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Poll Question: Which do you like better: TAAB or CTTE?
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Originally posted by Mirror Image Mirror Image wrote:

Close To The Edge by a million miles. I never have cared much for Jethro Tull and simply can't acquire the taste for their music.

This is how I feel too.
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TAAB would be great if 20 minutes length. To me is full of fillers. CTTE is completely consistent. No one can call "And You And I" filler.
The best Tull album for me is Aqualung
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Originally posted by Xonty Xonty wrote:

Close To The Edge by quite a way. Both are obviously masterpieces though

Precisely. Close to The Edge is going to win any and all polls for me, btw Wink.
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TAAB for me.
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Both great albums.....for me CTTE wins by a nose.
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by Xonty Xonty wrote:

Close To The Edge by quite a way. Both are obviously masterpieces though

Exactly.

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Close to the Edge is not my favorite Yes album, but it's a good one. TAAB is just decent (imo).
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Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

TAAB would be great if 20 minutes length. To me is full of fillers. CTTE is completely consistent. No one can call "And You And I" filler.
The best Tull album for me is Aqualung

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Hmm..."Fillers" again. Honestly this "Filler" made me to note (zoom) to long tracks with this point of view again and its change my opinion about some of them (long track or epic or ...). I think "Filler" theory! "CAN" be a good measure for analysis some tracks or songs or ...but its not work for everything!! Sometimes one song or Album may have powerful musical structure or another perfect musical elements without using "perfect fillers" or perfect using of "Fillers"!!
I mean there are more important measures to analysis and review music than "Filler" but in many case you can't ignore that. "When" and "Where" are 2 good words for ranking "Filler" value in one good analysis(IMO). I really hope you understand me. Thanks.
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Thick as a Brick has always been my preference between the two. Close to the Edge is definitely an essential. I just think Brick is better throughout. CttE's b-side isn't the thrill the a-side is. "And You and I" is a great track. It's "Siberian" that I have some minor issues with. Pig I feel like a tougher choice for me would be the epics (songs) vs. each other. "Thick as a Brick (part 1)" vs. "Thick as a Brick (part 2)" vs. "Close to the Edge (part 3-er, uh, wait..)".

But the albums alone: Thick as a Brick. Not a hard choice for me. Wink
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Thick as Brick, easy choice for me
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Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

TAAB would be great if 20 minutes length. To me is full of fillers. CTTE is completely consistent. No one can call "And You And I" filler.
The best Tull album for me is Aqualung

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CTTE any day
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Originally posted by Mirror Image Mirror Image wrote:

Close To The Edge by a million miles. I never have cared much for Jethro Tull and simply can't acquire the taste for their music.
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CTTE gets a bit sleepy in parts. The middle of the title song and And you and I drag on
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Originally posted by Michael678 Michael678 wrote:

YYYYYYEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!! though TAaB i heard once so i need to hear it again.

You have heard it once?! And you voted?
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Originally posted by O666 O666 wrote:


Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

TAAB would be great if 20 minutes length. To me is full of fillers. CTTE is completely consistent. No one can call "And You And I" filler.
The best Tull album for me is Aqualung

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Hmm..."Fillers" again. Honestly this "Filler" made me to note (zoom) to long tracks with this point of view again and its change my opinion about some of them (long track or epic or ...). I think "Filler" theory! "CAN" be a good measure for analysis some tracks or songs or ...but its not work for everything!! Sometimes one song or Album may have powerful musical structure or another perfect musical elements without using "perfect fillers" or perfect using of "Fillers"!!
I mean there are more important measures to analysis and review music than "Filler" but in many case you can't ignore that. "When" and "Where" are 2 good words for ranking "Filler" value in one good analysis(IMO). I really hope you understand me. Thanks.


OK, I just found a pair of flaws in your impersonation. Moshkito wouldn't so easily let something change his opinion, I believe. Nor do I think the would begin a post with an expression like "mmm"... and you missed an opinion about something related to expressing some songs as filler is just sad. Perhaps he would have said that the artist surely doesn't write material thinking to make it filler, and that it's just sad that we can't apreciate and understand what they were trying to say, etc.
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Originally posted by dr prog dr prog wrote:

CTTE gets a bit sleepy in parts. The middle of the title song and And you and I drag on
In my opinion, Ian Anderson is a far better composer of songs than composer of long epics - in which Yes have no real competitor.
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2014 at 23:31
If that was true Topographic wouldnt be so polarizing. 

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