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had a bit of a nostalgic day on my day off, and replayed some old JT faves.

I still reckon this, though hardly typical, is their best track, (best album too.)

youtube.com/watch?v=EgO7MamJnqM&

Whenever I get to feel this way,
Try to find new words to say,
I think about the bad old days
We used to know.

Nights of winter turn me cold
Fears of dying, getting old.
We ran the race and the race was won
By running slowly.

Could be soon we'll cease to sound,
Slowly upstairs, faster down.
Then to revisit stony grounds,
We used to know.

Remembering mornings, shillings spent,
Made no sense to leave the bed.
The bad old days they came and went
Giving way to fruitful years.

Saving up the birds in hand
While in the bush the others land.
Take what we can before the man
Says it's time to go.

Each to his own way I'll go mine.
Best of luck in what you find.
But for your own sake remember times
We used to know.

In reply to Big Ger:

Oh my God, one of my all time favourite bands!

I'm gonna go obvious on this tonight...

1st Aqualung
2nd Locomotive Breath
3rd Living In The Past
4th The Minstrel In The Gallerey-ey
Joint 5th Minstrel in the Gallery, Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square, Hymn 43, Cold Wind to Valhalla, Jack-in-the-Green, Songs From The Wood and the Whistler. (phew)

1 and 2 are interchangeable or equal tops.

*This may well be different tomorrow

In reply to Big Ger:

Song For Jeffrey

In reply to Big Ger:

Album - Aqualung for me.
Track - Locomotive Breath.

But Thick as a Brick is classic.

(I'm leaving in an hour to travel to Calias, six hour drive across Germany and France, and I'll be playing TAAB along the way; much to my wife's annoyance. Followed by The Smith's. To address the balance she will be playing a lot of Phil Collins.)

In reply to Big Ger:

Heavy Horses. Love the whole album but the title track does it for me.

Cross Eyed Mary from Aqualung comes a close second.

In reply to Big Ger:

First large concert I ever went to was Tull at Wembley, part of the tour to promote Passion Play. Favourite track ? probably something from Heavy Horses although life is a long song might win depending on my mood.

In reply to Big Ger:

Good thread! From something like 1979 to 1986 I did no miss a single tour, often going to more than one concert.

My current list would be Wond´ring aloud, Velvet Green, Too Old to Rock´n Roll, Too Young to Die, Heavy Horses, Old Ghosts, Warchild from the LSO cooperation, Sweet Dreams, Aqualung, Pibroch/Cap in hand, ....

Actual favourites will change by the hour, though!

CB

In reply to Big Ger:

who's Jethro Tull?
Struggling to find his stuff on itunes to let me listen to it

In reply to Big Ger:
lost count of how many times I've seen Tull live, great live act.
Cross Eyed Mary is my fave. Also been covered and played live by quite a varied bunch of Metal bands.
I saw Iron Maiden play it at one concert, straight after 'doctor doctor'

In reply to Big Ger:

Too old to rock n roll, too young to die

In reply to Big Ger:

I really don't mind if I sit this one out......

In reply to Big Ger:

Just one? Heavens. Skating away.

But ask me tomorrow and you'll get a different answer. Baker street muse, possibly.

T.

In reply to Postmanpat:


My words but a whisper your deafness a SHOUT.
I may make you feel but I can't make you think.
Your sperm's in the gutter your love's in the sink.

In reply to Big Ger:

Witches Promise is a great track.

In reply to Big Ger:

Wond'ring aloud is a particular favourite too, one of Ian Anderson's occasional romantic numbers.

T.
Hell, where are the CD's...

In reply to Big Ger:
Living in the past!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethro_Tull_(agriculturist)

In reply to Big Ger:

For me it's got to be, Back to the family, although we used to know has got one of my favourites lines " each to their own way I'll go mine" which sort of sums me up 😃

In reply to Big Ger:
This performance, rates as my favourite "live" clip of them;

youtube.com/watch?v=-0GAuexrVzo&

(Love the hippy chick dancing in the background, them were the days!)

In reply to Big Ger:

That's off a great album and an amazing sleeve.......

In reply to graeme jackson:


Ditto. Songs from the Wood is a contender for me. One of the best live acts I've seen.

In reply to Removed User:


My mate André is the kid posing as Gerald Bostock. Where are you, André?

In reply to Big Ger:

Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow

In reply to Pursued by a bear:


Those three short acoustic cuts off Aqualung are all gorgeous.

In reply to Big Ger:
Anyone want to nominate a post Broadsword song? UnderWraps won awards, you know

Not me. My vote goes to Dun Ringill

In reply to toad:


Whilst they're not my favourite songs, I have time for Rare and Precious Chain and Roll Your Own. The first is, I think, about S+M and the second about female masturbation. Ian Anderson, you pervy beast.

Less salaciously, the acoustic version of Under Wraps is very good, particularly on the live album A Little Light Music.


Nice tune, nice spot too.

T.

In reply to toad:

Fylingdale Flyer from the "A" album (though that was some kind of weird IA solo)?

CB

In reply to cb294:
I think chronologically, A predates Broadsword, but it has a lot in common with his actual solo album, walk into light. Think it's the Peter John vitess synths. Now, that's an odd album. Like dire straits meets the pet shop boys.....

In reply to toad:

You are of course right. it just sounds the other way round, with Broadsword picking up on where the three folk rockish albums had left.

CB

In reply to toad:

If I recall the story correctly, A started off as an Ian Anderson solo album; the name of the album comes from how the tapes were marked in the recording studio, A for Anderson. It became a Jethro Tull album about half way through the recording process. That may explain the common ground between it and the Walk Into Light album which is, as you say, an odd piece.

T.

In reply to Big Ger:

The question left me speechless!