Jethro Tull- Dark Ages

Jethro Tull- Dark Ages, from the album Stormwatch

Category:

Music

Tags:

• dark
• ages
• jethro
• tull
• stormwatch
• ian
• anderson

[10squonk]

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!

[Aqualung1989]

@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]

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)

[888peterine]

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?

[aliensporebomb]

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.

[JackinTheWoods]

this sounds so much like WAR CHILD DANCE THE DAYS AND NITES AWAY

[willicat441]

Martin" fucking classic rock" Barre rocks this monster of a song, just another day at the office for the genius of Tull.

[pyschobabble101]

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!

[Veaseify]

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...

[Stormwatch153]

This is THE music for the others - for us! TULL FOREVER!

[add2718]

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.

[luciemelanie25]

The most Group in the world ,durand les 30 dernières années (c'est évident!)