Why do people like Jethro Tull

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Why do people like Jethro Tull

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I think he is a hotchpotch of noise (I keep wanting to ask him to blow his nose) and unmusical riffs and chord structures and timing. What am I missing.

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Well I tried, I winced through side 1 of original masters, but half way through side two I have given up, it is just an unmusical noise. Prog gone wrong.

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I'm with you on this one. Couple of good singles, then endless overblown concept albums with that ugly get hopping round on one leg, gurning like a twat.

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I don't picture Ian Anderson hopping when listening to Tull. Some of their stuff is overblown but other albums have more concise material and I always liked the Introduction of flute into rock. Try Stand Up, Benefit and Songs From The Wood. Tull aren't strictly prog in style. Originally more blues but a lot of folk elements later. Original Masters though containing the 'hits' doesn't hang together very well.
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I have been a fan for 44yrs after first hearing Aqualung at friends house. This was not an immediate attraction but took maybe 3-5 listens but then I was hooked. This has been the case with most of JTs LPs I have since purchased except it is down to 2-4 listens due to the fact I am more accustomed to their 'house sound'. I would never have said the riffs were unmusical [Doc] since I have always thought Martin Barre to have a very musical and relaxed way of playing the guitar. Two recommendations would be Minstrel in the Gallery and Crest of a Knave to see if this will change your mind. I can fully understand why some people (even friends of mine) don't like them and maybe never will, for me I cannot get into classical music or opera. One more thing Ian Anderson has written some first class lyrics and I can remember one reviewer stating if he had not been a musician he would surely have been a poet.

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The Original Masters cd was itself mastered sans Dolby A processing and sounds strange. Ian Anderson used to have a strange attitude to the people who paid for his lifestyle by buying his records and attending his gigs, but I have to say I like some of it. I didn't 'get' Aqualung as an eleven year old, but I did like Thick As A Brick, although he again seems to be having a go at the 'fans' of the band all through it.
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Hmm. Jethro Tull - one of the bands I have a love/hate relationship with. When I'm In the right mood the Tull are brilliant; powerful, intense, unpredictable and eccentric, but there are long stretches when I find the music of Ian Anderson overblown and severely self-indulgent.

I have most of their albums and mainly play 'Thick as a Brick' or 'A' - although 'Songs From the Wood' is the one I would recommend to first-timers.

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First of all, "He" is a "They" and they have changed styles over the years. Try listening to 'Crest of a Knave' and seeing if you'd have recognised the same band that recorded Aqualung without being told beforehand. I always think it owes more to Dire Straits than older Tull albums. Good lyrics too.

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Jethro Tull are shite . End of .

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Songs From The Wood, Heavy Horses, Aqualung - is the triumvirate and should be in everyone's collection but Minstrel, Benefit and Stand up are also worth having, if not as accessible for neophytes.

Crest of a Knave and Broadsword and the Beast are second division but listenable. Anything after Crest is not worth the bother.

of the older stuff 'A', Under Wraps and Stormwatch are all a bit crap. Under Wraps being all synthesiser. Dire.


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