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	Stormwatch (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stormwatch (1979) is a concept album by the rock group Jethro Tull - the third in a trilogy of albums mixing traditional British Isles folk harmonies with more conventional pop rock music.
		The album deals with the deterioration of the environment, warning of an apocalyptic future if mankind does not cease its drive for economic growth and pay attention to nature.
		In 2004, a remastered version of Stormwatch was released with an additional four bonus tracks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stormwatch_(album) (155 words)

	A (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was released on August 29, 1980 in the U.K. and September 1 of the same year in the United States.
		The album was recorded in the summer of 1980 using Maison Rouge Mobile and Maison Rouge Studios in Fulham, London.
		The album was produced by Ian Anderson and Robin Black.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_(album) (186 words)

	Stormwatch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stormwatch is a rock album by Jethro Tull.
		Stormwatch is a comic book published by Wildstorm, best known for having been written toward the end of its run by Warren Ellis as a lead-in to The Authority.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stormwatch (110 words)

	Jethro Tull [www.progweed.net]
		Albums like Stand Up, Aqualung, A Passion Play, Living in the Past, Songs from the Wood, Heavy Horses, Minstrel in the Gallery and Thick as a Brick are cornerstones of any collection, with the latter being a good candidate for best progressive rock album of all time.
		The next album, Benefit, which was preceded by numerous one-stop singles to keep the band's name in the charts, would become their breakthrough album in the U.S., reaching #11 on the Billboard Charts, and spawning a series of American gigs.
		This album took the progressive tendencies to a whole new level, and as a result garnered heaps of criticism from both fans and the media for being pretentious and overblown.
	www.progweed.net /reviews/jethrotull/jethrotull-band.html (3769 words)

	Jethro Tullpage Living In The Past
		One of the the longest U.K. surviving bands, With their debut album in 1968 (this was) and their performance at the Rolling Stones Rock'n roll circus, and their performances at the royal albert hall and the Festival Island of whigt, they were a unique phenomenon in music history.
		The album a passion play 1973 was even more complexed and dipite the criticism of the lenghth of the album and the lyrics it reached n0.1 in the U.S.A. and no.14 in England.
		Although with the good album stormwatch (more rock album)they again had modest success followed up by an album called A. The album I think had not the quality of Stormwatch.
	staal-j.greatnow.com /tullpage.html (510 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Stormwatch: Remastered [Original recording remastered]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stormwatch is an excellent if somewhat uneven album, the track in Dark Ages in particular being among the greatest Tull songs; brilliant lyrics with a musical play on the opening notes of Beethoven's (Anderson's favourite composer) 5th to indicate how far Britain was in the Winter of Discontent from the Enlightenment.
		Stormwatch is the heaviest/most guitar oriented of three studio albums but still contains plenty of great melodies and softer moments.
		Altough it has some dark lyrics on it, this album is the third in the trilogy of Songs from the wood and Heavy Horses with a nice folk-rock feel to it.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000YB7ZI (852 words)

	New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock J
		Through the years, the band's sound evolved to encompass far more: After three albums they became a duo and esentially did away with vocals, and released another string of four albums for the Island label that are monuments of inventiveness, although seldom fully appreciated by those who cut their teeth on the first three.
		Their best album in many years, it is a return to their progressive years, it even includes an improv with some orchestra members, reminding to their early 70's releases.
		This album was released in April, 2005 on the Russian MALS label for distribution in Russia and CIS states, and is also distributed by Musea Records for Europe and Kinesis Records in the United States.
	www.gepr.net /j.html (13570 words)

	TroyRutter.com - Music : Stormwatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Really this is just the 12th album in a row of very impressive songwriting and musicianship, all quite different and unbelievably creative and professional (often called the classic 12).
		This is their second best album of the 70's, and possibly about the third best in their entire output.
		This was the final Tull album by the "classic" lineup and it is apparent from listening that they were suffering from a great deal of collective burnout.
	www.troyrutter.com /B0000YB7ZI/Stormwatch.htm (398 words)

	Progressive Ears Album Reviews
		Stormwatch, released in 1979 is often considered the last "classic" JT-album and I'm inclined to agree.
		This was the third and last album of JT's "folk-prog"-era but imo it also hints what's to come on the following "A"-album.
		This album has a heavier and darker feel than the previous folk-prog records of JT but that's not a bad thing imho.
	www.progressiveears.com /ASP/reviews.asp?bhjs=0&albumID=2360 (221 words)

	Daily Vault - July 23, 2004
		While the album is still a little tentative, it does have some fantastic moments.
		Yet after digging Stormwatch out of the depths of the Pierce Memorial Archives, I have to admit there are other songs which come very close to "Dun Ringill" in terms of sheer beauty.
		Granted, Stormwatch has some tentative moments on it, but for the most part it is a disc that deserves a lot more attention than it ever has gotten.
	www.dailyvault.com /2004_07_23-ct.html (678 words)

