whoa...lighten up, francis. i'm a jethro tull fan. aqualung and thick as a brick were staples in my teenage days and i can still listen to and enjoy them every once in a while.

bungle through the jungle was pretty hideous.

I can't believe I prompted a Jethro Tull discussion including a historical perspective of the actual man Jethro Tull. I need to call Charles and Phil and let them know after all these years, they were both right.

Yes, and of all places you do it in the thread where I am supposed to be getting ridiculed.











thank you

"...the..." How many times did he use this crap, hackneyed, flutey word? A good portion of those 300 songs I'd say!

Yeh sure, you can point to This Was and a couple of other instances in which Tull wasn't a joke, but c'mon - they brought this shit on themselves. Thick As A Brick, anyone? A Passion Play? Defend those abominations on any level, Spoon, and I'll at least give you credit for creativity in your polemics.

I think Jethro Tull has an important place in rock and roll history.

Without Jethro Tull, the follow Stan Ridgway lyric would just lose something.

Contrast:

Three miles down the highway in a Chevy '69
Were a pair of crazy eyeballs jumping left and right in time
To an eight track tape playing Foghat and Jethro Tull
As a gasonline soaked hand shifted a little plastic skull.

to:

Three miles down the highway in a Chevy '69
Were a pair of crazy eyeballs jumping left and right in time
To an eight track tape playing Foghat and the soundtrack to Krull
As a gasoline soaked hand shifted a little plastic skull.

or:

Three miles down the highway in a Chevy '69
Were a pair of crazy eyeballs jumping left and right in time
To an eight track tape playing Foghat and Martin Mull
As a gasoline soaked hand shifted a little plastic skull.


Thank you, Ian Anderson, thank you.

Ridgeway might have been able to stretch the rhyme to incorporate A Flock Of Seagulls.

I'm really not interested in defending polemics to Radcliffe. Not really.

I'd rather put on Heavy Horses and be reminded what a great band Tull are.

There are at least 30 songs by Tull I count as great. Not just good, but great. Certainly don't think they're abominations.

Maybe tomorrow I'll post examples, but after 30 years plus of pointing them out when people crack jokes about how silly they are, I'm a bit tired of doing it.

Don't blame the beatles, blame that homicidal Phil Spector.

I have a lot of relatives with the last name Francis.

One of them looks like this:




But her dad looks like this:



Though, before the liquor, he used to look like this:

blame John then, they were homies. he brought phil in.

and, Spector is like Dr. Dre or Yail Bloor. You dis them you dis yourself

He wanted to bring phil in. The beatles had recorded sessions for Let it Be as a throwback album, put them on the shelf for whatever reasons, put together abbey road and then pretty much broke up. Then the label sent the shelved sessions to Spector to cobble into an album, because of John's fascination.

Still, the wailing women on that track is a little much. And let's not even bring up The Long and Winding Road...