Great List. I credit your Tull vids for going back through the whole catalog and revisiting all the great tracks. Anyone out there love "Back to the Family" as much as me?
My son was born in 82. He was exposed to a myriad of bands and different music. All the classic stuff. Of all these Tull was and is still his favorite band. ✌
Underrated rock bands: Electric Light Orchestra Credence Clearwater Revival Livin’ color Kings x Ugly kid Joe Blue Oyster Cult Emerson, Lake And Palmer ZZ Top Monster Magnet Volbeat.
I'm a huge Jethro Tull fan and you've not mentioned my favourite track: We used to know. So good even the Eagles stole parts of it for Hotel California! I agree with you about My God, easily one of their greatest songs. Other favourites: Life is a long song, With you there to help me, Moths, Skating Away, Steel Monkey, Requiem, Wondering Aloud, Sweet Dream, Look into the sun. Mr Ian Anderson is a genius and it's about time he was knighted by TheQueen.
Nice list Brian. I had Aqualung at #1, and Thick as a Brick at number two, and Bouree at number three. Aqualung got numero uno cuz it's the only song of his I can half ass play. I love that lead riff. The ambivalent lyrics are dynamite. He creates sympathy for this derilict, sick, lost soul, but not enough for you to take him home, offer him a meal, and introduce him to your wife. His filthy Jesus, half wild and half civilized, is a guy torn to pieces by poverty, despair, loneliness, erotic desires, hunger, heart disease, lice, whooping cough, a few cancers, and who even vicious zombies would be afraid to befriend. Even cops won't arrest him for fear of stinking up their jail cells. What a foetid flower of fornication he is! And wouldn't you think a pariah and social leper like Aqualung would have at least twelve apostles? Thick as a Brick is one of the best albums I've ever heard. It's a powerful meditation and condemnation of the English class system, the hypocrisy of teachers, preachers, politicians and professors who can only pretend to be wise (i.e., thick as a brick) while the only person who is wise is one of their victims, Little Milton, the twelve year old poet, who proves their civilization is a joke, and everything they say and do is evil. Bouree just takes you to another world.
"Teacher"'s catchy bass intro with the slide down then building all of the main layered thick riffs with the percussive syncopated rolls is way ahead of its time/changes & unforgettable in my mind. Well wishes.
It's Tull time! 10 ) Back Door Angels 9 ) Seal Driver 8 ) Hunting Girl 7 ) Jump Start 6 ) For a Thousand Mothers 5 ) With you there to Help me 4 ) Hymn 43 3 ) TAAB 2 ) Part of the Machine 1 ) Flying Dutchman Like our ilustrious host, I struggled with only 10 songs! I have been a Jethro Tull fan since October 1971, and that was because of AQUALUNG'S release! 4 or 5 Aqua songs could have made it, but I wanted my list to be drawn from as diverse as possible among the several Tull catalog classics ! Ring out solstice bells... Cheerio!
My top ten Tull: 10. Cross Eyed Mary 9. Bouree 8. Songs From The Wood 7. Thick As A Brick 6. Bungle In The Jungle 5. Teacher 4. A New Day Yesterday 3. Skating Away 2. Aqualung 1. Locomotive Breath Honorable Mentions: Minstrel In The Gallery, Too Old To Rock And Roll, Overseer Overture, Flight From Lucifer, Critique Oblique, Fylingdale Flyer, Ring Out Solstice Bells, Broadsword, Fat Man, Living In The Past, My God, Hymn 43, A Song For Jeffrey, To Cry You A Song, Batteries Not Included, 4WD, The Whistler
You're right, it's really impossible to get down to 10 - but I guess mine would be (from 1-10, very approximately): To Cry You A Song We Used To Know Velvet Green With You There To Help Me Play In Time Wind Up Nothing Is Easy Cross-Eyed Mary My God No Lullaby
1. Wond'ring Again (*my all-time favorite song btw) 2. Thick as a Brick 3. Wind Up (so glad you recognized this one!) 4. Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day 5. Fires at Midnight 6. One Brown Mouse 7. Moths 8. Cup of Wonder 9. Pibroch (Cap in Hand) 10. Baker St. Muse
I'm 74 and I became a huge fan of Tull with Stand Up. I saw them live four times and Benefit was their next album and by far my favorite. "With You There to Help Me" is a great song and so is "To Cry You a Song" (I'm a blackbird, still shaking my wings), but my favorite is "Play In Time" where Ian Anderson and Martin Barre produced a unique sound by recording Martin's guitar solos and then playing them backwards on the record. It made for a powerful sound that was mind blowing for me at the time, "Talking to the people in my way."
1. Minstrel in the Gallery, 2.Lifes a Long Song, 3. We used to Know, 4. Thick as a Brick, 5. Witches Promise, 6. Sweet Dream, 7.Songs From the Wood, 8. Living in the Past, 9.Skating Away, 10. Aqualung.That was hard to find a top ten, I put in a lot of the early stuff, I was born '52 so remember the singles with affection.looking forward to your next collection Pete.
My Top 10: 1. Songs From the Wood 2. Bakers St. Muse 3. Thick as a Brick Part 2 4. Dun Ringill 5. Witches Promise 6. Nothing to Say 7. Batteries Not Included 8. Cross Eyed Mary 9. Bungle in the Jungle 10. Minstrel in the Gallery
this is late but it took me awhile.... 1. A Passion Play 2. Thick As A Brick 3. My God 4. Roots To Branches 5. Budapest 6. Aqualung 7. Farm On The Freeway 8. Rock Island 9. Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day 10. Heavy Horses
‘With you there to help me’, ‘Son’, ‘For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and me’, ‘A time for everything?’, ‘Nothing to say’, ‘Inside’, the whole blasted album is great!
Well the best Tull song is Always the one I am just listening to in the Moment... But seriously: 1) Black Sunday 2) Dark Ages 3) Alive, and well and Living in (I think that (!) was the song that was on Benefit instead of "Teacher" in Europe 4)Chequered Flag (Dead or Alive) 5)Velvet Green 6)Pibroch (Cap in Hand) 7)Mountain Man 8)Roots to Branches 9)Moths 10)A song for Michael Collins, Jeffrey and me honorable mentions: any song on "Aqualung" (without "Locomotive Breath" I wouldn´t be a Tull fan) / any song on Broadsword and the Beastie (except "Watchin me watching you) / and of Course Thick as a Brick (as a whole) / Reason for waiting / One white Duck / Jump Start / Farm on the Freeway and I guess I forgot half of them
I have a completely different list but it's always interesting to hear other people's. Happy to hear a Roots to Branches shout out, their last legit great album.
