RecordingVIP.com

	Shop

Best of Acoustic

Zoom

Best of Acoustic (Audio CD)
by Jethro Tull

(23 customer reviews)

SKU:

EMI2June2212

In Stock

Availability: Usually ships in 1 business days

All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.

List Price:	$18.98
Our Price:	$14.69 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25.
You Save:	$4.29 (23%)

Note: Item may be sold and shipped by another company. Learn more.

Product Promotions

Get $1 in Amazon MP3 credit with qualifying purchase. Limited to one promotional credit per customer. Here's how (restrictions apply)

Product Details

Audio CD Release Date:	March 27, 2007
Studio:	Capitol
Number Of Discs:	1
Average Customer Rating:	based on 23 reviews

Track Listing

1.	Fat Man
2.	Life Is a Long Song
3.	Cheap Day Return
4.	Mother Goose
5.	Wond'ring Aloud
6.	Thick As a Brick (Intro)
7.	Skating Away (On the Thin Ice Of the New Day)
8.	Cold Wind To Valhalla (Intro)
9.	Medley: One White Duck/010=Nothing At All
10.	Salamander
11.	Jack In the Green
12.	Velvet Green
13.	Dun Ringill
14.	Jack Frost And the Hooded Crow
15.	Under Wraps 2
16.	Jack-A-Lynn
17.	Someday the Sun Won't Shine
18.	Broadford Bazaar
19.	The Water Carrier
20.	Rupi's Dance
21.	A Christmas Song
22.	Weathercock
23.	One Brown Mouse
24.	Pastime With Good Company

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 4.5

( 23 customer reviews )
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 27 found the following review helpful:

My favorite side of Tull May 08, 2007 By Ashton "informed consumer"
Being a devoted Jethro Tull fan for 30 ++ years, I have always been partial to acoustic Tull, and I believe in his pre-golden years, Ian is too!! The set list could not be better. I highly recommend this collection to anyone who knows there is more to Jethro Tull then Aqualung and Locomotive Breath!

22 of 23 found the following review helpful:

genuine and eccentric May 09, 2007 By haregrog "haregrog"
If you're looking for just the greatest hits, i.e. the most popular Tull songs on Classic Rock radio, you wouldn't go for this one first. But the acoustic side of Tull is an essential part of the Tull canon, and this collection represents an idea that has been decades overdue. The acoustic format allows for a combination of genuine expressiveness and Tull's patented eccentric creativity. That said, some of these great acoustic pieces are latter-day re-workings, and they tend to be inferior to the originals, interesting primarily to collectors. But many of these songs are the original tracks, beautifully remastered. So there's a lot here for the afficionados, and it's not a bad place to start for the curious.

9 of 9 found the following review helpful:

Fantastic Acoustic Performances by JT Jun 06, 2007 By K. L. Woomer
Some bands, older bands that have been around a while and have an actual catalog to pick and choose from, often find themselves with material that suddenly comes into mainstream light. Not that JT is commercial, but the style of UNPLUGGED is and has been popular for quite some time...

I bought this CD due to a college roomate being such a JT fan, and thought it might be nice to get a JT for my collection.

This is a fantastic CD. The recordings are touched up and sound fantastic as they would be - due to Ian Anderson being as picky as Frank Zappa used to be... and they sound so crisp.

The flute, the masterful acoustic (and occasionally electric) playing of Martin Barre is fantastic, and the language I am using doesn't do it justice. I really feel that anyone could put this CD in and immediatly get the attention of anyone in the room. This is enjoyable, talent laden and worth every freakin penny.

Have fun,

11 of 12 found the following review helpful:

Hoping for more Jun 11, 2007 By James Malatich
When I heard that Jethro Tull was coming out with an all acoustic CD, I could hardly wait. I was hoping for a nice flow of some re-mixed and/or updated acoustic material. But alas, the quality is as if the songs were taken right off the "older" albums and put directly on the CD. It's nice to have a lot of my favorites on one CD, but I just can't get past the fact that I was "hoping for more crispness" in the guitar strings.

13 of 15 found the following review helpful:

Was Owen wrong? May 19, 2007 By eurocrank
Where is "Bouree"?

Why are there two tracks from Ian Anderson's solo albums? I thought the whole point of his solo career is that he's not Jethro Tull. Did Owen Wilson risk his credibility--nay, his reputation!--on the silver screen when he declared that Jethro Tull was a band, not a person?

And of the two previously unreleased tracks, "Pastime with Good Company" has been done better by Blackmore's Night (studio and live). I would have preferred several tracks, any number of acoustic tracks, from Tull's catalogue (especially 'Songs from the Wood') to those three.

Also, as wonderful as this album sounds, the songs are even better in the context of their original albums.

Still, this is a welcome and useful album to me. When I bought it at my favorite music store--Forever Young, Texas (huge, with enough vinyl, CDs, and intelligent management to satisfy any music lover)--both clerks remarked that they too wanted to get it. They're my age, late 40s, with a lot of musical history and knowledge between them. My wife commented that she liked the music. That's recommendation enough for me.

Thanks as always to Ian Anderson for his forthright, courteous, and charming liner notes.

Track origins are as follows:

1-13, 15: original studio albums
14: '20th Anniversary' box
16-17: '25th Anniversary' box
18: 'Night Cap'
19: 'The Secret Language of Birds'
20: 'Rupi's Dance'
21-22: 'The Jethro Tull Christmas Album'
23: previously unreleased
24: (live in Denmark) previously unreleased

See all 23 customer reviews on Amazon.com