Jethro Tull: A Tale of Four Trilogies
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
- This was such a fun subject for us to discuss. Jethro Tull's discography is a wild journey! The TV special of Too Old to Rock n Roll, Too Young To Die is linked below👇🏻
• Jethro Tull - 1976 - ...
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A Passion Play is my favourite album of all time. Barriemores drumming on that is on a different level.
Yes. A marvellous piece of music. I'm so glad it exists, because there's nothing else like it. 👍😁
The beast that is Jethro Tull on any given day do battle for me for Best Prog Band ever , and along with the likes of Genesis , YES , and Van Der Graaf Generator completey epitomise the genre.
Runner-up trilogy in my view is the incredible Pastoral trilogy.
Obviously ( I think ) winning trilogy should be Aqualung , TAAB , A Passion Play..... but let's not forget its evil twin. The Chateau Scooby doo album ( you know the one ). PHENOMENAL !!!
So id say the 8 albums ( which has to include Minstrel in the Gallery Tara !!! cos quite rightly it's OFF THE SCALE !! ) are absolutely essential albums and I envy anyone hearing any of these for the first time.
How about a Van Der Graaf Generator segmented series in the same vein as this Dermot.
Great video guys. 🎵🎵😍
Thanks for your input. That's a great comment. Yes the idea of a segmented Van Der Graff Generator video capturing the various phases of the band is a brilliant idea. We'll put it on the list. 😁👍
A great video of Jethro Tull in a trilogy order of their albums.They have great albums,but I listen more "Minstrel of the Gallery"a favorite album I enjoy more than the orhers of my Jethro Tull discography.
That's a very good album. We like it very much too. 👍
Another great video folks! For me the good Tull material ended with Broadsword & The Beast. Their later music just doesn't do it for me.
Although you excluded it from the first trilogy, I was glad to hear the kind words about This Was. It was a bit of a different animal, more like Fleetwood Mac or Chicken Shack, but when I feel the need for a Tull fix, This Was and Minstrel In The Gallery are my two go to's. Interesting look at the Tull discography guys! Cool idea and great show as always!
Thanks. We love this was and I'm on the lookout for a copy. Definately agree... It's more in the Chicken Shack and Fleetwood Mac mode. 👍
Great video guys of my long term favourite band. My god ( Mr. Anderson) has been and still is a very important part of my life. Saw Tull a few weeks ago in London , great concert with a great new guitarist in Jack Clark. Love your videos, keep em coming 💪
Thanks. It was a fun one to make because we both really love the band. Tull is a unique sound. 👍
Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, A Passion Play, Minstrel in the Gallery, Songs from the Wood and the M.U. compilation. That's pretty much all the Tull I need.
All good albums. Great choices. 👍
I find "Living in the Past" pretty indispensable, as it compiles all those great early singles and b-sides. Those tracks are just as vital as the album ones, IMO. Ian was so very prolific as a writer, his albums alone couldn't contain all the great songs he made.
An interesting walk through of the Tull discography. I well balanced assessment, and you didn't shy away from the lingering disappointment that set in during the early 80s. A case of continuing to make music when you have run out of new things to say; it can be good, but not interesting.
That would be an interesting theme for an episode, artists who never ran out of interesting things to say in their music.
A great idea. We will definitely put it on the list. Thanks for your kind words. 👍
Well Dermot and Tara. Brilliant analysis of one of my top 5 favourite artists! Agree with 98% of what ye said- up to 1982. Agree 100% with your analysis of post '82 Tull.