Great list, Pete. My Top Ten: 1) *Cross-Eyed Mary* 2) *Aqualung* (I know; the obvious choices but I so fucking love them still) 3) *Minstrel In The Gallery* 4) *Hymn 43* 5) *Locomotive Breath* 6) *Living In The Past* 7) *Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll; Too Young To Die* 8) *Skating Away (On The Thin Ice Of A New Day)* 9) *Kissing Willie* 10) *Farm On The Freeway* *Honorable Mentions:* Bungle In The Jungle; Teacher; Bourée; Thick As A Brick; Lap Of Luxury (sorry; it's catchy AF); A New Day Yesterday (possibly the heaviest song they ever did); Nothing Is Easy; Sossity, You're A Woman
Right on point with To Cry You a Song! One of the best, could listen on a loop. Nice shout out on Cold Wind too. Hope Velvet Green , Rainbow Blues and New Day Yesterday were on page two! thanks for the video.
Well, this one is hard for me, too, but mostly because, IMO, every single song on "Stand Up" could make up my top 10. But since I have others I like a lot, I have revised my list, but have only been able to narrow it down to 11 (Thanks, "Stand Up"!!) A New Day Yesterday Nothing Is Easy Fat Man Back to the Family We Used to Know Reasons for Waiting Thick As A Brick (although I get bored before side 2 is over) Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day Farm on the Freeway Teacher Minstrel In The Gallery I also really LOVED "A Passion Play", but it's too hard to separate out a single song. The first time I heard it, in 1977, I was under the influence of a psychedelic. Now THAT was an intense experience!!! Started the night with a lunar eclipse viewed from Zilcher Park in Austin, TX, then "A Passion Play" and other music later. Some things that happened that night, are still a mystery to this day!!!
Hi Pete, another fine choice! I must admit I haven't listened to Benefit yet, but I will very soon. Here are my Tull favourites: 1. Songs from the Wood 2. Heavy Horses 3. Rover 4. Hunting Girl 5. A Passion Play 6. Thick as a Brick 7. The Whistler 8. Velvet Green 9. Acres Wild 10. Hymn 43 I guess it's easy to find out what my two favourite Tull albums are ...
A HUGE Jethro Tull Fan Here. My First Exposure To Ian Anderson Was......'Songs From The Wood'. I Didn't Know Anything About Tull, But The Album Was On Sale At Woolworths For $4.99 I Took It Home And Placed It On The Turntable...🎵 "Let Me Bring You Songs From The Wood, To Make You Feel Much Better Than You Could Know..."🎵....From That Moment On, I WAS HOOKED!!!
Great to hear you give much credit to the Stormwatch album. That was the first JT album that I bought and it lead me to become a great fan of them. I like most of your picks off that album although I would include 'North Sea Oil' and 'Home' in my list. 'Home' is such a beautiful song. North Sea Oil was the first song I heard from JT.
I just saw this. I appreciate your choices especially your number 1. I'm gonna quickly give you my favorite 10 Jethro Tull songs. I tend to go for the deeper cuts regardless of how famous they are. 10. Baker Street Muse 9. The Whistler 8. Jeffry Goes To Leister Square 7. Song For Michael Collins Jeffry And Me 6. One Brown Mouse 5. Mother Goose 4. The Witches' Promise 3. Life Is A Long Song 2. Hymn 43 1. Skating Away
My top 10: 10. Back Door Angels 9. Lick Your Fingers Clean (Aqualung out-take) 8. Dun Ringill 7. Songs from the Wood 6. Moths 5. Mother Goose 4. My God 3. The Whistler 2. Cross-Eyed Mary 1. Aqualung I have to put Aqualung at number 1. Its one of those songs I never tire of hearing. Around 30 years ago, I had a few neighbors that would sit around and toss back a few beers and listen to music. One of them would bring out his speakers and blast Aqualung from his turntable. A great, fond memory. Always keeps it at #1 for me.
Big thumbs up on your list, Pete. You've got it nailed. Couldn't agree more. The top ten format is great, but hey I like all your formats. Awesome channel.
Great list! But I would definitely put A Passion Play and think as a brick in the top! Two of my favorite songs and albums of all time! I'm looking forward to more prog!
I saw Tull 13 times from 69 to 83... Most spectacular band ever..!!!!! Every years they where all getting better and better until in the 80 when they changed the band,,it was still excellent but not the same at all,then the last tour i saw Ian had such a hard time singing that it broke my heart to see him diminish in his performance.... I sadly stop to go to see them. You look at UA-cam of the Song from the Wood tour or Heavy horses,,just amazing the control of musical nuances from every members.!!! Amazing fantastic band they where for sure,number ONE live..!
Can't go wrong with Tull. Something like this today for me: 10. Cold Wind to Valhalla 9. Black Sunday 8. Fire at Midnight 7. Aqualung 6. Broadsword 5. Baker St Muse 4. Hunting Girl 3. The Wahler's Dues 2. Heavy Horses 1. Wind Up
Totally love your channel. I'm from back in the day, my first store bought album was "Canned Heat Boogie" when I was 13. Enjoy your content and look forward to more.....keep on Rockin' !
I've always loved the folkier, calmer side of Tull, I think Broadford Bazaar might be my favourite of theirs. Melancholic, romantic, a bit gritty and bitter in the vocals. Just lovely.
Thanks for this..revisiting the great Jethro Tull….a band that I don't play enuff!! I was a casual fan for years, then around 1999 I became fanatic about them. Starting buying all their albums cheap, used, like for $1.00. I even saw them live around that time. Over past 18 years , that kind of fell of my radar. So, this was fun. I need to dig out those tunes again. Always loved the guitar of Martin Barre. Great list. I would have added Witches Promise.
10. A Christmas Song 9. Farm on the Freeway 8. Cross-Eyed Mary 7. Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day 6. Too Old to Rock n' Roll: Too Young to Die 5. Living in the Past 4. A Song for Jeffrey 3. Teacher 2. Thick as a Brick 1. Locomotive Breath
So many to choose from: 1. My God 2. A New Day Yesterday 3. Nothing Is Easy 4. To Cry You A Song 5. Inside 6. Dark Ages 7. Look into the Sun 8. One Brown Mouse 9. Budapest 10. Watching Me, Watching You If I could put the whole Passion Play album on there as one song, I would.
I did that with Thick as a Brick- they are both one LONG song to me! For some reason I didn't mention A New Day Yesterday in my honorable mentions list...it was certainly on it!
