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Poll Question: Wich of these songs is your favorite?
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16 [23.88%]
8 [11.94%]
19 [28.36%]
4 [5.97%]
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    Posted: February 10 2017 at 03:39
A strange top 10, because it features not all fan favorites, apparently songs like Skating Away, Hymn 43, Mother Goose, Bourre, Thick as a Brick etc. are missing.

But this is Ian's personal top 10, according to this article: http://teamrock.com/feature/2015-07-21/ian-anderson-s-favourite-jethro-tull-songs
 
Have fun voting. I voted for Budapest Clap
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 03:45
Galliards and lute songs Beer
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 03:50
Kitchen Prose and Gutter Rhymes.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 04:26
I've been critical on the Aqualung album recently but the song itself is the essential Jethro Tull.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 04:51
all with a plus on Heavy Horses
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 06:16
love all of these but it's a toss up between the two classics  for me

Aqualung or Locomotive Breath

went with Aqualung today
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 06:18
Tough choice here. All fit different moods. Went with Songs From the Wood.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 06:26
Aqualung followed by Songs From the Woods.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 07:22
You're saying "My God" isn't one of his top ten? It's certainly my favorite by him... cough... cough... them.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 08:26
Ian : Aqualung

Me : Life's A Long Song
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 08:31
As a long time Tull fan, it's hard for me to choose, not only for the music itself, but for all the great, fun memories I have listening to all this songs, and the rest of Tull's catalog. It's like picking who is your favorite child. I like them all, for different reasons, and I simply cannot choose.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 09:49
"Songs From The Wood"! Fave Tull = the 'folk' trilogy (SFTW, Heavy Horses, Stormwatch).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 10:05
SFTW over Nothing Is Easy and Heavy Horses
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 10:20
Aqualung
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 10:33
Songs from the Wood is rather Gentle Giantish imo. It's also the one I voted for(not just because it's very prog but also I think it's very under rated).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 10:41
It's soooo pretentious of him to not include A Passion Play.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 12:31
Aqualung. Nothing is Easy as runner-up. I do like that line about kitchen prose and gutter rhymes, however, Songs From the Wood is a great example of what I consider rhythmically dull in Tull of that period. Ian's cymbals there do nothing to shake me of that.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 13:23
Locomotive Breath
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 13:38
Songs from the woods...so many memories.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2017 at 13:44
There's a 'Tull "best of" CD where in the liner notes, Anderson states that the collection is what he considers to be the band's best (I have it, but I just can't recall its name). Just thought I'd mention it.
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