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elder08 
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 14:26 |
Okay my fav. is Songs From the Wood....I really wanted to know if anybody else agree's with me on that being they're fav. and if not what's yours?
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 14:29 |
Not a big fan of Songs From The Wood myself, I mean, It's OK, but doesn't blow me away. My fave is probably Aqualung (rather predictably) followed by Thick As A Brick. 
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 14:34 |
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The highlights of SFTW are truly epic, but I think, that it has some flaws, that keep bothering me. Gonna give it a few more spins ...
My personal favourite is A Passion Play - just love the way that the lyrics about a theatre play turn into the story of the Hare ... Pure brilliance. TAAB can't be compared since the themes there are repeating way too much. Otherwise APP is equal to Stand Up in my book, well, if I think again it would be hard to choose between these two ... Stand Up is funky, folkish (both combined geniously, but really geniuosly!!!), A Passion Play is full of dissonance, it's insane in the best meaning of the word.
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 14:34 |
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I own a lot of Tull albums but non of them ever became a favorite. Somehow I always miss something in their music, though I can see the quality of it. Technically I find Thick as a Brick very rewarding, but Heavy Horses makes my girlfriend happy which is also nice.
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 14:37 |
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A Passion Play. It may be so underrated, but has awesome solos in the middle of it. (I'm listening it right now!)
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 14:52 |
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My favourite is Aqualung, but I love the acoustic parts of Thick As A Brick, its hard to decide.
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 15:06 |
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I will be predictable and boring and say that Thick as a Brick is leagues above anything else Tull ever did.
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 15:06 |
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THICK AS A BRICK, a masterpiece.
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 15:24 |
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TAAB.
Really like Songs though.
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 15:36 |
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probably Benefit.
No flute, but still my favorite Tull-track is To Cry You a Song
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Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 15:39 |
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Stand Up is pretty cool too. It's half progressive but it's still so nice.
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 15:46 |
 Tarquin Underspoon wrote:
I will be predictable and boring and say that Thick as a Brick is leagues above anything else Tull ever did. |
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 15:52 |
Don't have Song for the Wood (yet), but I doubt it could beat the masterpiece of Thick As A Brick. I need to get some more Jethro Tull at some point. 
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 15:56 |
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If you have listened the first albums and got bored, listen to "Too Old To Rock And Roll Too Young To Die".
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 15:57 |
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A Passion Play is my favorite Tull album and Thick as a Brick (Pt 1) is my favorite Tull song and probably one of my all-time favorite songs.
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 16:06 |
The Quiet One wrote:
A Passion Play is my favorite Tull album and Thick as a Brick (Pt 1) is my favorite Tull song and probably one of my all-time favorite songs. |
A Passion Play! I don't like it's intro and outro also I find "The Story Of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles" annoying but, in the songs middle parts there are flute, guitar and organ solos. And that because it's my favourite album. (Also the lyrics!)
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 16:26 |
^ I've only listened to A Passion Play a handful of times... nothing about it's really grabbed me. I should probably give it a bit more attention at some point. And yes... The Hare Who Lost His Testicles is very annoying. 
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 16:58 |
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For me it's Passion Play followed by Thick as a Brick. Passion Play is just amazing stuff. Even with the silly Hare who Lost His Spectacles stuck in the middle, it is just a great album. The mix of heavy and soft, the lyrics, and the playing is just superb.
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 17:56 |
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All right guess I'm the odd one out here.
Sure TAAB and APP are masterpieces of the genre, but my all time favourites are Stormwatch and Heavy Horses.
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Posted: June 08 2010 at 18:05 |
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A Passion Play for me, and while that album is excellent, Tull never made any albums that I would consider masterpieces.
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