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Stand Up

a Studio Release
Release Year:
1969
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Added To Proggnosis on: 01 Dec 2000

Track Listing 

  1. A New Day Yesterday
  2. Jeffery Goes To Leicester Square
  3. Bourree
  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

Performer Credits  


Ian Anderson
lead vocals, flute, acoustic guitar, Hammond organ, piano, mandolin, balalaika, mouth organ
Martin Barre
electric guitar, flute on 'Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square' and 'Reasons For Waiting'
Glenn Cornick
bass guitar
Clive Bunker
drums and percussion
With
    David Palmer
    string arrangement and conductor on 'Reasons For Waiting'

Reviews


review by: EricIs it just me, or does the music of Jethro Tull seem to get better with age? I think I know your answer and most ProGGnosis reader’s will probably agree. Still, we all seem to have our favorite period of the band’s work. I prefer the Songs From the Wood, Heavy Horses, Stormwatch trilogy, but this, Jethro Tull’s second album holds a special place for me and after reading DBSilver’s recent review of Jethro Tull in concert, I decided to pull this old warhorse out of its long-held spot in my CD rack last night.
My opinion after not having listened to Stand Up in a couple years? Superb. Tull were beginning to come out of the blues induced haze that dominated England in the 1960’s, moving just a bit closer to a traditional progressive rock sound we would all come to know and love just a few short years later. This is apparent on tracks like Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square, but especially so on Bouree, one of the great progressive rock instrumentals. Of course the blues can still be found on tracks like Nothing Is Easy and the closing For A Thousand Mothers, but what separated Tull from John Mayall and similar artist’s of this era is of course Anderson’s use of flute and the ability to try new things, outside of the at times, restrictive attitudes the blues scene carried with it.
Stand Up stands as one of rock music’s classic albums.

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