Jethro Tull - Critique Oblique

[@erniekehn4890]

I bought my first tull album ( benefit ) in 1970. I was 10 years old. Hooked on tull ever since . Passion play, awesome

[@tomt.3089]

Will never stop listening! Incredible musicianship & creativity! Small Audience in today’s world , but who cares! Find the truth & Follow! Too complicated for the Masses. A timeless classic Beethoven, Mozart ****Jethro Tull ****‼️

[@RedBlackMagic]

It's so unbelievable great and fantastic, I love it so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would like to embrace you all! I saw the "Passion Play" Tour live in in CCH Hamburg 1973, this was the first concert I ever attendet, and I am grateful, that I may hear this indescribably wonderful music! Thanxxx so much!!! J E T H R O T U L L for eternity................!!!

[@saveriodepace5744]

One pearl heard 46 years after I listened to, and loved, P.P.. Fantastic!!

[@kirkb2596]

This piece explains why not only Tull was my favorite band but also one of the best rock bands ever

[@PepperoniWolf]

Absolutely godly. No other words can be used to describe this bit of music.

[@bandfromtheband9445]

It's so good, it's SCARY GOOD!!!

[@blackinblue11]

@@bandfromtheband9445 Indeed!

[@delmusdugan]

The great part about this song is that ALL versions are incredible

[@abrahamlugo9297]

I absolutly agree

[@stecar9122003]

My downfall is not seeing them more in concert. How I wish that time could be turned back to see them in their prime and younger years because I was just a little runt back then. Thank God for video and other recording devices so that the music can live on forever.

[@yamesw5613]

Jethro Tull continues to astonish me. A Passion Play is my favorite album by that incarnation of the band, composed BY the most talented and gifted players in Tull's career. Ian Anderson will concur.

[@jawoody9745]

They were a brilliant band, every incarnation. This happens to be my favorite one, with Barrie Barlow, Jeffery H.H. and John Evan. And of course, Mr. Barre and Mr. Anderson.

[@blackinblue11]

Can't get over it. Barlow was a madman. Hammond was a madman. John Evan, what the hell is that sound 7:33? We heard wild hammond sounds in the old days, but that sounds like a organ dismantled from the church, transported to that chateau to be assembled and connected to leslie amps. What a massive dirty warm wicked sound of a madman. Barre is a madman, unheard sound from the era, so fluid and sensitive but aggressive playing. Ofc that Anderson is a madman. Full on hard rock progressive, with a FLUTE! What a piece of music, musicianship and what a SOUND! As good as the music gets..

[@8WASSIMHADDAD3]

My favourite song ever and the album (A passion play) is the best

[@PepperoniWolf]

This is certainly the fiercest flouting I've ever heard. Damn, I wish I could play it.

[@diodoubled]

When I was 12 years old I heard Dream Theater for the fist time and taught it was revolutionary peace of music way ahead of its time.. now i am 25 and know that Jethro Tull are the fathers of the modern progressive rock- way before and way ahead of everybody else... this tune proves it!

[@bandfromtheband9445]

I was introduced and inundated with great progressive music from a very young age. I was 8 when my sister's boyfriend bought me "In the Wake of Poseidon" by King Crimson. He had already turned me on to their first album. So this kind of stuff was played in my room all the time. I remember getting "Tommy" for my 9th birthday along with "Abbey Road" for Christmas. I was also playing Jethro Tull's "Stand Up" a lot during those years, as well as Emerson, Lake & Palmer's first album. My neighbors hated me!!!

[@rodneyroyce547]

Love Jethro Tull . Nobody else even come close !!!

[@rodneyroyce5913]

@bogen broom Well Said !!

[@gregthornton4209]

I know it was a nightmare for the band, but I quite enjoy the Chateau D'Isaster recordings...

[@joao6914]

This song is AWESOME!!!! How can it be SO AWESOME???!!!!

[@bandfromtheband9445]

That is a very good question!

