Well they are just brilliant musicians that have been around for a long time now (60's). Ian Anderson is a diverse musician and extremely talented Flute player. I have seen them live, and i think if you ever have the oppurtunity, make sure you see them.
I own the albums:
Aqualung
Minstrel In The Gallery
Stormwatch
The Broadsword And The Beast
Living In The Past

What are some other great albums i am missing? I need some more

Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull


double live album with an orchestra.....awesome production, with songs from Ian Anderson's solo albums as well as Tull classics

Don't miss one of their first releases "Thick as a brick" which is a concept album with one song. It's just brilliant, bringing together folk, rock, minstrel, quasi-classical, musical theater, and progressive sensibilities, and creating an atmosphere I can't describe with words!!

I have only one album...Aqualung...great album...I heard Thick as a Brick...that song kicks ass...

i will admit that jethro tull are good musicians but i have a little bit of a grudge on them for stealing that metal grammy from metallica. Jethro Tull is not metal never will be metal. I dont know if the people that were picking the grammy winners were doing drus or what but they must have lost their friggin minds. Well it dont matter though that was almost twenty years ago.

Yar , jethro tull are awesome!

and Ian is about to come to a show in Israel together with the orchestra!!! im reallly looking forward for that. just hope he wont cancel:-X

Jethro Tull is one of my favorite classic rock bands, and Aqualung is one of my favorite all time albums and songs.. Cross-Eyed Mary is also an awsome song with an amazing flute solo .. Have any of you heard the Iron Maiden cover of Cross-Eyed Mary? It's not as good as the origional, but it's Maiden...

Aqualung, great album, but for me the best is Minstrel in the gallery that my dad gave me in my last birthday.

My favorite songs: locomotive breath and Budapest.

Ah yes Jethro Tull,what an odd but yet amazing band.You have all mentioned great albums,but no one mentioned "A Passion Play",that ones definitely worth getting.Thick is a Brick is an awesome album.I have the original vinyle of Aqualung,well my dad does,just thought I would throw that out there

Written by Guest on 30.06.2006 at 01:35

i will admit that jethro tull are good musicians but i have a little bit of a grudge on them for stealing that metal grammy from metallica. Jethro Tull is not metal never will be metal. I dont know if the people that were picking the grammy winners were doing drus or what but they must have lost their friggin minds. Well it dont matter though that was almost twenty years ago.

It's not jethro Tull's fault for getting that award, it's the organiser's. You shouldn't hold the grudge against Tull. Of course Jethro Tull are not metal.:suicide:

They're coming to Argentina, to the Luna Park the 20th of April, if I'm not saying it wrong... It depends on the cost, maybe I'm gonna see them. They are really good.

Written by Reverie on 19.04.2007 at 20:58

They're coming to Argentina, to the Luna Park the 20th of April, if I'm not saying it wrong... It depends on the cost, maybe I'm gonna see them. They are really good.

I'm also gonna see them

Jethro Tull are a nice remembrance from my old hippie times... I still keep my old original copy of "Thick As A Brick" (the masterpiece of folk prog along with Los Jaivas' "Las Alturas De Machu Picchu), and listen to it from time to time.... although I know little, better said nothing from the rest of their discography... just saw once a live DVD in my friend's house.

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Written by Reverie on 19.04.2007 at 20:58

They're coming to Argentina, to the Luna Park the 20th of April, if I'm not saying it wrong... It depends on the cost, maybe I'm gonna see them. They are really good.

I'm also gonna see them

Jethro Tull are a nice remembrance from my old hippie times... I still keep my old original copy of "Thick As A Brick" (the masterpiece of folk prog along with Los Jaivas' "Las Alturas De Machu Picchu), and listen to it from time to time.... although I know little, better said nothing from the rest of their discography... just saw once a live DVD in my friend's house.

Oh, I hope you can go and see them... I couldn't, it was too late and... too expensive

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Written by Guest on 27.04.2007 at 02:08

Written by Reverie on 19.04.2007 at 20:58

They're coming to Argentina, to the Luna Park the 20th of April, if I'm not saying it wrong... It depends on the cost, maybe I'm gonna see them. They are really good.

