Music CD - Jethro Tull: Original Masters

	Music CD: Original Masters Artist: Jethro Tull List Price: $31.98 Our Price: $599.99 Your Save: $ ( % ) Availability: Manufacturer: Dcc Compact Classics
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Tracks: 1. Living in the Past 2. Aqualung 3. Too Old to Rock 'N' Roll: Too Young to Die 4. Locomotive Breath 5. Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day 6. Bungle in the Jungle 7. Sweet Dream 8. Songs from the Wood 9. Witch's Promise 10. Thick as a Brick 11. Minstrel in the Gallery 12. Life Is a Long Song
Binding: LP Record EAN: 0010963205916 Label: Dcc Compact Classics Manufacturer: Dcc Compact Classics Number Of Discs: 1 Publication Date: 1985 Publisher: Dcc Compact Classics Release Date: 1998-08-25 Studio: Dcc Compact Classics
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Good Sampler Comment: This CD is how I first got started with Tull, after hearing "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick" on the radio. A good collection of many of the best/most popular Tull songs. It reeled me in, that's for sure. Customer Rating: Summary: A Unoffical Tull Greatest Hits Package. Comment: This album rocks if you love tull then you'll dig this. it has the hits that you hear on classic radio and few others that are'nt so well known, this has got to be there unoffical greatest hits album but it rocks. Highly Recommended Album. Customer Rating: Summary: Best of, Volume IV Comment: I have mixed feelings about this CD. It does repeat some of what appeared in previous "best of" or "greatest hits" collections, of which there were three previous. Another problem with this CD is that it was originally released in 1985, and yet it focused on pre-1977 music. Very strange given that the "best of" released before this one was released in 1977. What happened to the music from the six albums released between 1977 and 1985? In spite of my grumbling, this CD is a Jethro Tull CD, and I could listen to just about any combination of Tull. Naturally I had to have this one. On the plus side, if you are looking for a sampler of Jethro Tull music, this CD is perfect. This CD even includes a three minute excerpt from the epic "Thick as a Brick." While the excerpt is way too short to do any real justice to that particular CD, it does give you a small flavor of the CD. Four of the songs on this CD are from "Aqualung" and "Warchild." Some Jethro Tull fans revile "Warchild" as a sellout or a lowering of Jethro Tull standards; unfortunate because "Warchild" included some of the most deeply satirical and anti-establishment lyrics of any Tull CD. A listener to this CD will also detect humor in Jethro Tull's classification as a hard rock or metal group. As a song like "Songs from the Wood" indicates, Tull was what Tull wanted to be, when they wanted to be it. Tull has always drifted from English folk to rock to their own brand of progressive rock. In its own way "Songs from the Wood" incorporates a bit of every style that Tull has ever done. The lead guitars have rocking riffs. The keyboards throw in a flavor of medieval church music, particularly in association with that flute. I am unable to describe the flavor the other instruments provide on that particular album, which include mandolin, whistles, lute (nothing like a rocking lute, I say), organ, marimba, glockenspiel, bells, tabor, portative organ, piano and synthesizers, which doesn't even list all the instruments used. The range of instruments is like what The Moody Blues used on their second album, "In Search of the Lost Chord." Jethro Tull has always defied conventional description. Their sound over their history has been eclectic. They are one of the few groups that seem to have been able to use musical styles as appropriate to their mood, and still keep their fan's attentions. This CD certainly samples that range. While I can decry the repetition mentioned earlier, the fact remains that for casual fans this sampler is an excellent introduction to the group; 5 stars for being great Tull music. However, if you like what you hear, please go buy the albums that feature this music; they are better than any possible greatest hits collection from Tull. Customer Rating: Summary: A good compilation from a non-compilation band Comment: A one-disc Tull overview is nearly impossible, and the band definitely isn't compilation-friendly. That being said, the selections are good. We just need MORE!!! NOTHING from the group's first two albums is included. I haven't heard This Was, but I know that A New Day Yesterday, Fat Man and Bouree (off of Stand Up) deserve a spot on any collection. ONE song from Benefit (Witches Promise) was included. It's a good song, that cannot be denied, but what about To Cry You a Song, Singing All Day, and Teacher? Aqualung's selections (Title track, Locomotive Breath) are good picks, and represent the best of the album, but how about Cross Eyed Mary and My God? The three-minute Thick As a Brick edit, surprisingly enough, does that masterpiece justice. Though you need to hear TAAB in its entirety, this is the best-known (or just best) part of the song. Does anyone besides me wish there was an edit of A Passion Play here, too? It's a great song, but my version (which groups all the tracks into one forty-five minute tune) is a difficult listen. The WarChild picks are overly orchestrated, but good nonetheless. Too Old to Rock 'n Roll is decent, no more and no less. Songs From the Wood and Minstrel in the Gallery are both great tunes, very appreciated! I could do without Sweet Dream and Living in the Past myself, but that's just me. It's a decent way to get your hands on Tull, and I do recommend this, but, as usual, you should dig a bit deeper. Buy Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung, Thick As a Brick, A Passion Play and maybe Heavy Horses, and you've got yourself a good Tull colleciton! Customer Rating: Summary: Great intro to this band!! Comment: Jehro Tull was one of those very early band's who fused a little bit of METAL with classical music..which of course a LOT of band's followed!!(CATHEDRAL!)..but that is a good thing! This is missing ''cross eyed mary'' which is kinda annoying..but you can get a huge butt load of great song's here for cheap..so INDULGE today!! ''LET's GO LIVING IN THE PAST''...ok!! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: 24 gold disc pressing from DCC of their 1985 compilation forChrysalis. Contains 12 of their absolute finest tracks, including 'Living In The Past', 'Aqualung', 'Locomotive Breath', 'Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day', 'Bungle In The Jungle', 'Thick As A Brick' and 'Minstrel In The Gallery'. Comes packaged in a standard jewel case within a full color slipcase cover. 1998 release.