 Zoom
 Send to Friend
Be the first to review this product!
|
|
|
|
| Artist |
Jethro Tull |
| Format |
CD |
| Genre |
Rock |
| Label Name |
EMI |
| Producer |
Jethro Tull, Derek Lawrence, Bernie Andrews |
| Release Date |
2008 06 10 |
| Song List |
1: My Sunday Feeling (3:43)
2: Some Day the Sun Won't Shine (2:49)
3: Beggar's Farm (4:23)
4: Move on Alone (2:00)
5: Serenade to a Cuckoo (6:07)
6: Dharma for One (4:13)
7: It's Breaking Me Up (5:01)
8: Cat's Squirrel (5:40)
9: A Song for Jeffrey (3:26)
10: Round (0:59)
11: So Much Trouble (3:19)
12: My Sunday Feeling (3:49)
13: Serenade to a Cuckoo (3:37)
14: Cat's Squirrel (4:38)
15: A Song for Jeffrey (3:13)
16: Love Story (3:04)
17: Stormy Monday (4:09)
18: Beggar's Farm (3:22)
19: Dharma for One (3:46)
20: My Sunday Feeling (3:42)
21: Some Day the Sun Won't Shine (2:47)
22: Beggar's Farm (4:21)
23: Move on Alone (1:57)
24: Serenade to a Cuckoo (6:05)
25: Dharma for One (4:13)
26: It's Breaking Me Up (5:03)
27: Cat's Squirrel (5:39)
28: A Song for Jeffrey (3:23)
29: Round (1:00)
30: Love Story [Stereo Mix] (3:05)
31: Christmas Song [Stereo Mix] (3:13)
32: Sunshine Day [Mono Version] (2:26)
33: One for John Gee (2:05)
34: Love Story (3:05)
35: Christmas Song (3:05) |
| Style.Categories |
Album Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Hard Rock, Blues-Rock |
This product CANNOT be returned once it has been opened. click here for more information on our general return policy.
Expected Release Date: Dec 31, 2008
Order this item now and we will ship it to you as soon as it is available.
Jethro Tull was very much a blues band on their debut album, and this double-CD edition -- restored to its original 1968-vintage mono-mix on the first platter, and augmented there with BBC archive performances recorded for John Peel's Top Gear show; and remixed in 2008 for stereo on the second platter, augmented with chronologically-related single- and EP-tracks -- shows them as even more of a blues- and roots-oriented outfit. In terms of sound, the original mono version of the album would be worth the price of admission by itself -- at this point, the band (Ian Anderson, Mick Abrahams, Glenn Cornick,Clive Bunker) was generating a lean, bluesy hard rock sound that didn't really benefit from stereo mixing as it was done at the time; and the BBC sessions only bear out the simplicity and directness of their sound, with Anderson and Abrahams pushing the group in what were originally compatible directions, into blues and realms of jazz -- fans of Mick Abrahams, incidentally, will have to own this set just for those BBC sides, which showcase his acoustic and electric guitar about as well as they ever could be, and with impressive clarity, as well. Additionally, the BBC version of "Love Story" plunges into some pyrotechnics that the official version only hints at. And on top of the expected songs off the album and related singles, we get "Stormy Monday" and "So Much Trouble" to expand out the repertory legacy of the early band. The second disc offers a new stereo mix that does, indeed, show off the band's strengths in ways that the 1968 version missed -- all of the reverb that was applied to Anderson's voice is gone, and as a result the whole album sounds more realistic. Comparing the two contrasting mixes of the record side-by-side, this reviewer will take the mono version, but the new stereo mix also sounds very good, if not as essential. There are also new stereo mixes of the single tracks "Love Story" and "Christmas Song", and remastered mono mixes of "Sunshine Day" and "One for John Gee", as well as "Love Story" and "Christmas Song". This double-disc set is essentially a summing up of the band's first phase in its totality, and in optimum form, accompanied by a well-illustrated booklet that includes observations by all of the original participants, 40 years on. To be sure, this is still not the Jethro Tull that most listeners came to know a few years later on Aqualung etc. -- they're closer in spirit to the Graham Bond Organization or even the Blues Project, with elements of the Cream. But as this set keeps reminding us every few seconds, they were still a great band, and one that sold a surprisingly large number of records their first time out, at least in England -- their original sound, showcased here, was that special, even if it started to be supplanted by a folkier, poppier, more commercial brand of music as the sales on the original album had begun to slacken. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
