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This Was by: Jethro Tull List Price: £15.99 CD-Charts Price: £11.98 You Save: £4.01 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5099920649722 Label: EMI Manufacturer: EMI Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: EMI Release Date: April 28, 2008 Studio: EMI Sales Rank: 7283 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - spinal tapSurely this dismal jam session was the blueprint for Spinal Tap. Its of its time, over-indulgent and plain silly. I just cannot hear any trace of musicianship in it, and it sounds as if it was recorded at Regent Sound. YUK! Rating:  - This Was............Tull at their best!"This Was" was one of my favourite albums of 1968. I bought it on vinyl LP at the time, then on CD in the early `90s, in 2001 the remaster and now the 40th anniversary edition. Hopefully that's cracked it now! This 2008 version is superb, if only all reissues were as comprehensive as this - Tim Chacksfield's name under the compilers credit usually guarantees a well researched compilation and this one is no exception. Add Abbey Road's Peter Mew as the remasterer / remixer and you know it's going to sound good too. On CD 1 the original mono mix has been remastered and sounds just great. In 1968 the mono mix usually got more attention than the stereo mix of many albums and this mix is somewhat different to the more often ... Read More: Rating: - 'This Was' sounding fresher and better than everI did recollect 'This Was' as a decent if patchy album by one of my favourite bands of yesteryear - until I heard it again in this new reissue, and what a revelation it is. The band is superb with Ian's contribution nicely balanced with all the others; the superb rhythm section of Clive Bunker and Glenn Cornick, and Mick Abrahams in great form. There are some lovely jazz tinges in amongst the overall blues feel of the album that would sadly be lost on their later albums. There is a freshness and lightness of execution about this and their other early albums, that became leaden by the time they turned the guitar amps up, went a bit heavy metal and got lost in the woods of old England. Despite the always fantastic musicianship, I never really got ... Read More: Rating: - Yes, Another Reissue.... But....Look - it IS a bit much that this is being revisited so soon after the recent slew of Tull reissues. On the other hand, while later reissues in the recent series got lavish extras and booklets, This Was was treated rather lightely (as were all the early albums to be honest). So here we have This Was done right. Talk about lavish - double disc, great booklet (with comments from ALL band members), and a fold out cover with more shots from the period. I've been playing the Mono version, and it's just glorious. The bonus material? It matches what's on the original disc, in both quality and sound. Those John Peel sessions sound like they were done yesterday. It's unlikely new fans are stumbling upon this ... Read More: Rating: - Just GreatThey may only have been a blues band for a short while but this version of Tull made an album that sounds every bit as fresh now as the day it was released. Featuring strong original songs like "My Sunday Feeling" and "Beggar's Farm" and a distinctive British take on the blues, these guys were every bit a match for their better known blues-boom contemporaries. In truth I'm not much of a Tull fan but this package rocks. I can't think of anywhere else you could find manic flute playing like that on Roland Kirk's "Serenade to a Cuckoo" alongside Mick Abrahams wonderful guitar heavy take on "Cat's Squirrel" There's some inventive bass and drum playing too and even the drum solo isn't completely out of place. The sound has been superbly remastered/remixed ... Read More: |
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