Stand Up By Jethro Tull
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Topic: Stand Up By Jethro Tull
Posted By: SteveG
Subject: Stand Up By Jethro Tull
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 16:43
| Or maybe, sit down. It's better than This Was but not really great, IMHO. What's your opinion of Tull's album Stand Up? |
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Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 17:12
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I do believe that its a STAND UP! The blend of everything that will be Jethro Tull, the individual songs, the way theu are placed... I judge Stand Up a masterpiece. Every band member was at its finest, the compositions are great. And there is something else: the sound is SO characteristic of 1969! Its absurd! The blend of blues, jazz and what will be the Progressive Rock with capital letters are all there! New Day Yesterday, Bouree, Nothing is easy, For a thousand mothers... and the acoustic ones. All perfect. ------------- - From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 17:42
| Along with Benefit, another early classic - some wonderful songs on it. Have a few versions including an Island pink label 1st pressing which sounds great! |
Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 17:52
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By the way: do your reviews of the album! I love to read'em and Stand Up deserves better rating! ------------- - From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 19:23
Completely agree. Stand Up has beauty, as in "Reasons for Waiting", the first song scored for strings by David Palmer, as well as great syntheses of jazz, rock, folk and blues in songs like "Bouree", "Nothing Is Easy" and "Fat Man". Love that album. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
GKR wrote:Posted By: Friday13th
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 20:26
| ^ agreed with The Dark Elf. If you're expecting prog like Thick as a Brick or even Aqualung you'll be disappointed, but it shows the band stretching, and I think it has great songwriting. One of my top 5 favorite Tull albums. |
Posted By: rocklife
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 21:00
| FOR A THOUSAND MOTHERS IT'S REALLY EXPLOSIETRACK, ILOVE VERY MUCH THIS ALBUM, IT'S THE PRESENTATION OF REALLY JETHRO TULL EXPERIMENT AND UNIQUE LANGUAGE...BOURRE IT'S SUBLIME ONE OF THE BEST TRACK IN PROG HISTORY AND THE BASS OF GLENN CORNICK IS LEGEND(r.I.P. GLENN)...FAT MAN IS WONDERFUL A PIECE WITH ACOUSTIC INFLUENCE, AND NOTHING IS EASY IT'S REALLY BANG!!!! WE USED TOKNOW HAS ONE OF THE BEST SOLO OF ISTER LANCELOT BARRE, AND A NEW DAY YESTERDAY IT'S STORY8 EPIC BASS) |
Posted By: t d wombat
Date Posted: July 07 2015 at 21:29
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I think at the time I was listening to a lot of English folk/rock. Probably Fairport Convention and the like. Tull turned me on cos of the folky/bluesy sound. Similarly first Yes for me was the single version of All Good People which made me think they were a bit folky as well. My oh me, didn't Benefit and The Yes Album come as something of a shock. Nonetheless I have good memories of those two early Tull albums but havn't given either a good listen in many a decade. Listening now to This Was having just played Stand Up. Both of them dated, for sure, but hey, not bad, bit more electric than I remembered. I always thought that Benefit was the big leap forward but it was Stand Up that propelled us on to embrace the Tull of Benefit and Aqualung and it remains for me an important milestone. Funnily enough listening to Benefit now, it seems much lighter than I remembered. ------------- Andrew B “Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” ― Julius Henry Marx |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: July 08 2015 at 02:46
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Look into the sun and Living in the past are classics ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 08 2015 at 06:39
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In my top 10, maybe even in my top 5 of all time favorite albums. An absolute masterpiece.
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: July 08 2015 at 06:45
I don't get what all the fuss is about this album....... 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 08 2015 at 07:00
Their absolute best, save TAAB. It's better than Aqualung and Benefit .... and light years ahead of whatever came after TAAB. Stand Up was my first rock album (my dad's actually >> he bought it in 69 on the strength of Bourée), and I spent hours looking (that cover and the inside pop-up  ) and listening to the album at the age of 6(got a soft spot for This Was as well, but I only disdcovered thatone a decade later) there isn't a single week song on it (unlike Benefit or to a lesseer extent Aqualung) 1. A New Day Yesterday (4:10)  2. Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square (2:12) >> I'd bump that one on Benfit, but still 3. Bourée (3:47) 4. Back To The Family (3:48) 5. Look Into The Sun (4:21)  6. Nothing Is Easy (4:26) 7. Fat Man (2:52) 8. We Used To Know (4:00) + >> my fave on the album9. Reasons For Waiting (4:06) 10. For A Thousand Mothers (4:13)
mmmm!!!... I think there was a single recorded with strings before RFW... Actually Lady Palmer's strings over-arrangements did more wrong than good in the mid to late-70's. Don't know why Anderson resorted to that soo often |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 08 2015 at 07:26
Maybe with me it is a bit as with Sean: in my case, I heard the album already when I was a kid. We had the hit single "Bourée" (A-side) / "Look Into The Sun" (B-side) at home. As a 7 year old I was already a big music fan, having my own record player, and Jethro Tull was a big favorite. One of my older brothers had the album. It is not prog, it is still proto-prog, but in Tull's case, the pre-progressive mix of blues, folk, rock and classical is a very strong one. The songs are also very good.
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Posted By: TeleStrat
Date Posted: July 08 2015 at 07:39
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I've had the early Tull albums since they came out and like them all. Stand Up is my favorite by far. Well, maybe not "by far", but it is definitely my favorite. |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: July 08 2015 at 15:28
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Always been a huge favourite of mine. Musically, it's not close to Aqualung and TAAB, but there are so many incredible moments all the way through that haven't been pulled off on any other Tull album in the same way. It's been a long time since my last listen, so I need to get back into it and will write a review GKR! Its rating should be up there in the top 5 prog folk albums for sure (along with First Utterance for that matter). Seriously a classic 60s album; the fact it went number 1 in the UK proves our country's great taste. That said, I think Lionel Richie's top at the moment. What happened?!
