#jethro-tull — Public Fediverse posts

This is a band, one of very few, that I just love unconditionally, with full awareness of its many faults and failures. Deep Purple is another one, maybe King Crimson. I enjoy hearing the lesser album, studying their contexts and getting the occasional new perspectives on them.

And it's not the first one that I've been somewhat negative on. I thought 1979's Stormwatch was weak as well.

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This is a band, one of very few, that I just love unconditionally, with full awareness of its many faults and failures. Deep Purple is another one, maybe King Crimson. I enjoy hearing the lesser album, studying their contexts and getting the occasional new perspectives on them.

And it's not the first one that I've been somewhat negative on. I thought 1979's Stormwatch was weak as well.

#JethroTull

This is a band, one of very few, that I just love unconditionally, with full awareness of its many faults and failures. Deep Purple is another one, maybe King Crimson. I enjoy hearing the lesser album, studying their contexts and getting the occasional new perspectives on them.

And it's not the first one that I've been somewhat negative on. I thought 1979's Stormwatch was weak as well.

#JethroTull

This is a band, one of very few, that I just love unconditionally, with full awareness of its many faults and failures. Deep Purple is another one, maybe King Crimson. I enjoy hearing the lesser album, studying their contexts and getting the occasional new perspectives on them.

And it's not the first one that I've been somewhat negative on. I thought 1979's Stormwatch was weak as well.

#JethroTull

I can't say that there's much here that I'd re-evaluate based on a first listen to the remix. It's a competent, but very safe record and I'd still rank it near the bottom of my personal ranking. Yet I don't regret purchasing this version…

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I can't say that there's much here that I'd re-evaluate based on a first listen to the remix. It's a competent, but very safe record and I'd still rank it near the bottom of my personal ranking. Yet I don't regret purchasing this version…

#JethroTull

I can't say that there's much here that I'd re-evaluate based on a first listen to the remix. It's a competent, but very safe record and I'd still rank it near the bottom of my personal ranking. Yet I don't regret purchasing this version…

#JethroTull

I can't say that there's much here that I'd re-evaluate based on a first listen to the remix. It's a competent, but very safe record and I'd still rank it near the bottom of my personal ranking. Yet I don't regret purchasing this version…

#JethroTull

7. "Stigmata" takes a few queues from 1960s psychedelic rock but then also settles into a too-familiar pattern.

The record ends with the remix of "Secret Language of Birds", now with more birds. A better song than anything on the actual Tull album. As it happens, the whole Secret Language of Birds album was better than this.

#JethroTull

7. "Stigmata" takes a few queues from 1960s psychedelic rock but then also settles into a too-familiar pattern.

The record ends with the remix of "Secret Language of Birds", now with more birds. A better song than anything on the actual Tull album. As it happens, the whole Secret Language of Birds album was better than this.

#JethroTull

7. "Stigmata" takes a few queues from 1960s psychedelic rock but then also settles into a too-familiar pattern.

The record ends with the remix of "Secret Language of Birds", now with more birds. A better song than anything on the actual Tull album. As it happens, the whole Secret Language of Birds album was better than this.

#JethroTull

7. "Stigmata" takes a few queues from 1960s psychedelic rock but then also settles into a too-familiar pattern.

The record ends with the remix of "Secret Language of Birds", now with more birds. A better song than anything on the actual Tull album. As it happens, the whole Secret Language of Birds album was better than this.

#JethroTull

Good track. String section is a little more audible in the new mix.

"Recollection no. 5" is unfamiliar to me. Maybe it's finished? It sounds finished. And rather good.

Nope, it's not finished. There's no lyrics and I don't think this was intended as an instrumental. Lemme go look in the book…

Nope again, the book doesn't have a lot to say about this other than that it is an instrumental.

#JethroTull

Good track. String section is a little more audible in the new mix.

"Recollection no. 5" is unfamiliar to me. Maybe it's finished? It sounds finished. And rather good.

Nope, it's not finished. There's no lyrics and I don't think this was intended as an instrumental. Lemme go look in the book…

Nope again, the book doesn't have a lot to say about this other than that it is an instrumental.

#JethroTull

Good track. String section is a little more audible in the new mix.

"Recollection no. 5" is unfamiliar to me. Maybe it's finished? It sounds finished. And rather good.

Nope, it's not finished. There's no lyrics and I don't think this was intended as an instrumental. Lemme go look in the book…

Nope again, the book doesn't have a lot to say about this other than that it is an instrumental.