Interestingly enough- one of my other fav bands - Rush - were fantastic up to and including 1982's Signals album, after that they were hit and miss. Eighties keyboards ruined the band! I actually got into Tull in a slightly different way- I was in Five - O records in Waterford ( remember the one in Clonmel Dermot?) And it was the first time I've bought an album based purely on the cover. The only other time was De Dannan's Midt covered mountain. Anyway I then worked back to Songs from the Wood. So for me , the years 77 to 82 lps are special- love them! However once I discovered the rest of Tull- of course the earlier stuff is amazing ( war child and too old not so much!) Anyway- even though they made rubbish in the 80's, luckily they were great live up to the early 00's. Not Tull without Barre though! Worth noting Dermot and Tara, that a few gems exist during the latter years- 1988's 5lp box set is amazing! 1992's 'a little light music ' is brilliant. On a different note- all the Steven Wilson remix boxsets are absolutely brilliant! So good that to me they set the standard for how box sets should be done. Outstanding effort! Absolutely essential I think. Anyway I'm getting started, so I better call a halt! I'd say I enjoyed that video the best so really well done to the two of ye. Great stuff and as I said- must catch up! Take care now.
Thanks. That's a great comment. Your own insights are brilliant. Yes. I started some of my rock journey in Five O in Clonmel. That's where I discovered Renaissance and Uriah Heep. So, thanks to them for putting me on the right road. It would definitely be nice to catch up. If you're still in Waterford, I work around the city a lot. 👍
Ah no bother Dermot- I live just outside the town and I was thinking that yourself and Tara might be interested in coming down here one night to obviously meet ye, but to talk and play music for a couple of hours. I have a good few friends who are musicians and music fans, but most of them wouldn't be prog fans really. We do music nights on a regular basis both out here and in my friends studio, mainly in his studio because you can blast sounds to your hearts content! I can as well because I have no neighbours- but in August my wife heads to Melbourne so the house will reverberate with music! It would be nice to have a prog night! Also I mainly like the big prog bands and you two sure have a load of stuff to share . Mind you I've heard stuff like Can- even bought an album(tagore mago) and flogged it soon after- could not hear anything only a fuckin racket! But I'm open to hearing stuff- no bother. So if you're not getting sunburnt in Spain - sometime in the first 2 weeks of August, ye are most welcome! If ye're away - I have a room for music , so any evening really Dermot. Ok - talk to ye soon? Ondebawl!
@@alisonoconnor8661 Sounds like fun. We'll see if we can get something sorted. The next couple of weeks are a bit nuts though. 👍
@@SpinninProg he was the one who got me into Tull and when we played Broadsword it blew us away. We couldn't wait for the new album to come out and oh what a disappointment.
Tara (about Under Wraps): "We don't like to speak of this in our house." lol
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Benefit is a fabulous dark album, one of my favourites from Tull. I’ve always thought that the Benefit album cover would suit Aqualong album better, and the Aqualong album cover suit Benefit album better.
Great point about the covers. I never thought about it, but it does resonate once you think of it. 👍
So, I almost bought "Underwraps" at a store in Buffalo for about 8 U.S. dollars, a day before I saw your video. I felt better about my decision, upon hearing your less than laudatory assessment of the aforementioned platter. But then yesterday, I came upon one in Toronto for 66 cents Canadian. Alas, it was too much (or too little, in this case) to resist and I capitulated. I shall give it a listen soon, now adequately braced for it's auditory shortcomings.
I'm looking forward to hearing your reaction. May the Lord have mercy on your ears. 😂🤣😂
Under Wraps is my favorite album by Tull.
Just kidding love Tull seen them many many times.Couldn't tell you what I like most depends on my mood.I think I counted like 13 albums in a row that were great in my opionion
You almost had me there. 😂🤣😂 Yes. What a consistently fantastic band!!!!! 👍
If anyone needs an excuse to invest in a Surround audio system, Jethro Tull provides it! All of their classic albums sound fabulous in their deluxe digi-book reissues with included 5.1 Surround mixes by the inimitable Steven Wilson. Even the early albums (ahem) 'benefit' immensely from this treatment. I've been listening to Tull religiously since 1969, and still enjoy my vinyl copies, but my Surround versions are like hearing them with freshly astounded ears.
