I loved Stormwatch and this song is one of the reasons why - episodic, virtuosic, the lyrics have never been more topical and everyone was firing on all cylinders the entire record.
a friend of mine saw a concert of them in the 70's. Ian Anderson opened the concert dressed as a backstage prop guy and apolegitcally explained to the audience that Jethro tull could not play that evening. He subsequently pulled out his flute from his overalls and started with Thick as a Brick. The rest of the band joined him within minutes and they rocked on for two hours!
Most people don't have the attention span to listen to stuff like this anymore and radio stations wouldn't give up their three commercial spots to play it in full - its a brilliant, brilliant song by the way but I' m from the generation where we would actually sit and listen in reverence to a whole album when it came out without needing visual images to get in the way or even knowing any of the lyrics til like the fifth hearing...
This is one of two epic tracks on the shamefully underrated/overlooked Stormwatch album. This one is one of their most powerful songs, and it holds your attention for the full nine minutes. Barlow totally owns this track, probably his best drum work ever with the band. Bunker was a more powerful and intense drummer, but Barlow had the finesse and creativity that would serve the band so well in the mid to late Seventies.
hey aqualung, you said there is a folk band you like...could you post the name? Always out for something new :-) Btw, another cool song from a very underrated song, keep up the good work my man!
@10squonk try rare folk (I think I was talking about that one), they are very original, started with folk but moved to... erm... well, just have a listen :P
I remember listening to this tune on my walkman(lol) round about 1981 or 82, and i had the volume up so loud that passers-by would give me the thumbs up if they also liked the song. To "OzTexSpunkyBum"(wow-what a handle!)--there's nothing wrong with considering Stormwatch Tull's best album - I've always thought it was one of thier top 5 as well. And as for "irepEast"-- you probably were born in the wrong generation(I was your age when Stormwatch came out)-however, you still have your youth.
To the youngsters out there. Don't blame the bands blame the industry. They've lost there way and let the door hit em in the ass. There are still good bands but you really do got to find them and in your own way bring them to light. Kings of Leon are a good example. My living close to Nashville and not really hearing them till they were famous in Europe really blows but they hardly play them here. The Kings probably thinks that sucks too.
@Trogontherium1 The venues sounds very high minded and very appealing, but try selling the idea to the mind numb, brain dead knuckle draggers and those bastards would want to invade and accuse the whole thing of terrorist acts or anything to retain their system of wealth creation for the few. On no way on hell are they ever going to give up on the notion that gawd himself gave them their wealth or that they remotely deserve it in any way.. Sad, huh?
Don't mean to brag but I'm over 50 and I've had the pleasure of enjoying Tull for a far more longer time than most Tull fans but I do envy the real young ones their first realizations of Tulls' greatness. I remember mine very well!
Stormwatch rocks. I saw them on this tour. About half way through the concert, Ian Anderson said something like, "this is our interpretation of what medievel rock would sound like," at which time they started to jam. Awesome.
I'm all for enjoying older music, but all this hating on new music is completely baseless and bias. Yes, mainstream rap and most of what is played on the radio today is pretty terrible. However, there are plenty of bands today that rock and have spirit and soul. IMO Tool is a fantastic example of one of the better bands today that is considered mainstream. Just my two cents.
@D4rkPhilosopher Tool came from the 90's, it's classic. To talk about them as a 'new' band now would be like if I called the Greatful Dead the best stoner rock of the 90s lol.
But it shows that it's not baseless if, to actually name a good band, you have to go with one from 20 years ago...
not to be a dick but im sooo sick of hittin up my prog rock and seeing comments like "i love this and im only 17!" thats great im 22 and listen to old people music too...im so back tracked in the 70s with Tull and Floyd that in 2010 i consider rage against the machine and pearl jam new music but i dont post my fuckin age on every video...just chill the fuck out...
@jstarang1 lol absolutely. I'm 22 as well, and this was the golden age of music, at least the closest to it for our generation. I still consider Nirvana to be "new music", haha.
@XSxarfaceX haha, at 31, it feels like Nirvana's become the new 'classic rock'. Foo Fighters kept things going, and then Seether had taken the flame for a while. But most that could be considered 'rock' today has gone either to the extreme of Pop or into the 'hardcore' throat clearing yelling. Five Finger Death Punch would be a better band is their singer went more with his singing voice, which is fairly decent.
