Dozen Jethro Tull albums
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Topic: Dozen Jethro Tull albums
Posted By: Varon
Subject: Dozen Jethro Tull albums
Date Posted: March 15 2013 at 15:46
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Choose the album that you prefer from the list and please explain why. As for me I can't choose between Heavy Horses and A Passion Play. Please don't ask why there are no TAAB and Aqualung ------------- Would you catch the final words of mine? Would you catch my words??? |
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: March 15 2013 at 15:50
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A Passion Play, followed by Songs from the Wood, Benefit, Crest of a Knave, Minstrel and Stand Up. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: March 15 2013 at 15:55
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Stand Up only because it has been my first JT album ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 15 2013 at 17:25
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Heavy Horses over APP and Stand Up. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: March 15 2013 at 17:25
| A Passion Play. Listened it just few days ago. Everytime I'm just amazed ... |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 15 2013 at 17:33
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Passion Play is the only Tull album I still listen to on a regular basis. I do enjoy most of the others though, I just don't listen to Tull in general that much any more. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: RedNightmareKing
Date Posted: March 15 2013 at 17:35
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Stand Up is my favorite JT record.
------------- I consider drone metal to be progressive... |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: March 15 2013 at 18:21
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I only see 1 good one though, Stand Up. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: March 15 2013 at 18:36
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Songs From the Wood just ahead of Heavy Horses. The rest of the list I can take or leave, but I love Aqualung (by far their best album for me) and I like TAAB. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: March 15 2013 at 19:15
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For me it is always a toss-up between Songs From the Wood and Heavy Horses despite the fact that in almost all instances Heavy Horses wins, as it does this time. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: March 15 2013 at 19:34
| Passion Play followed by Minstrel in the Gallery and Songs from the Wood |
Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: March 15 2013 at 20:41
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Benefit, because I love it. Followed closely by Songs From the Woods and Minstrel in the Gallery.
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: March 15 2013 at 21:33
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Songs from the Wood, Stand Up, Minstrel in the Gallery. All three are superb. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: March 15 2013 at 21:43
Pretty much this. |
progmatic wrote:Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: March 15 2013 at 21:54
| Benefit is the one I listen to the most lately |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: March 15 2013 at 22:10
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A Passion Play, followed by Songs From The Wood, Heavy Horses and Benefit. -------------  
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Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 00:34
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Minstrel by far for me. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 00:36
| Passion Play is my favorite of theirs, always have loved that one. |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 00:38
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Where's "A"? Much maligned but I love it....not as much as Stand Up, Benefit, APP or SFTW but it should be more appreciated than it is.
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 02:49
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I'm a big fan, I love all from the list with a plus on Songs from the Wood, my fav JT album ever. It was the first album I've hered from them and still have a soft spot fot it, a perfect combination between prog and folk. Passion follows and A for me, a very under rated album for sure. |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 02:58
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Crest is cool and has Budapest, Steel Monkey and the rest is quite tasty ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 04:58
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I voted for Heavy Horses, it was the first Tull album I owned - and the only one before I got into prog over twenty years later. ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: dedokras
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 05:38
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A Passion PLay, then Songs From The Wood, then Minstrel and Stand Up
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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 07:29
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Haven't listened to a Tull album in ages. Don't know how I'd list the favourites today. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/LinusW88" rel="nofollow - Blargh |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 07:42
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Songs From The Wood. It gets better every time I hear it. And sounds how Tull shouid sound to me. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 08:24
Same here. I got "Stand Up" and got hooked to the Tull sound, and have been for the last 40 plus years. that being said, all the albums in this list are very good, so whichever album wins, it's ok by me.
