my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
March The Mad Scientist - from War Child sessions, issued as a bonus track on MITG CD.
Rock Island/ The Whaler's Dues
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Album - War Child
Song - too many!
High Vibration Go On - R.I.P. Chris Squire
Crazed Institution is a fine choice for most "underrated"!
Since you mentioned the Benefit & Roots To Branches albums, i'll choose "Nothing To Say" as my *most underrated Tull track*. Here's why: I don't think Nothing To Say was ever performed live during the 1970s/1980s? (If it was i wasn't aware of it.) The ONLY live version i'm aware of Nothing To Say was on the very first show of the Roots To Branches tour in 1995 in Carlisle, England; where it was subsequently dropped after that first show for the rest of the tour (and beyond?)! Ian even gave a nice little intro that night saying that it was one of Martin's favorite songs (underrated indeed, just like Martin himself), but that he didn't like singing it/had trouble singing it.
"Wouldn't it be odd, if there really was a God, and he looked down on Earth and saw what we've done to her?" -- Adrian Belew ('Men In Helicopters')
Boy, I don't know. I do remember being shocked at how good Roots to Brances was (and is!) after the horrible Catfish Rising (IMHO!). Most people on this board, though seem to rate it well so I don't think it's underrated. I'd have to say Too Old To Rock and Roll is the most underrated album. It's really a nice album!
Since it baffles me that most folks seem to prefer TAAB over Passion Play, I'll say Passiion Play is the most underratted track! I know that's kind of cheating, since it's all one track, right? To me, there is much more musical flesh on Passion Play than on the rather sparse themes that get over used on TAAB.
I do think that in a very real sense, This Was is underrated. Certainly around here, pretty much all Tull gets its due and TW is probably the album that is most overlooked that would really be enjoyed by fans. It's that way for me- I ignored it for years because it was just that early blues album they did with that other guy, and although I would never rank it with all that followed it is very enjoyable.
The thing I like most about This Was is that despite the band being so green, they had a terrific energy, and the album showed such promise for what was very quickly to come! I think of all the big classic prog bands, Tull's debut is my favourite.
Ian Beabout
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Like others, I'd agree with Benefit as their most underrated album. There are several songs on Crest of a Knave that I find brilliant and never talked about like The Waking Edge and She Said She Was a Dancer, to name a few.
Rick
I'm comfortable with agreeing that the entire discography is underrated. Who's with me?
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I don't think there's a classic-rock radio listener in America who could call AQUALUNG underrrated!
High Vibration Go On - R.I.P. Chris Squire
Stormwatch has a lot of classic Tull elements.
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
North Sea Oil (Stormwatch)
Heavy Horses
LP: This Was
track: Love Story
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
War Child certainly was not underrated with a Skating Away, and Bungle in the Jungle getting much airplay here in the US, Stormwatch by comparison was indeed underrated, my choice for overlooked song is Elegy from Stormwatch, and Dun Ringill.
Album: Too Old to Rock And Roll...
Song: Checkered Flag (Dead or Alive)
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