Reasons for waiting seemed like a romantic song to me in my youth too but now I see it as a song a parent feels in their heart for their young child and not wanting them to grow up too fast - me following after your hand holding tight - and believing in impossible schemes- very child like to me --one of my favorites for sure!
It's been years since I last gave that album a spin, so thank you for doing that for me! Great, thorough and thoughtful reaction and commentary, dude. When I first started listening to Tull, I was a crazy man for their music. Couldn't get enough of it. All these many years later, they remain among my most-often listened-to bands. I suspect Ian Anderson will never get his proper due in this world, but sadly, after he enters the next one. The man is a mad genius. I've been fortunate enough to have seen them live 4 times, and they never disappointed. Bravo on your entry into their wonderful world.
Thanks Daniel for posting on your Patreon page. Stand Up was always a favorite, and you did a great review. You were talking about Living In the Past, the single that didn't make it on the album, it along with a bunch of other songs are on the album Living In The Past which was released in '72. Don't pass it up, you will love it.
Dude i just saw the magicians birthday reaction ...it did to you the same thing it did to me in 1986..the fact that you listen to whole albums is great you are listening to music the way it was meant to ....keep on ...have fun . Listen to uriah heep...A year or a day.
Indeed, Jethro Tull is awesome! Check out Heavy Horses when you get a chance. I worked with heavy draft horses at a US Navy installation. During a big snow we couldn’t get the tractors out to feed and hay the 110 herd of light riding horses and some cattle scattered in different pastures with shelters near runway three. Hitched up the Belgian draft team and got hay out and broke ice on the water tanks. The Belgian draft team saved the day. A reverse of the Jethro Tull song lamenting the demise of the heavy draft breeds and the rise of the industrial farm age. 💕🐎
I think it is VERY close between heavy horses and songs from the wood as the two albums I play the most next do MU best of and of course Thick as a Brick... love other Tull but always come back to these four
@@jollyrodgers7272 Not surprising that contractors and others aren’t aware of military animals. They aren’t always in main areas of the bases or posts. Some of the light horses served in Guantanamo Bay Cuba as part of MWR or Moral Welfare and Recreational Services for deployed military and families. Worked great unless they got out in the mine fields. The draft horses were stationed at NAS Oceana as part of MWR and had government serial numbers like all military animals. Army veterinary surgeons work on all branches of military service dogs, the cavesson horses at Arlington N’tl Cemetery, entomology study cattle, and a variety of other military animals. Cemetery duty horses often retired at midlife to Navy Moral Welfare and Recreational Services (MWR) facilities on military bases. That’s why there were so many white horses and black horses. At NAS Oceana (O-SHE-Anna) there were also Chincoteague and Banker ponies. Navy aircraft carriers have beagles as drug and ordinance sniffing canines. Smaller than shepherds and easier to maintain.
Thank you so much for doing this album, Daniel! I watched the vids for both sides. Thank you for putting up side to on Patreon for free! As I probably already said, this is my favorite Tull albums, and one of my favorite albums of all time. I still have my original LP with the "stand up" pop-up cover, as well as a second LP without it, and also have it on CD. I have a very strong emotional attachment to this album! I was your age when I heard it for the first time. You are correct, it just gets better and better, not only from song to song, but over the years, I love it just as much, if not more, each time I hear it. Thanks again!
Daniel, the 2001 Remastered CD of Stand Up includes 4 Bonus tracks, Living In The Past, Driving Song, Sweet Dream and 17 and these songs are all similar to the 10 original tracks on the 1969 album. Can recommend than you listen to all four. Living In The Past could be considered a hit and was on the radio a lot and is as good as anything on this album, even though Nothing Is Easy is my personal favorite. This album featured Tull's best line-up that didn't last too long as Glenn Cornick was gone after Benefit and Clive Bunker remained only until Aqualung. Only Martin Barre stayed on with Anderson for the duration.
You may have discovered a secret track at the end. I have found at least five by different artist CD's. One after three minutes of blank space at the end of a CD. Not mentioned on the jacket. It's like finding a secret treasure because it's so unexpected.
Yes yes yes please do living in the past it's only appropriate and you'll love it I'm not sure you'll find too many songs by this group you won't like it just gets better and better to a point but you'll find that out in a long long time
@@carlmarks8170 I get that perspective. Great performances by all members. Glenn Cornick left shortly after. His contributions were great. I was lucky enough to meet him in the early nineties at a Jethro Tull convention were he actually played for us. Taking out the drama of the many band changes over the years... never liked how Martin left..., Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses style just appeals to my ears... Last concert attended was Broadsword and I was disappointed...
Awright, looks like you'll just HAVE to do Living in the Past ;o) But if you pursue your trip chronologically, then you'd have to do Benefit before Living in the Past, and then take the plunge (and what a plunge!) into A Passion Play.
