| 1. Wind Up |
| 2. A New Day Yesterday |
| 3. A Song For Jeffrey |
| 4. My Sunday Feeling |
| 5. For A Thousand Mothers |
| 6. Thick A S A Drick |
| 7. Douree |
| 8. Hunting Girl |
| 9. Cross-Eyed Mary |
| 10. My God |
| 11. Aqualung |
| 12. Locomotive Breath |
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Live CD displaying the Italian show of Piacenza, featuring the first drummer of Jethro Tull and Lanzetti at the vocals. Great show with beautiful tracks beautifully played. Electrom. 2004.
This album fills in holes in Jethro Tull's early music, including tracks not a part of their earlier albums and commercially adding more music at a time when Tull was riding high on the success of 1971's "Aqualung." While some reviewers advise that you need not buy Tull's earliest recordings if you have "Living in the Past," I have all those recordings as well and do not believe this CD replaces them.
This CD offers a range of music, from hard rockers to mellow folk and Tull's signature renaissance-flavored folk and rock. "Living in the Past" offers a jazz-like piece with Ian Anderson's flute prominently displaced. It was the range of music Tull played that has always made Tull hard to fit into a particular genre. While they are often classified as hard rock because of songs like "Teacher" and "Sweet Dreams," as well as most of "Aqualung" and "War Child," Tull more likely fits into a genre of their own as they play music of all types and they seem to do so in a pattern of their own.
Like the true artists that they are, Jethro Tull created music as they felt moved to create. The result is creative and interesting music, often satirical, nearly always at least good. It may be tempting to think in retrospect that some of the music on this CD indicated that Jethro Tull was moving in a harder rock direction. However, as music from CDs such as "Minstrel in the Gallery" and "Songs from the Wood" indicates, Tull's style has always been eclectic, with hard rock being only one of their numerous styles.
This collection is a great introduction to a group that refuses standard classification and has only been recognized as one of music's greats in the last few years. While this CD is sometimes hard to find, I recommend this CD highly if you can find it and if you have liked what you've heard of Jethro Tull's non-commercial music.
1.Bouree
2.Teacher
3.locomotive breath(U.K. release)
4.Hymn 43(U.S. release)
They are all excellent songs but if you start to like Living In The Past you can get these songs on other great albums, which is really a much better way to hear them.
I first started listening to Jethro Tull in High School. Being part of the "band geek" community, my friends and I would spend any free time we had before or after school in the band room playing or listening to music.
I was particularly lucky enough to have a passionate music teacher who provided a kind of refuge for us in the big rehearsal room and connected offices. He would always try to inspire us by playing music that inspired him, and Jethro Tull music was some of that music. A friend and I would play their records on an old turntable I got in a relatives basement who had passed away.I also had an older friend who was really into them who would play them whenever I saw him.
This is one of the first albums I heard from them, along with "Songs from the Wood" and "Thick as a Brick"(besides Aqualung from classic rock radio).
This is the first music I ever heard with incredible ecclecticism in style and instrumentation, but not disparate sounding, from acoustic guitar and toy piano(Just trying to be),to heavy rock guitar and flute and tablas(Love Story).
From mandolin, whistle and strings(Christmas Story),
to a pop rock song with a clave and bass intro in 5/4(holy crap!).
From songs about the well told tale of touring woes(Driving Song), to discontent with holiday excess(Christmas Song).
From a simple thank you(Nursie), to cynical commentary on society(Wond'ring again).
From aimless lovelorn wandering (Singing all day),
to the beauty of realizing "that life is a long song, but the tune ends to soon for us all."
This album is filled with some of the best Tull songs from any of their various eras. These songs reflect Ian Anderson's songwriting before their extended song albums(Thick and Passion) changed their direction somewhat(not in a bad way!). These songs, excluding the two live cuts, are pop gems filled with exceptional musicianship, arrangements, idiosyncratic lyricism, weird isoteric british references(Up the 'pool), humor,touching sentiments, and total originality, each under four and a half minutes,some a minute and a half(Just trying to be, Nursie).
Ian's great singing and olde english, travelling minstrel acoustic guitar is all over them. And flute playing that ranges from little backround parts to huge in your face flurries, classical lines to Roland Kirk tinged blues licks, all the while infusing the flute into the band's sonic landscape so you never say to yourself "Oh there's that flute again".
This album really comes to life in the headphones, with great Beatles-esque stereo panning and intricate overdub layering. Once you start listening you're bound to find at least a handful of things sonically in each song that are amazing, like the far left and right panning of John Evans' piano and the acoustic guitar harmonizing in unison in "Witches Promise". Or the huge cavern reverb they throw on the very end of Martin Barre's guitar solo in "Sweet Dream". Just a couple of examples from a couple of songs!
If your already a fan, try listening to the album excluding the previously released tracks(at the time) and the live cuts. Then throw "Living in the Past" on top:
1.Living in the past
2.Love Story
3.Christmas Song
4.Driving Song
5.Sweet Dream
6.Singing all day
7.Witches Promise
8.Alive and well and living in
9.Just trying to be
10.Wond'ring again
11.Life is a long song
12.Up the 'pool
13.Dr. Bogenbroom
14.For later
15.Nursie
This is the only way I listen to these songs now. I find the other songs great but I've grown to love these songs as their own album, and the other songs become intrusive. I listen to "Locomotive Breath" and "Hymn 43" on Aqualung, "Teacher" with Benefit, "Bouree" on Stand Up, and the live tunes with the Live from Carnegie Hall '70 disc from the 25th Anniversary Set.
Amid the hysteria of the satisfying but radio-drained alpha male Aqualung riff which unfortunately went up the stairway to heaven and the Thick as a Brick "concept album" hype(albeit well deserved hype), this album proves what a great band and concept that Jethro Tull were based solely on the songwriting and execution of these relatively short pieces.
The thing about this set is it contains that intangible sense of place and time that great albums have. They have the ability to evoke images or feelings that belong specifically to an era I did'nt grow up in, or a place I've only seen second hand.
You'll never hear another album like this one. I still get goose-bumps when I put the headphones on!
This CD offers a range of music, from hard rockers to mellow folk and Tull's signature renaissance-flavored folk rock. "Living in the Past" offers a jazz-like piece with Ian Anderson's flute prominently displaced. It was the range of music Tull played that has always made Tull hard to fit into a particular genre. While Jethro Tull is often classified as hard rock because of songs like "Teacher" and "Sweet Dreams," as well as most of "Aqualung" and "War Child," Tull more likely fits into a genre of their own as they play music of all types, and they seem to do so in a pattern of their own.
Like the true artists that they are, Jethro Tull created music as they felt moved to create. The result is creative and interesting music, often satirical, nearly always at least good. It may be tempting to think that in retrospect that some of the music on this CD indicated that Jethro Tull was moving in a harder rock direction. Possibly. However, as music from CDs such as "Minstrel in the Gallery" and "Songs from the Wood" indicates, Tull's style has always been eclectic, with hard rock being only one of their numerous styles.
