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Glimmung ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: June 06 2011 Location: NJ Status: Offline Points: 23 |
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As much as I love Minstrel it doesnt do for me what A Passion Play does. I would really like to see where people stand on this. For me it took many more listens to get into Minstrel in the Gallery. On the surface it seemed like too much classic rock and not enough of the Tull that I love it wasnt untill many spins later that I found that Tull. There was something intriguing about A Passion Play I looked forward to putting in the work to love that album, there is an air of excitement around it.
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The Miracle ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() Joined: May 29 2005 Location: hell Status: Offline Points: 28427 |
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It took me it took longer than any other Tull album to get into Minstrel as well. Now it's one of my all time favorites
![]() But I really dislike APP. It's where everything that made TAAB great was pushed too far and fell flat on its face. Also it has Hare, one of the greatest embarrassments to grace a classic prog album. But that's just the final nail in the coffin. The whole thing is a mess imho. It's my least favorite pre-A album. Oh and you forgot to make a poll. ![]() Edited by The Miracle - December 15 2011 at 17:27 |
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Epignosis ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Eclectic Prog Team Joined: December 30 2007 Location: Raeford, NC Status: Offline Points: 32283 |
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My two favorite Jethro Tull albums. I don't think I could choose.
Newbs can't make polls. |
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PabstRibbon ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: November 26 2009 Location: Québec Status: Offline Points: 925 |
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PAssion Play is Tull greatest achievement
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Glimmung ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: June 06 2011 Location: NJ Status: Offline Points: 23 |
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Sorry about the no poll next time ill pay more attention
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The Miracle ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() Joined: May 29 2005 Location: hell Status: Offline Points: 28427 |
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It's ok, never mind. My mistake. ![]()
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Wanorak ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 09 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4457 |
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Minstrel in the Gallery for me by far. I don't fing APP as good as TAAB. MInstrel is my favourite Tull album and seems to encapsulate all of Tull's different sounds on one album; folk to hard rock to symphonic.
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A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!!
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Mellotron Storm ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: August 27 2006 Location: The Beach Status: Offline Points: 9630 |
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Minstrel in The Gallery by far.I was listening to it last Sunday and i forgot how heavy that opening track got.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
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Heathcliffe ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: November 11 2010 Location: Melbourne Status: Offline Points: 178 |
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Minstrel for me. Passion Play is still a great album though.
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Progosopher ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 12 2009 Location: Coolwood Status: Offline Points: 3996 |
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A Passion Play is probably Tull's most complex album and definitely a masterpiece. At the same time it is self-conscious about its unique qualities, which are quite strange. Minstrel in the Gallery is a bit more organic and authentic to me, and the one I generally prefer.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Slartibartfast ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 28097 |
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I don't know why but The Menstrual In The Gallery always pops into my head for some reason.
I do like the different character of the two albums. |
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Morningrise ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 18 2009 Location: Buenos Aires Status: Offline Points: 2236 |
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A Passion Play has never really clicked on me. On the other hand, Minstrel In The Gallery...
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Man With Hat ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team Joined: March 12 2005 Location: Neurotica Status: Online Points: 116788 |
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Even though I quite like (nearly love) MITG, APP is too magical not to "vote" for.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
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dr prog ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 25 2010 Location: Melbourne Status: Offline Points: 1686 |
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1975 is tulls weakest year of the 70s
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Midnight Lightning ![]() Forum Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: October 23 2010 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 40 |
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Or at least on par with Thick as a Brick, despite the two being so different. |
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akaBona ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 15 2010 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 2082 |
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someone_else ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: May 02 2008 Location: The Castoreum Status: Offline Points: 18121 |
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Minstrel in the Gallery is one of the best Tull albums. A Passion Play has a few fine moments, but the story of the Hare who lost his spectacles make me think he'd better lose his earphones as well.
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BarryGlibb ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 28 2010 Location: Melbourne, Oz Status: Offline Points: 1047 |
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Sorry but1976 takes the cake as being the worst year for Tull in the 70s; 1976's "Too Old To RocknRoll Too Young to Die" was their worst output in the 70's by a country mile. "Minstrel in The Gallery" is a 4-5 star album while "Too Old To RocknRoll Too Young to Die" is 21/2 stars at best ....... IMHO. Oh and A Pasion Play is a masterpiece. Minstrel in very good but let's itself down in some parts such as "Black Satin Dancer" and the overated "Baker St Muse". But everything else is superb especially the title track....the instrumental middle bit is so far ahead of it time it's not funny. It's not funny; it's unbelievable. Still A Passion Play is a much much better prog album than Minstrel. |
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Snow Dog ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Errors & Omissions Team Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
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A passion
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laplace ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: October 06 2005 Location: popupControl(); Status: Offline Points: 7606 |
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i absolutely love the Hare part, it's just so charming. and kind of feels more audacious consider how musically conservative the prog audience is turning out to be... how DARE they add something to their album which invokes my more precious feelings? plus the incidental music behind that little fable is incredibly well-done.
i can't remember any of the songs that are on Minstrel anyway, lol |
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