[@irwest54]

I saw the very first live performance of Passion Play live at Empire Pool , WembleyUK. It was f******in' brilliant. Critics hammered it and JT was pilloried !! What the hell do they know?

[@redbowlermusicandpies1015]

just love the music from this Tull era - you can see Passion Play being grown!

[@cloudywinter6828]

critique oblique....one of my absolute favorite pieces of music by Tull

[@jawoody9745]

Can hear so much that made it onto "A Passion Play," my favorite Tull album.

[@TheJohnnyfever]

big tull fan forever, sort of stumbed on this while surfing----HOLY SHIT!

[@WoodRatGirl]

Oh Ian Anderson, you brilliant man! Whenever I hear his flute, it makes me want to dance.

[@WizardintheWoods]

That's just bloody wonderful... I cried. I laughed... I played air guitar like a fool. Thank you.

[@kirkb2286]

After I heard aqualung I was hooked.....saw them many times and was never disappointed...could possibly be the most underrated band ever... Jimmy Page told me they toured with Tull and he said not a bad ticket right....then I said what was probably the stupidest thing I ever said... I told Jimmy that Tull was my favorite band... SMH

[@bandfromtheband9445]

Dark! Amazing! His flute just HOWWWWLS! This version is by far better, but dare I diss the "Passion Play" album? Never!

[@marijanbrkic4875]

Excellent version! 🍻

[@bonniemattesonrobbins3623]

Love jethro tull!!!!! Thats why I play the flute.

[@johnacosta2989]

cuz ian influenced you to play the flute is Awsome dear!

[@johnacosta2989]

cuz ian influenced you to play the flute is Awsome dear!

[@johnacosta2989]

cuz ian influenced you to play the flute is Awsome dear!

[@sylveadiff2813]

I will admit that he was my primary inspiration to take up the instrument as well, and I haven't regretted it since. Keep that right arm strong, friend!

[@bandfromtheband9445]

That is very cool! Can you play this?

[@MarkCurtsinger58]

Never herd this version.sounds awesome.

[@atuliti]

I feel it's a precis of Passion Play. What a treat !! It's a Trip.

[@redbowlermusicandpies1015]

just love the tracks that built up to Passion Play. brilliant

[@markcraven3842]

Passion Play was my first concert I went to back in high school. Great album!!!!!!!!!!! Now I have turned into Aqualung sitting on that park bench eyeing school girls.....

[@Wulfgod1349]

Never, NEVER fails to amaze!

[@tomflynn2912]

Saw them in 75 Warchild tour! I was in awe!

[@Acereroi]

I never heard this song OMG is amazing!

[@gothling1955]

This is bloddy wonderful!!! i love it, I truly do. It makes me long all the more to have seen the "Passion Play" tour live & in-person -- it's one of my great regrets that I missed out on witnessing that show. You know what? I did a wicked thing. I took the Chateau d'Isaster tracks and edited them into the "Passion Play" CD, as sort of bonus tracks wherever I thought they fit best. Personally, I think it's great. However, I doubt that Ian would appove. Thanks so much for sharing, Aqua.

[@wizardmj84]

I'm always said that i was a Jethro Tull's fan... an this videos told that i'm just aq pup... thanks, for this masterwork!!!!!!

[@barryweinrich7289]

Awesome ! Never heard this version . Thanks !!!

[@dreamertangeriner4712]

Thank you so much for sharing please upload the full album. Please and thanks again.

[@chrispehora7987]

Passion Play not one of my favourite albums. Maybe i just didnt understand it? Now I Do!

[@tsarevna212]

Out-fucking-standing to us " ladies" too!

[@Celtichunter80]

Jethro tull a band much ahead of some bands that come after them ;)!

[@ToddMason]

Great tune, great pix Thanks!

[@yamesw5613]

Thanks for posting. Its great to hear the earlier versions of what went down on APP. How do they write incredible music like this without knowing notation or chart reading and learning everything by ear?

