Great selections. I like it when people listen to Tull other than the popular ones (Aqualung, thick as a brick). Tull has such a big library it is a shame that not everybody can hear it all. Thanks.
@@josecanavezes8196 I am not suggesting skip it, but don't make it the only one you listen to. There are so many other choices, even later like "A", "Broadsword", etc. All have outstanding songs that never get reacted to.
Why can't they (everybody) hear it all? What's preventing anyone from hearing it all? It's not as if it's been lost forever. It's all out there. I don't understand.
Growing up if the late seventies, I heard write a few songs played a bit. Teacher. Skating away. Living in the past. Cross eyed Mary. Even songs from the wood.
Spot on...... for me , it was Stand Up and Benefit..... so many great rock, pop, folk and even jazz songs on just 2 albums that are forgotten...... yet still 2 of the best rock, pop albums in history.
I saw Jethro Tull live when I was 13 years old at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD in 1982 for The Broadsword And The Beast tour actually this was my very first concert ever my second concert was Pink Floyd in Washington, D.C. All thanks to my older cousin Luis, May he Rest In Peace never will forget those shows or him he would have turned 67 on the 25th of August. 🙏🏽♥️
My favorite Jethro Tull album can vary from day to day, but always near the top is Songs From the Wood. I think it represented the peak of Ian Anderson's songwriting and arranging in a lot of ways. As amazing as the albums are, the live shows were absolutely incredible! The performances were absolutely as tight and perfectly played - drummer Barriemore Barlow and guitarist Martin Barre were just as precise live as on the records, but the real treat was the showmanship of Ian Anderson. Onstage, you can't take your eyes off him and there is an underlying tongue-in-cheek sense of humor that makes the shows absolutely brilliant! You'll love listening to Thick as a Brick, but the live versions, even though pared down to a dozen minutes or so, were even better!
Don’t forget about the Jethro Tull “My God” reaction you did with Lex on 8-21-21… You seemed to like that one too. This was an outstanding marathon! Too bad you had a bad time with BENEFIT … maybe now you’ll get to catch up on all the greatness you’ve been missing out on. In 1988 no one was more surprised about the Grammy win than Ian Anderson - leader of Jethro Tull. They didn’t even pay any attention to the nomination. All the suggestions provided are great ones! My favorite album by them is the one I’m currently listening to (that goes for Benefit as well…lol). You do such a great job on these Nick ! Thank you for keeping an open mind … I’m so excited to watch you and Lex dive down the Jethro Tull rabbit hole!!!
Nick/Lex: " Skating Away on The Thin Ice of the New Day", A favorite of mine! So much more Jethro Tull to explore... Try: "Bouree", "Bungle In The Jungle", "Hymn 43", "Living In The Past".
Totally underrated band! It’s the kind of music that improves, and is more appreciated with repeated listening, just like jazz. With so many songs there’s no way that you may like everything, but even with those songs, it’s obvious the musicianship is, as Nick said, on another level. My favorite band! Thanks Nick and Murdoch!🤘
"He brewed a song of love and hatred Oblique suggestions and he waited He polarized the pumpkin-eaters Static-humming, panel-beaters Freshly day, glowed factory cheaters Salaried and collar-scrubbing He titillated men of action Belly warming, hands still rubbing On the parts they never mention He pacified the nappy-suffering Infant-bleating, one-line jokers"
THANK YOU for the shout-out for my channel. Indeed, it's only in German. I could do it in English or with subtitles, but unfortunately that's a whole lot of work, and I'm just much faster in German. Re TULL: happy this gave a short insight into Tull's variety. The albums from '69 to '79 is where it's at. The 80s and 90s became 'patchy' to put it that way. Though at the core a blues/folk/rock-band, Tull's music could become really complex and multi-layered. Especially the drumming often is out of this world (although it doesn't jump right at you). They could be heavy when they wanted, but rarely did so (though you get a lot more aggressive guitar on live recordings!). Thick as a Brick and Passion Play are both long pieces covering an entire album each! The former was meant as an ironic take on concept albums and is clearly prog while being remarkably easy on the ear. The latter is serious business and much more difficult to access. Sometimes maybe a bit 'complicated for complication's sake'. I prefer Thick as a Brick, though both albums are outstanding in rock-music IMHO. 🙂
Oh Yes, very excited to hear this marathon. Thanks Murdock, great selections - all are brilliant. I'm particularly pleased to see 'Minstrel In The Gallery' featured. It has my favourite deep dive Tull track, namely 'One White Duck/O10=Nothing At All'. That should read 'zero to the power of ten', but I don't know how to type the small ten!! What a title, what a song!! 'Thick As A Brick' on Patreon is a must Nick, you will love it. Thanks again, a great reaction.
Hi Nick, there is so much variation with the studio albums and plenty of surprises, but for me the biggest surprise is hearing Jethro Tull live....It's so much more heavier Prog Rock....even more than in this marathon. I have played a live album "Burstin' Out" so many times ...on vinyl when I first got it and just as much now with the cd as well. You know when an album is that good, is when you buy it twice in different formats years apart. [ The album inc' a mind blowing flute solo ] A great band to watch on dvd as well. They put on a great show, with Ian Anderson as the showman dominating the stage. My favourite track still, will always be the studio version of, "The Witches Promise". Byee Jim X
Great selections. Skating Away as long been one of my favorites. Funny that you immediately though to have Lex listen to it since I was thinking the same. I've always felt it to be the quintessential Tull sound. Mother Goose is another one of those.