Excellent products. Well worth acquiring. 👍
Couldn't agree more. Never really liked A until I heard Steven Wilsons remix. He took layers of grime from it and what a great album was hidden underneath. Especially the 5.1 and the live recording included it is powerful tight and heavy. The Benefit remastering and 5.1 also brings out amazing nuances that I hadn't heard before and made me seriously re-evaluate its brilliant songwriting. Surprisingly the only 5.1 in the collection so far that showed up it's weaknesses was broadsword. Which is an album I really like and the remastering is fine. The 5.1 just pulls the recording a bit apart and shows up the 80s recording more.
Do u not think under wraps was up there with the 80s musical masterworks like ABC,culture club, Kajagoogoo omd etc....... 😮 I recently got a Tull bootleg from the under wraps tour, London Fields I think, the band are on fire, really top notch. The numbers from UW benefit greatly with the live drums. But they're still pigs ears.
All the best spinners
@@anthonydunphy819 Great insights there from the 5.1 remixes. I must avoid the Broadsword one, so. I think Under Wraps would like to be up there with the bands you mentioned. But those bands fitted the aesthetic they were trying to convey (80s schlock). With JT, the effect was jarring and starkly distasteful. I'm still reeling after it, about 40 years later. 😂🤣😂
Great comments you make about the Jethro Tull discography, I agree the early 70s stuff is the by far the best. Stand outs are aqualung, minstrel, wood and stand up and benefit. Strangely I like the zealot and rock flute. His talking voice gives it a different spin. The other obvious inclusion is the one sat on the shelf behind you dermot, . Many thanks for entertaining me again.
Delighted you enjoyed the video. I do enjoy the songs on Rock Flote and the Zealot Gene. But I just think they lack that element that makes an album a Jethro Tull sounding release. It's only a labelling issue you could say. 👍
I also love the new work and another one coming out in 2025
The only 3 albums by them I personally consider to be a trilogy of some kind would be songs from the wood, heavy horses and stormwatch.
There's definitely a strong connection between those three. 👍
loved Tull when I was younger. I was pretty much done after Minstrel. Great studio & Live band back in the day . Thanks for the video .
Glad you enjoyed it. 😁👍
Great episode, A Passion Play is one of my favorite albums of all time, such a masterpiece. Cheers and all the best.
Thanks. It's a particular favourite of mine too. 👍
Great video as always Spinnin' Prog!! Are you able to do a review on the upcoming release of Bursting Out Live Boxset?? I do enjoy collecting the Boxsets that contained a close to 100 page book about the album and band during that particular time period! I think to me what I find playing over and over as my Tull go to is Thick as a Brick!
Great pick as your top album. And those box sets look like great artifacts for collectors. I've held a few. There's a great tactile quality to them and they would provide a fantastic document of the band's career. 👍
Great video guys. Really enjoyed that. JT are a band I've been meaning to dive into for a long time. I've only heard the odd track here and there. Will definitely give them a proper go now.
I'd love to see a Rush version of this video, or a 'when did they go bad?' video if that would work better. My guess is Power Windows with all the dated synth sounds and 80s production. Would be great to get your take on it.
Yes. We tend not to put much of a spotlight on Rush. I'd be afraid to do a "When did they go bad?" Video, though. Some of their fans are fanatics and come at us with every ranking we do asking why they aren't number one with everything. It's hilarious. 😂👍
@@SpinninProg haha ah right. You don't want to annoy the Rusheratti too much. They're worse than Taylor Swift fans by the sounds of it 😅
@@marblerye123 Yeah. I love the Rushariti... Like the Taylor Swift fans, they could be the Rushtys. 😂🤣😂
@@SpinninProg Rushtys 😅😅
Nice round up guys . Most enjoyable . You cracked me up with your comments of ‘UnderWraps ‘ Dermot 😂😂
Thanks Craig. The guy who called in with it asked me what he was going to do with it when he was leaving. I said "do whatever you like but don't bring it back". I met him a few days later and he'd thrown it in a litter bin. That was the end of his Tull fanaticism. 😂🤣😂👍
Great video! I'm glad to see that Stormwatch got some love as I feel that album is vastly under-rated. It's also nice that you were kind towards Roots To Branches, another of my favorites!
