Samples? What a tease. I like the instrumental of "Pebbles Thrown". "Might Have Beens" works for me. This is going to be a 2012 album that many can relate to. Comparing this to 1972 is not possible. If I was 15, I might not rush out to record store for this. Oh, I forgot, no record stores anymore. I'll get this just on the assumption that Ian Anderson knows what he is doing. That's good enough for me.
Good Day....I agree that the few songs I heard from this album sounds somewhat like Rupi's Dance, but I really like the instrumental piece and if there are more like that, the I will buy this album....but I must agree with SealDriver, Tull as we knew them, is no longer....
Silken...
I don't know,I really didn't care for this instrumental when it was simply called, "That Fucking Tune."
There have been snippets of 9 out of 17 songs between the official TAAB2 Trailer, The Planet Rock Interview and the new samples of website and the ones they been playing for the past tour or two ,Adrift and A Change of Horses still sound the best. But I agree with TM , that I don't remember any accordian on the original TAAB and it's time to scrap that thing. Kismet in Suburbia sounds like it has potential but the two spoken ones probably won't be listened to more than once and won't get a download in my rotation.
I love the idea of a new I.A. disc but I already feel like it was a mistake to label it TAAB2 as there will always be comparisons, no Martin and just seems like a way of cashing in on the Tull name wrapped in Ian Anderson clothing. I think I.A. would have better served just naming it something different and trying to let the fan base discover that it was indeed a continuation of the TAAB theme.
Upper 6th Loan Shark sample sounds like "Set Aside" to me at first blush. And I agree with TM that with all the emphasis by Ian that the original instrumentation was maintained for this one....(i.e. Les Paul/Hammond organ)....what's up with the squeezy thing?
Re: TAAB2 Samples! « Reply #23 on Mar 5, 2012, 9:14am »
It IS an Ian solo project....new music is better than NO new music...I do wish it was a Tull project with Martin....but its done....that all being said, I like the samples...interesting...Ian's new sound is of course more mellow and acoustic based....its nice
I hate to state the obvious... but, technically, this is an Ian Anderson solo project.
I'd prefer to let this work rise or fall on its own merits and am trying to keep preconceptions as to how I think it should sound to a minimum. I want to hear how Ian thinks TAAB2 should sound...
I hate to reply to the obvious...but if an artist decides to afix a '2' to an album (or Two, Too, II, Deux, etc.), they are indicating continuity, both musically and conceptually, to the original - in this case, a Jethro Tull album. With that ponderous weight is added the incumbent expectations that the second album lives up to the content of the first.
It is very dangerous ground Ian is treading, in that one cannot help but have at least a nominal bit of preconceived notions regarding what the album should sound like. If it were just another Ian Anderson solo project, then there is no worry, and no heightened expectations. It is a cross that the album must bear.
The new samples sound pretty good. I was going to call TAAB2 a Jethro Tull album, but from what I've heard, it sounds like an Ian solo disc. Still love it though. Come on April.
Re: TAAB2 Samples! « Reply #26 on Mar 5, 2012, 9:48am »
This certainly sounds like Rupi 2 not a TAAB 2 but that being said t is the Ian Anderson Band not Jethro Tull. Like others have stated I don't think it was a wise idea to call it TAAB 2, without at least Martin. However we must look at the BIG positive of this it is new material and Ian is eager to write it sounds like, with another on the way. I do hope that these little teases are just that, and when we get to hear the entire project it will have a better feel to it. As it it is right now it is like a hot fudge sunday it great just to have the ice cream , but even better when you add the hot fudge, whip cream and the nuts...
Re: TAAB2 Samples! « Reply #27 on Mar 5, 2012, 10:00am »
The samples sound great! I have to say that a lack of "balls" matters not one whit to me. Some old Tull songs that have balls number among my least favorites. I have always loved Ian's acoustic side, and yet marveled at how he was never a folk singer or acoustic pop performer like James Taylor or people like that (who really ARE bland, in my opinion) while not fitting comfortably into the rock genre, either. He forged his own musical path. I like his gentle stuff, and think it still retains the dynamics, the highs and lows...
Good Day....I agree that the few songs I heard from this album sounds somewhat like Rupi's Dance, but I really like the instrumental piece and if there are more like that, the I will buy this album....but I must agree with SealDriver, Tull as we knew them, is no longer....
Silken...
I don't know,I really didn't care for this instrumental when it was simply called, "That Fucking Tune."
There have been snippets of 9 out of 17 songs between the official TAAB2 Trailer, The Planet Rock Interview and the new samples of website and the ones they been playing for the past tour or two ,Adrift and A Change of Horses still sound the best. But I agree with TM , that I don't remember any accordian on the original TAAB and it's time to scrap that thing. Kismet in Suburbia sounds like it has potential but the two spoken ones probably won't be listened to more than once and won't get a download in my rotation.
