The outro to this is very Black Sabbath like....I bet these guys, back in the day, took alot of cues and licks from one another. Afterall, Tony boy had a brief tenure with Tull.
..... Tull was so ultra hip back in the days of Anderson's plaid tuxedo cut away coat (circa 1971).... my buddy and I went to see them at Boston Garden and my old man way a Boston PD Sgt in charge of the 'detail' so we were right in front... magnificant... Thank you fr the post
I experieced Tull recently in Belfast and they were staggeringly good. Belfast audiences can be a little reserved in their compliments, but the band were given a standing ovation:- praise indeed!
Surprisingly, DRAGBIKE.COM , a motorcycle racing website , has a music video of the day (actually about 12 per day) function...and TULL gets TONS of play.
been a fan of this group and their songs for 42 years ........they hold special 'lessons' for me and as well....for all who care to "understand".............
Glen Cornick on bass. This band had it all. I was fortunate enough to see them on the Aqualung tour. AND...Then on Thick as a Brick tour with the GIANT beach ball Ian pushed into the croud. It travelled the whole auditorium during the show. I never got to touch it. Party on my brother.
To me this was the best album ever recorded by Tull. The words meant a lot to a young kid who was on the other side of the world. Now I'm 61 with a son on the other side of the world and the words have more meaning then ever.
this was the last tull albun i disovered around oct.2001,and i couldnt help but feel alot of these lyrics,although written in the 1970s seemed to reflect 9/11,"ceilings crash the walls collapse"and he even says climb a tower of freedom,theres no way it was intentional but it was spooky
Fantastic. Benefit was my first ever Tull album, bought off a cheap record stand in a corner shop in the early 70's, and I've never looked back. One of the best things I ever bought, and this track is excellent. Mind you, most Tull stuff is excellent too. They're in a league of their own.
This album,Benefit,just before Aqualung is where Tull started to create their unique style in the craft of rock music. Most people think it was Aqualung-album #4, but it was Benefit,their 3rd album.
Hey, I just bought this album on CD on Amazon last night--so I'm waiting on that. I got this one, Stand Up, and Minstrel in the Gallery, and I already have This Was--so I'll be having some good tunes coming soon. I used to have all of them up to Under Wraps (except for Heavy Horses I couldn't find) on vinyl.
But yeah, I see you're also a big Tull fan--good times!
We are on about the same brilliance of "Tull" huh? Crikey, Two of us forfeited our virginity to this music (which was effected legally & passionately) and well- crap ! Enough said yea?!
Interesting comments on which were the best Tull albums. In the end it always comes down to a matter of personal taste. In my opinion Stand Up is a monumental album where the range of music is eclectic to say the least. One minute you are relaxing to Bouree and then Fat Man nails you, holy shit ! where did that come from? The sheer diversity of Tull is singular. Genius is a word that is overused but in Anderson's case it is wholly justified.
Does anyone else sense a feeling of medieval within their music? I have always appreciated this song a lot, and it puts me into a sort of melancholy mood.
Certainly a medieval touch in the music. Also there are a lot of celtic musical influences in Tull's music. You can hear them clearly in Ian's acoustic songs. Think 'Wond'ring Aloud', 'Cold Wind to Valhalla.'
I''m tired of reading that Jethro Tull had too many personnel changes to remain a great band. Ian Anderson and Martin Barre (Vocals and Guitar, respectively, and the only songwriters) were together from the beginning. Replacing drummers, bassists and keyboardists who don't even write songs doesn't change the core of a band. Black Sabbath, that's a band with true personnel changes. Losing Ozzy, then Bill Ward, then everybody until it's Black Sabbath with special guest Tony Iommi.
Doesn't matter who the band is or what lineup changes they've gone through.After a certain number of years the magic is just...gone, (I just watched the Jethro Tull special on PBS).
When a band releases albums from 1968 on, and the guy joins the band later in 1968 and stays on forever, I think it's fair to say he's there from the beginning. But, since we must argue semantics, here: "Ian and Martin have been together since Martin joined shortly after the release of Tull's first album." And, dude, don't be a sassy little bitch and say something like "... try wikipedia" and then spell it wrong. Come on now.
Wouldn't agree on this, benefit and Stand up are unique in style. So some favors them. Tull's famous for it's different styles in music. One couldn't compare benefit for example with the later album broadsword and the beast. Both Tull non the less. The early albums of Tull just has lot more roots into blues and jazz then the later Albums had.
I have both of those albums, Aqualung and Thick as a Brick. Both of them are great also. However, I personally got sick and tired of the commercialization of those two masterpieces. I guess I have less "burn-out" from Benefit and Thick as a Brick.
