hobbit

Ah, so you prefer Benefit to Stand Up? I would have never guessed. Anyway, I repeat, it's not that it's bad, but if you compare the songs (and I can't help but do that) to those from Aqualung... for example, the riff of "To Cry A Song," when looked at alongside that of "Aqualung" (the song), or those from "My God," it loses a lot of impact... but, as usual, de gustibus... P.S.: Did you know that Jethro Tull is promoting the "Aqualung Tour" right now? I don't know when they'll be in Italy, but I'm planning to see them in London, where I have a friend who is hosting me... so lucky! I'm already getting excited...

but that doesn’t mean I don’t consider it a great album… sorry

For clarity, in my ranking "A Passion Play" is sixth, but that doesn't mean I consider it a great album... the only one I have that I don't like is "Benefit," it seems like a draft, a trial, of the subsequent "Aqualung"... (aside from "Teacher" which is the only one fully successful).

No, I didn't say that "Baker St. Muse" is bad.. just that, since it doesn't introduce new atmospheres compared to the rest of the album, placed there as the sixth track, after five others filled with melancholy only occasionally interrupted, it feels a bit heavy... Anyway, here's my ranking of the Jethro Tull classics: 1) Aqualung 2) Stand Up 3) Minstrel in the Gallery 4) Thick as a Brick 5) Living in the Past (it's a collection of rarities released right after Aqualung) 6) A Passion Play 7) This Was 8) Benefit... I only know a few songs from the albums released after '75, so I can't rank them...

This is beautiful... but I didn't understand one thing.. is this album the first of the trilogy or is it outside the trilogy?

Absolutely, the medieval atmosphere of this album is simply extraordinary... but perhaps it's a bit (and when I say a bit, I mean just a bit) heavy, especially in the suite. If you take it piece by piece, it's stunning, but all together... it still has something less than Aqualung... I wanted to write the review myself but then out of sheer laziness I gave up... well done.

delicious... "for those who don't feel like going to sleep"... yes

I really think I prefer this to "just for a day"...

"...an album undoubtedly of lesser stature than the previous ones..." are you talking about Quadrophenia?

Well, I listened to it again more deeply and I take everything back... yes, I would say it deserves a 4/5 (maybe even 4.5), so I’ll give it a 5 to balance it out... perhaps in the first listens I was too harsh... these Camel draw a lot from classic progressive (especially Genesis) as well as folk-prog (Jethro Tull) but also from the jazz-prog of Caravan and Gentle Giant, and they create an excellent synthesis of all this, because in the end the result is very simple, linear, and not overly cerebral... and in a time when prog was getting too tangled up in itself, we needed someone to freshen things up a bit, even if it meant not producing completely original works... nothing new but, which is definitely better, a lot of old...