1973 JETHRO TULL "A PASSION PLAY" (CHRYSALIS 1040) RARE TEST PRESSED @ CBS CA
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1973 JETHRO TULL "A PASSION PLAY" (CHRYSALIS 1040) RARE TEST PRESSED @ CBS CA
YOU ARE BIDDING ON A RARE TEST PRESSING OF JETHRO TULL'S "A PASSION PLAY" (CHRYSALIS 1040). THIS PRESSING WAS DONE AT THE CBS PLANT IN SANTA MARIA, CA- CONSIDERED ONE OF THE FINEST LABEL PRESSING PLANTS IN THE US IN THE 1970S. IT WAS CLOSED IN 1981 AND WORK MOVED TO INDIANA.
TEST PRESSINGS ARE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO FIND ESPECIALLY ON ALNBUMS DONE ALMOST 40 YRS AGO. THIS ALBUM WAS THE 5TH BY THE ENGLISH MINSTREL, ROCK, FOLK BAND TULL. BELOW IS A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE ALBUM AND THE SELECTIONS ON IT.
Jethro Tull's second album-length composition, A Passion Play is very different from -- and not quite as successful as -- Thick as a Brick. Ian Anderson utilizes reams of biblical (and biblical-sounding) references, interwoven with modern language, as a sort of a rock equivalent to T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland. As with most progressive rock, the words seem important and profound, but their meaning is anyone's guess ("The ice-cream lady wet her drawers, to see you in the Passion Play..."), with Anderson as a dour but engaging singer/sage (who, at least at one point, seems to take on the role of a fallen angel). It helps to be aware of the framing story, about a newly deceased man called to review his life at the portals of heaven, who realizes that life on Earth is preferable to eternity in paradise. But the music puts it over successfully, a dazzling mix of old English folk and classical material, reshaped in electric rock terms. The band is at its peak form, sustaining the tension and anticipation of this album-length piece across 45 minutes.
Tracks
Title Composer Time 1 Life Beats 1:14 2 Prelude 2:14 3 The Silver Cord 4:29 4 Re-Assuring Tune 1:11 5 Memory Bank 4:20 6 Best Friends 1:58 7 Critique Oblique Anderson 4:38 8 Forest Dance, No. 1 1:35 9 The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles Anderson, Evans, Hammond 4:18 10 Forest Dance, No. 2 4:18 11 The Foot of Our Stairs 4:18 12 Overseer Overture 4:00 13 Flight from Lucifer 3:58 14 10.08 to Paddington 1:04 15 Magus Perdé 3:55 16 Epilogue 0:43
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