@@seaoftranquilityprog I ended spinning both Stand Up and Benefit in the car last night. Good point. I think the Hare break in the middle of APP has me think of it as a three song album.
10. Wind Up 9. Aqualung 8. A New Day Yesterday 7. Skating Away On the Thin Ice Of A New Day 6. My God 5. Nothing Is Easy 4. Locomotive Breath 3. Minstrel In The Gallery 2. Thick As a Brick 1. A Passion Play
I was never a big fan of the song Dark Ages , until I heard the alternate version on the recent Steven Wilson remix Stormwatch box set . It's fantastic . Keep those box sets ( and extra tracks ) coming !!!!
I go from “This Was” through “Thick as a Brick” as far as my knowledge of Tull music is concerned. I got to see Jethro Tull in April of 1972 (Tuscaloosa, AL). Naturally, that show was loaded with Aqualung and Thick as a Brick songs. Excellent top 10 list!
I totally agree with "to cry you a song". I just recently discovered it while listening to Benefit and it is one of my favs from Tull. Killer killer guitar riff to drive it through, with a nice jam section.
This list for me is so spot on. Love the two songs you picked from Benefit....You're honorable mention list is so great....Cross Eyed Mary.....OMG....such a enormous list of great songs and music. Had the pleasure of seeing Martin's Band less than a year ago...So good...played Teacher and Minstrel.
Love your channel and what you're doing. The Jethro Tull I was exposed to is whatever Wnew played. I do hear Witches Promise in the grocery store constantly though.
Really? How cool is that! I'd say WNEW (I'm assuming you are talking about the formerly great NYC station?) probably played Aqualung, Teacher, Hymn 43, Locomotive Breath, Cross Eyed Mary, Living in the Past, Tool Old, Bungle in the Jungle, and Skating Away. Perhaps Songs From the Wood. Those were generally Tull songs that the more 'adventurous' FM rock stations would play back in the day. Now, you are lucky if you get 3 of those.
@@seaoftranquilityprog Scott Muni and the gang. That station played everything. Miss it a lot. I live Arizona now and they play the classic rock you ranted about. Same songs everyday.
Hard to pick Tull. You have to include Thick as a Brick. It's a journey through musical ideas. Aqualung is just plain classic album through and through. A lot of good music through the 70s.
Excellent. No criticisms whats so ever with your top 10. I would have had darma for one from living in the past in the honorable mention list. Great job!!! 😀 I saw them in the seventies in Montreal. My brother played with Martin backstage fantastic show!!
1) Life's a long song 2) THICK AS A BRICK 3) Minstrel in the Gallery 4) Skating Away 5) My God 6) Wondring Again 6) Look into the Sun 7) Moths 8)Velvet Green 9) One White Duck 10) The Clasp
Great list man! My top 10: 1. Heavy Horses 2. North Sea Oil 3. Hym 43 4. Songs from the Wood 5. Mother Goose 6. Aqualung 7. Witches Promise 8. Song for Jeffrey 9. Too old to Rocknroll 10. Hunting Girl
1. Locomotive Breath 2. Heavy Horses 3. Thick As A Brick 4. Aqualung 5. Wond’Ring Aloud 6. Cross Eyed Mary 7. To Cry You A Song 8. Bouree 9. Mother Goose 10. Living In The Past honorable mentions Hunting Girl A Song For Jeffrey Teacher The Whistler A Passion Play Cold Wind To Valhalla Baker St. Muse (Medley)
Tull are one of my fav. bands and it's very hard to list just 10 of their songs. I've left out some of their most obvious ones. 10. Dun Ringill 9. Elegy 8. Locomotive Breath 7. Budapest 6. The Third Hoorah 5. Salamander 4. Overseer Overture (Passion Play) 3. Rover 2. Thick As A Brick 1. Minstrel In The Gallery
I used to do lists like this all the time to pass time either in front of a canvas or at some mundane work ty for the vids.One brown mouse,skating away,rainbow blues,steel monkey,budepest,thick as....just a few Id choose.
Picking a top 10 Jethro Tull songs is like picking a favorite toe !!! I like all my toes lol 1. Heavy Horses 2. Songs from the Wood 3. Hunting Girl 4. The Whistler 5. Black Sunday 6. Awol 7. Locomotive Breath 8. To cry you a song 9. Flyingdale Flyer 10. Dark Ages
So many to choose from: 1) My God 2) Flying Dutchman 3) Minstrel in the Gallery 4) Witches Promise 5) Cup of Wonder 6) Nothing is Easy 7) Wondring Again 8) The Third Hoorah 9) Valley 10) And Further On Apologies to 50 other songs that did not make it!
Great list. I was afraid My God would be forgotten Once you said that I thought; this man knows what he is talking about!! I think A New Day Yesterday is about as great as they got. Someone called “ Reasons for Waiting “ ear candy; I agree. Anyone ever heard 17? First heard it in a bootleg album.I love that one. There’s a cut down 3 minute version; and a 6 minute one with the extended guitar/ instrumental
10 - Bungle In The Jungle 9 - Teacher 8 - Song For Jeffery 7 - Lap Of Luxury 6 - Living In The Past 5 - Thick As A Brick (entire version) 4 - Cross-Eyed Mary 3 - Aqualung 2 - Farm On The Freeway 1 - Locomotive Breath
So glad " My God " is high up on your list. That mysterious sounding gem is actually THE song that attracted me to Tull from the get go. And of course so did that entire album.
I like your list, especially that Teacher and To cry you a song are included. A few you might reconsider: Reasons for waiting, Falling on hard times, and A new day yesterday.
Hey Pete, really glad you got to Tull, my favorite band next to YES. I pretty much agree with your list. I love everything they did up until Ian started losing his voice. One of my favorite albums you didn't mention was Crest of a Naive. A great song from that disc is Dogs in the Midwinter, a light very catchy tune.
What are the most amazing live bands I've ever seen in my life when they did thick as a brick Ian Anderson was in his prime he put on one of the best live shows I've ever seen the whole feel for prog rock meets baroque was amazing
My Top Ten 10. Heavy Horses 9. My God 8. Songs from the Woods 7. Minstrel in the Gallery 6. Baker St. Muse 5. Pibroch (Cap in hand) 4. Crossed eyed Mary 3. Too old to Rock’n Roll too young to die 2. Aqualung 1. Thick as a Brick
Pete, your videos are fun to watch and I can relate to your passion for the music. However, I see no Passion (Play) in your Tull top 10? Here's my Top 10 : 1. Thick as a Brick 2. A Passion Play 3. Boureé 4. Minstrel in the Gallery 5. My God 6. Wond'ring Aloud 7. Baker St. Muse 8. Songs From the Wood 9. Heavy Horses 10. With You There To Help Me
My list would be different, too, but I like your list better than Pete's. There's also great stuff on Dot Com (Ralitza Vasiliva) and on Ian's solo albums: Secret Language of Birds (Postcard Day!) Lap of Luxury (Apogee, Lap of Luxury), and Homo Erraticus. The newer albums don't get enough props in my view.
