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The-time-is-now 
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 15:24 |
 The Truth wrote:
Both of these are great albums and both seem kind of misunderstood to me. Passion Play was the "self-indulgent" follow-up to TAAB and Minstrel is the low rated masterpiece to me. Which one do you like better? I prefer MITG. |
I do, too.
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Posted: July 31 2010 at 07:39 |
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Minstrel in the Gallery. A Passion Play has some excellent moments, but nevertheless it is a 4-star album matched against a rounded-up 3-star album.
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Takeshi Kovacs
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Posted: July 31 2010 at 04:04 |
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Minstrel (vote number 14 from me).
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Posted: July 31 2010 at 03:16 |
Morningrise wrote:
Minstrel is my favorite JT album ever. So, it was really an easy choice. |
Yeap.
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 22:20 |
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Minstrel for me.
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 21:17 |
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A Passion Play, but only just. Minstrel is my second favorite Tull album by a narrow margin.
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 19:42 |
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A Passion Play
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Epignosis
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 19:04 |
SaltyJon wrote:
I probably will check it out eventually, but there are a lot of albums by a lot of bands which I'm going to check out first, so it may take a long time to get here. 
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A Passion Play would seem up your alley.
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progman2010
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 19:02 |
Minstrel is tulls weakest vital realease of the 15 spanning 1969-1982 imo. A passion play is fairly good but wouldn't be among my top 5 of these 13. That shows how strong Tull were. Here's how i rank them:
Thick as a brick-excellent album
Living in the past-stunning bunch of classic singles and other super extras
Heavy horses-very very good album. Some brilliant prog folk
Bursting out-super live album and one of the best you'll ever find
Warchild-was an average soundtrack album but 7 very good bonus tracks make it tulls #1 remaster. You'll wonder what the band was thinking. Genius band trying to be commecrial
Stormwatch-pretty cool album and 4 very enjoyable bonus tracks.
Songs from the wood-pretty good album but not as genius as heavy horses
Benefit-fairly good album but 3 super bonus tracks
Aqualung-strong side 1, average side 2, 2 cool bonus tracks
A-pretty cool album
Broadsword and the beast-fairly good album and at least 2 strong bonus tracks
A passion play-pretty good album
Stand up-fairly good album with 3 cool bonus tracks
Too old to rock n roll too young to die-pretty average soundtrack but last 2 tracks and 2 bonus tracks are strong
Minstrel in the gallery-Decent album but tull becomes guitar orientated, more repetitive and glamour like and the acoustics become simpler and longer. Cool bonus tracks though
The bold releases are probably the only 2 which rank 4 star at best. Probably 7.5/10 which is still quite good but the other 13 releases are better imo. All of the others would get 8.5/10 or more 
Edited by progman2010 - July 30 2010 at 19:12
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SaltyJon
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 18:51 |
I probably will check it out eventually, but there are a lot of albums by a lot of bands which I'm going to check out first, so it may take a long time to get here.
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The Quiet One
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 18:47 |
A Person wrote:
SaltyJon wrote:
I love Minstrel, haven't listened to APP. Therefore no vote.
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DO IT It's a better album than TaaB, even though my favorite Tull "song" is the first half of TaaB.
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SAME HERE! My fave Tull song, and one of my all-time fave songs is Thick as a Brick Part 1, but A Passion Play has both parts which are brilliant thus making it a better album.
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 18:38 |
SaltyJon wrote:
I love Minstrel, haven't listened to APP. Therefore no vote.
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DO IT It's a better album than TaaB, even though my favorite Tull "song" is the first half of TaaB.
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 18:08 |
Maybe I'll listen to them again over the weekend and vote. 
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 18:04 |
The Quiet One wrote:
CinemaZebra wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Oh!
You've nailed my favorite two Jethro Tull albums. I could really vote either way these days.
In any event, A Passion Play is far superior to Thick as a Brick.
I've been fonder longer with Minstrel in the Gallery though...
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Yes we will, he just went to pick up a beer and he'll decide easily then. |
Oh okay cool.
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 18:04 |
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I love Minstrel, haven't listened to APP. Therefore no vote.
Edited by SaltyJon - July 30 2010 at 18:04
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The Quiet One
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 18:02 |
CinemaZebra wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
Oh!
You've nailed my favorite two Jethro Tull albums. I could really vote either way these days.
In any event, A Passion Play is far superior to Thick as a Brick.
I've been fonder longer with Minstrel in the Gallery though...
...what to do, what to do...
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...we'll never know?
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Yes we will, he just went to pick up a beer and he'll decide easily then.
Edited by The Quiet One - July 30 2010 at 18:02
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CinemaZebra
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 18:00 |
Epignosis wrote:
Oh!
You've nailed my favorite two Jethro Tull albums. I could really vote either way these days.
In any event, A Passion Play is far superior to Thick as a Brick.
I've been fonder longer with Minstrel in the Gallery though...
...what to do, what to do...
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...we'll never know?
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Morningrise
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 17:55 |
Minstrel is my favorite JT album ever. So, it was really an easy choice.
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Epignosis
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 17:54 |
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Oh!
You've nailed my favorite two Jethro Tull albums. I could really vote either way these days.
In any event, A Passion Play is far superior to Thick as a Brick.
I've been fonder longer with Minstrel in the Gallery though...
...what to do, what to do...
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ergaster
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 17:06 |
At least I'm not alone in preferring Minstrel. But it's sort of like asking a chocoholic if they prefer chocolate cake, chocolate cookies, or chocolate ice cream.
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