@jcrawf79 I can't really believe I just heard Seether's name mentioned in space reserved for Jethro Tull comments. I'm 45, and wouldn't even allow them in a space reserved for Foo Fighters comments. I saw Seether open for Audioslave, and wouldn't let them play in my garage.
Shouldn't be any age barrier when listening to music...if your brain likes it, then listen to it. My 7 year old son likes the song 'Bungle in the Jungle.' which came out in 1974
Not only that, but what does your age have to do with it? If you're just here to brag about how cool and awesome you are because you weren't around when something happened and still like it, welcome to the internet and please stand in line.
Jethro Tull were Gods in the sixties and seventies, because of their originality and musical prowess. The problem now is that the music business is no longer willing to take risks on something new and so stagnation results. There is good contemporary music out there, just don't expect it to come from the mainstream sources as it used to you have to search for it. It is also worth remembering that the 60s and 70s produced some pretty dire music as well - does anyone remember the Bay-city Rollers?
I hear ya, 14 since everyone else is throwing this stuff in. I'm not gonna say theres no more good music but...I mean, there was a hell of a lot more back in the day. I've always felt I should've been born in the 70's.
Don't mean to brag but am 16 well 17 and i feel old music was is great.. everything about it. Music this days is crap .What The Fuck is up with it. I feel i was born in the wrong generation.Where almost everyone my age is sooooo unbeliavably retarded, deluded and shallow. Humanity fucking sucks.
you know, I partially agree with you, but... there are still some good bands nowadays. The problem is, don't expect them to be well known... you have to investigate quite a lot and you'll find some good things. For example, there's a folk band I like, and its most viewed video on youtube had like 20 000 views (while crap music videos may have more than 10 million views)
Agree with ya..but I also highly appreciate all those chicks outhere with their jugs poping out...well...that wasnt in my era..:-)0)) The other day I almost opened a window pane with my head, 'cause I was lookin' somewhere else...:-(
@Aqualung1989 Yeah, I can agree with you. Actually, Rock Band highlights a lot of cool indie bands out there for me that I'd never have heard of, especially RBN. Some of them make some really fantastic music like Freezepop or Shaimus or That Handsome Devil. It's interesting that people still make good music, you just don't hear about it in the mainstream like you used to. Jethro Tull is still awesome, too.
Do not worry pal...at least you have plenty of music to listen to..me, though Ive lived in that era, well, a bit later, I 've never had a chance to go to see them play alive at the concert...and now its not the same.
You my friend are awesome. I am 33 and if its relevant ot you am vegan and atheist and think humans are dooming themselves. I have a friend from Germany who has on his license plate frame "Humanity Is Insanity" : D You know when I was 15 the lies became apparent to me it sux but brushing aside the diaphanous sheets of deceit is worth it. Stay strong and much love : )
Really, there's nothing inherently bad with people who want to make a living with their music, is there? You can hardly expect them to just hand out cd's for free or something.
I do have to admit though, that the problem of the music industry does indeed find its roots in commercialism. There are a lot of good bands out there that can't get a record label because their music isn't 'in' at the moment.
There are some good bands left though. Porcupine tree for example
yes rodyle1313, there is nothing inherently wrong with being paid to write & perform music. however, query whether the artist who achieves commercial success is truly playing "their music." it goes w/o saying that one who writes & plays "their music" what's in their heart & mind, could hit it big or end up playing in the mall spare change. [to be con't]
on the other hand, musically, isn't there something wrong when a person decides to play or, worse, write, music that is not "their music" but which sells because they want to live in a big house on a hill, instead of writing the music that might be in their heart and mind. Or maybe there is nothing in them - they're just facile with an instrument but have no "soul"?
That is true. However, people just like to gloat all over so called 'commercial' groups because they sold out. They keep forgetting that they sold out as well when they took their 9 to 5 job not because they like it, but because it earns well.
They're basically the same kind of people who post comments like markmACDC's.
@bilmand here's how I see it. Writers write, actors act, composers compose, singers sing, players play their instruments. Not everyone can do it all. Great if they can, but what about the person who can write good lyrics, but can't sing to save his life? Sure, he can sell it as poetry, or *gasp* to be used as lyrics in a song. A composer may make the musical composition for the musicians to play, and the singer interprets the song to that music. This has been the way for ages.
