Jethro Tull - A Passion Play or WarChild or Minstrel In The Gallery or Too Old To...

Quad WarChild nice! Good stuff!

Minstrel In The Gallery - Made in Japan for UK Chrysalis

I've always liked the Japan for UK CD, a tad bright.
I've heard bright Canadian vinyl, Japan-UK CD & the remaster.
The remaster takes the cake for bright.

more...
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=132673&highlight=Tull

 

Absolutely fascinating.

I must have had Rupi's Dance in the player a lot when I started this thread link.
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=57190&highlight=Tull

 

Last bump!

 

Passion Play then Minstrel.

 

Minstrel by a mile - one of my very favorite Tull albums. Warchild would be next, followed by Too Old and Passion Play.

 

Yes, the best of this era for me. One-band-man, indeed.

 

I'm surprised! Not!

 

I don't really like any of them all that much but, I'd have to go with Minstrel In The Gallery as my favorite of the four with WarChild second.

 

As for me - Passion Play

 

Warchild

I do like Passion Play - Minstrel too (except for that damn cowbell)

When Too Old first came out I was really disappointed - I mark that as when the band started downward for me. If it's aged better I wouldn't know, never kept a copy.

When I bought my second copy of Warchild after losing my first - I picked up a used CRC vinyl. All the links were removed! Make sure you get an early one.

 

Final bump

 

Minstrel

 

Tull

I like Too Old To Rock-n-Roll and then Minstrel in the Gallery.

Passion Play after that.

Really though, I love all of JT's 70s albums.

Scott

 

I'd have to go with War Child here, one of their more underrated albums IMO. The addition of the bonus tracks on the CD reissue helped to flesh it out even further. It scaled back the heavy handed excess of A Passion Play, creating something more accessible but still with some thematic heft.

It's been a while since I heard Minstrel and Too Old, but neither of those did much for me.

 

I bought Too Old and Passion Play on the same day (I only previously owned Aqualung). Neither thrilled me at the time and my affair with Tull would have ended had I not heard Minstrel. In retrospect there is quite a bit I have grown to like about PP but in the end I don't find myself itching to sit through it that often. Too Old has a couple of good tracks I suppose but it average at its best. War Child is an odd bird but I like it. So to rate the four...

Minstrel
Passion Play (even though I'm not completely sold on it as a whole there is enough there and I don't mind adding points for ambition).
War Child
Too Old (a distant fourth)

 

Warchild fan here. I am not really a fan of Passion Play at all. Minstrel would be my second choice.

 

I have an intimate relationship with all these albums.

I saw Tull do Aqualung in Nov. 1971 at the age of 12. Afterwards, I bought the album, and then Thick as a Brick and Passion Play when they came out.

I went to see them again in 1973 hoping to see them perform Passion Play, but circumstances prevented its performance (late equipment truck), and so instead they did TAAB, Aqualung, most of Benefit and a lot of Stand Up.

They came to rehearse the US tour of War Child near my home town for a week, after which I saw the opening show of the tour in 1974.

Of course I bought Minstrel and Too Old ... immediately when they came out and loved them both, perhaps Minstrel a bit more. I really like lots of song on TOTRTYTD now however.

That said, I love Passion Play (and TAAB) above all because of when I first heard them at such an impressionable age, and what I was going through at the time. I felt the combination of music, poetry, and dramatic performance was unrivaled.

I play flute and soprano sax now because of Aqualung, TAAB and Passion Play.

Passion Play gets my vote, sentimental favorite.

BB

 

Minstrel In The Gallery wins here.

I don't care for Warchild or Too Old much at all (save Skating Away). Passion Play is unfairly joked as the height of pretention and excess, I find it an interesting and challenging listen when i'm in the mood

 

I definitely love Passion Play above any other Tull for the same reasons as mentioned earlier - hearing the 2 edits played on FM radio, seeing them perform it at Cobo Arena, and buying it first day......when I didn't like it the first day I knew I found something special! It was just like "Close to the Edge" which I distinctly didn't like until living with it for a month. Both of them have that same "resonance" with a young person's questioning of the big issues - religion, spirituality, etc. And both were so adamantly uncommercial and concerned with the art itself.

 

Minstrel , though
i rather burned out on it during
a Tull kick in the '80's

 

WAR CHILD and MINSTREL IN THE GALLERY.

WAR CHILD is my fave Tull album.

 

Minstrel In The Gallery

 

The MoFi Passion Play & WarChild sound .

If only they could have done the whole catalogue!