Life's a Long Song should have made my list.
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There are parts of Passion Play that I like quite a bet as well, but as a whole, it falls apart for me, unlike TAAB
Most disliked Tull song, Bungle in the Jungle
Most disliked Tull song, Bungle in the Jungle
Made it to #12 on US Billboard pop charts. These groups deserve to make some cash once in while with a pop song. Better than Guitarzan.
I mean, I don't care for it too much now...but I sure liked it as a youngster back on my little AM radio.
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Deliberately written as a pop song for radio. Bungle in the Jungle is a pleasant listen after all these years. I like it more now.Made it to #12 on US Billboard pop charts. These groups deserve to make some cash once in while with a pop song. Better than Guitarzan.
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It is the best list to me.
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With ya on Passion Play. Parts of it are my most favorite Tull!
The tongue and cheek in Thick as a Brick was "Our song is 45 minutes long!" In Passion Play it was insanity level over the top complexity in the music.
That's kind of funny with Bungle in the Jungle. After the musical bootcamp of writing, recording, and performing Passion Play, their intentional attempt at simple pop came out with so much complexity in the music that it was still going to be interesting no matter what. Great verse! Intentional boring chorus and use of verse/chorus structure.
My top 10 list today:
Thick As A Brick (Cheating, I know. But I'm serious and it's technically one song.)
Just Trying to Be
Minstrel in the Gallery
Dun Rungill
We Used to Know
Wond'ring Aloud
Inside
SeaLion
Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day
Baker St. Muse
It is a really good pop song, and excellent earworm material in 5.1 or otherwise.
Thick as a Brick Edit #1 no gap into the Bungle roar is one of my ear-worms since the '70's LP. M.U. rules.I enjoy it on the Made in Japan for MCA Canada CD (MFSL sounds nice too without TaaB)
Speaking of good song lists. https://jethrotull.proboards.com/post/95112/threadSet :1 Martin Barre Tupelo Music Hall Derry N.H. 5/11/24
Hunting Girl
Back To Steel
A New Day Yesterday
For A Thousand Mothers
We Used to Know
Eleanor Rigby
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Cross Eyed Mary
Up To Me
My God
Thick As A Brick
Set :2
Minstrel In The Gallery
Acres Wild
Love Story
A Song For Jeffery
Heavy Horses
Moment Of Madness
Nothing Is Easy
Encore:
Aqualung
Hymn 43
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The Jethro Tull album Ian Anderson called a “step too far”
Tim Coffman
Tue 14 May 2024 16:15, UK
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-jethro-tull-album-ian-anderson-called-a-step-too-far/
Tim Coffman
Tue 14 May 2024 16:15, UK
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-jethro-tull-album-ian-anderson-called-a-step-too-far/
Isn't that a dandelion? LOLSo did you know there is a Jethro Tull flower?
I'll bet it blooms like madness in the spring.
Can't believe I just found a still wrapped A Passion Play - An Extended Performance! It was also way cheaper than it's usually sold nowadays.
I didn’t know, but wasn’t Jethro Tull the name of a gardener that invented some kind of planting device? So no wonder there is a flower bearing his name!
A farmer I believe. And he invented the seed drill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethr... made early advances in,so that it could grow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethr... made early advances in,so that it could grow.
So did you know there is a Jethro Tull flower?
I'll bet it blooms like madness in the spring.
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Jethro Tull looking good, matching colours.
If you’re staying up late, drinking, doing drugs, arriving half an hour late, it’s over. We have standards, rules. I’ve no time for people who put their own decadent pursuits over the professionalism that belongs to being a band and playing for the paying public. The musicians I play with share that view. They’re the right guys.
I’m not a natural performer. I’m shy and reluctant, in keeping with many people who do what I do for a living. Maybe it’s our way of getting out there and overcoming the demons, and during the time on stage we express a different aspect of our personality — but then we step offstage and retire to a quiet place under a damp rock.
Some performers go to the nearest pub and club after the show, and perform again. I’m not one of them. After two hours of aerobics on stage, which is what performing’s like, I want to enjoy my own company in a private space as soon as possible.
It’ll be the first time in the day that I can actually relax, hanging up my work clothes, and shedding the emotions with them. Traditionally, I do that by watching news and current-affairs programmes, which calms me down and takes my mind to other, more important things than what’s happening to me. I’ve always had an interest in politics and documentaries.
I share an interest in the world’s railways, particularly in the UK. Even in greater Europe, the train is a preferable option to travelling in a crowded van for three or four hours.
One reason the flute appealed to me is that it’s very portable. I do have some electronic equipment, which goes in a vehicle or aeroplane; but, when I’m travelling, I have carry-on luggage for my stage clothes, toiletries, and flute, and, as a “civilian tourist”, I can manage with a backpack.
I don’t like to be encumbered. My wife owns a car, and my children do, and sometimes I hitch a lift, but I prefer life without complications: I like things that are small, light and compact.
I’m responsible for an enormous carbon footprint over the years — I’m a climate sinner — but I’ve planted over 50,000 mixed deciduous trees on our farm. Its heavy clay isn’t not capable of producing arable crops. At best, it grows grass for grazing, but some margins aren’t suitable; so we’ve extended our ancient woodlands with many oak trees. They are an emblem of the Anderson-family clan, whose legend is “Stand sure”.
Covid was a very tough passage in my professional life, as we had to reschedule over a hundred concerts in 2020 and 2021.
We perform live on stage in real time, but in indoor concerts there’s a big video screen behind us, playing accompanying video material, sometimes explicitly related to the music, sometimes abstracted. We’ve been using that for last 12 years. There’s lots of jiggery pokery and sophisticated electronica, but we’re playing as a group the way we’ve always done it.
I’m a destructive recording engineer. If it’s not right, I delete it and do it again. I want it to sound as if it’s a real performance. Artistically, it’s better final result.
We can do different takes in recordings, but it’s not my preferred way of working, though I’m far from being a Luddite in the use of modern technology. I began working with it in the late ’70s, and made a couple of albums in 1983 and 1984 to avoid the temptation to stick with the conventional analogue tech which preceded it for all time. If you don’t attempt to integrate and utilise it, you might not know what you’re missing, but I didn’t let it drive how the music would be. It’s quietly in the background for the recording, mixing, and remastering process, without affecting the way the music is written or listened to.
MORE: https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/artic...w-ian-anderson-musician-leader-of-jethro-tull
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