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Scrambled_Eggs 
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 Topic: JETHRO TULL - SONGS FROM THE WOOD
Posted: August 10 2005 at 21:01 |
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I 'ave to go with Songs from the Wood, though The Whistler is a close second.
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And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime.
I never said I was frightened of dying.
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MustShaveBeard
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Posted: August 10 2005 at 20:19 |
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I voted for Velvet Green, though the title track and Pibroch are quite up there, too, and it seems lately the more I've been listening to the title track the more I like it. I'll update you if my opinion changes (actually I probably won't,, whatever...)
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Your life or your lupins!!!
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Henkka
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Posted: August 10 2005 at 20:16 |
Jack in the Green. A masterpiece of an album.
And harpsichord is the best sound in the world anyways. 
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: August 10 2005 at 02:52 |
Nice album, but can't make up any track over some other. 
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Man With Hat
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Posted: August 09 2005 at 22:16 |
I love "songs from the wood". Awesome track. 
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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.
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Posted: August 09 2005 at 20:22 |
"Let Me bring you Songs From The Wood"
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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The Wizard
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Posted: August 09 2005 at 18:38 |
The Whistler is awesome, so Pinbroch
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Progzilla
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Posted: July 11 2005 at 09:30 |
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The title track is just awsome, great grooves and rythmes. I can play
it over and over again. The whistler is nice to, I always whistle
along, need I say more...
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Currently listening to:
- Andromeda
- Pagan's Mind
- Kamelot
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NetsNJFan
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Posted: July 09 2005 at 22:37 |
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Songs from the Woods gets my vote, a surprisingly complex yet beautiful prog-folk masterpiece.
Cup of Wonder is also great IMO.
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eriksalkeld
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Posted: July 09 2005 at 17:22 |
Top 3:
1) Hunting Girl
2) Songs from the Wood
3) The Whistler
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Autenticidad, actitud, pluralidad, espiritu e inteligencia, si es prog bien, si no, tambien.
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peringo2
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Posted: July 21 2004 at 06:13 |
Paco Fox is quite right about "Hunting Girl". In Galician (northwestern Spain) medieval poetry - arguably, one of the most importat of its time - 80% of the most studied poems are "Cantigas de amio" which, basically, dead with having sexual intercourse with ladies or ladies mourning the lost of her loved one on "the morning after" (some things never change). Which "Hunting Girl" lacks is the crazy symbolism of those poems (an arrow is a phallic symbol, water in al its forms means sex, animals are a metaphor of sexual strenght...) Only on "Kissing Willie" did Ian took all those metaphores to his crazy territory, while making the best or wort music video ever.
BTW, the record is masterpuiece from beginning to end, and my favourite is, as the superb "Christmas Album" proved, "Fire at Midnight".
(Still, as a Spanish punk rock band noted, havin sex in the grass makes puts dirt in your balls).
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"Your sperm's in the gutter/ Your love's in the sink"
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Manu
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Posted: July 12 2004 at 11:03 |
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My favorite is the title track. However, "Jack In The Green", "Hunting Girl", "Velvet Green" and "The Whistler" are great too. Actually, the whole album is awesome.
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Possessed
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Posted: July 10 2004 at 03:14 |
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The Whistler.
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: June 22 2004 at 11:21 |
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I went with Jack In The Green but the whole album is a masterpiece of prog.
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Velvetclown
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Posted: June 21 2004 at 01:40 |
Velvet Green 
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James Lee
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Posted: June 20 2004 at 14:12 |
Pibroch (Cap in Hand) has always been my favorite...there's a huge sense of loss and resignation in the last verse made even more poignant by the majestic climaxing instrumental that preceeds it. And the backwards-echo guitar is a classic sound! It's an almost perfect combination of heavy rock and symphonic grandeur.
"Songs from the Wood" is my all-time favorite JT album...the songs are perfect compositions (no half-improvised jams or song fragments) beautifully recorded and the playing is as good as JT ever got. This is what rock and roll would sound like if the middle ages had never ended! My only letdown is that there aren't any of those beautiful, simple examples of Ian singing with just an acoustic guitar backing (like "Thick as a Brick" or the short pieces from the first side of Aqualung, etc.) but "Jack in the Green" is a great variation.
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John Hicks
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Posted: May 21 2004 at 11:04 |
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Can't go wrong with the title track!
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Paco Fox
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Posted: May 20 2004 at 04:04 |
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A suberb album, one of the best folk prog albums ever recorded. I choose 'Hunting Girl', I really don't know why. It has many virtues, and not only in the music: The lyrics, as usually with Anderson, are very curious. This thing about sexual intercouse with a girl from the wood or the mountain is a recurrent theme in medieval literature. I always found interesting the deep cultural knowledge Anderson shows in his writting.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: May 20 2004 at 03:58 |
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If I had to choose, I'd go for 'Jack In The Green' - superb eco-hymn, right up there with 'Heavy Horses'
"or will these changing times, motorways, power lines, keep us apart? Oh I don't think so, I saw some grass push through the pavement today"
Doesn't matter what we do, how badly we screw up - Nature will endure.
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Velvetclown
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Posted: May 20 2004 at 03:32 |
I agree with dropForge, I just canīt choose.
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