#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.

#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

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…

#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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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

We're now on track 12, "Far Alaska", and… look. Tull was taking more time between albums and tours after Anderson's injury in 1996 that led to a thrombosis incident that could have killed him. He had leisure time for the first time since 1973, so he did some vacation traveling and then wrote about it like it was 1973 and holidays abroad had just been invented. It's a whole thing on his solo albums from 2000 and 2004 as well.

#JethroTull

We're now on track 12, "Far Alaska", and… look. Tull was taking more time between albums and tours after Anderson's injury in 1996 that led to a thrombosis incident that could have killed him. He had leisure time for the first time since 1973, so he did some vacation traveling and then wrote about it like it was 1973 and holidays abroad had just been invented. It's a whole thing on his solo albums from 2000 and 2004 as well.

#JethroTull

We're now on track 12, "Far Alaska", and… look. Tull was taking more time between albums and tours after Anderson's injury in 1996 that led to a thrombosis incident that could have killed him. He had leisure time for the first time since 1973, so he did some vacation traveling and then wrote about it like it was 1973 and holidays abroad had just been invented. It's a whole thing on his solo albums from 2000 and 2004 as well.

#JethroTull

We're now on track 12, "Far Alaska", and… look. Tull was taking more time between albums and tours after Anderson's injury in 1996 that led to a thrombosis incident that could have killed him. He had leisure time for the first time since 1973, so he did some vacation traveling and then wrote about it like it was 1973 and holidays abroad had just been invented. It's a whole thing on his solo albums from 2000 and 2004 as well.

#JethroTull

Remix highlights Noyce's supportive bass work, somewhat at the expense of the lead guitar, parts of which seem to be missing?

Track 9 "Black Mambe" is kind of unremarkable. It just sits there being kind of OK.

Oh hey, where did that extra percussion come from?

Track 10, Mango Surprise, is a reprise, of a sort, of Hot Mango Flush. Or is it? It's a bit of a jumble of leftover stuff. I don't know what it's doing here.

#JethroTull

Remix highlights Noyce's supportive bass work, somewhat at the expense of the lead guitar, parts of which seem to be missing?

Track 9 "Black Mambe" is kind of unremarkable. It just sits there being kind of OK.

Oh hey, where did that extra percussion come from?

Track 10, Mango Surprise, is a reprise, of a sort, of Hot Mango Flush. Or is it? It's a bit of a jumble of leftover stuff. I don't know what it's doing here.

#JethroTull

Remix highlights Noyce's supportive bass work, somewhat at the expense of the lead guitar, parts of which seem to be missing?

Track 9 "Black Mambe" is kind of unremarkable. It just sits there being kind of OK.

Oh hey, where did that extra percussion come from?

Track 10, Mango Surprise, is a reprise, of a sort, of Hot Mango Flush. Or is it? It's a bit of a jumble of leftover stuff. I don't know what it's doing here.

#JethroTull

Remix highlights Noyce's supportive bass work, somewhat at the expense of the lead guitar, parts of which seem to be missing?

Track 9 "Black Mambe" is kind of unremarkable. It just sits there being kind of OK.

Oh hey, where did that extra percussion come from?

Track 10, Mango Surprise, is a reprise, of a sort, of Hot Mango Flush. Or is it? It's a bit of a jumble of leftover stuff. I don't know what it's doing here.

#JethroTull

None of this makes it a bad song! In fact, I still think it's one of the best on the record. But still. Choices were made. Other, better choices could have been made.
A problematic fave, then.

"Hunt By Numbers" is a chugging, riffy, Deep Purple-like song about cats, in a kind of Anglo-Saxon half-line voice. I should love this. I don't. It doesn't work with Ian Anderson's 1999 voice.
The remix does its best to fix this problem but only gets halfway there.
#JethroTull

None of this makes it a bad song! In fact, I still think it's one of the best on the record. But still. Choices were made. Other, better choices could have been made.
A problematic fave, then.

