Jethro Tull

Despite having won best metal performance, I think we had this discussion before and decided that they really only have 2-3 songs AT MOST on any particular album that you can even call hard rock.  Not a fit, sorry.

edit: the previous thread from 2010 isn't very helpful as that was before we added the Hard Rock subgenre, but when we added the hard rock sub there was some kind of discussion in the collab zone.  I'll see if I can find it.


Edited by Triceratopsoil - 18 Jun 2012 at 6:33pm

I think that pretty much sums it up Colin. It�s my sensation that most Collabs don�t consider Jethro Tull a "hard rock" act even though some of their material could be clasified as such. They�ve never released a fully fledged hard rock album though and that�s the deciding factor. Unless someone want�s to comment more on this, this thread will be locked. I�ll wait about a week to do it though.

I could see Aqualung maybe having a case for proto-metal (mainly for the title track and "Cross-Eyed Mary"), but the rest of their discography doesn't seem fit for hard rock or proto-metal IMO. Even that album is fairly borderline.

Some of their non Prog albums could qualify as Hard Rock, but overall no.

Sheavy wrote: Some of their non Prog albums could qualify as Hard Rock, but overall no.

UMUR wrote: Sheavy wrote: Some of their non Prog albums could qualify as Hard Rock, but overall no.   I think the question is if they are not just "rock" and not "hard rock" and as mentioned above those albums need to be fully fledged hard rock albums to be added to MMA. Hard Rock is a borderline metal sub genre as it is. We�re not interested in bringing in borderline hard rock acts to the site.   ...If anyone wants to suggest Jethro Tull for hard rock I think they should suggest them in the hard rock team thread with a link to this thread. It is after all that team who decides if they want to add Jethro Tull or not.   ...the reason I wanted to lock the thread was because I thought they had already been rejected but now I�m suddenly not so sure.

It seems they haven't formally been evaluated for hard rock, just rejected for proto- and I think trad too

I would actually not be opposed to considering perhaps possibly re-evaluating Stand Up for inclusion under proto - the rest of their discography could easily be tagged non-metal.

To be fair only the albums from Crest to Catfish are hard rock. You'd have to have an awful lot of 'non metal' albums up for the sake of three albums.