01. "Steel Monkey" 0:00 02. "Farm on the Freeway" 3:38 03. "Jump Start" 10:06 04. "Said She Was a Dancer" 14:59 05. "Dogs in the Midwinter" 18:39 06. "Budapest" 23:07 07. "Mountain Men" 33:10 08. "The Waking Edge" 39:29 09. "Raising Steam" 44:16 2005 remaster bonus track 10. "Part of the Machine" 48:25 All tracks are written by Ian Anderson. Jethro Tull Ian Anderson - vocals, flute, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, additional percussion, keyboards, Synclavier, drum programming (on tracks 1, 5 & 9) Martin Barre - acoustic guitar, electric guitar Dave Pegg - bass guitar, acoustic bass (on track 4) Additional musicians Doane Perry - drums, percussion (on tracks 2 & 7) Gerry Conway - drums, percussion (on tracks 3, 4, 6 & 8) Ric Sanders - violin (on track 6)
@@Fretboard_Frenzy amazing album & brilliant artwork & some artists and a number of people were suggesting it sounds like Dire Straits? I wonder how they got that comparison?
I remember as a kid in the early 80's, I would listen to my AM radio that my dad got me for me for my room to help put me to sleep. Some song would come on that I instantly loved, so different, and the DJ would never announce who it was. It took a month of listening nightly until the DJ said "Farm on the Freeway" by Jethro Tull. I though "who is Jethro Tull?" So I found out, found out my dad had the Auqualung album, and I was hooked. Sweet Mary. The many albums of songs I have absorbed over 40 years now, now the lyrics and music are poetry and for you to interpret. Farm on the Freeway meant environmental destruction to me as a kid, made me very sad when my dad died from disease when I was nineteen, and now 30 years later I see it as how your parents try hard to build something for you and we run about with our stupid goals letting the old life die off and forgetting where we started poor but happy.
I have read a lot of negative comments about this album but I just don't agree. There is not one bad song on this one. She said she was a dancer does sound a bit like Mark Knopfler but is that a bad thing. I bet Ian never though of him. By the way I love Dire Straights so I think it's really cool. It's just rock and roll kids, don't get so up tight LOL.
Totally agree. Been a Tull fan since '68, matter of fact they are my all time favorite band. Was privileged to have seen them seven times in the 70's. Seven of my finest memories.
How about for heavy? Tull can be so heavy, and this album is no exception. Though I don't know if there is a category for heavy. This album is sublime, and I am at least glad it won a Grammy for something. Plus it kept those wankers Metallica out of a win, and deservedly so, as this album crapped all over any album out that year. Maybe that is just my bias for Tull shining through here, as I really have no idea of many of the other albums up for awards, or put out that year.
They actually won for hard rock/heavy metal, it was a new category, most people obviously took the metal part more seriously. And again, the album is brilliant, and deservedly garnered all the awards that it did. Reminds of a footy team back in the 90s, weren't beaten all year, and two blokes decided to gets tattoos denoting their victory in the GF. And they lost. The team was the Harman Hogs. A truly brilliant decision by the academy, to reward such a brilliant album. Kudos to the max to them.
While a lot of critics were happy enough to relegate Tull to the trash heap, this album simply blew everyone else off stage. No one else wrote, produced, or played anything close to this. B track songs (and C tracks - if there is such a thing) beat everyone else with an album out. No disrespect meant, but Metallica never saw the day when they could play this music.
Nothing and no-one goes through life without change and development. In the world of artistic creation, this is especially true. Ian Anderson is a supreme artist, and he has made a unique contribution over 50 years and counting to music. The early Tull albums are ok in their own right, and show Ian honing his skills as a songwriter and musician. But they are, in essence, just preparation for his masterpieces : Aqualung; Thick as a Brick; Passion Play; Warchild; Heavy Horses; Stormwatch; and many other subsequent albums, both as a solo artiste and with the band. Crest of a Knave is a fantastic album too. Musically and lyrically there is no-one like Ian Anderson. He has carved out a unique niche for himself, and he is right up there with other peaks in the history of popular music like Lennon & McCartney, Jagger and Richards, Roger Waters and Dave Gilmour, Don Henley and Glenn Frey, Phil Lynott, Angus and Malcolm Young et al. Ian Anderson is a high mountain in this very select mountain range.
I had no idea this album existed, but DAMN is it good! Just started going through Jethro Tulls catalogue of albums, and this one really stands out for me.
Jethro Tull efsanesiyle ilk tanıştığım albüm. Üzerinden 37 sene geçmiş vay be! Ondan sonra her albümlerini topladım su katılmamış bir hayranları oldum, Ian Anderson aileden biri gibi oldu üzerimde emeği çoktur hakkını helal etsin
I prefer the old Till of the late '60"s and early 70's. Lucky to see them perform then. Still, this shows how talented and innovative and creative Ian Anderson is.
I was 17 when this came out. I played the hell out my cassette. I saw them in concert after Ian had broken a leg falling off a stage. That man came out in a chromed wheelchair and put on a great show as they bounced lasers off his wheelchair. LoL What a professional. Good times.
Holy cow. I was only 1! :D So needless to say I missed out on this one. Just started going through Jethro's albums, and this is the most recent one I've listened to so far. The change in his voice reminds me of the lead singer of Dire Straits. This a really great album so far, from what I've listened to.
😎 My all time favourite is ‘Stand Up’. No ‘sophistocated composing or mixing’, but the raw free energy of straight-to-the-heart-hardrock. Everybody who rehearsed in the garage with his band of friends knows what I mean.
Under rated comment . This couldn´t be more accurate . There are more " sophisticated " albums than " Stand up " in JT´s discography - none matches the magic of that spontaneity/chemistry/honesty you listen to in the former though ... and yes, having had the experience of bonding/hitting something which you find " special " as a collective of friends making music is very important to understand why " Stand up " is " The " album. Sorry for the length but on a whole different note ,was it not by that time Tony Iommi also joined JT for a few days ? I know there used to be footage of Iommi with Jethro Tull on YT, playing what song is what I´ll be looking for now .
Acho o melhor álbum na fase Hard rock da banda e Budapest é maravilhosa. Tenho esse lp, mas infelizmente não tem essa ótima: part of the machine. Obrigado por compartilhar!
Oh God ''' So Good Crest of A Knave -- I saw them 13 times or so ..... I think this is my favorite album ..... I really have listened to it in about 3 years (don't asked).... My first concert was WAR CHILD .... I think it was 1973 .... In Hershey Park ..... Martin Lancelot Barre ...... oh gosh I Love Jethro Tull
Some of the WAR CHILD shows were in 1975 . Murky bootlegs reveal some of PASSION PLAY as well as AQUALUNG songs for dessert . TULL was not some jam band . They took you to some deep places .
La discografia de jethro tull se adapto a cada paso de la epoca con diferentes musicos y estilos es parte de la evolucion de un grupo de rock serio.....no se puede estar 50 años con lo mismo....no se puede estar tocando blus o rock progresivo u otros estilos....hay que evolucionar señores....
They should've called this album 'Earworm' - every song implants another couple of songs in your head and you're left racking your memory trying to remember what it reminds you of... took me ages to work out that Dogs in Midwinter is Paul Simon mixed with Gerry Rafferty.
One of the few Tull Albums I have gone off as the years have passed. Always thought Budapest was laboured to make it a classic long cut, and the drum machine does not do it for me at all. Jump Start, Farm on the Freeway and Part of the Machine stand out well above the others.
...if i remember well , this album introduced me to JT , yes long ago in 1987 . it is a mix of rock songs à la 80s & nice ballads . martin barre did a great guitar work & ian anderson new voice is obviously the consequence of his throat operatoin , but to my ears it is ok , i like it . best song of the album ? budapest , yes indeed . this is JT in the 80s , enjoy it ! and after 33 years i finally listen to two songs that i never heard before . these songs were not on the vynil version : song n. 5 & song n. 8. what a surprise !