Great job, Pete, and I agree that this was a really tough list to compile, considering the vast number of amazing Jethro Tull songs to choose from. A few songs you didn't mention that I would have included are Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day, Cold Wind to Valhalla, Warm Sporran, King Henry's Madrigal, Life is a Long Song, Summerday Sands, Baker St. Muse, Black Satin Dancer, and- very important- I would have included at least one bluesier song from their debut LP "This Was," such as My Sunday Feeling or Cat's Squirrel, featuring a blistering guitar part played by the band's sometimes forgotten first guitarist, Mick Abrams. All in all, a difficult job to choose only 10 from so many amazing Tull songs!
My list....1. Thick as a brick (side 1) 2. 2 rainbow blues, 3. Hunting girl, 4. Black Sunday, 5. Bungle in the jungle, 6 living in the past. 7 jump start, 8 songs from the wood, 9 we used to know, 10 too old to rock and roll....
Being younger I have discovered Jethro Tull in a rather random fashion. I haven't all the albums yet but most. What surprises me is how good the later albums is. Albums few ever mention. I recently bought "J-Tull Dot Com" and honestly. I really dig it. It doesn't sound like some tired old band trying to earn easy cash or doing the exact same thing over and over again. The flute and guitars are still top notch. Martin Barre must be one of the most underrated guitarists of all time. All the things he plays on. All the different styles. His fluent style. I don't really get how someone in such a successful band for so many years trying so many things still get so little attention. Shame on the rock world! Even the songs that might have silly lyrics are often instrumentally just fine!
I'm 49. Been a Tull fan since I was in 8th grade in 1983. My older brother allowed me to record his MU Best Of album to cassette. I was sold. I was known in HS as "the Tull guy" in the 80s. I could not put together a top 10 of this band, but I was just talking to a HS friend recently about how I have grown to appreciate their music so much more the older I've gotten. he said, "How's that possible?" I have really grown to love the Benefit, Stand Up, and Living in the Past albums more. I always LOVED Stand Up, but I was only tied to a few songs on Benefit as a kid, I now LOVE their earlier stuff. I would have Up the Pool, No Lullaby, Home, Black Sunday, Wondring Aloud and Again, every song from Aqualung, To Cry You a Song, We Used to Know, Back to the Family, Reasons for Waiting are among my favorites. I also love the acoustic version of Under Wraps. I believe Ian Anderson was just a great song writer. Side note: I bought Aqualung on cassette on a Sunday my freshman year and put it on as I did my homework on Sunday evening. I was home alone. When MY God went into the choir section, I was freaked out. It sounded like the choir from The Omen. BRILLIANT song writing.
I'm really glad you have "Minstrel In The Gallery" as your #1 favorite Tull song, it's also my favorite Tull song myself, I love the guitar solo that happens around 2:15 into the song.
Magus Perde had been my ringtone since mp3 ringtones were a thing. Only just changed it a few months ago to Led Zep's Royal Orleans for a bit of variety.
Great List. I credit your Tull vids for going back through the whole catalog and revisiting all the great tracks. Anyone out there love "Back to the Family" as much as me?
My son was born in 82. He was exposed to a myriad of bands and different music. All the classic stuff. Of all these Tull was and is still his favorite band. ✌
love that whole album, my favorite - always has been
Underrated rock bands:
Electric Light Orchestra
Credence Clearwater Revival
Livin’ color
Kings x
Ugly kid Joe
Blue Oyster Cult
Emerson, Lake And Palmer
ZZ Top
Monster Magnet
Volbeat.
and surely one of their bests is „Wondering aloud“
Skating away on the Thin Ice of a New Day!!!!!
Yes, my Number one! Musically and lyrically.
Me three. Afterall, everybody's on the stage and your the only person in the audience.
Hunting Girl is amazing. In an interview Martin Barre said it was favorite. A masterpiece
I'm a huge Jethro Tull fan and you've not mentioned my favourite track: We used to know. So good even the Eagles stole parts of it for Hotel California! I agree with you about My God, easily one of their greatest songs.
Other favourites: Life is a long song, With you there to help me, Moths, Skating Away, Steel Monkey, Requiem, Wondering Aloud, Sweet Dream, Look into the sun. Mr Ian Anderson is a genius and it's about time he was knighted by TheQueen.
Baker Street Muse should have been there.Definitely.Thank you for your very interesting chronicle.
My Top 10 Tull tunes....
10. “Son” / Jethro Tull / Album: Benefit (1970)
09. “My God” / Jethro Tull / Album: Aqualung (1971)
08. “Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day” / Jethro Tull / Album: War Child (1974)
07. "Living In The Past" / Jethro Tull / Album: (Single) (1969)
06. "Cross-Eyed Mary" / Jethro Tull / Album: Aqualung (1971)
05. “Hymn 43” / Jethro Tull / Album: Aqualung (1971)
04. "Teacher, The" / Jethro Tull / Album: Benefit (1971)
03. “Bouree” / Jethro Tull / Album: Stand Up (1969)
02. “Sweet Dream” / Jethro Tull / Album: (Single) (1969)
01. "Nothing Is Easy" / Jethro Tull / Album: Stand Up (1969)
Nice list Brian. I had Aqualung at #1, and Thick as a Brick at number two, and Bouree at number three.
Aqualung got numero uno cuz it's the only song of his I can half ass play. I love that lead riff. The ambivalent lyrics are dynamite.
He creates sympathy for this derilict, sick, lost soul, but not enough for you to take him home, offer him a meal, and introduce him to your wife. His filthy Jesus, half wild and half civilized, is a guy torn to pieces by poverty, despair, loneliness, erotic desires, hunger, heart disease,
lice, whooping cough, a few cancers, and who even vicious zombies would be afraid to befriend. Even cops won't arrest him for fear of stinking up their
jail cells. What a foetid flower of fornication he is! And wouldn't you think a pariah and social leper like Aqualung would have at least twelve apostles?
