Favourite Jethro Tull song (no Thick as a brick)
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Topic: Favourite Jethro Tull song (no Thick as a brick)
Posted By: Mista-Gordie
Subject: Favourite Jethro Tull song (no Thick as a brick)
Date Posted: March 04 2013 at 21:47
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So, what's your favourite Tull song (THICK AS A BRICK NOT INCLUDED) I'll go with Baker st. Muse
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: March 04 2013 at 21:52
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Nothing Is Easy, Stand Up is the only JT album is can listen to. It's a good one though. ------------- Persuasion deflowers your sympathy. |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 04 2013 at 21:59
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European Legacy/Later that same evening Teacher Skating Away North Sea Oil Song for Jeffrey ------------- -Cough remedies, they just don't make 'em like they used to... 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 04 2013 at 22:07
A Passion Play
 ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: RedNightmareKing
Date Posted: March 04 2013 at 23:17
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For some odd reason, Living In The Past. My all-time favorite JT track.
------------- I consider drone metal to be progressive... |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: March 04 2013 at 23:19
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Toss up between Minstrel in the Gallery and Hunting Girl. Went for Hunting Girl, but Minstrel is such a fine tune... ------------- "Read some Kerouac and it put me on the track to burn a little brighter now..." (Marillion) |
Posted By: Ajay
Date Posted: March 04 2013 at 23:22
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Aqualung - a six-and-a-half minute masterclass in how to |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: March 04 2013 at 23:26
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As the Baker Street train spills your pain all over your new dress,
And the symphony sounds underground put you under duress, Well don't you squeal as the heel grinds you under the wheel. ------------- And all the stars were crashing 'round as I laid eyes on what I found... |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: March 04 2013 at 23:26
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Aqualung is my fav song of my fav Tull album. I wouldn't have voted for TAAB even if in the list. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: March 04 2013 at 23:33
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Aqualung, followed by Minstrel in the Gallery. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: March 04 2013 at 23:52
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Greetings, well met fellow, hail! I am the wind to fill your sail. I am the cross to take your nail. A singer of these ageless times, with kitchen prose and gutter rhymes. Now doesn't that make you feel much better? Nothing like a good song from the wood to lift your spirits. That, and a high-born hunting girl, but I didn't vote for that one. ------------- After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~Aldous Huxley |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 00:15
| all of them are great, I'm a fan of the band but I'll have to go with Hunting girl |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 00:15
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Alive and Well and Living In
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/TullDerGraff" rel="nofollow"> 
[QUOTE=Vompatti]I wouldn't put a Warr guitar in my vagina.[/QUOTE] |
Posted By: bytor2112
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 00:56
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A Passion Play, my favorite album of theirs ------------- 
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Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 01:25
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Baker St. Muse ------------- New JoKe Inc album, Download at www.jokeinc.bandcamp.com more about JoKe Inc at www.jokeinc.webs.com/ |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 01:47
OK, OK, I'll vote Aqualung 
------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 02:48
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Baker St. Muse, with Hunting Girl as second. ------------- 
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Posted By: snowsnow
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 03:16
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My fav Tull album is APP - but won't vote for it being an album rather than just a song. On this (excellent) list Baker street muse just edges Minstrel (from bursting out)But most recently it's been Dark Ages (Toys are you ready...")
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Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 03:23
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Not a great list imo. Only 5 or 6 of those songs make my top 100 tull songs lol
They are Living in the past Aqualung Jeffrey goes to Leicester square Mothr goose Cup of wonder Velvet green Pibroch Where is? Teacher Witches promise Look into the sun Up the pool Life is a long song Whistler Mouse police Acres wild North sea oil Fylingdale flyer They are instant classics |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 04:24
| Reasons For Waiting, I love that song. |
Posted By: friso
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 05:30
| The Flying Dutchmen |
Posted By: dedokras
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 06:20
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A Passion Play Aqualung Baker St. Muse Songs From The Wood Hunting Girl ------------- http://mlyk.bandcamp.com/ |
Posted By: snowsnow
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 06:21
Surely it is down to personal tastes? Some great stuff in your list(Teacher/Life's a long song/Witches promise)
But North sea oil/ Mouse police/Flyingdale flyer - certainly not instant classics to me!
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 06:40
| Passion Play followed closely by Baker Street Muse. |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 06:50
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Right now, I hear "Heavy Horses" (but I was close to vote "Songs From The Wood").
