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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Warning......... superior product.,
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This review is from: The Best of Jethro Tull - The Anniversary Collection (Audio CD)
Crikey....... no review of this one? A double compilation which does, for JT, what "Smiling Phases" does for Traffic. An excellent double cd retrospective of the group's shift from a bluesy sound into something rather folkier. My overwhelming preference is for the earlier albums, up to and including "A Passion Play". Thereafter, my interest fades.
I bought this for six quid, so it was an absolute no-brainer of a purchase. Whilst it is a bit pricier than the numerous other compilations on the market, i feel it is well worth the extra. If "Living In The Past" is an excellent double LP-cum single cd compilation of the early period, the "M.U. Best Of Jethro Tull" volumes one and two are largely redundant relics. Likewise with the "Original Masters" compilation. The single disc "Very Best Of Jethro Tull" manages to do a reasonable job, but uses the odd edit version. This two disc edition succeeds in stretching things out very nicely, having far more breadth of coverage. Disc one is a trawl through the first seven studio releases. Top-quality album tracks are interspersed with excellent non-album singles of the era, like "Living In The Past", "Christmas Song", "Teacher", "Sweet Dream" and "Life's A Long Song". It is an unimpeachably brilliant resume of this period, even if "Thick As A Brick" and "A Passion Play" are sorely under-represented. Those releases cannot, however, be done justice by a three or four minute edit. Disc two is nothing like as big a favourite with me, but it also does a great job of showcasing the highlights from "Minstrel In The Gallery" onwards. Material is drawn from seminal JT albums like "Songs From The Wood" and "Heavy Horses". A friend really dug that period. I had more difficulty, so the second disc is a good overview for those like me. Thirty-six quality tracks and a generous running time make for a compilation which really does satisfy. (No decent booklet, however.) Don't be drawn into buying one of the cheaper compilations, as you're likely to end up having to replace it!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
first disc good, second so-so,
By Captain Kirk "greader" (swansea) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Best of Jethro Tull - The Anniversary Collection (Audio CD)
Its really 4 stars for the first disc and 3, or less for the second. The first three tracks are from their early blues period and the third track is a dire xmas song. Most of their best work then follows. The second disc startss with the songs from the wood, minstrel in the gallery era, then there is a lot of stuff thats very mundane. And the final track is awful.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Might well induce exploring Tull further.....,
By T. R. Kidner "Hucklebrook Hound" (Salisbury, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Best of Jethro Tull - The Anniversary Collection (Audio CD)
I was brought into this weird and wonderful world of Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson via Broadsword & The Beast. I loved that air of Olde English folklore all lusciously wrapped up in a spacey, modern production by the great Paul Samwell-Smith, lovingly and enthusiastically played (expertly, too) with a mixture of traditional and electric instruments. I'd not heard anything like it before.I was wary too, that Tull had been around for pretty much as long as I'd been alive. That their "old" stuff would be wooden, boring and badly recorded. Which, in fact much of it was. I got the prerequisite Heavy Horses and Songs From the Wood and the great double live Bursting Out. Thick As a Brick remains a real favourite and Aqualung still delights with its mischievous lyrics and the inner schoolboy of Ian Anderson is infectious to this day. Do I need more? Want more? Well, buying this retrospective has provided me with that answer. No, not really. I do like all the stuff on it, but the tracks from albums I don't have are the cream of their particular crop and I'm quite happy leaving it at that. Is it worth buying? Definitely. Even if you have all/most/some of the albums already as it is nice just to play the really good ones and to condense three decades into three hours. If you're getting into Tull, it's an excellent choice to work out which era of their career most appeals. That's cos Tull/ Ian Anderson never sat on their laurels and never sounded the same from one album to another. That's probably how I saw Mr Anderson and a revamped Tull on their 40th Anniversary tour and people (OK, mostly men) of all ages went along and soaked it all up, shoulder to shoulder. For those who might need it, here is the complete track listing: CD1: A Song For Jeffrey/Beggar's Farm/A Christmas Song/A New Day Yesterday/Bouree/ Nothing Is Easy/Living In the Past/To Cry You a Song/Teacher/Sweet Dream/Cross Eyed Mary/Mother Goose/ Aqualung/Locomotive Breath/Life Is a Long Song/Thick As a Brick (Excerpt)/A Passion Play (Excerpt)/Skating Away on Thin Ice/Bungle in the Jungle. CD2: Minstrel In the Gallery/Too Old to Rock'n'Roll: Too Young to Die/Songs From the Wood/Jack-in-the-Green/The Whistler/Heavy Horses/Dun Ringill/ Flyingdale Flyer/Jack-A-Lynn/Pussy Willow/ Broadsword/Under Wraps II/Steel Monkey/Farm On the Freeway/Jump Start/Kissing Willie/This Is Not Love.
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