Really don't mind if you sit this one out: Favorite JETHRO TULL tune

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: Really don't mind if you sit this one out: Favorite JETHRO TULL tune

"Let's see if we can spot the over 35s in the audience..." Forgive another old-guy poll. I am so far resisting the temptation to put on Bourree.

[Zomby Woof]

1. anything from "This Was"

nt

[fizzana]

5. I agree - This Was was the bomb

n/t

[DancingBear]

52. But especially "My Sunday Feeling"

<standing on one leg while typing>

[bobthedrummer]

2. "To Cry You A Song"

is my favorite.

[blindpig]

58. yes, many fond memories!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. I just like Bungle in the Jungle best!

But I like all things Tull and yes Bouree SHOULD be on the list! Great interpretation of the tune!

[Blue-Jay]

4. "Eyeing little girls with bad intent"

Love Tull. that said, Ian isn't really all that good on flute.

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. That's Aqualung, right ?

.
.
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"greasy fingers, smearing shabby clothes"

ewwwww - eh ?

:evilgrin:

[Blue-Jay]

12. yes. 'Tis.

Wonderful lyrics.

[opiate69]

6. "Cold Vind to Valhala"

Or, "Baker Street Muse", or "A Small Cigar", "Broadford Bazaar", "Dun Ringill", "Home".... I could go on forever...

On edit: Funny you should post this.. I just bought the dvd "Living With the Past" this past weekend...

[alwynsw]

7. I still have my "Ian Anderson" boots somewhere

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. "Broadsword"

Love that tune!

Though I voted for Thick as a Brick.

But I do point out that one can sing "Favorite Jethro Tull tune" to the opening riff of Aqualung.

[opiate69]

11. Great song.. great album.....

Mastered a little too quiet, though....
oh, and "But I do point out that one can sing "Favorite Jethro Tull tune" to the opening riff of Aqualung"... good catch!

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. I find surprising how that album pretty much never comes up

in conversation, even among Tull fans. It's like the little hidden album off in the corner...


and thanks for the compliment for the catch. :-)

[ronzo]

10. You're never too old...

... to win a Grammy for best heavy metal album. :silly:

[maveric]

13. Wind Up

When I was young and they packed me off to school
and taught me how not to play the game,
I didn't mind if they groomed me for success,
or if they said that I was a fool.
So I left there in the morning
with their God tucked underneath my arm --
their half-assed smiles and the book of rules.
So I asked this God a question
and by way of firm reply,
He said -- I'm not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays.
So to my old headmaster (and to anyone who cares):
before I'm through I'd like to say my prayers --
I don't believe you:
you had the whole damn thing all wrong --
He's not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays.
Well you can excomunicate me on my way to Sunday school
and have all the bishops harmonize these lines --
how do you dare tell me that I'm my Father's son
when that was just an accident of Birth.
I'd rather look around me -- compose a better song
`cos that's the honest measure of my worth.
In your pomp and all your glory you're a poorer man than me,
as you lick the boots of death born out of fear.
I don't believe you:
you had the whole damn thing all wrong --
He's not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays.

[Sufi Marmot]

14. "Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day"

Actually, I'm partial to the entire http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006JKON/qid=1077175432/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-0847506-3596023">War Child album

-SM

[Bertha Venation]

25. you & me both -- although the cover freaks me out to this day

:shrug:

[The Traveler]

15. OK .. way over 35

Anything off This Was, Benefit, Aqualung, Living in the Past.

Thick as a Brick & Passion Play ... best served with a fine cognac, or a bold red wine, and a Jamaican cigar.

From Stormwatch "Flying Dutchman".
"Heavy Horses". "Wondering Aloud"

Argh. Wish I could sound as good as Martin Barre.

[AndyTiedye]

16. "Thick As a Brick" Still the Best Tull Tune

[0rganism]

18. Tune? That "Tune" takes up an entire freaking album!

It's solid, but hardly concise...

[Westegg]

41. If you want concise, baby, dig the Ramones...

...Or the Minutemen.