Yes. We really like those two albums. I'm sorry Roots to Branches didn't define a new direction for the band. I think they really had something there. 😁👍
That is a very honest opinion of Jethro Tull, one of my favourite bands. I agree entirely that they just went downhill after Broadsword with the odd exception. You didn't mention the J Tull Dotcom album which is not bad. The new albums are poor fare.
Thanks for joining the conversation Pat. I never had the Dotcom album, so I can't talk about it. The thing is that they were a unique and great band. I love loads of their albums and I'm just delighted that someone as great and talented as the musicians who went through that band left us with such amazing artifacts. I don't really need to keep desperately hanging on to some nostalgic feeling buying albums that really fall short of what this band once were. I think we're agreed on that anyway. 👍
@@SpinninProg keep up your great honest work, I find a lot of RUclipsrs love everything and are afraid to upset anyone. A lot of the prog bands and hard rock bands I like that are still going should in my opinion call it a day and should have called it a day a long time ago. I'm only down the road from you in Waterford.
@@PatKennedydon We set up the channel to talk about our relationship with these albums and the music on them. We do tend to upset some of the fans that are more loyal to a logo than the artistic expression, alright. I work in Waterford a lot. So you never know, we might bump into each other. Please feel free to have a chat if you see me pottering about. 😁👍
I mostly agree with this. But i really love War Child and have never been able to get into Too Old. I am definitely done after Broadsword though
No problem. War Child is not a bad album. I don't think any of them are. We all hear things differently. I got Too Old a bit later than most of the other albums and lots of people had told me it was really bad. When I got it, I found it wasn't as awful as I expected, so I like it. They have left one hell of a legacy of amazing albums for us to enjoy. That's all that matters. 👍
@@SpinninProg With Tull's post-Minstrel albums, this is where I start cherry-picking certain good tracks off each "inferior" album and making compilations of those. Songs like "Quiz Kid", "Salamander", and Taxi Grab" come to mind. I make these compilations with a great many artists, and I can enjoy these comps as much as I do their more vital core albums.
@@fabrikk60 Good idea. There are definitely "filler" tracks on those albums. So, why not steer a course to avoid them. 👍
Songs From The Wood is my fave, also love Stormwatch, A and Roots To Branches but I must listen to more of their albums, I couldn't believe it when they hit that Dire Straits period - what the hell?! Thanks for the video.
Glad you enjoyed the video. Great picks. No one mentions Roots to Branches and we think it's a really good album. Good to see someone else giving it some love. 👍
Nice words regarding the totally under-rated "Stormwatch" one of my all time top J Tull !!!!
We both love that album. It's a really insightful piece lyrically and musically it's pretty unique in their discography. 👍
Jethro Tull and me being a fan since I was 16 the first 2 albums that got me into the amazing Tull was aqualung and stormwatch and stormwatch is definitely in my top ten favorite JT albums of all time dark ages, old ghosts and dun ringill are among my favorite Jethro Tull songs if I had to pick a favorite it's minstrel in the gallery it's everything I love about Jethro Tull and it has some of martin Barre's finest guitar work and also I don't mind a and crest of a knave to whatever era of Jethro Tull you love there are some amazing music to enjoy
Thanks. Some great insights there from your journey with the band. Stormwatch is a particular favourite for me too. 👍
If I'm being honest I'm a Stand Up Benefit Aqualung Jethro Tull guy.I always thought that Thick as a Brick was a slightly elongated single side track to be honest, Passion Play and was it Minstrel next? Then we went all Arboreal didnt we...No, my favorite period was that post This Was time. I saw them finally as a proper band rather than Ian Anderson + others in the late 1970s. The guy next to us at the back had enjoyed the company of Bacchus for some little while and been repeatedly calling for Passion Play....He became somewhat impassioned and leapt in the air and SCREAMED PASSION FU**ING PLAY!!!! Promptly fell backwards and fast asleep...excellent
That's hilarious. I'm sure that guy goes to lots of concerts and has a list of these "impossible" requests. An interesting time you picked. Innovation abounded and sounds were being forged that had never been heard before. A great time with strong albums. 👍
Hi Spinnin' Proggers👋🏻
Really can't disagree with anything you said there Dermot. When I saw them live a few weeks ago I really enjoyed the newer songs. Probably because Anderson's vocals were similar to the studio versions, but he struggles with the older stuff and it's sad to see how much he's lost his mojo😥
On a more positive note I went to see Nick Mason's Saucerfull Of Secrets on Wednesday. I won't mention any songs so it doesn't spoil the setlist for you guys. It was only the second date of the tour and they seemed a little under rehearsed at times. Guy Pratt frequently had to prompt and count Nick Mason into the next section of songs. Also, Guy Pratt didn't seem entirely happy a lot of the time. He seemed to be having effects pedal issues, sound level issues, issues with one of his bass guitars, and issues with flashlights from mobile phones being used to record video. That said, it was still a really enjoyable gig tho. I'm looking forward to hearing what you guys think of them.
