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Post by argentull on Mar 27, 2018 22:19:24 GMT
Details of the 50th anniversary compilation here: No live material. I hope this comes in a separate release. www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jethro-tull-detail-massive-50th-anniversary-compilation-w5184281. "Nothing Is Easy" - Stand Up (1969) 2. "Love Story" - This Was (1968) 3. "Beggars Farm" - This Was (1968) 4. "Living In The Past" - Living In The Past (1972) 5. "A Song For Jeffrey" - This Was (1968) 6. "A New Day Yesterday" - Stand Up (1969) 7. "The Witch's Promise" - Benefit (1970) 8. "Mother Goose" - Aqualung (1971) 9. "With You There To Help Me" - Benefit (1970) 10. "Teacher" - Benefit (1970) 11. "Life Is A Long Song" - Living In The Past (1972) 12. "Sweet Dream" (Studio) - Stand Up (1969) 13. "Aqualung" - Aqualung (1971) 14. "Minstrel In The Gallery" - Minstrel In The Gallery (1975) 15. "Critique Oblique" (Steven Wilson Remix) - A Passion Play (1973) 16. "Weathercock" - Heavy Horses (1978) 17. "Cross-Eyed Mary" - Aqualung (1971) 18. "Bouree" - Stand Up (1969) 19. "Dun Ringill" - Stormwatch (1979) 20. "Heavy Horses" - Heavy Horses (1978) 21. "Hunting Girl" - Songs From The Wood (1977) 22. "Bungle In The Jungle" - War Child (1974) 23. "Salamander" - Songs From The Wood (1977) 24. "Pussy Willow" - The Broadsword And The Beast (1982) 25. "Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die" - Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die! (1976) 26. "Songs From The Wood" - Songs From The Wood (1977) 27. "The Whistler" - Songs From The Wood (1977) 28. "Really Don't Mind/See There A Son Is Born" - Thick As A Brick (1972) 29. "Moths" - Heavy Horses (1978) 30. "One White Duck / Nothing At All" - Minstrel In The Gallery (1975) 31. "Cup Of Wonder" - Songs From The Wood (1977) 32. "Ring Out Solstice Bells" - The Jethro Tull Christmas Album (2003) 33. "Skating Away" - War Child (1974) 34. "A Christmas Song" - The Jethro Tull Christmas Album (2003) 35. "One Brown Mouse" - Heavy Horses (1978) 36. "Rare And Precious Chain" - Roots To Branches (1995) 37. "Kissing Willie" - Rock Island (1989) 38. "Rocks On The Road" - Catfish Rising (1991) 39. "Fylingdale Flyer" - A (1980) 40. "Paparazzi" - Under Wraps (1984) 41. "North Sea Oil" - Stormwatch (1979) 42. "Steel Monkey" - Crest Of A Knave (1987) 43. "Black Sunday" - A (1980) 44. "European Legacy" - Under Wraps (1984) 45. "Budapest" - Crest Of A Knave (1987) 46. "Broadsword" - The Broadsword And The Beast (1982) 47. "Dot Com" - J-Tull Dot Com (1999) 48. "Farm On The Freeway" - Crest Of A Knave (1987) 49. "This Is Not Love" - Catfish Rising (1991) 50. "Locomotive Breath" - Aqualung (1971) Jethro Tull 50th Anniversary Hits Track List 1. "Love Story" 2. "Living In The Past" 3. "Life Is A Long Song" 4. "Sweet Dream" 5. "The Witch's Promise" 6. "Aqualung" 7. "Dun Ringhill" 8. "Cross-Eyed Mary" 9. "Bouree" 10. "Bungle In The Jungle" 11. "Steel Monkey" 12. "Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll" 13. "Ring Out Solstice Bells" 14. "Farm On The Freeway" 15. "Locomotive Breath"
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 28, 2018 7:17:03 GMT
Shame there's nothing new on this compilation release but having said that it's a rather fine set of the better known songs, apart from the fact there's nothing from TAAB2 or Homo Erraticus. An excellent "catch up" for newer Tull fans who haven't, as yet, got all the older albums.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 28, 2018 12:02:09 GMT
Shame there's nothing new on this compilation release but having said that it's a rather fine set of the better known songs, apart from the fact there's nothing from TAAB2 or Homo Erraticus. An excellent "catch up" for newer Tull fans who haven't, as yet, got all the older albums.
