Jethro Tull has been one of the more active bands in presenting complete and definitive updates of their entire catalog. For many fans, that has been a boon in keeping a valid and refreshing audio experience (along with assorted previously unreleased stuff, era live sets, and demos, etc.) within our grasp. If you ask me, it’s necessary to many of us to maintain a symbiotic relationship between band and fan.
On May 25, Rhino and Parlophone Records will release a career-spanning collection of fifty classic Jethro Tull tracks, all personally curated by Ian Anderson. Without question, the track-list of 50 For 50 is a ‘best of’ collection but goes a huge leap beyond that. With representative songs from each album over their fifty year period, this set presents a great overview of the band, the like that can only be reproduced in equal worth by your own created playlist.
Before we go further, let me note to you that none of these tracks are newly remastered. They will present the last remastering (or best last remastering) of each song.
In addition to the 3CD, 50-song overview, there will be a single CD with a selected fifteen songs, and will be called 50th Anniversary Collection.
50 For 50 – Jethro Tull
CD1:
01 Nothing Is Easy (2001 Remastered Version)
02 Love Story (2001 Remastered Version)
03 Beggar’s Farm (2001 Remastered Version)
04 Living In The Past (2001 Remastered Version)
05 A Song For Jeffrey (2001 Remastered Version)
06 A New Day Yesterday (2001 Remastered Version)
07 The Witch’s Promise (2013 Remastered Version)
08 Mother Goose
09 With You There To Help Me (2001 Remastered Version)
10 Teacher (US Version) [2013 Remastered Version]
11 Life Is A Long Song
12 Sweet Dream (2001 Remastered Version)
13 Aqualung
14 Minstrel In The Gallery (2001 Remastered Version)
15 Critique Oblique (Stereo Mix)
16 Weathercock (2003 Remastered Version)
17 Cross Eyed Mary
CD2:
01 Bouree (2001 Remastered Version)
02 Dun Ringill (2004 Remastered Version)
03 Heavy Horses (2003 Remastered Version)
04 Hunting Girl (2003 Remastered Version)
05 Bungle In The Jungle (2002 Remastered Version)
06 Salamander (2002 Remastered Version)
07 Pussy Willow (2005 Remastered Version)
08 Too Old To Rock ‘N’ Roll (2002 Remastered Version)
09 Songs From The Wood (2003 Remastered Version)
10 The Whistler (2003 Remastered Version)
11 Really Don’t Mind/See There a Son Is Born
12 Moths (2003 Remastered Version)
13 One White Duck/010 = Nothing At All (2002 Remastered Version)
14 Cup Of Wonder (2003 Remastered Version)
15 Ring Out Solstice Bells
16 Skating Away (On The Thin Ice Of The New Day) (2002 Remastered Version)
17 A Christmas Song
CD3:
01 One Brown Mouse (2003 Remastered Version)
02 Rare And Precious Chain (2006 Remastered Version)
03 Kissing Willie (2006 Remastered Version)
04 Rocks On The Road (2006 Remastered Version)
05 Fylingdale Flyer (2004 Remastered Version)
06 Paparazzi (2005 Remastered Version)
07 North Sea Oil (2004 Remastered Version)
08 Steel Monkey (2005 Remastered Version)
09 Black Sunday (2004 Remastered Version)
10 European Legacy (2005 Remastered Version)
11 Budapest (2005 Remastered Version)
12 Broadsword (2005 Remastered Version)
13 Dot Com
14 Farm On The Freeway (2005 Remastered Version)
15 This Is Not Love (2006 Remastered Version)
16 Locomotive Breath
50th Anniversary Collection – Jethro Tull
01 Love Story (2001 Remastered Version)
02 Living In The Past (2001 Remastered Version)
03 Life Is A Long Song
04 Sweet Dream (2001 Remastered Version)
05 The Witch’s Promise (2013 Remastered Version)
06 Aqualung
07 Dun Ringill (2004 Remastered Version)
08 Cross Eyed Mary
09 Bouree (2001 Remastered Version)
10 Bungle In The Jungle (2002 Remastered Version)
11 Steel Monkey (2005 Remastered Version)
12 Too Old To Rock ‘N’ Roll (2002 Remastered Version)
13 Ring Out Solstice Bells
14 Farm On The Freeway (2005 Remastered Version)
15 Locomotive Breath