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Another Best Of compilation? Presumably, serious Jethro Tull devotees will already own--several times over--every single note that the squire Ian Anderson has ever puffed and grunted on that omnifarious flute of his. And with at least five Best Ofs previously available, even the inquisitive novice has been handed a good few "point of entry" opportunities down the years. So why release another? Although the veteran prog-folk rockers have hardly churned out enough studio albums in the last few years (modernity has been a bit of a struggle) to warrant a complete rethink on what constitutes their greatest moments (thus the vintage likes of "Aqualung", "Thick As A Brick", "Witches Promise", "Bouree", etc. are all entirely non-contentious inclusions) this latest career overview, featuring tracks selected by Anderson himself, isn't entirely repetitious. After all, fresh bait is dangled in the "previously unavailable" shape of three judicious, single-length edits of Tull evergreens "Heavy Horses", "Too Old To Rock n Roll" and "Minstrel In The Gallery". --Kevin Maidment
 Nostalgia, 2010-03-11
I never saw Jethro Tull first time round, although did see them at the Brighton Dome recently.
I enjoyed this CD; it is good late night listening.
The liner notes, however, are illegible - even the name of the designer!!
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An unconventional best-of collection at the time of its 1972 release, Living in the Past existed to gain a greater foothold in America for Jethro Tull following the breakthrough success of Aqualung. And it did, by offering a little something for everyone. There are a number of songs that became FM radio staples, ranging from the heavy rock of "Teacher" and "Hymn 43" to lighter fare, such as the title tune. A pair of jam-heavy selections, "By Kind Permission Of" and "Dharma for One" (featuring the era's requisite in-concert drum solo), were recorded live at Carnegie Hall. Overall, Living in the Past does an excellent job of revealing Tull's achievements and limitations, its ambitions as well as its pretensions. --Daniel Durchholz
Great Album, 2009-11-13
A great insight into the popular tracks of Jethro Tull. Along with the title track, you have some great songs; Witches Promise, Sweet Dreams and Life Is A Long Song. Which to my mind are all classics. Also, there are other simple, but effective tracks; Up The 'Pool, Nursie and Dr Bogenbroom to name a few. All told, a good place to start with this artist.
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This edition of the album is the remastered version. Though it's tempting, in hindsight, to view it as just another of Ian Anderson's legendary affectations--the runes adorning the cover, the overriding air of eldritch portent--for Tull fans, this 1982 album came as a welcome relief. After the spooked futurism of Stormwatch and A--a mode they would revisit, just two years later, with the Peter Vetesse-dominated Under Wraps--Broadsword marked a return to the band's pastoral, slightly archaic sound, the laconic strain of English gentility that had informed such classics as Songs from The Wood and Heavy Horses. What had changed, however, was the singer's outlook: the air of melancholy in "Slow Marching Band", while beguiling, sounded more resigned than romantic; while "Watching Me Watching You" anticipated the tech-driven paranoia of his solo debut, Into the Light. The sound was tougher--stalwart guitarist Martin Barre contributed some chunky riffs to "Beastie" and "Pussy Willow"--and the mood darker. But too old to rock and roll? Not quite. --Andrew McGuire
A Beastie Of An Album, 2010-06-30
I think this is Jethro Tull's best album, full of great songs. On this CD are also eight bonus track recorded at the same time but could not be fitted on to the original album due to the limitations of vinyl.
All the tracks feature great guitar and keyboard work. This coupled with Ian Anderson' s distinctive vocals make for a brilliant album. Pick of the songs for me are Clasp, Flying Colours, Pussy Willow, Seal Driver and Broadsword with its thumping bass and drum rhythm
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benefit, 2010-04-30
My first Tull LP (vinyl for all you modern types)and still my favourite. Must admit to not being particulary fond of 'Sossity' at first but it must be an age thing as the older I get the better it sounds as do all the tracks. The perfect musical accompaniment when lazing about in the garden with a beer or two on those 'sweet smelling summer nights...'
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Even as they began to fancy themselves as codpiece-wearing Elizabethan minstrels in the gallery, Jethro Tull was a blues-based hard-rock group, and an explosive one, at that. On Stand Up, they enjoy the best of both worlds, with lighter fare such as "Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square" and a jazzy instrumental take on J. S. Bach's "Bouree" mixing nicely with the blistering rock of "A New Day Yesterday", "Nothing Is Easy", and "For a Thousand Mothers". On Stand Up, the group's second album, you can hear the band, and the grand scheme behind it, begin to solidify. --Daniel Durchholz
After the Blues, 2010-02-14
As you listen to the first track on "Stand Up" you'd think nothing had changed with the departure of Mick Abrahams. "A New Day Yestereday" propelled by Glen Cormick's driving bass is as forceful and penetrating as anything on "This Was".
But that was only the start. From then on Anderson leads the listener through various musical landscapes, light hearted whimsey, classical influences, the beginnings of the folk/rock developed in the future and some straight rock moments.
Abraham' left to pursue his blues roots. Anderson thus followed his musical muse into whatever areas it took him and the Tull bandwagon was on its way. It would lead to many musical/lyrical places, some excellent, some more than brilliant, and some downright mistakes, but this album will always stand testamony to where it all began.
