Best of Jethro Tull (IMHO)

[Niels (Mod)]

It was my meaning, that I would make a "best of" Jethro Tull a few weeks back, but then I though of making a 1981-list, and then I got the idea of a 60's-list. But when RJhog wrote, that he liked every Jethro Tull-track he had heard lately, I though I would make this list anyway, so here it is. There are many great numbers, that are missing, but fx. "Aqualung" is allways on "Best of Jethro Tull"-lists (come to think of it, Have I ever seen such a list??), and these songs, are the ones that I like most, at the moment. Oh, there's a LITTLE more, than 10 songs on the list, but NOT 11 songs, because the last "song" is a 1/10 of the song "Thick as a brick", the whole number last about 40 minutes!! Sorry about that. Here we go:

1. Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day (from the album "War Child" 1974)

2. Witches Promise (from the compilation double-album "Living in the past" 1972)

3. Minstrel In The Gallery (from the album "Minstrel in the Gallery" 1975)

4. Songs From The Wood (from the album "Songs from the wood" 1977)

5. Life Is A Long Song (from "Living in the past" 1972)

6. Fat Man (from the album "Stand Up" 1969)

7. Love Story (From "Living in the past" 1972)

8. Hunting Girl (from "Songs from the wood")

9. One Brown Mouse (from the album "Heavy Horses" 1978)

10. Wond'ring Again (from the album "Aqualung" 1971 (this extended version is from

the compilation album "Living in the past")

(11.) (A snip of) Thick As A Brick (from the album "Thick as a brick" 1972)

If you want to listen, you can do it here.

 

[Mike Pell]

I think my favorite song by them is Living In The Past- which sometimes people accuse me of, lol!
I see 3 songs I have used in shows recently.
Nice selection, but many great ones are still out there by this band.
And check out their Christmas album, it is wonderful.
Mike

[Niels (Mod)]

I have'nt heard your shows recently (sorry), so I did'nt know that. I know the Christmas-song from "Living in the past", and that's one of my favorite christmas (Pop/Rock) songs.

[RJhog (Admin)]

I think this was okay. I told Mike Pell that everytime I hear a Jethro Tull song I like it. But it seems like 10-11 in a row don't work as well for me. It's kinda like Metallica, I like them, but I can't listen to them for very long. Go figure.

Like I said, it's okay, but nothing really jumped out at me. These were all pretty much new to me.

[Scott]

Ive never heard much of Jethro Tull, my brother always said "Locomotive Breath" was his favorite. I only remember it because the song title is so funny. And there's "Bungle In The Jungle" which charted pretty high in the early to mid seventies. That's a good tune, and of course the venerable "Aqualung". There, Ive just given you my entire Jethro Tull knowledge

I really liked the first song, but then things started to sound similar and the songs ran into each. Maybe we could come up with parody of song 5 in Niels list called "Jethro Tull's Catalog is a long song". Sorry, that's what came to mind by the time I got to it...

[Niels (Mod)]

Scott, tell me the truth: Did you listen to the WHOLE song-list, or did you just listen to 1 minute or something of each song after the first one? How can you say, that "One Browne Mouse" and "Minstrel In The Gallery" are similar? The latter ROCKS, after a slow start.

"Jethro Tull's Catalog is a long song"!!?? Ha ha ha.....No way!!

I like Jethro Tull the most, when they are "arcustic", or somthing like that, and that may have effected the list. There are a lot great JT-songs, that rocks.

[Scott]

For the most part I did play whole songs, but I'm agreeing with RJHog in a way. Maybe if I were to play each song individually with a some time between tunes, I would definitely like them. I didn't hear anything bad.

I think when strung together they do sort of run into each other, but as a an individual track, there really quite good.

Make sense?

[Niels (Mod)]

Yeah, allright, then.

Jethro Tull is one of those bands, that I sometimes get tired off in a longer periode, and then suddently, there's a periode where I listen to all their records a few times, or all those, that I've got, anyway.

Maybe it's like, when you don't really know a band's material, it CAN be "hard" to listen to some other fellow's best off list. It's easier to listen to a list of different artists, I guess.

Oh, well, you can't please everyone, all the time.

[Mike Pell]

Hey RJ, that Metallica thing happened to me on that Halloween 2007 show I did.
Too many harsh sounds in a row, lol!
Mike

[Mike Pell]

Scott, Aqualung was my first real crazed air guitar song!
I remember one time I was tending bar, it was late, no one was in the place except me.
And I was more than half-loaded, sitting on the customer side listening to a tape I had brought in.
Even then I was doing Theme things, and on the tape were Jungle songs.
Played Bungle In The Jungle, and it was that one, or Steve Miller's Jungle Love that has someone whistle in it.
Scared the shit out of me, lol!
I thought someone was in the bar, and I wasn't alone.
Looked all over the place...in the bathrooms, downstairs, etc.
Finally it occurred to me to rewind & replay the tape and there it was- what a realistic whistle...or what a drunken sod I was, lol!
I'll never forget it.
Thought the joint was haunted.
Took the tape, locked up and went home!
Mike

[Jon]

Nothing from " The Broadsword And The Beast"?


And nothing from the grammy winning hard rock/heavy metal album of 1987? You saying the grammy voters don't know what they're talking about???

[RJhog (Admin)]

Funny, I thought about that 1987 thing too.

[Niels (Mod)]

Everything Jethro Tull did after 1979, I don't really like. IMHO they topped with the double live-album "Bursting Out" from, yes, 1979.

I remember that Grammy-show too. What a joke!!