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Repeat: The Best Of Jethro Tull - Vol.2

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"Repeat" is one of the greatest compilations of Tull music I've ever heard. "Glory Road", the unreleased track at the end of the album is perhaps the most createve and probably the greatest Tull song ever. Definately a good investment. Enjoy!!

As usual i would have recommended different selections for this "best of" compilation. The long version of Minstrel in the Gallery, the songs Sweet Dream and Life is A Long Song from Living in the Past, maybe even Witches Promise. I never understood the interest in the song Too Old To Rock 'n Roll Too Young To die. That album ahs an excellent acoustic song, Salamander, by the way. Still any Tull fan would enjoy this compilation. But you are better off just going out and getting Stand up,Thick as a brick and the others.

en verdad es un recopilatorio? no lo creo, es genial este album para acercarse a Jethro tull...muy recomendable

This is a rather strange collection. First, the "progressive" intro to Minstrel the he gallery not included, and this disc starts out with just the balls out rock part...which isn't too shabby, but on the "Twenty-five Years" box set, the whole Minstrel, fantastically remastered, is simply the absolutely most incredible thing you can imagine. Bleeding Awesome. And, to top it all off, Minstrel was recorded in a castle somewhere in Europe. Anyway, that's not the point of this collection. Or this review for that matter. The balence of this set is pretty pedestrian and generally lacks anything that you've probably not heard on AOR Radio. (Remember that kiddies?) But wait what's that at the end of the disc? Ah Ha!!! There's this little ditty called "Glory Row" This cut sounds like it might have been left off of Warchild as it has the same sort of vibe. Too bad, as this is really one of best Tull songs ever, in my 'umble opinion. It has a really neat hook that sticks with you. "They come and they go...down on Glory Row...its the same old story...it's the same old show." "Best of's" aren't the best way to enjoy a bad, particularly one which is as varied and interesting as Tull, see infra, but Glory Row is definatly pretty cool. Enjoy. Peace and God Bless All

My first Jethro Tull album (back in 1979) was Warchild....which is not an album I would recommend as an introduction to this band, though I would come to really love it a bit later on. I didn't really become a Tull fan until I heard this compilation, which I WOULD recommend as an intro to them. To me, the sign of a good compilation is one that makes you want to go back and buy the individual albums that the songs are from. After listening to this, I indeed DID go back and buy all of their other albums up to that point, though I did hold off in buying Too Old to Rock-n-Roll for a few years, probably because I wasn't (and still am not) a fan of the title track.

The first half of this album is perfect, and gets off to a great start with an edited version of the tune ' Minstrel In The Gallery '. This is one of my all time favorite Tull songs...I love the main guitar riff, and the way Anderson's flute plays besides it, I love Anderson's vocal melody, etc...just one heck of a catchy song! I remember being a bit disappointed with the album of the same name, wishing that it were a bit more rockin' and less acoustic.

' Cross Eyed Mary ' is another great tune, and another favorite song of mine from Aqualung. I love the musical intro to this, and of course, love the overall heaviness of the rest of the song.

Next up are two stellar tracks from the classic Stand Up album, the heavy metal-ish ' A New Day Yesterday ' (which I THINK sounds a bit like Black Sabbath..well, at least the guitar riff) and the jazzed up version of Bach's ' Bouree ' (though it is credited to just Ian Anderson, because he didn't want people at the time to know Tull were covering a classical piece). ' Bouree ' contains one of my favorite bass guitar solos of all time, and features some very lovable, slobbering flute playing from Ian. The first half concludes with a short little segment of the album long piece ' Thick as a Brick '...I would have to say this is one of my favorite parts of that forty minute plus song. I love rhythm for this song, which is a bit of showpiece for John Evans' organ playing. Catchy as all heaven!

I'm not quite as fond of the second half...I have never been a fan of the song ' Warchild ', partly due to Ian's sax playing, which can also be heard on the other two songs on this compilation that I don't like, ' Too Old To Rock-n-Roll, Too Young to Die ', and the then previously unreleased B-side ' Glory Row '. The edit from the album A Passion Play isn't bad however (though I wish they would have included a snippet from the first side, which I think is much stronger than the second half), and this compilation does include one of the heavier (and better) songs from 1970's Benefit album,' To Cry You A Song ', on which Anderson plays electric guitar.

This album really made me take the full plunge into the unique and quirky musical universe of Jethro Tull, and I have many fond memories of buying and getting to know all of their recordings. There may actually be much better Tull best-ofs, (like Living In The Past, though I consider that more of a regular album than a compilation), but this is certainly not a bad collection.

"And this one time, at band camp...." that pretty much sums up the value of this band on popular American culture.