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| Released | 1 June 2018 | |||
| Recorded | 1968–2003 | |||
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| Length | 220:15 | |||
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50 for 50 is a three-disc compilation album [1] by the English progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released in 2018. [4] Released to commemorate the band's 50th anniversary, the collection includes 50 tracks, selected by frontman Ian Anderson himself, [1] released between 1968 and 2003.
All songs written by Ian Anderson, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Place of Origin | Length |
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| 1. | "Nothing Is Easy" | Stand Up , 1969 | 4:24 | |
| 2. | "Love Story" | Non-album single, 1968 | 3:03 | |
| 3. | "Beggar's Farm" | Anderson, Mick Abrahams | This Was , 1968 | 4:17 |
| 4. | "Living in the Past" | Non-album single, 1969 | 3:22 | |
| 5. | "A Song for Jeffrey" | This Was, 1968 | 3:23 | |
| 6. | "A New Day Yesterday" | Stand Up, 1969 | 4:08 | |
| 7. | "The Witch's Promise" | Non-album single, 1970 | 3:58 | |
| 8. | "Mother Goose" | Aqualung , 1971 | 3:52 | |
| 9. | "With You There To Help Me" | Benefit , 1970 | 6:18 | |
| 10. | "Teacher" (US album version) | Benefit (US version), 1970 | 3:56 | |
| 11. | "Life Is a Long Song" | Life Is a Long Song EP, 1971 | 3:18 | |
| 12. | "Sweet Dream" | Non-album single, 1969 | 4:03 | |
| 13. | "Aqualung" | Aqualung, 1971 | 6:36 | |
| 14. | "Minstrel in the Gallery" (single edit) | Minstrel in the Gallery , 1975 | 3:51 | |
| 15. | "Critique Oblique" (Steven Wilson remix) | A Passion Play , 1973 | 4:36 | |
| 16. | "Weathercock" | Heavy Horses , 1978 | 4:02 | |
| 17. | "Cross-Eyed Mary" | Aqualung, 1971 | 4:10 | |
| Total length: | 71:17 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Place of Origin | Length |
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| 1. | "Bourée" | J. S. Bach, arr. by Anderson | Stand Up, 1969 | 3:45 |
| 2. | "Dun Ringill" | Stormwatch , 1979 | 2:41 | |
| 3. | "Heavy Horses" | Heavy Horses, 1978 | 8:54 | |
| 4. | "Hunting Girl" | Songs from the Wood , 1977 | 5:11 | |
| 5. | "Bungle in the Jungle" | War Child , 1974 | 3:36 | |
| 6. | "Salamander" | Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die! , 1976 | 2:51 | |
| 7. | "Pussy Willow" | The Broadsword and the Beast , 1982 | 3:53 | |
| 8. | "Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die" | Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!, 1976 | 5:39 | |
| 9. | "Songs from the Wood" | Songs from the Wood, 1977 | 4:53 | |
| 10. | "The Whistler" | Songs from the Wood, 1977 | 3:31 | |
| 11. | "Really Don't Mind / See There a Son Is Born" | Thick as a Brick , 1972 | 5:01 | |
| 12. | "Moths" | Heavy Horses, 1978 | 3:24 | |
| 13. | "One White Duck / 010 = Nothing at All" | Minstrel in the Gallery, 1975 | 4:36 | |
| 14. | "Cup of Wonder" | Songs from the Wood, 1977 | 4:31 | |
| 15. | "Ring Out Solstice Bells" | The Jethro Tull Christmas Album , 2003 | 4:05 | |
| 16. | "Skating Away On the Thin Ice of the New Day" | War Child, 1974 | 4:11 | |
| 17. | "A Christmas Song" | The Jethro Tull Christmas Album, 2003 | 2:49 | |
| Total length: | 73:31 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Place of Origin | Length |
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| 1. | "One Brown Mouse" | Heavy Horses, 1978 | 3:21 | |
| 2. | "Rare and Precious Chain" | Roots to Branches , 1995 | 3:35 | |
| 3. | "Kissing Willie" | Rock Island , 1989 | 3:32 | |
| 4. | "Rocks on the Road" | Catfish Rising , 1991 | 5:31 | |
| 5. | "Fylingdale Flyer" | A , 1980 | 4:33 | |
| 6. | "Paparazzi" | Anderson, Martin Barre, Peter-John Vettese | Under Wraps , 1984 | 3:47 |
| 7. | "North Sea Oil" | Stormwatch, 1979 | 3:10 | |
| 8. | "Steel Monkey" | Crest of a Knave , 1987 | 3:35 | |
| 9. | "Black Sunday" | A, 1980 | 6:35 | |
| 10. | "European Legacy" | Under Wraps, 1984 | 3:24 | |
| 11. | "Budapest" | Crest of a Knave, 1987 | 10:02 | |
| 12. | "Broadsword" | The Broadsword and The Beast, 1982 | 5:02 | |
| 13. | "Dot Com" | J-Tull Dot Com , 1999 | 4:26 | |
| 14. | "Farm on the Freeway" | Crest of a Knave, 1987 | 6:30 | |
| 15. | "This Is Not Love" | Catfish Rising, 1991 | 3:58 | |
| 16. | "Locomotive Breath" | Aqualung, 1971 | 4:26 | |
| Total length: | 75:27 | |||
| 50th Anniversary Collection | |
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| Greatest hits album by | |
| Released | 1 June 2018 |
| Recorded | 1968–2003 |
