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Topic Closed’Thick As A Brick’ and ’A Passion Play’
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Poll Question: Which one do you prefer?
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    Posted: April 17 2006 at 15:36
Well, I enjoy both of them.

Some people despise A Passion Play. They say it's directionless - what do they mean by that?
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Love both as much as each other!
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A PASSION PLAY is MORE Prog!!!

 

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If I can have then both then theres no problem. But I like A pasion play more

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TAAB is brilliant, Passion Play is a little overrated IMO. I just don't like it as much as most other Tull albums.
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A Passion Play is great, but it just can't hold up to Thick as a Brick, one of the great masterpieces of progressive that towers above all Prog in 1972.

Or maybe it's my favorite strait prog album.

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A Passion Play is quite good. But Thick As A Brick is excellent.

 
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I say both are worth four stars, but A Passion Play is closer to five.
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Two prog masterpieces and the high point of Jethro Tull career. Love them !
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Neither. Aqualung is better than both together. TAAB sounds very repetitive at some times. APP is too unfocused, se kind of TOTO (yes) bad developed.
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I just listened once THICK AS A BRICK . I still don't heard A Passion Play.
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No brainer.
Love TAAB.
Hate APP.
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I like both albums VERY much but I think the most constistant of the 2 is Thick as a Brick. A Passion Play is more progressive maybe but TAAB is by far the most consistant and amazing of the two. TAAB = 5 stars, A Passion Play = 4
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I haven't heard APP. Thick As A Brick lost my attention after the first 10 or so minutes. So I vote neither.
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A Passion Play is better than TAAB, IMO. Though TAAB is excellent too!
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how can someone who posts in a prog club not like TAAB? ;)
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taab is the very first prog album i heard and i love it since
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Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:



Some people despise A Passion Play. They say it's directionless - what do they mean by that?



ahhh... they mean that they read other people's reviews of albums and don't listen with their own ears and make up their own minds


same with the TFTO filler argument..... that's like saying Monet used too many colors in his paintings


think APP is a great album... but still prefer TaaB.
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Thick As A Brick

but I love much A Passion Play too.
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Side 2 of TAAB loses focus after a fantastic first side. A Passion Play would
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