FIRST TIME HEARING Jethro Tull- "Songs From The Wood" (Reaction)
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- FIRST TIME HEARING Jethro Tull- "Songs From The Wood" (Reaction) | A whimsical and enchanting musical clash of Medieval vibes and the 1970s. Let Ian's rich voice and expert flute skills take you on a journey amidst the healing forces of music and nature...
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A whimsical and enchanting musical clash of Medieval vibes and the 1970s. Let Ian's rich voice and expert flute skills take you on a journey amidst the healing forces of music and nature... Thanks for watching! 🌲🌲
This whole album has GREAT songs as do all of his albums. His next album is the same way. (Heavy Horses)
For me the best Jethro Tull album hands down
Tull can perform Metal, Folk, Neo-Classical, Prog, Rock, Blues, and even moments of Jazz, all with fantastic creativity and skill. Thanks for the listen.
Top tier artistry and talent. Even the few I've heard are all so different. You're welcome and thanks for dropping by!
Just incredible.
'Poppies red and roses filled with summer rain.' Such a lovely image.
The mighty Tull has so many sides. What an earthy song.
I'm learning that..one reason I chose this song today 🙂 Thanks for tuning in..
First Tull album I owned at age 13, still my favourite band nearly 50 years on
Wow, that's so cool that you've loved them since age 13! Thanks so much for watching and being first here today! 🥇
My first Tull album that I purchased (also around age 13) was War Child. Extremely satisfied with the purchase (although I could do without the "single" Bungle In the Jungle - the music is fine but the lyrics are not up to the usual high standard set by Ian). Songs from the Wood is also one of my favorite Tull albums.
Awesome...thanks so much for watching!
All records with Barriemore Barlow on drums are excellent. And from the album "Songs from the wood" I like "Hunting Girl" the most.
Ian on the crash cymbals as well. I saw them 24 times over the years, every show a winner.
I feel like I am at a Renaissance Festival. And I LOVE IT!!
Exactly! That's why I picked this album/song today. Tempting to hear the whole thing!
Interesting..... 💙🎵🎶🎶
An amazing composition, immaculate arrangements, wonderful instrumentation. Simply one of the best Tull songs. It's so nice that you chose it & liked it. Thanks for sharing your insight on this great song. Cheers.
Nice opening number to one of their finest albums (and that's saying a lot!!)
Musts from this album:
Hunting Girl
Velvet Green
Pibroch
Beltane
All happy blends of folk and prog(and a wee bit of theatricality, standard with Jethro Tull), with clever/witty lyrics ably sang as the cherry on top.
Going right on the list. I know I'm going to like this album as a whole!
"Jack-in-the-Green" and "Ring Out Solstice Bells" are the two songs from this album that lift my mood like few other songs do. And "Cup of Wonder" sends me into a trance. Not that I don't love the whole album (which is something I can't say about the wildly more popular "Aqualung"). "Songs from the Wood" has been my favorite Jethro Tull album since I first listened to it, with an honorable close second place for "Stand Up" (which unfortunately is from 1969, so out of Brandon's range for reactions, but I do recommend a private listen because it's a succession of masterpieces, including but not limited to their legendary rendition of J. S. Bach's "Bourrée").
By "Beltane", the OP meant the song "Cup of Wonder".
Got it!
Great track and review on a stunning song. They were on top form around this period. All the best. Dave✅✅
This whole album is wonderful 😃 Hope you continue with it!
This was on the first Tull album I bought, several millennia ago. It's still a 10/10 album :)
Nice. Takes me back to uni. I wonder why I never fell for them more.❤
This song takes up where Thick as a Brick leaves off. Tull at its core best.
TAAB should be quite the long epic adventure! Thanks for stopping by for this one!
@@retroreactions.... That's a good description for 'Thick ...'! Seductive, as well. Mesmerizing... ok, I'm done!
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Hi there Brandon, my friend! This is one of my faves from Tull. Thanks! The other being Skating Away.
Hi! Didn't have your name tagged to this one, but glad you love the song! I hear Hunting Girl is also great 🙂
@@retroreactions.... I like the parts which sound neo-Medieval! 😉😏
I had a cassette tape of this album and played it in my car countless times. I'd sit in my car at lunchtime at work and play it while feeding my face. One of their best albums by far. Owned the LP and the CD (I recorded my own tapes). SO creative!
Haha, thanks for sharing those lunchtime memories...This album must be quite a magical journey! Thanks for watching 🙂
Got to love prog folk ✨️🎶✨️
So unique. I hear the next albums are folk influenced as well! Thanks for stopping by Les, always nice to see you..
One of my favorite Jethro Tull songs. Very proggy.
:) Nice reaction to a Great album. Can't wait till you check A Hunting Girl...One of my first Tull albums Love every note Not his greatest but; Still an amazing and profound album...There's some AMAZING live versions of this and other songs from the album...Ian in his prime...
A top favorite Tull album for me, along with Aqualung, A Passion Play, War Child, and Minstrel in the Gallery. My most favorite cut on Songs From The Wood is "Hunting Girl"👌🥰
Cool, sounds like you're a big Tull fan! I will add your vote for HG thanks! 😊
@@retroreactions.... Thank you! 🙂
My FAVOURITE Jethro Tull song ! Thank you Brandon 🙂
Ah, Tull! Songs from the Wood might be their best album for me, and there isn't a bad moment on it. That was their folk rock era, and it encapsulates a certain kind of English whimsy that you also hear in music from the Canterbury scene (Caravan, Gong, Matching Mole etc etc). Thanks! 🙃
Great song by a great band.....imho this is definitely the best Tull album. The lyrics are so knowledgeable of predominately old english traditions and a large smattering of dare i say it..."Paganism "......mentions of the Greenman,Jack Frost......and of course velvet green......its almost an environmentalists bible......love it.
