Jethro Tull discography | |
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Studio albums | 23 |
Live albums | 9 |
Compilation albums | 15 |
Video albums | 12 |
EPs | 4 |
Singles | 33 |
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.
Title | Album details | Peak chart position | Certifications sales thresholds | |||||||
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UK [1] | AUS [2] | AUT [3] | GER [4] | NOR [5] | SWE [6] [7] | SWI [8] | US [9] | |||
This Was |
| 10 | – | – | 28 | – | – | – | 62 | |
Stand Up |
| 1 | 12 | – | 5 | 5 | 11 | – | 20 | |
Benefit |
| 3 | 12 | 30 | 5 | 2 | 11 | – | 11 |
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Aqualung |
| 4 | 3 | 60 | 5 | 3 | 7 | – | 7 | |
Thick as a Brick |
| 5 | 1 | – | 2 | 3 | 7 | 70 | 1 |
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A Passion Play |
| 16 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 11 | – | 1 | |
War Child |
| 14 | 9 | – | 24 | 8 | – | – | 2 |
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Minstrel in the Gallery |
| 20 | 20 | 7 | 14 | 13 | 50 | – | 7 | |
Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die! |
| 25 | 27 | 10 | 26 | 10 | 27 | – | 14 | |
Songs from the Wood |
| 13 | 26 | 23 | 10 | 8 | 22 | 45 | 8 | |
Heavy Horses |
| 20 | 17 | 18 | 4 | 13 | 27 | 30 | 19 | |
Stormwatch |
| 27 | 17 | – | 8 | 15 | – | 42 | 22 |
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A |
| 25 | 47 | 10 | 21 | 9 | – | – | 30 | |
The Broadsword and the Beast |
| 27 | 18 | 18 | 4 | 14 | – | 15 | 19 |
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Under Wraps |
| 18 | 45 | – | 15 | – | 43 | 9 | 76 | |
Crest of a Knave |
| 19 | 57 | 19 | 10 | – | 40 | 7 | 32 | |
Rock Island |
| 18 | – | 20 | 5 | 14 | 35 | 7 | 56 |
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Catfish Rising |
| 27 | – | 36 | 21 | 12 | 48 | 12 | 88 | |
Roots to Branches |
| 20 | – | – | 55 | 27 | 21 | 25 | 114 | |
J-Tull Dot Com |
| 44 | – | – | 15 | – | – | 50 | 161 | |
The Jethro Tull Christmas Album |
| – | – | – | 51 | – | – | – | – | |
The Zealot Gene |
| 9 | – | 5 | 4 | – | 22 [15] | 3 | – | |
RökFlöte |
| 17 | – | 4 | 4 | 36 [16] | 3 | 3 | 24 | |
"–" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. |
Title | Album details | Peak chart position | Certifications sales thresholds | |||||||
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UK [1] | AUS [2] | AUT [3] | GER [4] | NOR [5] | SWI [8] | US [9] | ||||
Live – Bursting Out |
| 17 | 20 | 16 | 16 | 20 | – | 21 | ||
Live at Hammersmith '84 |
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
A Little Light Music |
| 34 | – | – | – | – | 22 | 150 | ||
In Concert |
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
Living with the Past |
| – | – | – | 75 | – | – | – |
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Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 |
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
Aqualung Live |
| – | – | – | 78 | – | – | – | ||
Live at Montreux 2003 |
| – | – | – | 38 | – | – | – | ||
Live at Madison Square Garden 1978 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
Live at Carnegie Hall 1970 |
| – | – | – | – | – | – | - | ||
"–" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. |
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications sales thresholds | |||||||
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UK [1] | AUS [2] | GER [4] | NOR [5] | SWE [6] | SWI [8] | US [9] | ||||
Living in the Past |
| 8 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 12 | – | 3 |
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M.U. – The Best of Jethro Tull |
| 44 | 31 | – | – | – | – | 13 | ||
Repeat – The Best of Jethro Tull – Vol II |
| – | 92 | – | – | – | – | 94 | ||
Original Masters |
| 63 | 98 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
20 Years of Jethro Tull: Box Set |
| 78 | 100 | – | – | – | – | 97 | ||
20 Years of Jethro Tull: Highlights |
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
25th Anniversary Box Set |
| – | – | 81 | – | – | – | – | ||
Nightcap |
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
The Best of Jethro Tull – The Anniversary Collection (two-CD compilation) |
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
Through the Years |
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
The Very Best of Jethro Tull |
| – | – | 65 | 13 | – | 99 | – |
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The Essential Jethro Tull |
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
The Best of Acoustic Jethro Tull |
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
Jethro Tull Essential |
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
10 Great Songs | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
50 for 50 |
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
50th Anniversary Collection | 73 | – | 48 | – | – | – | – | |||
"–" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. |
Title | Details | Peak chart position | |||||||
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UK [1] | GER [4] | IRL [22] | |||||||
Life Is a Long Song |
| 11 | 41 | 14 | |||||
Ring Out, Solstice Bells |
| 28 | – | – | |||||
Home |
| – | – | – | |||||
Ring Out, Solstice Bells |
| 78 | – | – | |||||
North Sea Oil |
| – | – | – | |||||
"–" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. |
Year | Title | Peak chart position | Album | |||||||||
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UK [1] [24] | AUS | BEL (WA) [25] | CAN | GER [4] | IRL [22] | NLD [26] | US [27] | US Main [28] | ||||
1968 | "Sunshine Day" [upper-alpha 1] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | x | non-album single | |
"A Song for Jeffrey" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | x | This Was | ||
"Love Story" | 29 | 51 | – | – | – | – | – | – | x | non-album singles | ||
1969 | "Living in the Past" | 3 | – | – | – | – | 5 | – | – | x | ||
"Sweet Dream" | 7 | – | 37 | – | 14 | 11 | – | – | x | |||
"Bourée" [upper-alpha 2] | – | – | 20 | – | 37 | – | 5 | – | x | Stand Up | ||
1970 | "The Witch's Promise" | 4 | 91 | 46 | – | 28 | 6 | 23 | – | x | non-album single | |
"Inside" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | x | Benefit | ||
1971 | "Locomotive Breath" [upper-alpha 3] | – | – | – | 85 | – | – | – | 62 | x | Aqualung | |
"Hymn 43" | – | – | – | 86 | – | – | – | 91 | x | |||
"Aqualung" [upper-alpha 4] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | x | |||
1972 | "Thick as a Brick" (part I) [upper-alpha 5] | – | – | 44 | – | – | – | – | – | x | Thick as a Brick | |
"Living in the Past" (re-release) | – | 36 | 25 | 16 | – | – | – | 11 | x | Living in the Past | ||
1973 | "A Passion Play" (Edit #8) | – | – | – | – | 50 | – | – | 80 | x | A Passion Play | |
