Thoughts on Jethro Tull

if you haven't been to my site, you should go to each album and listen to the full songs I added. I added 3 of my fave full bonus songs to Warchild and Broadsword. 2 of my fave bonus songs to Aqualung, Benefit, Horses and 1 of my fave bonus songs to most other albums. But I left out heaps of other great bonus stuff. If you're not willing to buy remasters and you haven't got releases such as 20 years 3 cd box set, 25 years 4 cd box set, nightcap, living in the past, MU, Repeat, Rocks on the road EP, Bends like a willow EP. Then you have no right to judge Tull ;) Probably about 40% of Tulls great songs on those releases alone that are not available on unremastered albums. Alot of these 90 songs are easily better than 1/3 of Tulls original album songs for sure. Tull are not overrated. It's only the people who have every Tull songs who rates them highly and the people who only have half the tull songs think they are overated. But tull deserve to be rated so highly when you have all 320 songs :). How can you say that Tull stopped in 1978? lol. Go buy the Stormwatch, A and Broadsword remasters for a start. Stormwatch has very good songs like Crossword, North Sea oil, Dun Rungill, A stitch in time. Other cool songs are Dark ages, Kelpie, King Henrys madrigal, Orion, Elegy, Somethings on the move and others. This remaster is easily as good as Benefit. How can you not love Fylingdale flyer, Uniform, And further on, Pine martens jig. Great stuff. Other cool songs on the "A" album too. Broadsword has 26 songs. The remaster only has 18. There are easily 10 very good songs to choose among those. I love Heavy horses, but I must say that Tull from 1979-1982 are better than Tull 1976-1978. There is alot of prog music on A, some of the Stormwatch and Broadsword remasters. I love songs like I'm you gun, Down at the end of your road, Jackalynn (the 2nd version). But I agree that the original Broadword has a few weaker songs, but there were only about 10 songs on that album. Catfish has about 20 songs from it's session. There are surely 10 cool songs from that. Dotcom has some ripper stuff. Roots is very good, but it is more predictable and less interesting than Dotcom.

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ivan_2068 wrote: One masterpiece which is Thick as a Brick Many very good albums but no other reached the masterpiece status No really terrible albums Pretty regular album Some weaker ones in the 80's and 90's, but nothing to be ashamed of

Sorry Ivan,but have to say Under Wraps contradicts those two...personally I regard it as a disaster...and I am pretty ashamed of their "acomplishment"...
 

I've always liked Under Wraps very much! Joyful and varied compositions!

P.S. I've rated it with 4 stars...

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stonebeard wrote: I cannot undertsand how some people think Thick as a Brick is better than Stormwatch.

lmao

i have 14 of their albums on vinyl.  the only two that i dont particularly enjoy are benefit and living in the past

What do I think of Tull?  I love Tull, especially their early stuff!!!!

And concerning the bonus tracks - I agree that they're excellent! I have the Too Old to Rock n' Roll remaster and A Small Cigar is one of my favorite Tull songs of all time. A friend of mine who has the A remaster also says the bonus tracks are great.

Well, I love Tull of course. Their early period is also excellent. Aqualung, Thick As A Brick and Benefit are masterpieces. This Was is pretty good blues rock and Passion Play is quite good too. I haven't heard the whole Stand Up album, but there are some excellent tracks like Bouree and We Used To Know. Still, my favourite period might be the Songs From The Wood - Heavy Horses period.

I agree with that there are some gems outside the original albums that you can get as bonus tracks in the remasters and in the different compilations.

All Tull albums from 70 - 78 are great stuff.  4 and 5 stars. In the eighties they did not manage to carry on the true spirit of progressive rock that made them in the 70's.

Nightcap (93) however is worth listening to, also Chrismas album from 03. Gives you back that old feeling.