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The Best of Jethro Tull – The Anniversary Collection

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Released
  
24 May 1993 (UK)

Length
  
154:28

Artist
  
Jethro Tull

Label
  
Chrysalis Records

Recorded
  
1968 - 1991

The Best Of Jethro Tull - The Anniversary Collection (1993)
  
Nightcap (1993)

Release date
  
24 May 1993

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Producer
  
Ian Anderson (tracks 1.4-1.6, 1.8, 1.11-1.19, 2.1-2.9, 2.12-2.17) Jethro Tull (tracks: 1.1-1.3, 1.7, 1.9, 1.10) Paul Samwell-Smith (tracks: 2.10, 2.11) Robin Black (tracks: 2.7, 2.8) Terry Ellis (tracks: 1.1-1.7, 1.9-1.14)

Genres
  
Rock music, Progressive rock, Hard rock

Similar
  
Jethro Tull albums, Progressive rock albums

The Best Of Jethro Tull - The Anniversary Collection is a greatest hits album by Jethro Tull, released in 1993. It includes some of the band's biggest hits from 1968 to 1991.

Contents

Disc 1

  1. "A Song for Jeffrey" - 3:19
  2. "Beggar's Farm" - 4:19
  3. "A Christmas Song" - 3:07
  4. "A New Day Yesterday" - 4:09
  5. "Bourée" (Instrumental) - 3:46
  6. "Nothing Is Easy" - 4:23
  7. "Living in the Past" - 3:21
  8. "To Cry You a Song" - 6:15
  9. "Teacher" - 4:01
  10. "Sweet Dream" - 4:02
  11. "Cross-Eyed Mary" - 4:09
  12. "Mother Goose" - 3:53
  13. "Aqualung" - 6:36
  14. "Locomotive Breath" - 4:25
  15. "Life Is a Long Song" - 3:19
  16. "Thick as a Brick" (extract) - 3:02
  17. "A Passion Play" (extract) - 3:47 ("Magus Perdé")
  18. "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day" - 3:52
  19. "Bungle in the Jungle" - 3:39

Disc 2

  1. "Minstrel in the Gallery" (Edited version) - 6:10
  2. "Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die" - 5:40
  3. "Songs from the Wood" - 4:54
  4. "Jack-in-the-Green" - 2:30
  5. "The Whistler" - 3:32
  6. "Heavy Horses" - 8:57
  7. "Dun Ringill" - 2:41
  8. "Fylingdale Flyer" - 4:32
  9. "Jack-a-Lynn" - 4:42
  10. "Pussy Willow" - 3:53
  11. "Broadsword" - 4:59
  12. "Under Wraps II" - 2:14
  13. "Steel Monkey" - 3:34
  14. "Farm on the Freeway" - 6:28
  15. "Jump Start" - 4:53
  16. "Kissing Willie" - 3:31
  17. "This Is Not Love" - 3:54

Disc 1

  • Ian Anderson - flute, balalaika, mandolin, Hammond organ, acoustic guitar, vocals (all tracks)
  • Mick Abrahams - electric guitar (tracks 1 - 2)
  • Clive Bunker - drums, glockenspiel, percussion (tracks 1 - 14)
  • Glenn Cornick - bass, Hammond organ (tracks 1 - 10)
  • Martin Barre - electric guitar (tracks 4 - 19)
  • Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond bass (tracks 11 - 19)
  • Barriemore Barlow - drums (tracks 15 - 19)
  • David Palmer - orchestral arrangement and conducting (tracks 3, 10 a 17 - 19)

    • Disc 2

  • Ian Anderson - flute, balalaika, Hammond organ, acoustic guitar, vocals (all tracks)
  • Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond bass (track 1)
  • Martin Barre - electric guitar (tracks 1 - 17)
  • Barriemore Barlow - drums (tracks 1 - 7)
  • John Glascock bass, vocals (tracks 2 - 7)
  • David Palmer - orchestral arrangement and conducting (tracks 1 - 7)
  • Dave Pegg - bass, mandolin, vocals (tracks 8 - 17)
  • Mark Craney - drums (track 8)
  • Gerry Conway - drums, percussion (tracks 9 - 11 and 15)
  • Peter-John Vettese - keyboards, piano, synthesizer (tracks 9 - 12)
  • Doane Perry - drums (tracks 12, 14 a 16 - 17)
  • Maartin Allcock - keyboards (track 16)
  • Andrew Giddings - keyboards (track 17)

    • Guest musicians

  • Lou Toby - string arrangement, conducting (disc 1, track 7)
  • Maddy Prior - backing vocals (disc 2, track 2)
  • Darryl Way - violin (disc 2, track 6)
  • Eddie Jobson - keyboards, electric violin, (disc 2, track 8)

    • Songs

    1A Song for Jeffrey3:21
    2Beggar’s Farm4:21
    3A Christmas Song3:08

    References

    The Best of Jethro Tull – The Anniversary Collection Wikipedia
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