tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484644.post110285872562847973..comments2024-02-01T01:40:36.805-05:00Comments on Vinyl Mine: Sing we now of lame Christmas music...Jim Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14126808520365186688noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484644.post-2123085397818839202007-07-01T15:56:00.000-04:002007-07-01T15:56:00.000-04:00Oh lighten up and have a mug of Grog.Oh lighten up and have a mug of Grog.Jim Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14126808520365186688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484644.post-16777340437214496812007-07-01T15:43:00.000-04:002007-07-01T15:43:00.000-04:00Maybe you should consider your own animosity towar...Maybe you should consider your own animosity towards what is essentially a nice, enjoyable Christmas collection and Jethro Tull Album.<BR/><BR/>Long time coming on this rebuttal.<BR/><BR/>Anyhow, yes, Ian Anderson can sound pedantic in his liner notes. But it is not he who is riffing on "sacrificing babies" but you. Solstice and Christmastime coincide, and if Anderson is a bit pedestrian in his scholarship, I think he and his bandmates are far more than "fey" and "pseudo" in their musicianship. <BR/><BR/>Whatever. Appreciate it for what it is, just as you might appreciate Brian Setzer's Christmas CD. Never shall the twain meet, but each artist represents his unique idiom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484644.post-1103061473701978552004-12-14T16:57:00.000-05:002004-12-14T16:57:00.000-05:00He swiped your Reptile House 7"? Yep, you got the ...He swiped your Reptile House 7"? Yep, you got the short end on that one.<br /><br />I had to laugh when you mentioned ol' limpdick James Taylor. That yuletide CD was one of the 'secret santa' gifts at our department Xmas party. I feel sorry for the poor bastard who had to take that thing home.Eric XXLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12005031279627032487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484644.post-1103040219072190482004-12-14T11:03:00.000-05:002004-12-14T11:03:00.000-05:00Actually, I don't have a low opinion of all of Jet...Actually, I don't have a low opinion of all of Jethro Tull. I like the early bluesy stuff and I would probably like Aqualung and Living in the Past more if they hadn't been so incessantly overplayed by US "Classic Rock" (not that I listened to it but everywhere you went in the '80s and early '90s it seemed that shite was playing and I had friends who listened to it). <br /><br />I own that "Living in the Past" compilation and I remember digging "Too Old to Rock and Roll" -- but I think it started going downhill for Tull with Tales from the Wood -- "Ring Out" first appeared on that album. <br /><br />By the way, Tull now has a full collection of Xmas songs - when this was released he only had two (but padded it with these other songs)... but please no smoking or eating while listening to it.<br /><br /> Thanks for the comments.Jim Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14126808520365186688noreply@blogger.com