Songs: A New Day Yesterday, Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square, Bourée, Back To The Family, Look Into The Sun, Nothing Is Easy, Fat Man, We Used To Know, Reasons For Waiting, For A Thousand Mothers.
Type of Music: Mixture of Blues and (Hard) Rock with touches of Jazz, Folk and Classical Music.
Comments:
Guitarist Mick Abrahams left JT after This Was and was replaced by Martin Barre. This immediately resulted in a more Hard Rock orientated sound as opposed to the Bluesy atmosphere on the debut album. And that´s not at all bad.
In fact the combination of Martin´s guitar, Ian´s Flute and, not in the least, Ian's excellent songs make Stand Up one of the great Classic Rock Albums of all time. The whole album sounds very rough, sincere and to the point.
The instrumental Bourée is a good example. It´s the perfect mix between Classical Music and Rock. It’s stunningly beautiful. This is Classic Rock!
Stand Up is a great mix of (hard) rockers (A New Day Yesterday, Back To The Family, Nothing Is Easy, For A Thousand Mothers), ballads (Look into The Sun, Reasons For Waiting) and Folk (Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square). This last song will serve as a reference for many of the Tull’s later Minstrel Songs.
The opener A New Day Yesterday is a great Blues Track transformed into Hard Rock with fine drumming and a perfect interplay between Martin’s Guitar and Ian’s Flute.
Quite different is the funny Fat Man, an Indian sounding George Harrison type of song. In fact, Ian managed to stay thin for a long time. And if you ever wondered where the Eagles found their inspiration for Hotel California, listen to We Used To Know. Both the melody and guitar solo were “used” by Don Henley & Company.
At the end of the sixties, JT also released many great singles. Two of them, Living In The Past and Sweet Dream are included in this Remastered version released in 2001, together with Driving Song and 17.
Jethro Tull would make other great records in the coming years. But few were as consistently good as this, their second Album. And Stand Up was a good title for the music still stands up after all these years!
Rating: ********* (9 out of 10)
Black = Good Songs
Green = Great Songs
Red = Could Be Better
Who should buy this Record: This is both an Essential Tull as well as an Essential Rock Album. Therefore it should be part of your Rock Album Collection.
No comments:
Post a Comment