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The Best Of Jethro Tull – The Anniversary Collection
''The Best of Jethro Tull – The Anniversary Collection'' is a greatest hits album by Jethro Tull, released in 1993. It includes some of the band's biggest hits from 1968 to 1991. Track listing Disc 1 # " A Song for Jeffrey" – 3:19 # "Beggar's Farm" – 4:19 # "A Christmas Song" – 3:07 # "A New Day Yesterday" – 4:09 # " Bourée" (Instrumental) – 3:46 # "Nothing Is Easy" – 4:23 # " Living in the Past" – 3:21 # "To Cry You a Song" – 6:15 # "Teacher" – 4:01 # "Sweet Dream" – 4:02 # "Cross-Eyed Mary" – 4:09 # "Mother Goose" – 3:53 # " Aqualung" – 6:36 # "Locomotive Breath" – 4:25 # "Life Is a Long Song" – 3:19 # "Thick as a Brick" (extract) – 3:02 # "A Passion Play" (extract) – 3:47 ("Magus Perdé") # "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day" – 3:52 # "Bungle in the Jungle" – 3:39 Disc 2 # "Minstrel in the Gallery" (Edited version) – 6:10 # " Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die" – 5:40 # "Songs from the Wood" – 4:54 # "J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jethro Tull (band)
Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, England, in 1967. Initially playing blues rock and jazz fusion, the band soon incorporated elements of English folk, hard rock, and classical music, forging a signature progressive rock sound. The group’s bandleader, founder, primary composer, and only constant member is Ian Anderson, a multi-instrumentalist who mainly plays flute and acoustic guitar, and is also the lead vocalist. The group has featured a revolving door of musicians throughout the decades, including significant contributors such as electric guitarist Martin Barre (the longest serving member besides Anderson), keyboardists John Evan, Dee Palmer, Peter-John Vettese, and Andrew Giddings, drummers Clive Bunker, Barrie "Barriemore" Barlow, and Doane Perry, and bassists Glenn Cornick, Jeffrey Hammond, John Glascock, Dave Pegg, and Jonathan Noyce. After achieving moderate recognition performing in the London club scene, the band released their debut album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living In The Past (song)
"Living in the Past" is a song by British progressive rock group Jethro Tull. It is one of the band's best-known songs, and it is notable for being written in the unusual time signature, though it is properly felt as a very distinct + syncopated rhythm. The time signature is quickly noted from the beginning rhythmic bass pattern. Composition and recording According to the composer, Ian Anderson, he wrote the tune in approximately one hour in his room at a Holiday Inn 'on the banks of the Charles River,' Boston, Massachusetts, on 12 February 1969. He and his manager, Terry Ellis, were checking in 'a day off here before the show,' ahead of a three-day residency 13 – 15 February 1969 at the Boston Tea Party rock club. When he handed it to Ellis later, he replied, 'Wow! I'll book a studio next week, when we we’re in the New York area.' At the end of the East Coast leg of their US tour, the backing tracks were recorded at Vantone Sound Studio, West Orange, New Jersey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Whistler (song)
"The Whistler" is a song by English rock band Jethro Tull from their 1977 album ''Songs from the Wood.'' Written by frontman Ian Anderson, it features a folk-rock style that characterizes the ''Songs from the Wood'' album. Inspired by English folk tradition, the song was released as a single and reached number 59 in the US. The song has since received critical acclaim. Background Lyrically, "The Whistler," like many songs on ''Songs from the Wood'', was inspired by Anderson's interest in English folklore and mythology during this period, spurred in part by a book on the subject that he had received from Tull promoter Jo Lustig. Anderson explained, "It was me having a little fun with traditions and myths and legends, all of which could be very twee and, oh well, yes, seriously wet." The song notably features Anderson on tin whistle, reflecting the song's titular character. Keyboardist David Palmer claimed to have contributed to the arrangement of the song. In a 1989 interview, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack In The Green
Jack in the Green, also known as Jack o' the Green, is an English folk custom associated with the celebration of May Day. It involves a pyramidal or conical wicker or wooden framework that is decorated with foliage being worn by a person as part of a procession, often accompanied by musicians. The Jack in the Green tradition developed in England during the eighteenth century. It emerged from an older May Day tradition—first recorded in the seventeenth century—in which milkmaids carried milk pails that had been decorated with flowers and other objects as part of a procession. Increasingly, the decorated milk pails were replaced with decorated pyramids of objects worn on the head, and by the latter half of the eighteenth century the tradition had been adopted by other professional groups, such as bunters and chimney sweeps. The earliest known account of a Jack in the Green came from a description of a London May Day procession in 1770. By the nineteenth century, the Jack in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songs From The Wood (song)
"Songs from the Wood" is the title track off of English rock band Jethro Tull's album ''Songs from the Wood.'' Written by frontman Ian Anderson, it features a folk-rock style that characterizes the ''Songs from the Wood'' album. Inspired by English folk tradition, the song was named by Ian Anderson as one of his top Jethro Tull songs. The song has since received critical acclaim and was released as a single in New Zealand in 1977. Background "Songs from the Wood" was inspired by a book of English folk stories Ian Anderson had been given. He explained, "I wrote 'Songs From the Wood' based on elements of folklore and fantasy tales and traditions of the British rural environment. Our PR guy, Jo Lustig, had given me a book about English folklore as a Christmas present, and I thumbed through it and found lots of little interesting ideas and characters and stories and things that I decided to evolve into a series of songs." The song starts off with a cappella vocals before the flute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Young To Die (song)
