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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 16, 2009 6:58:42 GMT
Not an easy one by any means............ and give reasons why if you can (if it's too difficult to list three at once - come back later) To Cry You A Song - lyrics mean't a lot to me
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 16, 2009 17:36:45 GMT
they tend to change weekly Budapest - an IA classic Pibroch (Cap in Hand) - monumental MB guitar Life Is A Long Song - memories But tomorrow it may be different. . . . . .
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Post by snaffler on Oct 16, 2009 19:51:04 GMT
at present its the ones i'm playing on my little martin travel guitar, so its dun ringill, life is a long song, cheap day return......but it may revert to salamander, up the pool and weathercock...or one brown mouse, velvet green or fat man....all depends on what i'm playing on my guitar. but generally i like the acoustic stuff more because i can play it (or rather pale imitations of the great mans work!)
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Post by coolraven on Oct 16, 2009 19:51:07 GMT
Jack-A-Lynne, sweetest love song I have heard, and Ian does not really do love songs. Heavy Horses, atmospheric, what Tull is all about. And Further On, that's the one for my burial service (not for a few years yet I hope)
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 16, 2009 20:40:14 GMT
Tough question...and i'll assume, as usual in these kind of discussions that we are ruling out the epics..(Brick,Play, Muse) so which three songs? Black Sunday by default...the soundtrack to my daily stretches and part of my secret of good health....Locomotive Breath...cuz trains are so cool and rock n roll train songs (lyrics and sound of the train coming down the tracks) are sooo important and L.B. is so great anyway...and...and...hmmmm..Steel Monkey cuz that's what i was called in my bike messenger days.
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 16, 2009 20:49:56 GMT
at present its the ones i'm playing on my little martin travel guitar, so its dun ringill, life is a long song, cheap day return......but it may revert to salamander, up the pool and weathercock...or one brown mouse, velvet green or fat man....all depends on what i'm playing on my guitar. but generally i like the acoustic stuff more because i can play it (or rather pale imitations of the great mans work!) Oh yes, Fatman. Easily forgettable as a song and on other levels as well ;D. One Brown Mouse is a corker and will probably be on my portable next week. Too many to choose from
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Post by insidebenefit on Oct 16, 2009 20:58:03 GMT
Difficult not to put in TAAB as I witnessed it in Oct 78 and will never forget. As allegiance to my name then would have Inside. It sums up the band and what they were then. I'll think about the other
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Post by mix on Oct 16, 2009 21:58:36 GMT
There is too many but 3 that come to mind:
From a deadbeat Fire at midnight Strange avenues
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 17, 2009 9:00:50 GMT
To Cry You A Song
The Whistler - earthy rustic happy jaunty "knives to sharpen - pegs to sell" Tull
Wondr'ing Aloud - the morning after before the day ahead with someone you want to share it with...and about a million other things.
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Post by broadsword on Oct 17, 2009 12:17:30 GMT
Jack In The Green - it's everything to do with all things that grow, which is how I earn my living
Jump Start - got to be from the "In Concert" CD, the bit after the false ending reaches cosmic heights
Nursie - is good for whatever ails you
Ask me the same question in 10 minutes, you might get 3 different choices
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Post by salamander on Oct 17, 2009 14:31:08 GMT
Let's see....Onewhiteduck, because it seems to be my 8 month old grandson's favorite Tull song (and he doesn't mind if I sing it)...Life's a Long Song, because it keeps things in perspective for me (the tune ends too soon for us all...) and Moths, because it's a beauty!
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Post by harrowman on Oct 17, 2009 22:51:06 GMT
At the moment it would be We Used To Know- first Tull track I ever heard on the Island sampler Nice Enough to Eat. Secondly Budapest I think its just a great piece of music. Thirdly I would have to say Flying Dutchman- It really is a great song and encompasses all that is great about JT.
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Post by chea on Oct 20, 2009 14:48:15 GMT
What a difficult answer to give....Ian and J.T :-*all along the years have spaced throug many kind of sounds.They are so huge differences between the various "group"of albums,too.Think about Stand Up and Rock Island or Crest of a Knave and Roots to Branches. ;)I could say Reasons for Waiting and Sweet Dream some of my favorites.In these last days i've listened a lot Secret Language of Birds.Can't go out of my ears songs like Sanctuary(superb),Little Flower Girl or Water Carrier....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2009 2:20:24 GMT
Tough enough...
Minstrel in the Gallery One White Duck Skating Away
The Minstrel in the Gallery album would be impossible for me to live without. I can't get out. Don't want to. ;D
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Post by maxquad on Oct 21, 2009 3:54:44 GMT
I had to weigh in in this one for my first post, but it is hard to pick only 3. Here goes... Since TAAB changed my life, I have to include it. I know it is more than a simple song, so I would choose the live version from Bursting Out as my pick for a "shortened" version. As I have three very different versions of it in my Tull library, I could use one of the best Tull songs ever as the only song, and that is Jack-a-Lynn. But my favorite I think is the version I first heard from the 20th Anniversary boxed set with a great Martin solo. I never thought of it as a love song though... Lastly I would include a "new" song from the most recent album of all new Tull material, Dot Com (has it really been 10 years?!), my favorite from that CD, Wicked Windows. I hear something new every time I listen to it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2009 4:08:07 GMT
Welcome maxquad.
Although I'm not one to hero worship: Thick as A Brick changed my life, as the tour was my introduction to Tull. Free tickets offered up in 1972 for a band that I knew nothing about became a life long obsession with Tull music El Niño is my favourite from Dot Com
cheers!
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 21, 2009 7:58:16 GMT
Welcome maxquad. It one of the things in life that when listening to any Tull song I nearly always hear something different. You can't say that about a lot of groups. Listening to the extended officially released version of Coronach at the weekend I had to stop what I was doing and replay it just to listen to MB's guitar part. Monumental
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