I love Tull but my favorite album by far is Songs from the Wood. Every song is a gem. I listened to this over and over and over. Thanks for playing this one ☺️
One my top 5 bands. They are such talented musicians. Thanks so much Nick for this marathon. Keep exploring their extensive body of work, so many gems !!!
Great review, missed Lex, you compliment each other so well, I hope she is doing well. Now you have more a feel of what Ian Anderson / Jethro Tull is / can be like, they really do change from one album to the next. Maybe you two might like to share some of this, it really is great music. But like some the Yes albums, you need to get a feel for the band before for example here leaping into; Thick as a Brick, or A Passion Play . TullI think was driven more by the passion for their music, rather a passion for outright cash. I started my music journey with them with Aqualung and found Yes, and so many other great bands along the way. May you journey be so inspiring...
Please do more from "Songs from the Wood" and "Heavy Horses"! I didn't get into Tull until long after Rush, Yes, and Genesis, but there's so much to love once you start digging into it!
I'm so glad you've heard to some more Tull, dammed good tracks. Also it's great to see someone that can play, well done sir. Keep it up fella. Regards to Lex..From a 66 year old git from England. CHEER'S Man...
Concerning the Grammy, at the time the award was for best "hard rock/metal" performance, and Jethro Tull were definitely hard rocking at times--particularly on Crest Of A Knave. The truth is Jethro Tull should have won a Grammy back in the 70s when they were at their artistic peak.
First time I saw Tull was on the Songs From The Wood tour. They played 3 hours with no opening act. I saw them 2 more times and became a lifelong fan of their music.
I saw Tull later around 1989 after Ian had permanently damaged his vocal chords from earlier in the decade by performing while he was suffering from laryngitis! I only wished I had seen them during the tour of Songs From The Wood album.
First time for me was 1973...A Passion Play (in Ottawa Ontario), although also caught the Songs From the Wood .tour as well...also in Ottawa. Although I find Thick as a Brick to be my overall favourite, there are parts of Passion Play that rise miles above anything else Ian's ever written...most of side 2 for that matter
Nice selection, Toby, but you can't go really wrong with Tull from 68 - 79, so many good songs, probably worth another 3 - 5 marathons😆 My very first Tull song I heard on the radio was Song for Jeffrey - young Rudi wondering about the singers voice - followed by Bouree, which some Tull fans might think, it's the best known Tull song .... My favourite Tull album was at the end of this era : Bursting out , another great live album of the 70s. And also only a coincidence, that a live album was towards at the end of eras, just like Deep Purple's Made in Japan, Ufo''s Strangers in the night, Genesis' Seconds out and for me personally also Yessongs ... So ready steady go : who's got the next Tull marathon ? 😄🤘
This was my favorite reaction marathon from you. Kudos to Murdock for picking these, such a GREAT lineup. Glad you liked them all, Jethro Tull may not be my favorite (Rush) but they are so up there. Keep reacting! Keep this music alive! And thanks so much for doing so!
I have all of them, and there's not one I dislike, but I agree with you on my favourites. But a close third IMO is Minstrel tying with Heavy Horses, and as a metal fan, I'd put Crest of a Knave fourth.
It's excellent on Skating Away how they keep layering on different instruments with each passing verse, sitar, xylophone, concertina...Definitely check out Heavy Horses as well... The entire Songs from the Wood album is fantastic... as I'm sure you know drummer Barrymore Barlow played on Yngwie's 1st Rising Force album
Few now the greatness of Barrymore Barlow. The only one even considered as Bonhams replacement before the guys said enough. Barlow and John Glascock were a great team and his death really took a toll on him. Ian had a talent for incredible drummers. Is long time drummer Doane Perry was extremely talented also and close friend of Niel Part
Just came across your channel. Really enjoying it. Particularly watching you hear Minstrel for the first time. It’s my favorite album of theirs. Martin Barre is just killing it. Barlow as well.
So happy to see your mind changing a bit on Tull, Nick! I thought it might as you got more exposed to them. Toby gave you a nice cross-section and ended up with a taste of one of my fave albums of theirs, Songs From The Wood. I would strongly suggest that you check that entire LP, given your reaction to this sample, but I also agree with his advice to get into the longer, prog-ier stuff on Thick As A Brick and A Passion Play. More Tull soon, please!👍
Hi Nick, great to see you doing a Tull marathon and warming to their brilliance! From your reaction to Songs from the Wood you need to listen to Pibroch ( Cap in hand ) & Velvet Green from the same album.
Barrie Barlow is one of the best progressive Rock drummers ever, you hear him on the last 3 tracks, Nothing is easy drums played by Clive Bunker, he was more rocky style but also great
'Songs from the Wood' is SOOOO good! Excellent reaction and glad you liked it. And all others were great selections, too. But definitely reserve time to listen all the way through 'Thick As a Brick.' You'll be BLOWN AWAY!!
Jethro Tull or Ian Anderson is pure genius. He's one of those decade-defining artists who stood out with such a unique sound above all the rest. No one like him, but also a great songwriter, lyricist, and instrumentalist with an equally talented group of musicians to back him up, a very deep rabbit hole. Keep going, you will not be disappointed.
