M.U. – The Best of Jethro Tull

M.U. - The Best of Jethro Tull
Compilation album by Jethro Tull
Released January 9, 1976
Recorded 1969-1975
Genre Progressive rock
Length 43:17
Label Chrysalis
Jethro Tull chronology
Minstrel in the Gallery
(1975)Minstrel in the Gallery1975		 M.U. - The Best of Jethro Tull
(1976)		 Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!
(1976)Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!1976
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M.U. – The Best of Jethro Tull, released in 1976, is the first proper greatest hits album by Jethro Tull. It spans the years 1969 through 1975. The earlier Living in the Past (1972) compilation mainly dealt with non-album material, but this album only features one previously unreleased song, "Rainbow Blues".

"M.U." in the album title stood for "Musician's Union",[2] which is probably a reference to the various musicians from different line-ups of the band appearing throughout the album.

The album peaked at number 44 in the United Kingdom charts and number 13 in the United States, and went gold in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Germany and went Platinum in the US and Canada.[3]

It was later re-released as The Essential in 2003, with exactly the same song order, but a different album cover.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Teacher" (A, C, E, G, M) – 4:07
  2. "Aqualung" (C, E, H, I, J) – 6:34 (alternative mix, including the song's opening guitar riff played twice - previous US edits of the song began three seconds later, with the second playing of the riff)
  3. "Thick as a Brick Edit #1" (B, E, H, M, R) – 3:01 (The first three minutes of "Thick as a Brick, Part One")
  4. "Bungle in the Jungle" (B, E, H, M, R) – 3:34
  5. "Locomotive Breath" (C, E, H, I, J) – 4:23 (alternate mix)

Side two

  1. "Fat Man" (A, C, M) – 2:50
  2. "Living in the Past" (C, G, U) – 3:18
  3. "A Passion Play Edit #8" (B, E, H, M, R) – 3:28 ("Overseer Overture", which occurs about 11 minutes into "A Passion Play, Part Two")
  4. "Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day)" (B, E, H, M) – 4:02
  5. "Rainbow Blues" (B, E, H, M, R) – 3:37
  6. "Nothing is Easy" (A, C, G, M) – 4:23

Personnel

As mentioned and sorted on the back cover:

Production by Ian Anderson and Terry Ellis. Orchestrations arranged and conducted by David Palmer.

Art direction by OZ Studios. Designed by Eric Michelson.

References

  1. ↑ M.U. - The Best of Jethro Tull (1976) album review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, credits & releases at AllMusic.com
  2. ↑ David Rees, Minstrels in the Gallery: A History of Jethro Tull, SAF Publishing. 1998.
  3. ↑ Rees
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