I voted for Sweet Dream - an amazing joust between Ravel's Bolero and Forever Changes. This went top ten??!?
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 15 February 2013 09:35 (eleven years ago) link
I cut-and-pasted the list from Wikipedia, and had already eliminated one extra "Living in the Past"--missed that it charted three separate times. (Third time in 1985, hitting #11 in the States on Billboard's pop chart...is that right? That strikes me as bizarre.) Looking at their discography, it appears I was destined to be a fan: their debut album was released on my 7th birthday.
― clemenza, Friday, 15 February 2013 13:15 (eleven years ago) link
Thick As A Brick is the only record of their i know really well -- would've voted for the single edit if that was here. i should probably put all these songs in a Spotify playlist or something, i don't know most of them at all. i think "Aqualung" is still pretty ubiquitous though.
― weed, tumblr whites and wein (some dude), Friday, 15 February 2013 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
The Aqualung album is really really good.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 15 February 2013 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
Living In The Past, for so many different, huh, 'reasons'.Tho could've picked The Whistler as easily.
― t**t, Friday, 15 February 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
my fav Tull tune is "One Brown Mouse", but I don't know if that was a single (it shoulda been!)
― Euler, Friday, 15 February 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
One Brown Mouse is sooooo cute.
I'm leaning witch's promise cause these days I find it the most remarkable melodically.
I have deep Tull love from my youth. Songs from the Wood was my first self-consciously designated 'favorite album'.
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Friday, 15 February 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
My favourite non-singles are "Thick as a Brick," "Skating Away..." and (in the running for my favourite song of all) "Nothing Is Easy." Lots of great early live footage on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWb431tI4Fw
― clemenza, Friday, 15 February 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
He really does look crazed. I mean, I know it's theatre, but still.
― clemenza, Friday, 15 February 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
'Skating Away' probably my favorite Tull of all.
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Friday, 15 February 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
love "Skating Away" also. really love the live album, "Bursting Out"
of the ones listed, I've narrowed it down to these:
"Living in the Past""Teacher""Inside""Living in the Past""Locomotive Breath""Fat Man"
― nicky lo-fi, Friday, 15 February 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
first "Living in the Past" for me but man if "Nothing to Say" had been a single
― drier than a Charles Grodin quip (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 February 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
i like a bunch of their stuff, but have a particular soft spot for '17' -- it's like three minutes of tull power pop!
― mookieproof, Saturday, 16 February 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
"Skating Away..." is really nice!
Has anyone actually heard Crest of a Knave, the album that won the Grammy? I was always a bit curious about it.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 16 February 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
i like 'farm on the freeway'! it is not very \m/ tho
― mookieproof, Saturday, 16 February 2013 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
\m/ = ?
Tullish? Tullesque? Tullian?
― clemenza, Saturday, 16 February 2013 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
Jethrohensible
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 16 February 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
those are devil horns, guys
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 16 February 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
I think this thread is the first time I realized how much I actually really like Tull.
― you know that your shoes are broken (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 18 February 2013 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
Finally found my copy of Living In The Past. And just as I thought, it's gotta be 'Witch's Promise'. But I thank this thread for making me pay more attn to 'Inside', whose awesomeness I never noticed before!
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Monday, 18 February 2013 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
God how I love the chunka ga-chunka guitar on the chorus of Hymn 43 tho!
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Monday, 18 February 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 22 February 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
I forgot to vote!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 22 February 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
I guess the unspoken rule is that if some doofus lists the same song twice, click on the first one. So happily that worked out.
― clemenza, Friday, 22 February 2013 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
what if we listened to it and it turned out it was Atheist style prog-death
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
y'all wanna act like yr mans upper mississippi don't have spotify at work and won't listen any goddamn classic rock dino album?
i'm going in
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
btw this was remastered in 2005 haha
first up STEEL MONKEY
opens with some synth sequencer stuff....haha...uh...some kind Top Gun soundtrack guitar vibes....sequencers are totally they heard Jan Hammer's Miami Vice theme and dug it
"i'm a high rise junkie, and i'm heavenbound"
"Feel me climbing up your knee"
yeah hella Steve Stevens vibes from the guitar solos/tone....
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
haha sequencer and slap bass breakdown
this is what I always imagined Marillion sounded like...but no on in America can actually hear Marillion, their CDs self erase when they cross our shores
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
i wonder who was in the band at this point?
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 15:32 (ten years ago) link
next up: Farm on the Freeway
mellower..synth pad and flute/synth melodies....more (don) airy almost new agey
this almost sounds like an outtake from Brothers in Arms with flute
but the fundamental chord changes and ian's vox sound kinda old school jethro tull
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 15:34 (ten years ago) link
sometimes this is reminding me of 80s Rainbow
middle break getting down to some old school pomp and circumstance
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
next up: jump start
again we're back at kinda late 70s tull songs with shitty 80s production :/
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
I've never been able to get down with the stuff from 'A' onward. I'll try again someday but yeah. It's SUCH a weird thing though, synth hair funk tull...
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
spoiler alert: this album isn't very good and probably shouldn't have won a grammy
Jethro Tull seem stuck...they couldn't really change the style up and if they hate then let em hate and watch the money pile up a la Yes and Genesis
but they didn't totally stick to their guns either and got saddled with moments of trying to be "modern" and so it just ends up in this middle ground that wouldn't satisfy anyone
― My Chief Keef Keef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
by the mid 80s i was really into fairport and boiled in lead and stuff like that and it was super galling to me that tull couldn't just do songs from the wood parts 2 3 and 4.
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
If this is an attempt to jumpstart an Eagles-style track-by-track Tull thread, count me in.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:29 (ten years ago) link
man i would be like a pig in shit for about 150 tracks of that
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
"Teacher" is such a jam, just realized it was cut from the CD version of Living In The Past, which is insane
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 10 March 2018 03:26 (six years ago) link
That is insane. If you gotta cut something for the cd cut by kind permission of, not fkin teacher with that riff!!!
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 10 March 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
Three Top 10 hits, one Top 20 and Top 30 in the UK, 1969-71. The only ones I know are "Living in the Past" and "Witches Promise".
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 March 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
Family were having hits at roughly the same time, the charts were pretty weird back then.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 March 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Saturday, March 10, 2018 1:52 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
two of the best imo
The LP version of the Living in the Past comp is a great place to start if you're dipping your toes into Tull waters, and will cost you >$2 at any record store in America
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:07 (six years ago) link
They cut Teacher? Hey man what’s the plan what was that you said.
That is a terrible error
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
(xpost) $2? For the double? Is there no ridiculously-priced used market down there? I doubt you could get that in good shape for under $10-15 up here.
― clemenza, Sunday, 11 March 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
Huh, I dunno! I just assumed because I used to see it everywhere, frequently in the dollar bin. But I've given up shopping for vinyl in record stores in big cities so you may be right. LPs that were once ubiquitous--Rumours, Dark Side, etc--are now being sold for $25. It's madness!
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 11 March 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link