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   I dont think it's that unusual to only like one band of any given sub genre. I'm a big Opeth fan, but I can take or leave most of the prog metal I've heard. 

Re; Tull, I think Mr Lemming hits the nail on the head, regarding the folk element in their music.

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Blacksword Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130	Posted: October 12 2010 at 05:13
	I dont think it's that unusual to only like one band of any given sub genre. I'm a big Opeth fan, but I can take or leave most of the prog metal I've heard. Re; Tull, I think Mr Lemming hits the nail on the head, regarding the folk element in their music.
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harmonium.ro Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 18 2008 Location: Anna Calvi Status: Offline Points: 22989	Posted: October 12 2010 at 04:34
	It's understandable, I guess. Did you try Phoenix? They have a heavy Tull influence, mixed with kraut, psyche, rock'n'roll and classic metal.

Textbook Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 08 2009 Status: Offline Points: 3281	Posted: October 12 2010 at 04:29
	Me too actually- I've found his live comedy segments less funnier the older I've gotten, though at one time he cracked me up. That's nothing to do with the music though. btw I think Ring Out Solstice Bells is my favourite Christmas song ever.

ExittheLemming Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11420	Posted: October 12 2010 at 04:01
	Don't think it's that unusual as the folk elements in Tull are for me at any rate, stylistic affectations rather than pivotal to the content of the music i.e. if you take the folk elements away, the music remains to all intents and purposes, intact? Having said that though, Ian Anderson's 'urbane jester' routine just gets on my tits

Textbook Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 08 2009 Status: Offline Points: 3281	Posted: October 12 2010 at 03:26
	I've been a hardcore Jethro Tull fan for years. And I mean HARDCORE, I've got all 20 studio albums, the four Anderson solos, two B-side/rarities collections and a few hours of self collected rarities. They're probably my favourite band of all time if I had to call it. And yet I don't really like prog-folk and listen to virtually nothing else in the genre. I would listen to any other PA sub-genre (with the exception of my bugbear neo-prog) more than I do prog-folk Is this wierd, to just love ONE band from a genre? (I suppose this could be a problem not with prog-folk but with a possible misclassification of JT. Fans have noted before that it's odd how JT are almost always described as folk rock when their folk period is really only three albums and that after their commercial heyday.)