Heavy Horses Songs Ranked

Heavy Horses is the eleventh studio album by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released on 10 April 1978. The album is often considered the second in a trio of folk-rock albums released by the band at the end of the 1970s, alongside Songs from the Wood (1977) and Stormwatch (1979). In contrast to the British folklore-inspired lyrical content found on Songs From the Wood, Heavy Horses adopts a more realist and earthly perspective of country living — the album and its title track are dedicated to the “indigenous working ponies and horses of Great Britain”. Musically, the album sees the band continuing the combination of folk and progressive rock found on Songs From the Wood, although with an overall darker and more sober sound fitting the changed lyrical content. Here are all of Heavy Horses songs ranked.

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9. …And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps

“Nice fun item. Moderately hard, moderately progressive. Excellent flute – especially solo. The song seems to be for children – about the mouse police, making sure that cats do not offend their relatives. The words “The Mouse Police Never Sleep” at the end are spoken for so long (with the first and second halves of the phrase being played simultaneously, each on its own stereo channel), like a mantra, even after the music has stopped.”

8. No Lullaby

“Worst thing on the album. Not only is it a kind of horror story for children with appropriate gloomy music, but it is also drawn out. The first part is rather slow (and, accordingly, tedious), then there is an acceleration, but also not very interesting, because everything is somehow chaotic. All this lasts four minutes, and then both the music and the text are repeated again. What for? Apparently only the wind knows the answer. Well, and Ian Anderson, probably.”

7. Journeyman

“One of my favorite hard rock stuff is here. Excellent guitar playing and flute, orchestra – everyone performs as if in turn. The composition is as slow as the passengers described in it, who are forced to commute to work every day.”

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6. One Brown Mouse

“Nice thing, which is based on acoustic guitar playing (hard notes appear in the middle). Honestly, I don’t know what kind of brown mouse is in the cage of our lyrical hero, but Anderson, as you can see, wrote a whole song about her – about friendship, about the little joys of life.”

5. Weathercock

“Pretty nice. Moderately hard, moderately lyrical. Not fast, but not slow either. Not the best thing, but not the worst either. Anderson talked to both mice and horses, now it’s the turn to make the interlocutor a weather vane in the form of a cockerel, which he asks if he can influence the weather, and not just show it.”

4. Heavy Horses

“Title 9-minute epic. A hymn to draft horses, which are gradually becoming completely unnecessary due to technological progress. True, Ian declares with a smile that during the energy crisis they will have to be remembered again. The introduction is quite remarkable – it is hard with an admixture of sadness (especially the flute manages to show this). Then vocals sound – under the saddest piano and violin. The chorus is again hard rock: “You have very little left, and there’s nothing to be done – the tractor replaces you.”

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3. Rover

“Another one of my favorite songs. This one is faster. Very nice. Again a great guitar and flute. Again, bright sadness: the hero is a wanderer who likes to travel far from cities, although he has a beloved. However, some believe that we are talking about a stray dog.”

2. Moths

“Excellent acoustic guitar and beautiful keyboards as well as orchestra strings. A lyrical theme full of light sadness: looking at the moths circling around the candle, the hero understands that our life is just as fleeting.”

1. Acres Wild

“Excellent thing. Very major, even danceable. Once again you imagine yourself in nature with your girlfriend, especially since the text, and, I must say, very frank, just about this: “I will make love to you in all good places.” Of course, nature is meant – for example, the moorlands of Scotland – and not the asphalt and cement jungles of big cities.”