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- Original Release Date: 19 Mar 2007
- Format - Music: MP3
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- Also available in CD Format
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| Play | 1. A Passion Play (Part 1) (2003 Digital Remaster) | 21:36 | £4.49 | ||
| Play | 2. A Passion Play (Part 2) (2003 Digital Remaster) | 23:32 | £4.49 |
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
No-one likes this album: they either love it or they hate it. It polarises people.
Upon first listening to A Passion Play I was quite disappointed, especially when compared with Thick As A Brick, Jethro Tull's previous concept album. 'Why did I buy this junk?' I thought. My second listen felt a little better. By the third listen I was addicted.
It's fairly similar in structure to Thick As A Brick, though much darker in feeling. Brilliant chord progression and licks. I love the little intermission where "The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles" is told, backed with amazingly suitable music and other effects.
I absolutely love this album. It's a very close second to Thick As A Brick for me.
Upon first listening to A Passion Play I was quite disappointed, especially when compared with Thick As A Brick, Jethro Tull's previous concept album. 'Why did I buy this junk?' I thought. My second listen felt a little better. By the third listen I was addicted.
It's fairly similar in structure to Thick As A Brick, though much darker in feeling. Brilliant chord progression and licks. I love the little intermission where "The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles" is told, backed with amazingly suitable music and other effects.
I absolutely love this album. It's a very close second to Thick As A Brick for me.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
As a Tull fan since my schooldays (first getting into Thick As A Brick when I was around 13), I can never decide which is my favourite album of theirs. It's usually the one I'm listening to at the time (with the exception of the bland disposable syntho-pap of Under Wraps). The same rule holds good for A Passion Play ....... but only just. Whilst superficially similar to TAAB, and even half-reprising a couple of the themes of that masterpiece, APP is certainly not an easy album to get into.
I recently bought the enhanced CD, as my old vinyl copy had become so scratchy as to be almost unplayable. The clarity of sound, the bonus video of the Hare Who Lost his Spectacles and the sumptuous packaging, containing some quite illuminating notes penned recently by Ian Anderson, were absolutely first class.
On my long drive into work each day, I've been playing the CD several times (yes, even the Hare bit!). Last night I woke up with the music so stuck in my head that I couldn't sleep for hours. Yes! A quarter of a century on, I had got into APP all over again! Never mind the somewhat pretentious concept and the downright morbid motif, just listen to the virtuoso performance as themes merge and intertwine in magical fashion. Heavy, almost Black Sabbath-like guitar assaults you from the left, swirling flute and sax from the right, atmospheric keyboard sounds and pounding, mesmeric drums punctuate everything, whilst Ian Anderson's vocals have rarely conveyed such passion.
For a pleasant chill-out session I would certainly plump for almost any other Tull album (notably Songs From the Wood, TAAB or Heavy Horses), but for a profoundly moving and ultimately highly satisfying musical appreciation, there is little to compare with A Passion Play.
I couldn't quite bring myself to award the maximum 5 stars, simply because the intensity of this piece precludes too frequent listening, and the whimsical humour of "Hare" grates after a while (the CD does not permit the listener to skip that track). However this much-maligned album remains an essential purchase for anyone interested in this most cerebral of classic Brit rockers.
I recently bought the enhanced CD, as my old vinyl copy had become so scratchy as to be almost unplayable. The clarity of sound, the bonus video of the Hare Who Lost his Spectacles and the sumptuous packaging, containing some quite illuminating notes penned recently by Ian Anderson, were absolutely first class.
On my long drive into work each day, I've been playing the CD several times (yes, even the Hare bit!). Last night I woke up with the music so stuck in my head that I couldn't sleep for hours. Yes! A quarter of a century on, I had got into APP all over again! Never mind the somewhat pretentious concept and the downright morbid motif, just listen to the virtuoso performance as themes merge and intertwine in magical fashion. Heavy, almost Black Sabbath-like guitar assaults you from the left, swirling flute and sax from the right, atmospheric keyboard sounds and pounding, mesmeric drums punctuate everything, whilst Ian Anderson's vocals have rarely conveyed such passion.
For a pleasant chill-out session I would certainly plump for almost any other Tull album (notably Songs From the Wood, TAAB or Heavy Horses), but for a profoundly moving and ultimately highly satisfying musical appreciation, there is little to compare with A Passion Play.
