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
http://thisiheard.blogspot.com/2015/11/jethro-tull-outside.html
― timellison, Sunday, 15 November 2015 00:33 (eight years ago) link
they totally sound like CAN and NEU! it's sad how few people get how great stand up is too
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 15 November 2015 01:05 (eight years 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