------------- Excuse me, sir, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, Neptune, god of the Sea? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 06:57
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Dharma For One, followed by Witch's Promise
Please note that it is the Promise made by a Witch, not the Promise of many Witches ------------- 
If you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise and then just behave like they would - Neil Gaiman |
Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 07:14
| Other: "Teacher" |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 07:33
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passion play ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 07:43
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Reasons for Waiting. Wow, does that song take me places!
------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 07:51
------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 08:05
this---Tull is too bluesy for me to love lot's of their songs.
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 08:08
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Too many great tunes to choose from, since Tull has a lot of great music on their catalog. We Used to Know is my all time favorite song, for very personal reasons, so my vote goes to it. But the rest are all great pieces of music, from one of the greatest (if not the greatest) band of all time. |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 08:56
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voted Minstrel but I love so many Tull songs my answer could change tomorrow ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Josef_K
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 09:05
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Cross Eyed Mary for me, I love the original but surprisingly find myself listening to a bootleg recording of a live cover version made by "The Elves" in 1970 just a bit more ^^ I think I'd actually pick it over Thick as a Brick as well. ------------- My band's Reverbnation page, for people who like keyboard-driven symphonic/progressive-ish rock :D http://www.reverbnation.com/oracleswe |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 09:12
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Back to the family from my fave Tull album Stand Up. Artistically, I'd probably say A Passion Play is the better record. ------------- “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: sagichim
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 13:03
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Wow... so many incredible tunes. Gotta go with the hard rocking Minstrel.
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"One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.." |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 14:37
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Minstrel In The Gallery, followed by A Passion Play. -------------  
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 15:17
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Other - Moths. Same if TAAB was here.
From the list, Aqualung or Locomotive Breath.
------------- Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you have to eat. |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 17:20
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Bourée
Nothing is Easy, Aqualung, Cross-Eyed Mary, Mother Goose, Living in the Past, Minstrel in the Gallery, Cold Wind to Valhalla - I could've voted for any of these, but I'm in the mood for Bourée right now. Oh my God...That's the one I really should have voted for. |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 17:37
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^  What did you vote for?------------- "Composing itself, in a way, is a simplifying process, just trying to pick some (strands?) out [of] the clamour in the head." - Robert Wyatt. 
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 17:53
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Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day ------------- 
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Posted By: otto pankrock
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 18:24
| Other, Heavy Horses. There are alot of tough choices here. |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 19:05
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Passion Play, but you left out a lot of my favorites including but not limited to: Sossity; You're a Woman, One White Duck, Heavy Horses and Rainbow Blues
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 19:08
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Wind Up, especially for the lyrics ------------- "and what music unites, man should not take apart"--Helmut Koellen |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 19:48
| "To Cry You a Song" |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 22:24
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My God!
------------- Frank Swarbrick -- "The fact of the matter is it is what it is At the end of the day we can certainly all agree That your Working American Family gives 110% post-9/11." -- 3rdegree (2012) |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: March 05 2013 at 22:43
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I could list dozens. How about a baker's dozen not on the list to start: Acres Wild Solitaire Salamander Christmas Song Dun Ringill Skating Away (on the Thin Ice of a New Day) Taxi Grab Life is a Long Song Look Into the Sun Rainbow Blues Sealion Fat Man One Brown Mouse ------------- Please pay a visit to my blog... http://darkelffile.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - The Dark Elf File ...a slighty skewed journal of music reviews, literary comment, fan-fiction and interminable essays. |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: March 06 2013 at 00:50
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Here's this song definition thing again. Personally the best JT song is easily "We Used To Know"...fantastic melody, brilliant singing and it brings back so many great memories. Now the best piece of JT music to me is Minstrel In The Gallery......that middle bit and the once in a life time flute/guitar riff makes this my favourite JT music track. Sorry for being pedantic again!