I couldn't quite bring myself to award the maximum 5 stars, simply because the intensity of this piece precludes too frequent listening, and the whimsical humour of "Hare" grates after a while (the CD does not permit the listener to skip that track). However this much-maligned album remains an essential purchase for anyone interested in this most cerebral of classic Brit rockers.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:MP3 Download
Almost 20 years have passed since I last listened to this. When it was first released my flatmate and I listened to it obsessively to the point that it enetered our consciousness. I had truly forgotten about its titanic presence in the pantheon of rock, and as a previous reviewer suggests, it is a piece of genius up there with Handel's Messiah, etc. which will come to have its rightful place in time.
Well, thanks to finally embracing MP3 technology in my mid fifties, 'Passion Play' is back in my head and I can't shake it out - nor do I want to! I've just come back from a bike ride and wasn't connecting with the landscape. Those haunting lyrics; 'All along the icy wastes, their faces smiling in the gloom; roll up, roll down feeling unwound, step into the viewing room!'really are quite disturbing. Of course, all the words of 'the Hare' come flooding back and put a smile on my face - a wonderful interlude, but for me one truly magic moment is the symphonic burst at the end of the 'Hare' which takes us back to that ominous pulse and swirling layers of flute which carries us onward.
This is the best of Tull - the weave of opera, obtuse yet such poetic lyrics, the undercurrent of mocking menace, the signature flute and the craftsmanship of the band. As with Schubert or Van Gogh, its day will surely come
Well, thanks to finally embracing MP3 technology in my mid fifties, 'Passion Play' is back in my head and I can't shake it out - nor do I want to! I've just come back from a bike ride and wasn't connecting with the landscape. Those haunting lyrics; 'All along the icy wastes, their faces smiling in the gloom; roll up, roll down feeling unwound, step into the viewing room!'really are quite disturbing. Of course, all the words of 'the Hare' come flooding back and put a smile on my face - a wonderful interlude, but for me one truly magic moment is the symphonic burst at the end of the 'Hare' which takes us back to that ominous pulse and swirling layers of flute which carries us onward.
This is the best of Tull - the weave of opera, obtuse yet such poetic lyrics, the undercurrent of mocking menace, the signature flute and the craftsmanship of the band. As with Schubert or Van Gogh, its day will surely come
Most Recent Customer Reviews
So what is going on here - Tull does cheesy children's pantomime...
I love Jethro Tull's music passionately and knew eventually I would get hold of this CD. I picked it up many times, looked at the cover, shook my head and placed it carefully back... Read more
Published 1 month ago by S Tuffnell
My joint favourite Tull Album
Bombastic? Yep
Indulgent? - Yep
Just one long song? - Yep (split by the silly Hare tale)
A concept album by any chance? Read more
Indulgent? - Yep
Just one long song? - Yep (split by the silly Hare tale)
A concept album by any chance? Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. M. Holmes
A Passion Play reviewed
I have wanted this CD for some time as I had it in vinyl years ago. I could not find it in the shops, so I was delighted to order it on Amazon. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Sparky
The critics choice---for slagging off!!
Definitely a 'marmite' album this one. From my point of view its fantastic & unlike almost anything else i've ever heard. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Zomby Woof
Masterpiece
One of the (many) excellent, unique, masterful albums from the legendary Jethro Tull.
Their musicianship (even though the line-up changed over the years) is never less than... Read more
Their musicianship (even though the line-up changed over the years) is never less than... Read more
Published 7 months ago by M. R. N. Shackelford
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
A Passion Play is one of those real `love it or hate it' albums that can get really bitter critiques and really impassioned defenses at the same time. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Gentlegiantprog
CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only people I have ever met that dislike this album are the kind of people who's opinion's are formed while reading thing's like NME, Q, MOJO even Rolling Stone(the American... Read more
Published 19 months ago by FUD
A poor relation to 'Thick as a Brick'
Jethro Tull tried the same 'one continuous piece of music' trick they'd employed so successfully on 'Thick as a Brick' but the follow up is nowhere near as good. Read more
Published 21 months ago by MR K J DOWNING
The Best
This is the best.i bought this for a mate when it came out.he didnt like it and gave it back 2 me.i played it and played it til i knew it back 2 front so 2 speak. Read more
Published 24 months ago by geoff hummerstone
Critics hang your head in shame
Previous reviewers have renewed my faith in the music listening public. I got this on its original release (1973? Read more
Published on 5 Aug 2009 by Huck Flynn
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