@iRepEast Has to agree with the other comment. There are bands out there that are good. Not many are 'in' with the music industry. So, you get the crap that's popular, which, though it has a shallow message and does whatever it takes to shock and awe, it's all mostly flash in the pan and does nothing new. So, it's 'safe' and sells, and that's all that matters to the industry.
But if you look hard enough, you can find good modern bands that refuse to abide by the industry.
@iRepEast Haha I hear a lot of younguns (I'm 28) listening to classic rock bands. I agree about music nowadays. Don't worry, a lot of people grow out of being retarded, deluded, and shallow. They grow up to be merely media-dazzled.
@iRepEast Im 15, and i friggin love jethro tull. and though there are good modern bands they arent very popular, because most of the music crowd is leaning towards the pop stuff like that. which is truly a sad sight.... they pour their soul in their music, while people just put down whatever ryhms, or just make up a ton of words that almost rhym, but have no meaning. im just glad there was old music. it rules!!!!!!
What does age have to do with good music? Listen to what you want, and popularity be damned. There is enough really good "old" music to last you a life time. I'm 57 and I still rattle the windows in my car with the likes of Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull.
I think it really has to do with how music is recorded today, if you consider that all the old bands (and songs) were recorded as close to live as possible, which meant the overall feeling of the songs "felt" natural. But these days, except for the indi bands, everything is set to STMP code (set to a computer counted beat, with no deviation), which means there is no longer "life" to the songs.
I really miss those songs with life. Thanks for bringing me back to my youth Aqualung :)
@iRepEast - With all due respect, the album was released in 1979. The top 5 hits of 1979 were Heart of Glass by Blondie, I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor, Pop Muzik by M, Hot Stuff by Donna Summer and Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles. This is a year when bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Rush were going strong in the underground. Popular music has always sucked. It's the underground stuff that emerges twenty years down the road that gets remembered.
@iRepEast Maybe if you take a turn and view things in a different way, you'll find that in the eighties heavy metal was considered obscene compared to rock and roll. In the fifties rock and roll was the music of the thugs and lowlives. In the thirties, when everyone were racists, jazz and soul were lowly black guys' music. In the mid 1800s romantic music was gross and revoloutionist. Etc... Question is: Do you think we face the worst now? What if 20 years later they will say "good ol' 2000s..."
It's a masterpiece from an underrated album indeed. I never quite understood the "last gasp of the folk-period" view of many critics (and fans). To me the album musically bridges the more folk-oriented predecessors and the darker, progrock-jazz-oriented "A". Immaculate songwriting, great heavy riffing, the haunting "Dun Ringill" - Tull at it's best. How anyone can consider this weaker than, say, Crest of a Knave (the first record from Tull I consider seriously mediocre), is beyond me.
This is first time I've ever responded on the "tube." I'm in my mid-forties, and I've always taken a lot of flack for this, but "Stormwatch" is still my favorite Tull album/cd. I actually originally bought this on an 8-track tape, ha ha. That says something about my age, right? I just think this compilation of tunes has always been highly underated. How's that for an oxymoron. Thanks for the upload.
@OzTexSpunkyBum the folk trio albums sftw hh and this are my fav tull era...the perfect mix of folk, prog, and heavy metal...and tull's best lineup! plus stormwatch has Ian more in touch with his Scottish roots more than ever Warm Sporran (pouch on a kilt), Kelpie (loch horse), North Sea Oil (scottish economy), and Dun Ringill (scottish fort)...love it
yes great song 2nd time through listerned to the lyrics more closly very good tune.... im trying to spread the love on jethro tull to my age group and its no easy task sadly enuff!!
I loved Stormwatch and this song is one of the reasons why - episodic, virtuosic, the lyrics have never been more topical and everyone was firing on all cylinders the entire record.
aliensporebomb 1 month ago
this sounds so much like WAR CHILD DANCE THE DAYS AND NITES AWAY
JackinTheWoods 2 months ago
Martin" fucking classic rock" Barre rocks this monster of a song, just another day at the office for the genius of Tull.
willicat441 4 months ago
a friend of mine saw a concert of them in the 70's. Ian Anderson opened the concert dressed as a backstage prop guy and apolegitcally explained to the audience that Jethro tull could not play that evening. He subsequently pulled out his flute from his overalls and started with Thick as a Brick. The rest of the band joined him within minutes and they rocked on for two hours!
pyschobabble101 4 months ago
Most people don't have the attention span to listen to stuff like this anymore and radio stations wouldn't give up their three commercial spots to play it in full - its a brilliant, brilliant song by the way but I' m from the generation where we would actually sit and listen in reverence to a whole album when it came out without needing visual images to get in the way or even knowing any of the lyrics til like the fifth hearing...
