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Post by Equus on Oct 1, 2014 19:36:36 GMT
I won't quote you, Equus, so this doesn't get unnecessarily big, also I'll try to shorten the story as much as I can as it's totally unrelated... six years ago, I was travelling around Europe with some friends. At a train station in Paris, we met two cousins (one of them who were going to start travelling but didn't know where to go. We told them to join us and strangely enough they did (we were four guys, they were two girls... nothing to fear from us though!). We still keep in touch after all this time! Concerning Martin and Florian, both are great, it's just that I'm still rather young and had never seen Tull before, so I was really hoping to see Martin and not only Ian. Still, the concert was amazing, a dream come true. Anyway I'll ask you how the concert was in a month, it'll be nice to see Martin taking the spotlight for once! Most of the time, out of sight, results in out of mind... I hope the best when it comes to the concert with Martin, and band, and we'll talk about my perception of that in a month... I became a Jethro Tull fan in 1980, so I misted seeing the Stormwatch lineup...
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Post by Equus on Oct 2, 2014 6:23:42 GMT
Not what I would call a very political correct song... I lived in America for a year, a long, long time ago... 81/82... Mason City Iowa, and though I love America... Let there be no doubt about that... One thing that I found extremely annoying, was that people would almost always start a conversation with me like this: "Oh... You're so skinny...!" Maybe Ian had the same problem, and finally had enough, and wrote this song... In rage against this very unwelcome tradition... I guess that it would be equally annoying if people would come up to someone and say: "Oh... You're so fat...!" Sorry America... It can't always be positive...
Fat Man:
Don't want to be a fat man, people would think that I was just good fun. Would rather be a thin man, I am so glad to go on being one. Too much to carry around with you, no chance of finding a woman who will love you in the morning and all the night time too.
Don't want to be a fat man, have not the patience to ignore all that. Hate to admit to myself half of my problems came from being fat. Won't waste my time feeling sorry for him, I seen the other side to being thin. Roll us both down a mountain and I'm sure the fat man would win.
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Post by Equus on Oct 2, 2014 9:54:57 GMT
Life Is A Long Song:
When you're falling awake and you take stock of the new day, and you hear your voice croak as you choke on what you need to say, well, don't you fret, don't you fear, I will give you good cheer.
Life's a long song. Life's a long song. Life's a long song.
If you wait then your plate I will fill.
As the verses unfold and your soul suffers the long day, and the twelve o'clock gloom spins the room, you struggle on your way. Well, don't you sigh, don't you cry, lick the dust from your eye.
Life's a long song. Life's a long song. Life's a long song.
We will meet in the sweet light of dawn.
As the Baker Street train spills your pain all over your new dress, and the symphony sounds underground put you under duress, well don't you squeal as the heel grinds you under the wheel.
Life's a long song. Life's a long song. Life's a long song.
But the tune ends too soon for us all.
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Post by Equus on Oct 3, 2014 19:05:56 GMT
Okay Israel! The flag counter for Israel is now on 285! Please join the Jethro Tull Forum now! Jethro Tull forever! Love to talk to you!
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Post by Equus on Oct 3, 2014 20:01:56 GMT
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Post by Aqualung1989 on Oct 4, 2014 0:11:28 GMT
If I had to choose 5 JT songs, this would be one of them. Sometimes I like to confuse friends by showing them, let's say, this song, Serenade to a Cuckoo and one from the Broadsword album and telling them it's the same band. I've done it a few times, and their answer has always been sceptical.
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Post by Equus on Oct 4, 2014 7:48:01 GMT
If I had to choose 5 JT songs, this would be one of them. Sometimes I like to confuse friends by showing them, let's say, this song, Serenade to a Cuckoo and one from the Broadsword album and telling them it's the same band. I've done it a few times, and their answer has always been sceptical. I just found this on the internet... Seems very convincing: "This medieval-sounding folkish song is about a romp in the English countryside. The song is filled with sexual innuendo: "Never a care with your legs in the air," "Won't you have my company, yes, take it in your hand," "A young girl's fancy and an old maid's dream." There's also a concern about pregnancy: "August's rare delight may be april's fool," as August-April is 9 months, but not enough concern to stop him: "But think not of that my love, I'm tight against the seam." In the end, they sleep together after sex but he ditches her during the night: "We'll dream as lovers underneath the stars, of civilizations raging afar. Then the ragged dawn breaks on your battle scars, as you walk home cold alone upon velvet green."
www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=13174
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 4, 2014 16:05:26 GMT
Any woman who has ever asked me...'what was it like for you?' has been referred to the instrumental passage in the middle of Velvet Green...On a good day....that's what it was like for me !
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Post by Equus on Oct 4, 2014 17:31:00 GMT
I once had the start of this song as a ringtone on my mobile phone... That was the greatest ringtone I have ever had... Unfortunately I can't figure out how to install it on my new phone... Take it away!!
