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Post by admin on Apr 18, 2008 9:25:33 GMT
Is this old news? Do we already know this and it's just passed me by?! Anyway, the track list for the new this was is.....
CD 1 (Mono) 1. My Sunday Feeling 2. Some Day The Sun Won't Shine For You 3. Beggars Farm (4.19) 4. Move On Alone 5. Serenade To A Cuckoo 6. Dharma For One 7. It's Breaking Me Up 8. Cat's Squirrel (5.42) 9 A Song For Jeffrey (3.22) 10 Round (1.03)
BBC SESSIONS: John Peel Top Gear July 23rd 1968, Transmitted August 4th 1968 & 22nd September 1968:
11. So Much Trouble 12. My Sunday Feeling 13 Serenade To A Cuckoo 14. Cat Squirrel 15. A Song For Jeffrey
John Peel Top Gear November 5th 1968, TX 15th December 1968:
16-Love Story 17-Stormy Monday 18-Beggars Farm 19-Dharma For One
CD 2 (new stereo mix) 1. My Sunday Feeling 2. Some Day The Sun Won't Shine For You 3. Beggars Farm (4.19) 4 Move On Alone 5. Serenade To A Cuckoo 6. Dharma For One 7. It's Breaking Me Up 8. Cat's Squirrel (5.42) 9. A Song For Jeffrey (3.22) 10. Round (1.03) 11. Love Story 12. Christmas Song
Additional mono recordings
13. Sunshine Day (A side of single MGM 1384 released in February 1968 on MGM) 14. One For John Gee (B side of 'Song For Jeffrey' single WIP 6043 released in September 1968 on Island) 15. Love Story (A side of single WIP 6048 released in November 1968 on Island) 16. Christmas Song (A side of 'Love Story' single WIP 6048 released in November 1968 on Island)
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Post by admin on Apr 30, 2008 20:41:09 GMT
6/10 review from Hugh Fielder in this months UK Classic rock magazine......
The blues rock of This Was was consigned to the past once Jethro tull's second album, Stand Up, came out. But it still stands as one of the better British albums of 1968 - a brief, bracing blend of ian Anderson's lively flute and Mick Abrahams guitar antics, propelled by a rock solid rhythm section. A reissure cane out seven years ago but here Anderson has over - hauled the original mono mix and made a new stereo mix that's more user friendly 40 years on. Then he's added nine BBC session tracks, putting some Jazz highlights into Tull's blues roots on the previously unreleased Stormy Monday
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Post by admin on May 19, 2008 12:13:49 GMT
Another good review, this time from www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/m3bd/by Sid Smith 24 April 2008
The pace at which the music scene was changing in 1968 was, even when viewed from the luxurious hindsight of 40 years, a breath-taking explosion of creative intent that was as unpredictable as it was exciting. As the Summer of Love's psychedelic foppery gave way to something altogether harder and darker in both style and content, out of the ashes of the John Evan band, Jethro Tull emerged with their dead men's coats to heavy-up their act with a bite of blues rock and a precocious twist of jazz.
In this respect they were like many of the bands with whom they shared the bill all over the UK and abroad. However, what made Tull stand out from the great-coated crowd was the high-visibility of frontman Ian Anderson's on-stage Tourette's-inspired hyper-gurning and Mick Abraham's ferocious fretwork.
It's easy to forget that in its earliest incarnation Tull was not yet then Anderson's personal fiefdom, with Abrahams exercising just as much influence as his flute-playing pal. This is especially apparent on Disc One's BBC radio sessions where his blues roots are at their most pronounced. His playing throughout the record is superb though is heard to best effect on the rocking Dharma For One, and the Clapton-influenced Cat’s Squirrel. It's no surprise that when the split with Anderson forced him into a solo career with Blodwyn Pig that their debut (Ahead Rings Out) rivalled the top ten sales of Tull's 1969 follow-up, Stand Up.
Anderson's presence though is of course undeniable and extensive. Though his vocals are often delivered in an idiosyncratic pastiche of a grizzled blues veteran (especially on A Song For Jeffrey), the phrasing of his nimble flute adds a busy, waspish internal commentary within the songs. Sometimes however their reach exceeds their grasp. The cover of Roland Kirk's Serenade To A Cuckoo is a kind of bluffer's jazz that would give them a momentary exotic shift of gear in a live set dominated by their tumbling rock. It's a rather stilted execution here although one can't help but admire their chutzpah in attempting it.
As well the original mono version and some radio sessions, this anniversary edition is expanded to take a new stereo mix, and contemporary single A-sides (including their first single. Sunshine Day, for the MGM label where they were erroneously called Jethro Toe) and B-sides on Disc Two. Having already been given a remastering back in 2003, the new mix yields little surprises although a bit of 21st Century digital space allows a wider aural view of tracks such as Beggar's Farm, You’re Breaking Me Up, and Mick Abraham's wistful Move On Alone.
