It's not one of their greatest songs but "A Small Cigar" is such a funny idea with really funny lyrics, it was only released as bonus material https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBIA06c4L3s
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:16 (one month ago) link
I mean it does sound good but much of the amusement comes from the lyrics
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:21 (one month ago) link
they have some songs I really love - "Mother Goose", "The Whistler", "Inside"...what else have they got like that?
Singing All DayWond'ring Aloud/AgainLife's a Long SongAlive and Well and Living InFat ManJeffrey Goes To Leicester SquareDr. BogenbroomTeacherUp to MeCheap Day ReturnUp the 'PoolSkating Away on the Thin Ice of the New DaySalamanderMothsFire at MidnightBroadford BazaarHome
...as you go later, their albums will usually have 2-3 more acoustic and poppier numbers, but they kinda get increasingly baroque
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Saturday, March 9, 2024 7:49 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
thanks, as I go through these I have come to the conclusion that I actually do like Jethro Tull
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 March 2024 15:37 (one month ago) link
I'd say that the odds are better that a given Tull song will be worthy if it's a ballad or "pop" song than a riff-rocker, maybe partly because the rockers last longer and have to make space for various often-monotonous instrumental solos.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 28 March 2024 16:49 (one month ago) link
Still, some eternal riffs in the Tull catalogue: Locomotive Breath, No Lullaby, Sweet Dream. Cross-eyed Mary, Hunting Girl, Something's On The Move, etc.
― henry s, Thursday, 28 March 2024 17:00 (one month ago) link
Frogbs - have you done Passion Play yet?
In the documentary I watched last year Dee Palmer said that Eddie Jobson was the dictionary definition of a wizard (she even said which dictionary, oxford maybe?) and I looked it up and didn't really catch her meaning, I suspected it was an insult but maybe not.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 29 March 2024 18:19 (one month ago) link
was about to, I thought I had it but it turns out it was Minstrel in the Galary lol
― frogbs, Friday, 29 March 2024 18:23 (one month ago) link
Valentijn otm velvet green is the ne plus ultra For frogbs, this would be my Tull PO5 right now:Velvet green No lullabyWitches promise TaaB (the usual excerpt from part 1)Mother goose And top 5 albums:Songs from the wood Living in the past (the first LP of the 2LP set or the first CD of the 2CD set)AqualungHeavy horses (ideally the box so you get the live show)A (ideally the box so you get the especially killer live show)
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 31 March 2024 16:08 (one month ago) link
Ohhhh, I didn't think this would get a reissue, I'm not sure that I've listened to it more than once.
https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/jethro-tull-bursting-out-the-inflated-edition/
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:03 (three weeks ago) link
I love how Thick as a Brick is claimed to be a parody of prog concept albums, which they thought would be apparent once people listened to the lyrics. as though people were gonna listen to it and go "yes I understand everything this guy is saying"
amazing album though surely one of the best prog LPs ever made parody or no
― frogbs, Friday, 12 April 2024 02:36 (three weeks ago) link
Also, “Inside” from Benefit is an absolute jam. Glen Cornick’s bass on this is just incredible.― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, April 23, 2018 9:48 PM (five years ago)
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, April 23, 2018 9:48 PM (five years ago)
This song sounds so much like Can.
― timellison, Friday, 12 April 2024 04:15 (three weeks ago) link