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Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 08:38
| Aqualung and Thick as a brick. Songs from the wood in third. |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 08:52
| From the list, Benefit, because it was very bluesy yet had many Prog sensibilities. Minstrel in the Gallery second, because the title track perfected their classic sound and Cold Wind to Valhalla captures my imagination. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 09:14
------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Ruby900
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 11:20
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Took me a loooooooong time to appreciate it - but I went for A passion play. ------------- "I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place". Rick Wakeman |
Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 11:25
| < duh |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 13:00
 It was not my first album of theirs, but among them. For me, it has a charm to it that only Songs From the Wood comes close to but none ever quite match it. Even though that one is not my #1, I am quite glad to see that it and Passion Play are dominating the polls. Two incredible albums and each so different from one another.------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Larree
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 13:14
I second that emotion! ------------- http://larree.ws" rel="nofollow - The Larree (dot) Website |
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 13:18
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Songs from the Wood, Minstrel in the Gallery and A Passion Play are all pretty close for me. I'll vote A Passion Play. For the sake of spare spectacles everywhere.
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 13:57
It has some good songs on it like Budapest and Farm on the Freeway, but Steel Monkey is quite the worst JT track I've ever heard. I f*****g hate it with a passion. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 14:14
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I don't mind Steel Monkey. I like Jump Start and Said She Was A Dancer (although that sounds quite Dire Straits) as well as Budapest and Farm on the Freeway. Also, Raising Steam is a great road-trip driving song - "I may not be coming back".
------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 14:40
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Songs For The Wood is one of my favorites ahead of Passion Play, Heavy Horses & Minstrel ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: MonsterMagnet
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 15:11
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A Passion Play for me |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 16:01
Yes I like Steel Monkey, quite a lot really. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 18:12
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Stand Up. My favourite even if Aq and TTAB were in the list.
Great songs with brilliant melody throughout. No filler.
I think has been very underrated even in JT's early years.
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Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 18:27
| Horses and storm |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: March 16 2013 at 18:34
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Most Tull remasters are at least 4 star.
Stand up deluxe 3 cd-bonus tracks and great live disc Benefit- 4 bonus tracks Aqualung 40 year 2 cd-plenty of bonus tracks Thick as a brick A passion play Warchild-7 bonus tracks Songs from the wood- bonus track Stormwatch-4 bonus tracks Heavy horses-3 bonus tracks A-great live stripstrean dvd |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: March 26 2013 at 02:18
I voted for "Roots To Branches" because there is slight Middle Eastern theme, which is a departure from JT's albums up until it's release. I own all the above albums and like them for various reasons. It would have been good to have seen "Broadsword And The Beast" on this list as imo it is rather underated and deserves better recognition.  ------------- 
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Chozal
Date Posted: March 26 2013 at 11:16
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Minstrel in the Gallery, easily one of my favourite JT albums I don't really care for half of the material on Heavy Horses and Songs from the Wood A Passion Play would be a close second on this list, but Minstrel just clicks instantly with me. Listening to one track will lead to listening the whole album. ------------- https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Infinite-Progability-Drive/141225469388975" rel="nofollow - The Infinite Progability Drive , feeding you daily progressive/weird music for just a like <3 |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 26 2013 at 14:39
I agree with all this, except for the underrated part, at least for this community. Only TAAB, Aqualung and Songs From The Wood have a higher rating on this site. The album is well loved on the site, and that's as it should be.
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Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: March 26 2013 at 15:14
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Songs from the Woo-ood ! To make you feel much better than you could know... ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 05:36
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Here is a question for the two members that voted for either "Rock Island" or "Dot.com" Are you both on drugs? |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 22:16
 sorry to those who voted for those 2 lp's ....but that was kind of funny. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 22:20
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For me Benefit then Stand Up...then Songs From The Wood. I would prolly put Aqualung third for me if it was in that list. I got into Tull from day one and I still prefer the earlier material....with Songs being an exception. It's probably just due to playing them more back in the day when we were..you know...altered.  btw...I have to say there were a few real duds on that list imho. Oh...can one of thoe who voted for Passion Play please explain why you like it above all the other excellent ones on that list..?  ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Larree
Date Posted: March 29 2013 at 22:26
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So when I got my first car I bought a used 8-track machine. It came with three 8-track tapes. Birds of Fire - Mahivishnu Orchestra; The first Jerry Garcia solo album; and Benefit. Damn, did those tapes got worn out! ------------- http://larree.ws" rel="nofollow - The Larree (dot) Website |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 05:03
| Can't believe horses isn't winning. Several songs of genius on that remaster. A real progger should have this up there with Tulls best releases |
Posted By: elbownut
Date Posted: March 30 2013 at 05:34
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I went for Songs from the Wood
Love the mix of prog and folk on this one. ------------- "Music was my first love and it will be my last" - John Miles "Music" |
Posted By: mohaveman
Date Posted: March 31 2013 at 10:55
| Songs from the wood. My fav Tull |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: March 31 2013 at 16:26
| Minstrel. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: April 03 2013 at 11:55
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Definitely Passion Play...though Minstrel was my 1st Tull album and a very close second place. ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: April 04 2013 at 05:12
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Minstrel in the Gallery. Always been my favorite album by JT.