Veaseify 5 months ago 2
This is THE music for the others - for us! TULL FOREVER!
Stormwatch153 5 months ago 3
This is one of two epic tracks on the shamefully underrated/overlooked Stormwatch album. This one is one of their most powerful songs, and it holds your attention for the full nine minutes. Barlow totally owns this track, probably his best drum work ever with the band. Bunker was a more powerful and intense drummer, but Barlow had the finesse and creativity that would serve the band so well in the mid to late Seventies.
add2718 6 months ago
The most Group in the world ,durand les 30 dernières années (c'est évident!)
luciemelanie25 6 months ago
hey aqualung, you said there is a folk band you like...could you post the name? Always out for something new :-) Btw, another cool song from a very underrated song, keep up the good work my man!
10squonk 6 months ago
@10squonk try rare folk (I think I was talking about that one), they are very original, started with folk but moved to... erm... well, just have a listen :P
Aqualung1989 6 months ago
i wish i could swich generations ....or just be part of the 70's-80's generations , i hate my generation
i don't want more crapy house music,..
alexandravaradi 6 months ago
love IT!!!
svtraptor100 7 months ago
Barri Barlow - I love you
MrSteveEllis 7 months ago
saw ian anderson live...he was a very smart and fucking funny fella
kiljoy67 8 months ago
im 36, just discovered these guys like 3 weeks ago. they kick my fucking ass. I LOVE them
MrExley 9 months ago 3
@MrExley I'm 50 and I discovered them in 1976, and I never looked back! Welcome to the club... better late than never:-)
urbangrouse 7 months ago 2
I remember listening to this tune on my walkman(lol) round about 1981 or 82, and i had the volume up so loud that passers-by would give me the thumbs up if they also liked the song. To "OzTexSpunkyBum"(wow-what a handle!)--there's nothing wrong with considering Stormwatch Tull's best album - I've always thought it was one of thier top 5 as well. And as for "irepEast"-- you probably were born in the wrong generation(I was your age when Stormwatch came out)-however, you still have your youth.
akibubba1 9 months ago
To the youngsters out there. Don't blame the bands blame the industry. They've lost there way and let the door hit em in the ass. There are still good bands but you really do got to find them and in your own way bring them to light. Kings of Leon are a good example. My living close to Nashville and not really hearing them till they were famous in Europe really blows but they hardly play them here. The Kings probably thinks that sucks too.
bboner2 10 months ago
@Trogontherium1 The venues sounds very high minded and very appealing, but try selling the idea to the mind numb, brain dead knuckle draggers and those bastards would want to invade and accuse the whole thing of terrorist acts or anything to retain their system of wealth creation for the few. On no way on hell are they ever going to give up on the notion that gawd himself gave them their wealth or that they remotely deserve it in any way.. Sad, huh?
FreeClassicFlix 11 months ago
This line up should never have disbanded....but whatcha gonna do
DoctorWho1983 1 year ago
Dark Ages!!!!!! This is music to enlighten us for all AGES!!!!
meerforelle61 1 year ago
1:34 that's perfect...
CunningTrickster 1 year ago
Don't mean to brag but I'm over 50 and I've had the pleasure of enjoying Tull for a far more longer time than most Tull fans but I do envy the real young ones their first realizations of Tulls' greatness. I remember mine very well!
tjrxk7 1 year ago
We've had heavy snow recently (Northern NJ) and this song & LP are a perfect fit!
MarcusVermilion 1 year ago
Stormwatch rocks. I saw them on this tour. About half way through the concert, Ian Anderson said something like, "this is our interpretation of what medievel rock would sound like," at which time they started to jam. Awesome.
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BobbiFreddiec 1 year ago
this sounds harder then i thought jethro tull went
lol it is amazing as with every other thing he does
bbtrul 1 year ago
I'm all for enjoying older music, but all this hating on new music is completely baseless and bias. Yes, mainstream rap and most of what is played on the radio today is pretty terrible. However, there are plenty of bands today that rock and have spirit and soul. IMO Tool is a fantastic example of one of the better bands today that is considered mainstream. Just my two cents.
