jethro tull

how has there been no tull poll?

supposedly TAAB2 is pretty solid, I need to give it a listen

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Excellent dinosaur band '90s album title

A Passion Play is very good and tbh the only thing I can remember from Tull outside of Aqualung/TAAB.

jmm respect to ian for naming an album that pre-Y2K

but it's gotta be Living in the Past or Aqualung

this is actually really hard. "benefit" has my heart -- first album I ever bought with my own money (.23 + tax in the "nobody wants this & it's in bad shape" bin circa '78) -- but "thick as a brick," as ridiculous as it is, has some proper jams, and "passion play" may be even better -- but "aqualung"'s got the hooks no doubt -- and the dark horse is "minstrel in the gallery" imo, kind of crowded out by the big ridiculous albums but it's quite good -- so idk -- must dedicate some listening to three of these to pick

Gotta be Benefit, but it's a pretty amazing run from the start right until Stormwatch.

that's the cutoff point for me, too -- "A" isn't terrible, but it's a drop-off. I have all kinds of objections to Ian Anderson's vibe/narrative stance that keep them from being a favorite band after I'm older than 14, but musically they seem just locked the fuck in for that whole span.

Also, Benefit just sounds so otherworldly to me, I like This Was too because it kinda sounds like it was mixed in a fog, but all that fluttery plate reverb on his flute just sounds so damn good on Benefit.

Yeah, I don't f/w anything after A apart from BEASTIE!!!

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does the nurse treat your old man the way she should?

and you snatch your rattling last breaths with deep-sea diver sounds

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WTF I had no idea about this poll
Would’ve voted songs from the wood

I changed my mind after I voted (to Stand Up) so that would have tied with Aqualung and not Benefit.

Also what anarchists voted for A, Catfish Rising and TAAB2? :)

I went with Stormwatch since I assumed Aqualung and Songs from the Wood would be well represented!

Ian Anderson's vibe/narrative stance that keep them from being a favorite band after I'm older than 14

So true! Stand Up was my favorite record when I was 14, and it's the only one that remains in rotation for me. The hard rock looms there, but there's a folky eeriness that they never recaptured, even if they kept incorporating folk.

“I try to socialize / but I can’t seem to find / what I was looking for / something on my mind”

Well do you ever get the feeling
that the story's too damn real,
and in the present tense?

Or that everybody's on the stage
and it seems like you're the only
person sitting in the audience?