Wish You Were Here has overtaken Thick As A Brick

With my review, just posted, http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2241329 , I saw that (I think for the first time) Wish You Were has overtaken Thick As A Brick, which slipped to fourth place.

In this regard, in the last 4 years I have seen some trends within the Top 10.

Edited by jamesbaldwin - August 01 2019 at 08:39

Quinino wrote: You are a numbers guy, aren't you ? Giving an album "Medium quality of the songs: 7,875" makes me wonder I've been overlooking  something ermm  important.

I noticed court recently overtook WYWH, now we just need Moonmadness to overtake everything ahead of it...

All jokes aside, cool, can’t say either WYWH or TAAB would be in my top 5, but it’s cool to see movement

I do think wywh is a better album, that one is probably top 15 for me

Edited by dougmcauliffe - August 01 2019 at 14:31

If I remember correctly, when I first started checking out PA, even before joining the forum (more than 10 years ago, I guess near 15), Wish you were Here was first place. I don't remember so well the changes, and I have checked them even less latley (I think they don't even appear in the first page anymore, which makes it more difficult to pay attention to them), however, I do remember Selling England has been in number 1 too. I guess right now it's CttE?

Catcher10 wrote: WYWH is brilliant, and Aqualung should be head and shoulders over TAAB.

Dellinger wrote: If I remember correctly, when I first started checking out PA, even before joining the forum (more than 10 years ago, I guess near 15), Wish you were Here was first place. I don't remember so well the changes, and I have checked them even less latley (I think they don't even appear in the first page anymore, which makes it more difficult to pay attention to them), however, I do remember Selling England has been in number 1 too. I guess right now it's CttE?

Catcher10 wrote: WYWH is brilliant, and Aqualung should be head and shoulders over TAAB.

Um no. Loco breath, Wind up and My God are just standard compositions. Taab is genius. I think you need to be over 40 to understand. Although only some 40 + are smart   

Edited by dr prog - August 02 2019 at 03:26

jamesbaldwin wrote: dr prog wrote: Catcher10 wrote: WYWH is brilliant, and Aqualung should be head and shoulders over TAAB. Um no. Loco breath, Wind up and My God are just standard compositions. Taab is genius. I think you need to be over 40 to understand. Although only some 40 + are smart      I like TAAB but I don't find anything particularly ingenious in TAAB's music: the fact that it's a single suite doesn't automatically make it a brilliant composition. Instead I find My God surely above JT's standards: it's very brilliant and enthralling, and I consider it in contention for the best Jethro Tull song.

My god is just a repetitive riff. It’s good but probably 6th best on the album for me. The quad version is better though. The extra layering of vocals fixes the growly squeely voice Ian decided to use on side 2. Side 1 is classic Tull. Heavy folk prog rock. Side 2 should have made use of great Tull such as Up the pool, Wondring again, Just trying to be, For later, Bogenbroom etc. 1971 one of tulls best years. Tull had busy ballsy smart compositions. They didn’t have to run to the mellotron to make a good track
Can’t wait for Stormwatch remix. Double album worth. It’ll contain more strong tunes than any other Tull year. Best band of the 70s comfortably. Horses and Songs were great remixes too. All the remixes are excellent. There’s a reason they’re all ranked 4.5 stars. Love the 74 and 76 outtakes. Better than the album stuff

Edited by dr prog - August 02 2019 at 06:23

Stop looking at these PA top whatever lists (they're rigged, skewed, fixed and cheated anyways), it ruins your brains and waste your life

Edited by Sean Trane - August 02 2019 at 07:00