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Post by argentull on Mar 29, 2018 17:13:29 GMT
Hey Graham, maybe you can reach out to your contacts at TullCentral and ask if the live stuff has been canceled for this release and/or is being considered as a standalone release later in the year? Txs
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Post by jethrotull on Mar 29, 2018 20:00:39 GMT
What would be cause for a real celebration? release live concerts from the band's two greatest tours: TAAB and Passion Play. We would be floored. Unfortunately it will never happen because such recordings apparently don't exist. Plenty of bootlegs but I'm getting a little long in the tooth to listen to those anymore.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 30, 2018 6:56:45 GMT
Hey Graham, maybe you can reach out to your contacts at TullCentral and ask if the live stuff has been canceled for this release and/or is being considered as a standalone release later in the year? Txs I'll try me best - thinks (in Bluebottle voice): Oldwebby might have an answer to your question, eh Martin ? Seriously it's probably all down to cost. I don't know the figures but I would guess that with the deluxe versions with booklet, extra discs etc., there would have been an inbuilt factor of how many Warners would expect to sell and when that figure was reached the single disc versions would have been promoted. The same with the 50 For 50 release; I would think that Warners realise that, apart from avid collectors and completists, most serious Tull fans would not want yet another release with familiar tracks and that this too will be out of print soon, leaving the standalone single disc version for the general public and the vinyl for lovers of the black stuff.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 30, 2018 7:04:50 GMT
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Post by 61jtull on Mar 30, 2018 20:29:30 GMT
Nice Collection, but I question if this is really Ian's 50 favorite Tull songs....or a combination of Tull standards with a few of his favorites sprinkled in. In any event, I'm a little surprised they are not using any of the Steve Wilson remixes(Save one) in this new collection.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 2, 2018 7:23:37 GMT
[Μια άλλη πρόστιμο google μετάφραση] www.cnn.gr/style/psyxagogia/story/123694/jethro-tull-50-kommatia-sto-epeteiako-playlist-toy-ian-anterson-gia-miso-aiona-rockJethro Tull: 50 Pieces in Ian Anderson's Half-Century Rock PlaylistNewsroom, CNN Greece, 21:45 Sunday, 01 April 2018 They have sold over 60 million discs all over the world, they have 11 golden and five platinum discs. This year, Jethro Tull 's band celebrates its 50th birthday with a collection of 50 hits, with a smaller of 25 successes and a tour. "One of the most successful, commercially, and the most eccentric musical bands of prog rock" for Rolling Stone Jethro Tull appeared in 1967 in Blackpool, UK. They started with blues rock, incorporated hard rock elements into their sound and ended up in their musical stamp prog (progressive) rock. The " 50 for 50" collection released on May 25 by Parlophone is a selection of the most representative stations on the band's path by the band's founder, singer and flutist Ian Anderson. The songs do not follow chronological order, the aim is to mark the phases of the sound of the band. One finds the first steps with a blues-like effect such as Nothing Is Easy and Beggars Farm. Hard rock hits such as Aqualung and Locomotive Breath. Classic pieces of prey, like Skating Away and Critique Oblique. But also folk songs, like Heavy Horses and Songs from the Wood. Together with this collection, Jethro Tull also prepared the smallest version, the 50th Anniversary Hits collection. At the same time, to celebrate, a series of concerts are taking place in Europe on April 3 (many cities in Britain, six in Spain, three in Russia, many in Germany, three in Poland, Antwerp, Paris, Amsterdam, Zurich) . In two installments, their tournament in North America: the first starts on 30 May in Phoenix, Arizona, and ends on 7 July in Montreal, Canada, with Minneapolis on August 31 and ending on Sept. 12 at Wollingford of Connecticut.
