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Why is Tull's "A Passion Play" rated so low?
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4 stars (4.02) is not a bad/low rating...
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Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:

I love APP. It is a wild ride of styles and images. It also has a rather strange sound to it thanks to the saxophones and synthesizers used, and yes, it is dense to the point of obscurity. Not an easy album for most to get into, which is why it tends to be rated so low. Repeated listens yields rewards though. After decades, it is still revealing nuances and subtleties to me. Still, if it does not grab the listener on a first or second listen, most will abandon it.
 
 
mmmhhh!!!... my current APP review on PA  was rewritten after a forced strong exposure, but I still couldn't manage to permeate what it's about (even not worrying about that stupid Hare piece), probably because of its inn-density (rather than intensity)Wink 
 
Clearly, the Mad Flauter thought he couldn't go wrong after TAAB's immense (and surprising to many) success and his grandiosely ambitious ideas would start to crumble with the D'Ysaster thing and the War Child fiasco. He forgot to make an accessible storyline for APP
 
Interesting to note that The Who's Pete Townshend suffered also a crush in his overly-ambitious Lifehouse project, squashed around that same time.
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because it's just an opinion.

There are 1000's of great prog albums so not everything can be at the top. The PA list is just a list of albums and the order is not that important really although I'm glad that CTTE is top. Beyond that I'm not really fussed.
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I love APP. It is a wild ride of styles and images. It also has a rather strange sound to it thanks to the saxophones and synthesizers used, and yes, it is dense to the point of obscurity. Not an easy album for most to get into, which is why it tends to be rated so low. Repeated listens yields rewards though. After decades, it is still revealing nuances and subtleties to me. Still, if it does not grab the listener on a first or second listen, most will abandon it.
The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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like Oldfield's Amarok, it seems averse to exploring its good ideas, instead bounding from one to the next.  Unlike you Martin, I gave up after a couple of listens, and so I pretty much concur with your original assessment
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Inaccessible music and repulsive at first listen. I love it today but it was hard work, took me many spins before I start enjoying it.
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Not talking about the PA rating, just in general. Even among prog fans the album seems to be a bit divisive, but why? On the surface it would seem to have everything that a prog fan would love...it's got a wide variety of instruments, styles, and time signatures, the band's playing is killer throughout, and almost all the individual sections are great songs in their own right. Yeah "The Hare..." section is pretty stupid, but it's meant to be...it's just a light-hearted break from the dense material surrounding it and the absurdity of it is good for a chuckle. The album's concept is a bit convoluted, sure, but so is TLLDOB's concept, and that one is considered a classic of the genre. So what gives?
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