Spilt 2nd :
Heavy Horses Songs from the Wood Stormwatch Then : Where is Warchild : "Back-Door Angels" "Skating Away...." "Only Solitaire" ect ect. The rest in no particular order, all fine music though. ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: April 05 2013 at 12:12
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lots of amazing albums here :) went with Minstrel ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Ian Stuart
Date Posted: April 19 2013 at 15:11
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" ... with kitchen prose and gutter rhymes." Songs From The Wood is second only to Thick As A Brick in my view (And still, much as I try, I can't get into A Passion Play - inexplicably ...) |
Posted By: charles_ryder
Date Posted: April 20 2014 at 10:05
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I voted for Stand Up because my favorite songs are on this album. ------------- om mani padme hum |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: April 20 2014 at 16:27
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Probably Stand Up, and then Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses. Where's Broadsword? |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: April 20 2014 at 19:09
Songs from the Wood------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |
Posted By: Kentucky_Hawkwindage
Date Posted: April 20 2014 at 19:13
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Given the choices i'll go with Crest Of A Knave-a few excellent tunes on that LP. ------------- "Nobody's Gonna Change My World That's Something To Unreal" Lyrics that i live my life by-from Black Sabbath's Technical Ecstasy's track You Won't Change Me |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: April 21 2014 at 12:09
| Stand Up by quite a way |
Posted By: Mirror Image
Date Posted: April 21 2014 at 12:14
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I went with A Passion Play despite that horrible The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles section.
------------- “Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: April 21 2014 at 22:41
| Minstrel for me out of this group, then Songs from the wood. |
Posted By: LittleBig
Date Posted: May 08 2016 at 03:05
| Stand Up |
Posted By: Upbeat Tango Monday
Date Posted: May 08 2016 at 04:50
This, and then Heavy Horses not too far behind. ------------- Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement. |
Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: May 08 2016 at 06:00
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Crest of a Knave for me. it is perfect. Not a duff track |
Posted By: bankstatement
Date Posted: May 08 2016 at 17:46
| Minstrel in the Gallery. Songs from the Wood and a Passion Play are close. |
Posted By: Libor10
Date Posted: May 08 2016 at 18:38
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Passion Play, then Songs From The Wood and close to this Minstrel In The Gallery with Heavy Horses. ------------- 
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Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: May 08 2016 at 22:48
| Minstrel in the Gallery |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: May 10 2016 at 17:25
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I made my own version of Too old and it's one of Tulls best now. Could have been a fine album ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |
Posted By: DeadSouls
Date Posted: May 11 2016 at 17:37
| A Passion Play. |
Posted By: Michael P. Dawson
Date Posted: May 11 2016 at 17:57
| A Passion Play has been my #1 favorite Tull ever since it came out, and is one of the very first things I'd grab if headed for the proverbial desert island. TAAB is #2 but isn't on the list, and Minstrel would be #3. |
Posted By: The Jester
Date Posted: May 12 2016 at 03:16
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Songs from the Wood easily! One of their best albums for me, but mostly because I'm a fan of English Folk Rock as well. And after that, Mistrel in the Gallery. Brilliant album! ------------- If anybody wants please visit: http://www.gfreedomathina.blogspot.com/ This is my Blog mostly about Rock music, but also a few other things as well. You are most welcome! Thank you. :) |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: May 12 2016 at 09:53
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An interesting development that Songs' and 'Passion Play are running neck to neck. With the Prog Archives crowd, I can understand why Thick' was left off the list (no sh%t, Sherlock). ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: May 17 2016 at 15:09
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Songs From the Wood. =) ------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |