Jethro Tull - Aqualung [40th Anniversary Adapted Edition Steven Wilson] (2016) FLAC Beolab1700

Jethro Tull - Aqualung [40th Anniversary Adapted Edition Steven Wilson] (2016) FLAC Beolab1700

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Jethro Tull - Aqualung [40th Anniversary Adapted Edition: Remixed and Mastered By Steven Wilson]
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Artist...............: Jethro Tull
Album................: Aqualung [40th Anniversary Adapted Edition: Remixed and Mastered By Steven Wilson]
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2016
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.3.0 20130526
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 51 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........:


Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 01/07/2016
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Tracklisting
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CD1: Aqualung (A Steven Wilson Stereo Remix)
01. Aqualung 06:37
02. Cross-Eyed Mary 04:11
03. Cheap Day Return 01:23
04. Mother Goose 03:52
05. Wond’ring Aloud 01:55
06. Up to Me 03:16
07. My God 07:12
08. Hymn 43 03:18
09. Slipstream 01:13
10. Locomotive Breath 04;42
11. Wind-Up 06:00

CD2: Associated 1970 & 1971 Recordings:
01. Lick Your Fingers Clean 02:49
02. Just Trying to Be 01:37
03. My God (Early Version) 09:42
04. Wond’ring Aloud (13th December 1970) 01:51
05. Wind-Up (Early Version) 05:21
06. Slipstream (Take 2) 00:54
07. Up the ‘Pool (Early Version) 01:12
08. Wond’ring Aloud, Again 07:07
09. Life Is a Long Song (New Mix) 03:19
10. Up the ‘Pool (New Mix) 03:12
Life Is a Long Song (Original EP Flat Transfer):
11. Life Is a Long Song 03:20
12. Up the ‘Pool 03:13
13. Dr Bogenbroom 03:01
14. From Later 02:09
15. Nursie 01:37
16. Reprise Radio Advert 00:52

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Aqualung was the first Jethro Tull album remixed by Steven Wilson, originally released in 2011; this new reissue is promised to feature “the remixes as Steven delivered them and a flat transfer of the EP Life Is a Long Song.
CD1 contains the remixed album, which is now also mastered by Steven Wilson (the original 40th anniversary edition was given a controversial mastering that was not by Steven). CD2 features additional 1970 and 1971 recordings also remixed and mastered by SW. The “mastering” in this case consists of simple level matching, no additional EQ was applied to the mixes.
The leap from 1970’s Benefit to the following year’s Aqualung is one of the most astonishing progressions in rock history. In the space of one album, Tull went from relatively unassuming electrified folk-rock to larger-than-life conceptual rock full of sophisticated compositions and complex, intellectual, lyrical constructs.

While the leap to full-blown prog rock wouldn’t be taken until a year later on Thick as a Brick, the degree to which Tull upped the ante here is remarkable.

The lyrical concept — the hypocrisy of Christianity in England — is stronger than on most other ’70s conceptual efforts, but it’s ultimately the music that makes it worthy of praise. Tull’s winning way with a riff was never so arresting as on the chugging “Locomotive Breath,” or on the character studies “Cross Eyed Mary” and “Aqualung,” which portray believably seedy participants in Ian Anderson’s story. The fable imagery of “Mother Goose” and the vitriolic anti-authoritarian sentiments of “Wind Up” both serve notice of Anderson’s willful iconoclasm and his disillusionment with the spiritual traditions to which he was born. Varied but cohesive, Aqualung is widely regarded as Tull’s finest hour.

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