One of the best songs to come from the Benefit album. It really would have been a gr8 time to alive as far as the music was cornced. I wish I was born then. Good times.
Great song from a legendary band!Aside from mega-corp radio stations over playing "Aqualung", little else is heard from these guys nowadays..., I've seen them live(1973), and I thought they put on a good performance in playing old & newer material.
But,Alas! They have had to endure the curse of many a rock band,too many personnel changes!
@sjirk Benefit, what a great name for an album, as we all benefited from hearing these great tunes, my faves are this one, To Cry you a Song, Sossity, and With You there to Help Me
You guys have no clue what it was like to be alive when all this was happening! Best drugs, best women, best music! Damn that rap music!
bigfootshoottokill 2 weeks ago
His name is....Ian Anderson 81 yrs old now!
bigfootshoottokill 2 weeks ago
brilliant song; brilliant lyrics
tarotkaren 2 months ago
The outro to this is very Black Sabbath like....I bet these guys, back in the day, took alot of cues and licks from one another. Afterall, Tony boy had a brief tenure with Tull.
DoctorWho1983 3 months ago
wow, Ive liked tull for a few years now but ive never heard this song/album. Being a new tull fan is such a journey :P
meowandmeow 5 months ago
@meowandmeow Reminds me of the War of the worlds album.Quality music though really like it.
legandrydirk 3 months ago
The lyric should be, "should I laugh or should I fight..."
joemac356 5 months ago
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joemac356 5 months ago
old classic only few remember
philtero1 6 months ago
Excuse my typing please "BENEFIT"
Incomplete6230 6 months ago
I have no doubt! BENIFIT is perfection with every track simply stunning!!! Yes Ian Is a Genius!
Incomplete6230 6 months ago
He sings there´s nothing to say, but the instruments, especially Martin Barre´s guitars, they are talking! They say it all.
Trendmunger 7 months ago
..... Tull was so ultra hip back in the days of Anderson's plaid tuxedo cut away coat (circa 1971).... my buddy and I went to see them at Boston Garden and my old man way a Boston PD Sgt in charge of the 'detail' so we were right in front... magnificant... Thank you fr the post
time2act1001 7 months ago
Martin Barre here shows incredible guitar work here, principaly the pefect overlay of acoustic and electric tracks.
timewind76 7 months ago
I experieced Tull recently in Belfast and they were staggeringly good. Belfast audiences can be a little reserved in their compliments, but the band were given a standing ovation:- praise indeed!
anassinim 7 months ago
Surprisingly, DRAGBIKE.COM , a motorcycle racing website , has a music video of the day (actually about 12 per day) function...and TULL gets TONS of play.
Good taste from the bikers.
like me.
Tom Loughlin Jr.
telsport 8 months ago
been a fan of this group and their songs for 42 years ........they hold special 'lessons' for me and as well....for all who care to "understand".............
mawheegan 8 months ago 3
Every morning pressure forming, all around eyes.....
RojotheRed 9 months ago
brilliant song, timeless
Gyurci77 9 months ago
brilliant song
Gyurci77 9 months ago
This is my favorite Jethro Tull song. Brings back memories from days gone by. Jamming, blasting the music so loud.
ssstumpf 10 months ago
Beautiful!
Luarrangel 10 months ago
Glen Cornick on bass. This band had it all. I was fortunate enough to see them on the Aqualung tour. AND...Then on Thick as a Brick tour with the GIANT beach ball Ian pushed into the croud. It travelled the whole auditorium during the show. I never got to touch it. Party on my brother.
MrTiptoes1 1 year ago
Put it loooooooooud!
A river of sound!
CassianoPampulha 1 year ago
Jay Wecks favorite almbum
MrJasonc173 1 year ago
Fine song
ctjbush 1 year ago
Interesting to listen to Randy California's band Spirit in the same light as this.......
TheNigelr 1 year ago
Absolutely brilliant stuff!!! Can't really find the words to describe how much I love this song, definitely this is one of Tull's best........
jeffthrow6892 1 year ago 3
To me this was the best album ever recorded by Tull. The words meant a lot to a young kid who was on the other side of the world. Now I'm 61 with a son on the other side of the world and the words have more meaning then ever.
jpftwo 1 year ago 8
pity theres no vidoe with the music
MrBuckdooable 1 year ago
As always 'Tull', with it's one of a kind, abstract storytelling opens ones mind to the "Possibilities".
weewilly49 1 year ago
this was the last tull albun i disovered around oct.2001,and i couldnt help but feel alot of these lyrics,although written in the 1970s seemed to reflect 9/11,"ceilings crash the walls collapse"and he even says climb a tower of freedom,theres no way it was intentional but it was spooky
ghostwhiskey 1 year ago
this was there dirty raw album! it is good stuff. Songs from the Wood, trumps my friend!
gunshy9 1 year ago
awesome post ty
bloozemc 1 year ago
Fantastic. Benefit was my first ever Tull album, bought off a cheap record stand in a corner shop in the early 70's, and I've never looked back. One of the best things I ever bought, and this track is excellent. Mind you, most Tull stuff is excellent too. They're in a league of their own.
mussie302 1 year ago 2
Ironically, Anderson's lyrics show that he did have something to say, unlike most pop feel-good Pablum.
