This Was
by Jethro Tull
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Jethro Tull bestography
This Was is ranked 8th best out of 47 albums by Jethro Tull on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Jethro Tull is Aqualung which is ranked number 322 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,220.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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This Was track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 01/14/2026 04:55 | Exist-en-ciel | 7,701 | 70/100 | |
| 01/04/2026 15:52 | cicadelic | 12,053 | 73/100 | |
| 11/05/2025 01:21 | mnmont | 247 | 89/100 | |
| 10/30/2025 01:33 | Proto | 4,092 | 33/100 | |
| 08/07/2025 13:38 | spinout | 3,278 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.5/100, a mean average of 72.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.
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Jboy56 09/22/2022 11:57 | #289864
I like this a lot, bluesy and jazzy, but not without the flute of the madman ;)
Gran disco de debut, aunque no marcarían claramente su rumbo hasta el siguiente. Toques de jazz y blues para un álbum magnífico.
Boltzmann 12/24/2019 14:35 | #245917
Just your usual hard rock album of the late sixties... with a very out of place flute. Anyway, they try to make blues heavy and they succeed. Do they succeed exceptionally more so than their contemporaries? With Jimi in their back and Led Zeppelin hovering in the near distance, I can see why they're mostly forgotten.
Robert Anton Wilson 08/23/2012 15:10 | #49083
A very strong debut album. Hints at what Tull were to become but stand out. Their 3 earlier albums (Stand Up, This Was & Benefit) are blues rock and stand slightly apart from the rest of their musical corpus. If you are into late 60s-early 70s blues-rock, these early Tull albums are essential.
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