Jethro Tull - A passion Play

NEW VINYL LP ON WB 2014

2 X 180 GRAM VINYL.

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.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethro_Tull_%28band%29

Tracklist

A Passion Play (A New Steven Wilson Stereo Mix)
    Act I Ronnie Pilgrim's Funeral: A Winter's Morning In The Cemetery
A1     Lifebeats/Prelude     
A2     The Silver Cord     
A3     Re-Assuring Tune     
    Act II The Memory Bank: A Small But Comfortable Theatre With A Cinema Screen - The Next Morning
A4     Memory Bank     
A5     Best Friends     
A6     Critique Oblique     
A7     Forest Dance #1     
B1     The Story Of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles     
    Act III The Business Office Of G. Oddie And Son - Two Days Later
B2     Forest Dance #2     
B3     The Foot Of Our Stairs     
B4     Overseer Overture     
    Act IV Magus Perdé's Drawing Room At Midnight
B5     Flight From Lucifer     
B6     10:08 To Paddington     
B7     Magus Perdé     
B8     Epilogue