"It's not my power to criticize
or to ask you to be blind
to your own pressing problem
and the hate you must unwind.
So ask of me no answer;
there is none that I could give
you wouldn't find.
doubleprimality 1 year ago 6
one of the best songs ever done.
the counterpoint is great.
fluffythecat2 1 year ago
This album,Benefit,just before Aqualung is where Tull started to create their unique style in the craft of rock music. Most people think it was Aqualung-album #4, but it was Benefit,their 3rd album.
tjrxk7 1 year ago
Could this be maybe the best Tull song ever? It never got the play time of Aqualung or Teacher but this is one of the bands greatest recordings.
thunderchief1994 1 year ago 2
yes a deep, powerful, beautiful song . sounds even better decades later without the drugs (^8
sheltech12 1 year ago
Hats off to Nusremmus or is it Summer Sun? May the sun always follow!
RICK8044 1 year ago
LIstened to this album in 1970 until I wore out! But the music never did.
RICK8044 1 year ago 4
Yeah, still one of the BEST albums EVER!!
Nusremmus 1 year ago 5
after all these years and so much music, this still haunts me - since age 10
forestghost7 1 year ago 3
after all these years and so much music this still haunts me - since age 10
forestghost7 1 year ago 2
this is simply amazing
ian anderson is one of the most musical human beings of all time
pestopalooza 1 year ago 5
I think this was from the album "Stand Up"
busterbone 2 years ago
It's from the Benefit(1970) album
joshsoffer 1 year ago 3
Amen
Nusremmus 1 year ago
@joshsoffer
I'm getting old, I thought it was from Stand-Up but I will take your word on it. Guess it's been a long-long time since I played an LP.
thunderchief1994 1 year ago
great guitar at the end of the song
mikeciancio1 2 years ago 3
best tull album!
mtnmusix 2 years ago
I was around in this music area and it still rocks in the year2010
machine6100 2 years ago 3
it's a great song a little bit sad ,just a master piece
sucky70 2 years ago
poxa sera q naum existe um brazuka fa de jethro tull
felipetyler02 2 years ago
First time I heard this album, Benefit, is when it was first released, ... at a party, high on acid. Changed my life forever.
TrailerNo9 2 years ago
i got a lil something to say, mr anderson: love this song, the lyrics, the album, ev'rything about it!
glauberovsky 2 years ago 4
ian must really liked martin, he is pretty much ians right hand man
motherbrain86 2 years ago
First song I ever listened to by Jethro Tull. I was hooked. Oddly enough Anderson doesn't play his flute on this one
westpalmscott 2 years ago
Hey, I just bought this album on CD on Amazon last night--so I'm waiting on that. I got this one, Stand Up, and Minstrel in the Gallery, and I already have This Was--so I'll be having some good tunes coming soon. I used to have all of them up to Under Wraps (except for Heavy Horses I couldn't find) on vinyl.
But yeah, I see you're also a big Tull fan--good times!
TheAgentChaos 2 years ago
not even a chance to find something similar to this nowdays, fucking music corporations
YouWontChangeMe 2 years ago 5
TULL ROCKS !
rufflesworld 2 years ago
bellissima
10ilgenioadp 2 years ago
We are on about the same brilliance of "Tull" huh? Crikey, Two of us forfeited our virginity to this music (which was effected legally & passionately) and well- crap ! Enough said yea?!
Buggerlugz000 2 years ago
Wow! Everybody as a lot to say, on the Tull video "Nothing to Say"
jpfiloramo 2 years ago 2
Interesting comments on which were the best Tull albums. In the end it always comes down to a matter of personal taste. In my opinion Stand Up is a monumental album where the range of music is eclectic to say the least. One minute you are relaxing to Bouree and then Fat Man nails you, holy shit ! where did that come from? The sheer diversity of Tull is singular. Genius is a word that is overused but in Anderson's case it is wholly justified.
martinbarred 2 years ago 26
@martinbarred
well said...genius indeed
unsung too much as well
fluffythecat2 1 year ago
@martinbarred ...Super comments...Ride on!!!
time4action101 2 months ago
@martinbarred ....Super comments ...Ride on!!!!
time4action101 2 months ago
Does anyone else sense a feeling of medieval within their music? I have always appreciated this song a lot, and it puts me into a sort of melancholy mood.
audiophile55 2 years ago 3
i know they use a lot of minor keys - might have something to do with it
6paullll 2 years ago
Certainly a medieval touch in the music. Also there are a lot of celtic musical influences in Tull's music. You can hear them clearly in Ian's acoustic songs. Think 'Wond'ring Aloud', 'Cold Wind to Valhalla.'
cree8vision 2 years ago
Thanks, I really appreciate your comment, cree8vision. Now that you have mentioned, I can hear the Celtic musical influences in their music.
