JETHRO TULL - SONGS FROM THE WOOD

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   I love the harpsichord sounding keyboard of Velvet Green. Many fine tracks to choose from.

Poll Question: Favourite track?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Songs from the Wood	20	[35.09%]
Jack in the Green	5	[8.77%]
Cup of Wonder	0	[0.00%]
Hunting Girl	5	[8.77%]
Ring Out, Solstice Bells	1	[1.75%]
Velvet Green	15	[26.32%]
The Whistler	5	[8.77%]
Pibroch (Cap in Hand)	5	[8.77%]
Fire at Midnight	1	[1.75%]
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moonchild Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 15 2004 Status: Offline Points: 146	Topic: JETHRO TULL - SONGS FROM THE WOOD Posted: May 19 2004 at 15:45
	I love the harpsichord sounding keyboard of Velvet Green. Many fine tracks to choose from.
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Peter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669	Posted: May 19 2004 at 16:58
	I especially love "Hunting Girl." It really rocks (fab Barre guitar!), and has clever, risque lyrics! I really like the title track too! A great album overall -- see my review! Edited by Peter Rideout
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bityear Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: April 25 2004 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 171	Posted: May 19 2004 at 19:16
	I voted for, "Ring Out Solstice Bells", though its definite version is the one on "Christmas Album" - that's an awesome record, by the way! The sitting by the fireplace sort of Tull.
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diddy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: March 02 2004 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 1117	Posted: May 19 2004 at 19:44
	Honestly it's been a wile since I listened to this one but I voted for 'Velvet green' because I remember that this one was the song I considered to be the best...It's time to dig out "Songs from the wood" again for a listen...or two
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dropForge Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: April 24 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 608	Posted: May 19 2004 at 21:01
	Totally amazing Tull album, my favorite along with Stormwatch. I can't pick just one tune over the rest, all of them really go together, when you listen to the album, intently. No go on this poll for moi!

Cesar Inca Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 19 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 4888	Posted: May 19 2004 at 23:47
	My second favourite JT album (only surpassed by Thick as a Brick, leaving the third place for A Passion Play). Almost every track is superb, but I had to choose one. I also terribly enjoy the playful magic of the opening title track, the rocky punch of 'Hunting Girl', the somber mystery of 'Pibroch', and the gentle introspective cheerio of 'Fire at Midnight'.

Ivan_Melgar_M Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19557	Posted: May 20 2004 at 00:52
	One of my favorite Tull albums after Thick as a Brick and Benefit. The band had reached maturity and decided to play the folk/pastoral oriented prog' that they liked most. The title track "Songs from the Wood" is by large the one I choose, the beautiful choral intro is so peaceful that this is the song that I play when stressed. The piano sections are also extreamly pleasent and Ian's voice is IMHO at one of his peaks. It works as a magic song that takes me to the countryside when I'm tired of the city. Iván

Velvetclown Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 13 2004 Status: Offline Points: 8548	Posted: May 20 2004 at 03:32
	I agree with dropForge, I just can´t choose.

Jim Garten Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin & Razor Guru Joined: February 02 2004 Location: South England Status: Offline Points: 14693	Posted: May 20 2004 at 03:58
	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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Paco Fox Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 10 2004 Location: Spain Status: Offline Points: 500	Posted: May 20 2004 at 04:04
	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.

John Hicks Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: May 21 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 17	Posted: May 21 2004 at 11:04
	Can't go wrong with the title track!
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James Lee Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 05 2004 Status: Offline Points: 3525	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.

Velvetclown Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 13 2004 Status: Offline Points: 8548	Posted: June 21 2004 at 01:40
	Velvet Green

Vibrationbaby Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 13 2004 Status: Offline Points: 6898	Posted: June 22 2004 at 11:21
	I went with Jack In The Green but the whole album is a masterpiece of prog.

Possessed Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: July 10 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 430	Posted: July 10 2004 at 03:14
	The Whistler.

Manu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: May 11 2004 Location: Switzerland Status: Offline Points: 8	Posted: July 12 2004 at 11:03
	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.

peringo2 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: July 21 2004 Status: Offline Points: 14	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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eriksalkeld Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 24 2005 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 209	Posted: July 09 2005 at 17:22
	Top 3: 1) Hunting Girl 2) Songs from the Wood 3) The Whistler
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NetsNJFan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: April 12 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3047	Posted: July 09 2005 at 22:37
	Songs from the Woods gets my vote, a surprisingly complex yet beautiful prog-folk masterpiece. Cup of Wonder is also great IMO.


Progzilla Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: July 05 2005 Status: Offline Points: 206	Posted: July 11 2005 at 09:30
	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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