Hi 9! You are just finding out Ian's dark side lol. "Fat Man" is a devastating song. I was trying to figure out if he was fat as a child which it doesn't appear so. His sarcasm runs deep and cold! Next his lyrics are warm and loving. On Living in the Past there are 2 songs that are harsh, Love Story(wife) and Christmas Song. Back in the 70's we had tapestries hanging on walls, black lights and JT! CHEERS, CHICAGO RAY
There are many stages of wonderful Tull, but my personal favorites are Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses. But if you just go through all of their albums in order, I won't complain :-).
This is one of my favorite Tull albums. Next up in your review cue is Benefit. Many moons ago, I owned it on 8 track tape and played it over and over and over again. I have a vinyl copy as well as the CD now. I'll go out on a limb and predict that you'll like it a lot too.
Liykng in the Past” has an unusual time signature and great lyrics Made Anderson temporarily rich. He bought a remote Scottish island and became the Laird ( sort of). It was an impoverished Bailiwick on which he experimented with salmon farming. A new thought about his singing style which may seem eccentric. I now detect the growl of folk singer Ewan McColl.
Daniel, I really like your reviews of Jethro Tull. You take the time to actually listen with a critical ear at what is going on with the song. I have listened to other reactors and although reasonable, yours go into more detail and in my mind very superior. I have been a JT fan since I was 9 years old (1969), having a Cousin who introduced me to their music. I was listening to the likes of Cream, Groundhogs and other prog bands even at that age, again thanks to this Cousin, but when I heard Stand Up I was hooked. I had never heard the flute being used in "Rock" before and it seemingly hit a chord with me. Stand Up is still my favourite Tull album of all time. Your analysis of the songs has also helped me to understand the meaning of some of the songs, so thank you for that. Keep up the good work and stay safe.
I have been enjoying greatly your reaction videos on youtube of the band Jethro Tull. I especially like your analysis of Ian Anderson’s lyrics. I have been myself a Tull fan from almost day one. I was a teenager when I heard the album Stand Up. The fact that I got to own that album was an accident. I lent an album to someone who damaged it. He gave me Stand Up to compensate. And this was a very good deal for me. I became a fan right away. I find your analysis of the lyrics very interesting. In 1969, and for many years after, my knowledge of the english language was non existent. To me, the voice and the words were just instruments, like the other ones. Even if I now can understand Ian Anderson’s words. It is not easy to grasp the meaning behind them, unless one goes to the exercise of analyzing them, like you. You still have many albums to go through, and they are always different. I stopped following them a while back. But I like certain projects Ian has realized in more recent years, like: “Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull” and “Jethro Tull - The String Quartets”. “The Jethro Tull Christmas Album” is also excellent. I also like watching on youtube the many live performances with orchestra or interviews.
'Fat Man' has a definite Middle Eastern sound to it. It would blend in to any neighborhood in Cairo, Tripoli, Istanbul, Kuwait, etc. Some of the instruments used are authentic to the region. A bit similar is "A Christmas Song" , originally from the poem 'Once In Royal David's City' and begins with a definite Mideast tone. You'll find it on the album "Living In The Past".
Did you stop the Halloween related songs? Benefit would be good choice for JT. It was the album that got regular airplay and Teacher was a big hit at the time. Lot of energy.
I think Living in the Past is one of their best albums, even if most see it as a comp. I always treated like a proper album in between Aqualung and Thick as a Brick.
The song Fat Man is about original guitar player Mick Ralphs and song We Used to Know bares an uncanny resemblance to The Eagles- Hotel California who had toured with Tull prior to that song being written and becoming a mega hit....not saying they ripped off Tull however Anderson thinks it was likely unintentional so never pursued any claim against them.
It was because of “Nothing Is Easy” I think, this is very annoying, but don't get discouraged Daniel, and thanks for presenting me this album it is very good, the only song I knew was “Nothing Is Easy”. And anyday i hope you see “My God” live at Isle of Wight 1970, it’s insane man...
Daniel, you GET Jethro Tull. You are now officially "baptized" into Fandom. They are truly multi-dimensional, interesting, entertaining with musicianship that is seldom paralleled. Why not in the RRHOF? I can't think of one reason why they are not there already. Many other very mediocre bands less deserving are already there. SO WRONG!
Hi 90, I would wait on single Living in the Past. Its has a little jazz influence, and for us hard core fans it was woeful. Song actually charted and almost any other Tull song would have been the better choice. Its on the double album of course. Keep on rocking Dan . Chicago Ray
@@DiconDissectionalReactions oh I guess I missed that one . Thnx . You might want to check out this was by Mick Abrahms . He was the guitar player on the first Jethro Tull album then left to form his own band called Blodwyn Pig ( 2 good albums especially the first one “A Head rings out “) . Years later he re recorded This Was the way he wanted it to sound more guitar more bluesy not so much flute . I saw Blodwyn pig in New York along with Chicago Transit Authority in 1969 and also the great blues guitarist Johnny Winter at the Fillmore east . Unforgettable my young friend unforgettable.
