Roots To Branches
by Jethro Tull

Roots To Branches by Jethro Tull
Year: 1995
Overall rank: 8,437th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
69/100 (from 53 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1995 (144th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (1,350th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,437th)

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Jethro Tull bestography

Roots To Branches is ranked 16th best out of 48 albums by Jethro Tull on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Jethro Tull is Aqualung which is ranked number 317 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,224.

Jethro Tull album bestography « Higher ranked (8,402nd)
Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll: Too Young To Die!
This album (8,437th)
Roots To Branches
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Overall rank: 8,437th | 1990s rank: 1,350th | 1995 rank: 144th

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Average Rating: 
69/100 (from 53 votes)
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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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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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