CREST OF A KNAVE

The score obtained by this album is not a disaster, but this work of music should really deserve a higher one. It was maligned by two events: first the winning of a prize related to the best metal album of the year, in 1987, I guess. As there is no intense heavy metal issues in its content (if there is really any), it immediately created a rejection. Jethro Tull was never a heavy metal band, so receiving this prize really made no sense. Metallica, its band´s oppositor, should have won the contest, they are a competent heavy metal band.

The other problem is the presence of that sound of the eighties, so rejected in progressive rock community. And it appears immediately, in the album´s opener, Steel Monkey. Not a bad song, I really like it but a bit far away of being a solid opener for a Jethro Tull album.

After that opener, the album presents a bunch of excellent and masterpiece songs. Farm On A Freeway, She Said She Was a Dancer and Budapest are may preferred ones, and I had to agree with my son that Crest Of A Knave MAYBE is a better album than my favorite Minstrel In The Gallery After several masterpieces in the seventies, only two album really made me fall in love with which are Crest Of A Knave and Roots To Branches. There is only another review scoring 5 stars; this is a 4,5 stars album, but it deserves to be rounded up even because Jethro Tull is really my favorite band of all times.

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