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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 16:30
Hey!!!
I really like WHITE ROCK, OBSCURED BY CLOUDS, CREST OF A KNAVE and even AWBH (at least MOST of the tracks on the latter).
So don't cry 'cause you're NOT alone!
But how about WARCHILD?
NOBODY likes it, and it's probably among my Top-3 Tull albums.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 16:32
I like Warchild too! First Tull album I owned. Not my fav, but definitely a good one! Listened to it to death when
I bought it at first. ABWH is also awsome (spare the atrocious Teakbois Dead) and Crest is one of my fav Tull
albums.

But Warchild - yeps, it's good.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 16:36
I like Warchild too.  In fact, I'm pretty sure my sig is from that album.  Smile
 
ABWH is great too, with the exception noted above - Teakbois - what the Censored were they thinking (smoking?) when they wrote that dreadful song? 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 18:17
I like Aqualung better than the other Tull albums, including TAAB. Floyd's DSOTM over the rest. Rush's Caress of Steel.
Klaatu's Hope & 3:47E.S.T, Ange's Emile Jacotey & Au dela du Delire over most of what is listed in the top 100 of any genre.
Why, because I have good tastes.Big%20smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 18:30
Dream Theater's "Falling Into Infinity" and "Train of Thought"
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Genesis' "Calling All Stations" is pretty good.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 18:42
Originally posted by MisterProg2112 MisterProg2112 wrote:

Dream Theater's "Falling Into Infinity" and "Train of Thought"
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Genesis' "Calling All Stations" is pretty good.


If you liked Calling All Stations, why not give a try to We Can't Dance..
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 18:46
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Sorry to sound against most of you above. But has anyone heard A Passion Play?. The main reason that I found War Child indegistible and boring is cause the lack of songwriting. It has taken parts of Passion Play added with some annoying orchestral arrangements..Of course guys, this is IMHO! Please if you wanna discuss, let's do it civilised, I didn't mean to provoce fight..

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 18:51
Passion Play is well loved by fans (but not all). I love that one, and many others do I think too. The PA rating
for it right now is, like 4.02 isn't it?

(Although the guess the NON-prog majority hates it)

[Edit] - sh*t I'm still blind - totally misread your post.

YES! After APP Warchild seems like a bit of a letdown, but I don't see where the ideas are totally recycled as
some people say they are.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 19:23
Originally posted by cacho cacho wrote:

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Sorry to sound against most of you above. But has anyone heard A Passion Play?. The main reason that I found War Child indegistible and boring is cause the lack of songwriting. It has taken parts of Passion Play added with some annoying orchestral arrangements..Of course guys, this is IMHO! Please if you wanna discuss, let's do it civilised, I didn't mean to provoce fight..



War Child has some great stuff, in my opinion. Only Solitaire and Back Door Angels especially. I've never really seen that big a relation between the two (that said, I tend to listen to Tull very separately, so I wouldn't really know). That said, I do love A Passion Play, though bits of it are indigestible.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 19:38
Originally posted by TGM: Orb TGM: Orb wrote:


Originally posted by cacho cacho wrote:

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Sorry to sound against most of you above. But has anyone heard A Passion Play?. The main reason that I found War Child indegistible and boring is cause the lack of songwriting. It has taken parts of Passion Play added with some annoying orchestral arrangements..Of course guys, this is IMHO! Please if you wanna discuss, let's do it civilised, I didn't mean to provoce fight..

War Child has some great stuff, in my opinion. Only Solitaire and Back Door Angels especially. I've never really seen that big a relation between the two (that said, I tend to listen to Tull very separately, so I wouldn't really know). That said, I do love A Passion Play, though bits of it are indigestible.


Well I didn't mean that Warchild was indegistible, but really I find some really lack of song writing. Having no new material going on until Minstrel and then in Songs from the Woods.

..I have strange tendencies of relating albums of other bands to be like the same(not talking about the relation of APP and WC) or somewhat like the same. So I found Gates of Delirium as A Passion Play, having incredible parts that their previous masterpices (TAAB, CTTE) didn't have, but overall their first masterpieces are generally more innvoating and consisten, etc.. But that's another topic..
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 20:36
Greenslade "Time & Tide"

Kansas "Audio-Visions"

Enchant "Time Lost"

Marillion  "This Strange Engine"

Queensryche "Hear In The Now Frontier"

Savatage "Poets And Madmen"

Altura "Mercy"

Stride "Imagine"

Vai "Sex & Religion"

Under The Sun " Under The Sun"

Black Jester "The Divine Comedy"

Yes "Union"

Plus about another 100 artists I havent got time to mention  .. ...   
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 21:16
I have long considered Power Windows to be Rush's most underrated album.  Only one sub-par track ("Emotion Detector"), and the first 5 tracks are some of the finest songs they've ever done.  And Caress Of Steel is better than it sounds.....
 
I like the Mars Volta.  Their stuff's all good.
 
Nightwish are loathed by many here, but I like 'em.  Same with the Gathering.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 21:22
Emotion Detector has long been one of my favorite Rush tracks LOL
I love that album too much... but hey - I'm a fanboy.


(I like Nightwish too...! Once is an excellent album! Embarrassed)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 21:58
Originally posted by Astrodomine Astrodomine wrote:

King Crimson - Beat



I LOVE Beat..... polyrhythms, textures, minimalism, moments of madness, I love it all.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 23:10
Well,
 
The aerosol grey machine
Yes debut , Drama
Tull´s Benefit
Rush´s debut
Camel´s debut
Islands and In the wake
TRESPASS
Burnt weeny sandwich , Guitar
Fugazi
Pictures at an excibition , Caravan´s debut
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 23:15
^^^ As a non-prog album I like Rush's debut A LOT. Got me through being in the hospital for a few weeks back
in the day when I was rrly sick. It's a great hard rock album which i simply love but wouldn't recommend to many
of our fellow proggers.

Benefit hasn't caught on with me yet (but I'd hardly say it's not appreciated) and I've *gasp* never really cared
for Trespass... *Hides before people come to get me*
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 22 2008 at 00:46
the first Yes album, and Time and a Word.
King Crimson - Beat and Three of a Perfect Pair
Steve Hackett - Cured
Genesis - Trespass
Jethro Tull - APP, This Was
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 22 2008 at 03:18
Originally posted by BroSpence BroSpence wrote:


Jethro Tull - APP, This Was
 
I like This Was too... I guess it's not as highbrow or complex as some of their later albums, but that doesn't at all mean it's not enjoyable.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 22 2008 at 05:11
Yes - Time and a Word
King Crimson - Islands

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 22 2008 at 11:29
Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

Originally posted by Nightfly Nightfly wrote:

Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

Maybe Crest of a Knave takes some flak because it beat out Metallica for the Best Metal Performance Grammy? Tongue
 
I really like Crest of a Knave.......more now than when it was released actually. Unfortunately it's the last Tull album I trully enjoyed as whole though each one since has had it's moments.
 
Funny, now that I remember Crest... I don't think I liked it that much. IIRC it lacked the earthiness that's pretty much integral to Tull's appeal.
 
You're right, it did lack that earthiness of earlier work as has just about everything they've released since but it redemmed itself for me with a strong collection of songs. With a more sympathetic production, Farm on the Freeway and Budapest would not have been out of place on many of their seventies albums.
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