Some of my favorite Tull tracks! Great marathon. Kudos for playing the album version of Minstrel. Recommend Hunting Girl, maybe my favorite JT guitar riff.
PLEASE, PLEASE do a Kansas marathon: 1. Lamplight Symphony (from Song for America) 2. The Pinnacle (from Masque) 3. The Wall (from Leftoverture) 4. Miracles out of Nowhere (from Leftoverture) 5. Hopelessly Human (from Point of Know Return), and 6. Hold On (from AudioVisions). It will change your life - and that's a promise!
Ha! I knew where you paused in "Minstrel" and said how you liked the "baroque, classical feel", I thought...."oh, that's about to change!" Martin Barre has never gotten the credit he deserves, in my opinion! Excellent choices by Murdock! Love how he got "off in the weeds" a bit and steered clear of "Aqualung" and "Thick". Keep digging! Big catalog, and I'm betting at some point you revisit "Benefit" and like it much better.
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day.... It's always been my favorite Jethro Tull song bar none except for maybe Another Christmas Song on the Rock Island album which has a very strong place in my heart.
Great selections, Nick! Tull is criminally underappreciated! If you want to hear some more of them rocking out, check out Heavy Horses and Sweet Dreams!
Back at last to my absolute favorite, Jethro Tull. They were one of my first concerts, way back in '77, the Songs From the Wood tour. Where did the time go? The genius of Tull is their perfect integration of acoustic and electric instruments. Anyway, Thick As A Brick is one of the all-time prog classics and was even #1 in the US, a pretty neat trick for an album with just one song. There is no other album by any other artist I enjoy seeing a reaction to more.
Check ✅ check ✅ and check ✅. Great job, Murdock. Loved all the selections (several on my own list). Nick, you have a good ear to pick up your guitar and play along. And I appreciate the band advice - it’s like several moving parts working together, knowing when to shine and when to back up mates. Great marathon and reaction. I’m sure Alexia will agree. Thanks ✨😜
I'm guessing that Anderson was quite a perfectionist. Such precise timing, tone,, and shade. Thanks, enjoyed every minute. Saw them 4 times. Excellent, excellent show every time!
Believe me, a lot of Jethro Tull fans were surprised/upset when they won a Grammy for Heavy Metal. At the time it was felt to be a charitable win to a band that had been overlooked for so long. I believe Ian Anderson spoke out against their win. These are some of my favorite Jetro Tull songs - shows off the breadth of their talents. I can see how you would not have been a fan of the first JT LP that you did. Ian once said that everything before Aqualung was just practice. They were recorded also before the classic JT line up was formed.
Been a long long time since I heard the entire 1st 2minutes of Minstrel In The Gallery...the radio version cuts that all out and always starts here at 25:46. They were really killing it! The radio edit is the one most everyone knows. This one and Skating...classic Tull. Songs From The Wood is an amazing album as well!
It is Jethro Tull with a Ja sound. Ian Anderson was playing the flute for less than 2 years when he did Nothing is Easy. Ian is one of the best front men in the history of rock You will also love reacting to Hunting Girl and the Whistler from The Songs From The Wood album.
Thanks Murdoch/Tobi for the marathon! "Songs from the Wood" is one of my favorite JT songs and albums, but I'd love to hear something from "Too Old to Rock 'n Roll, Too Young to Die" as well!
I think that Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die is the weakest of the first 15 years of Tull albums. Btw, I know it's your background, but the correct pronunciation of Jethro is not Yethro, but J as in John.
@@katesjanice - on the contrary, Too Old to Rock ‘n Roll, Too Young to Die” is easily top 5 (top 2 for me), IMO. It’s so unique as in the storyline/concept and great music.
Thank you for doing a Tull Marathon! Please consider doing a "Living in the past" title track and marathon of the same double album? Incredible music there!
when you saw them live in the 70's...you understood what being a great musician was.....the first time i saw them they played PASSION PLAY followed that up with THICK AS A BRICK.....then we get aqualung and such
Nick: Not only do you and Lex NEED to listen to Thick As A Brick in it's entirety but I totally agree with this marathon author that A Passion Play is required listening too. Those are their twin pillars of prog, both complete pieces of music that spread across both sides of each album, twice the length of anything Yes did. You two will bliss out exponentially at the composition and the execution of each.
Thank you Murdock. Great selections! Would you believe I had 3 of these 4 songs ready for my own Jethro Tull marathon request? Unbelievable, but so glad Nick got to hear them. Yes, Nick - Benefit was not the best sample of what Tull has to offer. Excellent job and hope to hear more in the future. ...now I must decide on a different marathon if I can ever get one in before it sells-out, ha.
Great stuff, Martin Barre is an incredible guitarist. You made the "Sabbath" comment. I'm sure you know already that Tony Iommi was in Tull briefly, for like a month haha..he said it was like a real job!
Impeccable choices to explore. Watching your reaction, I'm struck by how well Tull's catalog has aged. Still sounds fresh and like new territory musically.
Great choices for your marathon! Your experience may be different but lots of reactors only hear songs from Aqualung but there is so much more. I love Songs from the Wood and the Christmas Album but their sound is unique to each album. Please post Songs from the Wood on RUclips if you listen to it. Hi to Lex!