Embracing the broader vocabularies of progressive and folk styles was a brave move considering the Top Ten success of this sophomore release. By the time it came out they'd already moved on. ''This is how we played then – but things change'' Anderson wrote on the original liner notes in '68. Far-sighted words as it turned out. An overlooked but essential piece of Tull.
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Post by ryanwhite on Jul 9, 2008 19:20:24 GMT
Wow, now that is quite a comprehensive offering for a Tull album that is rather obscure. One would really have to like the album to purchase this offering. Think about it, a mono and newly mixed stereo version of TW! I like the album but not that much!
Now if they were to do something like this for Aqualung-the only album that was not part of the EMI remaster series, I would fork over some increasingly worthless $$ for it. I have purchased Aqualung in many copies in many formats. The last one I have is the 25th anniversary album which was allegedly remastered.
There really was no sonic improvement over the previous cd version of the album. Many, if not all the early Tull albums that were remastered offered a tremendous sonic improvement-especially TAAB. But Aqualung really had no such improvement.
Surely with all the new technology coming out everyday, the wizards at Abbey Road can do something with the master tapes for this album? They have 3 years before its 40th anniversary so give us something to look forward to!
I would like to see on one cd a super-gee-whiz remaster of Aqualung and a second disc with out takes or different STUDIO versions of the tunes, much like the quad version of Wind Up.
PLEASE no live versions-we have them all and no 15 minute interviews from the boys.
Thanks.
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Post by TullSkull on Jul 11, 2008 12:46:15 GMT
YO IAN!!! Some NEW Stuff would be in order 'bout now, hope you got it in you.. This Was was 40 years ago. Hope we dont keep living in the past...
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 27, 2008 16:08:23 GMT
Nearly 6 billion people on this planet...somewhere, somehow, someone must have the holy grail....a decent, complete video recording of a live 'Passion Play' performance....when will it surface from the closet or attic of an aging baby-boomer who forgot about it and quit following Tull? Or when will Ian relent and share film he has squirreled away and deemed 'unwatchable' despite the positive feedback fans gave for 'Nightcap' and countless other examples of 'unreleasable' Tull stuff making it's way to the marketplace.
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Post by admin on Oct 2, 2008 8:08:38 GMT
All the footage that I've ever seen from the Passion Play & Brick tours that have popped up on youtube have been very poor audience recordings so maybe the sad truth could be that none of these shows was ever properly filmed?
And, while on the subject of the bootleg footage, as this was long before the time when we all had camcorders and phones that record video clips what did your average 70's bootlegging dude use to make these films?
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Post by jackknifebarber on Oct 20, 2008 13:18:52 GMT
OK, so when can we expect the repackage of the remaster of the reissue of Stand Up?
Jack-knife Barber
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Post by jackknifebarber on Oct 20, 2008 13:22:49 GMT
Nearly 6 billion people on this planet...somewhere, somehow, someone must have the holy grail....a decent, complete video recording of a live 'Passion Play' performance....when will it surface from the closet or attic of an aging baby-boomer who forgot about it and quit following Tull? Or when will Ian relent and share film he has squirreled away and deemed 'unwatchable' despite the positive feedback fans gave for 'Nightcap' and countless other examples of 'unreleasable' Tull stuff making it's way to the marketplace. I have a HD copy of A Passion Play live at Hammersmith Odeon in 1973, long before HD was known about and back in the days when I could lie convincingly. Jack-knife Barber
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Post by maddogfagin on Oct 20, 2008 13:23:49 GMT
Don't even mention this to EMI 'cos they'll only go and do it. By the way, welcome to the forum my friend. Another member with a dry sense of humour - i love it.
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Post by rebecca on Dec 18, 2008 18:58:58 GMT
Since we're doing all this voting on THIS WAS, it's reminded me that this was the first JT I knew and as such, I'm pretty sentimental about the album. And it was this time of year... it's an old story, but in high school my brother, who is about 20 months older than I am asked for "a Jethro Tull" record for Christmas. This would have been about '76 or '77 I guess. Anyway, this is the one she bought, and I always thought I probably liked it better than he did, although I didn't really get into the band until the early 80s and then it was with MU.
Anyway, it's still one of my favorite albums, partly because it is kind of sloppy, there's so much humor and mood of not taking themselves to seriously, and I really DO like all the songs with vocals, and...the vocals! It still delights me in some odd way that IA was such a BABY but sounding so much OLDER. It just doesn't fit! Somehow, I really like that.
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