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The Best of the Best, 2010-07-17
For once I agree with Ian Anderson's own assessment that this is one of their best albums. For me it's THE best. Everything comes together perfectly: the intelligent, humouress lyrics, the complex arrangements alternating seamlessly between fantastic acoustic guitar sequences and dynamic rock.
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Although both albums share a marked sense of rural enchantment and find Jethro Tull at the very apex of their folky prog-rock ingenuity, 1978's Heavy Horses is often unfairly portrayed, by fans and critics alike, as a thematic follow-up to its immediate studio predecessor Songs from the Wood. Both offerings are excellent, but they do deserve to be appreciated in isolation. While Songs from the Wood evokes a magical atmosphere of mysterious nature-worshipping spirituality, Heavy Horses is far more earthly, a nostalgic glance at agricultural realism with a Cornish pasty--not a book about fairies--in its back-pocket. Indeed, on the progressive, nine-minute-long title-track--a most poetic ode to the English countryside's traditional ploughing beasts of burden--Ian Anderson almost sings with the sorrow of an old-time farmhand witnessing the combine harvesters and crop-sprayers coming over the horizon for the first time. One can even forgive him the rather randy line "Let me find you a filly for your proud stallion seed, to keep the old line going". Sure, there's plenty of prattle about drinking afternoon tea with mice, but tracks like "Moths" and "Acres ...
Tull at its very best!, 2010-07-07
On the back of seeing Tull live in Manchester I decided to buy this cd. I'd loved Thick as a Brick as a kid but knew very little else. This cd just blew me away from start to finish. The "Mouse Police" is a stunning opener and every track is just as good including the two bonus tracks. I now have all Tulls albums but it's this one I still come back to, and is by far the most played. To be fair, the period between Minstrel in the Gallery to Stormwatch is the height of their genius with Heavy Horses the absolute crowning jewel. I could write about every track with absolute conviction and the images Anderson & Co have mustered up in the music and words are as powerful as any great piece of literature. No other band has ever produced such a rich tapestry of English life so honestly as this. In a way, this is Tulls Dark Side of the Moon with a more subtle approach.
Heavy Horses is the perfect Tull album, stronger and more subtle than "Songs from the Wood", merging rural and urban life into one. For me, if there is anywhere to start with Tull, it's this album - music you will never tire of.
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The Old Master doesn't know how good he was, 2010-07-17
Tull's first masterpiece, this has become a timeless classic. Not exactly a concept album but it is a mood piece as you can imagine Ian Anderson's dishevelled alter-ego hanging around the fringes of a lot of the tracks. Organised Christianity also seems to take a bit of a kicking but its all done so humourously you can't help but enjoy the flogging of that particular dead horse. Ian Anderson himself seems to regard this as a decent Tull offering rather than one of their best but his appreciation of his his own music often seems bizarre to me.
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Join the chorus if you can, it'll make of you an honest man., 2010-06-07
When most people fancy a lungful of crisp clear country air, they go, not surprisingly to the country.
But I don't, I merely put on this CD and I'm there, whistling alongside the Poachers, sharing a fire at midnight with the Badgers,and all of us singing Songs from the Wood.
If your foot doesn't start tapping when Cup of Wonder comes on I'd check your pulse. Every song on this album is good, so good in fact that Mr Anderson decided to release a song from it on the "Ring Out Solstice Bells" EP,
and he didn't release many singles.
Some people try and pigeonhole the music, some call it folk rock, others prog rock, I just call it good music.
All the songs sound as fresh and vibrant as they did all those years ago.
Of all my Tull albums this is the one that gets the most played.
(Although, "Thick as a Brick" isn't far behind.)
All tracks composed and produced by Ian Anderson.
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Here's a snippet of lyrics from the title track.
Let me bring you all things refined:
Galliards and lute songs served in chilling ale.
Greetings,well-met fellow hail!
I am the wind to fill your sail,
I am the cross to take your nail:
A singer of these ageless times-
With kitchen prose,and gutter rhymes.
(Sheer poetry.)
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Stay Thick, 2010-07-17
Well everyone else was doing concept albums so JT decided they should too. According to the interview provided with the CD, IA made this up as they recorded it which just goes to show what he could do under pressure. In the latter years of JT it took five years between CDs to produce bland garbage. Ian Anderson's perception of an album often seems coloured by how hard he worked on it so he probably doesn't like this as much as his fans but for many of us this is surreal genius. Despite the music being produced on the hoof it also sounds very cohesive.
As for what the lyrics are all about I would venture that the opening verses describe the state of society and IA's inability to do much about it "my word's but a whisper, your deafness a shout". There is a lot of imagery of the ongoing battles and class divisions summed up by "And your wise man don't know how it feels, to be thick as a brick". The song then goes off into the past to let history tell the story of why things are as they are: basically we're conditioned to fight for everything from an early age and when we do achieve some status we use it to impose our rules on people we don't understand (much as adults do to us when we're children). The flights of fantasy in the latter stages of parts 1 and 2 deal with the romantic view people have of their own actions and the reality of the lack of support that they'll really get from others "so where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday". People aren't heroes, they are mainly greedy, lazy and selfish.
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