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Post by Aqualung1989 on Oct 5, 2014 0:13:10 GMT
I once had the start of this song as a ringtone on my mobile phone... That was the greatest ringtone I have ever had... Unfortunately I can't figure out how to install it on my new phone... Take it away!! I first heard this song in "The Very Best of Jethro Tull", a compilation that KILLED this song by excluding the middle part. I thought it was ok, nothing special. And then I found the REAL song. No words.
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Post by Equus on Oct 5, 2014 11:41:56 GMT
One Brown Mouse:
Smile your little smile take some tea with me awhile. Brush away that black cloud from your shoulder. Twitch your whiskers. Feel that you're really real. Another tea-time another day older.
Puff warm breath on your tiny hands. You wish you were a man who every day can turn another page. Behind your glass you sit and look at my ever-open book: One brown mouse sitting in a cage.
Do you wonder if I really care for you, Am I just the company you keep? Which one of us exercises on the old treadmill, Who hides his head, pretending to sleep?
Smile your little smile take some tea with me awhile. And every day we'll turn another page. Behind our glass we'll sit and look at our ever-open book: One brown mouse sitting in a cage.
The song was inspired by a poem of Robert Burns: 'To A Mouse'.
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Post by Equus on Oct 7, 2014 14:15:03 GMT
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Post by Equus on Oct 8, 2014 19:54:23 GMT
Elegy: A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person. One of the few Jethro Tull compositions who were not written by Ian Anderson. Elegy was composed by David Palmer, who now go under the name of Dee Palmer. Elegy is from the Stormwatch album, from 1979. Bassist John Glascock, suffered at this point from the effects of a cardiac infection that eventually led to his death. John plays bass on Elegy... Still missed, out of sight, but never out of mind! We still love you John! Take it away!
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Post by Equus on Oct 9, 2014 9:41:23 GMT
North Sea Oil:
Black and viscous, bound to cure blue lethargy Sugar plum petroleum for energy Tightrope, balanced payments need a small reprieve Oh, please believe we want to be in North Sea, in North Sea Oil
New found wealth sits on the shelf of yesterday Hot air balloon, inflation soon will make you pay Riggers rig and diggers dig their shallow grave But we'll be saved and what we crave is North Sea, is North Sea Oil
Prices boom in Aberdeen and London Town Ten more years to lay the fears, erase the frown Before we are all nuclear the better way Oh, let us pray, we want to stay In North Sea, in North Sea, in North Sea Oil
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Post by Aqualung1989 on Oct 9, 2014 10:49:51 GMT
North Sea Oil: Black and viscous, bound to cure blue lethargy Sugar plum petroleum for energy Tightrope, balanced payments need a small reprieve Oh, please believe we want to be in North Sea, in North Sea Oil New found wealth sits on the shelf of yesterday Hot air balloon, inflation soon will make you pay Riggers rig and diggers dig their shallow grave But we'll be saved and what we crave is North Sea, is North Sea Oil Prices boom in Aberdeen and London Town Ten more years to lay the fears, erase the frown Before we are all nuclear the better way Oh, let us pray, we want to stay In North Sea, in North Sea, in North Sea Oil Tremendously underrated album, one of my personal favourites. Almost all the songs are top notch. I remember my father telling me this was one of their last albums... but he was never a big fan (and now even less) and didn't really know much about the band.
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Post by rredmond on Oct 9, 2014 11:53:00 GMT
I definitely dig this album. On the D&D forums the Stormwatch album cover is my avatar. Pretty much across all 15 or 20 of them I belong too Shock of shockers it was already taken here when I found these boards. --Ron--
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2014 12:36:08 GMT
Love these tracks from Stormwatch: Home Dark Ages Warm Sporran Something's On The Move Old Ghosts Dun Ringill Flying Dutchman Elegy
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2014 12:39:03 GMT
Jethro Tull- Something's On The Move Aqualung1989
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 9, 2014 17:58:12 GMT
Love these tracks from Stormwatch: Home Dark Ages Warm Sporran Something's On The Move Old Ghosts Dun Ringill Flying Dutchman Elegy Love the whole album. Sincerely hope that when its turn come around for a SW revamp they don't tweek it too much.
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Post by Aqualung1989 on Oct 9, 2014 18:47:01 GMT
Love these tracks from Stormwatch: Home Dark Ages Warm Sporran Something's On The Move Old Ghosts Dun Ringill Flying Dutchman Elegy Love the whole album. Sincerely hope that when its turn come around for a SW revamp they don't tweek it too much. I'm not as fond of Warm Sporran as I am from the rest of the album. However I'm kind enough to allow Mr Anderson a little flaw
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Post by onewhiteduck on Oct 9, 2014 21:00:50 GMT
Sometimes words cannot describe how much I love a song, Flying Dutchman what more can't I say
So come all you lovers of the good life.......
OWD
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Post by Equus on Oct 9, 2014 21:29:44 GMT
Sometimes words cannot describe how much I love a song, Flying Dutchman what more can't I say So come all you lovers of the good life....... OWD And here it is again...