Both great bands, of course. But I'm a lad what still enjoys a 45-minute version of "Dazed and Confused."

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

63. Satisfy one curiousity of mine about TAAB:

"Gerald Bostock" is credited as co-author. It's the disqualified boy from the spoof newspaper. I assume he's fictitious, but I'm not 100% sure. IS THERE a person called Gerald Bostock who co-authored that song?

[jmowreader]

70. Did you know cigars are no longer made in Jamaica?

Sad but true: the big Jamaican brands, like Macanudo, have all gone to the mainland.

[jonnyblitz]

17. locomotive breath is a wedding reception tune.

right up there with proud mary.

[Kat45]

75. That beats "YMCA" which is played at every wedding I go to!

I HATE that song, and the insipid moves that go with it! I lived through the disco era completely unaware of those moves, only to have that f'n thing in my face at every wedding more than 20 years later!

[0rganism]

19. What? No Teacher? No Velvet Green? No Skating Away?

What kind of poll is this!?!?!?

Yeeearrrrrgh!

[Vernunft II]

20. The Clasp

from "Broadsword and The Beast".

[southpaw]

21. Still waiting for Salvation a la mode...

and a cup of tea.

[LWolf]

22. Anything live.

Honestly, I don't have one favorite. I could list a bunch, but I'll just say Ian Anderson live, any song.

[mac56]

30. Wow! I love that Calvin avatar!

That's great.

[LWolf]

45. Yours, too!

I raised Calvin. Seriously. He's here now. 24, and still Calvin.

Calvin has a permanent place in my heart.

[mac56]

61. Mine is courtesy of RatTerrier.

I saw yours and wanted one of my own. RT was kind enough to work it up for me.

[LWolf]

64. It came out well.

I started out with both C&H, but they were so small you couldn't see them, so I just went with C.

[mac56]

67. See below, LWolf!

Feel free to use this one.

[mac56]

66. Feel free to use this one!

I don't think RT will mind, and I sure don't!

[LWolf]

73. Done, and thanks!

[Bertha Venation]

23. Skating Away (DIG Jethro Tull)

skating away-ay on the thin ice of the new day yay yay yay yay

[drdon326]

57. "And as you cross....

the circle line, well, the asphalt breaks behind.....

your a rabbit on the run."

[Burma Jones]

59. I was listening to this song when I was about 30

and it hit me in a lot of ways, such as:

'Cause you were bred for Humanity and sold to Society -
One day you'll wake up in the Present Day -
A million generations removed from expectations
Of being who you really want to be.


Well, do you ever get the feeling that the Story's too damn real and in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like
You're the only person sitting in the audience?


These two verses described my late 20s and early 30s angst better than any others.

Now that I'm 40, Pink Floyd's "Time" is a little too appropriate.

[Beaker]

24. his woman and his best friend-

in bed and having fun...

[av8rdave]

26. Love "Sweet Dream" and "Farm is a Freeway"

Saw the Tull in Denver on their Stormwatch tour in '79 (yeah, yeah, I know I'm old!). Great show!

av8rdave

[mac56]

33. Forgot about "Sweet Dream"! Great pick!

Get out and get what you can...

[mac56]

27. Bouree

nm

[booradleyjr]

31. that's what i was going to say

[matcom]

28. Let Me Bring You Songs From The Wood

:bounce:

[SCDem]

29. Bends like a Willow

[drdon326]

69. Best line..

"I'm cool under enemy fire"

[PVnRT]

32. SNOT IS RUNNING DOWN HIS NOSE

Aqualung all the way.

[buddhamama]

35. Locomotive Breath

n/t

[BiggJawn]

36. Since that was said almost 20 years ago...

Shouldn't it be "Let's see if we can spot the over-55's in the audience..." :-)
There are too damn many of them to pick an absolute favourite.

[DinahMoeHum]

37. I still have an old Christmas EP of theirs. . .

including:
Ring Out Solstice Bells
Pan Dance
March the Mad Scientist
Christmas Song

Before JT's new Christmas album late last year (including mostly his old stuff) I used to play this EP and the album Songs From The Wood every Christmas time.


