I agree. Under Wraps is quite good, but very far from the traditional Tull sound, which I think is the reason why not very many people like it. However, on it has it's own merits, and as you said, there are great songs in that album. 

Aqualung

Thick

Minstrel

Too old

Songs

Horses

Bursting

 

Glad to see some folks giving Too Old some props, often overlooked

 

And, Under Wraps deserves a ton more credit than it gets (which is often none).  Plenty of clunkers on there, but some great songs as well.  And for all of Anderson's faults, JT did at times actually progress and try new things.

TAAB

Songs from the Wood

Passon Play

Aqualung

Minstrel in the Gallery

 

I like some of the others, but I've managed to get by without them.

2. Songs from the Wood

3. A Passion Play

4. Heavy Horses

5. Crest of a Knave

6. Minstrel in the Gallery

7. Rock Island

8. Aqualung

9. Roots to Branches

 

and there my list ends ... I donīt own and really know the other albums

TAAB

A Passion Play

Aqualung

Benefit

Minstrel in the Gallery

with Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses right behind.

 

Stand Up

Living In the Past

Thick As Brick

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I haven't yet heard the Jethro Tull Christmas album, or Stormwatch, Under Wraps, and anything after Crest of a Knave except the very good J-Tull Dot Com.

 

1. Aqualung

2. Stand Up

3. Thick as a Brick

4. Songs from the Wood

5. Minstrel in the Gallery1/2

6. Living in the Past (the unreleased material is a single great album in and of itself)

7. A Passion Play

8. Heavy Horses

9. War Child1/2

10. Stormwatch1/2

2 Songs From the Wood

3 Thick as a Brick

4 Heavy Horses

5 Minstrel in the Gallery

 

Crest of a Knave is awful, I don't like War Child, Broadsword, A Passion Play or Too Old to Rock and Roll very much, and the early bluesy stuff before Aqualung is good but not really what I listen to.

TAAB-obviously

A Passion Play 

Minstrel in the Gallery

Heavy Horses

Songs From the Wood

Aqualung

Stand Up

Benefit

Warchild

Crest of a Knave

Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll; Too Young to Die

Broadsword and the Beast

 

My god is Jethro Tull finished? 

 

  It's breaking me up,

 no requiem, no elegy

  for prog's pease cod pied piper

gold tipped boots, black jacketed

   minstral in the gallery

  

 

 This was Jethro Tull,

singing all day rhythym in gold 

the whistler bold Jack-in- the-Green

 like a cold wind to Vallalla

last seen raising steam

 

skating away on the thin ice of a new day

caroling another Christmas Song

later that same evening

when Jesus came to play

Hyme 43, the rainbow blues

 

 

If Jesus saves -- well, He'd better save Himself
from the gory glory seekers who use His name in death.

 

By the fire at midnight

my Baker St. Muse

His locomotive breath raising steam

pistons scraping

 songs from the woods

 

His cross was rather bloody

he could hardly roll his stone

Oh Save Me Ian!

He said, "My names the teacher."

Roll Your Own...

 

 

 

 

 

My God!  It's the Baker St. Muse

 

 

songs form the woods

 

 

 

 

Aqualung

Minstrel in the Gallery

Stand Up

Songs From the Wood

Aqualung is a for sure 5 star

many other awesome albums

I love their whole catalogue

even Under Wraps is OK 

 

Heavy Horses

Songs From the Wood

Thick as a Brick

Benefit

Bursting Out

Minstrel in the Gallery

Aqualung

Stand Up

Passion Play

Stormwatch

Thick as a brick (particularly side 1)

Minstrel in the gallery

 

Bubbling under:

 

Stormwatch

Nightcap

After studding their music and researching their influences for so many years, I think I understand their music very well, and appreciate the contents, orchestration, composition, etc.

For very personal reasons (mainly personal taste), my list is as follows:

Stand Up

A Passion Play

Minstrel in theGallery

Thick as a Brick

Songs from the Woods

Roots to Branches  

Aqualung

Crest of a Knave

The rest are also great albums, including the infamous Underwraps, and are not very far from the top ones. Again, this comes from a very dedicated Tull fan, so if I'm biased towards Tull's music, it's quite understandable. 

2. Songs From The Wood

3. Minstrel In the Gallery

4. Benefit (highly underrated)

5. Living In the Past

6. Thick as a Brick (somewhat overrated)

My top 5:

 

 A Passion Play

 Thick as a Brick

 Songs From the Wood

+ Heavy Horses

+ Minstrel in the Gallery

 

 

I find Too old to Rock and Roll a bit underrated and TaaB a bit overrated instead.

One that I really like is Bursting Out but I think the thread is about studio albums only

A Passion Play

Benefit

Thick As A Brick

Aqualung

Stand Up

Heavy Horses

Songs From The Woods

Minstrel In The Gallery

War Child

Too Old To Rock'n Roll ...

I break out Song from the Woods in December....Yeah I know Ian's got an x-mas LP.   On the shortest day of the year I always Ring Out Soltice Bells.

 

I listen to Heavy Horses  as the leaden winter opens, and while the  moths suididal came every November...Benefit  cry's me a song in  cruel April. 

 

  Minstral in the Gallery , and it's back to school in September with the Baker St. Muse.  Thick as a Brick wishes me happy birthday in Feb. ( I met Ian Anderson in 87'....He signed my girlfriends shoes. "Your new shoes are worn at the heels." Ian Anderson

  

 August is the month I spit out pieces of my broken luck along with Aqualung.   In the month on June I'm Living in the Past.

 

Passion Play gets played in July, and I make a specticle out of myself laughing at owl, newt, and kangaroo argue about Hare's specticles.   And  of course  I Stand Up and march through March.

 

 

but seriously..

Aqualung

thick as a Brick

Minstrel in the Gallery

top 3 for me