Note that there are several versions of this CD in existence. This particular edition is an import. Before purchasing this CD I suggest learning the versions available and choosing the version that best meets your needs.
This collection is a great introduction to a group that refuses standard classification, and has only been recognized as one of music's greats in the last few years. While this CD is now hard to find, I recommend this CD highly if you've liked what you've heard of Jethro Tull's non-commercial music.
First there was the psychedelic blues period represented by "A Song for Jeffrey" and "Love Story." Then Mick Abrahams was replaced by Martin Lancelot Barre and Tull was off into the world of heavy rock as evidenced by "Driving Song" and "Singing All Day." The Jethro Tull marked by Ian Anderson's distinctive flute and guitar work came into being when his old schoolmate John Evan joined for the "Benefit" sessions. Evan's keyboard work allowed Tull to do ballads like "Just Trying to Be" and "Wond'ring Again" and then switch gears to a real rocker like "Teacher" with relative ease (However, because of "time restrictions" that track and "Bouree" are not included on the CD version, which is amazing since they are two of the four best songs on the album--go figure). The two live cuts on "Living in the Past"--"By Kind Permission Of" and "Dharma For One"--feature Anderson and Barre exploring their instruments in featured segments that improve upon the original versions of each song. After this point in the group's history the final two original members of Tull were jettisoned in favor of Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond and Barriemore Barlow, giving Anderson a handpicked group of musicians who would follow his Pied Piper lead.
"Living in the Past" is ultimately an ironic title because with "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick," Jethro Tull were going in a very different direction musically. It is probably not a surprise that the most popular songs on the album, "Christmas Song" and the title track, are among those that best anticipate what would become the group's distinctive sound. The best thing about this album is that it saves you from having to buy all of Jethro Tull's albums before "Aqualung." Oh, and did I mention they left two of the best songs on the record off of the CD?
Those who complain that tracks are left off neglect to say that these are album tracks previously released.
The original intention of this album was to compile all (or most) of the non-lp singles; the rest is gravy, including the 1970 Carnegie Hall live recordings, of which the rest of the concert are available on the 2nd Tull box set.
Have the various powers that be dropped the ball on this release? Definitely! Just feel lucky if you find ANY version of LITP on cd.
This album fills in holes in Jethro Tull's early music, including tracks not a part of their earlier albums and commercially adding more music at a time when Tull was riding high on the success of 1971's "Aqualung." While some reviewers advise that you need not buy Tull's earliest recordings if you have "Living in the Past," I have all those recordings as well and do not believe this CD replaces them.
This CD offers a range of music, from hard rockers to mellow folk and Tull's signature renaissance-flavored folk and rock. "Living in the Past" offers a jazz-like piece with Ian Anderson's flute prominently displaced. It was the range of music Tull played that has always made Tull hard to fit into a particular genre. While they are often classified as hard rock because of songs like "Teacher" and "Sweet Dreams," as well as most of "Aqualung" and "War Child," Tull more likely fits into a genre of their own as they play music of all types and they seem to do so in a pattern of their own.
Like the true artists that they are, Jethro Tull created music as they felt moved to create. The result is creative and interesting music, often satirical, nearly always at least good. It may be tempting to think in retrospect that some of the music on this CD indicated that Jethro Tull was moving in a harder rock direction. However, as music from CDs such as "Minstrel in the Gallery" and "Songs from the Wood" indicates, Tull's style has always been eclectic, with hard rock being only one of their numerous styles.
This collection is a great introduction to a group that refuses standard classification and has only been recognized as one of music's greats in the last few years. While this CD is sometimes hard to find, I recommend this CD highly if you can find it and if you have liked what you've heard of Jethro Tull's non-commercial music.
1.Bouree
2.Teacher
3.locomotive breath(U.K. release)
4.Hymn 43(U.S. release)
They are all excellent songs but if you start to like Living In The Past you can get these songs on other great albums, which is really a much better way to hear them.
I first started listening to Jethro Tull in High School. Being part of the "band geek" community, my friends and I would spend any free time we had before or after school in the band room playing or listening to music.
I was particularly lucky enough to have a passionate music teacher who provided a kind of refuge for us in the big rehearsal room and connected offices. He would always try to inspire us by playing music that inspired him, and Jethro Tull music was some of that music. A friend and I would play their records on an old turntable I got in a relatives basement who had passed away.I also had an older friend who was really into them who would play them whenever I saw him.
This is one of the first albums I heard from them, along with "Songs from the Wood" and "Thick as a Brick"(besides Aqualung from classic rock radio).
This is the first music I ever heard with incredible ecclecticism in style and instrumentation, but not disparate sounding, from acoustic guitar and toy piano(Just trying to be),to heavy rock guitar and flute and tablas(Love Story).
From mandolin, whistle and strings(Christmas Story),
to a pop rock song with a clave and bass intro in 5/4(holy crap!).
From songs about the well told tale of touring woes(Driving Song), to discontent with holiday excess(Christmas Song).
From a simple thank you(Nursie), to cynical commentary on society(Wond'ring again).
From aimless lovelorn wandering (Singing all day),
to the beauty of realizing "that life is a long song, but the tune ends to soon for us all."
This album is filled with some of the best Tull songs from any of their various eras. These songs reflect Ian Anderson's songwriting before their extended song albums(Thick and Passion) changed their direction somewhat(not in a bad way!). These songs, excluding the two live cuts, are pop gems filled with exceptional musicianship, arrangements, idiosyncratic lyricism, weird isoteric british references(Up the 'pool), humor,touching sentiments, and total originality, each under four and a half minutes,some a minute and a half(Just trying to be, Nursie).
Ian's great singing and olde english, travelling minstrel acoustic guitar is all over them. And flute playing that ranges from little backround parts to huge in your face flurries, classical lines to Roland Kirk tinged blues licks, all the while infusing the flute into the band's sonic landscape so you never say to yourself "Oh there's that flute again".
This album really comes to life in the headphones, with great Beatles-esque stereo panning and intricate overdub layering. Once you start listening you're bound to find at least a handful of things sonically in each song that are amazing, like the far left and right panning of John Evans' piano and the acoustic guitar harmonizing in unison in "Witches Promise". Or the huge cavern reverb they throw on the very end of Martin Barre's guitar solo in "Sweet Dream". Just a couple of examples from a couple of songs!
If your already a fan, try listening to the album excluding the previously released tracks(at the time) and the live cuts. Then throw "Living in the Past" on top:
1.Living in the past
2.Love Story
3.Christmas Song
4.Driving Song
5.Sweet Dream
6.Singing all day
7.Witches Promise
8.Alive and well and living in
9.Just trying to be
10.Wond'ring again
11.Life is a long song
12.Up the 'pool
13.Dr. Bogenbroom
14.For later
15.Nursie
This is the only way I listen to these songs now. I find the other songs great but I've grown to love these songs as their own album, and the other songs become intrusive. I listen to "Locomotive Breath" and "Hymn 43" on Aqualung, "Teacher" with Benefit, "Bouree" on Stand Up, and the live tunes with the Live from Carnegie Hall '70 disc from the 25th Anniversary Set.