Thick as a Brick is one of the best albums I've ever heard. It's a powerful meditation and condemnation of the English class system, the hypocrisy
of teachers, preachers, politicians and professors who can only pretend to be wise (i.e., thick as a brick) while the only person who is wise is one of their victims, Little Milton, the twelve year old poet, who proves their civilization is a joke, and everything they say and do is evil.
Bouree just takes you to another world.
Aqualung remains one of my top five favorite,guitar riffs because it has grit and a melancholy vibe to it;that's it.I love their early stuff!
Hymn 43 would absolutely be there for me too. The Teacher too
Pete,, I was afraid you weren’t going include Minstrel ItG until you had it as your number 1. It is mine also.
"Teacher"'s catchy bass intro with the slide down then building all of the main layered thick riffs with the percussive syncopated rolls is way ahead of its time/changes & unforgettable in my mind.
Well wishes.
It's Tull time!
10 ) Back Door Angels
9 ) Seal Driver
8 ) Hunting Girl
7 ) Jump Start
6 ) For a Thousand Mothers
5 ) With you there to Help me
4 ) Hymn 43
3 ) TAAB
2 ) Part of the Machine
1 ) Flying Dutchman
Like our ilustrious host, I struggled with only 10 songs!
I have been a Jethro Tull fan since October 1971, and that was because of AQUALUNG'S release!
4 or 5 Aqua songs could have made it, but I wanted my list to be drawn from as diverse as possible among the several Tull catalog classics !
Ring out solstice bells...
Cheerio!
Great list! Honorable mentions. Farm on the Freeway, Budapest, Hunting Girl, Pobrish (Pee Break),
My top ten Tull:
10. Cross Eyed Mary
9. Bouree
8. Songs From The Wood
7. Thick As A Brick
6. Bungle In The Jungle
5. Teacher
4. A New Day Yesterday
3. Skating Away
2. Aqualung
1. Locomotive Breath
Honorable Mentions: Minstrel In The Gallery, Too Old To Rock And Roll, Overseer Overture, Flight From Lucifer, Critique Oblique, Fylingdale Flyer, Ring Out Solstice Bells, Broadsword, Fat Man, Living In The Past, My God, Hymn 43, A Song For Jeffrey, To Cry You A Song, Batteries Not Included, 4WD, The Whistler
Jethro Tull was the inventor of the seed drill. He was a horticulturist and the best band ever!
You're right, it's really impossible to get down to 10 - but I guess mine would be (from 1-10, very approximately):
To Cry You A Song
We Used To Know
Velvet Green
With You There To Help Me
Play In Time
Wind Up
Nothing Is Easy
Cross-Eyed Mary
My God
No Lullaby
I totally concur with everything on this list, and that's from my perspective as a bassist/singer, as well! Excellent list!
Minstrel is exactly my favourite Tull album as well! Pure epicness, best album ever.
I absolutely adore its cover art; I mean, even if you're not familiar with them, you see that cover, you'll buy the record.
One of my favorites bands ever. Sad I never saw them live.
You still can
Great list. Honrable mentions for me would be , Baker St Muse, Wind Up, Part of the Machine, Too Old to Rock and Roll,
Aqualung was the first album that I ever heard from Tull. I went back and bought the first 3 albums and was not dissapointed.
Enjoyed that mate..nice one 👍👍🏼👍🏻
1. Wond'ring Again (*my all-time favorite song btw)
2. Thick as a Brick
3. Wind Up (so glad you recognized this one!)
4. Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day
5. Fires at Midnight
6. One Brown Mouse
7. Moths
8. Cup of Wonder
9. Pibroch (Cap in Hand)
10. Baker St. Muse
One more honorable mention,A New Day Yesterday,off Stand Up album.
I'm 74 and I became a huge fan of Tull with Stand Up. I saw them live four times and Benefit was their next album and by far my favorite. "With You There to Help Me" is a great song and so is "To Cry You a Song" (I'm a blackbird, still shaking my wings), but my favorite is "Play In Time" where Ian Anderson and Martin Barre produced a unique sound by recording Martin's guitar solos and then playing them backwards on the record. It made for a powerful sound that was mind blowing for me at the time, "Talking to the people in my way."
1. Minstrel in the Gallery, 2.Lifes a Long Song, 3. We used to Know, 4. Thick as a Brick, 5. Witches Promise, 6. Sweet Dream, 7.Songs From the Wood, 8. Living in the Past, 9.Skating Away, 10. Aqualung.That was hard to find a top ten, I put in a lot of the early stuff, I was born '52 so remember the singles with affection.looking forward to your next collection Pete.
My Top 10:
1. Songs From the Wood
2. Bakers St. Muse
3. Thick as a Brick Part 2
4. Dun Ringill
5. Witches Promise
6. Nothing to Say
7. Batteries Not Included
8. Cross Eyed Mary
9. Bungle in the Jungle
10. Minstrel in the Gallery
Very nice Anthony!
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Nice list, id add me some Broadsword.
this is late but it took me awhile....
1. A Passion Play
2. Thick As A Brick
3. My God
4. Roots To Branches
5. Budapest
6. Aqualung
7. Farm On The Freeway
8. Rock Island
9. Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day
10. Heavy Horses
A Passion Play is my favorite song too it's just a masterpiece
I respect your list but I cannot imagine any list without Locomotive Breath.
Finally A Passion Play makes a list. Geez. This for me is the ultimate Tull album also. Changed my life in fact
Benefit is my all time favorite. After that I would put stand up, aqualung, minstrel in the gallery, and thick as a brick in no particular order
MOTHER GOOSE
‘With you there to help me’, ‘Son’, ‘For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and me’, ‘A time for everything?’, ‘Nothing to say’, ‘Inside’, the whole blasted album is great!
Great list hard to pick. Saw thick as a brick tour with gentle giant opening for them in Buffalo n.y. Love your lists. Nice t shirt to.
Well the best Tull song is Always the one I am just listening to in the Moment...
But seriously:
1) Black Sunday
2) Dark Ages
3) Alive, and well and Living in (I think that (!) was the song that was on Benefit instead of "Teacher" in Europe
4)Chequered Flag (Dead or Alive)
5)Velvet Green
6)Pibroch (Cap in Hand)
7)Mountain Man
8)Roots to Branches
9)Moths
10)A song for Michael Collins, Jeffrey and me
honorable mentions: any song on "Aqualung" (without "Locomotive Breath" I wouldn´t be a Tull fan) / any song on Broadsword and the Beastie (except "Watchin me watching you) / and of Course Thick as a Brick (as a whole) / Reason for waiting / One white Duck / Jump Start / Farm on the Freeway and I guess I forgot half of them
S. Rathgeber ...great selections my friend ...and you went more for the obscure songs ...bravo !! 👍
Alive and Well and Living in became my most listened to song on Spotify last year. It just puts me in a good mood.