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Posted By: Ajay
Date Posted: March 06 2013 at 01:12
| ^ Can you sing it, and is it shorter than an opera? If yes, then it's a song. The middle bit of Minstrel In The Gallery is a section. |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: March 06 2013 at 04:21
I brought this up because there was a discussion topic In the proto-prog section of the forum asking what the first proto-prog song was.......and many were putting instrumentals forward. As for Minstrel in The Gallery....that's why it is isn't my favourite song as is has too much instrumental in the middle bit (sorry, section) to make it my favourite JT song. MITG is my favourite piece of Tull music (because of the middle bit)......... MITG the song (lyrics, singing and especially melody) to me is very good but not their best. Would you call A Passion Play a song? I wouldn't, but others might. |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: March 06 2013 at 12:12
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Budapest and Back Door Angels are not listed yet are JT classics! ------------- "Secret career in counter-espionage, covering his fear in clever camouflage" Robert Calvert . "I don't remember, I don't recall, I've got no memory of anything at all" |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: March 06 2013 at 14:10
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I think Weathercock is one of the most wondrous songs ever written. Anderson at the absolute top of his game, and represents, to me, all that was great about Tull. ------------- 
In Lazland, life is transient. Prog is permanent. |
Posted By: sorcerer kermes
Date Posted: March 06 2013 at 14:55
| so many great songs but if i am to choose one all time favourite which i can listen to it infernally Cold Wind To Valhalla |
Posted By: Mr Greeen Genes
Date Posted: March 07 2013 at 00:26
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1. Thick As A Brick 2. Baker St. Muse 3. A Passion Play
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Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: March 07 2013 at 01:38
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My God. ------------- 
"Jon Anderson is the only guy who is trying to save this planet while living on another" - Rick Wakeman. |
Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: March 07 2013 at 02:29
| A Passion Play is their best album, but nothing can beat We Used To Know ! |
Posted By: Ian Stuart
Date Posted: April 19 2013 at 18:08
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As always - 'tis impossible to pick 1 "best" Tull tune ... but definitely in the top three" Skating Away (On The Thin Ice Of A New Day) |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: April 19 2013 at 18:46
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Narrowed it down to 'A Passion Play' or 'Minstrel in the Gallery'. While Minstrel is truly a great song, Passion Play is an epic composition. ------------- "I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down deamons from the stars. I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness..." - HP Lovecraft |
Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: April 21 2013 at 03:26
| Real talk, Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play are the only Tull songs I actually like. |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: April 21 2013 at 03:55
Like this , got my vote, Baker Street equally great ------------- New JoKe Inc album, Download at www.jokeinc.bandcamp.com more about JoKe Inc at www.jokeinc.webs.com/ |
Posted By: Varon
Date Posted: April 21 2013 at 06:55
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Rover
------------- Would you catch the final words of mine? Would you catch my words??? |
Posted By: 3almost46yea
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 19:35
| One White Duck, Rainbow blues, Saturation, Old Ghosts, Hunting Girl, Orion, Fylingdale Flyer, Heavy Horses, Black Sunday, Velvet Green, Something's On The Move.....actually Jethro Tull has lot's of favorite songs :-)))) |
Posted By: humor4u1959
Date Posted: May 02 2013 at 01:07
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Given the choices offered, I had to choose 'Living In The Past.' The flute melody is excellent and I love the 5/4 time signature with the claves on percussion. As a drummer, I like that. To my knowledge, it's the only song they did in an odd meter. Correct me if I'm wrong. I might be. At any rate, it's a wonderful song! Always loved it. ------------- "Life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?" -Keith Reid (Procol Harum) |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: May 03 2013 at 11:44
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I chose aPP though I have a hard time with it being "a song". For songs in the strictest sense of the word I would have to say My Sunday Feeling. Oddly enough, that song did little for me until I watched the Isle of Wight disk and was just floored by the energy that opened with.
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Posted By: stegor
Date Posted: May 03 2013 at 22:20
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Up the 'Pool. It somehow lodged itself in a special part of my brain. Whenever I hear it I'm 15 again. |
Posted By: humor4u1959
Date Posted: May 04 2013 at 01:29
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It should be stated that a piece of music that takes up an entire album is NOT a song. Therefore, I think Passion Play should also be exempt from the poll. It's an epic, I really like it, but it's more a group of songs. Just my opinion, folks. ------------- "Life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?" -Keith Reid (Procol Harum) |
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: May 05 2013 at 16:25
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Orion from the 'Stormwatch' album ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: stegor
Date Posted: May 05 2013 at 23:29
I love that one too. So underappreciated. Woody. Evan's piano is so lovely. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: May 06 2013 at 20:21
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Benefit is by far my favorite Tull lp.....so I'll have to choose other and pick 'Nothing To Say' from that one. IMHo some of Ian's best lyrics. "Climb a tower of freedom,
paint your own deceiving sign. It's not my power to criticize or to ask you to be blind To your own pressing problem and the hate you must unwind. So ask of me no answer there is none that I could give you wouldn't find. I went your way ten years ago and I've got nothing to say. Nothing to say." ------------- Et In Arcadia Ego |