July (2) 2024 - Jethro Tull - Living in the Past (1972)
Jul 14, 2024 20:53:35 GMT
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Post by nicholas on Jul 14, 2024 20:53:35 GMT
July (2) 2024 - Jethro Tull - Living in the Past (1972)
Here now, and for the first time (in 10 years and close to 200 TAS Album Choices!), I bring you Jethro Tull.
I remember purchasing this album shortly after it was released in 1972 and then listening to it over and over again.
I had just begun a new job just outside New York City and songs from the original line up of Jethro Tull filled my small apartment for many hours.
Fast forward to today where a digital copy is now rendered through a system many orders of magnitude improved over what I had back then.
The presentation is immensely more clear and the quality of the music allowed to shine through much more brightly.
Living in the Past Review by Bruce Eder:
Listen to this collection, put together to capitalize on the explosive growth in the group's audience after Aqualung, and it's easy to understand just how fine a group Jethro Tull was in the early '70s. Most of the songs, apart from a few heavily played album tracks ("Song for Jeffrey," etc.) and a pair of live tracks from a 1970 Carnegie Hall show, came off of singles and EPs that, apart from the title song, were scarcely known in America, and it's all so solid that it needs no apology or explanation. Not only was Ian Anderson writing solid songs every time out, but the group's rhythm section was about the best in progressive rock's pop division. Along with any of the group's first five albums, this collection is seminal and essential to any Tull collection, and the only compilation by the group that is a must-own disc.
Spotify:
Qobuz:
open.qobuz.com/album/0094632157553
Here now, and for the first time (in 10 years and close to 200 TAS Album Choices!), I bring you Jethro Tull.
I remember purchasing this album shortly after it was released in 1972 and then listening to it over and over again.
I had just begun a new job just outside New York City and songs from the original line up of Jethro Tull filled my small apartment for many hours.
Fast forward to today where a digital copy is now rendered through a system many orders of magnitude improved over what I had back then.
The presentation is immensely more clear and the quality of the music allowed to shine through much more brightly.
Living in the Past Review by Bruce Eder:
Listen to this collection, put together to capitalize on the explosive growth in the group's audience after Aqualung, and it's easy to understand just how fine a group Jethro Tull was in the early '70s. Most of the songs, apart from a few heavily played album tracks ("Song for Jeffrey," etc.) and a pair of live tracks from a 1970 Carnegie Hall show, came off of singles and EPs that, apart from the title song, were scarcely known in America, and it's all so solid that it needs no apology or explanation. Not only was Ian Anderson writing solid songs every time out, but the group's rhythm section was about the best in progressive rock's pop division. Along with any of the group's first five albums, this collection is seminal and essential to any Tull collection, and the only compilation by the group that is a must-own disc.
Spotify:
Qobuz:
open.qobuz.com/album/0094632157553