[@inokpati]

this version beat million times the album version.Long live Ian.

[@pwatts8846]

This is basically a rather crude working version of the second half of side 1 of APP. What appears on the album is about 50 times better in terms of sound quality. This is an interesting curiosity but little more.

[@bandfromtheband9445]

I think that it is more than an "interesting curiosity!" It's a better version of "Oblique Critique" than what ended up on "A Passion Play." It has a lot more energy and Ian's flute is twice as menacing than what ended up on that album.The only thing I miss HERE, from the APP album, are the flatted 16th notes John Evan played on piano when the whole thing kicks in at 15:40 on APP side one .

[@doktorhipp]

this is no doubt my favourite Jethro Tull song. Wow.

[@zapped56]

LOL......I did the same exact project last year utilizing almost all of the Nightcap tracks and spliced them into various areas of APP where they would fit nicely for a total of 77 minutes. It came out perfect. I only listen to it this way now.

[@davidryan7386]

care to share?

[@adolforodolfo6929]

77 minutes - that's a lot longer than APP.

[@arjunlesroches]

again proving there is no music out there that sounds like this, although no doubt the Final Cut is as good. I defy the musicians of today to construct anything like this. No way right? I thought so myself......

[@dillotank9421]

I agree Arjun. Ian Anderson is the musical genius of our time. I listen to a lot of classical music. Anderson's music is more creative then most of the great classical music. A lot of classical music is formulaic. Anderson's music is always new and fresh, highly innovative. I listen to Tull more than everything else combined.

[@jawoody9745]

We will NEVER hear music of this quality played by anyone these days! I hate to be a naysayer, but no one writes such amazing music anymore! Jethro Tull were a brilliant product of their time and we were so lucky to have them, and to still have them!

[@andros6872]

Semplicemente fantastico

[@dmemswiler]

I saw consecutive tours -- probably 10 or so -- beginning in 1974 in Hersheypark Arena, PA, then Philly at the Spectrum. I, too, regret not seeing this tour, though a good friend, a tidy bit older than I, saw it. She said it was incredible, the first musical "play" she ever imagined seeing. Incredible genius. Martin Barre is so incredible. Now I'm in TX and Tull skips the hick state, for some reason.

[@jstarang1]

Gentlemen, what we have here is some out-FUCKING-standing Tull! Mr. Lung, thank you...

[@234cheech]

the man who made the flute part of rock folklore

[@rafaelcampanomoreno6133]

Los mejores 👍❤️

[@ballaballapo]

GRANDISSIMO MUSICISTA QUESTO JETHRO TULL

[@salvatoreesposito1975.]

Jethro Tull è la band il cantante è Ian Anderson, tanto per chiarire: comunque è verissimo, sono fantastici e unici. Musica Progressiva, ad alto livello dal 68' ad oggi ...

[@danielodom3839]

AWESOME IS RIGHT!!!

[@gregthornton4209]

A lot of infant Warchild music on this album as well

[@kurtizzyflush]

This is the kind of alternate take that makes some hate Tull and makes me Love Tull. What a crusher.

[@Gyurci77]

great photos!

[@kesicz12]

Pretty long sentences of influences to mental excercises. Thanks for sharing. :)

[@briancox8518]

Brilliant track

[@mdlereah1]

Excellent!

[@jimwhittamore8796]

Did the melody from the segment between 7:50 and 8:40 ever become anything more? It's great & I can't remember it being in A Passion Play. Superb stuff.

[@adolforodolfo6929]

I honestly don't think it did - but, yes, it's powerful.

[@blackinblue11]

I really does fill your lungs, doesn't it..

[@dillotank9421]

This part is absolutely incredible. Hats of to you for remarking on it. And no, it's not a part of A Passion Play, too bad, I say. I have never heard it incorporated into any Tull that I have heard. I'm not familiar with all of their material, but very familiar with the older stuff up until Roots to Branches, or there about.

