Track Listing
1. Living in the Past
2. Aqualung
3. Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die
4. Locomotive Breath
5. Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day
6. Bungle in the Jungle
7. Sweet Dream
8. Songs From the Wood
9. Witches Promise
10. Thick as a Brick - (excerpt)
11. Minstrel in the Gallery
12. Life's a Long Song
| Details | | Playing Time: | 53 min. | | Producer: | Ian Anderson, Terry Ellis | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
ORIGINAL MASTERS contains songs from 1969-77.
All songs written by Ian Anderson.
ORIGINAL MASTERS contains songs from 1969-77.
Anyone who owned a radio in the 1970s knows most of these songs by heart. A comprehensive retrospective of the career of Jethro Tull, this collection gathers the group's big hits and fan favorites, while also including early chestnuts that may not be familiar to listeners who weren't there the first time around. Showcasing an eight-year period during which the group rose to international prominence, ORIGINAL MASTERS includes at least one song from nearly every year of Tull's steady rise, from 1969's "Living in the Past" to the title track of 1977's SONGS FROM THE WOOD.
This is an ideal set for people who want to skim the cream off the top of the Tull songbook. All the essential songs are here--"Aqualung," "Locomotive Breath," "Bungle in the Jungle" "Skating Away," etc., but some of the other choices provide valuable historical perspective. Early songs such as the impassioned "Witch's Promise" from 1970's BENEFIT show off the unique sound Tull possessed before 1971's AQUALUNG transformed them into a monster rock band.
In the mid '80s, prog-rock made a comeback of sorts, with '70s superstars Yes and Genesis scoring hit albums and singles. While Jethro Tull didn't build on its '70s success in next decade as well as the aforementioned bands, Tull still retained a sizable following. In 1985, the band's third "best of" collection was issued, ORIGINAL MASTERS, which combined the best selections from its two greatest hits predecessors, 1976's M.U.: THE BEST OF JETHRO TULL and 1977's REPEAT: THE BEST OF JETHRO TULL, VOL. II.
Jethro Tull's earlier work is undoubtedly the band's best known, and it's represented on ORIGINAL MASTERS by such familiar rock classics as "Aqualung," "Living in the Past," "Thick as a Brick" (edited down from its original 40-minute length), "Bungle in the Jungle," "Witches Promise," and "Locomotive Breath." Several tracks from the mid-to-late '70s are featured as well--"Too Old to Rock n' Roll, Too Young to Die," "Minstrel in the Gallery," and "Songs From the Wood." Though by no means the definitive collection of Tull's best material, ORIGINAL MASTERS serves its purpose well as a succinct anthology.
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