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Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: July 08 2015 at 15:51
Totally agree with you, man. Along with your opinion of "First Utterance". Let me know when you wrote your review  ------------- - From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 08 2015 at 16:46
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Brilliant early Tull album.....not as good as Benefit or Aqualung imho but still killer. Again I like the earlier albums better and when they started to go into the 'concept' albums like TAAB and PP I thought they overreached a bit. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 08 2015 at 17:11
 not a particularly popular opinion ..definitely not a site like this obviously  but I do agree.. I thought Tull were at their best at their first 4, musically peaked on the 3rd, creatively peaked on the 4th, and was a very long slide downhill after Aqualung.------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: dr prog
Date Posted: July 08 2015 at 17:49
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If I made a box set of the strong tracks from each year I would include Look into the sun, Living in the past, Jeffrey goes to Leicester square and Sweet dream ------------- All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock. |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: July 08 2015 at 18:21
Same here. Things got better only with their next album, IMO. -------------  
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Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: July 09 2015 at 00:10
1. There was. It was "A Christmas Song". Incidentally, I think that kind of pointed the way to Stand Up. 2. I dunno, I liked Palmer's later string arrangements. It worked well for "Bungle In The Jungle", "Requiem", "Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die", "Moths" and "Elegy". Back on topic, I remember getting this a A Passion Play for Christmas. I heard Passion first, then I listened to Stand Up. After hearing "A New Day Yesterday", I thought, "this is gonna be the better of the two".
------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: July 17 2015 at 20:21
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I have been away for a while....thanks Steve for putting up all these Tull album-related posts. Stand Up is a defining moment for Tull. It's where Anderson took control after Mick Abrahams was given the proverbial boot and started a long line of IMHO seminal albums, which can be argued spanned for a decade or more. I have stated this before but Stand Up has a real grungyness to it ...probably due to new boy Martin Barre's guitar. Not all tracks are grungy but A New Day Yesterday, Back To The Family, Nothing Is Easy, We Used To Know and (particularly) For A Thousand Mothers all have that grunge feel to them....largely thanks to Martin I believe. Apparently it's Eddie Vedder's favourite album and influenced Pearl Jam ....so the story goes from the lips of IA himself (a video I have seen) relating a story that Eddie Vedder went to a Tull concert and met the band back stage clutching a Stand Up album and stating the above. Sometimes I just cannot believe or even half believe the anecdotes that emanate from Mr Anderson. Good tale though! Getting back to Stand Up off setting the heavier tracks are fantastic acoustic numbers such as Fat Man, Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square, Look Into The Sun and Reasons For Waiting. And we can't forget the classic instrumental Bouree. BTW: it is great to see Martin Barre has recently been inducted into Prog Archives (in Crossover). Yay! |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 17 2015 at 20:25
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A wonderful early prog album-- in certain ways, their finest hour. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: July 17 2015 at 20:38
Yes, Barry! Finally! There was a good reception in the topic when he was inducted. Now I'am waiting to people rate his albums!  ------------- - From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. |
Posted By: Kirillov
Date Posted: July 18 2015 at 02:00
| Really enjoy 'Stand Up', Tull's 2nd best album IMO. |
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: July 18 2015 at 02:36
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Weird fact: I haven't ever heard Stand Up, despite being a huge Jethro Tull fan otherwise, as I'm under the impression they only really started getting that ambitious on Aqualung. Will get around to listening to this album (and Benefit more than the couple times I've spun it) in the near future. ------------- "The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook |
Posted By: Kirillov
Date Posted: July 18 2015 at 06:06
| ^ I think that is what's appealing about early Tull for me, they were best when they were more modest. |
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: July 18 2015 at 06:42
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I, on the other hand, prefer the band when they're a degree further from "normal rock music". Not a very helpful term, I know, but I hope you understand what I mean. ------------- "The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: July 18 2015 at 23:27
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The first two are indispensable - the peak of their catalog, IMO. Folky, bluesy, the flute serves the song.....and no preachy Ian. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: July 19 2015 at 02:33
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I guess it depends on which kind of listening background you come from. If I had been more into traditional rock music and British folk music first, I might prefer their early records too. According to the biography of the band I read some years ago, the members have also always thought of themselves as having more in common ideologically with the Fairport Convention and the Incredible String Band than with the progressive rock "movement". Since I now have an interest in that kind of music, if only on the casual level, I think I might now have some working knowledge of that side of JT's sound. ------------- "The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: July 22 2015 at 23:23
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A 5 star album for sure and these are my reasons: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=349677" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=349677 |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 23 2015 at 08:58
The folk thing certainly came out later on but not on the first 3 albums imho...they were a 'blues rock band with other influences when started by Abrahams and Anderson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Abrahams" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Abrahams Abrahams wanted to keep it on that direction ....Anderson wanted to look into other directions for the music...so Mick left to form Blodwyn Pig and Anderson took control of the band...and proceeded to add a healthy does of Brit folk along with blues and rock. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: GKR
Date Posted: July 23 2015 at 10:01
Good review, man. Stand Up is currently the #4 album of PA list of http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?ssubgenres=&salbumtypes=1&syears=1969&scountries=&sminratings=0&smaxratings=0&sminavgratings=0&smaxresults=100&x=57&y=4#list" rel="nofollow - 1969 . And well deserved, if you ask me. ------------- - From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. |
Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: July 23 2015 at 18:00
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We Used To Know makes this album essential. I love Stand Up lot and the path was open to even better albums, ie Benefit, Aqualung, TAAB and my personal favourite A Passion Play. |