This was a good album, I guess Anderson’s competive streak made him pull out the stops in the face of the burgeoning but less impressive Dire Straits. Saw them springtime 88 in Dallas. Too hot and humid for the wind and rain loving Ian Tull :-)
Budapest takes so many cues from Dire Straits. Nothing wrong with that! Tull and Knopfler are two favorites and Tull came first they must have respected Dire Straits. Sounds like Telegraph road.
DIESES JETHRO TULL-ALBUM, DAS CREST OF A KNAVE VON 1987 IST EINES DER ÜBERRAGENDSTEN DAS IAN ANDERSON +BAND IM PROG.- ROCK. VERÖFFENTLICHT HABEN!! UND METALLICA SORRY,SIE HABEN DAFÜR ZURECHT DEN GRAMMY IM JAHRE 1989 BEKOMMEN!!❤😊😊
I know that as a long time Jethro Tull fan, Crest of a Knave is not "metal"! Jethro Tull is not metal. But one has to admit that winning heavy metal album of the year is by far one of the funniest stories in R&R history.
"As I wake up in a room somewhere" the first verse on The Waking Edge has the same melody of "These mist covered mountains" on Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits. This whole album is so filled with melodies, harmonies, instrumentation and overall inspiration on the Dire Straits that it is almost unbearable.
And I bumped elbows w/ Ian Anderson behind the carefree theater in West Palm Beach after a rupee's dance concert in a small venue. Because where I grew up we were all TULL freaks. AND I LIVED MY LIFE VICARIOUSLY THROUGH ALL THOSE LYRICS. I'M THE LIVING EMBODIMENT OF THE 17TH CENTURY SEED FARMER.
Wow, Ian channeling Mark Knopfler, some might even call out and out theft in style and vocal qualities - clearly, Ian struggling in the 1980s but this is truly embarrasing! Budapest is the classic example - Wow.
I'm just here to see who the fuck still thinks this is better than And Justice for All? No one ever even heard of Jethro Tull after 1989, meanwhile Metallica are still the top metal draw in the world, by orders of magnitude.
I kept thinking these tracks sound like mark knophler of Fire Staits clamouring for a footing but never quite got off. So many "ideas" swerving down rabbit trails but never taking hold. Danger signs looming. I disagree with Anderson. This is not a first tier record. Brilliant guitar motifs however nothing cohesive.
To this day I still do not know how this beat Metallica for Hard Rock/Metal Performance. Nothing Hard or Metal about this. Maybe Rock/Folk Performance sure Hard Rock/Metal Nah
😎👍😉🤟🎼☠🖤🍻 Smile. \m/ ' [-_-] ' \m/....Bye... Bottoms up and cheers... Stay loud, stay proud, stay heavy. Take care, and be safe ....... #Adanporsiempre ......
No olvides a con ese tema tull ganó un premio gramy y se lo ganó a Metallica nada menos q no podían creer q con batería electrónica le hubieran ganado en categoría heavy metal bueno en ese caso como decimos en el fútbol en Argentina.... "A llorar a la iglesia"
Was a JT fan for ages, beginning with Aqualung in 1971, although heard from earlier years. And this one... Couldn't believe the mastery of prog, they deserve a Grammy.
it seems that most bands best work occurs during the first 10 yrs. with a few exceptions.The Songbird lands and a kind of channeling occurs,then She's gone.its that initial passion that gives way to self infatuation and the magic is gone.Bob Dylan in an interview with Ed Bradley,said as much.Bradley asked Dylan how he wrote those early classic songs and Dylan replied,''I have no idea it was some kind of magic!
This album is a return to their roots effort musically. Ian Anderson sings a bit differently having gone through throat surgery prior. Won a Grammy in '89 for best rock/heavy metal album of the year beating out a heavily favored Metallica effort. Some very good riffs contained herein.
They deserved the award for this solid late career effort after being snubbed by professional music critics for so long, but try covering anything from this album in a bar full of Metallica fans and you'd be lucky to get out alive.
@@TML0677 Its true! From the first note, I thought I was listening to them instead. By the second song though, once the flute kicks in, then I felt that Jethro vibe. This album is like if the two bands combined.
