Jethro Tull- Inside

[MrLennie712]

..this album was my first contact with Jethro tull..1969....the followed Aqualung..and thick as a brick...all milesones in music...still great music after all this years...lLOVE and RESPECT...

[rafterman002]

Surprised that nobody has mentioned that the song is about being in prison (although maybe only a metaphor....). When I was living in Britain, my English friends pointed it out to me. Being "on the inside" is British slang for being in jail. Seemed to be pretty well known to them that Ian had that in mind. Makes the lyrics even more interesting in my opinion, just another layer of nuance, and why Tull is still my favorite band.

[stormcats2]

this album was euphoria in 69... still does it now. woohooo

[alislandgirl]

@stormcats2 woo hoo for '69!!!

[MrMjp58]

I've just watched the 'history of' DVD. Excellent, but a bit sad to see how they splintered around this era. They had such a great mix of jazz, blues - and the rest at that time. I switched off them a bit around and after Aqualung. The new direction seemed too commercial and basic - musically.

[JimAdsit]

Always has been a pick-me-up song for me!!

[largheto]

Magic Jethro Tull Song!

[plangentmusic]

Glen Cornick!

[TheDashingRogue]

whoa man ... psychadellic

[PieInTheSkyMan]

I heard this in a noisy Student Union bar in 1970. I could tell it was Jethro Tull but could not hear any words so I could not identify the title. The tune has buzzed round my head on and off for 40 years and with the help of YouTube I was finally able to identify the song.

You could say that this tune has been the sound track of my life.

[huincas54]

....para mí "BENEFIT", junto a "AQUALUNG" y "THICK AS A...", constituye una trilogía

insuperable de este grupo, por la calidad armónica, melódica y poética, que me contagió

en la dorada década de los '70.

[antero15051984]

attendere con immutabile impazienza.lol.

[canadacactus]

Benefit is my favourite Tull album. The first one I heard and the one I like the best.

[Wankshaftsbury]

suck my balls, in an intellectual, analytical way.

This is Jethro Tull

I fuckin' love it

[jhelmsuploads]

The Bass line from Glenn is amazing!! They were never as good without him

[ralphyboy25]

@jhelmsuploads As members came and went they evolved. Personally, I don't think any one Jethro Tull album is leaps and bounds better than the rest - they are all just different flavors evolved from the same great core essence.

[polkad3v]

@ralphyboy25 good point,

though personally i feel that the core essense ie benefit/standup was better than what it evolved into later, but thats just me, you did make a good point though and im sure that most people would agree with you,

maybe im just stuck in the past ;)

[polkad3v]

@ralphyboy25 damn i missed the opportunity to say maybe im just 'living in the past' :D

[ralphyboy25]

@polkad3v touché sir, touché :-)

[Donosidad]

I agree, `Benefit` is their best album !

[taffywindsor1]

Brilliant CD.  I am blown away. This will surely be in my cedar chest....xxxooo

Taffy Windsor

Seattle, WA

[yogabbagabba1210]

That verse with line about coffee wins.

As does everything else by Jethro Tull.

[MusicIsDeadToday]

Jethro Tull has such a unique sound. The first song i've heard was Aqualung, ever since then I've listened to the oldies. Thanks dad.

[peoniesfleur]

@MusicIsDeadToday They are an amazing band.

[MusicIsDeadToday]

@peoniesfleur Damn straight.

[fmpete11]

Very deep and profound lyrics indeed. Jethro Tull was my favorite group when I was growing up. As the the years went by and the albums kept coming I just seemed to connect and relate to so much of what he wrote. I've seen them many times over the years, as recently as last year and I just always felt that Ian Anderson, indeed the whole band was so underrated. Anyway, thanks for posting this song and thanks for the memories.

[mobyboy]

very deep and profound lyrics, written ob a tour in 1970, when Andeson wanted to have a break from all the pressure , and start digging into his soul - enjoying more of his inside than the outer experiences

[WrathchildNH]

brings back fond memories.....I can even hear the song skip as the needle jumps over the seed burn in the record

[willicat441]

@WrathchildNH

Kids nowadays -[ seed burns? wtf?] Hey, I remember trying to get the scratch out of my record, put the damn thing in a microscope, take a sewing needle, switch to decaf, scrape ding out of groove. Viola

Now it just clicks instead of skips:(

[Eorelm]

I feel that this song's lyrics are in perfect harmony with my life. I'm still in the first verse but things are looking pretty well...

[CAPTMAHI]

simply the best. "that was the best cup of coffee i ever had"

[Bacmaster]

The best album ever!!!

[njmus]

love this on the inside

[PaulThe123]

GlenN Cornick is my hero.

[CassianoPampulha]

Jethro Tull...What a band!

What a Drum!

What a Flute!

What a Guitar!

What a Bass!

What a Vocal!

WTF!

[brokenheart6777]

The entire album was awesome but this song has always been one of my very favorites. The lyrics are somewhat simple but absolutely beautiful, they spoke to my heart the 1st time I heard it.

[79stephaniem]

awesome!

[dsi220]

I don't know much, but I do know this is one of the greatest albums ever made, every song is a winner

[antero15051984]

it s only the first step of the 2nd but right on schedule like I promised, uah uah.

