Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery [40th Anniversary Edition] (2015) FLAC Beolab700
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Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery
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Artist...............: Jethro Tull
Album................: Minstrel in the Gallery
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2015
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.3.1 20141125
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 56 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........:
Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 06/05/2015
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Tracklisting
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CD1: New Steven Wilson Stereo Remix
1. Minstrel in the Gallery
2. Cold Wind to Valhalla
3. Black Satin Dancer
4. Requiem
5. One White Duck / 0^10 = Nothing at All
6. Baker St. Muse
7. Baker St. Muse – Pig-Me and the Whore
8. Baker St. Muse – Nice Little Tune
9. Baker St. Muse – Crash-Barrier Waltzer
10. Baker St. Muse – Mother England Reverie
11. Grace
12. Summerday Sands
13. Requiem (Version 1)*
14. One White Duck (Take 5)*
15. Grace (Take 2)*
16. Minstrel in the Gallery (BBC version)*
17. Cold Wind to Valhalla (BBC version)*
18. Aqualung (BBC version)*
* previously unreleased
CD2: Live at The Palais Des Sports, Paris, July 5, 1975
(A Jakko Jakszyk Stereo Mix)
1. Introduction (The Beach Part II)
2. Wind Up
3. Critique Oblique
4. Wond’ring Aloud
5. My God [a. Flute Solo Including: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Bourée/Quartet; b. Living In the Past; c. My God (Reprise)]
6. Cross-Eyed Mary
7. Minstrel in the Gallery
8. Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day)
9. Bungle in the Jungle
10. Aqualung
11. Guitar Improvisation
12. Back-Door Angels
13. Locomotive Breath [with improvisation and including Hard Headed English General and Back-Door Angels (Reprise)]
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Minstrel in the Gallery was Jethro Tull‘s most artistically successful and elaborately produced album since Thick as a Brick and harkened back to that album with the inclusion of a 17-minute extended piece (“Baker Street Muse”). Although English folk elements abound, this is really a hard rock showcase on a par with — and perhaps even more aggressive than — anything on Aqualung. The title track is a superb showcase for the group, freely mixing folk melodies, lilting flute passages, and archaic, pre-Elizabethan feel, and the fiercest electric rock in the group’s history — parts of it do recall phrases from A Passion Play, but all of it is more successful than anything on War Child. Martin Barre’s attack on the guitar is as ferocious as anything in the band’s history, and John Evan’s organ matches him amp for amp, while Barriemore Barlow and Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond hold things together in a furious performance. Anderson’s flair for drama and melody come to the fore in “Cold Wind to Valhalla,” and “Requiem” is the loveliest acoustic number in Tull’s repertory, featuring nothing but Anderson’s singing and acoustic guitar, Hammond-Hammond’s bass, and a small string orchestra backing them. “Nothing at All” isn’t far behind for sheer, unabashed beauty, but “Black Satin Dancer” is a little too cacophonous for its own good. “Baker Street Muse” recalls Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play, not only in its structure but a few passages; at slightly under 17 minutes, it’s a tad more manageable than either of its conceptual predecessors, and it has all of their virtues, freely overlapping hard rock and folk material, classical arrangements (some of the most tasteful string playing on a Tull recording), surprising tempo shifts, and complex stream-of-consciousness lyrics (some of which clearly veer into self-parody) into a compelling whole.
40th Anniversary Edition feature original album mixed by Steven Wilson, seven bonus tracks (six previously unreleased), all mixed by Wilson and live performance at the Olympia in Paris mixed by King Crimson guitarist Jakko Jakszyk.
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