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- The album signalled a new direction for the band, who turned to celebrating British pagan folklore and the countryside life in a wide-ranging folk rock style which combined traditional instruments and melodies with hard rock drums and electric guitars.
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- JETHRO TULL STUDIO ALBUMS.
- This Was. Released 1968. Jethro Tull’s debut album was released in 1968. It was a low-budget affair as the band was completely unknown at the time. The album stands as the only Jethro Tull album to feature Mick Abrahams on guitar.
- Stand Up. Released 1969. Jethro Tull’s sophomore album is regarded as one of their best ever. It would also become the band’s breakthrough album as it soared all the way to the number one spot on the UK album charts.
- Benefit. Released 1970. CD Track Listings: With You There to Help Me. Nothing to Say. Alive and Well and Living In. Son. For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me. To Cry You a Song.
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This is the discography of the British progressive rock band Jethro Tull who formed in Luton, Bedfordshire in 1967. Initially playing blues rock, the band's sound soon incorporated elements of British folk music and hard rock to forge a progressive rock signature.
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No-one sounds like Jethro Tull. For a band that have prospered for almost as long as some of the genres they occupy have existed, they are without imitators. Their twenty-one studio records have taken in English folk and baroque instrumentation, plus the thunderous and unforgettable riffs of Martin Barre that saw them edge Metallica and AC/DC out o...
Anderson is too skilled an artist to produce music devoid of merit, but Under Wraps with its remote electronica and themes of paranoia in the Cold War, would perhaps have worked better as a follow-up to his solo record, Walk Into Light.
As ever with Anderson there are some lovely songs on a record he wrote in part of the Isle of Skye. The title track is a study of isolation, Strange Avenues, according to Andersons liner notes, a sequel to the Aqualung setting. Kissing Willie was less subtle though, and came with a Storm Thorgerson video based on Benny Hill that Anderson went along...
A kind of chaos, and some heartbreak, surrounded A, an album originally planned as an Anderson solo release. The death of bassist John Glascock and the subsequent depression and departure of Barriemore Barlow changed Tull radically. On the cover of A, they are clad in white jumpsuits, free of their past, and the music is similarly stripped back, Ed...
Roots To Branches is to a degree anomalous, mixing standard motifs of Barres fluent, head-tossing riffs and Andersons percussive flute-playing with some Eastern influences drawn from a trip the singer made to India. He felt that the songs echoed some of Tulls earliest work on Stand Up Maybe so, but it was unprecedented in the bands late era, and ma...
There are parts of Minstrel, especially in the near 20-minute Baker Street Muse and Cold Wind In Valhalla, that are the equal of the songs on Aqualung or Thick As A Brick, Andersons beautiful acoustic playing (especially on Requiem) a perfect match for Barres ferocious electric, but there is some wibble too, the band in the grip of a release schedu...
Benefit was the sound of a band finding its future. Anderson and Barre nailed their electric-acoustic interplay on songs like Son, and Anderson was quickly emerging as a composer of some originality. The great trick was incorporating Barres gift for memorable riffs and hooks into his delicate melodies - once theyd done so the Tull sound was establi...
Typically offbeat and funny, Too Old To Rock n Roll describes the life of Andersons alter ego, Ray Lomas, a washed-up former rock star. Lomas wins some money on a quiz show but finds life has changed so much he cant enjoy it. Resolving to kill himself on his motorbike, he instead ends up in a coma and when he re-emerges finds that he and everything...
It begins with a tramp sitting on a park bench watching as the frilly panties run and ends with a meditation on the nature of God Tull in a nutshell, really. Aqualung is high on ambition and sardonic rage. The first half introduces Aqualung the tramp, eying little girls with bad intent and Cross-Eyed Mary, the good-time girl who will do it for a s...
- This Was (1968) Tracks. My Sunday Feeling. Some Day the Sun Won’t Shine for You. Beggar’s Farm. Move on Alone. Serenade to a Cuckoo. Dharma for One. It’s Breaking Me Up.
- Stand Up (1969) Tracks. A New Day Yesterday. Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square. Bourée. Back to the Family. Look into the Sun. Nothing Is Easy. Fat Man. We Used to Know.
- Benefit (1970) Tracks. With You There to Help Me. Nothing to Say. Alive and Well and Living In. Son. For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me. To Cry You a Song. A Time for Everything?
- Aqualung (1971) Tracks. Aqualung. Cross-Eyed Mary. Cheap Day Return. Mother Goose. Wond’ring Aloud. Up to Me. My God. Hymn 43. Slipstream. Locomotive Breath. Wind-Up. “Aqualung,” the fourth studio album by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released on March 19, 1971, by Chrysalis Records, stands as a hallmark of the genre.
In the late 1970s, Jethro Tull released three folk rock albums, Songs from the Wood (1977), Heavy Horses (1978), and Stormwatch (1979). Songs from the Wood (1977) was the first Tull album to receive generally positive reviews since the release of Living in the Past (1972).
Aug 12, 2024 · Jethro Tull discography and songs: Music profile for Jethro Tull, formed February 1968. Genres: Progressive Rock, Folk Rock, Hard Rock. Albums include Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, and Stand Up.
Sep 1, 2024 · The singer reconvened Jethro Tull in the Spring of 1984. “Suddenly becoming a band again was nice after having done an album that was rather more sparse and down in feel, as the solo album had been,” he says. But there was one notable absence. For the first time in their career, Jethro Tull were recording an album without a drummer.
