jethro tull (songs from the wood)

I like SFTW and Wilson's remix really is very good. However I prefer HH and Stormwatch. However I'm probably in a minority there.

SteveG wrote: dr wu23 wrote: I will always say that Stand Up, Benefit, and Aqualung are overall the best things Tull ever did...not that some of the later ones aren't excellent  also. Anderson's forte was always the 3.5-4 min clever/witty rock song...not the so-called 'prog epics' he and the band did later. You left out TAAB.

NotAProghead wrote: dr wu23 wrote: I will always say that Stand Up, Benefit, and Aqualung are overall the best things Tull ever did... I risk to be in the minority here, but for me mentioned albums had 2-3 great songs ("Bouree", "To Cry You A Song", "Aqualung", "Locomotive Breath"... add some your favs) and a number of decent, but weaker songs, while "Songs From The Wood" is breathtaking from start to finish - all killer, no filler.

Oh, Benefit is great!  Some real stunners, including his best Tull does Gordon Lightfoot approximation on "Inside"

dr wu23 wrote: I will always say that Stand Up, Benefit, and Aqualung are overall the best things Tull ever did...not that some of the later ones aren't excellent  also. Anderson's forte was always the 3.5-4 min clever/witty rock song...not the so-called 'prog epics' he and the band did later.

You left out TAAB.

Stand up is a great album the true tull standard.

verslibre wrote: dr prog wrote: 5 star remixes A Passion play Aqualung Thick as a brick Songs from the wood Heavy horses Stormwatch Sound quality and studio quality they’re all now on par with Thick as a brick. So many great outtakes Minstrel in the Gallery, too!

Minstrel is my least fave of the 12 remix sets so far. I’d still give it close to 4 stars. Never been a big fan of the album and the remix doesn’t give us any new studio tracks apart from a couple of early versions. The sound is mildly better though. After the 5 star remixes I mentioned earlier I’d rank the others in order below as

Warchild 4.5 star
Benefit 4.4 star
Too old 4.3 star
Stand up 4.2 star
This was 4.1 star
Minstrel 4.0 star

5 star remixes

A Passion play
Aqualung
Thick as a brick
Songs from the wood
Heavy horses
Stormwatch

Sound quality and studio quality they’re all now on par with Thick as a brick. So many great outtakes

Get the remix book versions. SFTW sounds great. A couple of cool extra tracks too. Horses is probably even better. Similar great sound but with more bonus tracks. Probably a double album worth of tracks. Stormwatch is my fave of these 3. The sound isn’t quite as great as the other two but the double album worth of tracks is awesome. Aqualung another great double album worth. Passion is similar. Great sound and the full Chateau tapes with excellent sound. Warchild is a triple album. Hopefully the remix sets get released again. Most of them are 5 stars. Even Too old is cool now. An ep of cool extras. I think I like Tulls non album collection more than their album collection. They have 10 albums worth of extras between 68 and 84