Jethro Tull – Stand Up by: Matt Ainsworth

In incendiary brilliance of Jethro Tull’s follow up to the magnificent “This Was” is staggering. Totally veering away from the jazzy blues of their debut, the band set up an album comprising mainly of rock, folk and classical.

The album starts with the full on crunchy riff-fest of “New day yesterday”, a style which is returned to later in the album with “A Thousand Mothers”. Up until that return Ian Anderson lets loose an array of different styles: “Fat Man” features Eastern Folk, and the staple-at-gigs song “Bouree” a classical piece by Bach edited by the band. If you enjoy wide vareities in musical genres, get this album! (That is, if you don’t already have it…)

All in all, a classic album, also one that Ian Anderson himself holds his favourite Tull album!

Matt Ainsworth (UK)