Favorite Jethro Tull album - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Wow! I thought A Passion Play was always underrated.

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^ I think two of those are masterpieces

What I love about Tull is there mix of genres. They have melodic song-genre, a rock 'n' roll-genre, meaningsfull lyrics-genre, prog-rock-genre, concept albums and diffrent albums represent different side of their talents. What unites all there music is Andersons Voice and famous flute sound.

Early albums blending Ian Andersons acoustic guitar with heavy guitar-riffing from Martin Barre in short songs. These Albums are "Benefit" and- "Aqualung" from 1970+71. Very good songs and most of the songs are seen as classics and is dusted off and played at most concerts since recording.

Then there is 2 "concept-abums" "Thick As A Brick" and "Passion Play" with its more reaccuring themes than songs and in a progg mode. Also very high quality and fans favorites.

After the critique of Passion Play Ian goes back to more song-orientated albums - "War Child" and "Minstrel In The Gallery" - many classic songs with trademark mix of acoustic and electric passages with the famous flute on top.

With "Songs from the Wood" Anderson change the songs to a more acoustic mode in a more english folkmusic-style and les electric music. The next album "Heavy Horses" is in the same mood as "Wood".

After The live-album "Bursting Out" from the "Wood"-Tour, the albums continue the mix of folkie and electric songs and still in high quality to this day, although the last album of new material is J-Tull Dot Com from 1999.

Duh

Still

Edited by Ronnie Pilgrim - June 27 2010 at 09:26

Songs From the Wood wins.

Besides the classics, I really Like Broadsword in some odd way.

Stand Up was the first rock CD I bought and I still adore it. Thick As a Brick is pretty good, but that's all the proggy JT I've listened to. I guess I should listen to Songs From The Wood.

The Truth wrote:

Always has been my favorite Tull.

Same here.

UndercoverBoy wrote:

A Passion Play for me, and while that album is excellent, Tull never made any albums that I would consider masterpieces.

Probably true, not even Thick as a brick is without it´s "flaws"

I think I´ll go with A passion play, but Songs from the woods is a second

"You want me to play what, Robert?"

TAAB remains my favourite. It used to be a shoo in for my favourite prog albums. Now, I find that part 2 takes a long time to take off and even after it does, the momentum of part 1 never returns. It's still a lot better than Devil Doll or Green Carnation, speaking of nearly hour long excursions. But this then puts them in fourth place behind KC, Genesis and Gentle Giant for me in the prog table.

My trilogy is "Aqualung", "TAAB" and "Minstrel". All have received five stars in my reviews.

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