Jethro Tull - A Little Help!

 

Stand up(1969)

Benefit(1970)

Aqualung(1971)

Living in the past(1972)

Thick as a brick(1972)

Warchild(1974)

Songs from the wood(1977)

Heavy horses(1978)

Stormwatch(1979)

A(1980)

Broadsword(1982)

Crest of a knave(1987)

Catfish rising(1991)

Nightcap(1993)-includes some good catfish and broadsword extras

Roots to branches(1995)

Dotcom(1999)

In short :

 

1. Stand Up

 

2. Aqualung

 

1972-thick as a brick(excellent). Excellent year

 

1971-aqualung remaster(strong, but some overrated songs on side 2. Includes strong bonus tracks from 1971 though) + living in the past(this has another 7 or so great 1971 songs which are among Tulls best acoustics). Get Aqualung remaster and Living in the past together and you will make a classic 1971 album from the 2 just as good or even better than Thick as a brick. Don't forget to download the important Life is a long song remix from my site. It is among Tulls best ever songs and is hard to find. Excellent year

 

1978-heavy horses remaster(very strong album which contains some good bonus tracks, but it does not include Blues instrumental which is at my site and hard to find). Other strong songs missing from this remaster are Beltane and a stitch in time which are found on Songs from the wood and Stormwatch remasters instead. Great folk prog from Tull in 1978. Excellent year

 

1979-stormwatch remaster(solid album and underrated with great bonus tracks). This is equal with 1978. It's a heavier sounding Tull though. Excellent year

 

 

 

1980-A remaster(very good and very underrated prog album, which could do without Batteries not included). This has some excellent songs as usual. I still consider this a better prog album than A passion play. Tull had not dropped off the pace at all in 1980. They probably lifted another cog actually. This is a better album than Broadsword and probably equal with the best 10 songs from the complete Broadsword session. Very good year and strangely underrated at this site by so called prog fans ;). Very good year

 

1974-warchild remaster(the 7 bonus tracks are the highlights plus some other strong tracks on a mildy disappointing original album. March the mad scientist should have been included, but it was added to the Minstrel remaster instead). You can make another almost classic prog album from the best 10 songs. Most of the bonus tracks a fairly prog. Strong year

 

1977-songs from the wood(another typically strong year). Very solid year. Folk prog

 

1970-benefit remaster(the 3 classic bonus tracks are the major highlights). Very solid year

 

These are my fave 10 years of Tull, but I have included every possible session song to make my decision. I'd probably rank the remaining years in the following order.

1973-A passion play-very solid

1969-stand up remaster with great bonus tracks-very solid

1991-catfish rising with another 7 or 8 important bonus tracks-best 10 tracks among 20 make very good album 

1987-crest of a knave remaster(check out my sound improvements)-very solid

1995-roots to branches-solid

2001-xmas album-some cool stuff

1968-this was remaster(great bonus tracks)-solid

1975-minstrel in the gallery remaster-solid but overrated

1976-too old to rnr remaster(cool bonus tracks)-equal with minstrel remaster

1989-rock island(check out my sound improvements)-decent with cool bonus track

1984-under wraps(some cool songs, some bad songs, check out my sound improvements)-decent