Got to see JT in college back in the late 70's for free. I worked part time there as a ticket taker, before internet. I worked the first show and then got to see the main show in this case JT and got to take all my 420 equipment in right pass the cops because I would take my backpack that I usually had college text books in for sports games and I would study. So they knew me and would not look in my pack. Fun times.
Nick.... I agree that Tull is on another level. The band has (incongruously) yet to be inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame. Also, Ian Anderson claims he's never done drugs, and tht he didn't allow his band mates to indulge. Also, to me, it would be hard to love Aqualung and Stand Up, yet not love Benefit.
Thank you for putting in one of their earlysongs. For my taste, the second and third albums are by far their best albums. I know every one seems to like their later stuff. But listen to Stand Up and Benefit all the way through. There are no better pure rock albums. Just my opinion. Love the reactions!!
@@Katehowe3010 wrong, "The Zealot gene" is the last album worth purchasing.... until the next one comes out 😇😁 It might not be the same level, but it is still worth purchasing, not being perfect doesn't mean being bad 😉
Tull has always been my favorite. I later found out that Tull is the favorite of Mikael Akrerfeldt, front man and writer for Opeth. Which is why I'm such a huge fan of Opeth. Check them out.
Minstrel in the Gallery is my favourite JT track (with all the changes and tones it has a Rush vibe - so handy with your t-shirt 😀😀), and these other 3 are great choices as well.
...Genesis were my favourite Prog band of the 70s... but very, very close with Yes, Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant, and... Jethro Tull... there is so much good material of them especially in the 70s... but you are well introduced to them now... you'll find your way... if I would call on 3 outstanding tracks not to miss, it would be: Cross-eyed Mary (of Aqualung - I think the whole album is 'down your alley'!); Heavy Horses (Title track of that album) and Broadsword and the Beast (another album title track)... all I can say: ENJOY! :)
Saw Tull close to your place, they opened for the Who at Folsom Field. (1982?) Great show, and honestly Tull was much better! Ian Anderson is such a performer!
More Jethro Tull marathons! 🙏🏽✌🏽⛸⛸🌳🌲🌳🌲♥️
U just got introduced the right way in to Tull. I'm 46years now and I grew up on jethro tull. My father was a big fan.
you need to hear anything from th incredible live album "Bursting Out". Tull live is unforgettable.
Great selections. I like it when people listen to Tull other than the popular ones (Aqualung, thick as a brick). Tull has such a big library it is a shame that not everybody can hear it all. Thanks.
I agree these are great choic es, but one can't skip thick as a brick, it is just one of the best prog rock wors ever
@@josecanavezes8196 I am not suggesting skip it, but don't make it the only one you listen to. There are so many other choices, even later like "A", "Broadsword", etc. All have outstanding songs that never get reacted to.
Why can't they (everybody) hear it all? What's preventing anyone from hearing it all? It's not as if it's been lost forever. It's all out there. I don't understand.
Growing up if the late seventies, I heard write a few songs played a bit. Teacher. Skating away. Living in the past. Cross eyed Mary. Even songs from the wood.
Spot on...... for me , it was Stand Up and Benefit..... so many great rock, pop, folk and even jazz songs on just 2 albums that are forgotten...... yet still 2 of the best rock, pop albums in history.
I get chills from Skating Away, what a great song
I saw Jethro Tull live when I was 13 years old at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD in 1982 for The Broadsword And The Beast tour actually this was my very first concert ever my second concert was Pink Floyd in Washington, D.C. All thanks to my older cousin Luis, May he Rest In Peace never will forget those shows or him he would have turned 67 on the 25th of August. 🙏🏽♥️
i was there too!!
My favorite Jethro Tull album can vary from day to day, but always near the top is Songs From the Wood. I think it represented the peak of Ian Anderson's songwriting and arranging in a lot of ways. As amazing as the albums are, the live shows were absolutely incredible! The performances were absolutely as tight and perfectly played - drummer Barriemore Barlow and guitarist Martin Barre were just as precise live as on the records, but the real treat was the showmanship of Ian Anderson. Onstage, you can't take your eyes off him and there is an underlying tongue-in-cheek sense of humor that makes the shows absolutely brilliant! You'll love listening to Thick as a Brick, but the live versions, even though pared down to a dozen minutes or so, were even better!
David Palmer had a lot to do with the arrangements on that record, too. It's magnificent.
Stand Up, it never gets old.
I love Jethro Tull. These are gems that you normally don't hear on the radio.
Tull? Radio? Dream on (sadly).
Don’t forget about the Jethro Tull
“My God” reaction you did with Lex on 8-21-21… You seemed to like that one too. This was an outstanding marathon! Too bad you had a bad time with BENEFIT … maybe now you’ll get to catch up on all the greatness you’ve been missing out on. In 1988 no one was more surprised about the Grammy win than Ian Anderson - leader of Jethro Tull. They didn’t even pay any attention to the nomination. All the suggestions provided are great ones! My favorite album by them is the one I’m currently listening to (that goes for Benefit as well…lol). You do such a great job on these Nick ! Thank you for keeping an open mind … I’m so excited to watch you and Lex dive down the Jethro Tull rabbit hole!!!
Nick/Lex:
" Skating Away on The Thin Ice of the New Day", A favorite of mine!
So much more Jethro Tull to explore...
