Stand Up (Jethro Tull album)

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Stand Up
Stand Up cover
Studio album by Jethro Tull
Released August 1, 1969 (U.K.)
Recorded April 1969
Genre Progressive rock
Length 41:36
Label Island Records (U.K.)
Reprise Records (U.S.)
Producer Ian Anderson and Terry Ellis
Professional reviews
Jethro Tull chronology
This Was
(1968)		 Stand Up
(1969)		 Benefit
(1970)

Stand Up is the second album by Jethro Tull. Prior to this album, the band's original guitarist Mick Abrahams had left the band due to musical differences with Ian Anderson. Abrahams wanted to stay with the blues-rock sound of This Was, while Anderson wished to branch out into other musical forms.

Stand Up represents the first album project on which Anderson was in full control of the music and lyrics. The album goes in a different direction from his earlier work, revealing influences from Celtic music, folk and classical music. The instrumental "Bourée" (one of Jethro Tull's better-known songs) is a re-working of "Bourrée in E minor" by J.S.Bach.

The album reached #1 on the British charts.[1] The gatefold album cover, in a woodcut style designed by artist James Grashow, originally opened up similar to a child's pop-up book, so that a cut-out of the band's personnel stood up - linking into the album's title. Stand Up won New Musical Express's award for best album artwork in 1969.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

(All songs by Ian Anderson unless otherwise indicated)

  1. "A New Day Yesterday" – 4:10
  2. "Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square" – 2:12
  3. "Bourée" (J. S. Bach arr. Jethro Tull) – 3:46
  4. "Back to the Family" – 3:48
  5. "Look into the Sun" – 4:20
  6. "Nothing Is Easy" – 4:25
  7. "Fat Man" – 2:52
  8. "We Used to Know" – 3:59
  9. "Reasons for Waiting" – 4:05
  10. "For a Thousand Mothers" – 4:13

[edit] Bonus tracks

The 2001 remastered CD added four bonus tracks (which had been on the 20 Years of Jethro Tull box-set) and extensive liner notes:

  1. "Living in the Past" – 3:23
  2. "Driving Song" – 2:44
  3. "Sweet Dream" – 4:05
  4. "17" – 3:07

"We Used to Know" was the inspiration for The Eagles' 1976 hit song "Hotel California". The chord progressions are nearly identical, and the bands toured together prior to the release of "Hotel".[2]

[edit] Personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ Chart
  2. ^ Official website

[edit] External links

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