[@adamnapier7491]

Love that segment. Will put the song on just to get to it :)

[@gianfrancoludovisi9539]

in my opinion, better than the one gone on a passion play

[@aleksandrbobrov778]

Jethro Tull classik rock

[@TheRevelsOffice]

Briljant!

[@Robert-s1k8p]

Good to see an fellow aqualung though I might have been the last 🎉

[@Ichnusia]

Ian is a genius, I love him!

[@barryweinrich7289]

I haven't heard this in 8 years ? What the heck did the time go ?

[@adamrussell658]

Impressive alternate version.

[@MeIrakli]

Great music to study to )

[@bobby666666]

A Passion Play is my fvce JT album. Minstrel and Songs from Woods are great too. I have just listened to this track earlier on disc. The Nightcap second disc is a bit naff in places except for the 70's tracks and Paradise Steakhouse, The first disc from '73 is pure magic.

[@reidsmith9857]

Jethro Tull Viv ever. ? O'god

[@JJKarpinski]

Better than the album version imo.

[@deanbagdasarian5017]

F%^^&KING GREAT

[@MrMagusperde]

Yes

[@rosemariebarrientos]

Dios!

[@runningmarcus]

Rock N' Roll!

[@dogus.utoopia]

♡♡♡♡♡

[@SweetHomeOMine]

@willdarling1609 Yeah I Get Those Lyric Stuck In My Head THen Start Singing Them Out Loud!!

[@paolog2853]

Ian compose ció a circa 25 anni di età!!

[@fdmcallister]

Fucking hell!!!

[@MsLibramoon]

@badumpy I agree totally.

[@JedemSvakiDan]

My wife doesn't like it either. I'm not yet ready to eliminate her for the reason; so we have separate rooms.

[@CrimsonKing73]

can you elaborate on that? have you heard the first album? also, put a live version of "Exiles" on the ol' turntable sometime....you might change your mind.......

[@costarica1952]

:)

[@johnroberts3723]

Flute flute flute.

[@kurtizzyflush]

@dmemswiler They probably don't come too far south after the "nationalism" statement Ian made just after 911.

[@marcocaschili5025]

che bella...meglio di A passion play

[@robertblaisdell6555]

I wonder why 9 thumbs downed it ?

[@kennyraicherter1264]

Probly rappers who else

[@devon31415]

I seriously doubt that she left you because of your taste in music. She probably left you because she was not satisfied for whatever reason.

[@williameyre4501]

From the O C WIZARD "there is nothing as good as this anywhere and ever" bring forth more.0

[@CrimsonKing73]

is this the originl mix? (SORRY, the key doesn't work)

[@badumpy]

@rickscafe13902 better off with the Tull collection :)

[@robinpayneguitar]

How would you know? After all, I wouldn't expect that you've actually listened to all of it, or very much of it at all for that matter, seeing as you find it UNlistenable....

[@justgivemethetruth]

most of king crimson's music is almost unlistenable, in a musical sense.

[@CrimsonKing73]

well, you never really know, do you. Tull and progessive rock in general is not exactly a favorite among most of the ladies out there.....)notice i said "most" of the ladies).... In fact, the only g/f i've ever had when I was 40 told me (at the time she left me) that she HATED King Crimson.....so go figure......you might be right, you might be wrong, eh?

[@justgivemethetruth]

So what the hell is become of jethro tull with ian stealing the material for himself and making sequels and martin out on the road playing old tull ... badly ... are we ever going to see any more jethro tull music?

[@HerrFinsternis]

Eleven people are awful, AWFUL!

[@justgivemethetruth]

There are some of their songs that I like, and I don't like most of them. Is that fu-ing OK with you? Who do you think you are? Of course I've listened to them and owned them. I started with "Court Of The Crimson King" which was very progressive and literate, then they moves into some kind of modern classical jazzy stuff which some of it is OK, but it's not the kind of stuff you listen to often and some of it - TO ME - is unlistenable.