D4rkPhilosopher 1 year ago
@D4rkPhilosopher Tool came from the 90's, it's classic. To talk about them as a 'new' band now would be like if I called the Greatful Dead the best stoner rock of the 90s lol.
But it shows that it's not baseless if, to actually name a good band, you have to go with one from 20 years ago...
jcrawf79 1 year ago
What´s missing nowadays? soul, spirit, values, hope, something to fight for?? There is no feeling anymore...:(
TheSimoneification 1 year ago
not to be a dick but im sooo sick of hittin up my prog rock and seeing comments like "i love this and im only 17!" thats great im 22 and listen to old people music too...im so back tracked in the 70s with Tull and Floyd that in 2010 i consider rage against the machine and pearl jam new music but i dont post my fuckin age on every video...just chill the fuck out...
jstarang1 1 year ago
lol
theJaydog 1 year ago
@jstarang1 lol absolutely. I'm 22 as well, and this was the golden age of music, at least the closest to it for our generation. I still consider Nirvana to be "new music", haha.
XSxarfaceX 1 year ago 2
@XSxarfaceX haha, at 31, it feels like Nirvana's become the new 'classic rock'. Foo Fighters kept things going, and then Seether had taken the flame for a while. But most that could be considered 'rock' today has gone either to the extreme of Pop or into the 'hardcore' throat clearing yelling. Five Finger Death Punch would be a better band is their singer went more with his singing voice, which is fairly decent.
jcrawf79 1 year ago
@jcrawf79 I can't really believe I just heard Seether's name mentioned in space reserved for Jethro Tull comments. I'm 45, and wouldn't even allow them in a space reserved for Foo Fighters comments. I saw Seether open for Audioslave, and wouldn't let them play in my garage.
johnwmcd 11 months ago
@johnwmcd This 'space' is the internet, and rather fluid. I like Both Foo Fighters, Seether, and Jethro Tull, so deal with it.
jcrawf79 11 months ago
Should be the highlight of the whole album.
Wakinshaw 1 year ago
Underrated. :D
larion95 2 years ago
Shouldn't be any age barrier when listening to music...if your brain likes it, then listen to it. My 7 year old son likes the song 'Bungle in the Jungle.' which came out in 1974
lionelbeauclaire 2 years ago
Not only that, but what does your age have to do with it? If you're just here to brag about how cool and awesome you are because you weren't around when something happened and still like it, welcome to the internet and please stand in line.
rodyle1313 2 years ago
it's a band!
SheFollowsMoon 2 years ago 2
Jethro Tull were Gods in the sixties and seventies, because of their originality and musical prowess. The problem now is that the music business is no longer willing to take risks on something new and so stagnation results. There is good contemporary music out there, just don't expect it to come from the mainstream sources as it used to you have to search for it. It is also worth remembering that the 60s and 70s produced some pretty dire music as well - does anyone remember the Bay-city Rollers?
888peterine 2 years ago 10
I hear ya, 14 since everyone else is throwing this stuff in. I'm not gonna say theres no more good music but...I mean, there was a hell of a lot more back in the day. I've always felt I should've been born in the 70's.
RabidBearpig 2 years ago 6
same here other than right now i'd be almost 40
TheOReport1994 2 years ago
I'd be happy to shave a couple decades off my life to live a better one. I was born in a musical wasteland, I'd trade down to the 70's I think lol.
RabidBearpig 2 years ago
go iRepEast
absalutetopgear 2 years ago
I Agree with you iRepEast
The1Answerer1 2 years ago
thx for this excellent song
zebrafinkennest 2 years ago
Don't mean to brag but am 16 well 17 and i feel old music was is great.. everything about it. Music this days is crap .What The Fuck is up with it. I feel i was born in the wrong generation.Where almost everyone my age is sooooo unbeliavably retarded, deluded and shallow. Humanity fucking sucks.
