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Gentle Giant vs Jethro Tull
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Gentle Giant. More consistent. 
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Tull.........for me...more accessible.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

This should be interesting as well as close. 
 

Right.

Gentle Giant does not have a Thick as a Brick, but Jethro Tull does not have 8 excellent albums in a row.

I pick Gentle Giant.
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Voted for Tull - Gentle Giant is a little hit or miss for me. 
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

This should be interesting as well as close. 
 

Right.

Gentle Giant does not have a Thick as a Brick, but Jethro Tull does not have 8 excellent albums in a row.

I pick Gentle Giant.


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Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

This should be interesting as well as close. 
 

Right.

Gentle Giant does not have a Thick as a Brick, but Jethro Tull does not have 8 excellent albums in a row.

I pick Gentle Giant.


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Tull burn LOL I had to count the GG albums but yes there really is eight and that's not including Playing The Fool!
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

This should be interesting as well as close. 
 

Right.

Gentle Giant does not have a Thick as a Brick, but Jethro Tull does not have 8 excellent albums in a row.

I pick Gentle Giant.


No, but Tull have 11 out of 12 that are excellent albums from 69-80 and that's not counting Bursting Out.
Too Old To Rock N Roll To Young to Die is, in my opinion, their only poor album between those years. And don't bring up War Child and A not being excellent...they are!
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Originally posted by BarryGlibb BarryGlibb wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

This should be interesting as well as close. 
 

Right.

Gentle Giant does not have a Thick as a Brick, but Jethro Tull does not have 8 excellent albums in a row.

I pick Gentle Giant.


No, but Tull have 11 out of 12 that are excellent albums from 69-80 and that's not counting Bursting Out.
Too Old To Rock N Roll To Young to Die is, in my opinion, their only poor album between those years. And don't bring up War Child and A not being excellent...they are!





I quite like the remix of Too old. Wish they got to finish the 2nd album. The half album we got sounds like real Tull. Would have smashed the sound track. 1975 is Tulls weakest year of that era I think. You can make a dozen great albums if you choose your own track list from each remix
All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
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Originally posted by BarryGlibb BarryGlibb wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

This should be interesting as well as close. 
 

Right.

Gentle Giant does not have a Thick as a Brick, but Jethro Tull does not have 8 excellent albums in a row.

I pick Gentle Giant.


No, but Tull have 11 out of 12 that are excellent albums from 69-80 and that's not counting Bursting Out.
Too Old To Rock N Roll To Young to Die is, in my opinion, their only poor album between those years. And don't bring up War Child and A not being excellent...they are!




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7 in a row, I'll give 'em that (starting with Interview, barely good to bad, you know what I mean, Civilian is the exception, I've always liked it). 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

7 in a row, I'll give 'em that (starting with Interview, barely good to bad, you know what I mean, Civilian is the exception, I've always liked it). 

From what I understand most people seem to think Missing Piece is the one where they dropped the ball and not Interview. Interview while a step down is still better than anything after it especially from a prog perspective.
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for me.... Tull has 11 excellent albums

GG  has  8

the worst Tull album  ( Under Wraps )

is still better than the last 3 GG albums

easy vote for Tull

but thats just me :)
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The only Tull album I've been able to get into so far is Thick as a Brick, but I like it a lot. From GG the only album I don't like is Giant for a Day. The Missing Piece is good, come on. And, as Cristi said, I even like Civilian(some jammin tunes on that one). So slam dunk for Gentle Giant(against almost anyone).


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^ Try some of their live albums. I love Live Bursting Out and Live at Montreux. After hearing the live versions of Tull's songs, I can barely enjoy the studio ones by comparison.
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Ok, thanks bud I'll give those a try. JT is a band I'd like to get into, they seem popular on here and don't seem to be evil or anything like that(like Opeth etc). So yeah I'll try it.
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Tull have tonnes of cool songs. I’d say double what the great GG have. Eg



Edited by dr prog - September 26 2019 at 16:28
All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
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GG by a prog mile!
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I've never been that keen on Gentle Giant, so Jethro Tull is the obvious choice for me.
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I can't pick. Aside from a few tracks I don't know Tull's music all that much. Give me a few years LOL
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^^^^ Update; 3 months later 😂😂😂,  I've listened to every album by Tull from their 1968 debut This Was to 1977's Songs from the Wood and I must say I love their stuff already. I still need to listen to most of their stuff though (about 11 albums left). Gentle Giant on the other hand is one of my most beloved bands and one that didn't release anything bad in my opinion so they're great (of course that's just my opinion). I'm loving Tull right now, so much so that I think they're neck and neck. Is that wrong of me to say?? 🤔
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