Jethro Tull- Back to the Family

[don62snodgrass]

@gumbyonacid you're right! its the same with the pro football hof!

[don62snodgrass]

Why isnt this legendary band in the Rock and Roll HOF? Madonnais in there but Jethro Tull isn't? Donna Summer was a finalist, but Jethro Tull wasn't? What a joke! It's a pity that Jethro Tull, Blue Oyster Cult, Rush, Mountainetc...havent even been nominated!

[gumbyonacid]

@don62snodgrass the hall of fame is a joke anyway.......some turds who don't know music but have positions of power get to vote....yahoo.....who gives a crap - crank it up take a trip- what else matters? peace

[RuudJH]

This band is great. Thumbs up for an Anderson, as well as the whole band.. How could this era be represented better than this?

[tulllguy]

this shit's better than Abbey Road

[ferarthi]

Only one person has heard! <----

[cillajeanluvmayn]

Pam101dalmations, your comment was great...you win in my opinion the best comment on a jethro tull song! ;-)

[MrFifaMontage]

god i forgot how amazing this band is...Ian is a beast...

[TheIrishlad12]

amazing album....owned it from day one

[njmus]

this is just a great song

[henrykootch]

...jethro tull are really great!!!the first 5 albums are the best things came out of themselves...all with clive bunker...great drummer!!!

[Jugglerclown]

song that describes family perfectly.. I love this song!

[169nht]

Great record..not a bad track on it

[iqopi]

was 7y old when this album came out. travelled w/me for over 40y and like it even better (if possible)

[10squonk]

YEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!!!



[21263george]

god bless you IAN ANDERSON........

[MrSevillian]

Absolutely fabulous LP

[ChineseOpera8]

huh',...my puny little rock band was playing ''Dirty Water'' & "Just Like Me" in 69,..while TULL was writing/playing these Monster Masterpieces!!!

[william3231954]

I'll always remember Tull because I was busted for smoking some hash while at one of their concerts in 1973

[MrThorndawg]

I think that tull is one of the best bands ever !!!

[badumpy]

Give me Songs from the wood..Thick as a brick..Heavy Horses...just my humble opinion

[tcoudi]

@badumpy

just a matter of taste,this is fantastic bluesrock and Stand up still one of their best works.

[johntellmewhy]

fantastic song

[DoctorWho1983]

Everyone is like "Oh stand up's the best" or " No benefit is!" or "Aqualung!" etc, etc. All tull, at least up until Crest (with the exception of the goofy underwraps) is AWESOME, no album is superior or inferior.......'nuff said

[LegZoff]

My favorite Tull song...it's hard to beat "Stand Up" and "Benefit."

[jbharuch]

Gotta laugh. Just turned fifty the other day. Ian Anderson is almost an organ: kidney, lungs.... Thanks Uncle. I've had tha much laughter, that much fun : )

[add2718]

Everything that was great about the early (69-71) Tull period is right here... killer flute, hard drums, Martin's scorching guitar, and that "hard" sound that they lost after Aqualung but briefly regained for their masterpiece (in my opinion), Minstrel in 1975. Superb song.

[archangelo10]

I always liked the pop up thing when you opened the album (vinyl).

[Aeerobic]

Brilliant is right!!!!

[alislandgirl]

Benifet...Stand Up...the BEST!!!

[lux4us]

No question about it - Ian's flute is hard metal

[rekatsrovert]

Only recently did I realize how much this song applies to my own life. Brilliant!

[thefoppa1000]

good bass ending the song

[wolfgar50]

rally round the family..haha...

[PED51]

What a wonderful track this is..............

[Aeerobic]

Loving the memories of "the good times"

[BungalowBilly1]

they went downhill after this album what ever happend 2 them///////// only kidding

[Querencias]

G R E A T Tull tune! Vocals, bass, drums, flute, guitar, Fine musicians indeed. Thanks Aq89.

[ror312gallery19]

stand up and sing,,,!!

[kevingambrell]

Its odd how some bands follow you through life. Back to the family and Whistler have to rate as teh greatest tracks ever written.

[15wingate]

brings me back to a great and wonderful time of huge social change , the growing horrible viet-nam war, the move to stop the government from continuing the lie it forced upon the world , women demanding there equality , glad I was there to witness it !

[wolfgar50]

thier later stuff had great commercial success but thier first two albums are pure gold..

[thefoppa1000]

great bass

[i8mybrain]

The Stand Up albumn is simply uniquely GREAT.

[ianonfire]

I just recently found my old pressing of this lp in my basement. I was almost in tears.

[mudoreality]

i lost the lp during a shitty party years ago.. lucky b*stard who has it now....

[messenja9]

1st album I heard on the 1st day I ever got stoned (ate a GIANT brownie) when it came out. Walked into the sound room at the S.D.S.U. student center. I said, "Hey, is THAT Jethro Tull?"; and a guy who looked like one of the guys (Anderson) on the cover said, "Yeah, man!" & started laughing like an elf who'd just crawled out from under a forest mushroom! 40+ years later; their music still takes me to "that place in the woods." & often brought me to tears. Especially, "For a thousand mothers".

[DrWeirdPro]

What was cool about the Stand Up album was that when you opened it up, there was a cut out of the four members with the same illustrated bodies with their real faces on top.....which stood up at you.

Album art was one of the special things about vinyl.

[maida1982a]

Martin made 'em not miss Mick at all---

[DennisCarney]

I find it hard to believe that I have been a fan for over 40 years since seeing them live for the first time at one of their first US gigs the Newport Jazz Festival at Rutgers University.....Even thru the Rubbing Elbows solo tours Ian has had me hooked....My wife also became a big fan once I introduced her to this album,Benefit and the most overlooked This Was....