	JohnK's Tull Reviews: A Tull for the '70s, Part II
		What made the album fascinating was that it was released with a comic strip on the inside of the album that illustrates the story of Ray Lomas, and ties the various songs on the album to one another.
		The title of the album was a reference to the heavy working horses, a dying breed with the advent of technology, and the album is somewhat more dark, more menacing in tone, although it does have its light moments and there is a sense of hope on the record as well.
		The album portrays Tull as a terrific live act, and if the banter on the album of Ian Anderson on stage, both with the audience and the band members, is any indication of these concerts, the atmosphere must have been absolutely wonderful.
	www.comnet.ca /~jkahane/jtull/albums/reviews/seventiestull2.html (2800 words)

	Jethro Tull
		By 1970 the bands keyboardist became a full time member and with their third album Benefit, Tull were a Heavy folk rock band and the medievil influence became noticeable with replacement of the bass player and the release of Aqualung in 1971.
		This was a compilation of previous album outtakes and singles, which were mainly the most interesting, catchy and advanced songs of the albums sessions they belonged to.
		These releases are the icing on the cake with aproximately 90 valuable album outtakes which elevates the band from being a very good band to being the greatest band the world is possible to encounter.
	www.raylomus.com /Jethro_Tull.html (1069 words)

	JohnK's Tull Reviews: Tull Into the Eighties
		After the Stormwatch album, Ian Anderson had wanted to record an album of solo music at the request of both Chrysalis Records and the fans.
		The new album was The Broadsword and the Beast, and it was a return to the old Tull form and tradition, but the new keyboards sound was used in an effective manner and didn't overshadow the Tull Celtic and rock 'n' roll influence of the earlier work.
		The Tull album for 1984, Under Wraps, was a Jethro Tull album that didn't have a drummer, as Ian Anderson elected to go with an electronic drum machine on this one, and continue the trend of electronic keyboards as a new element.
	www.comnet.ca /~jkahane/jtull/albums/reviews/eightiestull.html (1032 words)

	Album Artwork (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The album cover I chose is by a band called No Doubt and the name of the album is TRAGIC KINGDOM..
		The song I liked was don't speak because it reminds of a time when I was in a dispute with someone, and I knew exactly what they were thinking without a word being saying but by their expressions..
		Unlike his other albums where he curses a lot or raps about violence, this is about the good times and bad times that he has encountered.
	classweb.howardcc.edu /cmsy133/album_art (918 words)

	Daily Vault - July 23, 2004
		In the case of this album, that rule is painfully true.
		With Stormwatch's interesting, dark-looking album cover, I was hoping that maybe there would be a return to the hard-rockingness that hadn't been seen since the controversial War Child.
		And the release of this album would be the herald to a drastic change in both their lineup and their music for a long while.
	www.dailyvault.com /2004_07_23-rm.html (452 words)

	Progressive Rock Music Discography (Albums, DVDs Videos and compilations), MP3 and album reviews
		I purchased "Stormwatch" years ago, at a time when every new TULL album to me was pregnant with possibilities.
		This would seem to be a concept album, as a pervading chill runs through the music.
		And while patches of "Stormwatch" are brilliant -- the opening trio, the mystical incantation of "Dun Ringill" -- there are parts that noticeably sag.
	www.progarchives.com /Review.asp?id=16653 (325 words)

	Evolving Artist - Jethro Tull - Stormwatch (1979/2004)
		Stormwatch is yet another underrated Jethro Tull album.
		It would be the last album for the most effective JT lineup.
		Anderson truly was the key man in this band; he brought together an album from top to bottom and made it happen in a magical way.
	www.evolvingartist.com /View_CDReview.aspx?ID=312 (302 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Jethro Tull Reissues
		Stormwatch, in particular, is pretentious, self-satisfied stuff, alternating cold synthy sounds with flat folky arrangements that border on self-parody.
		Crest of a Knave was the first post-Under Wraps album, and I think it was actually the result of polling their fans to determine what they expected from a JT album.
		One of those albums that was hard to obtain was "Stormwatch" until I stumbled upon it at a music store and quickly bought it.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/12/03/220603.php (1914 words)

	Amazon.com: Stormwatch: Music: Jethro Tull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stormwatch is similar in overall style to what Tull was doing at that time, before the more techno sound of "A" and "Underwraps".
		Stormwatch opens with the fun and lively "North Sea Oil." "Orion" is a different sounding track.
		Although it is probably true that 1979 and Stormwatch was the end of an era for Tull (band members later being replaced and the slightly off-putting electronic noodlings of the eighties albums), they certainly went out with an unforgettable bang.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000007NZU?v=glance (2077 words)