I get this sort of melancholy feeling about me, when listening to this album, and the album "Living in the Past".
audiophile55 2 years ago
One of the best lyrics ever in rock music.
It has to do with modern social problems too...
cas3003 2 years ago
I''m tired of reading that Jethro Tull had too many personnel changes to remain a great band. Ian Anderson and Martin Barre (Vocals and Guitar, respectively, and the only songwriters) were together from the beginning. Replacing drummers, bassists and keyboardists who don't even write songs doesn't change the core of a band. Black Sabbath, that's a band with true personnel changes. Losing Ozzy, then Bill Ward, then everybody until it's Black Sabbath with special guest Tony Iommi.
justintuckyourself 2 years ago
Doesn't matter who the band is or what lineup changes they've gone through.After a certain number of years the magic is just...gone, (I just watched the Jethro Tull special on PBS).
toecutterr6 2 years ago
Sorry Martin wasnt there from the begining..He still is great though....Try wikepaedia
TheKyleza 2 years ago
When a band releases albums from 1968 on, and the guy joins the band later in 1968 and stays on forever, I think it's fair to say he's there from the beginning. But, since we must argue semantics, here: "Ian and Martin have been together since Martin joined shortly after the release of Tull's first album." And, dude, don't be a sassy little bitch and say something like "... try wikipedia" and then spell it wrong. Come on now.
justintuckyourself 2 years ago
Wow eegoe, alive and well.
Don,t stress school will soon be over.
TheKyleza 2 years ago
Benefit and Stand Up albums = The Best of Jethro Tull while in their prime.
glaetze 2 years ago 4
Benefit and Stand Up are both great albums, but if you're saying Tull peaked BEFORE Aqualung and Thick as a Brick, you're fucking nuts, dude.
justintuckyourself 2 years ago
Wouldn't agree on this, benefit and Stand up are unique in style. So some favors them. Tull's famous for it's different styles in music. One couldn't compare benefit for example with the later album broadsword and the beast. Both Tull non the less. The early albums of Tull just has lot more roots into blues and jazz then the later Albums had.
catssweet 2 years ago
I have both of those albums, Aqualung and Thick as a Brick. Both of them are great also. However, I personally got sick and tired of the commercialization of those two masterpieces. I guess I have less "burn-out" from Benefit and Thick as a Brick.
Peace.
glaetze 2 years ago
One of the best songs to come from the Benefit album. It really would have been a gr8 time to alive as far as the music was cornced. I wish I was born then. Good times.
paulwall1981 2 years ago
this song make me feel something new about me
apabosch 2 years ago
Thanks.... Just Great..... and much appreciation.
TULLYNOL 3 years ago 2
I love singers that can speak/sing English
so well. thanks for the upload!
time2act1 3 years ago 2
It is "singers WHO can speak English so well" . :)
cytuber 2 years ago
Benefit best tull LP! This is the song I took my handel name from..obviously. P/H'09
notntusay 3 years ago 3
Great song from a legendary band!Aside from mega-corp radio stations over playing "Aqualung", little else is heard from these guys nowadays..., I've seen them live(1973), and I thought they put on a good performance in playing old & newer material.
But,Alas! They have had to endure the curse of many a rock band,too many personnel changes!
bossanova3255 3 years ago
Benefit is one of my favourite albums of all time :)
lyssus 3 years ago 5
This song doesn't need any video. This is the kind of track you listen to with the phones on and your eyes closed so you can see every note!
stuckindetroilet 3 years ago 8
this song deserves more views....
in my opinion from the best album jethro tull ever made! and sure one of theire greatest songs
sjirk 3 years ago 25
yes yes
boundless1986 3 years ago 2
@sjirk Benefit, what a great name for an album, as we all benefited from hearing these great tunes, my faves are this one, To Cry you a Song, Sossity, and With You there to Help Me
BLUESMANRONCHICAGO 9 months ago 2
Maybe, but in some ways Tull live is disappointing. I think Benefit is best as it is. Beautiful. Sound only.
JozzaOzo 3 years ago
What a pity no footage of the band on this song.
carrietide 3 years ago