It was my meaning, that I would make a "best of" Jethro Tull a few weeks back, but then I though of making a 1981-list, and then I got the idea of a 60's-list. But when RJhog wrote, that he liked every Jethro Tull-track he had heard lately, I though I would make this list anyway, so here it is. There are many great numbers, that are missing, but fx. "Aqualung" is allways on "Best of Jethro Tull"-lists (come to think of it, Have I ever seen such a list??), and these songs, are the ones that I like most, at the moment. Oh, there's a LITTLE more, than 10 songs on the list, but NOT 11 songs, because the last "song" is a 1/10 of the song "Thick as a brick", the whole number last about 40 minutes!! Sorry about that. Here we go:
1. Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day (from the album "War Child" 1974)
2. Witches Promise (from the compilation double-album "Living in the past" 1972)
3. Minstrel In The Gallery (from the album "Minstrel in the Gallery" 1975)
4. Songs From The Wood (from the album "Songs from the wood" 1977)
5. Life Is A Long Song (from "Living in the past" 1972)
6. Fat Man (from the album "Stand Up" 1969)
7. Love Story (From "Living in the past" 1972)
8. Hunting Girl (from "Songs from the wood")
9. One Brown Mouse (from the album "Heavy Horses" 1978)
10. Wond'ring Again (from the album "Aqualung" 1971 (this extended version is from
the compilation album "Living in the past")
(11.) (A snip of) Thick As A Brick (from the album "Thick as a brick" 1972)
If you want to listen, you can do it
here.