If you'd said to teenage Terry back in 1979 that 45 years later he'd be going to a Jethro Tull gig, a Gary Numan gig, and another gig where some guy from Spandau Ballet would be playing Pink Floyd songs he'd never have believed you😵💫
Great punch line there Terry. We had a disaster with our booking and I've ended up having to work that week. I'd given the wrong week months ago to an upcoming job. So, we've had to pull out of the gig. I'm really pissed off as I'd love to see that guy from Spandau Ballet... 😂🤣😂. But that's the way it goes sometimes. I'd say it was good despite the technical issues. You were at a few cracking gigs lately. I'm vicariously living through your experiences. 😁😂👍
@@SpinninProg Jeez Dermot!! If you're living vicariously through my sorry escapades you must live a miserable existence sir🤭
That's a downer about you not being able to attend the Nick Mason gig. Hopefully they'll be back around in a year or two🤞🏻
No more gigs for me until October, then I've got Steve Hackett, Alice Cooper, and Dream Theater all in the same week🤪
@@terrywalker8446 I'm going to London for Dream Theater. Fingers crossed. 😂🤣😂
@@SpinninProg yes I've got my fingers crossed too sir. I've booked my Dream Theater ticket but not sorted travel and accommodation yet. Any chance of you bringing a suitcase full of Guinness over with you as I've never tried the real stuff? Tried some Nigerian Guinness once and it was absolutely disgusting🤮 Lord knows what they do in the water over there🤭
@@terrywalker8446 of course sir. I will have a special compartment in my case. 😂 I tried the Nigerian one too. Great stuff. If the quality control with the wonky labels carried through to the ingredients, I'd hate to think of what I was drinking. 😂🤢
The law of three.
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Love your video as always as for me and my house Jethro Tull lost his way starting with the album A and going forward I don't believe they ever found themselves again being the same band as before the album A even though I gave them every opportunity and continued throwing my money into the wind buying these albums but again it could have been because I started getting older my musical tastes were either not moving forward fast enough to keep up or they started to go in a different direction anyhow enjoy your all as always I love you all because you're like regular folks
Thanks a million for your kind words John. It's just to make friends that we do these videos. Totally agree. A onwards was on a trajectory towards badness. 😁👍
Jethro Tull have long been in my top five list of favorite bands of all time. I have a big soft spot for "Benefit", as it was the first one I ever heard. I took a gamble on it because I had not heard of them before, and I almost didn't buy it because of the flute. I am glad I did as that remains one of my top 3 favorite albums of all time, along with the Beatles "White Album", and Genesis "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway." GREAT SHOW!!!