I always love the vibe you get from Jethro Tull! This is one of many great songs from this album. Another time when JT comes up, I still recommend “Broadsword” and “Pussy Willow” from the 1982 album Broadsword and the Beast.
Super unique vibe, especially with this song. Two more votes added. Still have to tackle the huge Thick As A Brick album too! Now all I have to do tonight is pick the remaining 4 artists for the week. I have it narrowed down to about 22! 😭
@@retroreactions.... If it helps - you can split TAAB into two videos. Side one reaction and then side two reaction...just as if you were listening to the vinyl record. Have to stop to turn it over for side two.
Yes, due to the length, I'm sure I will do it that way. Hope it's not a musical crime to do so! Thanks
@@retroreactions.... Not a crime at all. :) It's an excellent album. Not much by JT that I don't enjoy.
check out "Too Old to Rock & Roll, Too Old to Die" (Tull) - tis the name of a great song but also a great album. IRL the album opened reveals a comic describing this concept album. It's evokes nostalgia for an age we missed.
Yep, really good album! As was his next -“Too Old To Rock ‘n Roll, Too Young To Die”
So much great Tull out there! I don't even know yet...
Funny, I think Songs from the Wood is one of their finest albums. But Too Old…. Is a horrible album. Their worst!
Thanks for watching!
@@retroreactions.... - I was mistaken, “Too Old…” came out BEFORE Songs From The Wood”, a unique one I imagine. It’s a concept album but it revolves around an aging biker in the late 50s/early 60s - I really like this album, the title track is epic, lots of other goodies along the way.
Yessss...the long version
Heavy Horses album quite good too
Nice one Brandon. Folky prog that would nicely lead into the Strawbs showing you've been threatening?
Haha, well Strawbs' turn is up for sure. Looks like Hero and Heroine song has the most votes...
@@retroreactions.... Hero and Heroine is my favorite album by the Strawbs! And while the title cut is awesome and one of my most favorite it's so short at 3:30 minutes so I would suggest doing a bit more (of my favorite cuts of course? ;-)
* the first cut called "Autumn: Heroine's Theme/Deep Summer's Sleep/The Winter Long" which is 8:30 minutes long
* "Hero and Heroine" plus "Midnight Sun" (both tracks are blended together on the album) About 6:30 total for both.
* "Lay A Little Light On Me" plus "Hero's Theme" (both tracks are blended together on the album) About 6:00 total for both.
And hey, all three suggestions above only totals a little over 20 minutes, you've done reactions that long before! 😁👍
Thanks for the suggestions. I actually reacted to Autumn already! ua-cam.com/video/8Hk0zn967SA/v-deo.html
@@retroreactions.... Haha, I forgot! I watched and commented on that one 2 months ago! 🤦♂😅
JETHRO TULL, folk prog rock with Celtic accents and the very particular vocal style of the wonderful dancing crazy Ian Anderson, multi-instrumentalist and genius composer. My favorite album: 'Thick As A Brick' (1972).
Anecdote about this prestigious prog rock band: Its creativity was largely responsible for the glory of another group, rock in this case. Which? EAGLES. It would take a long time to tell the whole story; perhaps it is better to invite you to listen first to "We Use To Know" (JT, 1969) and then to "Hotel California" (E, 1977). The first offers a pianistic opening played in rhythm and the second, an arpeggio guitar intro. Don't you hear the almost perfect similarity? Plagiarism or not? Your turn to judge. Ian Anderson, as a noble English lord, has never taken public offense at this resemblance, which is, to say the least, suspicious; even saying that the recovery made by the EAGLES deserved praise.
The EAGLES have never recognized this recovery... even if we know that at the very beginning of their career, this group had the chance to be chosen by JETHRO TULL to open for its concerts and that on the occasion of these, Don Henley was always present in the room or backstage when Ian Anderson played this overture.
Following the release of "Hotel California", the EAGLES went from a completely unknown band to a leading rock band. The song became cult and the group, on the way to legend.
Thanks.
Ian is NOT a "noble English lord" -- a "newly rich British gentleman of arguably noble character" would be more accurate.
He certainly didn't start out wealthy -- he worked hard for years for his money.
The redoubtable Mr. Anderson holds no title of peerage and hasn't (yet) been knighted, but he has been awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) -- a title of chivalry that is the nation's highest civilian honor.
@@PogueMahone1 On the one hand, I'm sorry you didn't catch the humor in my short wording; It was meant as a wink and I think that the vast majority who read my comment understood this little joke. On the other hand, I know the story of Ian Anderson. Sincerely.
Fairport Convention meets Genesis 😁
No clue about FC yet haha..
Tull preceded Genesis and exceeded Fairport.
@@PogueMahone1 what’s your point? Folk meets prog. It’s a simple concept
Kitchen prose and gutter rhymes 🤘
Modern music just doesn't kick to it .
If you don't have a Radio night Show, im asking why🤔