List 10 Jethro Tull Songs! - Progressive Rock Music Forum

List 10 Jethro Tull Songs. One song from each album that demonstrates the group's musical diversity. Edits (from compilations) of TAAB and APP only.

Edited by SteveG - March 20 2020 at 11:04

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From their first ten studio albums:

1. Serenade to a Cuckoo - nice jazz take on Roland Kirk.

2. Reasons for Waiting - a love song with strings -- most prog bands seem incapable of writing a love song.

3. Sossity; You're A Woman - Sossity, a neologism invented by Ian, and the use of allegory -- describing a girl, but actually inferring "a view of rather affluent if not upper class society".

4. My God - an epic that features Ian's mastery of both acoustic guitar and flute, and one of the first successful attacks on organized religion in the rock milieu.

5. Childhood Heroes Reprise (final 2:56 of TAAB) - a brilliant recapitulation of several themes present throughout the entire composition, and including a brilliant duel between a string section conducted by David Palmer and a violent eruption of drums by Barrie Barlow and Hammond organ by John Evan in reply.

6. Act Three/The Foot of Our Stairs - An excellent and varied bit of prog, again showing Ian's brilliant guitar work and trading in the flute for a moment for sopranino sax, not to mention wonderfully snarky lyrics mocking the idea of heaven in the traditional sense.

7. Sealion - A reminder that even when Tull produced fairly straight ahead, riff-rich hard rock, the amount of crazy extracurricular musical activity is evident throughout: ostensibly about a carnival (when in actuality it's about the music industry), and besides the flute trills, a whole string section, accordion, and some truly mad drumming by Barlow.

8. Baker St.Muse - One of the great song cycles in rock, with one of my favorite segues occurring between the first section of 'Baker St. Muse' and 'Pig-Me and the Whore'.

9. Salamander - a beautifully intricate acoustic guitar duet between Anderson and Martin Barre, that again shows that aside from the hard rock behemoths of Aqualung, Locomotive Breath, Minstrel in the Gallery, Hunting Girl, Nothing Is Easy, etc., it is the many acoustic interludes and reveries that really set Tull apart from the other prog giants of the 70s.

10. Pibroch (Cap In Hand) - Featuring the most fiendishly monstrous riff Martin Barre ever created, halfway through it suddenly veers into the 18th century with a sea chantey-meets-Bach instrumental, and just as suddenly returns to that biting riff to end the song.

Edited by The Dark Elf - March 20 2020 at 18:02

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I could do 10 lists of equal quality

Here’s one list of new songs released on the remixes

Foot of the stairs extended version
Good godmother
Warchild 2
Commercial traveller
Salamander ragtime
A small cigar full version
Old aces die hard
Living in these hard times 2
Orion full version
Urban apocalypse

All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.

+/- in chronological order

Christmas Song

Some Day the Sun Won't Shine for You (blues)

Serenade or a Cuckoo (jazz)

Living In The Past

Bourée (classical)

Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square (folk)

We Used To Know

Aqualung (hard rock)

My God (eclectism - incl religious music)

By Kind Permission Of (improv)

TAAB A-side (long epic)

The Hare (dumb Python mockery)

Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day (pop)
Cold Wind to Valhalla (crunchy bear metal)

Edited by Sean Trane - March 22 2020 at 18:56

dr prog wrote:

I could do 10 lists of equal quality

Here’s one list of new songs released on the remixes

Foot of the stairs extended version
Good godmother
Warchild 2
Commercial traveller
Salamander ragtime
A small cigar full version
Old aces die hard
Living in these hard times 2
Orion full version
Urban apocalypse

Nice list dr prog! Clap

1. Back to the Family

2. Sossity, You're a Woman

3. My God

4. Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day

5. Jump Start

6. Too Old to Rock n Roll, To Young to Die

7. Ring Out Solstice Bells

8. ...And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps

9. Minstrel in the Gallery

10. Dharma for One

Grumpyprogfan wrote:

dr prog wrote:

I could do 10 lists of equal quality

Here’s one list of new songs released on the remixes

Foot of the stairs extended version
Good godmother
Warchild 2
Commercial traveller
Salamander ragtime
A small cigar full version
Old aces die hard
Living in these hard times 2
Orion full version
Urban apocalypse

Nice list dr prog! Clap

Some classic Tull there. All released 40 years later

All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.

1. A Song for Jeffrey
2. Nothing Is Easy
3. To Cry You a Song
4. Cross-Eyed Mary
5. Thick a a Brick Edit #1
6. A Passion Play Edit #8
7. The Third Hoorah
8. Minstrel in the Gallery
9. Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die
10. Cup of Wonder

"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno