Ah, those were the days.Originally Posted by thedunno
Ah, those were the days.
Some of the others are on the Stand Up and Benefit Wilson remix sets.
Anyone else that - being a complete traitor to the Prog - his love for Tull has diminished with time? Don't get me wrong, I still appreciate them as hell, but playing their records would have me snor in a second. Maybe overplaying them when young has taken its toll. Only pre-Aqualung stuff would hit my turntable nowadays, not that I consider them their best, but for some reason only these records would catch my interest.
Nope.
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On the contrary my friend, Ian's music gets better and better with age imo. His melodies are some of the most beautiful in all of progdom, and compared the other Big "five" or whatever, the sheer diversity of the albums and brilliant arrangements puts Tull at the top of the heap for me. This is some of the finest music I have ever heard in prog/rock.
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yes it is, no doubt about that. I just find it so difficult to put myself to listen to it, and this goes on for quite a while now. As I said, maybe overplaying, I could recite Passion Play verse by verse.
And this has happened to me with other great bands like Camel or even Genesis. The only one that still keeps me a hostage is Yes. I am a Yes junkie. I can never say no to Yes.
But maybe it's time to go back to Tull again. Cheers.
I could never say Null to Tull!
While Tull never surpassed Genesis for me personally, I completely agree that Ian's music is brilliant and he/they made some of the very best music ever in rock (prog or not-prog). I don't think I'll ever get tired of hearing Thick As A Brick. That's a desert island disc for me.
The same thing kinda happened with me, for Pink Floyd. Heard so many of their big songs on the radio all my life that I feel I never need to hear "Money" or "Young Lust" ever again. And then when my younger brother got into them and played their albums so much, I got kinda burned out on them even further.
Animals is a cracking great album though. My favorite PF by far. That one cannot be overplayed, as far as I"m concerned.
Good one!
I'm with you. I absolutely love everything before Minstrel In The Gallery, some of the finest music ever made, but outside of that and Walk Into Light/Under Wraps, I don't listen to any other Tull.
"Always ready with the ray of sunshine"
Just picked up a UK CD of Living In The Past today, at our Salvation Army store. Different track listing than US.
1 Song For Jeffrey
2 Love Story
3 Christmas Song
4 Living In The Past
5 Driving Song
6 Sweet Dream
7 Singing All Day
8 Witches Promise
9 Inside
10 Just Trying To Be
11 By Kind Permission Of
12 Dharma For One
13 Wond'ring Again
14 Locomotive Breath
15 Life Is A Long Song
16 Up The 'Pool
17 Dr. Bogenbroom
18 For Later
19 Nursie
1 Song For Jeffery
2 Love Story
3 Christmas Song
4 Living In The Past
5 Driving Song
6 Sweet Dream
7 Singing All Day
8 Witches Promise
9 Inside
10 Alive And Well And Living In
11 Just Trying To Be
12 By Kind Permission Of
13 Dharma For One
14 Wond'ring Again
15 Hymn 43
16 Life Is A Long Song
17 Up The 'Pool
18 Dr. Bogenbroom
19 For Later
20 Nursie
"Always ready with the ray of sunshine"
^'Alive And Well...' is the track which was removed from the US Benefit, replaced by 'Teacher'. Hence why the former is on the US version of LITP.
The exclusion of 'Teacher' from the UK CD of LITP made no sense, though.
As for above posts, I have always struggled with a few of their 70s albums. For instance I tried Too Old... again the other day to no avail. I recognise the craft and hard work put into the albums so I can't exactly dismiss them, but there's something I don't connect with.
"Just Trying to be" is a short but total gem
When my wife graduated with an RN degree, she finished first in her class and during her speech she recited "Nursie" on stage.... My eyes weren't exactly dry.
No CD version can replace that great original hard back cover version on vinyl. Love it!
Wasn't Teacher on the original vinyl?
I picked up the original vinyl a decade ago at a second hair store. Teacher is definitely there.
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Trivia. The Strawberry Bricks poster from 1992 used the marbling of the inside cover of the LITP as its background. The vinyl grooves of the Revised and Expanded edition of the book are from Minstrel In The Gallery LP.
"Always ready with the ray of sunshine"
Yes, "Teacher" (the US album version) was on both the US and UK editions of the LP. On the US release, it was identified as the representative track from Benefit, and "Alive and Well and Living In" was included as a previously unreleased track. For the UK market, "Inside" was included as the representative track from Benefit, and "Teacher" was the previously unreleased track.
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^'Teacher' was not unreleased in the UK, it was the B side of 'The Witch's Promise'. The version on the UK single was different to the LITP album, however. The UK single version was only on that 20th Anniversary box for many years, although it was on Steven Wilson's Benefit remix, I think. IMHO that UK single version sounds unfinished, but an interesting curio.
The version in question was. And the song itself was previously unreleased on album in the UK, like the other single tracks included.
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The remixed albums with even more new gems increase the gap on Tull and the second best ever band
OK, a very underrated tune in the Ian Can(n)on: "Lost in Crowds" from Rupi's Dance. Shit, its really really nice even if its his 2003 voice....beautiful tune with a fantastic arrangement. Also been spinning "With you there to help me" a gazillion times....love it.
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
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