Jethro Tull

Jethro Tull - Live At Madison Square Garden 1978 (2009) [CD+DVD] {Chrysalis}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 529 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 188 Mb
DVD9 -> 4.43 Gb | All Regions | NTSC 4:3 | Dolby AC3, 6 ch / DTS, 6 ch / LPCM, 2 ch | ~ 94m | ISO Image
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 265 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2009 Chrysalis / EMI | 50999 9 67920 2 5
Rock / Prog Rock / Art Rock

Sporting the cover of the CD/DVD set is a very strange looking Ian Anderson with a typically normally looking Martin Barre. Anderson looks like he is getting ready to do something perverted with his flute again. Glad to know 31 years on nothing much has changed in that respect. Live At Madison Square Garden (CD/DVD) is one of several live Jethro Tull DVD's that have become available over the last few years. I am glad that I didn't miss this one because it's a real gem. It contains a 93 minute concert recording in 5.1 DTS (96/24) surround sound (+Dolby Digital 5.1 & LPCM 2.0) and within all of that is 50 minutes of video footage from the groundbreaking (an often over used term in music but in this case true) of an international broadcast via satellite on October 9, 1978. The CD is a 78 minute edited stereo version of the concert. The only difference in tracks between the two is the "Bagpipe Intro" on the DVD and obviously the visual impact of a live Jethro Tull performance that is so strikingly brought to life again.

This DVD/CD package is an absolute must have for any Jethro Tull fan; finally a concert DVD from the classic 1970s period and the closest thing possible to having a video version of Tull's live album `Bursting Out.'

Heavy Horses is the eleventh studio album by Jethro Tull, released on 10 April 1978. It is considered the second album in a trilogy of folk-rock albums by Jethro Tull, although folk music's influence is evident on a great number of Jethro Tull releases. The album abandons much of the folk lyrical content typical of the previous studio album, Songs from the Wood, in exchange for a more realist perspective on the changing world. Likewise, the band sound is harder and tighter. The album reached #19 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Jethro Tull - Aqualung (1971) {2016 2CD+2DVD Set 40th Anniversary Adapted Edition Chrysalis Records}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (image)+CUE+LOG -> 516 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 227 Mb
2xDVD9 -> 6.96 Gb | All Regions | NTSC 16:9 | LPCM, 2 ch, 24/96 / DTS, 6 ch / Dolby AC3, 6 ch | ISO Images
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (png) -> 620 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1971, 2016 Chrysalis Records / Warner | 0825646487080
Rock / Prog Rock / Art Rock

In 2011, Jethro Tull’s iconic album Aqualung was released in celebration of its 40th anniversary. If you didn’t pick it up then, you’re in luck, because if you’ve checked your calendar, you know that it’s been five years, so it’s time for us to release a 45th Anniversary Edition!

As with all of the releases in the Extended Versions series, the 2006 Jethro Tull edition is a set of latter-day live renditions of some of the group's best-known classics – which have all been previously released. And as with most Tull releases after, say, 1980, the performances and production here are exceedingly clean-sounding – in other words, the bite of their classic early-'70s period is nowhere to be found. What you get instead are pretty blah versions of such classics as "Aqualung," "Locomotive Breath," and "Living in the Past." But it's always a gas to hear such lesser-known Tull tunes as "Fat Man" and "Nothing Is Easy," both of which are included here, while a truncated version of "Thick as a Brick" (which still clocks in at over nine minutes) is a rare point where the group truly sounds inspired.