Velvet Green, nice!
I have always loved "To Cry You a Song"
I have a completely different list but it's always interesting to hear other people's.
Happy to hear a Roots to Branches shout out, their last legit great album.
Dot Com was the last. DT and RTB would have made a great double album. Both are still in heavy rotation for me.
Stormwatch is an awesome album indeed.
I agree with you about "my god." One of their most under rated tracks imo.
The lyrics! Specially, the early version.
One of my top 5 bands of all time. The other four are Sabbath, Priest, Purple and Rush.
Great list, Pete.
My Top Ten:
1) *Cross-Eyed Mary*
2) *Aqualung* (I know; the obvious choices but I so fucking love them still)
3) *Minstrel In The Gallery*
4) *Hymn 43*
5) *Locomotive Breath*
6) *Living In The Past*
7) *Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll; Too Young To Die*
8) *Skating Away (On The Thin Ice Of A New Day)*
9) *Kissing Willie*
10) *Farm On The Freeway*
*Honorable Mentions:* Bungle In The Jungle; Teacher; Bourée; Thick As A Brick; Lap Of Luxury (sorry; it's catchy AF); A New Day Yesterday (possibly the heaviest song they ever did); Nothing Is Easy; Sossity, You're A Woman
Right on point with To Cry You a Song! One of the best, could listen on a loop. Nice shout out on Cold Wind too. Hope Velvet Green , Rainbow Blues and New Day Yesterday were on page two! thanks for the video.
Well, this one is hard for me, too, but mostly because, IMO, every single song on "Stand Up" could make up my top 10.
But since I have others I like a lot, I have revised my list, but have only been able to narrow it down to 11 (Thanks, "Stand Up"!!)
A New Day Yesterday
Nothing Is Easy
Fat Man
Back to the Family
We Used to Know
Reasons for Waiting
Thick As A Brick (although I get bored before side 2 is over)
Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day
Farm on the Freeway
Teacher
Minstrel In The Gallery
I also really LOVED "A Passion Play", but it's too hard to separate out a single song. The first time I heard it, in 1977, I was under the influence of a psychedelic. Now THAT was an intense experience!!! Started the night with a lunar eclipse viewed from Zilcher Park in Austin, TX, then "A Passion Play" and other music later. Some things that happened that night, are still a mystery to this day!!!
Hi Pete, another fine choice! I must admit I haven't listened to Benefit yet, but I will very soon. Here are my Tull favourites:
1. Songs from the Wood
2. Heavy Horses
3. Rover
4. Hunting Girl
5. A Passion Play
6. Thick as a Brick
7. The Whistler
8. Velvet Green
9. Acres Wild
10. Hymn 43
I guess it's easy to find out what my two favourite Tull albums are ...
There's your homework- get on to Benefit!
Benefit is essential as is Stand up
What I like most in "Teacher" is the tempo. I really love it. The Stand Up álbum is just fantastic.
I like your list alot,me being a hard rock guy,I would pick very similar. Even the honorable mentions were all favorites of mine also.Well done.
Thanks Bruce! \m/
A HUGE Jethro Tull Fan Here. My First Exposure To Ian Anderson Was......'Songs From The Wood'. I Didn't Know Anything About Tull, But The Album Was On Sale At Woolworths For $4.99 I Took It Home And Placed It On The Turntable...🎵 "Let Me Bring You Songs From The Wood, To Make You Feel Much Better Than You Could Know..."🎵....From That Moment On, I WAS HOOKED!!!
I love these plus Home and Flying Colors
Great to hear you give much credit to the Stormwatch album. That was the first JT album that I bought and it lead me to become a great fan of them. I like most of your picks off that album although I would include 'North Sea Oil' and 'Home' in my list. 'Home' is such a beautiful song. North Sea Oil was the first song I heard from JT.
I just saw this. I appreciate your choices especially your number 1. I'm gonna quickly give you my favorite 10 Jethro Tull songs. I tend to go for the deeper cuts regardless of how famous they are.
10. Baker Street Muse
9. The Whistler
8. Jeffry Goes To Leister Square
7. Song For Michael Collins Jeffry And Me
6. One Brown Mouse
5. Mother Goose
4. The Witches' Promise
3. Life Is A Long Song
2. Hymn 43
1. Skating Away
'Weathercock' off the Heavy Horses album has always been a favourite of mine as well.
My top 10:
10. Back Door Angels
9. Lick Your Fingers Clean (Aqualung out-take)
8. Dun Ringill
7. Songs from the Wood
6. Moths
5. Mother Goose
4. My God
3. The Whistler
2. Cross-Eyed Mary
1. Aqualung
I have to put Aqualung at number 1. Its one of those songs I never tire of hearing. Around 30 years ago, I had a few neighbors that would sit around and toss back a few beers and listen to music. One of them would bring out his speakers and blast Aqualung from his turntable. A great, fond memory. Always keeps it at #1 for me.
Nice list, and Lick Your Fingers Clean is a GREAT song! Rainbow Blues is another one of those 'extras' that I love, and should have mentioned.
@@seaoftranquilityprog Thank you Pete. Like you said, so many great songs, a list of just 10 is not easy. Nothing is Easy!
Big thumbs up on your list, Pete. You've got it nailed. Couldn't agree more. The top ten format is great, but hey I like all your formats. Awesome channel.
thank you sir!
Good ears, good brain, good video. Thank You for this.
Great list!
But I would definitely put A Passion Play and think as a brick in the top! Two of my favorite songs and albums of all time!
I'm looking forward to more prog!
I saw Tull 13 times from 69 to 83...
Most spectacular band ever..!!!!!
Every years they where all getting better and better until in the 80 when they changed the band,,it was still excellent but not the same at all,then the last tour i saw Ian had such a hard time singing that it broke my heart to see him diminish in his performance....
I sadly stop to go to see them.
You look at UA-cam of the Song from the Wood tour or Heavy horses,,just amazing the control of musical nuances from every members.!!!
Amazing fantastic band they where for sure,number ONE live..!
Can't go wrong with Tull. Something like this today for me:
10. Cold Wind to Valhalla
9. Black Sunday
8. Fire at Midnight
7. Aqualung
6. Broadsword
5. Baker St Muse
4. Hunting Girl
3. The Wahler's Dues
2. Heavy Horses
1. Wind Up
"Whalers"
Totally love your channel. I'm from back in the day, my first store bought album was "Canned Heat Boogie" when I was 13. Enjoy your content and look forward to more.....keep on Rockin' !
