Living in the Past

Artist: Jethro Tull
Label: Toshiba EMI Japan
Category: Music

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Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 766487024945
EAN: 0766487024945
ASIN: B0001BUF3U

Release Date: 2004-04-01

Living in the Past

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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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Album Details

Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.

Customer Reviews:

You got to be kidding me!!!!.......2007-01-31

$76 for a CD that isn't even a faithful reproduction of the original album? Unbelieveable. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves....

Eclectic Collection of Early Tull.......2006-04-14

This album fills in holes in Jethro Tull's early music, including tracks not a part of their earlier albums and adding more music at a time Tull was riding high on the success of 1971s "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. Further, "Teacher" and "Bouree" were left off this CD due to time constraints (the CD is near the limit at over 75 minutes long). Both "Teacher" and "Bouree" are worth having, and there is other music on the earlier CDs worth having as well.

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

"Living in the Past" is a hodgepodge of old English-only singles, EP sides, album tracks and a couple of live cuts representing a retrospective of the group's earliest instantiations. The album was released after the group's first commercial success with the "Aqualung" album and covers three distinct periods in Tull's history.

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.

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