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Poll Question: Favorite "Passion Play" related album
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    Posted: July 16 2016 at 23:22
I got the Passion Play box set and was playing around with some tracks from those albums and the 2002 version of War Child I have lying around. I ended up making a playlist of songs from those three albums based on the sequence Tull had with the Château tapes in the form of a 2 LP set:

Side 1
Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day / War Child / Queen And Country / Ladies / Glory Row / Saturation / Sealion

Side 2
Animalee (First Dance) / Law Of The Bungle (Part One) / Tiger Toon / Law Of The Bungle (Part Two) / Bungle In The Jungle / The Story Of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles

Side 3
Overseer Overture / Paradise Steakhouse / Back Door Angels / Critique Oblique (Part 1 and an edit of Part 2) / Only Solitaire

Side 4
Quartet / Rainbow Blues / Scenario / Audition / Left Right / No Rehearsal / The Third Hoorah

Any thoughts on this and what do you think was the best version of the Passion Play project?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2016 at 23:27
neat idea, burn me a copy  Wink

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 17 2016 at 05:49
yuck.. no thanks...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 17 2016 at 08:45
Quite nice if you ask me. I biased when it comes to the classic era Tull, and this lists of songs make for a very interesting experience. Great Job.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 17 2016 at 10:02
APP is my favourite JT album, Critique Oblique from the Château d'Hérouville Sessions is killer.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 17 2016 at 11:04
Audition and Left right are awesome remixed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 18 2016 at 09:48
Still have to go with APP, but CDS is wonderful and essentially an album in it's own right.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2016 at 00:20
I had to go with War Child - for the very reason that Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day thereon is perhaps the finest tune in the entire Tull cannon - and I could just never get into A Passion Play, don't know just why ... Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2016 at 01:11
Chateau has Critique Oblique (which is an excellent song) and War Child has Skating away (which has amazing lyrics) and The third Hoorah (which is the best of the album), but A Passion Play is a more complete work so I choose that.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2016 at 08:06
I've always felt, with the amount of  excellent studio tracks available at the time, A Passion Play should've been a double album. I think that putting songs like "Skating Away" and "Only Solitaire" in their proper perspective along with the APP material would have only enhanced the album, rather than the hodgepodge feel of them being plopped onto War Child. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2016 at 15:13
IMO, A Passion Play is Tull's best album and is a strong candidate for the best record ever conceived...but I do think The Hare diminishes it just a tiny bit.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2016 at 16:09
Get the Warchild box. Good Godmother is one of my fave Tull songs now. Audition and Left Right remixed are also up there with my fave Tull songs

Edited by dr prog - August 14 2016 at 16:11
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2016 at 16:47
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2016 at 19:00
I got solely for the Palmer orchestrations. Those are okay, though I like the little extra bits in "Pan Dance".

Also, since I found out "March The Mad Scientist" was recorded during War Child, I decided to put it between "Paradise Steakhouse" and "Back Door Angels" in my playlist.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2016 at 19:24
I don't see how one could be a true Tull fan and not like all.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2016 at 21:23
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

yuck.. no thanks...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2016 at 21:24
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

neat idea, burn me a copy  Wink


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2016 at 21:26
My favourite (from the above) will always be the always living be puzzle of A Passion Play.

When I bought the 2013 boxset, it was a dream come true.

I do agree with some of the commentaries above that it would perhaps better to see the whole scenario, but admire all this work in pieces also have some magic.
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