"Too Young to Die" is the second single taken from British funk and acid jazz band Jamiroquai's debut studio album, '' Emergency on Planet Earth'' (1993). The original version of the track runs at 10:18; however, both the single and album versions were cut, running at 3:22 and 6:05, respectively. The single peaked at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart and reached the top 50 in France, Iceland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland. The track's stems were made available to the public in March 2013 as part of a remix competition for the song; as such, there is an abundance of bootleg remixes to the song in addition to the official remixes. The competition was won by Australian DJ and music producer Late Nite Tuff Guy. Background The commercial single includes all three versions of the track. The song's lyrics are about the fear of war and death due to political machinations. The single's cover art depicts Jay Kay in the background, looking into the camera, with a sky-blue "g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bungle In The Jungle
"Bungle in the Jungle" is a song by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull. It was released on their album '' War Child'' in 1974. A remnant from the band's abandoned " Chateau D'Isaster Tapes", "Bungle in the Jungle" features lyrics based on analogies between animals and humans. The song was later released as a single, becoming a top 20 hit in the United States and top 5 in Canada. Despite the song's American success, Anderson saw the song as too commercial and a minor song in the band's catalogue outside of North America. Background Following the success of the band's 1972 album ''Thick as a Brick'', Jethro Tull spent time in Paris to record the unfinished " Chateau D'isaster Tapes". According to Jethro Tull bandleader Ian Anderson, the unfinished album was intended to focus on "exploring people, the human condition, through analogies with the animal kingdom." Though a finished version was never released, some of the songs originally intended for the project appeared on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day
"Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day" is a song by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull. It was released on their album '' War Child'' in 1974. Written as a comment on global cooling for the band's aborted " Chateau D'isaster" album, the song was reworked in 1974 for ''War Child''. The song was released as a single in 1975 and reached number 75 on the '' Cashbox'' charts in the US. Despite its limited chart success, the song has seen positive critical reception from music writers and has appeared on several compilation albums. Background "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day" was written by Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, who dubbed it his "first climate change song" due to its lyrics about the then-current concern over global cooling. He later explained, Like other songs on ''War Child'', "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day" was initially written as part of the " Chateau D'isaster Tapes", an early version of ''A Passion Play''. An early version ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Passion Play
''A Passion Play'' is the sixth studio album by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released in July 1973 in both the UK and US. Following in the same style as the band's previous album ''Thick as a Brick'' (1972), ''A Passion Play'' is a concept album comprising individual songs arranged into a single continuous piece of music (which was split into two parts across the original vinyl release's two sides). The album's concept follows the spiritual journey of a recently deceased man (Ronnie Pilgrim) in the afterlife, exploring themes of morality, religion and good and evil. The album's accompanying tour was considered the high water mark of Jethro Tull's elaborate stage productions, involving a full performance of the album accompanied by physical props, sketches and projected video. ''A Passion Play'' was negatively received by critics upon its initial release. However, the album was a commercial success, becoming Jethro Tull's second number one album in the United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thick As A Brick
''Thick as a Brick'' is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Jethro Tull, released on 3 March 1972. The album contains a continuous piece of music, split over two sides of an LP record, and is intended as a parody of the concept album genre. The original packaging, designed as a 12-page newspaper, claims the album to be a musical adaptation of an epic poem by fictional eight-year-old genius Gerald Bostock, though the lyrics were actually written by the band's frontman, Ian Anderson. The album was recorded in late 1971, featuring music composed by Anderson and arranged with the contribution of all band members. The album was the band's first to include drummer Barrie "Barriemore" Barlow, replacing the band's previous drummer Clive Bunker. The live show promoting the album included the playing of the full suite, with various comic interludes. ''Thick as a Brick'' is considered by critics to be the first Jethro Tull release to entirely consist of progressive rock music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locomotive Breath
"Locomotive Breath" is a song by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull from their 1971 album, '' Aqualung''. Written as a comment on population growth, "Locomotive Breath" was meant to replicate the chugging rhythm of a train. In addition to its release on ''Aqualung'', "Locomotive Breath" saw two different single releases and has been a live favorite. It is one of Jethro Tull's best-known songs. Background Lyrically, "Locomotive Breath" was inspired by Anderson's concern regarding overpopulation. He explained, "It was my first song that was perhaps on a topic that would be a little more appropriate to today's world. It was about the runaway train of population growth and capitalism, it was based on those sorts of unstoppable ideas. We’re on this crazy train, we can’t get off it. Where is it going? Bearing in mind, of course, when I was born in 1947, the population of planet earth was slightly less than a third of what it is today, so it should be a sobering thought that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aqualung (song)
"Aqualung" is a song by the British progressive rock band Jethro Tull, and the title track from their '' Aqualung'' (1971) album. The song was written by the band's frontman, Ian Anderson, and his then-wife Jennie Franks. While this track was never a single, its self titled album ''Aqualung'' was Jethro Tull's first American Top 10 album, reaching number seven in June 1971. After "Locomotive Breath", it is the song most often played in concert by Jethro Tull. Recording The original recording runs for 6:34. In an interview with singer Ian Anderson in the September 1999 ''Guitar World'', he said: The Aqualung character is also mentioned in "Cross-Eyed Mary", the next song on the album. In a 2015 interview, Martin Barre recounted an interesting situation with Led Zeppelin while recording the song's solo. An alternative mix of "Aqualung", with a very different echo effect on Anderson's vocal, appears on the compilation '' M.U. – The Best of Jethro Tull'' (1976). This versi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
