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| 3.0 good | GamamJ | May 20th 20 |
Not as good as Stand Up, and certainly not the two next ones, but still a solid album. After combining all sorts of styles on Stand Up, Jethro mostly strip down their sound to folky prog rock. It?s good, but could have more variation and more flashiness.
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| 4.0 excellent | Deadwing2112 | March 25th 20 |
The album opens with the flute and remains a prominent instrument throughout, representative of the band's newfound identity in sound with a more serious and lyrical content. As well, the band's birth sound of blues rock is now very much in the rear view mirror. Ian Anderson has established himself not just as the dancing, singing flutist but also the embodiment and soul for Jethro Tull.
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| 4.0 excellent | dlbk03 | November 10th 18 |
There would be no Aqualung without this album. Sandwiched between two truly monumental albums chronologically, Benefit deserves more love. Do you think the band could have jumped straight from the typical heavy blues plus flute of Stand Up straight into the sarcastic fervor of Aqualung? If you say yes, you're wrong. Benefit is much darker and more serious than Stand Up, and I believe it's better than both Stand Up and Aqualung, if not more accessible. Don't skip this one.
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| 3.5 great | Alabaster Jones | July 1st 16 |
While structurally the songwriting on Benefit doesn't differ all that much from Stand Up, there is a distinct shift in mood from the two albums. Truly, Benefit takes a much darker and more subdued route than the fun, upbeat one of its predecessor. Thus, while the songs themselves are of similar style and quality to the ones on Stand Up, they have a much different mission statement and overarching connectivity. Some truly excellent tracks like "Nothing To Say" and "To Cry You A Song" with its immeasurably addicting main riff pepper the tracklist, and there's no one song I'd venture to call bad. There's a couple that are kind of dull, but overall the quality of these tracks are kept pretty high. This was also the first album of Tull's to have John Evan, whom Ian Anderson said helped him write songs more freely. That said, he also said that this record didn't feel as variant as Stand Up, but it helped them all compose and perform together as a band, thus cementing its importance in the Tull lineage.
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| 4.5 superb | Lodger | September 3rd 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rick64 | June 30th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rodstar | August 9th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | Asas747 | February 16th 24 |
| 3.0 good | Araz | February 11th 24 |
| 2.5 average | Divinis | October 27th 23 |
| 3.0 good | HalapenYo CONTRIBUTOR | September 9th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | johmi | August 17th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | coopj | July 6th 23 |
| 3.5 great | broitt | June 20th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Timmy | January 21st 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bren80 | June 15th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Djibura | April 20th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Juuso | February 8th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | November 14th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | IlNotta | November 9th 20 |
| 3.0 good | remi | October 30th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Nymox | October 23rd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | gk1979 | June 30th 20 |
| 2.5 average | xgausez | October 21st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | ElSomni | April 24th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Akifexx | October 13th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | J1m1 | September 8th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | daveej | July 31st 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Galumpa | June 17th 18 |
| 3.5 great | RUSH | January 13th 18 |
| 3.5 great | solrage | November 18th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | gilly | June 1st 17 |
| 3.0 good | igi78 | May 7th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Xerian | April 15th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | bSmith | January 16th 17 |
| 2.5 average | FakeOne | November 27th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | RouJe | November 7th 16 |
| 3.5 great | DarthGL | September 25th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Noakesy | September 13th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Divaman | September 1st 16 |
| 2.5 average | zx890c | February 24th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | akosto | January 8th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | daFigz | November 22nd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | wham49 | October 9th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Abraxas | September 29th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | e210013 | September 16th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Superb | August 31st 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Potesin | August 31st 15 |
| 3.5 great | seifer | March 12th 15 |
| 3.0 good | jodro | March 2nd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Muzaker | February 22nd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rodrigo | October 25th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | LepreCon | September 3rd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | RTCW | August 14th 14 |
| 3.5 great | manosg EMERITUS | July 8th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | et66 | April 29th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lilt98 | April 20th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Miata | April 8th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | tef | February 8th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gard3n | October 29th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | rrodjf | September 27th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | alvahe | August 15th 13 |
| 5.0 classic | slackr | June 27th 13 |
| 3.0 good | ADM20 | May 12th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | WJM73 | February 26th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | DRZ | October 16th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | gnotnek | September 8th 12 |
| 3.5 great | elry2k | April 27th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | GROK | September 21st 11 |
| 3.0 good | Tupik | August 11th 11 |
| 3.5 great | true | July 13th 11 |
| 3.0 good | ast | March 7th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Ricpru | February 19th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Oli100 | January 31st 11 |
| 3.5 great | wrax | November 21st 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nach0 | August 28th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Voivod STAFF | August 15th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Matski | August 7th 10 |
| 5.0 classic | Gyurci | June 23rd 10 |
| 2.5 average | Thef | April 7th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Boaz | May 1st 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | 72haha72 | November 10th 08 |
| 3.0 good | natey | March 22nd 08 |
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