STORMWATCH

This will be the last JETHRO TULL studio album that I write a review about, that is because I've never heard any of the following albums and I have almost no interest in listening to any of them: that is in part because of all the bad reviews that I've been reading about albums such as 'A', 'The broadsword and the beast', 'Under wraps' and 'Crest of a knave' (I do have an immense curiosity to listen to this last one though because of the METALLICA anecdote) but it also has a lot to do with my view of the 'Stormwatch' album.

I already explained in my last two reviews that I needed to listen to both 'Songs from the wood' and 'Heavy horses' several times before I fell in love with them and probably that is also what I need with 'Stormwatch', but as far as I've been listening to it I feel that is the same deal as happened with 'War child': it was an album with a total lack of inspiration and they only recorded it so they had something to publish that year.

The songs here are not catchy and it is easy to get bored if you listen to it as a whole piece (if you listen to the songs separately they could seem nice). Yes, it has a lot of flute lines, piano, bass, guitar, and all the stuff that I love about the previous albums, the six-men band of ANDERSON, PALMER, BARRE, BARLOW, EVAN, and GLASCOCK is the same line-up that played 'Stormwatch' (which, by the way, disappeared after this album since GLASCOCK died and all EVAN, BARLOW and PALMER left the band leaving it only to ANDERSON and BARRE so after this the band started to recruit several passing musicians) but it just doesn't convince me.

Maybe I need to listen to this album several more times and maybe someday I could appreciate it in another level and if it happens I'll be happy to edit my review and change my rate, but right now I feel that this material deserves only three stars.

SONG RATING: North Sea oil, 3 Orion, 4 Home, 3 Dark ages, 4 Warm sporran, 4 Something's on the move, 3 Old ghosts, 3 Dun ringill, 3 Flying Dutchman, 3 Elegy, 3

AVERAGE: 3.3

PERCENTAGE: 66

ALBUM RATING: 3 stars

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