Try: "Bouree", "Bungle In The Jungle", "Hymn 43", "Living In The Past".
Oh yay!! I saw Jethro Tull in Seattle yr 78’. Ian Anderson is quite the showman! His flute is an extension of himself!!
"Looking for a sign that the Universal Mind has written you into the passion play" is maybe my favorite lyric of all time.
"and it seems like everyone is on the stage and your the only person sitting in the audience" whoa.
Totally underrated band! It’s the kind of music that improves, and is more appreciated with repeated listening, just like jazz. With so many songs there’s no way that you may like everything, but even with those songs, it’s obvious the musicianship is, as Nick said, on another level. My favorite band! Thanks Nick and Murdoch!🤘
Excellent choices! Good job. All selections are top tier Tull.
Ah-h-h-h! The ever-elusive 'three T' rating! I love it!!! Doesn't get any better................
"He brewed a song of love and hatred
Oblique suggestions and he waited
He polarized the pumpkin-eaters
Static-humming, panel-beaters
Freshly day, glowed factory cheaters
Salaried and collar-scrubbing
He titillated men of action
Belly warming, hands still rubbing
On the parts they never mention
He pacified the nappy-suffering
Infant-bleating, one-line jokers"
THANK YOU for the shout-out for my channel. Indeed, it's only in German. I could do it in English or with subtitles, but unfortunately that's a whole lot of work, and I'm just much faster in German.
Re TULL: happy this gave a short insight into Tull's variety. The albums from '69 to '79 is where it's at. The 80s and 90s became 'patchy' to put it that way. Though at the core a blues/folk/rock-band, Tull's music could become really complex and multi-layered. Especially the drumming often is out of this world (although it doesn't jump right at you). They could be heavy when they wanted, but rarely did so (though you get a lot more aggressive guitar on live recordings!).
Thick as a Brick and Passion Play are both long pieces covering an entire album each! The former was meant as an ironic take on concept albums and is clearly prog while being remarkably easy on the ear. The latter is serious business and much more difficult to access. Sometimes maybe a bit 'complicated for complication's sake'. I prefer Thick as a Brick, though both albums are outstanding in rock-music IMHO. 🙂
Oh Yes, very excited to hear this marathon. Thanks Murdock, great selections - all are brilliant. I'm particularly pleased to see 'Minstrel In The Gallery' featured. It has my favourite deep dive Tull track, namely 'One White Duck/O10=Nothing At All'. That should read 'zero to the power of ten', but I don't know how to type the small ten!! What a title, what a song!! 'Thick As A Brick' on Patreon is a must Nick, you will love it. Thanks again, a great reaction.
Fantastic guitar playing. I don’t mean Jethro Tull, I mean you.
Back in the 70's, my friends and I loved BOTH their folk side and their rock side.
Hi Nick, there is so much variation with the studio albums and plenty of surprises, but for me the biggest surprise is hearing Jethro Tull live....It's so much more heavier Prog Rock....even more than in this marathon. I have played a live album "Burstin' Out" so many times ...on vinyl when I first got it and just as much now with the cd as well. You know when an album is that good, is when you buy it twice in different formats years apart. [ The album inc' a mind blowing flute solo ] A great band to watch on dvd as well. They put on a great show, with Ian Anderson as the showman dominating the stage. My favourite track still, will always be the studio version of, "The Witches Promise". Byee Jim X
Great selections. Skating Away as long been one of my favorites. Funny that you immediately though to have Lex listen to it since I was thinking the same. I've always felt it to be the quintessential Tull sound. Mother Goose is another one of those.
Awesome choice Nick...great songs off three Great albums too...I hope you go down the Jethro Tull rabbit hole 🫶🫶❤️
Thank you for the deep-dive into Jethro Tull. Some of my many favorites 😍
You are indeed correct, they are on a different level altogether!
Skating Away is one of my favorites from Tull.
Imagine discovering this masterpiece, as a nine-year-old, in a Lincoln Continental with an 8-track quadrophonic stereo system. Mind altering.
8 tracks were great.
I bet it was.
I love Tull but my favorite album by far is Songs from the Wood. Every song is a gem. I listened to this over and over and over. Thanks for playing this one ☺️
One my top 5 bands. They are such talented musicians. Thanks so much Nick for this marathon. Keep exploring their extensive body of work, so many gems !!!
Great review, missed Lex, you compliment each other so well, I hope she is doing well. Now you have more a feel of what Ian Anderson / Jethro Tull is / can be like, they really do change from one album to the next. Maybe you two might like to share some of this, it really is great music. But like some the Yes albums, you need to get a feel for the band before for example here leaping into; Thick as a Brick, or A Passion Play . TullI think was driven more by the passion for their music, rather a passion for outright cash. I started my music journey with them with Aqualung and found Yes, and so many other great bands along the way. May you journey be so inspiring...
Please do more from "Songs from the Wood" and "Heavy Horses"! I didn't get into Tull until long after Rush, Yes, and Genesis, but there's so much to love once you start digging into it!
Their live double album, Bursting Out is what got me into Tull many years ago, and remains one of my all-time favorite albums.
I saw 1977 tour here in Nashville it still remains one of my favorite concerts.
I'm so glad you've heard to some more Tull, dammed good tracks. Also it's great to see someone that can play, well done sir. Keep it up fella. Regards to Lex..From a 66 year old git from England. CHEER'S Man...
