Super stories... Subscribed. My top 13... 1. A Passion Play 2. Aqualung 3. Minstrel In The Gallery 4. Thick As A Brick 5. Songs From The Woods 6. Benefit 7. Heavy Horses 8. Stand Up 9. War Child 10. Crest Of A Knave 11. Stormwatch 12. A 13. Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll Living in the Past fits between Heavy Horses and Stand Up.
Fun analysis! One comment: that is without a doubt Ian Anderson on the cover of Songs From the Wood. You can even see his bent right pinky (a deformity from birth) You can see another photo from that shoot here: www.loudersound.com/features/lets-party-like-its-1399-the-story-behind-jethro-tulls-songs-from-the-wood In the book set special edition of Songs From the Wood, Ian talks about the picture. It was a photograph that was touched up by a painter to look like a painting, which makes his face look a bit different. He had intended for the back cover picture (the tree stump record player) to be the front cover, but wasn't satisfied with how it came out.
Hate to disagree, but there were a couple of things you guys got wrong...that is Ian Anderson on the cover of Songs From The Wood, John Glascock was not a painter, he actually had serious health issues and passed away. Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond quit music to become a painter.
1. Songs From The Wood 2. Aqualung 3. Heavy Horses 4. Thick as a Brick 5. War Child 6. Stormwatch 7. Minstrel In The Gallery 8. The Broadsword and The Beast 9. A 10. Benefit 11. A Passion Play 12. The Zealot Gene 13. Roots to Branches 14. Stand Up 15. Rock Island 16. Crest of a Knave 17. The JT Christmas Album 18. Catfish Rising 19. Too Old to Rock and Roll: Too Young to Die 20. This Was 21. J-Tull Dot Com 22. Under Wraps
#1..Zealot Gene #2..Minstrel in the Gallery. #3.. Benefit #4..Aqualung #5..Stand Up #6..Storm Watch #7..Thick as a Brick #8..Passion Play #9..Songs From the Wood #10..Heavy Horses #11..Bursting Out #12..Roots to Branches 13..War Child #14..Rock Island 15..Broard Sword & the Beast #14..Too Old To Rock and Roll #15..Homo Eraticus #16..TaaB 2 #17..Rupis Dance #18..Crest of a Knave #19..Christmas Album 20..J-Tull.Com #21..Catfish Rising #22..Living in the Past #23..Secret Language of Bird 24..A 25..Under Wraps This is how it stands right now but the later ones could be switched around, and I probably will in a few days, but for the most part this is my list of favorite Tull albums in order. Roots to Branches probably should be moved up to number 5 or 6. So should Living in the Past.
I have similar tastes. A Passion Play is my favorite album of all time. Thick As a Brick is my second favorite. Warchild did have progressive elements though. It was unclassifiable. It's my third favorite Tull album.
Correction guys: John Glascock died due to a pacemaker not working out to well, in conjunction with his partying. Bass Player Jeffry Hamond is the one who became a painter. My favorite track of Tull's of all time is Velvet green from Songs from the wood. I'd say that album for me is their best work. They were really at their peak then musically.
Some things you're saying are not exactly right they're close but not exactly right for instance Martin Barr didn't say that Ian Anderson told him that if he didn't get the solo right in two takes that it would become a flute solo. Martin said that jokingly to express the pressure he was under when doing a solo. I only say this because people falsely try to make Ian seem hard to get along with, which is not true.
I love the enthusiasm and agree with most of what you say. Please do not write off the later stuff... There are moments of genius. It is very easy to to look back at the "classic era" of JT and others... obviously not of their ilk... no one is. But there is a danger of accepting what was revolutionary (musically, lyrically and performance wise...for FS a Codpiece 🙄🤔) And becoming two Victorian type gentlemen in smoking jackets and smoking caps (yes.,. like Martin Barre on Heavy Horses...my first introduction to the band . So will always be in a mythical top three.) Discussing the merits of Beethovenn and Brahms.
