Stand Up

Stand Up Artist: Jethro Tull
Label: Toshiba EMI
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988006796799
ASIN: B00005O5UH


Release Date: 2003-06-26

Stand Up


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Tracks:

  1. A New Day Yesterday
  2. Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square
  3. Bouree
  4. Back To The Family
  5. Look Into The Sun
  6. Nothing Is Easy
  7. Fat Man
  8. We Used To Know
  9. Reasons For Waiting
  10. For A Thousand Mothers
  11. Living In The Past
  12. Driving Song
  13. Sweet Dream
  14. 17

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  1. Aqualung
  2. This Was
  3. Thick as a Brick
  4. Benefit
  5. Living in the Past

Album Description

Japanese remastered reissue of 1969 album, that's unavailable domestically, packaged in a limited edition miniature LP gatefold sleeve with band pop-up, features 14 tracks including 4 bonus tracks, 'Living In The Past', 'Driving Song', 'Sweet Dream' & '17'. Toshiba-EMI. 2003.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered in 2001 in Unique Japanese Paper Sleeve Duplicating the Original LP Release to a T.the Sleeve Even Includes the Original Pop-up Picture of the Band When the Sleeve is Opened!the Actual Disc Has the Cover Art Imprinted on it as Well. Tracks 11-14 Are Bonus Tracks Not Includedon the Original Release of the Album. Also Includes Complete Lyrics in English and Japanese.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars An absolute classic.......2005-10-25

A previous reviewer wrote that "Fat Man" would be his Desert Island song. Personally, I'd take the whole album. Stand Up is an absolute classic. Most bands "peak" with a certain album and it's all downhill from there. JT is unique in that they had several peaks over the very long life of the band, and this is one of them. It's hard to compare this album with anything else except perhaps Benefit, which I'd also rate 5 stars - another peak.

5 out of 5 stars Tull's Finest Hour.......2002-12-19

Stand up was recorded in early 1969 and released on 25th July of the same year. `Even if we'd used a brown paper bag for a cover this would still be one of the finest albums Island has ever released' ran the ads in the British music press. And the cover does the music justice, a wonderful woodcut by New York artist Jimmy Grashow. The original LP had a `pop up' of the band that `stood up' when the gatefold seeve was opened.
`Stand Up' is very much a product of its time. British rock music was gliding into a period when it dominated world music. This was the time when Led Zeppelin recorded their first albums, Yes likewise. A track from `Stand Up' (We Used to Know) featured on the Island records sampler `Nice Enough to Eat' - and what a sampler it was; Traffic, King Crimson, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, Blodwyn Pig, Mott the Hoople and Free.
Stand Up was Jethro Tull's second album. Their original guitarist Mick Abrahams had quit the group late the previous year and was replaced by Martin Barre (after a brief interregnum by an ill suited Tony Iommi, later of Black Sabbath - pronounced Sabbaff by true fans). Free of Abrahams influence Ian Anderson, flautist, songwriter and frontman, had free rein for the first time and Tull explored the woody, folky, rootsy edges of their music for the first time. There are umpteen wonderful moments on the album from the opening heavy bluesy riff on A New Day Yesterday (in retrospect a farewell to the blues influences that littered their first album `This Was' ) to the flutey progressive For a Thousand Mothers'.
Many will know Bouree, Tull's flute lead interpretation of Bach's piece, but the album scores because it has strength in depth. Anderson's use of the mandolin on Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square is both wistful and enchanting, but my personal favourite is `Fat Man'. Why? It is my desert island track - that piece of music I'd take with me to warm my soul wherever I may find myself. The breathiness of the flute, the rattling mandolin and tambourine, bowled along with a bongo beat; it is alive and full of energy - I've used the phrase joi de vivre to describe Tull's first album in a separate review - but this track encapsulates that feeling. It's the musical embodiment of the feeling of running down a hill on a warm summers day with the grass at one's feet and the wind in ones hair.

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