Thanks. They're a band we really love and it's great to hear how high you rank them. 👍
@@SpinninProg My #2, just behind "Benefit" is "Minstrel". IMHO, a highly underrated title in the Tull catalog!! However, I am a massive fan of "Stand Up", "Aqualung", "TAAB", "Passion Play" and beyond. I was not as thrilled with "Too Old" or "Heavy Horses" when they were first released, but they have grown on me over time. I do love "Songs From The Wood", but I don't rank it as highly as most Tull fans do; or at least the rankings I've seen online over time. A great album, to be sure, but not over Benefit, Minstrel, Stand Up, Aqualung, PP, TAAB, et al.
@@tonyyeatropoulos6829 I just like everything from Stand Up to Broadsword. They are all different and have good points. Some are amazing. Stand up to Minstrel are all absolutely sublime except War Child (not a bad album though and I listen to it occasionally). From there on the pastoral trilogy is good, but not mind blowing... A gets a pass. I think there is some good songwriting... I do have a soft spot for Broadsword. It's not a logical thing... I don't know what it is. Some of the songs just resonate with me. Overall a marvelous band who had a stream of good solid and some mind-blowing albums. I just love the band. 👍
@@SpinninProg I could not agree more! I even like "Under Wraps", which most folks 'poo-poo'. I think it just needs to be remixed. Yes, Tull are not at their best during their 'synth' phase, but still some very notable material therein. I, too, am not a fan of "War Child", and rarely listen to it. It took all the strength I could muster to order the deluxe box, as I want my Tull collection to remain as complete as possible. I enjoy "Broadsword" far more today, with the box, than I did when it first came out. I'm a stickler for rich production, and I was disappointed with the original mix of "Broadsword", but I am really enjoying this box!!! Cheers to you both, and keep up the outstanding and engaging shows that you two put together. Oh, and a very "Happy Father's Day" to you as well!!
@@tonyyeatropoulos6829 Thanks very much for your wishes for the day. I'm being well looked after and pampered. It's always great to chat to like-minded friends we find through this channel. 👍
jethro tull made a 12 grestcrecords in a row but for me the prog triolgy is the finest .probaly also because aqualung was my first tull record .i had to buy a second one because i played it to much 😂
Great!!! I'm picturing smoke coming out of the grooves and you running down the road to get a replacement. It's a fantastic album. 👍
@@SpinninProg you could almost hear the otherside .i saw you had also 2 copies of thick as a brick
I've always thought that Thick as a Brick is great, I really have but don't you find that you're sitting through the last 10 minutes on the edge of your seat because of the ending...isn't it the BEST ending, just brilliant!
Fantastic Brian. All great music creates anticipation for the final resolution. Thick as a Brick does that in spades. Couldn't agree more. 👍
Very fun video! I have long thought of Tull in terms of trilogies (it applies to Genesis too if you think about it, just more loosely in 1973-74 because it was so varied and you'd have to count a live album). Another point to consider here - if you look at some of the older songs on the 20-year and 25-year anniversary Tull box sets (Stormy Monday Blues, One For John Gee, Aeroplane, Sunshine Day,, "19", "To Be Sad..." ,etc), these would form a great album to set up a trilogy with L.i.t.P. and This Was. Those old songs were so good, in retrospect if the market had picked up Tull a bit sooner, all of those singles would have been on some album or other of the late 60s. One of the greatest psychedelic folk albums never released!
I'm obviously a huge Tull fanboy and continue my fanhood dutifully into the 21st century. I thought _Homo Erraticus_ was brilliant, tho' an IA album really it's well-nigh a Tull album in its own right in terms of style, and makes a great sort trilogy with Zealot and Rokflote.
Yes. I agree the early stuff was overlooked by the business and the public and it had real potential. I loved the DVD when they went back to the pub gigs with that line-up. There was a real magic there. I suppose there was just too much noise in the market for them to break through. 👍
@@SpinninProg I wonder if that DVD is still available. Do you remember the title? I only rememer seeing a few youtube videos from it. Yes, it was brilliant - all the former members of Tull gathered together.