"Hunt By Numbers" is a chugging, riffy, Deep Purple-like song about cats, in a kind of Anglo-Saxon half-line voice. I should love this. I don't. It doesn't work with Ian Anderson's 1999 voice.
The remix does its best to fix this problem but only gets halfway there.
#JethroTull

None of this makes it a bad song! In fact, I still think it's one of the best on the record. But still. Choices were made. Other, better choices could have been made.
A problematic fave, then.

"Hunt By Numbers" is a chugging, riffy, Deep Purple-like song about cats, in a kind of Anglo-Saxon half-line voice. I should love this. I don't. It doesn't work with Ian Anderson's 1999 voice.
The remix does its best to fix this problem but only gets halfway there.
#JethroTull

None of this makes it a bad song! In fact, I still think it's one of the best on the record. But still. Choices were made. Other, better choices could have been made.
A problematic fave, then.

"Hunt By Numbers" is a chugging, riffy, Deep Purple-like song about cats, in a kind of Anglo-Saxon half-line voice. I should love this. I don't. It doesn't work with Ian Anderson's 1999 voice.
The remix does its best to fix this problem but only gets halfway there.
#JethroTull

For an album I don't like, I can remember the words pretty well. I like what Soord has done with the synth tones.And he's left some parts in that I don't think were there.
AWOL wasn't my favorite at the time, but hearing it again in the new mix, it's not bad.
Then again, it's still not a standout. A bit lumbering. They've done this befrore, often and better.

#JethroTull

For an album I don't like, I can remember the words pretty well. I like what Soord has done with the synth tones.And he's left some parts in that I don't think were there.
AWOL wasn't my favorite at the time, but hearing it again in the new mix, it's not bad.
Then again, it's still not a standout. A bit lumbering. They've done this befrore, often and better.

#JethroTull

For an album I don't like, I can remember the words pretty well. I like what Soord has done with the synth tones.And he's left some parts in that I don't think were there.
AWOL wasn't my favorite at the time, but hearing it again in the new mix, it's not bad.
Then again, it's still not a standout. A bit lumbering. They've done this befrore, often and better.

#JethroTull

For an album I don't like, I can remember the words pretty well. I like what Soord has done with the synth tones.And he's left some parts in that I don't think were there.
AWOL wasn't my favorite at the time, but hearing it again in the new mix, it's not bad.
Then again, it's still not a standout. A bit lumbering. They've done this befrore, often and better.

#JethroTull

The second track is the title track, Dot.Com, which, unlike the second track and title track to Under Wraps, does not have a reprise.

OK, I'll stop now. This sounds nothing like Under Wraps and needs to be considered in its own right.
Surprise vocal support from Najma Akhtar. I thought then and believe now, that Anderson wanted to ask Kate Bush for this and she said no. But that's pure speculation on my part.
Akhtar is great though. No complaints.

#JethroTull

The second track is the title track, Dot.Com, which, unlike the second track and title track to Under Wraps, does not have a reprise.

OK, I'll stop now. This sounds nothing like Under Wraps and needs to be considered in its own right.
Surprise vocal support from Najma Akhtar. I thought then and believe now, that Anderson wanted to ask Kate Bush for this and she said no. But that's pure speculation on my part.
Akhtar is great though. No complaints.

#JethroTull

The second track is the title track, Dot.Com, which, unlike the second track and title track to Under Wraps, does not have a reprise.

OK, I'll stop now. This sounds nothing like Under Wraps and needs to be considered in its own right.
Surprise vocal support from Najma Akhtar. I thought then and believe now, that Anderson wanted to ask Kate Bush for this and she said no. But that's pure speculation on my part.
Akhtar is great though. No complaints.

#JethroTull

The second track is the title track, Dot.Com, which, unlike the second track and title track to Under Wraps, does not have a reprise.

OK, I'll stop now. This sounds nothing like Under Wraps and needs to be considered in its own right.
Surprise vocal support from Najma Akhtar. I thought then and believe now, that Anderson wanted to ask Kate Bush for this and she said no. But that's pure speculation on my part.
Akhtar is great though. No complaints.

#JethroTull