I would add Jack-a-lynn, Crosswords, Overhang, Rover, One Brown Mouse...ok got to stop. Tull is tops.
I've always loved the folkier, calmer side of Tull, I think Broadford Bazaar might be my favourite of theirs. Melancholic, romantic, a bit gritty and bitter in the vocals. Just lovely.
Thanks for this..revisiting the great Jethro Tull….a band that I don't play enuff!! I was a casual fan for years, then around 1999 I became fanatic about them. Starting buying all their albums cheap, used, like for $1.00. I even saw them live around that time. Over past 18 years , that kind of fell of my radar. So, this was fun. I need to dig out those tunes again. Always loved the guitar of Martin Barre. Great list. I would have added Witches Promise.
10. A Christmas Song
9. Farm on the Freeway
8. Cross-Eyed Mary
7. Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day
6. Too Old to Rock n' Roll: Too Young to Die
5. Living in the Past
4. A Song for Jeffrey
3. Teacher
2. Thick as a Brick
1. Locomotive Breath
So many to choose from:
1. My God
2. A New Day Yesterday
3. Nothing Is Easy
4. To Cry You A Song
5. Inside
6. Dark Ages
7. Look into the Sun
8. One Brown Mouse
9. Budapest
10. Watching Me, Watching You
If I could put the whole Passion Play album on there as one song, I would.
I did that with Thick as a Brick- they are both one LONG song to me! For some reason I didn't mention A New Day Yesterday in my honorable mentions list...it was certainly on it!
@@seaoftranquilityprog I ended spinning both Stand Up and Benefit in the car last night.
Good point. I think the Hare break in the middle of APP has me think of it as a three song album.
I see you like STAND UP as I do. Probably on my top two Tull albums.
Inside and one brown mouse 👍🏻
Great list Pete. I would include Living In the Past, War Child and Skating Away in mine.
10. Wind Up
9. Aqualung
8. A New Day Yesterday
7. Skating Away On the Thin Ice Of A New Day
6. My God
5. Nothing Is Easy
4. Locomotive Breath
3. Minstrel In The Gallery
2. Thick As a Brick
1. A Passion Play
I was never a big fan of the song Dark Ages , until I heard the alternate version on the recent Steven Wilson remix Stormwatch box set . It's fantastic . Keep those box sets ( and extra tracks ) coming !!!!
Wow that was a great list..love it 👍
I go from “This Was” through “Thick as a Brick” as far as my knowledge of Tull music is concerned. I got to see Jethro Tull in April of 1972 (Tuscaloosa, AL). Naturally, that show was loaded with Aqualung and Thick as a Brick songs. Excellent top 10 list!
I totally agree with "to cry you a song". I just recently discovered it while listening to Benefit and it is one of my favs from Tull. Killer killer guitar riff to drive it through, with a nice jam section.
This list for me is so spot on. Love the two songs you picked from Benefit....You're honorable mention list is so great....Cross Eyed Mary.....OMG....such a enormous list of great songs and music. Had the pleasure of seeing Martin's Band less than a year ago...So good...played Teacher and Minstrel.
Really? Wow, very cool. I need to go and see Martin when he comes around. He was fairly local to me here in NY not long ago but I couldn't make it.
Love your channel and what you're doing. The Jethro Tull I was exposed to is whatever Wnew played. I do hear Witches Promise in the grocery store constantly though.
Really? How cool is that! I'd say WNEW (I'm assuming you are talking about the formerly great NYC station?) probably played Aqualung, Teacher, Hymn 43, Locomotive Breath, Cross Eyed Mary, Living in the Past, Tool Old, Bungle in the Jungle, and Skating Away. Perhaps Songs From the Wood. Those were generally Tull songs that the more 'adventurous' FM rock stations would play back in the day. Now, you are lucky if you get 3 of those.
@@seaoftranquilityprog Scott Muni and the gang. That station played everything. Miss it a lot. I live Arizona now and they play the classic rock you ranted about. Same songs everyday.
Hard to pick Tull. You have to include Thick as a Brick. It's a journey through musical ideas. Aqualung is just plain classic album through and through. A lot of good music through the 70s.
Excellent. No criticisms whats so ever with your top 10. I would have had darma for one from living in the past in the honorable mention list. Great job!!! 😀 I saw them in the seventies in Montreal. My brother played with Martin backstage fantastic show!!
Benefit is my favourite Tull album, and the first i listened to! Do a Van der graaf Generator ranking, please!
Great list, and enjoying these Top Tens! Can't wait for Kansas, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden & Judas Priest.
1) Life's a long song 2) THICK AS A BRICK 3) Minstrel in the Gallery 4) Skating Away 5) My God 6) Wondring Again 6) Look into the Sun 7) Moths 8)Velvet Green 9) One White Duck 10) The Clasp
Great list! I would add some older songs, ie. “My Sunday Feeling” (live version on the Isle of Wight is superb) and “A New Day Yesterday”.
Should have been in the R&R HOF 25 years ago.
Great list man! My top 10:
1. Heavy Horses
2. North Sea Oil
3. Hym 43
4. Songs from the Wood
5. Mother Goose
6. Aqualung
7. Witches Promise
8. Song for Jeffrey
9. Too old to Rocknroll
10. Hunting Girl
1. Locomotive Breath
2. Heavy Horses
3. Thick As A Brick
4. Aqualung
5. Wond’Ring Aloud
6. Cross Eyed Mary
7. To Cry You A Song
8. Bouree
9. Mother Goose
10. Living In The Past
honorable mentions
Hunting Girl
A Song For Jeffrey
Teacher
The Whistler
A Passion Play
Cold Wind To Valhalla
Baker St. Muse (Medley)
A nice list... I enjoy your channel
Estaba viendo las listas que pusieron acà, y en ninguna aparece "requiem" que es uno de los mejores temas de jethro tull. Saludos!
Tull are one of my fav. bands and it's very hard to list just 10 of their songs. I've left out some of their most obvious ones.
10. Dun Ringill
9. Elegy
8. Locomotive Breath
7. Budapest
6. The Third Hoorah
5. Salamander
4. Overseer Overture (Passion Play)
3. Rover
2. Thick As A Brick
1. Minstrel In The Gallery
Bungle in the Jungle?????
Good tune, but not among my favorites.
I used to do lists like this all the time to pass time either in front of a canvas or at some mundane work ty for the vids.One brown mouse,skating away,rainbow blues,steel monkey,budepest,thick as....just a few Id choose.