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Post by maddogfagin on Apr 11, 2018 12:56:41 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 23, 2018 7:27:46 GMT
www.loudersound.com/reviews/jethro-tull-50-for-50-album-reviewJethro Tull – 50 For 50 album reviewThe best of 50 years of Jethro Tull, hand-picked by Ian Anderson himself. By Tim Batcup 17 hours ago Reviews While credible half-century anniversaries with a full-provenance band can be reasonably counted on the number of hands needed to pick up a flute, it’d be a churlish cove who denies Jethro Tull’s admission into this rarefied club. Singularly helmed, driven and shepherded by the idiosyncratic multi-instrumentalist Ian Anderson, the band’s furrow and trajectory is analogous to none. A boiled-down precis of this – British blues into folk-informed agrarian rock subsequently given a light synth polish – tells only a partial story, one that’s fully illustrated here. Though hardly underrepresented in terms of greatest hits releases (well into double figures), this three-disc collection immediately trumps and supersedes all before it with a coherence and scope that’s positively delightful. Cherry-picked by Anderson himself and eschewing any strict chronology, there’s a flow that befits a man who knows his way around lengthy arrangements. It’s hard to get a decent overview of a band with 21 albums in their back pocket, and shorter compilations have always reflected this, throwing up frustrating sins of omission largely due to limitations of the form. There’s none of that here. Wheat-heavy, chaff-light, the seeds are precisely scattered and cohere like a dream. Space precludes too many examples, but pairing North Sea Oil with Steel Monkey, Weathercock with Cross-Eyed Mary, and the triple whammy of Bourrée, Dun Ringill and Heavy Horses is both bold and effective. Highlights are legion, and while there’s an absence of any genuine obscurities, hearing One White Duck (Minstrel), Salamander (Too Old), Really Don’t Mind (Thick) and Moths (Heavy Horses) out of their original context brings a fresh perspective to their considerable charms. A smattering of tracks from Crest Of A Knave also reward, though Farm On The Freeway sails perilously close to Dire Straits waters. Rocks On The Road (1991’s Catfish Rising) near enough encapsulates the band’s career in one song, and the use of flute then harmonica as blues-riffing guitar on 1968’s A Song For Jeffrey still startles at a 50-year remove. Ending the collection with Locomotive Breath exemplifies Anderson’s approach to its assembly (and presumably his feelings on the track itself), and proves a fitting coda to a substantial and considered collection. A cup of wonder indeed.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jun 23, 2018 16:54:10 GMT
Good point, see above, that for all our dreams of the holy grail videos of live performances in 72 and 73 we rarely think to ask for one or two, great, or at least better than bootlegs live recording from those years. There must be one or two they can dust down and spiff up for we hardcores. Plenty of boots from that era.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jul 25, 2018 11:11:03 GMT
Another piece of music history honored by Music Empire Awards tonight @ Milan An Award for 50 years of career has been given to Mr Ian Anderson. July 23rd Music Empire Awards kindly produced this huge and amazing award in recognition of the Jethro Tull 50th Anniversary. Special thanks to all at Music Empire Awards !!!
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Post by jethrotull on Jul 26, 2018 2:20:00 GMT
Good point, see above, that for all our dreams of the holy grail videos of live performances in 72 and 73 we rarely think to ask for one or two, great, or at least better than bootlegs live recording from those years. There must be one or two they can dust down and spiff up for we hardcores. Plenty of boots from that era. Last fall in an interview Ian said something along the lines that he was compiling a collection of live material from the band's heyday that would put to shame the bootleg recordings from those years. He said he planned to release the collection this year. I've heard for 45 years that there are no professional recordings from the TAAB and PP tours, but who knows what Ian may have up his sleeve.
Was the live collection supposed to accompany the 50 for 50 release and somehow got dropped? Did it simply never come to fruition? I have a feeling there's still something in the pipeline.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jul 26, 2018 2:22:14 GMT
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Post by maddogfagin on Jul 26, 2018 7:10:17 GMT
Good point, see above, that for all our dreams of the holy grail videos of live performances in 72 and 73 we rarely think to ask for one or two, great, or at least better than bootlegs live recording from those years. There must be one or two they can dust down and spiff up for we hardcores. Plenty of boots from that era. Last fall in an interview Ian said something along the lines that he was compiling a collection of live material from the band's heyday that would put to shame the bootleg recordings from those years. He said he planned to release the collection this year. I've heard for 45 years that there are no professional recordings from the TAAB and PP tours, but who knows what Ian may have up his sleeve.
