - 11 Minstrel In The Gallery - 10 Quizz Kid - 10 Songs From The Wood - 18 ...And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps - 10 North Sea Oil - 9 Crossfire - 10 Beastie - 10 Fly By Night - 13 Lap of Luxury - 06 Steel Monkey - 10 Kissing Willie - 3 This Is Not Love - 5 Roots To Branches - 08 In A Stone Circle - 09 Spiral - 4 The Secret Language Of Birds - 9 Birthday Card at Christmas - 10 Calliandra Shade (The Cappuccino Song) - 10 It's really too hard, nay, impossible to pick a best opening song...I'm voting more to trash 'This is not Good' than to settle on a best first song...so i voted for War Child today...alothough it is no better that 'SFTW, Minstrel, With You there, Aqualung .. or the first sections of Brick and Play, as an opening song Awhile ago there was some talk about Catfish being a really good album, but as you point out, This is not Love is pretty bad and so is Doctor to My Disease. (Maybe not bad, but very ordinary and below Tull's usual standards....another attempt by Ian to get airplay by using a catchy pop song to open an album.) When you add to that Sparrow on the Schoolyard Wall, Still Loving you Tonight and Fatman retread Tall Thin Girl, the picture is not very pretty. However, Rocks on the Road is excellent, Thinking Round Corners very original, and everything from White Innocence to When Jesus Came to Play is where the album really shines. (I'm not one of those who subscribes to the notion that White Innocence is a carbon copy of Budapest; there are lyrical parallels of course, but the two songs are quite different musically and both are excellent.) The verdict on Catfish -- not nearly Tull's worst -- that distinction belongs to Broadsword -- but in the third (i.e., bottom) tier of all Tull albums. Jeff
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Post by maddogfagin on May 26, 2009 9:18:13 GMT
My Sunday Feeling - 10 A New Day Yesterday - 10 With You There To Help Me - 20 Aqualung - 10 Thick as a Brick (opening section - not the whole side, that isn't fair on the others) - 15 A Passion Play - (1-Lifebeats) - 13-not just the heartbeats..the tiger toon till the vocals War Child - 11 Minstrel In The Gallery - 10 Quizz Kid - 10 Songs From The Wood - 18 ...And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps - 10 North Sea Oil - 9 Crossfire - 10 Beastie - 10 Fly By Night - 13 Lap of Luxury - 05 Steel Monkey - 10 Kissing Willie - 1 This Is Not Love - 5 Roots To Branches - 08 In A Stone Circle - 09 Spiral - 4 The Secret Language Of Birds - 9 Birthday Card at Christmas - 10 Calliandra Shade (The Cappuccino Song) - 10
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