Their guitarist kicks ass and besides that they are fucking Jethro Tull. So many songs to love by them.
― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 06:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh god, I had an urge to hear "Skating Away" so I downloaded the Anniversary collection and I'm kind of enjoying it.
Kill me.
― Full Metal Slanket (Oilyrags), Friday, 1 May 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
They are classic beyond classic.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 1 May 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
people who HATE this band hate fun
― kamerad, Friday, 1 May 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
From another thread:
for all the shit jethro tull got for beating metallica in the grammys, they are probably the *weirdest* band to ever win a grammy. i mean jethro tull! think about it! how could you even invent jethro tull?― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, February 10, 2012 9:33 AM (6 minutes ago) i was listening to Heavy Horses by Jethro Tull the other day and the album is dedicated to the "hardworking shire horses of England"― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, February 10, 2012 9:33 AM
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, February 10, 2012 9:33 AM (6 minutes ago)
i was listening to Heavy Horses by Jethro Tull the other day and the album is dedicated to the "hardworking shire horses of England"
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, February 10, 2012 9:33 AM
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 February 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
Jethro Tull OTM
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Friday, 10 February 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
heavy horses and songs from the wood are both well worth checking out btw, late period successes...they decided to completely ignore punk/new wave/everything that was going on at the time
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 February 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
Songs From The Wood a little more so, but M@tt OTM.
Perhaps the receding of the prog wave did influence them to keep it concise on these two records. There are no long songs.
SFTW was my first-ever "favorite album" and it still captivates.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, 10 February 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i guess they are pretty tight, there's one funkier tune on heavy horses that almost reminds me of like a jazz rock version of itchy post punk funk type stuff but it's probably by coincidence
ned, do you like jethro tull?
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 February 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
I do, more casually than anything else but I had a small phase in the late eighties (oddly enough -- pre-Grammys, for what it's worth, but that album that won had a couple of creepily interesting songs on it like "Farm on the Freeway," which got some regular classic-rock-radio airplay at the time).
Songs from the Wood I heard courtesy of friends at the time too -- good album! Probably in more freak/psych/underground folk performer/listeners backgrounds than people admit to.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 February 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
I'll rep for Stormwatch, which does have long songs, but I love the theme so much.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 10 February 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
my best friend growing up was a big Tull fan but i never really gave them much thought until Thick As A Brick blew me away on the radio one day, love that album now, should really check more out.
― some dude, Friday, 10 February 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
And hey, just got this in email that the UK's Burning Shed label is where to go for, well, everything Tull-related:
http://www.burningshed.com/store/jethrotull/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 February 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
woah Tull Xmas album!
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 February 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
Benefit is a killer album. I loved this band when I was a kid, then somewhere in early high school all the charm ran right out of 'em for me. "Locomotive Breath" is all-time though, really oughta be a more commonly-cited everybody-knows-that-riff tune
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 10 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
That riff in "Teacher" totally rules
― Trip Maker, Friday, 10 February 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
xpost that wonderfully sludgy ga-chunka ga-chunka rhythm
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, 10 February 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
lol I had no idea that this song was called "Locomotive Breath"
yes, it is fucking fantastic
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Friday, 10 February 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
The only (sort-of) art-rock band where I can easily list a top 5: 1. "Witches Promise," 2. "Nothing Is Easy," 3. "Living in the Past," 4. "Skating Away..." 5. "Teacher." Unless ELO count.
― clemenza, Friday, 10 February 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
btw A Passion Play is completely batshit and over the top and awesome in a way that makes their other albums sound like the Ramones by comparison, recommended on vinyl where it's sequenced as 2 complete sides of vinyl no "songs"
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 February 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
Next time i'm in mpls/stpl, BOC/Tull night at my mom's. Wordisbond.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, 10 February 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't heard Passion Play in yonks, and I can't really remember the music, except for one part:
THIS... is the story of the HARE...who lost his SPECKATICKES!