Amid the hysteria of the satisfying but radio-drained alpha male Aqualung riff which unfortunately went up the stairway to heaven and the Thick as a Brick "concept album" hype(albeit well deserved hype), this album proves what a great band and concept that Jethro Tull were based solely on the songwriting and execution of these relatively short pieces.
The thing about this set is it contains that intangible sense of place and time that great albums have. They have the ability to evoke images or feelings that belong specifically to an era I did'nt grow up in, or a place I've only seen second hand.
You'll never hear another album like this one. I still get goose-bumps when I put the headphones on!
This album fills in holes in Jethro Tull's early music, including tracks not a part of their earlier albums and commercially adding more music at a time when Tull was riding high on the success of 1971's "Aqualung." While some reviewers advise that you need not buy Tull's earliest recordings if you have "Living in the Past," I have all those recordings as well and do not believe this CD replaces them.
This CD offers a range of music, from hard rockers to mellow folk and Tull's signature renaissance-flavored folk and rock. "Living in the Past" offers a jazz-like piece with Ian Anderson's flute prominently displaced. It was the range of music Tull played that has always made Tull hard to fit into a particular genre. While they are often classified as hard rock because of songs like "Teacher" and "Sweet Dreams," as well as most of "Aqualung" and "War Child," Tull more likely fits into a genre of their own as they play music of all types and they seem to do so in a pattern of their own.
Like the true artists that they are, Jethro Tull created music as they felt moved to create. The result is creative and interesting music, often satirical, nearly always at least good. It may be tempting to think in retrospect that some of the music on this CD indicated that Jethro Tull was moving in a harder rock direction. However, as music from CDs such as "Minstrel in the Gallery" and "Songs from the Wood" indicates, Tull's style has always been eclectic, with hard rock being only one of their numerous styles.
This collection is a great introduction to a group that refuses standard classification and has only been recognized as one of music's greats in the last few years. While this CD is sometimes hard to find, I recommend this CD highly if you can find it and if you have liked what you've heard of Jethro Tull's non-commercial music.
1.Bouree
2.Teacher
3.locomotive breath(U.K. release)
4.Hymn 43(U.S. release)
They are all excellent songs but if you start to like Living In The Past you can get these songs on other great albums, which is really a much better way to hear them.
I first started listening to Jethro Tull in High School. Being part of the "band geek" community, my friends and I would spend any free time we had before or after school in the band room playing or listening to music.
I was particularly lucky enough to have a passionate music teacher who provided a kind of refuge for us in the big rehearsal room and connected offices. He would always try to inspire us by playing music that inspired him, and Jethro Tull music was some of that music. A friend and I would play their records on an old turntable I got in a relatives basement who had passed away.I also had an older friend who was really into them who would play them whenever I saw him.
This is one of the first albums I heard from them, along with "Songs from the Wood" and "Thick as a Brick"(besides Aqualung from classic rock radio).
This is the first music I ever heard with incredible ecclecticism in style and instrumentation, but not disparate sounding, from acoustic guitar and toy piano(Just trying to be),to heavy rock guitar and flute and tablas(Love Story).
From mandolin, whistle and strings(Christmas Story),
to a pop rock song with a clave and bass intro in 5/4(holy crap!).
From songs about the well told tale of touring woes(Driving Song), to discontent with holiday excess(Christmas Song).
From a simple thank you(Nursie), to cynical commentary on society(Wond'ring again).
From aimless lovelorn wandering (Singing all day),
to the beauty of realizing "that life is a long song, but the tune ends to soon for us all."
This album is filled with some of the best Tull songs from any of their various eras. These songs reflect Ian Anderson's songwriting before their extended song albums(Thick and Passion) changed their direction somewhat(not in a bad way!). These songs, excluding the two live cuts, are pop gems filled with exceptional musicianship, arrangements, idiosyncratic lyricism, weird isoteric british references(Up the 'pool), humor,touching sentiments, and total originality, each under four and a half minutes,some a minute and a half(Just trying to be, Nursie).
Ian's great singing and olde english, travelling minstrel acoustic guitar is all over them. And flute playing that ranges from little backround parts to huge in your face flurries, classical lines to Roland Kirk tinged blues licks, all the while infusing the flute into the band's sonic landscape so you never say to yourself "Oh there's that flute again".
This album really comes to life in the headphones, with great Beatles-esque stereo panning and intricate overdub layering. Once you start listening you're bound to find at least a handful of things sonically in each song that are amazing, like the far left and right panning of John Evans' piano and the acoustic guitar harmonizing in unison in "Witches Promise". Or the huge cavern reverb they throw on the very end of Martin Barre's guitar solo in "Sweet Dream". Just a couple of examples from a couple of songs!
If your already a fan, try listening to the album excluding the previously released tracks(at the time) and the live cuts. Then throw "Living in the Past" on top:
1.Living in the past
2.Love Story
3.Christmas Song
4.Driving Song
5.Sweet Dream
6.Singing all day
7.Witches Promise
8.Alive and well and living in
9.Just trying to be
10.Wond'ring again
11.Life is a long song
12.Up the 'pool
13.Dr. Bogenbroom
14.For later
15.Nursie
This is the only way I listen to these songs now. I find the other songs great but I've grown to love these songs as their own album, and the other songs become intrusive. I listen to "Locomotive Breath" and "Hymn 43" on Aqualung, "Teacher" with Benefit, "Bouree" on Stand Up, and the live tunes with the Live from Carnegie Hall '70 disc from the 25th Anniversary Set.
Amid the hysteria of the satisfying but radio-drained alpha male Aqualung riff which unfortunately went up the stairway to heaven and the Thick as a Brick "concept album" hype(albeit well deserved hype), this album proves what a great band and concept that Jethro Tull were based solely on the songwriting and execution of these relatively short pieces.
The thing about this set is it contains that intangible sense of place and time that great albums have. They have the ability to evoke images or feelings that belong specifically to an era I did'nt grow up in, or a place I've only seen second hand.
You'll never hear another album like this one. I still get goose-bumps when I put the headphones on!
Live CD displaying the Italian show of Piacenza, featuring the first drummer of Jethro Tull and Lanzetti at the vocals. Great show with beautiful tracks beautifully played. Electrom. 2004.
Diving in the Past,Clive & Beggar's Farm (Ft Bernardo Lanzetti) Bunker,Electrom,Italian,World Music
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ASIN: B00002668Z Release Date: 2003-12-02 |
Tracks:
- Song For Jeffrey
- Love Story
- Christmas Song
- Living In The Past
- Driving Song
- Sweet Dream
- Singing All Day
- Witches Promise
- Inside
- Just Trying To Be
- By Kind Permission Of
- Dharma For One
- Wond'ring Again
- Locomotive Breath
- Life Is A Long Song
- Up The 'Pool
- Dr. Bogenbroom
- For Later
- Nursie
Album Description
1994 reissue of 19 track collection originally released in 1972, including 2 live tracks recorded at Carnegie Hall, 'By Kind Permission Of' & 'Dharma For One'. Chrysalis.Customer Reviews:
From a True Tull Fan and Collector; Please Listen!!!.......2007-01-30
Tull fan.......2007-01-09
Watch which Version You Are Getting.......2006-10-21
This album fills in holes in Jethro Tull's early music, including tracks not a part of their earlier albums and commercially adding more music at a time when Tull was riding high on the success of 1971's "Aqualung." While some reviewers advise that you need not buy Tull's earliest recordings if you have "Living in the Past," I have all those recordings as well and do not believe this CD replaces them.
