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Jethro Tull was a unique phenomenon in popular music history. Their mix of hard rock; folk melodies; blues licks; surreal, impossibly dense lyrics; and overall profundity defied easy analysis, but that didn't dissuade fans from giving them 11 gold and five platinum albums. At the same time, critics rarely took them seriously, and they were off the cutting edge of popular music since the end of the 1970s. But no record store in the country would want to be without multiple copies of each of their most popular albums (Benefit... Read More... at allmusic.com

 


icylucifer

AC/DC are in, Deep Purple aren't and you cannot understand why Tull aren't there. With that sort of logic it's a wonder some of the worthies even made it in. I'm an Aussie, like but don't love AC/DC yet their induction baffles me.
It has been stated that Atlantic records artists are disproportinately represented. I don't know if it is true but guess which label AC/DC were on at one stage?
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• Review posted on 03/19/2008
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