iRepEast 2 years ago 45
you know, I partially agree with you, but... there are still some good bands nowadays. The problem is, don't expect them to be well known... you have to investigate quite a lot and you'll find some good things. For example, there's a folk band I like, and its most viewed video on youtube had like 20 000 views (while crap music videos may have more than 10 million views)
Aqualung1989 2 years ago 11
Agree with ya..but I also highly appreciate all those chicks outhere with their jugs poping out...well...that wasnt in my era..:-)0)) The other day I almost opened a window pane with my head, 'cause I was lookin' somewhere else...:-(
kykulienka 2 years ago
@Aqualung1989 Yeah, I can agree with you. Actually, Rock Band highlights a lot of cool indie bands out there for me that I'd never have heard of, especially RBN. Some of them make some really fantastic music like Freezepop or Shaimus or That Handsome Devil. It's interesting that people still make good music, you just don't hear about it in the mainstream like you used to. Jethro Tull is still awesome, too.
CaptainHollyShort 1 year ago
@Aqualung1989 Check out Kryteria
jethrodassam 1 year ago
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MrPaddyelvis 1 year ago
Do not worry pal...at least you have plenty of music to listen to..me, though Ive lived in that era, well, a bit later, I 've never had a chance to go to see them play alive at the concert...and now its not the same.
kykulienka 2 years ago
Ha I'm 15, I feel the same exact way. We got screwed over didn't we?
comfortablynumb2294 2 years ago
i'm 12 and i agree so much with you guys. but i've seen jethro tull in concert and they were amazing.
UnholyConfessions10 2 years ago 2
You my friend are awesome. I am 33 and if its relevant ot you am vegan and atheist and think humans are dooming themselves. I have a friend from Germany who has on his license plate frame "Humanity Is Insanity" : D You know when I was 15 the lies became apparent to me it sux but brushing aside the diaphanous sheets of deceit is worth it. Stay strong and much love : )
pikamdk187 2 years ago
very astute thinking.
theJaydog 1 year ago
I see you also hate Kelly Clarckson. B-)
May I correct you? Not all music is crap this days. Only COMMERCIAL music. Very big difference.
colouredmirrorball 2 years ago 2
Oh, boy... One of those...
Really, there's nothing inherently bad with people who want to make a living with their music, is there? You can hardly expect them to just hand out cd's for free or something.
I do have to admit though, that the problem of the music industry does indeed find its roots in commercialism. There are a lot of good bands out there that can't get a record label because their music isn't 'in' at the moment.
There are some good bands left though. Porcupine tree for example
rodyle1313 2 years ago
yes rodyle1313, there is nothing inherently wrong with being paid to write & perform music. however, query whether the artist who achieves commercial success is truly playing "their music." it goes w/o saying that one who writes & plays "their music" what's in their heart & mind, could hit it big or end up playing in the mall spare change. [to be con't]
bilmand 2 years ago 2
on the other hand, musically, isn't there something wrong when a person decides to play or, worse, write, music that is not "their music" but which sells because they want to live in a big house on a hill, instead of writing the music that might be in their heart and mind. Or maybe there is nothing in them - they're just facile with an instrument but have no "soul"?
I don't know ...
bilmand 2 years ago 2
That is true. However, people just like to gloat all over so called 'commercial' groups because they sold out. They keep forgetting that they sold out as well when they took their 9 to 5 job not because they like it, but because it earns well.
They're basically the same kind of people who post comments like markmACDC's.
rodyle1313 2 years ago
@bilmand here's how I see it. Writers write, actors act, composers compose, singers sing, players play their instruments. Not everyone can do it all. Great if they can, but what about the person who can write good lyrics, but can't sing to save his life? Sure, he can sell it as poetry, or *gasp* to be used as lyrics in a song. A composer may make the musical composition for the musicians to play, and the singer interprets the song to that music. This has been the way for ages.
jcrawf79 1 year ago
i second Aqualung1989. and its refreshing to read you r comment about music. except the mean stuff. peace.
theJaydog 1 year ago
@iRepEast Has to agree with the other comment. There are bands out there that are good. Not many are 'in' with the music industry. So, you get the crap that's popular, which, though it has a shallow message and does whatever it takes to shock and awe, it's all mostly flash in the pan and does nothing new. So, it's 'safe' and sells, and that's all that matters to the industry.
But if you look hard enough, you can find good modern bands that refuse to abide by the industry.
jcrawf79 1 year ago
@iRepEast Haha I hear a lot of younguns (I'm 28) listening to classic rock bands. I agree about music nowadays. Don't worry, a lot of people grow out of being retarded, deluded, and shallow. They grow up to be merely media-dazzled.
