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Repeat: The Best of Jethro Tull, Vol. 2

a Compilation Release
Release Year:
1977
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Added To Proggnosis on: 19 Jun 2003
Last Updated on: 31 Jan 2011 by: Rob

Track Listing 

  1. Minstrel In The Gallery (4:16)
  2. Cross-Eyed Mary (4:11)
  3. A New Day Yesterday (4:10)
  4. Bourée (3:45)
  5. Thick As A Brick Edit #4 (3:27)
  6. War Child (4:36)
  7. A Passion Play Edit #9 (3:32)
  8. To Cry You A Song (6:13)
  9. Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die (5:41)
  10. Glory Row (3:32)

Performer Credits  


Ian Anderson
flute, mouth organ, saxophone, mandolin, acoustic guitar, vocals
Martin Barre
electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Barriemore Barlow
drums, percussion (tracks 1, 5 - 7 and 9 - 10
Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond
bass(tracks 1, 2, 5 - 7 and 10)
Clive Bunker
drums, percussion (tracks 2 - 4 and 8)
John Glascock
bass, vocals (track 9
Glenn Cornick
bass (tracks 3 - 4 and 8)
John Evans
piano, organ, synthesizer, mellotron, piano accordion (tracks 1, 2, 5 - 7 and 9 - 10)

Reviews


review by: EricI agree completely with DBSilver’s review below, but... Remembering back in those days, Jethro Tull were a major band of the day, filling Hockey arenas across North America and let’s face it- in 1977 if Ian Anderson ‘burped’ or tripped on a sound cable on stage, someone from the rock press would be there to document the event. Jethro Tull were larger than life.
So the fact something like this would be released and as an example (even in 1977) of the music industries hunger to cash in on a cash cow, should it come as a surprise? No.
I won’t recommend this album either as Glory Row is not exactly the best Jethro Tull song recorded, and as it happens I bought this album with Starcastle’s Citadel and Piper’s power pop classic Can’t Wait on a very cold Long Island late afternoon. I only remember this because I dropped the bag of LP’s in a snow bank, and worrying after, if they would warp from the cold. Young and dumb, but two out three ain’t bad....

review by: DBSilverIf MU: The Best of Jethro Tull was a rip-off for dedicated fans (see my reivew of that recording) then Repeat was even worse. In the 14 months from the previous complilation this album delivered a new edit of A Passion Play, another previously unreleased track Glory Row and the title track form the quite recently released album Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll.

Once again, dedicated fan that I was I had to have Glory Row and once again the track was musically at least not worth the price of this compilation album.

As for the more casual fan, there are some good though mostly lesser known tracks here (best known being Bouree and Cross Eyed Mary both of which might better have been wedged onto the first Best Of.

If your intention is to have one Tull album then I recommend MU: The Best of Jethro Tull. If your intention is to have two Tull albums then I recommend you add this one. But if you are a fan of Tull and looking for their classic era music you should have at least Benefit, Aqualung, Thick As A Brick, and MInstrel In The Gallery. If you like what you hear, pick up Living In the Past and A Passion Play and if you are like me, you are stuck buying everything including this one so that you can have Glory Row in your collection. It is the last point that makes this a real rip-off.

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