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    Posted: May 19 2006 at 15:20
i'm gonna order some Jethro Tull Now and, where to start?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2006 at 15:24
I guess most people will say Thick As A Brick or Aqualung. Speaking as a recent convert to the Tull cause, I would say "Minstrel in the Gallery" is pretty good.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2006 at 15:25
"Thick as a brick" is too expensive...
how about "A Passion Play" and "Aqualung"?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2006 at 15:34
I'll just number which I think is best, disregarding which would fit your personality best, because no one knows that:
 
1. Thick as a Brick (5)
2. Songs from The Wood (5)
3. Stand Up (4.5)
4. A Passion Play (4.5)
5. Stormwatch (4.5)
6. Heavy Horses (4.5)
7. Aqualung (4)
8. Jethro Tull Christmas Album (4)
9. Minstrel in the Gallery(4)
10. Broadsword and the Beast (3.5)
 
(#) = Approx. star rating from me out of 5. Also, just because Thick as a brick is #1 and Songs from the Wood is #2 doesn't mean Thick as a Brick is better. The numbers 1-10 are there only to show that those are my top 10. Star ratings are what you really need to consider.
 
That should get you going for a while.Wink
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2006 at 15:40
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

i'm gonna order some Jethro Tull Now and, where to start?
Thanks! [IMG]height=17 alt=Smile src="http://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley1.gif" width=17 align=absMiddle>

          
     
          
           "This Was"(68) and "Stand up"(69) are essential: big classics not to miss, "Benefit" (70) is average, "Aqualung" (71) is considered by many as the masterpiece, features indeed the best acoustic pieces they did. "Thick as a brick" (72) is the most prog.
After comes the decline with the "decent" "Passion play"(73) and "Ministrel in the gallery" (75).


     

           


      

    
    

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2006 at 15:48
Minstreal In The Gallery
Thick As A Brick
Heavy Horses
Aqualung
A Passion Play
Stormwatch
 
 
All good places to start IMO.
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I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2006 at 15:53
You all pass beside the guenuine "This was" and "Stand up"


    

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2006 at 16:08

My personal favourites are 'Aqualung', 'Thick As A Brick' and 'Songs From The Wood'. For me, these are easily their best and a good summary of their career.

After that, get 'Stand Up', 'Minstrel In The Gallery', 'Broadsword and the Beast', 'Heavy Horses' and 'Crest Of A Knave'- excellent albums all. I also really like the more blues rock debut 'This Was', but it's a bit of an anomaly in their catalogue really.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2006 at 17:00
Thick as a Brick, A Passion Play and Minstrel in the Gallery are my favorites. Aqualung and Thick are probably the best, or at least good starting points.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2006 at 17:39
My favourites are A Passion Play, Minstrel in the Gallery and then Too old to rock and roll, Too young to die although that is slightly worse.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2006 at 21:50
Man, JT's been around too long to just pick one or a few to tell ya where to start. They are not formulaic uninventive rock. The evolve and reinvent themselves each time.

 Get the first few if you like blues/jazz type things. If not, move towards their early to mid 70's discs for the more Progressive sounds. Later 70's they get folksy.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2006 at 21:59
I like A Passion Play, but I think that would be a bad place to start with Tull. And TAAB is $10 on Amazon. Although I suppose that doesn't help you in Sweden...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2006 at 22:37
You should rate Tull by year, because each album is missing great session songs which are better than alot of the songs on the actual albums. Anyway I think the following are Tulls best 10 years.
 
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
 
1999-dotcom(strong album which could do without 4 or 5 songs) + It all trickles down single. You can pick 10 songs from this session which form an album I still consider would be the best rock album of the last 20 years at least. Tull play smart music and it's just more exciting and catchier than any other modern band. It's not loud music, it's typically smart prog from a super experienced band
 
1982-broadsword remaster(some very good songs, but the album could do without 3 or 4 songs. Some strong bonus tracks as well as some weaker bonus tracks. But this remaster is missing another 8 bonus tracks which are probably just as good as the 8 bonus tracks on the remaster). The remaster includes the weak version of jackalynn, but you can download the great version of jackalynn at my site. This session includes 26 songs and you can make a classic prog folk rock album from the best 10 songs. Tull were still flying in the early 80s. Don't believe people who say Tull were no good after the 70s. They have probably only heard 10 of the available 26 songs from 1982 era. Yes there were some mediocre songs in 1982, but there is enough strong songs to prove Tull could record 10 songs per album year which would make them among the best bands in the world every single year. Very good year with the occasional mediocre song
 
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
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2006 at 01:20
"heavy horses" and "a passion play"...
sounds good?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2006 at 01:23
Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

"heavy horses" and "a passion play"...
sounds good?
Yes, i have both, and are great!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2006 at 01:55
then i'll just might buy those!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2006 at 03:13
Alex, check out the Jethro Tull videos on Youtube if you can.

I have the remastered Aqualung and it's very good.  I also saw JT in concert a few months back.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2006 at 03:20
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2006 at 03:22
I guess so, but it wasn't 1970s Jethro Tull (well it was, but Ian Anderson's voice has detiorated somewhat), so it wasn't to the quality of concerts back in the day.

But still excellent nonetheless.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2006 at 09:13
Don't go for A passion play. Go for Thick as a brick and Heavy horses. I think you would have to see how strong Tull are to enjoy A passion play. If you bought A passion play as your first Tull cd, you would think they were not that good a band
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