Really enjoyed this one, four great choices. Thanks Nick and thanks to the sponsor!
Tull's swinginest song! Nothing is Easy! These 3 songs begin to show the breadth of Tull's sound.
Concerning the Grammy, at the time the award was for best "hard rock/metal" performance, and Jethro Tull were definitely hard rocking at times--particularly on Crest Of A Knave. The truth is Jethro Tull should have won a Grammy back in the 70s when they were at their artistic peak.
I got to see Jethro Tull perform at Chapel Hill (UNC) in October 1971. Really great performance! Ian Anderson captivated the audience.
First time I saw Tull was on the Songs From The Wood tour. They played 3 hours with no opening act. I saw them 2 more times and became a lifelong fan of their music.
I saw Tull later around 1989 after Ian had permanently damaged his vocal chords from earlier in the decade by performing while he was suffering from laryngitis! I only wished I had seen them during the tour of Songs From The Wood album.
First time for me was 1973...A Passion Play (in Ottawa Ontario), although also caught the Songs From the Wood .tour as well...also in Ottawa. Although I find Thick as a Brick to be my overall favourite, there are parts of Passion Play that rise miles above anything else Ian's ever written...most of side 2 for that matter
@@mediawerxbrian Agreed. Check out "Night Cap" and the Chateau D'isaster tapes (both part of Steven Wilson APP remix)
Thick as a Brick was my first Tull concert.
Nice selection, Toby, but you can't go really wrong with Tull from 68 - 79, so many good songs, probably worth another 3 - 5 marathons😆 My very first Tull song I heard on the radio was Song for Jeffrey - young Rudi wondering about the singers voice - followed by Bouree, which some Tull fans might think, it's the best known Tull song .... My favourite Tull album was at the end of this era : Bursting out , another great live album of the 70s. And also only a coincidence, that a live album was towards at the end of eras, just like Deep Purple's Made in Japan, Ufo''s Strangers in the night, Genesis' Seconds out and for me personally also Yessongs ... So ready steady go : who's got the next Tull marathon ? 😄🤘
This was my favorite reaction marathon from you. Kudos to Murdock for picking these, such a GREAT lineup. Glad you liked them all, Jethro Tull may not be my favorite (Rush) but they are so up there. Keep reacting! Keep this music alive! And thanks so much for doing so!
Songs from the Wood, and Heavy Horses, are my all-time favorite Tull albums.
I have all of them, and there's not one I dislike, but I agree with you on my favourites. But a close third IMO is Minstrel tying with Heavy Horses, and as a metal fan, I'd put Crest of a Knave fourth.
It's excellent on Skating Away how they keep layering on different instruments with each passing verse, sitar, xylophone, concertina...Definitely check out Heavy Horses as well... The entire Songs from the Wood album is fantastic... as I'm sure you know drummer Barrymore Barlow played on Yngwie's 1st Rising Force album
Few now the greatness of Barrymore Barlow. The only one even considered as Bonhams replacement before the guys said enough. Barlow and John Glascock were a great team and his death really took a toll on him. Ian had a talent for incredible drummers. Is long time drummer Doane Perry was extremely talented also and close friend of Niel Part
as well as on Page's Outrider and Plant's Principle of Moments. He's a superstar
Read someplace that Bonham considered Barlow the best drummer out of England.
It's nice to see you react to my favorite band ! 😎
yes, skating away is an old Tull fan favorite. a top ten all time.
Just came across your channel. Really enjoying it. Particularly watching you hear Minstrel for the first time. It’s my favorite album of theirs. Martin Barre is just killing it. Barlow as well.
"The Third Hoorah" from the War Child album. Very proggy
Brilliant selection L,m a big fan of vTull definately got their own sound too
So happy to see your mind changing a bit on Tull, Nick! I thought it might as you got more exposed to them. Toby gave you a nice cross-section and ended up with a taste of one of my fave albums of theirs, Songs From The Wood. I would strongly suggest that you check that entire LP, given your reaction to this sample, but I also agree with his advice to get into the longer, prog-ier stuff on Thick As A Brick and A Passion Play. More Tull soon, please!👍
Hi Nick, great to see you doing a Tull marathon and warming to their brilliance! From your reaction to Songs from the Wood you need to listen to Pibroch ( Cap in hand ) & Velvet Green from the same album.
Murdoch.. IS A LEGEND. GREAT SELECTIONS!!! SAW TULL 3 OR 4 TIMES IN THE 80'S... PHENOMINAL SHOW!!!
Barrie Barlow is one of the best progressive Rock drummers ever, you hear him on the last 3 tracks, Nothing is easy drums played by Clive Bunker, he was more rocky style but also great
Hard to mess up a Tull marathon. This was easy to listen to. All classic Tull. Check out "To Cry You A Song". Peace.
he literally said at the beginning that he already listened all Benefit
@@samuelecallegari6117 Hey thanks Sammy. Next time I'll tell my kids to stop bothering me so I don't miss a second.😉
'Songs from the Wood' is SOOOO good! Excellent reaction and glad you liked it. And all others were great selections, too. But definitely reserve time to listen all the way through 'Thick As a Brick.' You'll be BLOWN AWAY!!