I love the idea of a new I.A. disc but I already feel like it was a mistake to label it TAAB2 as there will always be comparisons, no Martin and just seems like a way of cashing in on the Tull name wrapped in Ian Anderson clothing. I think I.A. would have better served just naming it something different and trying to let the fan base discover that it was indeed a continuation of the TAAB theme.
Re: TAAB2 Samples! « Reply #29 on Mar 5, 2012, 10:21am »
The little video on the Tull site had some nice sounding full-bodied music that sounded like a revisit to TAAB might be worthwhile. These are kind of "meh."
Much as I am a Tull and Ian Anderson backer, I cringe at his spoken word stuff (especially the little add-on commercials he stuck on his solo albums) and I, quite frankly, hated the lyrical content on a lot of Rupi's Dance. The samples here evoke that kind of disinterest from me.
I am beginning to feel that my loyalty to "the brand" is waning, not unlike Mr. Barre.
As for the question "In looking back, has there ever been a Tull album that you simply connected with upon the very first listen?"
For me, yeah. All of the early ones, up to WarChild. But I was a kid. As things went: certainly Stormwatch (my personal favorite), A, the much hated Under Wraps (a live drums re-master would be cool, though I loved the "drums" on "Saboteur" and Roots to Branches (a late career masterpiece, IMHO).
I never have the urge to listen to Catfish Rising or Rock Island. I still remember the Viilage Voice ripping Ian a new one for his "fan surveys" prior to the release of Crest of A Knave and they were right about that, too.
I am pleasantly amazed at the differing "favorite Tull" and "disliked Tull" of fellow Tull fans. We are a very eclectic club, even within our own ranks, indeed.
Re: TAAB2 Samples! « Reply #30 on Mar 5, 2012, 10:25am »
And in regards to the Pebbles Instrumental, if by putting the words 'Thick As A Brick ' throughout the clip is trying to make the case for continuity ,then it sounds a little forced. No need for it there just like there was no need for the ..."It's Rupi's Dance " tacked on the end of that title song.
Re: TAAB2 Samples! « Reply #31 on Mar 5, 2012, 10:50am »
Do we all care that much what the thing is called?
If that was the 'inspiration' for Ian to write again... let him call a spade a spade. He could call it Pink Elephants from Mars for all I care... I'll make a judgment call on the content not the cover.
As for the spoken word stuff... yes it will get old on a repeat listen... but its not like this is the first time spoken word has cropped up in the middle of a concept album... and I don't hear too many on this Board bashing Passion Play....
And in regards to the Pebbles Instrumental, if by putting the words 'Thick As A Brick ' throughout the clip is trying to make the case for continuity ,then it sounds a little forced. No need for it there just like there was no need for the ..."It's Rupi's Dance " tacked on the end of that title song.
Dan
Is that what we are hearing? I was wondering what he was saying...
Edit - Wow, having now heard it and knowing what he's saying I don't know about that....
And in regards to the Pebbles Instrumental, if by putting the words 'Thick As A Brick ' throughout the clip is trying to make the case for continuity ,then it sounds a little forced. No need for it there just like there was no need for the ..."It's Rupi's Dance " tacked on the end of that title song.
Dan
Is that what we are hearing? I was wondering what he was saying...
Edit - Wow, having now heard it and knowing what he's saying I don't know about that....
Yes. Listen again. I'm surprised there isn't a subliminal -"buy merchandise at the shows" message.
Do we all care that much what the thing is called?
If that was the 'inspiration' for Ian to write again... let him call a spade a spade. He could call it Pink Elephants from Mars for all I care... I'll make a judgment call on the content not the cover.
As for the spoken word stuff... yes it will get old on a repeat listen... but its not like this is the first time spoken word has cropped up in the middle of a concept album... and I don't hear too many on this Board bashing Passion Play....
Good question. I guess we'll find out soon enough if this album is worthy of name Ian has given it.
And in regards to the Pebbles Instrumental, if by putting the words 'Thick As A Brick ' throughout the clip is trying to make the case for continuity ,then it sounds a little forced. No need for it there just like there was no need for the ..."It's Rupi's Dance " tacked on the end of that title song.
Dan
Is that what we are hearing? I was wondering what he was saying...
Edit - Wow, having now heard it and knowing what he's saying I don't know about that....
Ian says Thick as a Brick all right.
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Re: TAAB2 Samples! « Reply #38 on Mar 5, 2012, 11:27am »
The album is not going to tickle us as much as the original Thick as a Brick did, so we really can't have too much of the expectation that might come with the title.
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