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| Length | 62:48 |
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50th Anniversary Collection is a single-disc greatest hits album by the English progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released in 2018. [5] The album is a summary of 50 for 50, containing the same cover in a different color. The tracklist was selected by Anderson himself.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Love Story" | 3:03 |
| 2. | "Living in the Past" | 3:22 |
| 3. | "Life Is a Long Song" | 3:19 |
| 4. | "Sweet Dream" | 4:03 |
| 5. | "The Witch's Promise" | 3:51 |
| 6. | "Aqualung" | 6:37 |
| 7. | "Dun Ringill" | 2:42 |
| 8. | "Cross-Eyed Mary" | 4:09 |
| 9. | "Boureé" | 3:46 |
| 10. | "Bungle in the Jungle" | 3:36 |
| 11. | "Steel Monkey" | 3:37 |
| 12. | "Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!" | 5:40 |
| 13. | "Ring Out, Solstice Bells" | 4:06 |
| 14. | "Farm on the Freeway" | 6:31 |
| 15. | "Locomotive Breath" | 4:26 |
Chart information for 50 for 50 only, not 50th Anniversary Collection:
| Chart (2018) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [6] | 73 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [7] | 153 |
| Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI) [8] | 32 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [9] | 48 |
| Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [10] | 32 |
| Italian Albums (FIMI) [11] | 80 |
| Scottish Albums (OCC) [12] | 30 |
| UK Albums (OCC) [13] | 73 |
| US Billboard Top Rock Albums [14] | 35 |
Thick as a Brick is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Jethro Tull, released on 3 March 1972. The album contains one continuous piece of music, split over two sides of an LP record, and is intended as a parody of the concept album genre. The original packaging, designed as a 12-page newspaper, claims the album to be a musical adaptation of an epic poem by fictional eight-year-old genius Gerald Bostock, though the lyrics were actually written by the band's frontman, Ian Anderson.
Aqualung is the fourth studio album by the British progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released on 19 March 1971, by Chrysalis Records. It is widely regarded as a concept album featuring a central theme of "the distinction between religion and God", though the band have said there was no intention to make a concept album, and that only a few songs have a unifying theme. Aqualung's success signalled a turning point in the career of the band, which went on to become a major radio and touring act.
Heavy Horses is the eleventh studio album by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released on 10 April 1978.
A Passion Play is the sixth studio album by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released in July 1973 in both the UK and US. Following in the same style as the band's previous album Thick as a Brick (1972), A Passion Play is a concept album comprising individual songs arranged into a single continuous piece of music. The album's concept follows the spiritual journey of a recently deceased man in the afterlife, exploring themes of morality, religion and good and evil. The album's accompanying tour was considered the high water mark of Jethro Tull's elaborate stage productions, involving a full performance of the album accompanied by physical props, sketches and projected video.
A is the 13th studio album by British rock band Jethro Tull. It was released on 29 August 1980 in the UK and 1 September of the same year in the United States.
Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die! is the ninth studio album released by British band Jethro Tull, recorded in December 1975 and released in 1976. It is the first album to include bassist John Glascock who also contributes with backing vocals. Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die! is the last Jethro Tull concept album, which follows the story of Ray Lomas, an aging rocker who finds fame with the changes of musical trends. It was Jethro Tull's only album of the 1970s not to achieve Gold certification.
This Was is the debut studio album by the British rock band Jethro Tull, released in October 1968. Recorded at a cost of £1200, it is the only Jethro Tull album with guitarist Mick Abrahams, who was a major influence for the sound and music style of the band's first songs. When the album was released the band was performing regularly at the Marquee Club in London, where other successful British groups, such as the Rolling Stones and the Who, had started their careers.
