Roots To Branches
by Jethro Tull

Roots To Branches by Jethro Tull
Year: 1995
Overall rank: 8,063rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
69/100 (from 52 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1995 (140th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (1,301st)
Award Best albums of all time (8,063rd)

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Jethro Tull bestography

Roots To Branches is ranked 15th 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 5,215.

Jethro Tull album bestography « Higher ranked (7,824th)
War Child
This album (8,063rd)
Roots To Branches
Lower ranked (8,269th) »
Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll: Too Young To Die!

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Roots To Branches rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 8,063rd | 1990s rank: 1,301st | 1995 rank: 140th
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2026 Squonk007Top 28 Music Albums of 199524/281
2025 FischmanJethro Tull Albums Ranked16/21 -
2025MoondanceTop 100 Music Albums of 199536/1003
2025arnellarsenTop 50 Music Albums of 199516/504
2025 FischmanTop 100 Music Albums of 199525/1004
2025 bojolpif71Top 100 Music Albums of 199562/1002
2025steve397Top 58 Music Albums of the 1990s13/5816
2025JunomoogmelloTop 54 Music Albums of the 1990s9/5417
2025 ExTeaSeaTop 90 Music Albums of 199554/902
2025 jeremy9Top 100 Music Albums of 19954/1005
2025 ExTeaSeaF2LF: Jethro Tull10/19 -
2024steve397Top 6 Music Albums of 19951/65
2023ThuramThugoodRanked - Jethro Tull (UK) - Ranked22/41 -
2023JunomoogmelloTop 6 Music Albums of 19951/65
2023emptysquaresJethro Tull and Ian Anderson albums ranked and reviewed11/30 -
2023musicoedTop 75 Greatest Music Albums11/7561
2023 MW19704UTop 100 Music Albums of 199544/1003
2022 ExTeaSea90s albums by older artists20/32 -
2021DeckillerTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s47/10011
2020Red0510Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s97/1001
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 28
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 155
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69/100 (from 52 votes)
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01/20/2026 11:27 Squonk007  Ratings distribution  74924/100
 
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01/06/2025 09:17 Fullsized  Ratings distribution  16385/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.4/100, a mean average of 67.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.9.

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From 02/13/2022 14:23 | #281252
This is a personal favour from the later Tull era. If I ever see this issued on vinyl I will snap it up. I love the eastern influences on this album. I will make do with the CD for now.
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I Love this album
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From 06/28/2019 12:40 | #238533
This is a heavily underrated Tull album. When it was released, the public saw the group as a dinosaur that seemed to make itself even more irrelevant with every new offering. That is a shame, especially because as a musician you are chained to “Locomotive Breathe” while you also like to receive feedback about new work. But "Valley" and the beautiful "Beside Myself" are a socially critical songs ("bring back the tablets of stone", child prostitution in India) that stands up to the comparison with the so-called classics. The texts (how could it be otherwise?) are again of a particularly high level. The arrangements are perfect and the production excellent. If you have doubts, give the music a chance. You will not be disappointed. Labels such as Prog rock or Folk rock are no longer able to interpret Tull. As a writer and composer, Ian Anderson is too unique to dismiss him as a thing from the 1970s.
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