I'm also gonna see them

Jethro Tull are a nice remembrance from my old hippie times... I still keep my old original copy of "Thick As A Brick" (the masterpiece of folk prog along with Los Jaivas' "Las Alturas De Machu Picchu), and listen to it from time to time.... although I know little, better said nothing from the rest of their discography... just saw once a live DVD in my friend's house.

Oh, I hope you can go and see them... I couldn't, it was too late and... too expensive

Unfortunately, I am too late... I thought there was still some time left, as I knew that they were going to play just a few weeks ago but I thought it would be later, but after reading your post I checked and I noted that I'm late for one week... anyway... it would had been a good experience but it wasn't possible

Written by Guest on 27.04.2007 at 05:13

Written by Reverie on 27.04.2007 at 03:55

Written by Guest on 27.04.2007 at 02:08

Written by Reverie on 19.04.2007 at 20:58

They're coming to Argentina, to the Luna Park the 20th of April, if I'm not saying it wrong... It depends on the cost, maybe I'm gonna see them. They are really good.

I'm also gonna see them

Jethro Tull are a nice remembrance from my old hippie times... I still keep my old original copy of "Thick As A Brick" (the masterpiece of folk prog along with Los Jaivas' "Las Alturas De Machu Picchu), and listen to it from time to time.... although I know little, better said nothing from the rest of their discography... just saw once a live DVD in my friend's house.

Oh, I hope you can go and see them... I couldn't, it was too late and... too expensive

Unfortunately, I am too late... I thought there was still some time left, as I knew that they were going to play just a few weeks ago but I thought it would be later, but after reading your post I checked and I noted that I'm late for one week... anyway... it would had been a good experience but it wasn't possible

Jaja, más o menos te pasó lo mismo que a mí xD -sorry for not writing it in English x.x-

I've been listening to more and more Jethro Tull these days...Minstrel In The Gallery is a recent album I have picked up...also, Thick As A Brick, the classic two sided epic...man, is there ever some amazing material on those albums!

Damn they are good! Too bad they are far from being from my generation, how I wish I could had grown up listening to this! Its just amazing, very tallented and creative musicians, I also belive they gave the rootz to metal, the riffs, the vocals, well everything!

I had liked Aqualung [71] for ages since my father owned a few albums, while over time This Was [68], Benefit [70] and Stand Up [69] have become my favourites as they're pretty straight hard rock and damn good at it. Well... SU and especially TW had more jazz & blues touches. He also had War Child [74] which I don't like quite so much, inconsistent and fairly weird but there are some bloody good songs in Sealion, Sealion 2 and Saturation (unfortunately those last two are not on the original release).

I've got around to buying myself the expanded editions of Catfish Blues and Rock Island, consecutive albums from around 1990 and I look forward to acquiring many more. I prefer Island's hard rock (check the AWESOME The Whaler's Dues, Big Riff and Mando, and the title track) over Catfish's softer, folky bluesy material, though its bonus live track Jump Start is a brilliant song - with the "heavy metal road crew" brought onto the stage Actually, that being said, about half of Rock Island is acoustic/soft...
I reckon Aqualung and Locomotive Breath at least are pretty close to being metal... consider they were written in 1971 or earlier

edit: Oh yes, we have the collection Living in the Past as well, there's a bunch of masterpieces on there too so everyone should grab it

Another note for this awfully long post - have you guys noticed how the Eagles' hit Hotel California stole the chord progression of my favourite track on Stand Up, We Used to Know

I love "Thick as a Brick" and I also own Aqualung but not listened to it enough to form a real opinion on it. But from what I've read here its nothing short of a masterpiece! Been definitely meaning to look into this band more, wish me luck.

Good luck Omni I forgot to mention I have Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play but I haven't really listened to them due to the extended play times.

Regarding nick35's comments on the awards, it should be noted that the metal and hard rock categories were combined that year. Who cares about winning Grammys though, they're really for poptards.

I think they've reached the 30 album mark right?

