Can’t see anything to disagree with here. One of my top three groups if you include Yes and ELP. I like others but these are on top.
Ian has said many times in different interviews that “Stand Up” is his favorite Tull album.
One of my favorite tracks on it is “We Used to Know”; I just love listening to the acoustic guitar (that can be somewhat difficult to separate out). I gotta buy the Steve Wilson re-mix of that album.
Hmmm. I have that in today’s stack of LPs to listen to once I finish the house chores. I bought this album when it came out in 1969 (I was in 8th grade). I’m on replacement album #5 or 6 by now. The very best of an outstanding catalog of music.
Songs From the Woods is their best album, this is the hill I will die on.
It’s hard to argue with that choice. The line-up of the band from ’76 to ’79 was the best incarnation of Tull (RIP John Glascock), and the three albums they put out during their “rural” era of “Songs From the Woods”, “Heavy Horses”, and “Stormwatch” I regard as their Fall, Summer and Winter albums, respectively, and listen to them on a regular basis.
If you don’t already have a copy get the box-set of “Songs” with the original recordings plus the Steve Wilson re-mix, and check out the difference. It’s not as startling as the re-mix of “Aqualung” (which is stellar) but still an incredible improvement even over (don’t hit me) the original LP.
I just bought a new amp with a dedicated “direct from CD to D-to-A converter” connection that by-passes all of the tone controls along with a new CD player that has direct digital output, and that also makes a slight difference. My old amp was losing one channel, dang it, but the new one sounds even better. Even my wife loves the new system since we don’t have to use the butter knife sitting on top of the stereo rack to open the CD drawer anymore.
I would consider either Benefit or Minstrel in the Gallery above Stand Up.
The problem in trying to decide which Tull album is the best is that it’s akin to deciding which of your children is your favorite.
I have all of them on CD, of course, so I guess I’ll just have to listen to them in chronological order to help me respond to the above.
It’s been a while since I did that anyway, so it’s probably time…
The electric flute was always a draw.
Can’t see anything to disagree with here. One of my top three groups if you include Yes and ELP. I like others but these are on top.
Ian has said many times in different interviews that “Stand Up” is his favorite Tull album.
One of my favorite tracks on it is “We Used to Know”; I just love listening to the acoustic guitar (that can be somewhat difficult to separate out). I gotta buy the Steve Wilson re-mix of that album.
Hmmm. I have that in today’s stack of LPs to listen to once I finish the house chores. I bought this album when it came out in 1969 (I was in 8th grade). I’m on replacement album #5 or 6 by now. The very best of an outstanding catalog of music.
Songs From the Woods is their best album, this is the hill I will die on.
It’s hard to argue with that choice. The line-up of the band from ’76 to ’79 was the best incarnation of Tull (RIP John Glascock), and the three albums they put out during their “rural” era of “Songs From the Woods”, “Heavy Horses”, and “Stormwatch” I regard as their Fall, Summer and Winter albums, respectively, and listen to them on a regular basis.
If you don’t already have a copy get the box-set of “Songs” with the original recordings plus the Steve Wilson re-mix, and check out the difference. It’s not as startling as the re-mix of “Aqualung” (which is stellar) but still an incredible improvement even over (don’t hit me) the original LP.
I just bought a new amp with a dedicated “direct from CD to D-to-A converter” connection that by-passes all of the tone controls along with a new CD player that has direct digital output, and that also makes a slight difference. My old amp was losing one channel, dang it, but the new one sounds even better. Even my wife loves the new system since we don’t have to use the butter knife sitting on top of the stereo rack to open the CD drawer anymore.
I would consider either Benefit or Minstrel in the Gallery above Stand Up.
The problem in trying to decide which Tull album is the best is that it’s akin to deciding which of your children is your favorite.
I have all of them on CD, of course, so I guess I’ll just have to listen to them in chronological order to help me respond to the above.
It’s been a while since I did that anyway, so it’s probably time…