@@danielmoore4693 I am sure I have it somewhere. It was a DVD with love stuff from around the time of Roots to Branches on it. It also had some tracks from that pub tour. Everything is in storage boxes at the moment. If I'm rooting in them for something, I'll pick it out. 👍
Very enjoyable watch, I agree with most of what was said. I have everything up to Broadsword but the rest is not at all essential. I saw them in September and wasn't expecting much but it was pretty good but obviously not as good as when I'd seen them before.
Glad you got to see them. I'd say we'd go if they were playing somewhere handy. I heard Dark Ages is on the set list. That's a particular favourite of mine. 👍
@@SpinninProg Yes, Dark Ages was on the setlist and a great rendition of We Used to Know dedicated to the Eagles 😀
@@markspooner1224 Brilliant!!! 😂🤣😂
Tull stumbled on Warchild, I reckon they listened to their critics. I'll go as far as Minstrel, but that was it for me.
Well... You still have their classic albums in your selection... So nothing wrong with that decision. 😁👍
Ian made me buy a capo. He was a major inspiration for my style of acoustic playing. I've always loved his playing. Tunes like Mother Goose, Salamander, Brick, My God are a lot of fun to play.
Jethro Tull from This Was to Stormwatch are required listening. A to Rokflote has its moments for sure but the discography gets somewhat dicey. Very much like Yes' discography. From 90125 to Mirror are full of spectacular moments but still can't hold a candle to the 70s Yes. Tull was my wife's favourite band so I've been listening to a lot of Tull lately. Mention should also be made on what a fantastic job Steven has done on the remixes. Also the book/box sets are a great example of what I want out of a box set. I'm looking forward to Bursting Out coming up.
I have a feeling that Dermot doesn't like Under Wraps all that much. Hmmm...it's not that bad (but also not that good).
The Christmas Album is surprisingly quite good. As is the live album A Little Light Music. Check it out.
You should do a ranking of Tull from 1980-2024
Great comment. I'm afraid I'll have to pass on the later albums ranking. I actually really like Roots to Branches, but other than that, I don't listen to anything. We tend to just talk about albums we have and live with. There's a lot of the later ones we don't have, so no go I'm afraid. I do appreciate the suggestion though and all your insights are very welcome. 😁👍
I’m kidding on the later Tull albums. Although I’ll stand up for the 2 latter albums I mentioned.
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For me (and this is, I believe, what is colloquially called a 'hot take') the final album by Jethro Tull was Stormwatch. After this album, Mr Anderson broke up the band, in theory, but in practise returned with a completely new group (plus Martin Barre) and elected to call it Jethro Tull. This was a despicable manner in which to treat his other group members and really it displays the more unpleasant and egotistical side of the man's character...which is a pity because there are stories of his generosity and kindness to other bands during the 1980s and 1990s. It is a shame, therefore, he could not be as generous and kind to the other members of his own group who played on Stormwatch.
I do enjoy a few tracks on Catfish Rising and The Christmas Album but to my ears, almost everything from A onwards is boring middle of the road dad rock, the only exceptions being The Pine Marten from A and Kissing Willie from...whatever album it appeared on. However, this does not detract from your long and informative video which was a joy to watch, especially as it included a few facts previously not known to me. For what it is worth (probably not much) my favourite JT albums are This Was, War Child, Tales From The Wood and Stormwatch. If I have to select just 1 from out of those...er...sorry, but I can't!
Very valid comment. I tried to sugar coat the change in personnel after Stormwatch. But you're correct. It was a contemptuous situation that was morally reprehensible. I have heard it was due to the corporate overlords demanding a new Tull album instead of the solo album. This put Ian Anderson in a very sticky situation. I would have thought he could have held out... But we don't really know what the dynamic was and who was the organ grinder in this situation though. 🤔
Benefit is my all time go-to album. Can listen to it at any time and it never gets old. With you there to help me is one of my top ten all time great rock songs. I could love Passion Play but putting that stupid hare who lost his spectacles story slap bang in the middle totally ruins it for me. Could never get past that. Contrarily, Warchild is my second favourite Tull album.
