Jethro Tull: hopeless devotion or hatred

 

How did you go with all those tunes I recommended at my site?

 

 

Yeah the bonus tracks are quite often tulls best songs. If I had to choose Tulls 100 best songs, 50 of them would be songs that didn't even make original albums lol. Warchild bonus tracks are the type of songs tull would have released any day of the week in 1974 because they were the natural style of songs they'd write. But being a soundtrack, the album had songs with a more commercial feel. You've probably heard most of the bonus stuff from albums up until mid 70s. Stormwatch, Broadsword, Heavy horses, Catfish, Dotcom has some great bonus stuff too. But the bonus material on each remaster is mainly the best songs or among the best 5 songs on every remastered album. Going back to This Was, my favorite tracks are Love story, One for John Gee, Christmas song and Move on alone. 3 of  those are bonus tracks. Same goes for Stand up where my fave songs are Living in the past, Look into the sun, Sweet dream, Jeffrey goes to Leicester square and Driving song. Same with Benefit, where Witches promise, Teacher, Just trying to be are mainly my faves too. 7 of my fave 10 songs on Warchild are bonus tracks. My fave songs on Minstrel and Too old are, you guessed right, the bonus tracks . The 4 Stormwatch bonus tracks are are among the best 7 or 8 songs on that album too. Some goodies on Broadsword also. The version of Jackalynn on my site is pretty hard to find and it's way better than the other version . Check out Blues instrumental under heavy horses also, that's hard to find too. The last 6 songs on LITP would have made a much better Side of an album than Side 2 of Aqualung. Life is a long is a remix tull did. The drums were very quiet on the old version and it sounded like a rough demo recording lol. Tell me what you think of dotcom songs such as awol, wicked windows, dog ear years, dotcom, hot mango flush, far alaska, it all trickles down(bonus). I reckon it';s the best stuff they have done since the late 70s

Coming to the subject of hatred, it wouldn't surprise me if people hated Tull outright and utterly because it can happen with any band, that's why tastes are subjective.  But I don't really understand where people who consider Aqualung/TAAB/APP desert island and then say that the rest of their output is terrible and they wouldn't want to have anything to do with are coming from. Surely they have their valid reasons for such an opinion, I am just saying I can't relate to it because I am not able to perceive such sharp fluctuations in quality  - if you love one of those to death, it seems odd that you'd intensely dislike the rest because they aren't all that different.