Passion Play is a tremendously underrated album, and the new mix really makes a huge difference. Thick As A Brick is often held up as the apogee of Tull's prog ambitions, but Passion Play is superior in every way for me. As the Emperor notes, it taps into a very particular strain of English weirdness/absurdity that might as well never have existed given the bland psychic soup that most bands slurp from now.
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