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Walk Into Light [CD]

Ian Anderson Audio CD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • ASIN: B00000DQMP
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 686,936 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Product Description

Catalogue number F2 21443 DIDX 2950 on the Chrysalis label with the following tracks: 1> Fly By Night [3:51], 2> Made In England [4:57], 3> Walk Into Light [3:08], 4> Trains [3:18], 5> End Game [3:17], 6> Black And White Television [3:35], 7> Toad In The Hole [3:22], 8> Looking For Eden [3:40], 9> User Friendly [3:59], 10> Different Germany [5:22].

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Hidden Gem Despite 1980's Style keyboards 16 Aug 2006
Format:Audio CD
This is Ian Anderson's first solo offering and is an album overlooked by many. Released in November 1983 a year after Broadsword And The Beast I can remember at the time hoping that it would be of similar style but with possibly more of an acoustic edge. In short I had hoped for some songs similar to Wondering Aloud and Slipstream from Aqualung. Just Ian Anderson and guitar, that sort of thing. Sad then to report that the finished product turned out to be nothing of the sort, consisting of typical 1980's keyboards and of all things a drum machine. Even the album cover looks grey and rather dismal.

I can remember the day in 1983 when I purchased the record from Subway Records in Brighton and at the time feeling rather upset by the look of the cover. I felt sure that soundwise it was going to be similar to Tull's controversial 1980 'A' album which I was almost violently anti at the time. Even a friend of mine who I was with at the time refused to stand next to me in the queue such was the unfashionable look of the album cover and indeed the name Ian Anderson.

However, I went ahead with the purchase and now some 23 years on I think it a very good album packed with some very good songs and tunes. Yes, some of the keyboards and drum machine sounds do seem a bit dated now but somehow Ian Anderson gets away with it and the songs still manage to sound good. At the time Anderson was working with keyboardist Peter Vettese and to be honest the collection of songs is more a joint effort between the two of them rather than an absolute Ian Anderson solo effort.

In my opinion if Walk Into Light had been released as a fully fledged Jethro tull album of the Broadsword era minus drum machine, and made earthier and warmer with mandolins and more flute etc then we would be looking now at an absolute classic.

It's a fact that good tunes last forever regardless of the passing fashions of the instruments that make them. And it's the good tunes that keep this album very much alive today. In fact it's pretty much a perfect set from start to finish with standout songs for me being Made In England, Toad In The Hole and Looking For Eden.

Lyrically also it comes up trumps. A particular favourite line for me that paints a vivid picture is on Toad In The Hole..."Kicking through the wet leaves lying all along the Station Road. Past tired graffitti wailing, raw emotion to unload". Now that's good writing and worthy of a place on any classic Jethro Tull album.

Also of merit on Walk Into Light is the quality of Ian Anderson's vocals which sound superb. It's sad to reflect that only a year or so later his voice would become damaged and never be quite the same again.

So, to sum up Walk Into Light I would say that yes it has suffered a bit with 1980's style keyboard related fashion problems. However, that said it is still a hidden gem packed with instantly accessible tunes and definitely worth seeking out. In short no proper Jethro Tull fan should be without this record.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Anderson flying solo 1 Nov 2000
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The strength of this offering is that it didn't throw out the baby with the bath water. The Tull sound is very much at the fore of Anderson's first solo album, as you you may well have expected, but to it he has added the sound of electronics and the mix of folk and futurism produced sit comfortably together. Ian Anderson's vocals add the crowning achievement of this album; The lightly cynical, kind of sleazy but razor sharp wit of his lyrics and their delivery make it an interesting commentary on many facets of a world that Mr. Anderson obviously thinks a great deal about
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5.0 out of 5 stars Memorable 18 Mar 2011
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I can't really add much to what these reviews already say. The thoughts in these reviews pretty much are the same as my own. I remember buying the album in the tiny HMV shop in Southampton and feeling extremely disappointed with the cover (resembling, as it did, the old BBC test card). I wasn't encouraged either by the sound. It seemed to me that the 'A' album was a failed experiment with electronics, whilst Broadsword was a return to form, so this just looked like a backward step. But the album grew on me, as it did with everyone else. The mixture folk and electonics, coupled with quite brilliant lyrics works extremely well. The contents of the songs echoed my own life that November too. The dreams in 'Toad in the Hole' we all have when living in a small house (replete with a monchrome TV). 'Looking for Eden' is probably the strongest track on the CD. There isn't a duff track at all here and the music, though now extremely dated, is likely to grow on you with repeated listening. One personal reflection is that it created quite a magical atmosphere in our little house that winter and the music evokes a lot of memories unlikely to be matched in one lifetime.
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