This is my favorite band. "Thick as a Brick" and "A Passion Play" are concept albums, and they are my favorite. Benefit, Aqualung, etc are all great, but nothing stands up to the concept albums. God I love Ian Anderson.

Written by Dark Cornatus on 17.05.2006 at 09:06

Well they are just brilliant musicians that have been around for a long time now (60's). Ian Anderson is a diverse musician and extremely talented Flute player. I have seen them live, and i think if you ever have the oppurtunity, make sure you see them.
I own the albums:
Aqualung
Minstrel In The Gallery
Stormwatch
The Broadsword And The Beast
Living In The Past

What are some other great albums i am missing? I need some more

Stand Up (1969) - my favourite, Too old for rock'n'roll, too young to die (1976). I thought Crest of Knave - 1987 was quite good. Another favourite of mine is Roots to branches -1994

Benefit and crest of a knave and passion play are missing from your list. My favorite is thick as a brick I bought the album in 1973, Of course I have the cd now, the 25th year special edition. I saw them live at the River Rock Casino in September 2007. It was an awesome show. Martin Barre can still rock Hard, he is simply a great guitar player. This band defies classification.

Oh, by the way, Ian Anderson is reputed to have said, tongue in cheek , that the flute is a heavy metal instrument, indeed.

I just say , I live this band and their style that their used in world of rock

Great band. Aqualung and Thick As A Brick are progressive rock masterpieces. But if you like their folk side I recommend "Songs From The Woods" (which hasn't been mentioned yet).

i got me the double live LP "bursting out" a week ago or so and i just can't stop listening to it, i love this band.

Jethro Tull, named after, hmm what was it... a 19th century anthropologist? Something like that.

These guys are seriously insane, and if none of you have ever seen live footage of this band, do so immediately. You will see precisely this: A bunch of hippies playing good music, and one super-hippie in the front, standing on one foot for 2 hours singing crazy stuff, rolling his eyes up in his head, and playing the flute. He was always on one foot! That was the coolest thing about Ian Anderson. Their music was really good, totally different than what anyone had ever heard, mostly because of the flute and the heaviness, two things that normally would not be found in the same sentence. And it's not like, all flutey-like music. It really rocks. But like Sehkmet said, listen to the entire song "Thick as a Brick". You ever heard a 45-minute song? Talk about epic, and this was in the early 70s, when epic was Iron Butterfly.

Written by Guest on 31.08.2006 at 03:00

Ah yes Jethro Tull,what an odd but yet amazing band.You have all mentioned great albums,but no one mentioned "A Passion Play",that ones definitely worth getting.Thick is a Brick is an awesome album.I have the original vinyle of Aqualung,well my dad does,just thought I would throw that out there

Yeah my dad had a few of the original vinyls, the original Thick as a Brick Vinyl came with the whole newspaper giving hilarious jokes about the album concept.

For those who don't know, Thick as Brick is "supposedly" about a young boy who writes a long, vulgar poem analyzing society and a range of sexual perversions... he lives in this small english town and wins an award for his poem, but it is later taken back from him because of its vulgarity... in the original vinyl it came with the small town's local newspaper... which tells small local town news and the story of the boy... it is absolutely hilarious, but you need to read it very closely to get the jokes.

for example under the congratulations for having a baby section: there is a Mr John and Jane Mrs X (can't remember the real names) who have just had a baby.

a page later under the congratulations for getting married section: Congratulations to Mr John and Mrs Jane X on their recent marriage.

a page later under the happy birthday section: Congratulations to Mr John X on celebrating his 15th birthday.

None of this is obvious unless you read the paper carefuly, i think there was also a two page long article about a rabbit...

The song thick as a brick is over 40 minutes long and the lyrics are the small boys poem... (the small boys 19 year old girlfriend is on the cover of the paper and she is "inadvertently" exposing herself quite discreetly)

There is just so much hilarity in this package its difficult to take it all in... i don't know if the cd version comes with the newspaper, i have the 25th anniversary cd edition which did come with extras and the newspaper.

neither the town or the boy actually exist