Jethro Tull - Passion Play

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Jul 2, 2018 Sold Date

Jul 4, 2017 Start Date

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Artikel Name: Passion Play
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Produkt Typ: LP (Vinyl) Label: Parlophone Label Group (PLG) Titelanzahl: 15

Trackliste LP - 1

1. Jethro Tull - Lifebeats/Prelude 2. Jethro Tull - Silver Cord 3. Jethro Tull - Re-Assuring Tune 4. Jethro Tull - Memory Bank 5. Jethro Tull - Best Friends 6. Jethro Tull - Critique Oblique 7. Jethro Tull - Forest Dance #1 8. Jethro Tull - Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles 9. Jethro Tull - Forest Dance #2 10. Jethro Tull - The Foot of Our Stairs [Extended Version] 11. Jethro Tull - Overseer Overture 12. Jethro Tull - Flight from Lucifer 13. Jethro Tull - 10.08 to Paddington 14. Jethro Tull - Magus Perde 15. Jethro Tull - Epilogue

Beschreibung

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, although the music runs out of inspiration about five minutes before it actually ends. [The Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson remixed the LP in 2014.] ~ Bruce Eder

Bruce Eder