This CD offers a range of music, from hard rockers to mellow folk and Tull's signature renaissance-flavored folk and rock. "Living in the Past" offers a jazz-like piece with Ian Anderson's flute prominently displaced. It was the range of music Tull played that has always made Tull hard to fit into a particular genre. While they are often classified as hard rock because of songs like "Teacher" and "Sweet Dreams," as well as most of "Aqualung" and "War Child," Tull more likely fits into a genre of their own as they play music of all types and they seem to do so in a pattern of their own.
Like the true artists that they are, Jethro Tull created music as they felt moved to create. The result is creative and interesting music, often satirical, nearly always at least good. It may be tempting to think in retrospect that some of the music on this CD indicated that Jethro Tull was moving in a harder rock direction. However, as music from CDs such as "Minstrel in the Gallery" and "Songs from the Wood" indicates, Tull's style has always been eclectic, with hard rock being only one of their numerous styles.
This collection is a great introduction to a group that refuses standard classification and has only been recognized as one of music's greats in the last few years. While this CD is sometimes hard to find, I recommend this CD highly if you can find it and if you have liked what you've heard of Jethro Tull's non-commercial music.
Jam Sarnies? Say what?.......2006-06-27
1.Bouree
2.Teacher
3.locomotive breath(U.K. release)
4.Hymn 43(U.S. release)
They are all excellent songs but if you start to like Living In The Past you can get these songs on other great albums, which is really a much better way to hear them.
I first started listening to Jethro Tull in High School. Being part of the "band geek" community, my friends and I would spend any free time we had before or after school in the band room playing or listening to music.
I was particularly lucky enough to have a passionate music teacher who provided a kind of refuge for us in the big rehearsal room and connected offices. He would always try to inspire us by playing music that inspired him, and Jethro Tull music was some of that music. A friend and I would play their records on an old turntable I got in a relatives basement who had passed away.I also had an older friend who was really into them who would play them whenever I saw him.
This is one of the first albums I heard from them, along with "Songs from the Wood" and "Thick as a Brick"(besides Aqualung from classic rock radio).
This is the first music I ever heard with incredible ecclecticism in style and instrumentation, but not disparate sounding, from acoustic guitar and toy piano(Just trying to be),to heavy rock guitar and flute and tablas(Love Story).
From mandolin, whistle and strings(Christmas Story),
to a pop rock song with a clave and bass intro in 5/4(holy crap!).
From songs about the well told tale of touring woes(Driving Song), to discontent with holiday excess(Christmas Song).
From a simple thank you(Nursie), to cynical commentary on society(Wond'ring again).
From aimless lovelorn wandering (Singing all day),
to the beauty of realizing "that life is a long song, but the tune ends to soon for us all."
This album is filled with some of the best Tull songs from any of their various eras. These songs reflect Ian Anderson's songwriting before their extended song albums(Thick and Passion) changed their direction somewhat(not in a bad way!). These songs, excluding the two live cuts, are pop gems filled with exceptional musicianship, arrangements, idiosyncratic lyricism, weird isoteric british references(Up the 'pool), humor,touching sentiments, and total originality, each under four and a half minutes,some a minute and a half(Just trying to be, Nursie).
Ian's great singing and olde english, travelling minstrel acoustic guitar is all over them. And flute playing that ranges from little backround parts to huge in your face flurries, classical lines to Roland Kirk tinged blues licks, all the while infusing the flute into the band's sonic landscape so you never say to yourself "Oh there's that flute again".
This album really comes to life in the headphones, with great Beatles-esque stereo panning and intricate overdub layering. Once you start listening you're bound to find at least a handful of things sonically in each song that are amazing, like the far left and right panning of John Evans' piano and the acoustic guitar harmonizing in unison in "Witches Promise". Or the huge cavern reverb they throw on the very end of Martin Barre's guitar solo in "Sweet Dream". Just a couple of examples from a couple of songs!
If your already a fan, try listening to the album excluding the previously released tracks(at the time) and the live cuts. Then throw "Living in the Past" on top:
1.Living in the past
2.Love Story
3.Christmas Song
4.Driving Song
5.Sweet Dream
6.Singing all day
7.Witches Promise
8.Alive and well and living in
9.Just trying to be
10.Wond'ring again
11.Life is a long song
12.Up the 'pool
13.Dr. Bogenbroom
14.For later
15.Nursie
This is the only way I listen to these songs now. I find the other songs great but I've grown to love these songs as their own album, and the other songs become intrusive. I listen to "Locomotive Breath" and "Hymn 43" on Aqualung, "Teacher" with Benefit, "Bouree" on Stand Up, and the live tunes with the Live from Carnegie Hall '70 disc from the 25th Anniversary Set.
Amid the hysteria of the satisfying but radio-drained alpha male Aqualung riff which unfortunately went up the stairway to heaven and the Thick as a Brick "concept album" hype(albeit well deserved hype), this album proves what a great band and concept that Jethro Tull were based solely on the songwriting and execution of these relatively short pieces.
The thing about this set is it contains that intangible sense of place and time that great albums have. They have the ability to evoke images or feelings that belong specifically to an era I did'nt grow up in, or a place I've only seen second hand.
You'll never hear another album like this one. I still get goose-bumps when I put the headphones on!
3.5 stars- Get this if you're a completest.......2005-12-10
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ASIN: B0001BUF3U Release Date: 2004-04-05 |
Tracks:
- Song for Jeffrey
- Love Story
- Christmas Song
- Living in the Past
- Driving Song
- Sweet Dream
- Singing All Day
- Witch's Promise
- Inside
- Alive and Well and Living In
- Just Trying to Be
- By Kind Permission Of
- Dharma for One
- Wond'ring Again
- Hymn 43
- Life is a Long Song
- Up the 'Pool
- Dr. Bogenbroom
- For Later
- Nursie
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Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.Customer Reviews:
You got to be kidding me!!!!.......2007-01-31
Eclectic Collection of Early Tull.......2006-04-14
This CD offers a range of music, from hard rockers to mellow folk and Tull's signature renaissance-flavored folk rock. "Living in the Past" offers a jazz-like piece with Ian Anderson's flute prominently displaced. It was the range of music Tull played that has always made Tull hard to fit into a particular genre. While Jethro Tull is often classified as hard rock because of songs like "Teacher" and "Sweet Dreams," as well as most of "Aqualung" and "War Child," Tull more likely fits into a genre of their own as they play music of all types, and they seem to do so in a pattern of their own.
