Jethro Tulls warchild

Mmmaaaybee, Witchie, but in hindsight all Tull up to about 1980 was great. And 'Passion Play' KICKS, baby, KICKS!
    

Edited by Atavachron - October 06 2006 at 03:23

Witchwoodhermit wrote: I've raved at how much I despise" Passion Play" before, so I won't repeat. That being said, I find Warchild to be the final lurch into the downward spiral for Jethro Tull. "Songs" and "Horses" aside, Tull never recovered from the heady days of "Brick". It was a different era, Tull was weak, the inspiration was gone. This was Warchild. Hit and miss is the kindest comment to paste on this old player, and further releases. In ever decreasing circles can Jethro's career be plotted from this very point.

Side two *is* a little touch-and-go but the first side is top-notch heavy prog. And let's not forget 'Living in the Past'.

"Pre-Brick" or not I don't see it mentioned much, and don't try to bait me, 'bro'.

R o V e R-- if you mean for 'Warchild', I've never liked it either. I actually prefer the photo of the boys in costume...would've made a better cover me thinks. If you speak of LitP, I like the faux-leathered look.

Atavachron

'Heavy Horses' is terrific. So is 'Songs', 'Benefit' and 'Warchild'. If you don't like any of those four records you may not be a true Tull fan, or haven't matured enough to appreciate them.

Hey! A rocked! Er, as long as you quit listening after Black Sunday, and mostly just skipped over to the DVD of Slipstream.

Sorta...I was part of the Ian Anderson plays some Orchestral Jethro Tull tour. It was pretty sweet (personal moment: when Ian was playing Eurology, and hobbled up on one leg for the first time in the performance, I started clapping my hands off, and I started a clap!)

The original album of 10 songs would only get a 7/10. A bit disappointing. The album has too many songs that sound over cheerful and some of the lyrics are a bit embarrasing. But this album was made as a soundtrack to a movie which didn't eventuate. So you have to ask if these 10 songs were typical Tull songs or were they songs written by the band for a movie. If there was no movie or soundtrack you wonder if the band would have ever written some of those songs, because they don't all sound like true Tull songs. The reason I don't think of them as Tull songs is because the 7 bonus tracks do sound like true Tull songs of much better quality. They just sound like typical heavy medievil prog and acoustic songs a bit like the Aqualung songs. These 1974 songs are the ones I think are true of the band and would have made a very good album

Edited by smithers - October 30 2006 at 21:31