Minstrel in The Gallery - last really great Jethro Tull album ?

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  1. tootull

    tootull Looking through a glass onion

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    I don't mind this Japan for UK CCD 1082 CD. Note the red title.
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  2. tootull

    tootull Looking through a glass onion

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    Too busy...:shh: the old multi-task. This is my favourite Tull album. The one I would not like to be without.
     
  3. tagomago

    tagomago Original Wrapper

    is there a version without the annoying hiss? (not tape hiss, but you know what I mean)
     
  4. Robobrewer

    Robobrewer Forum Resident

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    If I had to pick one Tull CD for Steve to remaster it would be this one as well.:righton:
     
  5. Plan9

    Plan9 Mastering Engineer

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    Yes, it is the one that doesn't sound totally satisfying in any existing version.
     
  6. PROGGER

    PROGGER Forum Resident

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    Minstrel is one of the most overrated prog albums up there with In the court of the crimson king, Nursery cryme imo. I love Tull in 1977, 78, 79, 80 and even 82 though. Songs from the wood and Heavy horses are strong. Stormwatch is reasonably good, but the remaster very good and A is cool
     
  7. zen

    zen Senior Member

    Minstrel in The Gallery - last really great Jethro Tull album ?

    Definitely not.





    Agreed.
     
  8. yesstiles

    yesstiles Senior Member

    Minstrel in The Gallery - last really great Jethro Tull album?

    Yes
     
  9. johnny 99

    johnny 99 Down On Main Street

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    No.

    Songs From The Wood (last great one)
    Crest Of A Knave (last good one)
     
  10. PROGGER

    PROGGER Forum Resident

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    I reckon 1975 is at the bottom in regards to tulls 70s studio output. I even prefer 1976.

    1976 has some pretty cool tunes:

    strip cartoon
    pied piper
    chequered flag
    salamander

    My fave songs from 1975 are:

    summerday sands
    one white duck

    The other songs are good but they just don't excite me enough. I guess Baker st muse is fairly good although it's no TAAB. Ian became more of a strummer in 1975 but his finger work is what made tull awesome in all the other years. The heavy stuff lacks that deep bass sound and Ians deep vocals. The drums and keys are not beefy enough. Valhalla sounds like the record keeps jumping and spinning in the same groove. I like it but Barriemore keeps playing the same thing. The title song is good but it sounds a bit like a glamour rock tune, almost Kiss like
     
  11. PROGGER

    PROGGER Forum Resident

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    Here's my rankings of the 70s years:

    All these years are very good

    1-1971-about 20 songs, although Side 2 Aqualung not my style
    2-1972-TAAB
    3-1978-Horses, 2 bonus tracks, 1 outtake(blues instrumental)
    4-1970-Benefit, teacher, witches promise, trying to be
    5-1974-about 20 songs, although Side 2 Warchild too poppy
    6-1979-Stormwatch, 4 bonus tracks
    7-1977-Songs from the wood, 1 bonus track
    8-1973-APP, chateau

    These years are ok

    9-1976-Too old to RnR, 2 bonus tracks
    10-1975-Minstrel, 2 bonus tracks
     
  12. mozz

    mozz Forum Resident

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    Many of us consider "Heavy Horses" a great album too.

    Rafael
     
  13. dphilippov

    dphilippov Forum Resident

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    No.
    Stormwatch for me.
    And Broadsword is the last good one.
     
  14. Barnabas Collins

    Barnabas Collins Senior Member

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    I think "Heavy Horses" is the last truly great Tull album. Many albums after that have some excellent material, but nothing was as consistent as what came before, IMO. Once John Glascock died, it seems that part of the band's spirit went with him somehow.

    I've never quite understood the hype surrounding "Crest of a Knave" myself as far as it being a comeback album. It's a decent enough 80s Tull album, but I think "Broadsword and the Beast" and even the maligned "Rock Island" are just as solid.
     
  15. PROGGER

    PROGGER Forum Resident

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    Interesting. My fave songs from dot com are:

    awol
    wicked windows
    it all trickles down
    dotcom
    far alaska
    the dog ear years

    That's almost the complete opposite :D
    I love the tull 70s and early 80s feel to these songs. It's tull proggiest stuff since A. Nino, Willow, Numbers, Roses are all good but they are a bit commercial :cool:
     
  16. Carserguev

    Carserguev Forum Resident

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    It's odd for me to read so much contempt towards Minstrel... It's my favourite Tull album by far, together with Heavy Horses... I can't decide which I love more... Baker St. Muse, Weathercock, Heavy Horses (the song), Minstrel (the song), etc...
    Stormwatch is also awesome... Orion, Dark Ages, Something's on The Move, etc... Brrr, a classic; pity Anderson's bass playing is just not very good...

    I generally love all of Tull's album until A, which I dislike despite the marvelous and exemplary bass playing by Peggy, but it at least boasts one bona fide masterpiece: Black Sunday...

    Broadsword is great also, although the synths were a bad omen...

    Since then, it's been hit and miss, and Ian's voice is the main problem. I still love Rock Island to pieces, the best thing they've done since B and the Beast. If they'd just left off Kissing Willie and the two horrible tracks with Anderson playing his goddamned drum machine... Sorry, I'm in a filthy mood today...
     
  17. drewslo

    drewslo Forum Resident

    I'll go with "Songs From The Wood" as the last great essential Tull album but there is a lot to like after that.
     
  18. rburly

    rburly Sitting comfortably with Item 9

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    Songs From the Wood was the last Tull album I bought and I would agree it was agree based on the fact that there wasn't enough airplay of any of their later albums that made me want to buy any albums past SFTW.
     
  19. puffyrock2

    puffyrock2 Forum Resident

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    Last really great Tull album to me is "Stormwatch".
     
  20. tootull

    tootull Looking through a glass onion

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    I love It All Trickles Down. Dot Com is a pretty cool album to me, I just don't like anything with Mango in the title.
    video: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=6621283&postcount=3
    Commercial Tull, why not? :winkgrin:
    :cheers:
     
  21. ibis

    ibis Happy as fish and gorgeous as geese

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    Any studio album after Heavy Horses is where my interest in Tull wears thin.
     
  22. shokhead

    shokhead Head shok and you still don't what it is. HA!

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    A powerless War Child and that's where I left off.
     
  23. tootull

    tootull Looking through a glass onion

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    I'll say hardly to this and I'll leave it like that.
     
  24. shokhead

    shokhead Head shok and you still don't what it is. HA!

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    It just fell flat for me.
     
  25. tootull

    tootull Looking through a glass onion

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