Jethro Tull or Ian Anderson is pure genius. He's one of those decade-defining artists who stood out with such a unique sound above all the rest. No one like him, but also a great songwriter, lyricist, and instrumentalist with an equally talented group of musicians to back him up, a very deep rabbit hole. Keep going, you will not be disappointed.
Some of my favorite Tull tracks! Great marathon. Kudos for playing the album version of Minstrel.
Recommend Hunting Girl, maybe my favorite JT guitar riff.
excellent choices and love the comments! don’t forget Nightcap: The Unreleased Masters-brilliant stuff
PLEASE, PLEASE do a Kansas marathon:
1. Lamplight Symphony (from Song for America)
2. The Pinnacle (from Masque)
3. The Wall (from Leftoverture)
4. Miracles out of Nowhere (from Leftoverture)
5. Hopelessly Human (from Point of Know Return), and
6. Hold On (from AudioVisions).
It will change your life - and that's a promise!
. . . changed MY life 🙂
Ha! I knew where you paused in "Minstrel" and said how you liked the "baroque, classical feel", I thought...."oh, that's about to change!" Martin Barre has never gotten the credit he deserves, in my opinion! Excellent choices by Murdock! Love how he got "off in the weeds" a bit and steered clear of "Aqualung" and "Thick". Keep digging! Big catalog, and I'm betting at some point you revisit "Benefit" and like it much better.
Lot of great, overlooked gems on Tulls albums. Fall down that rabbit hole man!!!! Minstrels in the Gallery is an especially awesome album.
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day.... It's always been my favorite Jethro Tull song bar none except for maybe Another Christmas Song on the Rock Island album which has a very strong place in my heart.
What a great group of songs to put together. Good job. I'm impressed by your guitar skills!
Great selections, Nick! Tull is criminally underappreciated! If you want to hear some more of them rocking out, check out Heavy Horses and Sweet Dreams!
Many great songs from the album 'Heavy Horses' ... "Journeyman", "Mouse Police Never Sleep", and the title track
@@corawheeler9355 Ares Wild & Rover (the 3 legged dog and myself's jam!)
Actually have acres wild as my ring tone on my phone. Stones monkey man on the other.
Back at last to my absolute favorite, Jethro Tull. They were one of my first concerts, way back in '77, the Songs From the Wood tour. Where did the time go? The genius of Tull is their perfect integration of acoustic and electric instruments. Anyway, Thick As A Brick is one of the all-time prog classics and was even #1 in the US, a pretty neat trick for an album with just one song. There is no other album by any other artist I enjoy seeing a reaction to more.
@Nick 👍 thanks. so love Tull.❤️💓💕🎼🎻🎹🎸🎶🎵🎧
Check ✅ check ✅ and check ✅. Great job, Murdock. Loved all the selections (several on my own list). Nick, you have a good ear to pick up your guitar and play along. And I appreciate the band advice - it’s like several moving parts working together, knowing when to shine and when to back up mates. Great marathon and reaction. I’m sure Alexia will agree. Thanks ✨😜
I'm guessing that Anderson was quite a perfectionist. Such precise timing, tone,, and shade. Thanks, enjoyed every minute. Saw them 4 times. Excellent, excellent show every time!
Believe me, a lot of Jethro Tull fans were surprised/upset when they won a Grammy for Heavy Metal. At the time it was felt to be a charitable win to a band that had been overlooked for so long. I believe Ian Anderson spoke out against their win. These are some of my favorite Jetro Tull songs - shows off the breadth of their talents. I can see how you would not have been a fan of the first JT LP that you did. Ian once said that everything before Aqualung was just practice. They were recorded also before the classic JT line up was formed.
Almost forgot to add---CHEERS to all you Tull anthology Fans--I knew you were out there somewhere!!
Been a long long time since I heard the entire 1st 2minutes of Minstrel In The Gallery...the radio version cuts that all out and always starts here at 25:46. They were really killing it! The radio edit is the one most everyone knows. This one and Skating...classic Tull. Songs From The Wood is an amazing album as well!
It is Jethro Tull with a Ja sound. Ian Anderson was playing the flute for less than 2 years when he did Nothing is Easy. Ian is one of the best front men in the history of rock You will also love reacting to Hunting Girl and the Whistler from The Songs From The Wood album.
Oh yes…..Hunting Girl!!!!!! Excellent suggestion.
Thanks Murdoch/Tobi for the marathon! "Songs from the Wood" is one of my favorite JT songs and albums, but I'd love to hear something from "Too Old to Rock 'n Roll, Too Young to Die" as well!
Me to along with Aqualung !
I think that Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die is the weakest of the first 15 years of Tull albums. Btw, I know it's your background, but the correct pronunciation of Jethro is not Yethro, but J as in John.
@@katesjanice - on the contrary, Too Old to Rock ‘n Roll, Too Young to Die” is easily top 5 (top 2 for me), IMO. It’s so unique as in the storyline/concept and great music.
Salamander!
Along with YES early Genesis, and ELP Tull is amongst The Mt. Rushmore of progressive rock and then add jazz, blues and whatever!
Complete with real 'accordion' on Skating Away! Nick, get out your Lederhosen!!!! 🤣
A very good choice of tunes in order to better understand Tull. Well done!
Thank you for doing a Tull Marathon! Please consider doing a "Living in the past" title track and marathon of the same double album? Incredible music there!
