Best Jethro Tull studio album - Progressive Rock Music Forum

kenethlevine wrote:

Those two Tull releases are number 3 (SFTW)

SFTW is ranked that high? That's awesome.

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Svetonio wrote:

kenethlevine wrote:

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Rednight wrote:

^Any 'Tull Top Five grouping that includes Songs From the Wood and Heavy Horses but omits A Passion Play is inherently flawed.

SFTW and HH were/ are high regarded by Tull's fans but it's pretty clear that the prog audience now & in general are praised some far, say, less interesting 70s Prog Folk albums instead of those two Tull's releases (especially SFTW which is musically the very best album of 70s Prog Folk), although both were regarded in 70s as the best prog folk masterpieces released in that golden decade. Strange really, because both SFTW and HH are passed the time test and both sound today not dated all all.

Those two Tull releases are number 3 (SFTW) and number 18 (HH) in the top prog folk albums here on PA so hardly ignored, especially considering that #1 and 2 are also Tull albums. They are both great albums. If you mean that those who listen to a lot of prog folk don't necessarily pick the two Tull albums as the best of the sub genre, that might well be true. There's a lot of great prog folk out there from the 1970s and more recently.

When I talk about overrated and underrated albums in general, so not only about these two by Tull, I never do that with the PA charts in mind. Yes, I mean that those who listen to a lot of prog folk rarely pick SFTW as the best album of the subgenre released in 70s, although SFTW is like, without a question, "CttE" for 70s Prog Folk.

That's an apt description, since SFTW is the mainstream prog equivalent of CTTE among prog folk albums. Everybody knows it, whether they know any other prog folk or not, and many don't know any other prog folk. So perhaps those who listen to a lot of prog folk might have some valuable insight into other gems that are out there, since they have not only heard SFTW and HH, but many other albums as well. There are bands that came to prog from a folk orientation, which is not really the case for Tull. Ian Anderson came to it late in the game; after dabbling in it in his early 1970s albums, he then produced Steeleye Span's "Now We Are Six" album, and shortly thereafter released SFTW.

The Dark Elf wrote:

1) Aqualung

2) Thick as a Brick

3) Living in the Past***

4) Stand Up

5) Songs from the Wood

6) Minstrel in the Gallery

***Caveat: LitP would be in the top 3 or 4 but unfortunately it is considered an anthology now and not a standalone album as I considered it in 1972.

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A Passion Play is their best album without a doubt. Its little brother, Thick as a Brick, gets the second place.

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Thick As A Brick > Aqualung > Songs From the Wood > Minstrel in the Gallery > Heavy Horses > Stand Up etc.

“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”

Aqualung > Stand Up > Thick as a Brick > Benefit > Minstrel in the Gallery

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Poll Question: What is the Best
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
1968 This Was	2	[2.30%]
1969 Stand Up	8	[9.20%]
1970 Benefit	5	[5.75%]
1971 Aqualung	11	[12.64%]
1972 Thick As A Brick	26	[29.89%]
1973 A Passion Play	9	[10.34%]
1974 War Child	2	[2.30%]
1975 Minstrel In The Gallery	5	[5.75%]
1976 Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die!	1	[1.15%]
1977 Songs From The Wood	8	[9.20%]
1978 Heavy Horses	3	[3.45%]
1979 Stormwatch	2	[2.30%]
1980 A	2	[2.30%]
1982 The Broadsword And The Beast	0	[0.00%]
1984 Under Wraps	2	[2.30%]
1987 Crest Of A Knave	0	[0.00%]
1989 Rock Island	0	[0.00%]
1991 Catfish Rising	0	[0.00%]
1995 Roots To Branches	1	[1.15%]
1999 J-Tull Dot Com	0	[0.00%]
2003 The Jethro Tull Christmas Album	0	[0.00%]
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