One for the Tull fans
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Topic: One for the Tull fans
Posted By: Heathcliffe
Subject: One for the Tull fans
Date Posted: November 24 2011 at 21:44
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To my mind Tull have a collection of Great albums. Which of their sets do you believe deserve the title of being a truly great album ? Here's my list - Stand Up. Aqualung. Thick as a Brick. Passion Play. Living in the Past. To old to Rock and Roll. Songs from the Wood. Heavy Horses. Broadsword. Honourable Mentions go to - Benefit. War Child. Rock Island. 
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: November 24 2011 at 21:48
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My top 5 Tull includes: 1.Thick As A Brick 2.A Passion Play 3.Aqualung 4.Songs From The Wood 5.Minstrel In The Gallery Honorable mentions: Heavy Horses, Stand Up and the highly underrated Benefit. ------------- 
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Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: November 24 2011 at 21:52
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Stand Up Benefit Aqualung Thick As A Brick War Child Minstrel In The Gallery Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die! Songs From The Wood Heavy Horses ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: Proggernaut
Date Posted: November 24 2011 at 22:20
Under Wraps 
but seriously.. Aqualung thick as a Brick Minstrel in the Gallery top 3 for me -------------  Proggernaut (Noun) - one who is exploring the endlessly expanding universe of progressive music.
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: November 24 2011 at 22:29
1. Aqualung  2. Minstrel In The Gallery 3. Stand Up 4. Benefit 5. This Was 6. TAAB 7. Living in the Past 8. Heavy Horses 9. Songs from the Wood 10. Too Old... .511. Stormwatch 12. Warchild 13. Broadsword .514. A .515. Crest of a Knave 16. Passion Play 17. Under Wraps .5Honorary mention goes to Bursting Out, one of my favorite live albums ( .5)I like them quite a bit as you can see. This is my personal order of preference, which is subject to change and I wouldn't necessarily recommend exploring the catalog in that order. Haven't heard the most recent 4 albums, given the diminishing quality over the years that's not a priority. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 00:42
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Minstrel in the Gallery is my fave followed by Aqualung, TAAB, Songs From the Wood and Heavy Horses ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 01:21
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I really love old Jethro Tull...I give 5 stars to 9 albums...I listen to each of these albums at least once a year... I break out Song from the Woods in December....Yeah I know Ian's got an x-mas LP. On the shortest day of the year I always Ring Out Soltice Bells. I listen to Heavy Horses as the leaden winter opens, and while the moths suididal came every November...Benefit cry's me a song in cruel April. Minstral in the Gallery , and it's back to school in September with the Baker St. Muse. Thick as a Brick wishes me happy birthday in Feb. ( I met Ian Anderson in 87'....He signed my girlfriends shoes. "Your new shoes are worn at the heels." Ian Anderson August is the month I spit out pieces of my broken luck along with Aqualung. In the month on June I'm Living in the Past. Passion Play gets played in July, and I make a specticle out of myself laughing at owl, newt, and kangaroo argue about Hare's specticles. And of course I Stand Up and march through March. |
Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 02:53
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Long time JT fan here too. After all these decades with their music my ranking is this: A Passion Play Benefit Thick As A Brick Aqualung Stand Up Heavy Horses Songs From The Woods Minstrel In The Gallery War Child Too Old To Rock'n Roll ...
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 03:39
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Aqualung above all. I find Too old to Rock and Roll a bit underrated and TaaB a bit overrated instead. One that I really like is Bursting Out but I think the thread is about studio albums only ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: dedokras
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 05:04
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A Passion Play Aqualung Songs from the Wood .... Honourable mentions: Stand Up, Living in the Past, Thick as a Brick ------------- http://mlyk.bandcamp.com/ |
Posted By: dedokras
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 05:07
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...all 70s albums are very good to excellent though
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Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 05:09
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Very topical considering Tull may no longer exist (Controversial statement!!). Anyway...... I unashamedly have 12 Tull albums rated 5 stars.....I am too biased towards them. Been following them avidly since '72. Here they are in order (well today's order anyway!). 1. TAAB 2. A Passion Play 3. Benefit 4. Stand Up 5. Songs From The Wood 6. Aqualung 7. A (Yes A! Their most underated) 8. Warchild 9. Crest of A Knave (don't care what some say. It is brill) 10. Minstrel In The Gallery 11. Living In The Past (compilation) 12. Bursting Out (Live) They can't be finished? Can they? |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 06:06
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My top 5:
 A Passion Play Thick as a Brick Songs From the Wood+ Heavy Horses+ Minstrel in the Gallery------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! http://www.last.fm/music/Exerior" rel="nofollow - EXERIOR Experimental tech/death/progmetal from Norway! |
Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 06:48
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1. Aqualung
2. Songs From The Wood
3. Minstrel In the Gallery
4. Benefit (highly underrated)
5. Living In the Past
6. Thick as a Brick (somewhat overrated) ------------- PROGMATIC |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 10:08
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It's hard for me to choose among Tull's albums/music, since I've been a fan since 1972. After studding their music and researching their influences for so many years, I think I understand their music very well, and appreciate the contents, orchestration, composition, etc. For very personal reasons (mainly personal taste), my list is as follows: Stand Up A Passion Play Minstrel in theGallery Thick as a Brick Songs from the Woods Roots to Branches Aqualung Crest of a Knave The rest are also great albums, including the infamous Underwraps, and are not very far from the top ones. Again, this comes from a very dedicated Tull fan, so if I'm biased towards Tull's music, it's quite understandable.
