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dr prog 
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Dunno how SFTW is rated so highly. Heavy horses has more balls and should always win
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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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GKR
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Posted: July 05 2015 at 18:08 |
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Low number of reviews. Same trouble with "A Passion Play", for example, that almost 80% of votes are based on 4 or 5 stars, but few reviews have been written to boost the note.
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Posted: July 05 2015 at 18:15 |
Even though it's somewhat overrated, Songs From The Wood. Heavy Horses is in the same league but SFTW has the edge; haven't heard Stormwatch in a while, but it never grabbed me back then. Prefer virtually everything previous to this whole trilogy (apart from things like War Child, This Was) 
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Posted: July 05 2015 at 22:42 |
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Songs from the Wood for me, easily. I feel that with Heavy Horses, and even more so with Stormwatch, Tull (or Anderson) started to loose his creativity, and the band started sounding tired and repetitive of itself.
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GKR
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Posted: July 05 2015 at 22:46 |
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Yeah, thats Tull. Not only Anderson.
In 1980 they were going to give Jethro Tull a break - Barrie was going to re-reform Carmen with Glascock and Allen, but Glascock died and John Evans and David Palmer were going to form a band that no one wanted to sign out.
Then the three received a letter saying that they were fired from the band and "A" became a Jethro Tull album.
Sadly.
(its in the documentary they launched in 2008).
Edited by GKR - July 05 2015 at 22:47
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b_olariu
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Posted: July 06 2015 at 00:05 |
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all 3 with a plus on Songs
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: July 06 2015 at 01:22 |
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I'd be lying if I didn't vote Songs From The Wood. As great as the other 2 are (on par with each other for me) SFTW was an immediate winner. The other two titles took their time to win me over.
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digdug
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Posted: July 06 2015 at 08:45 |
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love all 3 pretty much equally
voted for the Horses
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Manuel
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Posted: July 06 2015 at 08:53 |
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Three gems from the extensive Tull catalog. Songs from the Woods or Heavy Horses would take my vote, depending on the mood I'm in, and Stormwatch would take second, but not by much. All three excellent albums.
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Barbu
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Posted: July 06 2015 at 12:29 |
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I'll take all three, thanks.
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: July 06 2015 at 12:44 |
Stormwatch by a mile...Dark Ages & Flying Dutchman are Tull classics 
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aglasshouse
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Posted: July 06 2015 at 13:15 |
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Songs from the Wood is a beaut, but Stormwatch is right behind it.
Edited by aglasshouse - July 06 2015 at 13:16
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dr wu23
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Posted: July 06 2015 at 14:32 |
 micky wrote:
that is one of the oldest and most cherished traditions of prog archives.. take a poll that has been 1000 times already.. and make something new of it. Sometimes it evolves into nothing, as this would have if you hadn't dropped in, other times it gets fun when someone takes offense and draws down on the offender, other times it can actually turn into a good disucssion if someone runs with the intent.
ie why were the early Tulll so much better than those late 70s's.. or vise versa.. but it is has been a long time I suspect since people have been around that are interested or simply capable of discussing such things. SOme people just like what they like are our incapable of expressing why..
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Some of these polls have been done to death.......regarding Tull imho the early ones are their best. I think Anderson excelled at writing the relatively short lyrical song with catchy music and when they went to the longer things like Thick and Passion Play they missed the mark. The playing was excellent on the longer things but the concepts and presentations were too over the top and pretentious imho. I don't really listen to anything after Stormwatch these days and rarely to TAAB or PP.
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GKR
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Posted: July 06 2015 at 14:38 |
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As a Tull fan I'am (I even play the flute and have a "A Passion Play" poster) I accepted much of what they produced, and face the band as different bands from different periods. I love the early albums, have a special feeling from Aqualung, TAAB and APP, and Minstrel... suberb.
Only a few albums I do avoid. As "Under Wraps" and "Catfish Rising", that has few material I enjoy. "Roots to Branches" should be seen as one of the gret 1990's progressive works and I also accepted as "ok" "J-Tull Dot Com".
I could go hours and hours on Tull, but I'll let the polls do the talk.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 00:51 |
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I love 'A' a lot, on par with Stormwatch.
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 03:12 |
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dr prog
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 03:18 |
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Stormwatch has the coolest and most bonus tracks from the folk trology. Hopefully Blues instrumental is added to the Heavy Horses remix. As a band producing quantity and quality of songs per year taken from latest remixes 1970-75 and remasters 1976-79, I rate these years the following(original album rating in brackets):
1970-4.2 star(3.5)
1971-4.4 star(3.7)
1972-4.5 star(4.5)
1973-4.3 star(4)
1974-4.3 star(3.5)
1975-3.6 star(3.4)
1976-3.7 star(3.4)
1977-4.1 star(4)
1978-4.3 star(4.2)
1979-4.2 star(3.9)
Edited by dr prog - July 07 2015 at 03:59
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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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PrognosticMind
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 04:12 |
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SFTW.
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 16:07 |
Barbu wrote:
I'll take all three, thanks. |
Yep!
Voted Heavy Horses though.
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Big Kid Josie
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 16:19 |
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In particular, I love me some Songs from the Wood, which was the highest ranked album on PA by the "Big 6" for that year (and deservedly so). Also, Tull released fine quality albums every year from 68 past the end of the 70's, while many of the other bands were releasing solo albums (Yes) or taking hiatuses (ELP, KC) for parts of that decade...
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Jethro Tull Folk Trilogy
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folk-ROCK at its best.. at their best.. all down hill from there man...RIP Glenn... Tull lost something musical with him.. 
