Essential Tull
There's a new radio station I've been listening too, called The Sound. In the LA area it's 100.3. Recently they ran "The Sound's A to Z, over 2000 essential Rock tracks from The Sound library in alphabetical order." That took them awhile but it was fun to listen too. This weekend they are going to run "The Songs We Missed from A to Z." I checked their list to see which Tull they had:
Aqualung
Bouree
Bungle in the Jungle
Cross-eyed Mary
Fat Man
Hymn 43
Living in the Past
Locomotive Breath
Skating Away
Teacher
Thick as a Brick
There are so many I think are essential, but I went and submitted both My God and Songs from the Wood. I think Budapest is brilliant but I don't think it got any airplay.
I'm not sure I would have included Cross-eyed Mary though one of my strongest memories from a live concert was this song. Played live it left me gob smacked and it had never really impressed me on the album. During that thunderous build up at the start of the song, they had the drums elevated and this brilliant light slowly came up and flooded the venue just as the crescendo hit before the vocals start. It made all the hair on my body stand up. And then Ian came out, larger than life and twirling that flute and all, SO impressive. I swear, his music is the aural equivalent to pheromones to me. I want to say words like male or testosterone filled, but they have negative connotations to me. It's strength, power, confidence, authority but none of it threatening (because it seems like so often male traits are portrayed as including the domination of females.)
Erm...I seemed to have digressed....
Fat Man is great, but essential? That song still makes me laugh.
Teacher...interesting choice. Great song but it's been a really long time since I heard that one on the radio!
The others, absolutely yes.
Aqualung
Bouree
Bungle in the Jungle
Cross-eyed Mary
Fat Man
Hymn 43
Living in the Past
Locomotive Breath
Skating Away
Teacher
Thick as a Brick
There are so many I think are essential, but I went and submitted both My God and Songs from the Wood. I think Budapest is brilliant but I don't think it got any airplay.
I'm not sure I would have included Cross-eyed Mary though one of my strongest memories from a live concert was this song. Played live it left me gob smacked and it had never really impressed me on the album. During that thunderous build up at the start of the song, they had the drums elevated and this brilliant light slowly came up and flooded the venue just as the crescendo hit before the vocals start. It made all the hair on my body stand up. And then Ian came out, larger than life and twirling that flute and all, SO impressive. I swear, his music is the aural equivalent to pheromones to me. I want to say words like male or testosterone filled, but they have negative connotations to me. It's strength, power, confidence, authority but none of it threatening (because it seems like so often male traits are portrayed as including the domination of females.)
Erm...I seemed to have digressed....
Fat Man is great, but essential? That song still makes me laugh.
Teacher...interesting choice. Great song but it's been a really long time since I heard that one on the radio!
The others, absolutely yes.