Nick i saw the Songs Form the Wood tour in 77' Ian is a master showman!
Ian began learning the flute 2 weeks before their first gig. Third Hurrah is my fav.
Me too. Third Hoorah has so much energy and great playing by John Evan, and lots of little subtle guitar licks by Martin Barre.
@@martinhayward4466 Barre always had sweet licks, so unique a sound.
when you saw them live in the 70's...you understood what being a great musician was.....the first time i saw them they played PASSION PLAY followed that up with THICK AS A BRICK.....then we get aqualung and such
Nick: Not only do you and Lex NEED to listen to Thick As A Brick in it's entirety but I totally agree with this marathon author that A Passion Play is required listening too. Those are their twin pillars of prog, both complete pieces of music that spread across both sides of each album, twice the length of anything Yes did. You two will bliss out exponentially at the composition and the execution of each.
Nice playing on the classical nylon!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you Murdock. Great selections! Would you believe I had 3 of these 4 songs ready for my own Jethro Tull marathon request? Unbelievable, but so glad Nick got to hear them. Yes, Nick - Benefit was not the best sample of what Tull has to offer. Excellent job and hope to hear more in the future. ...now I must decide on a different marathon if I can ever get one in before it sells-out, ha.
Thank you and at the same time sorry i sabotaged your request plans. So, will you do an alternative Tull marathon? 😃
@@murdockreviews We shall see if I get one in, but yes there are a few other Tull tunes I'm sure they'd enjoy. Thanks again.
Amazing how you stopped MITG just before the electric change over without knowing it was going to happen!
Great stuff, Martin Barre is an incredible guitarist. You made the "Sabbath" comment. I'm sure you know already that Tony Iommi was in Tull briefly, for like a month haha..he said it was like a real job!
That's right. BTW on Nothing is easy we have Tony Iommi on the guitar 1968 he joined Tulll for the stand up album.
Impeccable choices to explore. Watching your reaction, I'm struck by how well Tull's catalog has aged. Still sounds fresh and like new territory musically.
Ian Anderson - vocals, flute, acoustic guitar
Martin Barre - electric guitar, Spanish guitar
Great review. Benefit is a really great album - you should try it again. For me there is a massive difference between Tull pre and post Passion Play.
Great choices for your marathon! Your experience may be different but lots of reactors only hear songs from Aqualung but there is so much more. I love Songs from the Wood and the Christmas Album but their sound is unique to each album. Please post Songs from the Wood on RUclips if you listen to it. Hi to Lex!
Absolutely love "Tull"🎶
Got to see JT in college back in the late 70's for free. I worked part time there as a ticket taker, before internet. I worked the first show and then got to see the main show in this case JT and got to take all my 420 equipment in right pass the cops because I would take my backpack that I usually had college text books in for sports games and I would study. So they knew me and would not look in my pack. Fun times.
Oh and "Songs From the wood" is an amazing creation!
Great stuff Nick!!
Nick.... I agree that Tull is on another level. The band has (incongruously) yet to be inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of fame. Also, Ian Anderson claims he's never done drugs, and tht he didn't allow his band mates to indulge. Also, to me, it would be hard to love Aqualung and Stand Up, yet not love Benefit.
Thank you for putting in one of their earlysongs. For my taste, the second and third albums are by far their best albums. I know every one seems to like their later stuff. But listen to Stand Up and Benefit all the way through. There are no better pure rock albums. Just my opinion. Love the reactions!!
Oooops. you don't like Benefit. C'est la friggin vie
as far as I'm concerned, anything after Minstrel In The Gallery isn't worth the purchase.
@@jollyrodgers7272 "Broadsword And The Beast" was the last album worth purchasing!
@@Katehowe3010 wrong, "The Zealot gene" is the last album worth purchasing.... until the next one comes out 😇😁
It might not be the same level, but it is still worth purchasing, not being perfect doesn't mean being bad 😉
@@alnath01 And not being very good means it doesn't deserve purchasing. 😊
Would love for you to do Thick As a Brick. Amazing accomplishment.
Tull has always been my favorite. I later found out that Tull is the favorite of Mikael Akrerfeldt, front man and writer for Opeth. Which is why I'm such a huge fan of Opeth. Check them out.
The Tull never gets old. Love them!!! Heavy Horses a great album. Really getting into Leprous and The Pineapple Thief!! Great Bands as well!!!
this Minstrel in the Gallery album is amasing. you should listen it all. The epic Baker street muse is my best Jethro Tull song.
Minstrel in the Gallery is my favourite JT track (with all the changes and tones it has a Rush vibe - so handy with your t-shirt 😀😀), and these other 3 are great choices as well.
Jethro Tull is a special band. There is nothing else like it.
...Genesis were my favourite Prog band of the 70s... but very, very close with Yes, Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant, and... Jethro Tull... there is so much good material of them especially in the 70s... but you are well introduced to them now... you'll find your way... if I would call on 3 outstanding tracks not to miss, it would be: Cross-eyed Mary (of Aqualung - I think the whole album is 'down your alley'!); Heavy Horses (Title track of that album) and Broadsword and the Beast (another album title track)... all I can say: ENJOY! :)
Saw Tull close to your place, they opened for the Who at Folsom Field. (1982?) Great show, and honestly Tull was much better! Ian Anderson is such a performer!