Like the true artists that they are, Jethro Tull created music as they felt moved to create. The result is creative and interesting music, often satirical, nearly always at least good. It may be tempting to think that in retrospect that some of the music on this CD indicated that Jethro Tull was moving in a harder rock direction. Possibly. However, as music from CDs such as "Minstrel in the Gallery" and "Songs from the Wood" indicates, Tull's style has always been eclectic, with hard rock being only one of their numerous styles.
Note that there are several versions of this CD in existence. This particular edition is an import. Before purchasing this CD I suggest learning the versions available and choosing the version that best meets your needs.
This collection is a great introduction to a group that refuses standard classification, and has only been recognized as one of music's greats in the last few years. While this CD is now hard to find, I recommend this CD highly if you've liked what you've heard of Jethro Tull's non-commercial music.
A musical record fo the pre-"Aqualung" Jethro Tull.......2005-06-05
First there was the psychedelic blues period represented by "A Song for Jeffrey" and "Love Story." Then Mick Abrahams was replaced by Martin Lancelot Barre and Tull was off into the world of heavy rock as evidenced by "Driving Song" and "Singing All Day." The Jethro Tull marked by Ian Anderson's distinctive flute and guitar work came into being when his old schoolmate John Evan joined for the "Benefit" sessions. Evan's keyboard work allowed Tull to do ballads like "Just Trying to Be" and "Wond'ring Again" and then switch gears to a real rocker like "Teacher" with relative ease (However, because of "time restrictions" that track and "Bouree" are not included on the CD version, which is amazing since they are two of the four best songs on the album--go figure). The two live cuts on "Living in the Past"--"By Kind Permission Of" and "Dharma For One"--feature Anderson and Barre exploring their instruments in featured segments that improve upon the original versions of each song. After this point in the group's history the final two original members of Tull were jettisoned in favor of Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond and Barriemore Barlow, giving Anderson a handpicked group of musicians who would follow his Pied Piper lead.
"Living in the Past" is ultimately an ironic title because with "Aqualung" and "Thick as a Brick," Jethro Tull were going in a very different direction musically. It is probably not a surprise that the most popular songs on the album, "Christmas Song" and the title track, are among those that best anticipate what would become the group's distinctive sound. The best thing about this album is that it saves you from having to buy all of Jethro Tull's albums before "Aqualung." Oh, and did I mention they left two of the best songs on the record off of the CD?
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ASIN: B000008H1V Release Date: 1999-09-14 |
Tracks:
- Song For Jeffrey
- Love Story
- Christmas Song
- Living In The Past
- Driving Song
- Sweet Dream
- Singing All Day
- Witches Promise
- Inside
- Alive And Well And Living In
- Just Trying To Be
- By Kind Permission Of (Live At Carnegie Hall)
- Dharma For Once (Live At Carnegie Hall)
- Wond'ring Again
- Hymn 43
- Life Is A Long Song
- Up The 'Pool
- Dr. Bogenbroom
- For Later
- Nursie
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An unconventional best-of collection at the time of its 1972 release, Living in the Past existed to gain a greater foothold in America for Jethro Tull following the breakthrough success of Aqualung. And it did, by offering a little something for everyone. There are a number of songs that became FM radio staples, ranging from the heavy rock of "Teacher" and "Hymn 43" to lighter fare, such as the title tune. A pair of jam-heavy selections, "By Kind Permission Of" and "Dharma for One" (featuring the era's requisite in-concert drum solo), were recorded live at Carnegie Hall. Overall, Living in the Past does an excellent job of revealing Tull's achievements and limitations, its ambitions as well as its pretensions. --Daniel DurchholzCustomer Reviews:
Quitcher Bitchin!.......2005-06-05
Those who complain that tracks are left off neglect to say that these are album tracks previously released.
The original intention of this album was to compile all (or most) of the non-lp singles; the rest is gravy, including the 1970 Carnegie Hall live recordings, of which the rest of the concert are available on the 2nd Tull box set.
Have the various powers that be dropped the ball on this release? Definitely! Just feel lucky if you find ANY version of LITP on cd.
Eclectic Collection of Early Tull.......2003-05-22
This CD offers a range of music, from hard rockers to mellow folk and Tull's signature renaissance-flavored folk and rock. "Living in the Past" offers a jazz-like piece with Ian Anderson's flute prominently displaced. It was the range of music Tull played that has always made Tull hard to fit into a particular genre. While they are often classified as hard rock because of songs like "Teacher" and "Sweet Dreams", as well as most of "Aqualung" and "War Child", Tull more likely fits into a genre of their own as they play music of all types, and they seem to do so in a pattern of their own.
Like the true artists that they are, Jethro Tull created music as they felt moved to create. The result is creative and interesting music, often satirical, nearly always at least good. It may be tempting to think that in retrospect that some of the music on this CD indicated that Jethro Tull was moving in a harder rock direction. Possibly. However, as music from CDs such as "Minstrel in the Gallery" and "Songs from the Wood" indicates, Tull's style has always been eclectic, with hard rock being only one of their numerous styles.
This collection is a great introduction to a group that refuses standard classification, and has only been recognized as one of music's greats in the last few years. While this CD is now hard to find, I recommend this CD highly if you can find it, and you've liked what you've heard of Jethro Tull's non-commercial music.
Halfway House.......2002-05-22
When Tull was good they were--dare I say it?--magical. The first 11 tracks on this CD, along with "Wond'ring Again" and "Hymn 43" deliver that kind of magic. But the live tracks are ponderous, and I can't believe no one at Chrysalis considered dumping them to leave "Teacher" and the masterful "Bouree" on instead. If something needed to be cut to fit the LP on CD, it sure shouldn't have been Jethro Tulls best-ever recording.
Still, this is a CD worth owning. Tull was unique, totally British and always more focused on making great music than many of their contemporaries.
Hard to Find, But Worth It.......2002-02-28
Without This Album, The Band's History Is Incomplete.......2001-12-28
Most reviewers have made the same comment regarding the content change between the original LP and the CD release. The mistake they make is based on the error that is made in the "consumer note" on the CD. Yes, two tracks were deleted from the original vinyl: "Bouree" (leaving no tracks from their sophomore effort Stand Up) and "Teacher" (leaving only "Inside" from their third album Benefit). But there was a third track deleted from the original vinyl. Track-2 on Side-4 was "Locomotive Breath." [I know this because I still have my vinyl copy from 1972. Also missing is the 14-page color insert, which has been reduced to two pages with the CD reissue and only a fraction of the more than 50 photos in the original.] One other difference should be noted between the two track listings. The original vinyl release did NOT include "Hymn 43." [Note: The Gold CD issue of Living in the Past includes all 23 tracks, so you get the combined LP/CD track listing. But it's going to cost you enough extra that it would make more sense to simply buy the individual albums.]
With that said, Living in the past is essential classic period Jethro Tull to warrant its purchase even if you own the individual albums. Many of these tracks were non-album singles, B-sides and live tracks. "Love Story" was Tull's first UK hit (#29, 1969), followed by "Living in the Past" (#3, 1969), "Sweet Dream" (#7, 1969), "Witches Promise" (#4, 1970) and "Life Is a Long Song" (#11, 1971). Tull's first charting US single would be "Hymn 43" (#91, 1971), and their first Top 40 hit would be when "Living in the Past" hit No. 11 three years after its release in England. The two live tracks on the disc are from a 1970 Carnegie Hall performance: "By Kind Permission of" and "Dharma for One."
