Roots To Branches
by Jethro Tull
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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 322 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,127.
(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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Roots To Branches track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Roots To Branches rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1995 | 37/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1995 | 4/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 96 Music Albums of 1995 | 54/96 | 2 |
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 68 Music Albums of the 1990s | 21/68 | 14 |
| 2026 |  Squonk007 | Top 28 Music Albums of 1995 | 24/28 | 1 |
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 9 Music Albums of 1995 | 4/9 | 3 |
| 2025 |  bojolpif71 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1995 | 62/100 | 2 |
| 2025 | Junomoogmello | Top 54 Music Albums of the 1990s | 9/54 | 17 |
| 2025 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1995 | 25/100 | 4 |
| 2025 | Fischman | Jethro Tull Albums Ranked | 16/21 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 28 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 147 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/29/2026 11:52 | steve397 | 513 | 75/100 |
| ! | 03/25/2026 22:47 | Menelao | 183 | 71/100 |
| ! | 01/20/2026 11:27 | Squonk007 | 768 | 24/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.9/100, a mean average of 67.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.
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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.
jeremy9 03/22/2020 17:26 | #249012 | TOP COMMENT
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I Love this album
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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