	Review: "Jethro Tull: Stormwatch (remaster)" - Sea of Tranquility - The Web Destination for Progressive Music!
		Reissued simultaneously with Bursting Out and A, Stormwatch is certainly a notch up from its predecessor, Heavy Horses (equally enjoyable by its own merits, but lacking a little in consistency).
		The inauspicious “Orion” is one of the album’s best tracks, pumped up by Evan’s piano and Barlow’s precise tom rolls as much as by Anderson's and Barre's contributions.
		The two instrumentals of Stormwatch each closed the A & B sides of the record; the lighter fare of “Warm Sporran” and dirgelike affair of “Elegy” were by no means filler, and still aren’t.
	www.seaoftranquility.org /reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=1309 (652 words)

	live2
		Secondly, the double album portrays the band as the remarkable live act, which they were famous for, both then and now.
		What I particularly find remarkable about this album is that it shows us the ability of the band to combine their sturdy rock song with the sweet and warm acoustic ones and the sheer enthousiams of playing before an audience.
		The Dambusters March was composed by the contemporary English composer Eric Coates in 1954 for the film "The Dambusters" (1956) to commemorate Bomber Command's 1943 air raid against the dams in the Eder, Sorpe and Möhne rivers.
	www.cupofwonder.com /live2.html (1195 words)

	Progressive Rock Music Discography (Albums, DVDs Videos and compilations), MP3 and album reviews
		I lost track of Jethro Tull after the so-so 1979 album "Stormwatch", when it started to look like the band was fast becoming a corporate institution more than an innovative rock group.
		Anderson’s voice is nowhere near as strong as it once was, but his flute playing is sharper than ever, particularly on the bamboo flute: the virtuoso arabesques and sharp percussive staccatos all shining (like the Parsee-man’s hat) “in more-than-oriental splendour”.
		It’s a pity he didn’t stick with the Asian motifs long or develop them any deeper than this one album, although the echoes lingered (in a lighter and brighter frequency) all through his year 2000 solo album "The Secret Language of Birds", a matching bookend to this release and equally worthwhile in its own way.
	www.progarchives.com /Review.asp?id=16855 (307 words)

	Jethro Tull: Bursting Out / Stormwatch / A - PopMatters Music Review
		Tull returned the following year with their next studio album, Stormwatch, a record which splits a lot of the group's fans squarely down the middle.
		(It's the last album to feature bassist John Glasscock, who died not long after its release, organist/pianists John Evan and David Palmer, and drummer Barrie Barlow.) Some say the wheat ended with Heavy Horses and the chaff kicked in with Stormwatch, but perhaps it's merely the fact that the two albums are so stylistically dissimilar.
		It stands to reason that flute remains prominent on this album, but synthesizers and electric violin enter the picture as primary instruments, with acoustic guitar nowhere to be heard.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/j/jethrotull-astormwatch.shtml (898 words)

	Aqualung - The Official Jethro Tull Website
		Critics dubbed it a concept album, particularly for Anderson's critical, skeptical views of organized religion, mostly on side B ("My God").
		Years later, a Grammy for best heavy metal album (viz., "Crest of a Knave") would officially sanction the misconceived stereotype.
		Indeed, every album up to "Under Wraps" (1984) would have at least one such styled number.
	www.j-tull.com /discography/aqualung (568 words)

	stormwa2
		So the album title comes from Ian's idea that he is watching a storm coming, that will put mankind into a kind of winter in which the environment will be destroyed.
		One could say that both lyrics and album cover contain a warning for what is going to happen to the world if modern society doesn't change it's manic strive for economic growth at the expense of nature and environment.
		Also, John Glascock fell very ill during the recording of Stormwatch but he did not die until three weeks after the albums release, which is why no mention of his death makes it to the cover.
	www.cupofwonder.com /stormwa2.html (2800 words)

	Jethro Tull Press: Chrysalis Press Release, 1980
		The next album Living In The Past was merely a collection of individual songs composed during the years which had never become part of any grander design.
		But this time I think only about four songs written this way appear on this album, because I found that working with these particular elements of the band it was quite refreshing to be able to write a song in the morning, rehearse it in the afternoon and record it at night.
		With this album being a tight and quickly put together affair, there is a validity in presenting this in a more uniform sort of basis, since the group does play well as a group and will make more of a contribution as a group on stage.
	www.tullpress.com /biog80.htm (3737 words)

	Anderson's Liner Notes for A - The Official Jethro Tull Website
		The finished album was played to the record company guys and their reaction was to strongly suggest that the record be released – not as a solo Anderson project – but as the new Jethro Tull album.
		The A (for Anderson) album, complete with finished artwork, was duly released and we went ahead to tour with the new line-up wearing white silky parachute material jump suits and using a very 80’s hi-tech stage set.
		To Mark, all too briefly a member of the extended Tull family: the Ian Anderson solo album that never was.
	www.j-tull.com /news/iana.cfm (676 words)

	JETHRO TULL Roots To Branches reviews and MP3
		The finest album since Minstrel or at least Horses - came as a little surprise but don't get too excited about it, but really a fine album as the rounder sound that came with Brick or Stand-up is again present (as opposed to the squarer sound of Minstrel or Knave.
		As such, this album got nowhere near the attention it deserves, for it is truly a return to the Tull innovation of the 1970s.
		Perhaps the most impressive accomplishment of the album is Anderson's ability to nail the atmosphere of the music from this part of the world, while allowing freedom for Tull's personality to its way into the music where appropriate.
	www.progarchives.com /Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=2043 (2053 words)

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