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early on ian used to bring a sandwich in a brown paper bag on stage.
I can imagine that to be very true. Eccentricity abounds around the man and the legacy of the band. It's great. 😁👍
I'll say as little as I can about _Under Wraps_. I was first exposed to it not long after its release, thinking it pretty much an abomination at the time, and only within the past year have I actually come to like it. No album, I repeat no album, should take that long to acclimate to. Ridiculous! ; )
Glad you finally came round. I don't listen to it. As Tara said, "it's not mentioned in our house". 😂🤣😂
@@SpinninProg I suppose Under Wraps was the logical progression of letting Vettese have ever more access to the Tull keyboard element and songwriting. Shame it had to derail things for so many Tull fans! Maybe the idea was to make us appreciate the comeback all the more. (I loved Crest when it came out and rejoiced in their grammy. How weird would it be if they'd actually showed up to accept it) 😂
Hi folks, Tull is a band that I've never listened to for more than two minutes at any one time. I just don't get them at all. It's weird because Genesis was my band in my teens and many of my fellow Genesis fans were also into Tull and it always puzzled me. I remember sleeping overnight outside Edinburgh Playhouse for tickets to see Genesis and of course a lot of music was being played, and I swear to God, there was more Tull blasting out than anything else. I just didn't like it at all and I remember I got very annoyed 😁
That's fine. Tull can be a bit of an acquired taste. 😁👍
What do you really think about Under Wraps.😂
I agree (mainly) with that chap from UNIT below (or above, wherever this appears) that Stormwatch was the final proper Tull album although there are a couple of decent tracks on A and Broadsword but Under Wraps...I can't give my opinion of that because I dislike the use of swear words but when I first heard that I realised it was possible to loathe and detest an album even more than Big Generator and Talk. Yes, the 1980s really was a truly terrible decade for classic progressive rock groups. I enjoy War Child but I find Minstrel really boring apart from the title track while Too Old To Rock & Roll is absolutely abysmal...I mean, all right, not quite as bad as Under Wraps (let's face it, nothing is as bad as Under Wraps, except perhaps an album by Taylor Swift or Lizzo) but still totally tedious. Nice cover, though! I always thought it a shame Tull stopped doing instrumentals after The Pine Marten Jig on A. Perhaps if they'd written a few more of those, Ian Anderson's vocal decline might have been deferred until a later date. Anyway, a lovely video.
PS I request a video on progressive rock singles that focus on bands (like Tull and The Family) who released really top quality tracks on singles and EPs that were never included on albums. I think of One For John Gee, Pan Dance, For Later, Wondering Again, Life Is A Long Song, Small Cigar and so on.
Great idea for a video. We'll have to put it into the melting pot. Really good analysis of the Tull discography too. 👍
I always enjoy your reviews! Though I call myself a JT fan, I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t know that War Child, and TOTRAR, were linked to a movie (not ever made) and to a TV special, respectfully! Those two albums always felt a bit off brand to me, and with a little too much filler. Maybe now it makes sense, if there was intended more of a visual component to the songs which would have otherwise tied them together a bit more. Thanks again for your entertaining and thought provoking content!!!!
@@gregorydardasm.d.3754 Thank you so much for your compliments. I hope the context for those albums helps you to enjoy them more. I know it did with me. 👍
didn.t even knew that they made so manny records after broadsword .
by the way .next week is irland week
Good. Let us know your plans for Cork. 😁
@@SpinninProg i arrive at cork on the 17 but late and the only plans we made so far is a show from jim carr in calway on the 19th .taking a hotel .and the next day the afternoon in calway .
leaving the 28 th
@@51monalisa okay. Leave it with us and we will try to arrange a trip to Cork to meet up. 👍
@@SpinninProg that would be nice . by the way my name is gert .( maybe difficult to pronounce )
@@51monalisa No problem Gert. We will try to arrange to meet up. It would be fun. 😁
“Too old to rock…” was a real disappointment.
Not 'A' tier alright.