:bounce:

[ProfessorGAC]

38. Skating Away (On The Thin Ice Of A New Day)

My absolute fave. I like the changes it goes through as it builds througout the tune. Love the words too.
The Professor

[CanuckAmok]

42. And that disturbing orchestral stab at the end!

Good call. I was going to say "Teacher", but the Professor has re-educated me.

No further comment.

[Westegg]

39. It's a song/It's an album/a song/an album/a song/an album

...But while I love "Thick As a Brick," a staggering work of musical madness, I have recently become infatuated with "Reasons For Waiting," from "Stand Up." I only bought the album recently, though I've been a Tull fan since '76. And "Reasons" is such a lovely love song---when I hear it now, I think of my wife (we've been marrried only a few months).

This is a good topic. I wish I knew more Tull fans. Most of my friends think of them as '70s artifacts.

[mr blur]

40. Wond'rin Aloud

Just lovely.

[Westegg]

43. Yep! And Wond'ring Again, from "Living In the Past"....

I've often conjoined the two songs, on tapes I've made for friends. Great stuff!

[PragMantisT]

44. Teacher

Hey man, what's the plan?
What was that you said?
Suntanned, drink in hand
Lying there in bed.

[drdon326]

46. I asked Ian Anderson that question last year...

his answer...Budapest.

mine....ROVER

[woofless]

47. Had to cast a vote for Minstrel since no one else had.

Love all of them. Another fave is "A Christmas Song". Anyone else here love the album "Storm Watch"?

[Greyskye]

49. Storm Watch

Storm Watch was my very first Tull album, given to me by a friend who didn't like it. I was officially a Tull Skull when that vinyl stopped spinning.

[opiate69]

51. Yep...

Love Stormwatch.. "Something's on the Move" was the first Tull song I ever heard.. had it on one of those compilation K-Tel tapes... totally rearranged my thinking about Rock... I officially retired all my old Kiss albums after hearing it.

[Greyskye]

48. How funny!

Tull's 'Beltane' off of the 20 Years of Jethro Tull came up on my random MP3 playlist just as I was reading this thread. :)

Favorites - damn. Aqualung got so much friggin' airplay that it's right out. Favorite albums (original, not best-of-type reissues) have to include:

Broadsword and the Beast
Stormwatch
Songs From the Wood

But the live album A Little Light Music is pretty sweet as well... and yeah, Bouree does indeed rock. :evilgrin:

[IronLionZion]

50. Spiral

there's nothing quite like a rock band that features the flute

[NeoConsSuck]

53. Wondering Aloud

[HamstersFromHell]

54. I'm the vote for "Hunting Girl"...

"...whilst I appreciate you are no deviate, I might come to some harm."

I haven't heard a Tull song I didn't like, just some more than others. However, one I fondly remember for some unknown reason is "Fly By Night" off of "A Classic Case" (Tull with the London Symphony).

[drdon326]

55. " I raised.....

the flag that she unfurled...."

hmmmm

[Zorro]

56. Uhhh...every friggin' song on Stand Up and Benefit

They're all favorites of mine.

[Kat45]

74. I have the "Stand Up" album with the cover that stands up.

I love that cover.

[Burma Jones]

60. I am very fond of Minstrel in the Gallery

Particularly One White Duck....

[Rooktoven]

62. Black Sunday

off the "A" album, especially done live.

[drdon326]

68. Great tune

.

[veganwitch]

65. im not a huge jethro tull fan (blame aging hippy parents)

i couldnt get away from it when i was younger. but i love aqualung and am secretly hoping that type o negative covers it one of these days.

[Bat Boy]

71. Passion Play

Please don't tell me I'm alone on this one...

[ajacobson]

72. Passion Play for me, too.

{old fogey voice:}
Back in my day, bands did "concept albums"...

First rock concert:
Jethro Tull - "A" Tour
I still have the shirt (tattered).
1981, 82?