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Epignosis 
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 18:18 |
 marktheshark wrote:
Ok fine, I figured there would be a thread somewhere here, but why isn't it listed in the JT discography? It's been out for months. HELLLLLOOO?
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Because it isn't a Jethro Tull release. 
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 18:15 |
marktheshark wrote:
but why isn't it listed in the JT discography?
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npjnpj wrote:
1) Look under Ian Anderson.
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I'm bad at reading too
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marktheshark
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 18:11 |
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Ok fine, I figured there would be a thread somewhere here, but why isn't it listed in the JT discography? It's been out for months. HELLLLLOOO?
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 12:18 |
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Me kinda likes it
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 10:52 |
1) Look under Ian Anderson. 2) Ignore any following comments 
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marktheshark
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 10:10 |
I've been thinking of getting this, so I checked out the details on it at Wiki. It says PA has some various reviews of it, but there's no entry of it on the JT discography.
Sooo, what's the deal on it? Who's the personnel, is it any good, worth buying etc. etc? 
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 08:20 |
It's rather predictable that a certain amount of prog fans weren't going to like it no matter what he did. I didn't have much hope for it when I first heard about it, but when I first heard some of it for myself, I knew I'd like the rest. I really do have to wonder what the hell those who have heard it and don't like it were expecting anyway. 
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 04:34 |
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Really good!
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Posted: May 04 2012 at 04:16 |
I think its great, really growing on me 
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 21:55 |
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I thought it was really good honestly but I wasn't expecting much. Best Tull in years, to be perfectly truthful, closer to TAAB than I ever thought it'd come.
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 21:37 |
Failcore wrote:
It's a good Tull album. It's a bad TAAB sequel.
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Agreed. The fact that it is named TAAB2 automatically set the bar wayyyy too high.
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"I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening." -Robert Fripp
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Posted: May 02 2012 at 18:35 |
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Just got it today and I like it. Went for the deluxe with DVD version. I have no problem with it being Thick As Brick 2 although I think the font on the cover should have "JETHRO TULL's" in a smaller font. I'm filing mine under Anderson, Ian especially since I don't have any of his solo albums yet. I would stock it under Jethro Tull in the record store.
I would definitely recommend the DVD with the surround sound mix by Steven Wilson. It's got some cool interview and making of shorts. Also a really spooky Ian Anderson reciting the lyrics to weird video backgrounds that is rather creepy and I have decided to save for later viewing.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted: April 30 2012 at 14:33 |
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Way better than 'Fly from Here' imo, Darkshade. In fact it is excellent. The first listens were just okay for me but around the 7th or 8th it clicked in a big way. Great comeback Mr. Anderson.
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Posted: April 30 2012 at 14:13 |
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I don't think I'll ever get this. I still sort of regret getting Yes' Fly from Here last year, even though I enjoy half of it. I'd still like to at least hear TAAB2.
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Posted: April 30 2012 at 13:25 |
Got it on now for the first listen (one of four purchases tonight).
I will have to listen to it a few more times before I consider reviewing, but first impressions are of a very good Ian Anderson album, and one that more than stands up to the latter couple of Tull albums.
As to comparisons to the original, well, I for one rather wished he had called it something other than TAAB 2. Maybe, The Progress Of Gerald Bostock, and merely marketed it as thoughts of growing older and ruminations on modern life & society, which is what it really is, rather than a direct "sequel".
Having said that, TAAB was never my favourite Tull album anyway, so I don't stand to be overly critical or despondent when comparing the two.
The simple fact is that TTAB 2 was always going to sell better than an album called anything else, and the old rogue has proved to us that he hasn't lost his touch.
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 04:48 |
Not surprised. What it sold it sold purely on nostalgia. The sound of the album isn't arresting enough to make it sell. And I'm a massive Tull fan and even I don't want to see this performed live in its entirety.
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Posted: April 27 2012 at 04:42 |
Number 55 on debut last week in top 200 Billboard album charts.
Nowhere to be found this week.
Will the tour help it get back there?
Don't think so.
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Posted: April 26 2012 at 07:58 |
Oh come on. This isn't even half as good as Roots To Branches. (Man that album's under-rated.) Anyway, have given a few more serious listens and... it's really growing *off* me. I'm serious. I think my initial reaction of "phew it's not horrible" was mostly just relief at it not being a complete disaster. But now I know it better it's just.... redundant. Is it the worst sound I ever heard? No. But does it add something positive to my conception of Tull and Anderson's music? No. There's a few snippets of power and intrigue but mostly it's out of touch and lazy and here's the big thing, doesn't even feel like the continous prog rock suite it supposedly is. This is a bunch of songs strung together and the lyrical style is far far more literal than TAAB was. If you took out the bits where he musically quotes TAAB, you'd have no idea that they had anything to do with each other. It's far too conservative and it's a plain Jane really.
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Posted: April 17 2012 at 23:10 |
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After listening to the album on YT, I gotta say that I'm very impressed in a positive way. Best Tull albums since A Passion Play, but I'm no Tull fan.
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Textbook
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Posted: April 17 2012 at 18:59 |
That's actually pretty good to get on Billboard like that. I thought it wouldn't even get the top 100. "Way Too Old To Dubstep, In Fact I Just Died" is absolutely hysterical by the way. (Yep, dupstep, showing your own age with the techno reference ;) )
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