Jethro Tull 1970 Benefit

Genre: Progressive Rock
Rate: 320 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 00:54:54
Size: 125,58 MB



This is my favorite straight forward bluesy, rock, trippy Tull album. I listened to Benefit the most probably in the 70's (my teenage years), although I loved Stand Up, Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, Minstrel in the Gallery And Songs from the Wood about as much. Tull was one of my top bands then (and now) and I really feel that these albums are some of the best Rock has to offer. Benefit, as the best song-oriented album from the blues/rock stretch in my opinion, really stands out as the gelling of the Tull sound.

Martin Barre found his confidence and ran with it while Ian Anderson really picked up the complexity level of his many contributions. Glenn Cornick's bass playing is outstanding and represents some of the best of the era, although this was his last gig with Tull. John Evan joins the band here and adds to the more layered quality and strangely seems to be the glue that binds that classic Tull sound. Other members seem to feed off of the new energy! Benefit feels to me very brooding and powerful...the psychedelic atmoshere is at a peak here as well. I am trying to describe why this album is one of the greats of all time to me, but words do little to describe the powerful emotional impact I feel for this one, for whatever reason...crank it up and feel for yourself!

The Extra tracks are a great addition (Teacher was on the original American album) and the sound quality is at a new high. This is an essential recording of the era and a truly great bargain, although lyrics should have been included as well as better track notes (I like it better than Aqualung - newbies could begin here with confidence). Enjoy!!! (t'amant)


Tracklist:

01 - With You There To Help Me 06:19

02 - Nothing To Say 05:14

03 - Alive And Well And Living In 02:49

04 - Son 02:51

05 - For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me 03:52

06 - To Cry You A Song 06:16

07 - A Time For Everything? 02:44

08 - Inside 03:50

09 - Play In Time 03:50

10 - Sossity; You're A Woman 04:43

11 - Singing All Day 03:07

12 - Witch's Promise 03:52

13 - Just Trying To Be 01:38

14 - Teacher (Original UK Mix) 03:49





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Jethro Tull 1969 Stand Up

Genre: Progressive Rock
Rate: 320 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 00:37:58
Size: 86,87 MB



Stand Up is the second album by Jethro Tull. Before this album, the band's original guitarist Mick Abrahams resigned because of musical differences with Ian Anderson; Abrahams wanted to stay with the blues-rock sound of This Was, while Anderson wished to branch out into other musical forms. Overall, however, the album does remain more broadly in the style of blues rock than future Jethro Tull albums.

Stand Up represents the first album project on which Anderson was in full control of the music and lyrics. It also marks the first appearance of guitarist Martin Barre, who appeared on every Jethro Tull album from this point on. The album goes in a different direction from Ian Anderson's earlier work, revealing influences from Celtic, folk, and classical music. In particular, the song "Fat Man" showed an interest in unusual instrumentation, as Ian Anderson played mandolin, one of the first times the instrument had been used by a rock band. The instrumental "Bourée" (one of Jethro Tull's better-known numbers) is a jazzy re-working of "Bourrée in E minor" by J.S. Bach. Ian Anderson has said that the melody and solo in "We Used to Know" were used by the Eagles in "Hotel California" as a type of tribute. The Eagles had opened for Jethro Tull at one time.

The gatefold album cover, in a woodcut style designed by artist James Grashow, originally opened up like a children's pop-up book, so that a cut-out of the band's personnel stood up — evoking the album's title. Stand Up won New Musical Express's award for best album artwork in 1969. (http://en.wikipedia.org)


Tracklist:

01 - A New Day Yesterday 04:11

02 - Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Squa 02:12

03 - Bourle 03:47

04 - Back To The Family 03:49

05 - Look Into The Sun 04:21

06 - Nothing Is Easy 04:26

07 - Fat Man 02:52

08 - We Used To Know 04:00

09 - Reasons For Waiting 04:06

10 - For A Thousand Mothers 04:14





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Jethro Tull 1968 This Was

Genre: Progressive Rock
Rate: 320 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 00:38:22
Size: 87,73 MB



This Was is the debut album by the rock band Jethro Tull, released in 1968.

While vocalist Ian Anderson's creative vision largely shaped Jethro Tull's later albums, on This Was Anderson shared songwriting duties with Tull's guitarist Mick Abrahams. In part due to Abrahams' influence, the album incorporates more rhythm and blues and jazz influences than the progressive rock the band later became known for. In particular:

The music to "Beggar's Farm", "My Sunday Feeling", "It's Breaking Me Up" and "Some Day the Sun Won't Shine for You" are based on blues progressions, with the latter song arranged similarly to Big Bill Broonzy's blues standard "Key to the Highway".

"Cat's Squirrel" (included in the album "because people like it", according to the liner notes) was written by Doctor Ross and covered as an instrumental by numerous 1960s British blues bands, perhaps most notably by Cream. Mick Abrahams would later perform the song in his post-Jethro Tull blues band Blodwyn Pig.

The album includes a cover version of Roland Kirk's jazz standard "Serenade to a Cuckoo". According to the liner notes, "Cuckoo" was one of the first tunes Ian Anderson learned to play on the flute.

The coda of "My Sunday Feeling" incorporates quotes from two well-known jazz tunes, Henry Mancini's "Pink Panther Theme" (specifically the song's bass line, played as a short solo by Glenn Cornick) and Nat Adderley's and Oscar Brown, Jr.'s "Work Song".

This Was also contains the only Jethro Tull lead vocal not performed by Ian Anderson on a studio album, "Move on Alone". Mick Abrahams, the song's author, provides vocals on the track; David Palmer provided the horn arrangement. Abrahams left Jethro Tull following the album's completion in a dispute over "musical differences". Thus, the album's title probably refers to Abahams' blues influence on the album and how blues weren't the direction Anderson wanted the band to go. As said in the liner notes of the original record "This was how we were playing then – but things change – don't they?"

The song "Dharma for One", a staple of Tull's early concerts (usually incorporating an extended drum solo by Clive Bunker), was later covered by Ekseption, Pesky Gee! and The Ides of March. (http://en.wikipedia.org)


Tracklist:

01 - My Sunday Feeling 03:43

02 - Someday The Sun Won't Shine For You 02:48

03 - Beggar's Farm 04:21

04 - Move On Alone 01:59

05 - Serenade To A Cuckoo 06:11

06 - Dharma For One 04:16

07 - It's Breaking Me Up 05:04

08 - Cat's Squirrel 05:43

09 - A Song For Jeffrey 03:24

10 - Round 00:53





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