Jethro Tull - Stand Up or Aqualung or Thick As A Brick?

Aqualung is a given.

Then I would go with Thick as a Brick and THEN Stand Up, which just follows.

 

Right now it's Stand Up. Ask me in a couple of weeks and it will probably change.

 

of course Aqualung by ten miles, that's what Tull stands for forever.
Next comes Thick as a Brick, Passion Play and Minstrel In The Gallery.
Their early Blues Efforts would never made them anything more than a second rate British Rock Combo. I like Stand Up and even some of This Was, not much love for Benefit. but tbh. if there was no Aqualung Tull would long been forgotten...
But i am biased AQUALUNG was my favourite record in 1971, something i will never forget.. (like Paranoid + Deep Purple in Rock the year before..)

 

I love all 3 albums, but if I had to list them order from most favorite to least, it would be:

Stand Up
Thick as a Brick
Aqualung

 

Well?
Still 'Thick As A Brick' here.

 

Stand Up as it was the first one I heard (and loved) To this day I still love this album!

 

The first 3 albums!

 

Aqualung. The others miss by a tiny tiny fraction.

 

Aqualung is the band's best overall work and one damn fine collection of songs. Their most essential album, and the one Jethro Tull is best known for.
My personal favourite Thick As A Brick (as one long and impressive musical composition) is equally excellent.
Just a notch below would be Stand Up.

One can't go wrong with any of Tull's 70's studio albums though...
Benefit
Songs From The Wood
Living In The Past
Warchild
A Passion Play
Heavy Horses

 

Yes?

 

1-Thick
2-Aqualung
3-Stand Up

However, 'A Passion Play' tops them all

 

Yep, I forgot to include Minstrel In The Gallery!

 

I'd agree that Passion Play is a major work, highly underrated, and amazing on MFSL, nut it can't top Thick, which is more major and more accessable.

I'd also put Stand Up before Aqualung, but that's because, as I age, I find Aqualung a bit too bombastic, and in your face, and I've a soft spot for Stand Up as it was one of my first Tull vinyls and it "stands up", both literaly and musically...

But, above both of those I'd put Benefit. Someone here said Steve was lined up to remaster it but it got canceled!! A travesy! Anyone know the Tull tale?


And where is the love for Minstrel, Ian's darkest, most introspective offering?

 

Wait! I thought we were talking about "Crime Of The Century"!

 

May you find sweet inspiration, may your memory not be dull.
May you rise to dizzy success.
May your wit be quick and strong.
May you constantly amaze us.
May your answers not be wrong.
May your head be on your shoulders.
May your tongue be in your cheek.
And most of all we pray that you may come back next week!

 

Stand Up first, then Aqualung

 

Answerable to everyone; responsible to all; publicly dissected -

 

Aqualung

 

I'm listening to Thick right now,what an album!Tull goes full out prog!Aqualung ,Thick then Stand Up!

 

NIce list ,Benefit is my all time favorite Tull piece,but the three chosen were good choices.And of course,these titles mentioned here.........avoid Under Wraps though!Use it as a frisbee if you can!

 

In this order

Stand Up
Aqualung
Thick As A Brick

 

Under Wraps

Stand back ...Mate...please revisit the tracks below...everyone...maybe it's my European legacy that sells it to me. This "spy thriller" album is very important to me.
I like these tracks. My wife likes them too.
Lap Of Luxury
Under Wraps
European Legacy
Later, That Same Evening
Saboteur
Radio Free Moscow
Nobody's Car
Heat
Under Wraps #2
Paparazzi
Apogee

West Germany CD recommended.

 

So chronologcal is the way to go huh? I agree, early Tull is grand, but I think they recovered nicely from Aqualung with the Life's A Long Song Ep, Thick as a Brick, and A Passion Play...