#JethroTull

Good track. String section is a little more audible in the new mix.

"Recollection no. 5" is unfamiliar to me. Maybe it's finished? It sounds finished. And rather good.

Nope, it's not finished. There's no lyrics and I don't think this was intended as an instrumental. Lemme go look in the book…

Nope again, the book doesn't have a lot to say about this other than that it is an instrumental.

#JethroTull

So the first bonus track is apparently an aborted soliloquy. More spoken word, I guess? That IA decided not to use?
Nope, it's an instrumental. A little unfinished sounding with keyboard sounds in particular that I hope were just placeholders for the real parts to be recorded later.
It is, however, aborted, in the sense that it just stops before it develops.

Dot Com Acoustic also sounds like a demo, but works better, because it's just guitar and vocals.

#JethroTull

So the first bonus track is apparently an aborted soliloquy. More spoken word, I guess? That IA decided not to use?
Nope, it's an instrumental. A little unfinished sounding with keyboard sounds in particular that I hope were just placeholders for the real parts to be recorded later.
It is, however, aborted, in the sense that it just stops before it develops.

Dot Com Acoustic also sounds like a demo, but works better, because it's just guitar and vocals.

#JethroTull

So the first bonus track is apparently an aborted soliloquy. More spoken word, I guess? That IA decided not to use?
Nope, it's an instrumental. A little unfinished sounding with keyboard sounds in particular that I hope were just placeholders for the real parts to be recorded later.
It is, however, aborted, in the sense that it just stops before it develops.

Dot Com Acoustic also sounds like a demo, but works better, because it's just guitar and vocals.

#JethroTull

So the first bonus track is apparently an aborted soliloquy. More spoken word, I guess? That IA decided not to use?
Nope, it's an instrumental. A little unfinished sounding with keyboard sounds in particular that I hope were just placeholders for the real parts to be recorded later.
It is, however, aborted, in the sense that it just stops before it develops.

Dot Com Acoustic also sounds like a demo, but works better, because it's just guitar and vocals.

#JethroTull

Honestly, it's just a few clunky lines in the lyrics that make me dislike it. Musically it's fine and the sentiment is relatable. So… maybe not that bad?

The album ends with "A Gift of Roses", which, unfairly, makes me think of the Dutch singer Jantje Koopmans from back in the day. It's a sweet love letter to Anderson's wife, I guess?

A decent song, but nothing essential.

#JethroTull

Honestly, it's just a few clunky lines in the lyrics that make me dislike it. Musically it's fine and the sentiment is relatable. So… maybe not that bad?

The album ends with "A Gift of Roses", which, unfairly, makes me think of the Dutch singer Jantje Koopmans from back in the day. It's a sweet love letter to Anderson's wife, I guess?

A decent song, but nothing essential.

#JethroTull

Honestly, it's just a few clunky lines in the lyrics that make me dislike it. Musically it's fine and the sentiment is relatable. So… maybe not that bad?

The album ends with "A Gift of Roses", which, unfairly, makes me think of the Dutch singer Jantje Koopmans from back in the day. It's a sweet love letter to Anderson's wife, I guess?

A decent song, but nothing essential.

#JethroTull

Honestly, it's just a few clunky lines in the lyrics that make me dislike it. Musically it's fine and the sentiment is relatable. So… maybe not that bad?

The album ends with "A Gift of Roses", which, unfairly, makes me think of the Dutch singer Jantje Koopmans from back in the day. It's a sweet love letter to Anderson's wife, I guess?

A decent song, but nothing essential.

#JethroTull

At this point it's becoming a bit of a slog to listen to this. Even Under Wraps sagged a little from "Paparazzi" onwards but this gets kind of exhausting. And it's now that we get to the actual worst song on J-Tull Dot.Com, the maudlin "The Dog-Ear Years".
As a piece of songwriting, it's technically more accomplished than "Hot Mango Flush" but I can't get over how dreary it is.
That being said, now that I'm older myself, I can relate to it more.

#JethroTull

At this point it's becoming a bit of a slog to listen to this. Even Under Wraps sagged a little from "Paparazzi" onwards but this gets kind of exhausting. And it's now that we get to the actual worst song on J-Tull Dot.Com, the maudlin "The Dog-Ear Years".
As a piece of songwriting, it's technically more accomplished than "Hot Mango Flush" but I can't get over how dreary it is.
That being said, now that I'm older myself, I can relate to it more.

#JethroTull