onetaste2000
3/18/2010 4:13:00 PM
On Mar 17, 8:48 pm, ML <mary.egret1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > When Thick as a Brick came out, I listened to it a lot. But it hasn't
> > worn as well for me over time. When I got more into jamming, and
> > listening to musicians play off each other, I got more into Benefit
> > and Stand Up.
>
> > I like the songs on Thick as a Brick, but it sounds more like Ian
> > Anderson and his backup band, playing what he wrote note per note.
> > They lost their spontaneity.
>
> Love TAAB, and Stand Up, but I would have to
> choose Aqualung as the favorite, all things
> considered. I *love* the guitar in Aqualung.
> Benefit is great, IMO; a close second.
Aqualung was the second album of theirs I got, and it was a major deal
for my little teen-aged mind. That said, thanks to the long-term
overexposure of radio play, it has taken its place with Stairway,
Money, and such as songs I never, ever want to hear again. Sad, but
so.
I got away from Tull for several years and then went back and checked
out their later stuff. The difference was stark in a way I have never
seen duplicated. Here was Ian A, truly one of the distinctive voices
of this time, but now there was distinct difference, a new influence
all over his stuff, both in his vocal delivery and his song-writing--
Mark Knopfler. It was weird.
Fred