[pam101dalmatians]

has taken me more than 1/2 my life to understand these songs are spiritual and better than most christian obvious stuff

[yubsugable]

The early stuff, top album, "don't make 'em like that any more cap'n mannering!"

[jy31bernier]

Perfect

[vaneglorius]

thier early music was thier best stuff i believe...!

[zunk11]

Benefit, Stand Up, and This Was.. are my fravorite Tull albums, when they still had the bluesy roots and beat. After about Thick As A Brick, Ian's fragile voice got to thin and whiny, and the songs lost the blues-rock timber.

[Querencias]

SW, the content in that little bag of Ian's is probably guitar strings and picks, as well as some maintenance items for his flute. // This is a fine song from a great album. Terrific Tull classic.  Thanks as always A89.

[storewisher]

Their out in the woods, Whats in that little bag of Ian's?

[Zepplica911]

I mean just trying to copy San Francisco's style in every culture possible and they forgot that backgrounds differ and what counts is the essence of a human ...

[Zepplica911]

Call me a pirate , call me a thief , it isn't the way I was raised to steal , YET I'm from Saudi Arabia and never been to Europe or North America where stores at the corners scream Rock N Roll , hence I downloaded such greatness from illegal sites ..... long live Folkish , Progressive twists .........

[stonerbudkap]

I'm just curious but would the Saudi religious police give you a hard time for listening to rock?

[Zepplica911]

My friend ... when I said : "no Rock N Roll in Saudi Arabia" , I meant that nowadays idiotic youth culture is obsessed with Hip Hop and Rap music and culture even in Saudi Arabia where they have their "fast n furious" sets , yet Jethro Tull is an obscure aspect of life to them and the stores . For the religious police !!! , I say : you're informed wrongfully . These religious people are the awake at night for our safety in Saudi Arabia , yet Arabian Western Capitalism-driven people are just !!

[stonerbudkap]

Jethro Tull is even more obscure with youth in the US.

[crollo22]

this is my fave Record. I really like this line up. Glenn Cornick!

[andreapassarello]

I'm 46, and I'm your italian fan!! You really was great on bass guitar! Great GLENN Great

[chrism823]

I'm saying at the end . . . it's like they can't help it.

[noktvrnaspiritvs]

My favorite Tull album...

[maida1982a]

ian was 22 at this time and he saw things so clearly and intelligently and was able to write them lyrically, sing them expressively with emotive music. ok, genius.

[chrism823]

At this point, genius just pours out of Jethro Tull. No vessel to hold it, it just spills out, on into the Benefit album.

[JimmyBoneJakon]

Yes, chrism83

I think he was really glad to be away from Mick Abrahams blues influence. Just think of the album before Stand Up "This Was", the last one with Mick. The name says it all.

[billyboy57]

If you don't have Stand Up, get it now....brilliant album.

[baddad59]

@billyboy57 ..The best Tull ever in my opinion !

[crackenup55]

@billyboy57 bought it 42 years ago.lol

[1234567890101]

neck pickup, fuzz pedal

[cycleflight]

LoFi Filter on the dirty channel of an old Fender will get you close, though I can't remember what Barre used back then.

[Skantaq]

Dueling it with the flute just puts it on another level.

[alcina5]

this is my fav song from my fav Tull album.

[storewisher]

Good choice, but New Day Yesterday may be better!!

[alcina5]

hello there

yes,it may,but then again, it`s a luxury problem, wouldn`t you agree?

i have worn out 3 copies since the late 60`s of this album,

Currently i enjoy the EMI 100 yrs 180gr,issue.

Awsome sound

[storewisher]

I don't see any luxurious problem's? or any unluxurious problem's. But I agree both of those song's are good!!

[storewisher]

yoe!

[Lafleursacree]

Amazing. Ian Anderson's lyrics are always so poetic, even when talking about the simplest things. Tull forever <3

[zoos108]

yes, one of my fav bands of all time too/in a class all their own. cogent, intelligent lyrics, great music, great musicians. Killer!

[BradBaldwintheDrumm]

Benefit is my fav but this is so good.

I saw Tull in 70 right after Benefit they played both albums and then some , Tampa Curtis Hixon Hall, also saw them in St Pete Bay Front Center for Aqualung,Thick as a Brick and was there for Passion Play but had to sell tickets to pick up my Mom at the airport. Then saw them in Montague Mt resort Pa around Crest of the Knave? One of my fav bands of all time! Hope to see you again Ian and all!

[DBD2754]

A telephone awakes me in the morning, got to get up to answer the call, so I think I'll go back to the family where no one can ring me at all. Living this life has its problems, so I think I will give it a break. Oh I'm going back to the family, I've had about all I can take. I think I enjoyed all my problems, where I did not get nothing for free, well im going back to the family, knowing nothing is bothering me. Got a train back to the city, and that got me down, so I hide in that empty town..

[sudhavishwanath]

isn't it "that soft life was getting me down, get some action when I pull into town"...

[maida1982a]

Their best album, I think, followed closely by Benefit.

[flipside1545]

@maida1982yes!!!

[neohip]

@maida 1982a

Agreed i've noticed over the years that the "professional critics",always slow to catch up,are now saying what I knew over 30 years ago.

Stand up,and Benefit are true classics,that still deserve to be heard 40 years later.

[Thadmotor1044]

@maida1982a the 1st 5 tull lp s rival any group in rock in roll history , they belong in the rock in roll hall of fame ?!! great song from a perfect album wher everysong is great ,

[JethroTull4you]

Can you send me this song? Didn´t know it till I saw it here. You can go through my vids, too. Maybe you see another song I can give you in exchange. What about uploading Black Sunday?