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    Posted: March 11 2014 at 23:40
This is a thread where you get to talk about everything Tull--Barre's best tones, Ian's best live flute solos or Barlow vs. Bunker etc. Have at it!

Reason for reviving this thread:
I hadn't listened to Songs From the Wood for probably two months. Forgot how good it was until I started listening to it again tonight. And now I have to get up in five hours. LOL


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In 1976 I purchased a Christmas EP by Jethro Tull. I often wish for Ian Anderson to compile both EP's and any existing Christmas pieces to release as a official cd. Instead they turned up as bonus tracks on the remastered versions of the mid 70's releases. Was the show from Madison Square Garden ever released in it's entirety? The bonus track on T.A.A.B. is taken from that show. Sorry...I'm lazy and haven't researched it. I wasn't fond of Isle of Wight...but loved Carnegie Hall which was released in recent years on the new edition of Stand Up. I love Minstrel In the Gallery and A Passion Play. I often play War Child, Nightcap, and A Passion Play ...observing most or all of the music from various recording sessions prior to or during the Passion Play sessions. I often hope that everything from that specific period will be released in a box set one fine day...or simply as a 3 cd set. That period of Tull is fascinating. I loved Barlow's drumming more than Bunker's because I was disappointed to often hear Clive Bunker accidentally hitting the rims of the drums during his very fast "roundhouse" rolls. Although that may be a minor detail...the overall affect Barlow had on me was more seasoned and dynamic.

I was very disappointed when Ian Anderson slowly began to lose his voice. I collected everything up to that point in time. He apparently decided to hire a new vocalist which was a smart move to continue the legacy of the band. I didn't care for Heavy Horses..which to me..was a poor man's Songs From the Wood. I would appreciate if Ian Anderson would release Living In The Past including the hard back cover with booklet and all tracks included...unlike that cheesy disapponting U.K. import version. The hard back cover version was available as a Japanese import for a short period and I just hope that Ian Anderson will offically re-release that soon. .
 
 
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Been a Tull fan from This Was ('68) when my friend who's a blues rock fan turned me onto it in early '69  and then Stand Up later that year. For me Stormwatch was the last LP I really liked though I have almost all of them (never cared for Rock Island , Catfish Rising, or Under Wraps....) and there are good tracks here and there on all the albums. I also have the first 20 year box set, Living In The Past, Best of Acoustic, Nightcap, etc.

Only saw them once in 1974 at college......never been in the right place over the years to see them again but then I'm lazy about driving any distance to see a band.
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Love these releases:
Thick as a brick
Heavy horses remaster
Stormwatch remaster
Warchild remaster
Benefit remaster
Bursting out
Aqualung box set
Stand up deluxe set

Living in the past is a fave but it's all covered on the above anyway. Stunning bonus tracks and quads really make aqualung, stand up, benefit, stormwatch and warchild much better purchases. They really should be treated as part of those album sessions to show all tulls quality and styles each year.
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.
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Jethro Tull would be the second major prog band I got into after Rush. I ordered a couple of their CDs (Thick as a Brick and a compilation album--20 Years of Jethro Tull (the single disk version)) after we moved because Tull was highly regarded in the PA archives. The CDs arrived pretty late and I didn't like them all that much the first time I heard them. Much preferred Rush's A Farewell to Kings which I had ordered at the same time, along with Dream Theater's A Change of Seasons. After reading a few reviews and interviews about Thick as a Brick and how it was a comedic take on progressive rock, I really got into them. (I had been taking it too seriously) Without a doubt, Tull has more plays on my iPod than any other artist and I own more Tull albums than anyone else too. A measly 6, but that ain't bad.
Also, as many here probably know--moving is stressful! My mom had me put on 20 Years a few times because she found it relaxing. (It has a lot of acoustic or simpler, rougher songs on it).
My bass teacher even got a hold of TaaB's bassline for me which I'll ask him to teach me part of next lesson. Smile
May as well list the ones I have, too. TaaB, 20 Years..., Songs From the Wood, Stormwatch, Aqualung and Minstrel in the Gallery.


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Loved them when young but later became quite bored with it, especially Aqualung and TAAB. 

Recently I've come to appreciate them again, especially Benefit....an amazing album.  I also enjoy their much hated "Under Wraps" album. 
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One thing I wished is that aqualung and warchild were double albums
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I heard the song Aqualung when it was first released. Being 11 years old at the time, I immediately became enamored of Tull. I mean, what little kid wouldn't love the line "snot is running down his nose"?

At age 13, of course, I became much more sophisticated. I was even more appreciative of Tull because of the line "And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision".

Naturally, listening to "Hunting Girl" at age 16 bordered on the pornographic.