Picking a top 10 Jethro Tull songs is like picking a favorite toe !!! I like all my toes lol
1. Heavy Horses
2. Songs from the Wood
3. Hunting Girl
4. The Whistler
5. Black Sunday
6. Awol
7. Locomotive Breath
8. To cry you a song
9. Flyingdale Flyer
10. Dark Ages
So many to choose from:
1) My God
2) Flying Dutchman
3) Minstrel in the Gallery
4) Witches Promise
5) Cup of Wonder
6) Nothing is Easy
7) Wondring Again
8) The Third Hoorah
9) Valley
10) And Further On
Apologies to 50 other songs that did not make it!
Great list. I was afraid My God would be forgotten
Once you said that I thought; this man knows what he is talking about!!
I think A New Day Yesterday is about as great as they got. Someone called “ Reasons for Waiting “ ear candy; I agree. Anyone ever heard 17? First heard it in a bootleg album.I love that one. There’s a cut down 3 minute version; and a 6 minute one with the extended guitar/ instrumental
10 - Bungle In The Jungle
9 - Teacher
8 - Song For Jeffery
7 - Lap Of Luxury
6 - Living In The Past
5 - Thick As A Brick (entire version)
4 - Cross-Eyed Mary
3 - Aqualung
2 - Farm On The Freeway
1 - Locomotive Breath
So glad " My God " is high up on your list. That mysterious sounding gem is actually THE song that attracted me to Tull from the get go. And of course so did that entire album.
I like your list, especially that Teacher and To cry you a song are included. A few you might reconsider: Reasons for waiting, Falling on hard times, and A new day yesterday.
Hey Pete, really glad you got to Tull, my favorite band next to YES. I pretty much agree with your list. I love everything they did up until Ian started losing his voice. One of my favorite albums you didn't mention was Crest of a Naive. A great song from that disc is Dogs in the Midwinter, a light very catchy tune.
What are the most amazing live bands I've ever seen in my life when they did thick as a brick Ian Anderson was in his prime he put on one of the best live shows I've ever seen the whole feel for prog rock meets baroque was amazing
To Cry You a Song I agree is a highly under appreciated song. It is one of my favorites as well.
My Top Ten
10. Heavy Horses
9. My God
8. Songs from the Woods
7. Minstrel in the Gallery
6. Baker St. Muse
5. Pibroch (Cap in hand)
4. Crossed eyed Mary
3. Too old to Rock’n Roll too young to die
2. Aqualung
1. Thick as a Brick
Wondering aloud played ten times
Pete, your videos are fun to watch and I can relate to your passion for the music. However, I see no Passion (Play) in your Tull top 10?
Here's my Top 10
:
1. Thick as a Brick
2. A Passion Play
3. Boureé
4. Minstrel in the Gallery
5. My God
6. Wond'ring Aloud
7. Baker St. Muse
8. Songs From the Wood
9. Heavy Horses
10. With You There To Help Me
My list would be different, too, but I like your list better than Pete's. There's also great stuff on Dot Com (Ralitza Vasiliva) and on Ian's solo albums: Secret Language of Birds (Postcard Day!) Lap of Luxury (Apogee, Lap of Luxury), and Homo Erraticus. The newer albums don't get enough props in my view.
I am not even going to think of a 5 best Tull songs.I just know that my two favorites are Black Sunday and Witches Promise.
Great job, Pete, and I agree that this was a really tough list to compile, considering the vast number of amazing Jethro Tull songs to choose from. A few songs you didn't mention that I would have included are Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day, Cold Wind to Valhalla, Warm Sporran, King Henry's Madrigal, Life is a Long Song, Summerday Sands, Baker St. Muse, Black Satin Dancer, and- very important- I would have included at least one bluesier song from their debut LP "This Was," such as My Sunday Feeling or Cat's Squirrel, featuring a blistering guitar part played by the band's sometimes forgotten first guitarist, Mick Abrams. All in all, a difficult job to choose only 10 from so many amazing Tull songs!
My list....1. Thick as a brick (side 1) 2. 2 rainbow blues, 3. Hunting girl, 4. Black Sunday, 5. Bungle in the jungle, 6 living in the past. 7 jump start, 8 songs from the wood, 9 we used to know, 10 too old to rock and roll....
Being younger I have discovered Jethro Tull in a rather random fashion. I haven't all the albums yet but most. What surprises me is how good the later albums is. Albums few ever mention. I recently bought "J-Tull Dot Com" and honestly. I really dig it. It doesn't sound like some tired old band trying to earn easy cash or doing the exact same thing over and over again. The flute and guitars are still top notch. Martin Barre must be one of the most underrated guitarists of all time. All the things he plays on. All the different styles. His fluent style. I don't really get how someone in such a successful band for so many years trying so many things still get so little attention. Shame on the rock world! Even the songs that might have silly lyrics are often instrumentally just fine!
A Passion Play is my Number 1.
I My favourite is Living in the Past-the first song I heard from Jethro Tull!
I'm 49. Been a Tull fan since I was in 8th grade in 1983. My older brother allowed me to record his MU Best Of album to cassette. I was sold. I was known in HS as "the Tull guy" in the 80s. I could not put together a top 10 of this band, but I was just talking to a HS friend recently about how I have grown to appreciate their music so much more the older I've gotten. he said, "How's that possible?" I have really grown to love the Benefit, Stand Up, and Living in the Past albums more. I always LOVED Stand Up, but I was only tied to a few songs on Benefit as a kid, I now LOVE their earlier stuff. I would have Up the Pool, No Lullaby, Home, Black Sunday, Wondring Aloud and Again, every song from Aqualung, To Cry You a Song, We Used to Know, Back to the Family, Reasons for Waiting are among my favorites. I also love the acoustic version of Under Wraps. I believe Ian Anderson was just a great song writer. Side note: I bought Aqualung on cassette on a Sunday my freshman year and put it on as I did my homework on Sunday evening. I was home alone. When MY God went into the choir section, I was freaked out. It sounded like the choir from The Omen. BRILLIANT song writing.
The haunting, " With you there to help me" from Benefit is a fav and a song that just doesn't want to end!
I'm really glad you have "Minstrel In The Gallery" as your #1 favorite Tull song, it's also my favorite Tull song myself, I love the guitar solo that happens around 2:15 into the song.
Its solid! Not an easy task but you did good Pete👍
Magus Perde had been my ringtone since mp3 ringtones were a thing. Only just changed it a few months ago to Led Zep's Royal Orleans for a bit of variety.