"A Passion Play" (Edit #10) [upper-alpha 6] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 105 | x | |||
1974 | "Bungle in the Jungle" | – | 32 | – | 4 | – | – | – | 12 | x | War Child | |
1975 | "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | x | ||
"Minstrel in the Gallery" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 79 | x | Minstrel in the Gallery | ||
1976 | "Too Old to Rock N' Roll, Too Young to Die!" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | x | Too Old to Rock N' Roll, Too Young to Die! | |
1977 | "The Whistler" | – | – | – | 71 | – | – | – | 59 | x | Songs from the Wood | |
"Songs from the Wood" [upper-alpha 7] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | x | |||
1978 | "Moths" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | x | Heavy Horses | |
"A Stitch in Time" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | x | non-album single | ||
"Sweet Dream" (live) [upper-alpha 8] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | x | Bursting Out | ||
1979 | "Warm Sporran" [upper-alpha 9] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | x | Stormwatch | |
"North Sea Oil" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | x | |||
"Home" [upper-alpha 10] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | x | |||
1980 | "Working John, Working Joe" / "Fylingdale Flyer" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | x | A | |
1982 | "Broadsword" [upper-alpha 11] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | The Broadsword and the Beast | |
"Fallen on Hard Times" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 108 | 20 | |||
"Beastie" / "Pussy Willow" [upper-alpha 12] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 50 | |||
1984 | "Lap of Luxury" | 70 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 30 | Under Wraps | |
1986 | "Coronach" (with David Palmer) [upper-alpha 13] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | non-album single | |
1987 | "Steel Monkey" | 84 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 | Crest of a Knave | |
"Farm on the Freeway" [US radio promo] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7 | |||
"Jump Start" [airplay] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12 | |||
"Said She Was a Dancer" | 55 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
1988 | "Part of the Machine" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 | 20 Years of Jethro Tull | |
1989 | "Kissing Willie" [US radio promo] | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | Rock Island | |
"Another Christmas Song" | 95 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
1991 | "This Is Not Love" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 14 | Catfish Rising | |
"Still Loving You Tonight" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
1992 | "Rocks on the Road" | 47 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
1993 | "Living in the Past" (live) | 32 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | A Little Light Music | |
1999 | "Bends Like a Willow" | 136 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | J-Tull Dot Com | |
"–" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country | "x" denotes that the chart did not exist at the time. |
Notes
Title | Details |
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Slipstream |
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20 Years of Jethro Tull |
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25th Anniversary Video |
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Living with the Past |
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A New Day Yesterday |
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Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 |
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Live at Montreux 2003 |
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Jethro Tull Box |
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Jack in the Green: Live in Germany 1970–1993 |
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Classic Artists: Jethro Tull – Their Fully Authorised Story |
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Live at AVO Session Basel |
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Live at Madison Square Garden 1978 |
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Around the World Live |
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Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Luton, Bedfordshire, in 1967. Initially playing blues rock and jazz fusion, the band soon incorporated elements of English folk music, hard rock and classical music, forging a signature progressive rock sound. The group’s bandleader, founder, principal composer and only constant member is Ian Anderson, a multi-instrumentalist who mainly plays flute and acoustic guitar and is also the lead vocalist. The group has featured a succession of musicians throughout the decades, including significant contributors such as guitarists Mick Abrahams and Martin Barre ; keyboardists John Evan, Dee Palmer, Peter-John Vettese and Andrew Giddings; drummers Clive Bunker, Barrie "Barriemore" Barlow and Doane Perry; and bassists Glenn Cornick, Jeffrey Hammond, John Glascock, Dave Pegg and Jonathan Noyce.
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.
Heavy Horses is the eleventh studio album by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released on 10 April 1978.
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.
J-Tull Dot Com is the 20th studio album by the British band Jethro Tull, released in 1999 on Papillon, the Chrysalis Group's late 1990s heritage record label. It was released four years after their 1995 album Roots to Branches and continues in the same vein, marrying hard rock with Eastern music influences. It is the first album to feature Jonathan Noyce on bass, who would remain with the band until 2007 in Jethro Tull's longest ever unchanged line-up. This was the last Jethro Tull album to feature all original, new material for 23 years, although the band did release a Christmas album in 2003, which contained a mixture of new material, re-recordings of Tull's own suitably themed material and arrangements of traditional Christmas music.
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.
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).
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.
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Thick as a Brick 2, abbreviated TAAB 2 and subtitled Whatever Happened to Gerald Bostock?, is the fifth studio album by Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, released in 2012 as a follow-up of Thick as a Brick, Jethro Tull's 1972 parody concept album. It entered the Billboard chart at No. 55.
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