| Author |
 Topic Search  Topic Options
|
thief 
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 21 2015
Location: Poland
Status: Offline
Points: 1546
|
 Topic: Ian Anderson's top 10 Jethro Tull songs
Posted: January 18 2018 at 13:57 |
Oh well, since we're voting songs, not albums, I'll make it a coin flip between Kitchen Prose and Brewing Heavy Weather... let's see... It's Heavy Horses!
Very strong list by Mr Anderson, but personally I could name 50+ better songs than Budapest... but oh well, still a decent tune, and it's nice to see some recognition for post-Broadsword era, too.
|
 |
Mortte
Forum Senior Member
Joined: November 11 2016
Location: Finland
Status: Offline
Points: 5538
|
Posted: January 17 2018 at 22:10 |
 WrytXander wrote:
Man, y'all need some more Heavy Horses in your lives! Criminally underrated. |
I really love Heavy Horses (both a song and an album). To me it was thinking between Aqualung, Songs From the Wood and Heavy Horses. Took Aqualung, because the album was my second favourite Tull-album. If there had been only locomotive from Aqualung, I think I would have taken Songs from or Heavy Horses. Great that they played it in the concert I saw in the nineties.
|
|
Walkscore
Forum Senior Member
Joined: February 16 2017
Location: Toronto, Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 231
|
Posted: January 17 2018 at 20:32 |
I guess 'Thick as a Brick' is too long to count as a 'song'? In addition to the rest on the list, I really like 'Skating Away...', 'Sealion', 'Living in the Past', 'Up the Pool' and 'Life's a Long Song'... |
|
dr wu23
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 22 2010
Location: Indiana
Status: Offline
Points: 20648
|
Posted: January 17 2018 at 20:21 |
New Day Yesterday,,,,the first song I ever heard from Tull....wasn't aware of the first album but when my friend Bill played Stand Up it was love at first listen.
;)
|
|
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin
|
|
WrytXander
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 09 2014
Location: Turkey
Status: Offline
Points: 237
|
Posted: January 16 2018 at 16:50 |
|
Man, y'all need some more Heavy Horses in your lives! Criminally underrated.
|
|
20+ prog bands discovered and explored in 3 years, still going strong...
|
|
Saperlipopette!
Forum Senior Member
Joined: December 20 2010
Location: Tomorrowland
Status: Offline
Points: 12205
|
Posted: January 16 2018 at 11:46 |
|
A New Day Yesterday is one of my favorite of theirs, but none of the others here are in my top ten. I still quite like all the songs included from 1969-1978 though.
|
|
Mortte
Forum Senior Member
Joined: November 11 2016
Location: Finland
Status: Offline
Points: 5538
|
Posted: January 11 2018 at 11:18 |
|
Aqualung is my fav album after Thick As a Brick. And it´s also great song!
|
|
Progmind
Forum Senior Member
Joined: June 29 2010
Location: Argentina
Status: Offline
Points: 3458
|
Posted: January 11 2018 at 10:10 |
progmatic wrote:
Aqualung followed by Songs From the Woods.
|
this
|
|
kenethlevine
Special Collaborator
Prog-Folk Team
Joined: December 06 2006
Location: New England
Status: Offline
Points: 9045
|
Posted: January 10 2018 at 13:46 |
Argo2112 wrote:
From these, Nothing is Easy or Budapest. I went with Nothing is Easy. |
hmm now if "Nothing to Say" was there it would be my choice, or "With you there to help me"
|
|
Argo2112
Forum Senior Member
Joined: June 20 2017
Location: New Jersey
Status: Offline
Points: 4462
|
Posted: January 10 2018 at 12:23 |
From these, Nothing is Easy or Budapest. I went with Nothing is Easy.
|
|
kenethlevine
Special Collaborator
Prog-Folk Team
Joined: December 06 2006
Location: New England
Status: Offline
Points: 9045
|
Posted: January 10 2018 at 10:13 |
hmm Aqualung my friend Heavy Horses would be second
|
|
Squonk19
Forum Senior Member
Joined: April 03 2015
Location: Darlington, UK
Status: Offline
Points: 4789
|
Posted: January 09 2018 at 15:32 |
|
Quite a few omissions from what would be my list - in fact too many to list - but sticking with this selection, I'd go for Songs from the Wood - as all its parts best sum up Tull at their peak. Have to say, though - passing over Aqualung and Locomotive Breath wasn't easy.....
....anyway, back to listening to Thick as a Brick, Minstrel in the Gallery, Teacher, Skating Away..............
|
|
“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”
|
|
Frenetic Zetetic
Forum Senior Member
Joined: December 09 2017
Location: Now
Status: Offline
Points: 9233
|
Posted: January 09 2018 at 11:41 |
|
Songs from The Wood.
|
|
"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021
|
|
The Bearded Bard
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: January 24 2012
Location: Behind the Sun
Status: Offline
Points: 12859
|
Posted: January 09 2018 at 11:34 |
Lewian wrote:
I've been critical on the Aqualung album recently but the song itself is the essential Jethro Tull.
|
Yeah, the album's far from perfect, but the title tracks is, as you said, essential. Wouldn't call it the quintessential Tull track though, on account of the lack of flute.
|
|
|
|
CapnBearbossa
Forum Groupie
Joined: May 11 2016
Location: Baltimore
Status: Offline
Points: 59
|
Posted: February 13 2017 at 09:24 |
|
A toughie because so many of these songs are so good. And yet, "Stand Up" came out of nowhere (Tull were a "vanilla" blues band and then were suddenly hitting us with a grungey celtic blues-jazz thing) and in particular "Nothing Is Easy" is so brilliant. Not to detract from the other songs on this list, however, they're all worthy choices.
Edited by CapnBearbossa - February 13 2017 at 09:26
|
|
Will higher mighty force redeem
the one who dropped the moral compass,
failed to fulfill the dream?
-Ian Anderson
|
|
Libor10
Forum Senior Member
Joined: July 19 2005
Location: Czech republic
Status: Offline
Points: 692
|
Posted: February 13 2017 at 09:03 |
|
Heavy horses for it's pure beauty a nostalgia. And it was my first LP from them I held in my hands (well, I'd known Aqualung then, but only from cassette tape).
|
|
|
|
prog4evr
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 22 2005
Location: Wuhan, China
Status: Offline
Points: 1455
|
Posted: February 13 2017 at 07:41 |
|
Had to tip the scale in favor of 'Songs from the Wood.' Great vocals and flute playing from a marvelous song and a stellar JT album...
|
|
Cambus741
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 12 2015
Location: Chelmsford
Status: Offline
Points: 1223
|
Posted: February 12 2017 at 14:48 |
|
As I love Crest of a Knave so much I found it very difficult to choose between Budapest and Farm on the Freeway
|
|
octopus-4
Special Collaborator
RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams
Joined: October 31 2006
Location: Italy
Status: Offline
Points: 14477
|
Posted: February 12 2017 at 13:27 |
|
Aqualung is in my top ten
|
|
I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
|
|
Upbeat Tango Monday
Forum Senior Member
Joined: April 10 2015
Location: Buenos Aires
Status: Offline
Points: 1189
|
Posted: February 12 2017 at 04:21 |
|
Songs from the Wood...maybe
|
|
Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement.
|
|
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.
/PAlogo_v2.gif "Progarchives.com Homepage")
Ian Anderson's top 10 Jethro Tull songs