When all is said and done, even if you own the first four studio albums this is an essential album to complete the history of Jethro Tull's first four years. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Living In The Past
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ASIN: B000000IW5 Release Date: 1997-09-09 |
Tracks:
- Song For Jeffrey
- Love Story
- Christmas Song
- Living In The past
- Driving Song
- Bouree
- Sweet Dream
- Singing All Day
- Teacher
- Witch's Promise
- Inside
- Alive And Well And Living In
- Just Trying To Be
Tracks:
- By Kind Permission Of
- Dharma For One
- Wond'ring Again
- Hymn
- Locomotive Breath
- Life Is A Long Song
- Up The 'Pool
- Dr. Bogenbroom
- For Later
- Nursie
Album Description
1994 reissue of 19 track collection originally released in 1972, including 2 live tracks recorded at Carnegie Hall, 'By Kind Permission Of' & 'Dharma For One'. Chrysalis.Customer Reviews:
From a True Tull Fan and Collector; Please Listen!!!.......2007-01-30
Tull fan.......2007-01-09
Watch which Version You Are Getting.......2006-10-21
This album fills in holes in Jethro Tull's early music, including tracks not a part of their earlier albums and commercially adding more music at a time when Tull was riding high on the success of 1971's "Aqualung." While some reviewers advise that you need not buy Tull's earliest recordings if you have "Living in the Past," I have all those recordings as well and do not believe this CD replaces them.
This CD offers a range of music, from hard rockers to mellow folk and Tull's signature renaissance-flavored folk and rock. "Living in the Past" offers a jazz-like piece with Ian Anderson's flute prominently displaced. It was the range of music Tull played that has always made Tull hard to fit into a particular genre. While they are often classified as hard rock because of songs like "Teacher" and "Sweet Dreams," as well as most of "Aqualung" and "War Child," Tull more likely fits into a genre of their own as they play music of all types and they seem to do so in a pattern of their own.
Like the true artists that they are, Jethro Tull created music as they felt moved to create. The result is creative and interesting music, often satirical, nearly always at least good. It may be tempting to think in retrospect that some of the music on this CD indicated that Jethro Tull was moving in a harder rock direction. However, as music from CDs such as "Minstrel in the Gallery" and "Songs from the Wood" indicates, Tull's style has always been eclectic, with hard rock being only one of their numerous styles.
This collection is a great introduction to a group that refuses standard classification and has only been recognized as one of music's greats in the last few years. While this CD is sometimes hard to find, I recommend this CD highly if you can find it and if you have liked what you've heard of Jethro Tull's non-commercial music.
Jam Sarnies? Say what?.......2006-06-27
1.Bouree
2.Teacher
3.locomotive breath(U.K. release)
4.Hymn 43(U.S. release)
They are all excellent songs but if you start to like Living In The Past you can get these songs on other great albums, which is really a much better way to hear them.
I first started listening to Jethro Tull in High School. Being part of the "band geek" community, my friends and I would spend any free time we had before or after school in the band room playing or listening to music.
I was particularly lucky enough to have a passionate music teacher who provided a kind of refuge for us in the big rehearsal room and connected offices. He would always try to inspire us by playing music that inspired him, and Jethro Tull music was some of that music. A friend and I would play their records on an old turntable I got in a relatives basement who had passed away.I also had an older friend who was really into them who would play them whenever I saw him.
This is one of the first albums I heard from them, along with "Songs from the Wood" and "Thick as a Brick"(besides Aqualung from classic rock radio).
This is the first music I ever heard with incredible ecclecticism in style and instrumentation, but not disparate sounding, from acoustic guitar and toy piano(Just trying to be),to heavy rock guitar and flute and tablas(Love Story).
From mandolin, whistle and strings(Christmas Story),
to a pop rock song with a clave and bass intro in 5/4(holy crap!).
From songs about the well told tale of touring woes(Driving Song), to discontent with holiday excess(Christmas Song).
From a simple thank you(Nursie), to cynical commentary on society(Wond'ring again).
From aimless lovelorn wandering (Singing all day),
to the beauty of realizing "that life is a long song, but the tune ends to soon for us all."
This album is filled with some of the best Tull songs from any of their various eras. These songs reflect Ian Anderson's songwriting before their extended song albums(Thick and Passion) changed their direction somewhat(not in a bad way!). These songs, excluding the two live cuts, are pop gems filled with exceptional musicianship, arrangements, idiosyncratic lyricism, weird isoteric british references(Up the 'pool), humor,touching sentiments, and total originality, each under four and a half minutes,some a minute and a half(Just trying to be, Nursie).
Ian's great singing and olde english, travelling minstrel acoustic guitar is all over them. And flute playing that ranges from little backround parts to huge in your face flurries, classical lines to Roland Kirk tinged blues licks, all the while infusing the flute into the band's sonic landscape so you never say to yourself "Oh there's that flute again".
This album really comes to life in the headphones, with great Beatles-esque stereo panning and intricate overdub layering. Once you start listening you're bound to find at least a handful of things sonically in each song that are amazing, like the far left and right panning of John Evans' piano and the acoustic guitar harmonizing in unison in "Witches Promise". Or the huge cavern reverb they throw on the very end of Martin Barre's guitar solo in "Sweet Dream". Just a couple of examples from a couple of songs!
If your already a fan, try listening to the album excluding the previously released tracks(at the time) and the live cuts. Then throw "Living in the Past" on top:
1.Living in the past
2.Love Story
3.Christmas Song
4.Driving Song
5.Sweet Dream
6.Singing all day
7.Witches Promise
8.Alive and well and living in
9.Just trying to be
10.Wond'ring again
11.Life is a long song
12.Up the 'pool
13.Dr. Bogenbroom
14.For later
15.Nursie
This is the only way I listen to these songs now. I find the other songs great but I've grown to love these songs as their own album, and the other songs become intrusive. I listen to "Locomotive Breath" and "Hymn 43" on Aqualung, "Teacher" with Benefit, "Bouree" on Stand Up, and the live tunes with the Live from Carnegie Hall '70 disc from the 25th Anniversary Set.
Amid the hysteria of the satisfying but radio-drained alpha male Aqualung riff which unfortunately went up the stairway to heaven and the Thick as a Brick "concept album" hype(albeit well deserved hype), this album proves what a great band and concept that Jethro Tull were based solely on the songwriting and execution of these relatively short pieces.
The thing about this set is it contains that intangible sense of place and time that great albums have. They have the ability to evoke images or feelings that belong specifically to an era I did'nt grow up in, or a place I've only seen second hand.
You'll never hear another album like this one. I still get goose-bumps when I put the headphones on!