Gomanson 1 year ago
@iRepEast Im 15, and i friggin love jethro tull. and though there are good modern bands they arent very popular, because most of the music crowd is leaning towards the pop stuff like that. which is truly a sad sight.... they pour their soul in their music, while people just put down whatever ryhms, or just make up a ton of words that almost rhym, but have no meaning. im just glad there was old music. it rules!!!!!!
SgtKickazz 1 year ago
@iRepEast i hear you brother, teleport me to the seventys!
hellsing418 1 year ago
@iRepEast
What does age have to do with good music? Listen to what you want, and popularity be damned. There is enough really good "old" music to last you a life time. I'm 57 and I still rattle the windows in my car with the likes of Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull.
Iaido47 1 year ago 3
@iRepEast
I think it really has to do with how music is recorded today, if you consider that all the old bands (and songs) were recorded as close to live as possible, which meant the overall feeling of the songs "felt" natural. But these days, except for the indi bands, everything is set to STMP code (set to a computer counted beat, with no deviation), which means there is no longer "life" to the songs.
I really miss those songs with life. Thanks for bringing me back to my youth Aqualung :)
shadowynfilms 1 year ago
I have just turnt 18 and i feel the same way mate don't worry you're not alone.
thenameispuc 1 year ago
@iRepEast - With all due respect, the album was released in 1979. The top 5 hits of 1979 were Heart of Glass by Blondie, I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor, Pop Muzik by M, Hot Stuff by Donna Summer and Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles. This is a year when bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Rush were going strong in the underground. Popular music has always sucked. It's the underground stuff that emerges twenty years down the road that gets remembered.
Guildrum 1 year ago 3
@iRepEast Maybe if you take a turn and view things in a different way, you'll find that in the eighties heavy metal was considered obscene compared to rock and roll. In the fifties rock and roll was the music of the thugs and lowlives. In the thirties, when everyone were racists, jazz and soul were lowly black guys' music. In the mid 1800s romantic music was gross and revoloutionist. Etc... Question is: Do you think we face the worst now? What if 20 years later they will say "good ol' 2000s..."
TheKristof91 9 months ago
Stands the test of time, still listening to this album after all those years.
You are right, incredibly underrated.
geordiegreek 2 years ago
excellent song! masterpiece!
yogsothoth88 2 years ago 3
It's a masterpiece from an underrated album indeed. I never quite understood the "last gasp of the folk-period" view of many critics (and fans). To me the album musically bridges the more folk-oriented predecessors and the darker, progrock-jazz-oriented "A". Immaculate songwriting, great heavy riffing, the haunting "Dun Ringill" - Tull at it's best. How anyone can consider this weaker than, say, Crest of a Knave (the first record from Tull I consider seriously mediocre), is beyond me.
thenavajoknow 3 years ago 3
The transition at 2:35 Oh Yeah!! No one else does it quite like Ian and Tull.
jethrotullisawesome 3 years ago 4
This is first time I've ever responded on the "tube." I'm in my mid-forties, and I've always taken a lot of flack for this, but "Stormwatch" is still my favorite Tull album/cd. I actually originally bought this on an 8-track tape, ha ha. That says something about my age, right? I just think this compilation of tunes has always been highly underated. How's that for an oxymoron. Thanks for the upload.
OzTexSpunkyBum 3 years ago 18
@OzTexSpunkyBum the folk trio albums sftw hh and this are my fav tull era...the perfect mix of folk, prog, and heavy metal...and tull's best lineup! plus stormwatch has Ian more in touch with his Scottish roots more than ever Warm Sporran (pouch on a kilt), Kelpie (loch horse), North Sea Oil (scottish economy), and Dun Ringill (scottish fort)...love it
jstarang1 1 year ago
@OzTexSpunkyBum The main thing you became a Jethro Tull fan I first got to know them in 1975 with Aqualung
meerforelle61 1 year ago
yes great song 2nd time through listerned to the lyrics more closly very good tune.... im trying to spread the love on jethro tull to my age group and its no easy task sadly enuff!!
joeytoker 3 years ago 3
Brillant song, thank you for uploading it.
raindog108 3 years ago 4
Truer words nere ever spoken.
Hushashabega 3 years ago 4
this song is awesome!
FusilliJerry89 3 years ago 5