- Audio CD (28 Aug 2000)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Original recording reissued, Import
- Label: Chrysalis
- ASIN: B000008H1U
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 205,457 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Steel Monkey |
| 2. Farm On The Freeway |
| 3. Jump Start |
| 4. Said She Was A Dancer |
| 5. Dogs In The Midwinter |
| 6. Budapest |
| 7. Mountain Men |
| 8. The Waking Edge |
| 9. Raising Steam |
Product Description
Cd > Popular Music > Rock CD > POPULAR MUSIC > ROCK
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Modern era Tull,
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This review is from: Crest of a Knave (Audio CD)
I bought this album originally on tape while on holiday in Turkey and after a few plays it went all wobbly.I bought it initially out of curiousity as I'd heard a track off this album on a compilation and from then on I was hooked. This isn't typical Tull. Anderson had been flirting with new technology for a number of years and the sound can be described as possibly a cross between ZZ Top and Dire Sraits. It's a very accessible album but notable still for Anderson's quirky lyrics and ear for a great tune especially 'Waking Edge' and 'Said She Was a Dancer'. If you want a good introduction to Anderson buy this but it is by no means indicative of 70s Tull. And yes, I bought it on cd when I got home!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Over the Crest and down the other side...,
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This review is from: Crest of a Knave (Audio CD)
This seems to be the album that Ian Anderson wants us to admire the most judging by his interviews. The song writing and arrangements are supposed to be a notch above all that went before. I love JT but for me this is the album where it all began to fall apart. The lyrics are often weak with some cringe making lines on Budapest "Her legs went on forever, Like staring at infinity". In fact this album seemed to herald the arrival of IA's second adolescence. Some of the music is very good but Martin Barre seems to have decided he wants to sound like Mark Knopfler for some reason (Dire Straits were massively popular at the time). The drumming is poor, often provided by a drum machine. The album is saved by a couple of good but contrasting songs: Steel Monkey is a very powerfull and original modern sounding rock song and Mountain Men has a melodic old fashioned highlands theme which rolls along very nicely.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tonight Matthew, I'm going to be Mark Knopfler,
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This review is from: Crest of a Knave (Audio CD)
Play the track "Said She Was A Dancer" from this Tull C.D. to any ten music fans and at least seven will probably ask you which Dire Straits album it's taken from. The album was the first Tull c.d. I bought and though I've since covered what fans consider to be the essential purchases, this C.D. is still one of the most played. "Farm on the Freeway" is a classic, slow building tune laden with flute, telling of a farmers rage at compulsary land purchase (very British) and leads into "Jump Start", another track which could not be mistaken for any other band. The centerpeice of the album is "Budapest" at over ten minutes you can almost feel the effort that has gone into making it epic. My favourite track is "Dogs in the Midwinter" a variation on the "Why is life so hard" theme and another tune you find humming when you least expect it. It could be that Tull were attempting to break America again, this album and particulary the track "Jump Start" were heavily played on U.S. radio but as a confirmed Tull fan I can recommend it both to fans and to the first time "Tull Buyer". Oh, and "Steel Monkey" sound a bit like ZZ Top !!!
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