3.5 stars- Get this if you're a completest.......2005-12-10
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Handel: Messiah
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ASIN: B00002R16A Release Date: 1999-11-30 |
Tracks:
- Messiah: No. 1 Overture
- Messiah: No. 2 Arioso For Tenor
- Messiah: No. 3 Air For Tenor
- Messiah: No. 4 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 5 Recitative For Bass
- Messiah: No. 6 Air For Bass
- Messiah: No. 7 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 8 Recitative For Alto
- Messiah: No. 9 Air For Alto And Chorus
- Messiah: No. 10 Arioso For Bass
- Messiah: No. 11 Air For Bass
- Messiah: No. 12 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 13 Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)
- Messiah: No. 14a Recitative And No. 14b Arioso For Soprano
- Messiah: No. 15 Recitative For Soprano
- Messiah: No. 16 Arioso For Soprano
- Messiah: No. 17 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 18 Air For Soprano
- Messiah: No. 19 Recitative For Alto
- Messiah: No. 20 Air For Alto And Soprano
- Messiah: No. 21 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 22 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 23 Air For Alto
- Messiah: No. 24 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 25 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 26 Chorus
Tracks:
- Messiah: No. 27 Arioso For Tenor
- Messiah: No. 28 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 29 Recitative For Tenor
- Messiah: No. 30 Air For Tenor
- Messiah: No. 31 Recitative For Tenor
- Messiah: No. 32 Air For Tenor
- Messiah: No. 33 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 34 Recitative For Tenor
- Messiah: No. 35 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 36 Air For Alto
- Messiah: No. 37 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 38 Aria For Soprano
- Messiah: No. 39 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 40 Air For Bass
- Messiah: No. 41 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 42 Recitative For Tenor
- Messiah: No. 43 Air For Tenor
- Messiah: No. 44 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 45 Air For Soprano
- Messiah: No. 46 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 47 Recitative For Bass
- Messiah: No. 48 Air For Bass
- Messiah: No. 49 Recitative For Alto
- Messiah: No. 50 Duet For Alto And Tenor
- Messiah: No. 51 Chorus
- Messiah: No. 52 Air For Soprano
- Messiah: No. 53 Chorus
- Messiah: Amen
Customer Reviews:
Finally a Messiah with fervor!.......2005-10-20
Great recording!.......2003-09-22
Good and Bad.......2000-04-09
This is a great recording!.......2000-02-11
Anyhow, this is nothing more than a historic detail and would not count if this recording had not an outstanding first-rate ensemble of singers. Without doubt there is no definitive version of Messiah. Each one has its own distinctive touch and feeling and exploring it is always a pleasant journey through imagination.
As stated by the conductor: "we must concede that performing Messiah with twenty singers and an appropriately balanced instrumental ensemble represents, at best, an imperfect comprimise", it will be easy to understand that this recording does not stand among the greatest and will probably carry some imperfections. I will mention two that kind of disppointed me a little bit. The Overture and the Chorus Worthy is the Lamb, for some reason misses the habitual vigor and strenght. Everything else is great and this is definitely a worth buying.
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Living in the Past
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ASIN: B000005JEF Release Date: 1997-02-26 |
Tracks:
- Song For Jeffrey
- Love Story
- Christmas Song
- Living In The Past
- Driving Song
- Sweet Dream
- Singing All Day
- Witches Promise
- Inside
- Alive And Well And Living In
- Just Trying To Be
- By Kind Permission Of
- Dharma For One
- Wond'ring Again
- Hymn 43
- Life Is A Long Song
- Up The 'Pool
- Dr. Bogenbroom
- For Later
- Nursie
Album Description
1994 reissue of 19 track collection originally released in 1972, including 2 live tracks recorded at Carnegie Hall, 'By Kind Permission Of' & 'Dharma For One'. Chrysalis.Customer Reviews:
From a True Tull Fan and Collector; Please Listen!!!.......2007-01-30
Tull fan.......2007-01-09
Watch which Version You Are Getting.......2006-10-21
This album fills in holes in Jethro Tull's early music, including tracks not a part of their earlier albums and commercially adding more music at a time when Tull was riding high on the success of 1971's "Aqualung." While some reviewers advise that you need not buy Tull's earliest recordings if you have "Living in the Past," I have all those recordings as well and do not believe this CD replaces them.
This CD offers a range of music, from hard rockers to mellow folk and Tull's signature renaissance-flavored folk and rock. "Living in the Past" offers a jazz-like piece with Ian Anderson's flute prominently displaced. It was the range of music Tull played that has always made Tull hard to fit into a particular genre. While they are often classified as hard rock because of songs like "Teacher" and "Sweet Dreams," as well as most of "Aqualung" and "War Child," Tull more likely fits into a genre of their own as they play music of all types and they seem to do so in a pattern of their own.
Like the true artists that they are, Jethro Tull created music as they felt moved to create. The result is creative and interesting music, often satirical, nearly always at least good. It may be tempting to think in retrospect that some of the music on this CD indicated that Jethro Tull was moving in a harder rock direction. However, as music from CDs such as "Minstrel in the Gallery" and "Songs from the Wood" indicates, Tull's style has always been eclectic, with hard rock being only one of their numerous styles.
This collection is a great introduction to a group that refuses standard classification and has only been recognized as one of music's greats in the last few years. While this CD is sometimes hard to find, I recommend this CD highly if you can find it and if you have liked what you've heard of Jethro Tull's non-commercial music.
Jam Sarnies? Say what?.......2006-06-27
1.Bouree
2.Teacher
3.locomotive breath(U.K. release)
4.Hymn 43(U.S. release)
They are all excellent songs but if you start to like Living In The Past you can get these songs on other great albums, which is really a much better way to hear them.
I first started listening to Jethro Tull in High School. Being part of the "band geek" community, my friends and I would spend any free time we had before or after school in the band room playing or listening to music.
I was particularly lucky enough to have a passionate music teacher who provided a kind of refuge for us in the big rehearsal room and connected offices. He would always try to inspire us by playing music that inspired him, and Jethro Tull music was some of that music. A friend and I would play their records on an old turntable I got in a relatives basement who had passed away.I also had an older friend who was really into them who would play them whenever I saw him.
This is one of the first albums I heard from them, along with "Songs from the Wood" and "Thick as a Brick"(besides Aqualung from classic rock radio).
This is the first music I ever heard with incredible ecclecticism in style and instrumentation, but not disparate sounding, from acoustic guitar and toy piano(Just trying to be),to heavy rock guitar and flute and tablas(Love Story).
From mandolin, whistle and strings(Christmas Story),
to a pop rock song with a clave and bass intro in 5/4(holy crap!).
From songs about the well told tale of touring woes(Driving Song), to discontent with holiday excess(Christmas Song).
From a simple thank you(Nursie), to cynical commentary on society(Wond'ring again).
From aimless lovelorn wandering (Singing all day),
to the beauty of realizing "that life is a long song, but the tune ends to soon for us all."
This album is filled with some of the best Tull songs from any of their various eras. These songs reflect Ian Anderson's songwriting before their extended song albums(Thick and Passion) changed their direction somewhat(not in a bad way!). These songs, excluding the two live cuts, are pop gems filled with exceptional musicianship, arrangements, idiosyncratic lyricism, weird isoteric british references(Up the 'pool), humor,touching sentiments, and total originality, each under four and a half minutes,some a minute and a half(Just trying to be, Nursie).