Stand Up is the second studio album by British rock band Jethro Tull, released in 1969. It was the first Jethro Tull album to feature guitarist Martin Barre, who would go on to become the band's longtime guitarist until its initial dissolution in 2012. Before recording sessions for the album began, the band's original guitarist Mick Abrahams departed the band as a result of musical differences with frontman and primary songwriter Ian Anderson; Abrahams wanted to stay with the blues rock sound of their 1968 debut, This Was, while Anderson wished to add other musical influences such as folk rock.
Minstrel in the Gallery is the eighth studio album by British rock band Jethro Tull, released in September 1975. The album sees the band going in a different direction from their previous work War Child (1974), returning to a blend of electric and acoustic songs, in a manner closer to their early 1970s albums such as Benefit (1970), Aqualung (1971) and Thick as a Brick (1972). Making use of a newly constructed mobile recording studio commissioned and constructed specifically for the band, the album was the first Jethro Tull album to be recorded outside of the UK, being recorded in tax exile in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Stormwatch is the twelfth studio album by progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released in September 1979. The album is often considered the last in a trio of folk rock albums released by the band at the end of the 1970s, alongside Songs from the Wood (1977) and Heavy Horses (1978). The album's themes deal mostly with the environment, climate and seaside living, and were heavily inspired by the Isle of Skye in Scotland, where frontman Ian Anderson had recently purchased property.
Benefit is the third studio album by the British rock band Jethro Tull, released in April 1970. It was the first Tull album to include pianist and organist John Evan – though he was not yet considered a permanent member of the group – and the last to include bass guitarist Glenn Cornick, who was fired from the band upon completion of touring for the album. It was recorded at Morgan Studios, the same studio where the band recorded its previous album Stand Up; however, they experimented with more advanced recording techniques.
Songs from the Wood is the tenth studio album by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released on 11 February 1977 by Chrysalis Records. The album is considered to be the first of three folk rock albums released by the band at the end of the 1970s: Songs from the Wood,Heavy Horses (1978) and Stormwatch (1979).
Bursting Out is a 1978 live double album by the rock band Jethro Tull. The album was recorded during the band's European Heavy Horses Tour in May/June of that year.
The Broadsword and the Beast is the 14th studio album by rock band Jethro Tull, released in April 1982 by Chrysalis Records. The album's musical style features a cross between the dominant synthesizer sound of the 1980s and the folk-influenced style that Jethro Tull used in the previous decade. As such, the band's characteristic acoustic instrumentation is augmented by electronic soundscapes. The electronic aspects of this album would be explored further by the band on their next album, Under Wraps (1984), as well as on Ian Anderson's solo album Walk into Light (1983).
Rock Island is the 17th studio album by the British rock group Jethro Tull, released in 1989. The album continued the hard rock direction the band took on the previous effort, Crest of a Knave (1987). The line-up now included Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, Dave Pegg and drummer Doane Perry in his first full recording with the band, although he had already been a member of Jethro Tull since 1984. Without a permanent keyboard player, the role was shared by Fairport Convention's Maartin Allcock and former Tull member Peter Vettese.
This is the discography of the British progressive rock band Jethro Tull who formed in Luton, Bedfordshire in 1967. Initially playing blues rock, the band's sound soon incorporated elements of British folk music and hard rock to forge a progressive rock signature. The band were led by vocalist/flautist/guitarist Ian Anderson, and have included other significant members such as guitarist Martin Barre, drummer Doane Perry, and bassist Dave Pegg.
Living in the Past is a double LP compilation album by Jethro Tull, released in 1972. It collects album tracks, outtakes and several standalone singles spanning the band's career up to that point. Also included are the 1971 "Life Is a Long Song" EP and two live recordings taken from a performance at New York City's Carnegie Hall in November 1970.
"Hymn 43" is a song by British progressive rock group Jethro Tull. It is off their Aqualung album and was released as a single by Reprise Records. The song reached No. 91 on the Billboard Hot 100.
"Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day" is a song by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull. It was released on their album War Child in 1974. Written as a comment on global cooling for the band's aborted "Chateau D'isaster" album, the song was reworked in 1974 for War Child.
The Zealot Gene is the 22nd studio album by the British rock band Jethro Tull, released on 28 January 2022 by Inside Out Music. Nearly five years in production, it is their first studio album since The Jethro Tull Christmas Album (2003), and their first of all original material since J-Tull Dot Com (1999), marking the longest gap between the band's studio albums.
