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Aqualung
: :After veering sharply from the blues inluences of their debut, This Was, Jethro Tull's sound quickly coalesced around jazz-tinged English folk influences and the antics of frontman/flautist Ian Anderson. But it was guitarist Martin Barre's swaggering riff off the title track of the band's fourth album that would become Tull's indelibly clichéd trademark--and the band's entrée into a long reign as arena-rock perennials. But there's a lot more to Aqualung than the riffage of that cut and its cousins, 'Cross-Eyed Mary' and 'Locomotive Breath.' In an era when pseudo-Christian spirituality was a de ...
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The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
: :After veering sharply from the blues inluences of their debut, This Was, Jethro Tull's sound quickly coalesced around jazz-tinged English folk influences and the antics of frontman/flautist Ian Anderson. But it was guitarist Martin Barre's swaggering riff off the title track of the band's fourth album that would become Tull's indelibly clichéd trademark--and the band's entrée into a long reign as arena-rock perennials. But there's a lot more to Aqualung than the riffage of that cut and its cousins, 'Cross-Eyed Mary' and 'Locomotive Breath.' In an era when pseudo-Christian spirituality was a de ...
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Stand Up
:Album Description:Digitally remastered reissue of 1969 album includes four bonus tracks, 'Living In The Past', 'Driving Song', 'Sweet Dream' & '17'. essential recording: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 ...
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Thick as a Brick
:Album Description:Digitally remastered reissue of 1969 album includes four bonus tracks, 'Living In The Past', 'Driving Song', 'Sweet Dream' & '17'. essential recording: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 ...
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Jethro Tull Christmas Album (Bonus DVD)
:Album Description:Digitally remastered reissue of 1969 album includes four bonus tracks, 'Living In The Past', 'Driving Song', 'Sweet Dream' & '17'. essential recording: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 ...
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Songs from the Wood
:Album Description:Digitally remastred reissue of 1977 album includes two bonus tracks 'Beltane' (taken from the album 20 Years of Jethro Tull - track done at end of sessions) & 'Velvet Green' (live) (taken from 20 years of Jethro Tull - BBC In Concert Recording 1977). 11 tracks & liner notes written by Ian Anderson. Chrysalis. 2003. :The earth-worshipping revelry of 1977's frisky Songs from the Wood was far removed from the heavyweight progressive rock of Jethro Tull's early years. Taking a leaf from the book of Steeleye Span, Songs from the Wood is ...
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Very Best of Jethro Tull
: :The back of this 20-track retrospective's booklet pictures 23 men (not a single woman, interestingly) who've been members of Jethro Tull at one time or another since the group emerged in the late '60s. And, of course, rock's only flute-playing frontman, Ian Anderson, is pictured (where else?) at the center of 'em all. Anderson's haughty vocals and eccentric vision (the '70s were a time of excess, but few could top a single song filling two sides of a studio album--and this on the follow-up to a hit album) made Tull unlikely stars after ...
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Benefit
:Album Description:Digitally remastered reissue of 1970 album includes four bonus tracks, 'Teacher' (Original UK Mix), 'Witch's Promise', 'Just Trying To Be' & 'Singing All Day'.
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Heavy Horses
:Album Description:Digitally remastered reissue of 1978 album includes 2 bonus tracks 'Living In These Hard Times' (taken from the album 20 Years Of Jethro Tull - recorded at Maison Rouge 1978) & 'Broadford Bazaar' (taken from the album Nightcap Unreleased Masters). 11 tracks & liner notes written by Ian Anderson. Chrysalis. 2003. :Like 1977's Songs from the Wood, Heavy Horses is often unfairly posited as the thematic follow-up to its aforementioned studio predecessor. While Songs from the Wood evokes a magical atmosphere, Heavy Horses is far more earthly. Indeed, on the nine-minute-long title-track--a ...
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The Best of Jethro Tull
:Album Description:Digitally remastered reissue of 1978 album includes 2 bonus tracks 'Living In These Hard Times' (taken from the album 20 Years Of Jethro Tull - recorded at Maison Rouge 1978) & 'Broadford Bazaar' (taken from the album Nightcap Unreleased Masters). 11 tracks & liner notes written by Ian Anderson. Chrysalis. 2003. :Like 1977's Songs from the Wood, Heavy Horses is often unfairly posited as the thematic follow-up to its aforementioned studio predecessor. While Songs from the Wood evokes a magical atmosphere, Heavy Horses is far more earthly. Indeed, on the nine-minute-long title-track--a ...
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