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SteveG 
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Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20497 |
 Topic: This Was by Jethro TullPosted: July 07 2015 at 16:41 |
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No it wasn't. What's your take on the Jethro Tull album This Was?
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Tom Ozric
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Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15916 |
Posted: July 08 2015 at 00:54 |
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Gosh, this is my fave Tull album prior to Aqualung. Just love that rough and ready Bluesy/Jazzy sound of this album. Stand Up and Benefit really never did much for me. Don't ask why...........
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Moogtron III
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Joined: April 26 2005 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 10616 |
Posted: July 08 2015 at 07:56 |
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I like the album, definitely!
A good start for the band.
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 19613 |
Posted: July 08 2015 at 08:24 |
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Yes, not exactly perfect, but a worthy debut Absolutely love their cover of Rashaan Kirke's Searenade to a Cuckoo.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: July 08 2015 at 08:46 |
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Oh yes, love it!
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dr wu23
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Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20468 |
Posted: July 08 2015 at 15:35 |
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Nice blues rock album....not my favorite by Tull, but still a keeper.
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: July 08 2015 at 15:39 |
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Not my personal favorite Tull record, but solid none the less!
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"A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?"
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: July 08 2015 at 17:32 |
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The band biographer, Brian Rabey, is of the opinion that Stand Up was the first real Jethro Tull album, but I like it and beg to differ.
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dr prog
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Joined: September 25 2010 Location: Melbourne Status: Offline Points: 2446 |
Posted: July 08 2015 at 17:53 |
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Love story, Christmas song, One for John Gee my faves
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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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The Bearded Bard
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Posted: July 08 2015 at 18:19 |
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siLLy puPPy
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Posted: July 08 2015 at 19:26 |
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I came to this after all the greats that came later. THIS WAS a surprise! Loved it much more than i thought i would. Not as consistent as the later classics but certainly as entertaining if you can embrace eclectic discrepencies
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SteveG
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Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20497 |
Posted: July 08 2015 at 19:36 |
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Perhaps I better give This Was another listen!
 It's only been 41 years since the last time I listened to it!
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Tom Ozric
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Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15916 |
Posted: July 11 2015 at 09:12 |
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As Hugues mentioned earlier - the cover of Kirk's Serenade To A Cuckoo is just tasty. I don't think Tull sounded this Jazzy since.
There's also treasures like Beggar's Farm and Cat's Squirrel. Dharma For One is marvellous. How could this album be 'weak' for some folks ?? |
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 19613 |
Posted: July 11 2015 at 12:40 |
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Take it for what it is, and not for what it will develop later on. This is a great debut album, probably the most fun and jazzy, downright with its time (68), even if a tad amateurish maybe (but how can this be a flaw?) If it wasn't for the perfection of Stand Up, I'd have loved to see/hear a second album with the same line-up |
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GKR
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Posted: July 11 2015 at 13:41 |
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"Take it for what it is, and not for what it will develop later on."
This should be as advise for every album of JT. I mean, people are always saying: "This Was is goo, but Stand Up is perfection". "Stand Up is good, but Benefit is perfection", "Benefit...." and on and on and on... We should apreciate JT for its hability of making music totally different every year. We do have our favourites, but this comparisson game really irritate me. |
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- From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
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BarryGlibb
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Posted: July 22 2015 at 23:31 |
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If you've never heard This Was and you are familiar with later Tull, then you might get a shock by listening to this album....my review is here:
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=349671 Edited by BarryGlibb - July 22 2015 at 23:32 |
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akaBona
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Posted: July 23 2015 at 18:35 |
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Not important album to me. Everytime somebody plays it to me it sounds quite good. But in need of JT music I will choose some other album.
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Intruder
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Posted: July 24 2015 at 06:31 |
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My favorite Tull album.....remember it was 1968 and that new wave of progressive bluesmen were paving the way for great things to come - Peter Green, Mick Abrams, Kim Simmons, not to mention Howe, Gilmore, and Pete Banks to name a few.....what was in the water in London post-Pepper?
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: July 24 2015 at 10:52 |
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An extremely good blues-rock album, but it hinted at what Tull was to become, particularly on Roland Kirk's "Serenade to a Cuckoo", "Dharma for One" and "A Song for Jeffrey". But Mick Abraham's contribution is stellar on the real blues numbers, "Some Day the Sun Won't Shine for You" (a personal favorite), "Move on Alone" (with a nice proggy horn section thrown in), and "My Sunday Feeling".
Definitely an important keepsake of the 60s British Blues 2nd Invasion (along with Fleetwood Mac, Cream and Led Zeppelin).
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dr wu23
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Posted: July 24 2015 at 13:17 |
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Yes...I always liked Abrahams' guitar and Someday.. and Sunday Feeling are great early blues tracks.  |
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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