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Posted By: snowsnow
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 10:29
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A passion play (particularly side 2)
Thick as a brick (particularly side 1)
Minstrel in the gallery
Bubbling under:
Stormwatch
Nightcap
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 12:20
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Tull was one of the bands that helped bring me out of the strict hard rock mode that dominated my teen years. I have been a major Tull skull since 1978, and they remain one of my absolute favorite bands still. Here are my favorites more or less in descending order: Heavy Horses Songs From the Wood Thick as a Brick Benefit Bursting Out Minstrel in the Gallery Aqualung Stand Up Passion Play Stormwatch ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 12:20
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Thick As a Brick is my fave album of all time Aqualung is a for sure 5 star many other awesome albums I love their whole catalogue even Under Wraps is OK  ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: criticdrummer94
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 12:32
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Thick as a Brick Aqualung Minstrel in the Gallery Stand Up Songs From the Wood -------------   MY IDOLS |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 12:47
My god is Jethro Tull finished? It's breaking me up, no requiem, no elegy for prog's pease cod pied piper gold tipped boots, black jacketed minstral in the gallery This was Jethro Tull, singing all day rhythym in gold the whistler bold Jack-in- the-Green like a cold wind to Vallalla last seen raising steam skating away on the thin ice of a new day caroling another Christmas Song later that same evening when Jesus came to play Hyme 43, the rainbow blues If Jesus saves -- well, He'd better save Himself from the gory glory seekers who use His name in death. By the fire at midnight my Baker St. Muse His locomotive breath raising steam pistons scraping songs from the woods His cross was rather bloody he could hardly roll his stone Oh Save Me Ian! He said, "My names the teacher." Roll Your Own... My God! It's the Baker St. Muse songs form the woods |
BarryGlibb wrote:Posted By: Hober Mallow
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 13:25
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I have been a Tull Skull (a new term I just learned thanks to Progosopher) all of my life and they are definitely one of my favorite bands of all time, although I became somewhat disinterested in their eighties stuff. My favorite albums in order (more or less): TAAB-obviously A Passion Play Minstrel in the Gallery Heavy Horses Songs From the Wood Aqualung Stand Up Benefit Warchild Crest of a Knave Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll; Too Young to Die Broadsword and the Beast ------------- “When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.” John Kennedy Toole |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 16:12
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1 Aqualung
2 Songs From the Wood
3 Thick as a Brick
4 Heavy Horses
5 Minstrel in the Gallery
Crest of a Knave is awful, I don't like War Child, Broadsword, A Passion Play or Too Old to Rock and Roll very much, and the early bluesy stuff before Aqualung is good but not really what I listen to. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: November 25 2011 at 22:35
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In my estimation, the top 10 Tull albums are:
1. Aqualung
2. Stand Up
3. Thick as a Brick
4. Songs from the Wood
5. Minstrel in the Gallery
1/26. Living in the Past (the unreleased material is a single great album in and of itself)
7. A Passion Play
8. Heavy Horses
9. War Child
1/210. Stormwatch 1/2------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: 7headedchicken
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 13:44
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Nearly all of them, but standing up above the rest:
Stand Up
Living In the Past
Thick As Brick
A
I haven't yet heard the Jethro Tull Christmas album, or Stormwatch, Under Wraps, and anything after Crest of a Knave except the very good J-Tull Dot Com.
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: November 30 2011 at 13:54
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Big fan as well here! I think my top 3 of their studio albums are: A Passion Play Stand Up Thick as a Brick Wouldn´t know which one I´d pick over the other though, as it´s all down to my temperament of the specific day. Right now I´m in a Stand Up mood. As a drummer, I´ll say that Clive Bunker always will be my favourite basher of theirs. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: December 01 2011 at 06:30
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Another big fan here! For me it's: TAAB A Passion Play Aqualung Benefit Minstrel in the Gallery with Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses right behind.
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Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: May 24 2012 at 06:24
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1. Thick as a Brick
2. Songs from the Wood
3. A Passion Play
4. Heavy Horses
5. Crest of a Knave
6. Minstrel in the Gallery
7. Rock Island
8. Aqualung
9. Roots to Branches
and there my list ends ... I don´t own and really know the other albums ------------- Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus |
Posted By: spknoevl
Date Posted: May 24 2012 at 07:32
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For me, the essentials are:
TAAB
Songs from the Wood
Passon Play
Aqualung
Minstrel in the Gallery
I like some of the others, but I've managed to get by without them. ------------- http://martinwebb.bandcamp.com The notes are just an interesting way to get from one silence to the next - Mick Gooderick |
Posted By: Gully Foyle
Date Posted: May 24 2012 at 11:28
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Stand Up
Benefit
Aqualung
Thick
Minstrel
Too old
Songs
Horses
Bursting
Glad to see some folks giving Too Old some props, often overlooked
And, Under Wraps deserves a ton more credit than it gets (which is often none). Plenty of clunkers on there, but some great songs as well. And for all of Anderson's faults, JT did at times actually progress and try new things.
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: May 25 2012 at 07:40
I agree. Under Wraps is quite good, but very far from the traditional Tull sound, which I think is the reason why not very many people like it. However, on it has it's own merits, and as you said, there are great songs in that album.
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