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GKR
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Posted: May 26 2015 at 11:09 |
Considering that it is a album that stick to its time, with that already mention "reverberation" of the 80's, is a good album.
"Mountain Men", "Farm on the Freeway" and "Budapest" are truly Tull songs. I guess that they should have used a proper keyboardist (once I read that John Evan almost come back to the group for a Crest of a Knave) instead of Ian hitting some notes...
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dr wu23
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Posted: May 26 2015 at 15:05 |
The question is how did this win metal grammy..? Were the voters asleep at the wheel or what...? Someone get paid off....or were the Grammy voters clueless?
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin
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LearsFool
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Posted: May 26 2015 at 15:46 |
^ It was a combined hard rock & metal Grammy.
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: May 26 2015 at 15:51 |
dr wu23 wrote:
The question is how did this win metal grammy..? Were the voters asleep at the wheel or what...?Someone get paid off....or were the Grammy voters clueless? |
The category was "Metal and Hard Rock". Crest of a Knave certainly is a hard rock album. Besides, Metallica sucks, and it was great they lost to Tull's 11th or 12th best album. Considering Tull never even got nominated for masterpieces like Aqualung or Thick as a Brick, I found it hilarious they won for Crest.
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dr wu23
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Posted: May 26 2015 at 16:26 |
Thanks guys for the heads up on the category....didn't know it was a combined one. Not one of my favorite Tull albums but it's better than Metallica for me also.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin
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The Bearded Bard
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Posted: May 26 2015 at 16:53 |
^^ True about the category, however...
Big fan of this album. Easily their best of the 80's, IMO. Not one bad song on it, as far as I'm concerned.
Edited by The Bearded Bard - May 26 2015 at 16:55
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KingCrInuYasha
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Posted: May 26 2015 at 23:27 |
I thought it was good. Not in my Top 5, but good. Better than Rock Island at least. At least Crest sounded like Tull had put some effort into the songs
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Rednight
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Posted: May 27 2015 at 12:15 |
"It's over, Johnny. It's over!"
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Bitterblogger
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Posted: May 27 2015 at 13:51 |
Due to the influence of New Wave and electronic instrumentation, no wonder prog sounds changed in the '80's. In hindsight, these sound dated, but they were probably unavoidable from business pressures at the time. In any event, I think FOTF is truly great. "Steel Monkey" and "Dogs In The Midwinter" are also top-notch. The rest are average overall. But for the Metal Grammy controversy, it would be faded from memory to all but Tull fans.
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Cosmiclawnmower
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Posted: May 27 2015 at 16:48 |
I think the 'ZZ top' element was also there.. Eliminator and Afterburner were huge and VERY mainstream and i think along with the Dire Straights sound JT wanted a bit of that.. Fair enough, Hawkwind wanted a bit too.. I saw Ian Anderson and Martin Barre with guys from Fairport convention doing quite a bit of this stuff live and it was all great live- it was great just to see them again as it had been a few years since 'Broadsword..' at Nostel Priory (when the peace convoy invaded..) and supporting Marillion at 'the garden party' at Milton keynes bowl.. and now IA lives just down the road and frequents the same curry house....
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