STORMWATCH (THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY FORCE 10 EDITION)

Jethro Tull

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Boxset/Compilation, released in 2019

Songs / Tracks Listing

CD 1 - Original Album - A Steven Wilson Stereo Remix
1. North Sea Oil (3:11)
2. Orion (4:00)
3. Home (2:46)
4. Dark Ages (9:12)
5. Warm Sporran (3:58)
6. Something's On The Move (4:30)
7. Old Ghosts (4:24)
8. Dun Ringill (2:42)
9. Flying Dutchman (7:43)
10. Elegy (3:34)

Total time 46:00

CD 2 - Associated Recordings - A Steven Wilson Stereo Remix
1. Crossword (3:37)
2. Dark Ages (Early Version) (11:55)
3. Kelpie (3:35)
4. Dun Ringill (Early Version) (2:43)
5. A Stitch In Time (4:28)
6. A Single Man (Instrumental) (2:40)
7. Broadford Bazaar (3:46)
8. King Henry's Madrigal (Theme From 'Mainstream') (3:01)
9. Orion (Full Length Version) (9:14)
10. Urban Apocalypse (4:46)
11. The Lyrikon Blues (Instrumental) (5:16)
12. Man Of God (6:33)
13. Rock Instrumental (Unfinished Master) (3:34)
14. Sweet Dream Fanfare (2:30)
15. Sweet Dream (Live) (4:39)

Total time 72:17

CD 3 - Live In Den Haag 1980 (Part One) (60:36)
1. Prelude To A Storm (1:54)
2. Dark Ages (8:30)
3. Home (2:53)
4. Orion (5:03)
5. Dun Ringill (2:41)
6. Elegy (3:55)
7. Old Ghosts (3:08)
8. Something's On The Move (4:24)
9. Aqualung (9:55)
10. Peggy's Pub (2:57)
11. Jack-In-The-Green (3:16)
12. King Henry's Madrigal / Drum Solo (5:50)
13. Heavy Horses (6:10)

CD 4 - Live In Den Haag 1980 (Part Two) (48:52)
1. Flute Solo (Incl. Bour�e, Soir�e, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Kelpie) (7:56)
2. Keyboard Duet (Bach's Prelude In C Major From The Well-Tempered Clavier) (1:24)
3. Songs From The Wood (4:12)
4. Hunting Girl (5:36)
5. Jams O'Donnel's Jigs (3:31)
6. Thick As A Brick (7:30)
7. Too Old To Rock'n Roll: Too Young To Die (3:10)
8. Cross-Eyed Mary (3:22)
9. Guitar Solo (2:28)
10. Minstrel In The Gallery (2:57)
11. Locomotive Breath (4:01)
12. The Dam Busters March (2:45)

Total time (CD 3 and 4) 109:28

DVD 1 (Audio Only) - Original Album (The same tracks as on CD 1)
1. Steven Wilson Album Remix (96/24 Stereo LPCM, DTS 96/24 5.1, Dolby AC3 5.1)
2. Original 1979 Album Mix (96/24 Stereo LPCM)

DVD 2 (Audio Only) - Associated Tracks
Steven Wilson Mixes (96/24 Stereo LPCM, DTS 96/24 5.1, Dolby AC3 5.1):
1. Crossword
2. Dark Ages (Early Version)
3. Kelpie
4. Dun Ringill (Early Version)
5. A Stitch In Time
6. A Single Man
7. Broadford Bazaar
8. King Henry's Madrigal
9. Orion (Full Version)
10. Urban Apocalypse
11. The Lyrikon Blues
12. Man Of God
13. Rock Instrumental (Unfinished Master)

Stereo Only:
14. Sweet Dream Fanfare
15. Sweet Dream (Live)

Original Mixes (96/24 Stereo LPCM)
16. A Stitch In Time
17. King Henry's Madrigal
18. Sweet Dream Fanfare
19. Sweet Dream (Live)
20. A Stitch In Time (Single Edit)

Line-up / Musicians

- Ian Anderson / vocals, flute, acoustic guitar, bass, co-producer
- Martin Barre / electric & classical guitars, mandolin
- John Evan / piano, organ
- David Palmer / synthesizer, portative organ, orchestral arrangements
- John Glascock / bass, vocals
- Dave Pegg / bass
- Barriemore Barlow / drums, percussion

With:
- Francis Wilson (TV Weatherman) / spoken voice

Releases information

4CD+2DVD Chrysalis 0190295471804 (October 18, 2019, Deluxe Edition, Digibook, 96 pages)

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Review by Warthur
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The lavish 4CD/2DVD boxed set presentation of Stormwatch really helps rehabilitate a somewhat overlooked album from the Tull back catalogue. As well as providing the now-customary Steven Wilson remix of the album itself - which does a fair job of teasing out the subtleties of a studio release which, as the accompanying book notes, would in retrospect always be somewhat marred by the discord within the band at this time, it also provides an absolutely superb live performance from the 1980 Stormwatch tour.

Soundboard bootlegs of the 16th March 1980 show from the Nederlands Congregsgebouw have circulated widely under various titles like Watchers On the Storm and On the Move/Move On (the former with a clutch of unrelated recordings as bonus tracks, the latter providing just the show), but by providing an official, tidied-up release of the show the Stormwatch box has largely rendered these bootlegs redundant.

And what a show it is! Tull had taken several months off touring after the end of their 1979 US tour, which had been marred by ill feeling within the band and towards the end of which they received the devastating news of John Glascock's death. The spring 1980 tour of Europe would prove to be the final hurrah for an incarnation of the band that (bar for John Glascock's departure) had remained stable since Songs From the Wood or thereabouts, with the shift in sound and personnel around "A" heralding a new era for the group.

Maybe the group sensed that it was time to see off this era of the band with a bang, not a whimper - or perhaps they wanted to do John Glascock proud. Either way, any evidence of the ill feeling which had marred the US tour is absent and the band deliver a magnificent set. Naturally, Stormwatch is well-represented, with seven of its ten tracks presented to open the concert - and the live renditions here breathe new life into compositions which on the studio LP hadn't quite put their best foot forward. This bit of business done with, the rest of the concert consists of some folk and classical adaptations and gems from the Tull repertoire. It's a magnificent live set, and Chrysalis truly were caught snoozing when they let the bootleggers have their way with it for so many years.

Fortunately, with the deluxe release that wrong is righted. I still think Stormwatch is no more than a 4 star album and the weakest of the triptych that began with Songs From the Wood, but the remix here makes me more confident about conceding it that fourth star. The live show, on the other hand, is a five-star marvel.

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5 stars This is my favourite Tull remix set. A double album of pretty strong material and a better sound than before. As usual I have become interested in a couple of songs I didn't notice before due to the clearer sound and extended length. Warm sporran and Old ghosts are quite cool. We have the classics N ... (read more)

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