― Ham House showdown (Dan Peterson), Friday, 10 February 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
hahahaha
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, February 10, 2012 3:34 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
cool! we can plan our launch of Classic Rock Artists' Late Period Albums No One Gives A Fuck About Magazine
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 February 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
― Ham House showdown (Dan Peterson), Friday, February 10, 2012 3:45 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha yeah it's so goofy
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 February 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Classic Rock Artists' Late Period Albums No One Gives A Fuck About Magazine
also featuring Grace Under Pressure/Presto/Hold Your Fire
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, 10 February 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, I think the singles from Presto are pretty great.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 10 February 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
They are! That's why those albums have to be in the first issue of CRALPANOGAFA Magazine!
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, 10 February 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds like a planet designed by Slartibartfast.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 February 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
grace under pressure is a top 5 rush album, act like u know
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 February 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
THIS MONTH: SLY AND ROBBIE SPEAK OUT ON THE MAKING OF BOB DYLAN'S INFIDELS
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 February 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, 10 February 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
they were certainly well-realized/fully-formed. really looked exactly like they should have looked with their sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqZmtq5LhFo&feature=artist
― Chris S, Saturday, 11 February 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
still pissed i lent Thick as a Brick to a girl in high school and never got it back
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Saturday, 11 February 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
and spotify is reminding me that Thick is awesome fuiud
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Saturday, 11 February 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
never had anything against them, have to admit. although I never really felt inclined to accept the punk rules (throw out a world of music because a couple 50s-revivalist punk bands said to? um, no thnx)
― Chris S, Saturday, 11 February 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
fuck there was a foo fighters ad between pts 1 and 2
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Saturday, 11 February 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
Tull Rulez. I find it weird that some ILXors don't know this and/or have only listened to one album's worth of material
― rubber belly hand necker (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 11 February 2012 05:52 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno about Tull but I have a soft spot for Ian Anderson's "Walk Into Light" solo record. It has to be one of the best arranged/programmed synth-based albums of the period.
― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 8 April 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
could not wring an ounce of pleasure from 'thick as a brick'. recently discovered that the whole thing is a giant pisstake, went back to it and loved it immediately. I've played the whole thing easily 10 times this week.
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 6 December 2012 07:34 (eleven years ago) link
Ha that makes me happy. I'm a pretty big Tull-head but I haven't tried to listen to long-form Brick in a long time (usually reach for Songs From The Wood, Heavy Horses or Aqualung).
Does the same contextualizing trick work for A Passion Play?
― my other pug is a stillsuit (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 6 December 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
don't know tbh, i've not yet gone back to any other tull stuff
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 6 December 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
I've been revisiting and enjoying War Child recently, unfairly maligned I think and supposedly a bunch of Passion Play offcuts and leftovers.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 6 December 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
Skating Away is sheer magic but I really can't abide the rest of that record. Last time I listened, anyway.
― my other pug is a stillsuit (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, the other night, the modern/alternative rock station did a whole 'feature' on Aqualung, citing it as a key influence on Mumford and Sons and the whole Brit neo-folk thing.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
Real shit that those two cheapo box sets don't have all the bonus tracks because they collect 8 albums in total and that would have been very convenient. They have so many bonus tracks and it'd be missing too much to just stick with the box sets.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 19 July 2015 02:33 (eight years ago) link
Have been on a tear with JT for the last few months, enjoying the remixed/boxed editions that have been coming out, so much great music.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 19 July 2015 11:16 (eight years ago) link
They seem prolific even for a band of that time.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 19 July 2015 12:26 (eight years ago) link
Bloody hell! Passion Play, War Child and Minstrel In The Gallery all have tall book remix expanded editions.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
they're horribly out of fashion, but BENEFIT is a great early 70s British rock album!
― calstars, Thursday, 10 September 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
Oh yes, Benefit is so great!
― MaresNest, Thursday, 10 September 2015 15:50 (eight years 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 (three weeks 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two weeks ago) link