What are your top 10 Jethro Tull songs? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Here’s a fun one in no order

Coruisk
A stitch in time
Moths
Cup of wonder
Commercial traveler
Summerday sands
Good godmother
Foot of the stairs
The poet and the painter
Up the pool

All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.

I can’t pick a top 10. I could have 10 top 10s. Ive found 20 fave songs from the remix sets alone. Either 10 new tracks which were previously unreleased or 10 known tracks which I’ve started to get into due to the much improved production. Now I keep playing those tunes thanks to the remixes. Otherwise I never would have bothered with them.

Good examples are Inside, Old greaser, Warm Sporran, Working John

Edited by dr prog - May 04 2021 at 02:19

All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.

Thick as a Brick

Aqualung

A Passion Play

Weathercock

Hunting Girl

Dun Ringill

My God

Locomotive Breath

Heavy Horses

Later That Same Evening

Hard to leave out anything from Heavy Horses; I love that album to pieces.

Edited by Lewian - May 04 2021 at 13:32

Super unhelpful, but Stand Up through Under Wraps, with a nod to Jump Start on Crest of a Knave.

OK - 10

Only Solitaire

Salamander

Wond'ring Again

Ring Out Solstice Bells

Velvet Green

Black Sunday

Baker St. Muse

Teacher

Aqualung

Dr. Bogenbroom

HolyMoly wrote:

Hymn 43
Up the ‘Pool
Teacher
A Passion Play (all of it)
With You there to Help Me
Aqualung
No Lullaby
A New Day Yesterday
The Clasp
Life’a a Long Song

Good call on The Clasp

Lewian wrote:

dr prog wrote:

Coruisk

Very cool, hadn't heard that one before.

Love it. I can’t stop playing Crossfire remix. It’s longer than before and sounds great. I never used to listen to it much at all

All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.

1. Aqualung

2. My God

3. Heavy Horses

4. A Passion Play Part 2

5. Locomotive Breath

6. Sealdriver

7. Flying Dutchman

8. Budapest

9. Hunting Girl

10. Flying Colors

Thick as a Brick

Life is a Long Song

Wondering Aloud

Dun Ringill

To Cry You A Song

Just Trying to Be

Thinking 'Round Corners

Roots and Branches

Rock Island

Look Into the Sun

I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas

1. Heavy Horses

2. Thick as a Brick (the whole thing)

3-10 in alphabetical order:

Aqualung

Hunting Girl

Living in the Past

Minstrel in the Gallery

Moths

The Mouse Police Never Sleeps

Songs from the Wood

Weathercock

These were the what came to mind quickly. Might change some if I really sat down to think.

richardh wrote:

iluvmarillion wrote:

SteveG wrote:

The first 10 songs on Aqualung. Perfection.

I don't disagree but it makes it a bit dull for someone wanting to acquaint themselves with the music of Jethro Tull.

also not the best album for prog fans imo.

Their run of albums from TAAB to Stormwatch is one of the best ever. All great stuff to get your teeth into. Aqualung is a bit like DSOTM for me , an excellent song based album that leave me wanting more of something else.

Strange (imo), even for a "prog fan" to skip flawless albums such as Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung (my top three of theirs, I think) in favour of War Child, Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die! and Stormwatch in particular. To my ears those latter three albums all contain a few gems, but mostly unmemorable material. While the former three albums are packed with classic tunes that represents some of the the best music of the era. I don't mean to argue against your preferences (what would be the point of that). I just found it strange enough to comment on. We look for different things, I suppose.

I couldn't make a top ten. I don't think I ever could. So many great songs, and so many (for me) not yet fully digested non-album gems ca 1968-1978. I see songs on some of the lists here I'm not even familiar with.