2 Jethro Tull Favourites Poll
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Topic: 2 Jethro Tull Favourites Poll
Posted By: presdoug
Subject: 2 Jethro Tull Favourites Poll
Date Posted: September 20 2022 at 14:51
| Jethro Tull has had a long and chequered past, and with many great records, without a doubt. The two listed here, though, for me, stand out as their very best. Both are very adventuresome, both musically, and lyrically, and the band are definitely "firing on all six cylinders" here. Aqualung, with it's catchy, but never trite, music, and it's lyrical pokes at, and illumination of, the sometime hypocrisy of organised religion and those that run it. And then there is the unique Thick As A Brick, the at times witty parody of a "concept album", that only Tull could pull off. Which one do you folks prefer, among these favourites of mine? |
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Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: September 20 2022 at 14:54
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Both equally ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 20 2022 at 14:57
^my own favourite from the two, is Aqualung. It is an album that I had and listened to very much, "way back when", and still brings a smile to me upon hearing it today. I am quite enamoured with TAAB and very much appreciate it, but Aqualung seems to "hit the nail on the head" even more in what I previously mentioned it dealt with. It wins, if only, for the priceless line, "And the graven image, you know who, with his plastic crucifix"
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 20 2022 at 15:10
| Aqualung |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 20 2022 at 15:33
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brick ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: September 20 2022 at 15:37
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I like both equally, but I'm one of the guys who thinks Tull turned in their very best work ca. Minstrel through Stormwatch. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: September 20 2022 at 15:42
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TAAB ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: September 20 2022 at 16:05
Same ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Evolver wrote:Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: September 20 2022 at 16:15
| Brick. One of the first records I ever bought. Has remained a great listen. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: September 20 2022 at 16:16
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Aqualung. TAAB is very clever, but Aqualung is a collection of quite wonderful songs. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: September 20 2022 at 16:50
idem :-) |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: September 20 2022 at 17:47
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I much prefer Aqualung ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: September 20 2022 at 18:37
Add me to the list. Both are fantastic and it’s hard to choose one over the other.
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: September 20 2022 at 21:20
| Thick as a Brick. Actually, I do like all of Aqualung, but every single song from it I like better in some other live version. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 20 2022 at 22:37
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 21 2022 at 02:21
Aqualung, just out of nostalgia, it was the first JT album I heard, long ago. 
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: September 21 2022 at 03:42
This . . . ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: September 21 2022 at 04:49
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Thick As A Brick (1972) ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: September 21 2022 at 05:27
| Aqualung |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: September 21 2022 at 05:45
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by far Aqualung The Brick is all too over-the-top for me - much like it was intended to be according to Ian Anderson ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 21 2022 at 06:06
Same here, with my favourite album overall being Jethro Tull's only Symphonic Prog album..... "Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull."
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Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: September 21 2022 at 06:54
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Thick As A Brick . ------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: September 21 2022 at 07:05
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Both brilliant, but I prefer Thick as a Brick a bit over Aqualung. ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: September 21 2022 at 07:18
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both are amazingly awesome but Thick ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: September 21 2022 at 07:57
| I went with Aqualung here. TAAB has some great moments but I find it hard to sit through the entire album/song. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: September 21 2022 at 08:06
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Brick by a hair. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: September 21 2022 at 09:36
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Aqualung. Never been much of a fan of Brick. I’m more of a Passion guy. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: EduTatsumi
Date Posted: September 21 2022 at 10:27
| Aqualung (1971) |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: September 21 2022 at 11:05
| Aqualung for nostalgic reaons, both are masterpieces |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 21 2022 at 21:06
| Definitely Aqualung for me. I have found Thick as a Brick to be a slog to get through most of the time (not that I have listened to either in full for many years -- I own both on cassette). I prefer all of the pre-TaaB albums to TaaB. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: September 22 2022 at 14:34
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Thick as a Brick ------------- 
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: September 22 2022 at 14:53
| Aqualung is good but it's barely a warmup for TAAB. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: September 22 2022 at 15:18
^Pot stirrer!  ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: September 22 2022 at 15:21
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^ Pot works!!
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: September 22 2022 at 16:09
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Neither a favorite of mine - too much muck to wade thru on TAAB and while I dig Martin's playing in general, it's too samish throughout A'lung, especially the leaning on the acoustic guitar for much of the second half. I much prefer TAAB to A'lung but haven't put either on in yonks. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Gully Foyle
Date Posted: September 23 2022 at 11:43
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I kind of think that every Tull album is more or less tied from Stand Up through Heavy Horses - then the rest have ups and downs. Aqualung - the band fully coming into their own, interesting mix of heavier rock, longer compositions, and tiny personal confessional pieces - truly a work of beauty TAAB - something that makes the musician in me tremble in awe - the audacity of pulling it off, and they way they did it - Ian writing bits overnight and the band learning it and playing it the next day - and the sheer inventiveness required to make a 44 minute song never boring - just amazing But lets talk about Under Wraps.....
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