[SH67]

The most torturing piece of Tull. Head-wise.

[hektor6766]

Been through so much a morsel is more to me. Whenever I think of Tull I think of this song.

[sundaydriverfromhell]

I was named after these guys (:

[13garo31]

@sundaydriverfromhell your name is jethro tull?

[mobyboy]

this is a wonderful deep song, speaks about the real joy from inside , and how the outer things we do not really feel our life.

"can you cook cab you saw ? well I dont want to know. that is not what you need from the inside to make the time go"

[busterbone]

this song is just like a fresh breath of air when you need it

[pennyfritz]

can you cook can you sew...this guy's a genius...what a wonderful song!

[celticmystt]

very under rated, i reckon this is up their with jethro's best, awsome dude, thanks for the upload, been searchin for this for a while

[Fletch7453]

can,y you just pictuer these guy,s sitting around some pub.i love this album!!!!took a road trip to savannah ga. we wore this out........love ...............

[rollingvee]

Thank you so much! I had completely forgotten about this song. Was the first Tull album I got into. Great energy.

[cruizahkimo]

this one and life's a long song.. just great.

[mminer58]

I have thus "album". I love this song! Can you imagine being in his entourage back in the 70's?!  Ha ha!

[waitaniwha]

best song ever

[mepaleoindian]

Inside All the places I've been make it hard to begin to enjoy life again on the inside, but I mean to. Take a walk around the block and be glad that I've got me some time to be in from the outside, and inside with you. I'm sitting on the corner feeling glad. Got no money coming in but I can't be sad. That was the best cup of coffee I ever had. And I won't worry about a thing because we've got it made, here on the inside, outside so far away. And we'll laugh and we'll sing

[stars1861]

Amazing how well this album has aged. Just as fresh now as it was 40 years ago.

[Ingramdumpkiss]

Ian Anderson disowned this song when discussing it some years later. As I recall he said he had no idea what his motivation was, what the song was about, who it was for, or where his head was when he wrote it. Now I am fat, old bald with four teenage kids But Benefit is still just about my favourite Tull album even 35 years later , because when I hear it I'm young wild and carefree again.

[sunboyfun]

@Ingramdumpkiss

I always wondered if it was about a person in jail but then again tha twould not jive with all the lyrics.

[yogananada]

@Ingramdumpkiss i heard this album in India while trekking up in the himalayan mountains, smoking dope and hippie style hair. I think this was in early 70's. Benefit is mu favorite album too. Yes, I have enjoyed Acqualung, thiick as a brick but benefit beats them all. I listen to benefit album while trekking in the rainforests of costa rica, rolling a fat one and listen to the howl of the howler monkeys.

Daljit

[Ingramdumpkiss]

@yogananada Thanks Daljit - I'll share one of those fat ones with you as the sun goes down!

[mobyboy]

another great text:

Can you cook , can you saw, well I dont want to know.

that iss not what you need from the inside to make the time go by...

[JonP1961]

This tune is special for me. as it was the first JT tune I ever recall hearing (circa '74).

"Sound like music to you?

Well, I'm thinking,

it does to me"

;)

[sphinxcol]

This is one Tull's very best songs. Amazing band.

[hansdaltrey]

I love this song...both music and lyrics are alluding to something lurking "inside" me, but I don't know exactly what. I can't get enough of it.

[jjascomb]

ALWAYS loved this song since it came out and I bought the album in vinyl - was a mere teenager then, 55 now.

[pennyfritz]

been singing this in the shower for 40 years....thinking about how happy we have been married for 30 years!

[antagonist42]

@pennyfritz Funniest and truest comment I've read on YouTube in a long, long time. Thanks for making my day!

[scragger07]

@pennyfritz Yes to you Penny!! It's actually me and my wife's 30th anniv. today and we have both been to JT concerts together on 3 occasions . Cheers

[alislandgirl]

@happy 40 years!!

[mobyboy]

wonderful song !

[jesse0192]

I think this is the theme song to my life. Thanks '89, thanks Ian!

[MrTNeumann]

Ah yes, the nectar of all Jethro Tull tracks. Hands down, my favourite song of them,ever. Thanks for uploading it, it's stupid to put A CD on just for one song :)

[MarsIllHead]

thank you. "Benefit" is without doubt JT's very best.

[JoeChrisMorris]

you forget Stand Up

[glaetze]

@MarsIllHead

Yes, indeed. I agree. And of this album, I think this one is the catchiest.

LOVE IT.

[13garo31]

@MarsIllHead stand up is just about as good

[telebob59]

Ohh!! How I've managed to live without a CD copy of 'Benefit' for so many years I don't know. Takes me right back to my longhaired adolescence! But apart from mere nostalgia, a great 'choon off a fine album. Each band member contributes greatly to the whole effort. A song with lots of texture and rhythmic 'holes' to make it even more interesting. And to think Tull got pigeonholed as a heavy metal band some years later!?! Methinks not.

[martinjp1958]

Remeber this as a much looked forward- to single. Didn't do much in the charts. Apparently, he had a a cold when he did the vocals [interview NME 71].

[Biblepipe]

Great quality, thanks for posting! This tune is so underated, yet it is one of their best IMO.