So, yeah. I sort of became demented growing up with Tull.
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Actually, many of the songs I enjoy most are from the live versions on the 90's, 00's, they sound very powerful, Barre's guitars are heavier, and the drums rock harder. And Ian's voice doesn't really bother me much. I actually only noticed it was suposed to be so poor until I read so much about it on this forum (though actually I heard those recordings before I heard his albums from the 70's, so perhaps I got used to that voice and thus it doesn't bother me so much). I also love "Live, Bursing Out", and that version of Thick as a Brick is really brilliant, I like it better than the complete version on the original album.
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I always liked Tull. Mostly the more mainstream stuff/famous albums.

Ian is touring the US in the fall playing all Tull and coming to my hometown to play a 800 seat venue. Should be a real treat.
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Discovering them a few years ago, and then deciding to check out other prog bands, is the reason I'm here on PA. So, thanks, Tull!

Don't listen to them as much nowadays as I did a few years ago, but I still revisit them from time to time, and still consider them my favourite band.

And I'm of the persuasion that A Passion Play's the best two pieces of music ever made!

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Tull, more specifically Songs from the Wood, was the first prog I encountered and remains a favourite. 
To pose a discussion point, am I the only one who finds that Broadsword, side 1 in particular, is grossly underrated? In my ears, songs like Clasp and Fallen on Hard Times hit a great spot between traditional rock instruments and the folkish Tull elements, and the timing and use of different background sounds is excellent as well.
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Broadsword's the last of their really good albums for me until Roots to Branches came out which was quite a pleasant surprise. For some reason their attempt at updating to a 1980s production sound worked much better on BATB than on most of the other albums they put out that decade.
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Originally posted by Kobaek Kobaek wrote:

To pose a discussion point, am I the only one who finds that Broadsword, side 1 in particular, is grossly underrated?  In my ears, songs like Clasp and Fallen on Hard Times hit a great spot between traditional rock instruments and the folkish Tull elements, and the timing and use of different background sounds is excellent as well.

You're not the only one by a longshot but I must admit it is not a favorite of mine, it was Tull at their most Dungeons&Dragons Jr. High School.   Not their worst to be sure but I don't know how well it ages.   I actually think 'Watching Me Watching You' is the best thing on it, and hardly representative of the record.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

I heard the song Aqualung when it was first released. Being 11 years old at the time, I immediately became enamored of Tull. I mean, what little kid wouldn't love the line "snot is running down his nose"?
I loved that line too as a kid. LOL
Part of it was my dad saying it in a really deep voice as dramatically as possible.

Originally posted by dr prog dr prog wrote:

One thing I wished is that aqualung and warchild were double albums
That's not a bad thought. One of the reasons I'm not a big fan of the studio version is the production just sounds off to me, though the compositions are still very good. Warchild is produced better, but most of the songs are leftovers from TaaB and APP or rearrangements of Aqualung tunes rather than completely new compositions I believe?
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Warchild was indeed intended to be a double Album with even
more to it. There was the idea of either a movie or a ballet
to go alongside it.

The weak economy Situation the time sadly killed all ambitions.

Some of the song material is from the Chateau D'ysaster sessions
(which would have been the original APP) or inspired from those.

At least "Skating away" is a direct leftover from those sessions.
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Songs From The Wood, Heavy Horses and Stormwatch comprise a sort of trilogy to me, and they're also my favorite tull albums.

Broadsword and the Beast is perceived as cheesy by a lot of fans, but I like it. Same for Crest of a Knave.
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I listened to Thick as a Brick finally. It was very good
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Originally posted by HemispheresOfXanadu HemispheresOfXanadu wrote:



Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

I heard the song Aqualung when it was first released. Being 11 years old at the time, I immediately became enamored of Tull. I mean, what little kid wouldn't love the line "snot is running down his nose"?
I loved that line too as a kid. LOL
Part of it was my dad saying it in a really deep voice as dramatically as possible.
Originally posted by dr prog dr prog wrote:

One thing I wished is that aqualung and warchild were double albums
That's not a bad thought. One of the reasons I'm not a big fan of the studio version is the production just sounds off to me, though the compositions are still very good. Warchild is produced better, but most of the songs are leftovers from TaaB and APP or rearrangements of Aqualung tunes rather than completely new compositions I believe?




The last remaster of Aqualung includes a second album with bonus tracks and so on, so if you were to get that it might be almost as good as a double album. Though it does might repeat one or two songs, and some other songs be already available on other albums, such as "Living in the Past".

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The first concert I ever attended was Tull on the 1973 tour. The 45 minute set they opened with had not yet been released, and seemed bizarre and unlike anything they had ever recorded. Nevertheless, I absorbed it like a sponge. Monty Python was big at the time, so "The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles" with the accompanying film was humorous and enjoyable. It was the last tour wherein Ian donned the "mad dog Fagin" attire, and Jeffrey was wearing the white suit and Panama hat (which I liked better than the zebra suit with matching bass-he bounds around the stage way too much to call even more attention to himself). But the real joy was to see Martin jumping around the stage while playing. I mean, he really dug the music! Not on any tour I've seen since, nor any clip from before or after, has he been so animated. I think he likes that album the best. Here's a link to a bootleg of that show, along with a very insightful article. Best concert I've ever seen.  Enjoy! 

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