Ian's great singing and olde english, travelling minstrel acoustic guitar is all over them. And flute playing that ranges from little backround parts to huge in your face flurries, classical lines to Roland Kirk tinged blues licks, all the while infusing the flute into the band's sonic landscape so you never say to yourself "Oh there's that flute again".
This album really comes to life in the headphones, with great Beatles-esque stereo panning and intricate overdub layering. Once you start listening you're bound to find at least a handful of things sonically in each song that are amazing, like the far left and right panning of John Evans' piano and the acoustic guitar harmonizing in unison in "Witches Promise". Or the huge cavern reverb they throw on the very end of Martin Barre's guitar solo in "Sweet Dream". Just a couple of examples from a couple of songs!
If your already a fan, try listening to the album excluding the previously released tracks(at the time) and the live cuts. Then throw "Living in the Past" on top:
1.Living in the past
2.Love Story
3.Christmas Song
4.Driving Song
5.Sweet Dream
6.Singing all day
7.Witches Promise
8.Alive and well and living in
9.Just trying to be
10.Wond'ring again
11.Life is a long song
12.Up the 'pool
13.Dr. Bogenbroom
14.For later
15.Nursie
This is the only way I listen to these songs now. I find the other songs great but I've grown to love these songs as their own album, and the other songs become intrusive. I listen to "Locomotive Breath" and "Hymn 43" on Aqualung, "Teacher" with Benefit, "Bouree" on Stand Up, and the live tunes with the Live from Carnegie Hall '70 disc from the 25th Anniversary Set.
Amid the hysteria of the satisfying but radio-drained alpha male Aqualung riff which unfortunately went up the stairway to heaven and the Thick as a Brick "concept album" hype(albeit well deserved hype), this album proves what a great band and concept that Jethro Tull were based solely on the songwriting and execution of these relatively short pieces.
The thing about this set is it contains that intangible sense of place and time that great albums have. They have the ability to evoke images or feelings that belong specifically to an era I did'nt grow up in, or a place I've only seen second hand.
You'll never hear another album like this one. I still get goose-bumps when I put the headphones on!
3.5 stars- Get this if you're a completest.......2005-12-10
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Halcyon Days: A Treasury of British Light Music
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ASIN: B0000Y37NI Release Date: 2004-02-24 |
Tracks:
- Overture
- Lento, Ma Non Troppo
- Gaily, But Not Quick
- Cantilena
- Vivace
- Miss Melanie
- Raf March Past
- Very Slow
- Maestoso; Alla Marcia Funebre
- Fairly Slowly, But Evenly Flowing In Strict Time
- Allegretto Rubato
- Overture, Op.52
- Fantasia On 'Greensleeves'
- Country Dance: Allegretto E Leggiero
- Burlesco: Allegro
- Adagio
- Sarabande: Maestoso
- Bourree: Vivace
- Rondo In A Flat
- Allegro
- Lento Moderato
- Con Brio
Tracks:
- March
- Plymouth Hoe (A Nautical Overture)
- Nelson's Column, Trafalgar Square
- Tower Hill
- The Horse Guards, Whitehall
- Rotten Row
- Covent Garden
- Westminster
- Knightsbridge March
- No.1 Wheatly Processional
- No.2 Constant Billy
- No.4 Jockie To The Fair
- No.5 Ladies Of Pleasure
- No.6 Princess Royal
- Malltraeth (Pastorale)
- Cemaes (Scherzo)
- March Of The Bowmen
- City Of Lincoln March
- Overture, Op.3
- Londonderry Air
Tracks:
- The Devil's Galop
- Sailing By
- High Adventure
- The Watermill
- Loch Laggan
- Psalm 23 - CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL CHOIR
- Southern Rhapsody
- Ecce Homo - CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL CHOIR
- Girls In Grey
- Halcyon Days
- March Glorious
- An English Overture
- Spitfire Prelude And Fugue
- Carry On Suite
- Carry On Up The Khyber
- Andante Expressivo
- The Dam Busters March
- Tarka The Otter
- The African Queen
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- Caramba
- Two Interlinked French Melodies
- Kanikani
- Preambule
- Barcarolle
- Provencale
- By The Sleepy Lagoon
- A L'ombre D'un Buissonet
- Triste Est Le ciel
- Allons Gay
- A Mountain Tune
- Tambourin
- Passepied
- Sarabande
- Farandole
- Petite Promenade
- Andante/Medium Beguine
- Song Dance
- Fado
- Kolo
- In The French Countryside
- Carpet Dance
- Slow Waltz
- End Titles
Tracks:
- Miniature Overture (Help!)
- March (When I'm 64)
- Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy (Can't Buy Me Love)
- Arabian Dance (It's For You)
- Chinese Dance (Ticket To Ride)
- Dance Of The Reed Flutes (She Loves You)
- Waltz Of The Flowers (From Me To You)
- Pas De Deux (All My Loving)
- Sarabande
- The Reception
- The Orgy (Rondo)
- Danza Gaya
- Scene 1
- Malaguena (Vivace)
- Habanera (Moderato)
- Tango (Vivace)
- The Hiring Fair
- Carousing
- Round Dance
- Pas De Deux
- Hornpipe
- March
- Doll's Dance
- Round Dance
- Bobby Shaftoe
- The Keel Row
- The 98th Jacks Listed!
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Living In The Past Parts 1 & 2
Jethro Tull Manufacturer: Chrysalis ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B00095O0C0 |
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UK issue double CD single set in jewel case with inserts. Tracks: Living in the (Slightly More Recent) Past/Silver River Turning/Rosa on the Factory Floor/I Don't Want to Be Me/Living in the Past/Truck Stop Runner/Piece of Cake/Man of Principle.|
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Portraits of Life
Steve Shipley Manufacturer: Portraits Multimedia ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B0002URHPY Release Date: 2003-11-04 |
Tracks:
- Magic Places
- Last Southern Belle
- My Imagination
- Calico Days
- Windows of the World
- Old Man
- Love Only Once
- Yesterday's Promise
- Turn Back Time
- Home Again
- Old Music Box
- Portraits of Life
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Christmas Fanfare
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ASIN: B0000030YJ Release Date: 1994-11-29 |
Tracks:
- Christmas Fanfare
- O Come, All Ye Faithful
- Joy To The World
- Lieutenant Kije: Troika
- Silent Night
- Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Away In A Manger
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- O Little One Sweet
- Wachet Auf
- Pat-A-Pan
- Past Three O'Clock
- Concerto Grosso In G Minor: Pastorale
- Sussex Carol
- Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
- Good King Wenceslas
- Shepherds' Farewell
- Coventry Carol
- The Snowman: Walking In The Air
- Ding, Dong, Merrily On High
- O Little Town Of Bethlehem
- Deck The Halls
- Normany Carols (Away In A Manger)
- Once In Royal David's City
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
- We Wish You A Merry Christmas
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