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    Posted: November 02 2006 at 06:28
Minstrel in the Gallery - What is Your Opinion?
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prog polls - what is your opinion?    Big smile
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I like it, actually I prefer it to Aqualung.
 
That should start some discussion!
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reviewed. Wink
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A masterpiece for me.The best Tull work With Thick as a brick.Tull 100%.
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Baker Street Muse - in my top 5 songs
Minstrel in the Gallery - one of my favorite album openers
Cold Wind to Valhalla - great fun
 
The rest - all quite good
 
Not a full 5 star masterpiece, but clearly the #2 in the Tull discography behind Thick as a Brick.
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And it seems this should have been moved to prog recommendations/selected albums...
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Its one of the best JT albums, but Thick as a brick, Passion play are my favorites
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Here's some previous threads with thoughts:
 
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What a fantastic album... not many people mention this album, instead they go on an on about Thick As a Brick and A Passion Play, and to some extent, Aqualung.....all those albums are fine albums.....but perhaps the TRUE jewel in the Tull pot is Minstrel In The Gallery. It is what I would call a perfect album, or near perfect in any respect. Marvelous writing, beautiful arrangments, cleverly written lyrics with thought provoking attributes, wonderful acoustic guitar playing (I assume from Mr. Anderson), ... View Post
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The Minstrel in the Gallery looked down upon the smiling (anddisgusted,pissed off) faces. Most people I know either love this album or think it's garbage. I enjoy it. What do you think? View Post
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I have reviewed it favourably.
 
When you ask others for their opinion, why not put in a little effort, and offer your own opinion? This would make your thread more interesting. Stern Smile
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When MINSTREL first came out, I felt disappointed. After the multi-coloured riches of A PASSION PLAY and WARCHILD (to this day I have never even heard TOO OLD TO ROCK 'N' ROLL, though I saw it performed live on TV once) MINSTREL seemed like black and white.

Now I think it's one of their strongest efforts, apart from the boring title track, which I always skip. I love all the other stuff, although 'Grace' is rather too sentimental to my taste.
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Hard-rock, lots of folk passages and prog-rock all in one record : a very good record, as all their seventies efforts.
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I prefer Thick as a Brick, A Passion Play, Songs from the Wood, and Heavy Horses over it, but it's still a great album. 
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What do I think of Minstrel? It, uh, how can I phrase this correctly...rocks? Like, hard? Like, super hard?

I once made the mistake of putting the album on top of the Yes Album. (sniff) Poor thing was crushed under the HEAVY WOOD that is Minstrel. That song is, like, my favoritest Tull number evah.

(The first side of the album is fantastic; Minstrel, "favoritest Tull number evah," the fun and rockin' Cold Wind, Black Satin Dancer, great guitar work. Requiem is quite nice. All drifty and weepy. Side two sags a little. One White Etc. is good, but overlong. Baker Street Muse is a little too much, but the opening and closing sections are great. The finisher, Grace, is just fantastic--currently my favorite album closer, beating out Eclipse)
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What is there not to like? I actually wish they'd kept up that clever conversation the musicians in the balcony are having, and continued it at the start and finish of each number.
    

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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

What is there not to like? I actually wish they'd kept up that clever conversation the musicians in the balcony are having, and continued it at the start and finish of each number.
    
 
Hmm... I don't think I'd like it throughout the album, but, yeah, I would have liked it to be revisited. An intriguing idea.
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Yeah, I mean minstrels have to communicate, even in a whisper-- and the sounds of the pages, jesters, visiting royalty and guests...it all disappears after the second cut.
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Yeah, but almost every track begins with some kind of studio noise (all but Black Satin Dancer and...Grace?).

By the way, am I the only one who notices that the flow of songs is nearly flawless?
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Gosh but I love this album. Gotta say one more thing.
 
Originally posted by fuxi fuxi wrote:

When MINSTREL first came out, I felt disappointed. After the multi-coloured riches of A PASSION PLAY and WARCHILD (to this day I have never even heard TOO OLD TO ROCK 'N' ROLL, though I saw it performed live on TV once) MINSTREL seemed like black and white. 
 
For me, this was sort of the point. After the lush (and really quite artsy) Warchild, Minstrel was just utterly stripped down. Just compare the opening (and titular) tracks. One has a the little SFX fade in opening and over the top instrumentation, the other is Martin Barre smashing his guitar against the floor to John Evan's croaking organ.
 
(By the way, folks bash Too Old, but it's really quite a nice album. Not as good as Minstrel, but just as good as Warchild or Stormwatch)
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Points: 65864 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 03 2006 at 01:40
...and the band's deft, grumbling commentary reflecting how musicians have always had to bow to their master's whims, playing their butts off for some stipend and a few leftover scraps. Could've been a powerful socio-musical statement.
    

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