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First Utterance vs. Stormwatch
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Poll Question: Which album do you prefer?
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    Posted: March 08 2022 at 09:17
Which one would you take with you on a desert island, should you be allowed to only choose between these two records?
I know I will certainly have 'First Utterance'. Big smile

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First Utterance for sure. When I saw this poll my brain registered FU's competition as Roy Harper's Stormcock (the stormy cock surely would beat the stormy watch for me).
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First Utterance though I would have voted Stormcock if it was the option.
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First Utterance is a good album, but I love that period of Jethro Tull.
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I don't like Stormwatch that much, but I'd pick almost anything over First Utterance.
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I voted for Stormwatch, for it is free of that primitive, lo-fi early 70s mixing/production First Utterance suffers from.
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Both are great albums for different reasons. First Utterance is more experimental and unique - a success in its own extremities. On a desert island however, I would get more out of Stormwatch, and hence my vote. More uplifting and inspirational.
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Stormwatch. I think it's one of Tull's more underrated albums and it has aged very well.
First Utterance is a very distinctive and adventurous album, but I think that it is rather overrated.
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Stormwatch. Not my favourite Tull, but First Utterance is too difficult listening for me. 
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the pure beauty of Comus - 'First Utterance' (1971)








Edited by David_D - March 09 2022 at 09:50
                      quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Stormwatch for sure, even though I like First Utterance very much.
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I prefer Comus but voted for Jethro Tull, as listening to First Utterance whilst all alone on a desert island would no doubt give me nightmares. Stern Smile
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I prefer Comus but voted for Jethro Tull, as listening to First Utterance whilst all alone on a desert island would no doubt give me nightmares. Stern Smile
Well, that's quite certain, Psych Paul. LOL
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I like Stormwatch (probably in my top five Tull albums) but I have never heard the Comus album. The album cover is beyond disturbing and I've only just realised that what I thought were shoulders could be the hind haunches of an animal given birth to a whatever it is. Yep great. 
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First Utterance is an exhilarating far out fun-ride and pure progfolk perfection - while Stormwatch is "up there" with Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!, War Child and the rest of Tull's forgettable three star albums.
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Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - March 08 2022 at 14:23
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Comus, easy. And I like Stormwatch. 
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