"With You There To Help Me" Did anything really sound like this at this point in time? To me -- this is quintessential Tull. Only Ian Anderson could sound like this. The folk, the rock, the darkness, the woods... his vocal delivery... Martin's guitar attack... this song is the epitome of distinctive, IMHO.
top 3 Tull albums for me along with Heavy Horses and Warchild (yes............Warchild!) Benefit is all dark and swirly and underground sounding totally transitional! Love it! real transparent lyrics with the song SON I wonder if Ian regrets that at all?
What superfluous stuff? Your copy of TAAB must be the "Special, Extra Long, Irrelevant Stuff Included" Edition.
I guess it's like buying a CD with 9 tracks, for example. When it's time to rip them into your computer the first 7 tracks really grab you, but the last 2 tracks are not your cup of tea, so it's better just to leave them out of the playlist. Granted, I've been doing this since before the Wilson remixes, but now the album itself even officially has 8 indexed tracks to choose from.
Reminds me of when I worked in radio, a sister-station program director was a big Tull fan and he and I would talk all things Tull. He said he wanted to put some TAAB on the air, but couldn't figure what to trim as he loved the album wholly. I wasn't a big fan of it at the time so I started thinking of how I'd chop it up to make some radio friendly cuts, but wound up getting married and moving to AK before I had the chance. Since, I've gotten used to the album and really quite like it. Now I wonder...would my edit sound pretty much like yours? What you've distilled is quite palatable. As for Benefit, I appreciated it much more in the past than I do now. It does have Inside on it, which is Tull's greatest love song (and probably my favorite love song ever)...but the album doesn't do much for me these days. It's an awkward album to my ears.
Benefit is the first JT album I ever bought. I think its outstanding with the ripping guitar work. There's a few others I enjoy equally but Benefit easily gets into my top 3-5 Tull releases.
Yesterday I was organizing my mess of cds I played the full albums ((which i rarely do anymore because of homemade compilations) of exile on main street Guess who american woman Jethro tull benefit Benefit is a great album . Around that time of benefit aqualung and their 45s later heard on living in the past They were putting out some great songs Guess who half a great album Stones album 1 of exile is solid.
I know the playing time of the first side of Benefit but I think I missed the deadline for this give away.
I've been playing the Surround mixes lately. You know, Benefit may be the album that has benefited the most. It has always been a little dark and murky, but the layers really come to life in Surround. Always liked the album, and the Surround adds to the legacy - a wonderful effort.
So my aqualung copy doesn't have the song Locomotive Breath, instead it has Glory Row, which is released on Jethro Tull's other album War Child. Does anyone know why? I'm really confused about this. : vinyl thatdude473 Technics3 points · 1 year ago According to discogs all the early Spain pressings of this are like yours. Shame not to have Locomotive Breath though
I love everything Tull did from Stand Up through A. They had an amazing run of great albums in that span, but Benefit is my favorite. I think it’s their most consistently brilliant album. Every song is fantastic.
This thread inspired me to want to spin Benefit, which I always saw as and say is my favorite Tull Lp, but I can't put my finger on why. The songs? the sound? My favorite line up? Anyhow, I had to silently sneak into my music room and blindly grab a copy from 7 different Lp pressings within my dedicated Tull Lp Box. I ended us randomly pulling out: Benefit - Germany - 1970, gate-fold with double Ian image Inside. No Teacher, but Inside and Alive and Well and Living In... I'm spinning it now, in the sweet spot, and it sounds very good, a moody claustrophobic sound to mate with Ian dark's lyrical moods there in. Such an interesting bridge between and progression through Stand Up and Aqualung. And I've always had a soft spot for the pastoral acoustic side-enders, Sossity, and Michael Collins. Great songs those, and beautifully played and recorded. And then there is Nothing To Say, one of the greatest songs ever about alienation; to self and society and...so-called civilization many myriad discontents.
"Climb a tower of freedom, paint your own deceiving sign its not my part to criticize or ask you to be blind, to your own pressing problem and the hate you must unwind and ask of me know answer, there is none that I could give you wouldn't find..."
Playing what must be played, what must be sung And it's what I'm singing Talking to people in my way - Ian Anderson & I'm with you L.E.M Though it's a shame that it had to be you The mother ship Is just a blip from your trip made for two I'm with you boys So please employ just a little extra care It's on my mind I'm left behind when I should have been there Walking with you With you With you - Ian Anderson
I always tend to overlook Benefit compared to Stand Up and Aqualung. Then I play it and think, "Damn!"