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Post by Aqualung1989 on Oct 9, 2014 21:47:45 GMT
Sometimes words cannot describe how much I love a song, Flying Dutchman what more can't I say So come all you lovers of the good life....... OWD And here it is again... Ah, the times when I used to upload a big part of the Tull repertoire, funny thing is that this youtube thing helped me make a good friend. And Dun Ringill? I found it dull the first time I listened to it, but after a while... damn, the song is pure magic. I don't know how Ian does it. And Old Ghosts is so elegant, and Elegy and Home are so beautiful, and Dark Ages is so... dark... and... and... Ok, time to listen to Stormwatch.
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 9, 2014 22:12:02 GMT
Top 5 Tull songs change over the years but 'Dark Ages' never drops out.
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Post by Equus on Oct 10, 2014 7:39:37 GMT
And here it is again... Ah, the times when I used to upload a big part of the Tull repertoire, funny thing is that this youtube thing helped me make a good friend. And Dun Ringill? I found it dull the first time I listened to it, but after a while... damn, the song is pure magic. I don't know how Ian does it. And Old Ghosts is so elegant, and Elegy and Home are so beautiful, and Dark Ages is so... dark... and... and... Ok, time to listen to Stormwatch. Stormwatch represents my first encounter with Jethro Tull... I remember walking past a record shop, looking at the window and the records in that window... Stormwatch caught my eye... I just couldn't help staring back at the man staring at me... The image stayed with me, but I didn't act on it... So it was about a year later that a friend of mine borrowed me the devine: "With Kitchen Prose, Gutter Rhymes, and Divers Songs from the Wood..." Later I discovered that the man staring at me was Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull... I love Stormwatch... It's thunderous amazing, and quietly beautiful... I really haven't got words to describe it...
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Post by rredmond on Oct 10, 2014 10:14:35 GMT
I found Stormwatch in my public library! I remember the cover of the vinyl record (yup) spoke to me as a young Long Islander. Weird that I'm just remembering that. I didn't get into Tull until college, but definitely listened to this album years before. Nice!
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 10, 2014 10:31:13 GMT
I found Stormwatch in my public library! I remember the cover of the vinyl record (yup) spoke to me as a young Long Islander. Weird that I'm just remembering that. I didn't get into Tull until college, but definitely listened to this album years before. Nice! Can't remember the exact circumstances about getting Stormwatch. Probably saw an advert for it in Melody Maker or Sounds and then went to Landau's Records in Sutton and bought it during my lunch break. I do remember its dark and brooding music not being what I'd expected after SFTW and HH but loved it from day 1 all the same, never realising it would be the final album by one of the classic line ups of the band.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2014 14:29:21 GMT
Elegy: A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person. One of the few Jethro Tull compositions who were not written by Ian Anderson. Elegy was composed by David Palmer, who now go under the name of Dee Palmer. Elegy is from the Stormwatch album, from 1979. Bassist John Glascock, suffered at this point from the effects of a cardiac infection that eventually led to his death. John plays bass on Elegy... Still missed, out of sight, but never out of mind! We still love you John! Take it away! Elegy - Jethro Tull nimfa130 Published on Oct 9, 2014
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Post by Aqualung1989 on Oct 10, 2014 14:46:48 GMT
Ah, the times when I used to upload a big part of the Tull repertoire, funny thing is that this youtube thing helped me make a good friend. And Dun Ringill? I found it dull the first time I listened to it, but after a while... damn, the song is pure magic. I don't know how Ian does it. And Old Ghosts is so elegant, and Elegy and Home are so beautiful, and Dark Ages is so... dark... and... and... Ok, time to listen to Stormwatch. Stormwatch represents my first encounter with Jethro Tull... I remember walking past a record shop, looking at the window and the records in that window... Stormwatch caught my eye... I just couldn't help staring back at the man staring at me... The image stayed with me, but I didn't act on it... So it was about a year later that a friend of mine borrowed me the devine: "With Kitchen Prose, Gutter Rhymes, and Divers Songs from the Wood..." Later I discovered that the man staring at me was Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull... I love Stormwatch... It's thunderous amazing, and quietly beautiful... I really haven't got words to describe it... My first time with Tull was much more unoriginal (because of the first album I listened to, I mean). My mother got for free, I have no idea how, a whole collection of CDs that came with a Spanish newspaper about ten years ago. I had a look at them and liked the cover picture of Aqualung... you can imagine the rest. As I actually didn't listen to much music at the time, there was plenty of stuff to discover; thanks to that colletion I found out about the existence of The Alan Parsons Project, Al Stewart and Eric Clapton, too. And Stormwatch... years ago, I used to babysit a bit. I'd spend all the money on CDs, mainly Jethro Tull, The Alan Parsons Project and Iron Maiden. Stormwatch was one of the first I bought.
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 10, 2014 17:56:21 GMT
Childcare and Tull...my first exposure ever to Tull was looking thru some grown up record albums while babysitting...found TAAB...used the money i earned that night to buy the album two days later.
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