A PASSION PLAY

Jethro Tull: A Passion Play Well, after listening to Thick as a Brick a million times and really enjoying it, I can not say the say for A Passion Play. It has basically the same concept- a long song-theme roughly divided into "movement". However, I found TAAB to be full of great riffs, memorable lyrics and themes, and "hummable" parts. I can't say the same about Passion Play. It just has never really clicked with me after many tries to get into it. It just doesn't "grab" me with anything. Is it just too prog for my tastes. Maybe. I love almost everything else that Tull have done. This album just leaves me cold. It is, without a doubt, an eclectic prog album with tons of nuaces and variables, but I just can't seem to appreciate it. I put the CD on every now and then but it seems to slip by without really registering with me in any way. The the Owl spectacle story just plain ANNOYS the heck out of me!!!!! Sorry, Tull, only 2 stars on this one. 1 for musicianship and one for the cojones it took to make this thing.