Stand Up (studio album) by Jethro Tull

From Jboy56 08/15/2022 15:39

THis album is very cool, heavy, and intricate.. Superb work from Tull

Excellent Tull album, Bouree is a personal favourite having seen Tull perform this live on two occasions. More of a folk vibe.

From IlMala 02/03/2022 13:03

Frankly one of the very very few ecceptions where i prefer the II version (with living in the past & sweet dreams), but still great stuff.

Primera obra maestra de Jethro Tull, abriendo caminos por los que transitaría en los años siguientes. Hay folk (Fat Man), fusión de jazz, rock y música clásica (el inconmensurable Bourée), hard rock, blues...

From Boltzmann 12/24/2019 17:12

With Love-ly flute-led psychedelia and Hendrixian long winding guitar solos they try to hide the fact they're just folk, and unoriginal at it. Which isn't a problem, there's in principle nothing wrong with being unoriginal. If people like it, I'm happy. But they act as if they are at the front of innovation and fool a lot of people. They constantly miss the point of everything they copy (and a lot of artists that followed their legacy).

Hendrix' guitar solos are not about the melodies, but the sound of the guitar, the actual melodies are just a vessel. The fact that they covered a Bach composition just makes the idiocy full circle. It's the common mistake of prog rockers that rock isn't sophisticated in itself but it should be judged on the same criteria as classical music before it can be called sophisticated.

And it sometimes feels like they just throw the flute in wherever to make it sound more sophisticated, not because they want to create a certain atmosphere. And the way the thing is forced into every song and always annoyingly in the foreground just screams "I like the sound of the flute", rather than "the sound of the flute really fits this song", like when you ask a painter why blue is so overly present in his paintings and he answers "I like blue" instead of "it expresses sadness" for instance.

Less blues and more rock because blues fell out of fashion. The original guitarist was thrown out and the road was completely open to the inviolable leadership of Ian Anderson.
I don't like the cover. It's ugly and does not correspond with the rock and hard rock of the music.

From Grouse 08/05/2018 12:07

I would say this album is rockier than for example Thick as a Brick. But this album is still fantastic and includes two of my favourite Tull songs, Bouree and We Used to Know.

From nitomano 12/28/2016 04:09

Favoritas: Bourée, We Used To Know, Back To The Family, Look Into The Sun

In-your-face punchy and energetic album, kinda like Zepp's first albums.
The playing is brillant as ever in JT and the songwriting too. What brings this down a bit is the poor audio quality but anyway a great album!

One of their most straightforward albums. Full of good songs, but the CD version is the one to get as it includes, living in the past, which is Jethro tull's greatest single. Good stuff.