Was the live collection supposed to accompany the 50 for 50 release and somehow got dropped? Did it simply never come to fruition? I have a feeling there's still something in the pipeline.
Now at some stage, and it could have been at the first UK Tull convention, I think it was Kenny Wylie who maintained that every Tull concert was recorded via the mixing desk to be listened to later to check for mistakes etc. What the quality of these tapes was is open to question as is whether the early ones from the seventies still exist. Presuming that they do exist I would imagine that copyright problems would be a cause preventing any commercial release of this material as would be the permission of former members of the band giving their consent to any commercial releases. The same would go for video shot by commercial film makers and, as has been discussed before here on the Forum, the fees for such usage is probably astronomically high as to prevent any commercial release. What IA now has in his personnel archive is open to question and in reality we, quite likely, will never know.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 8, 2018 6:26:21 GMT
shepherdexpress.com/music/album-reviews/jethro-tull-50-for-50-parlophonewarner-music/Jethro Tull: 50 for 50 (Parlophone/Warner Music)BY DAVID LUHRSSEN AUG. 07, 2018 3:06 P.M. The 2018 calendar is crowded with half-century anniversaries. 1968 was a year of worldwide unrest as well as a slew of great albums. Jethro Tull’s first LP came out that year and in tribute, founder-flautist Ian Anderson culled through 50 years of releases for this three-CD set. The early tracks were a unique convergence of blues, jazz, rock, British folk and Eastern influences. By the close of disc one, Jethro Tull had moved on to hard rock (“Aqualung”) and prog rock (“A Passion Play” excerpt). Disc two echoes Anderson’s lifestyle as a gentleman farmer in the late ’70s in songs contemplating the countryside (“Heavy Horses”). By this time Tull had become nothing more than Anderson’s backup band and included ex-members of British folk-rock pioneers Fairport Convention. Disc three, mostly covering the ’80s and ’90s, boasts a surprising number of strong songs. 50 for 50 includes a copiously detailed booklet chronicling the band’s long story and is a well-chosen collection representing Jethro Tull from the beginning through almost now. Anderson’s band is still on the road and will perform at Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Ill., on Sept. 3.
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Post by JTull 007 on May 26, 2020 1:35:05 GMT
In 2018 this was so AWESOME I would LOVE IT EVEN MORE in 2020
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Post by 61jtull on Oct 23, 2020 19:56:37 GMT
This is a mostly great collection selected by Ian that contains most of Jethro Tull's best songs. I have few things I would have done differently if I had been tasked in compiling this collection. First, I would have used only the original versions of songs(Christmas song and Ring out solstice bells)and I would have selected Under Wraps 2 instead of European Legacy and Paparazzi. Finally, I would have added Baker Street Muse to the collection which is a top 5 Jethro Tull song.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jun 19, 2021 18:19:39 GMT
This is a mostly great collection selected by Ian that contains most of Jethro Tull's best songs. I have few things I would have done differently if I had been tasked in compiling this collection. First, I would have used only the original versions of songs(Christmas song and Ring out solstice bells)and I would have selected Under Wraps 2 instead of European Legacy and Paparazzi. Finally, I would have added Baker Street Muse to the collection which is a top 5 Jethro Tull song. I cannot quite figure out the rationale behind the sequencing of the songs. Has anyone any input on this? Obviously, it is not in chronological order, and that's good. But, the sequencing doesn't seem quite right, to me.
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Post by JT_fan1994 on Apr 3, 2024 5:26:41 GMT
This is actually my favorite Jethro Tull album, even though it's a compilation because it has a lot of my favorite songs from the respective albums. In fact, it and Nightcap are the only physical Tull albums I own (I have the rest downloaded, although I'm thinking of buying the various box sets). Disc 3 is definitely the weakest disc of the three, but discs 1 and 2 are pretty great.
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