Jethro Tull - A Passion Play (1973) (MFSL) REPOST

Posted By: uff

Date: July 26, 2013

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. But the music puts it over successfully, a dazzling mix of old English folk and classical material, reshaped in electric rock terms. The band is at its peak form, sustaining the tension and anticipation of this album-length piece across 45 minutes, although the music runs out of inspiration about five minutes before it actually ends.

Tracks:
1. "A Passion Play, Part I"
-Act 1 - Ronnie Pilgrim's funeral - a winter's morning in the cemetery.
–I. "Lifebeats" (instrumental) – 1:14
–II. "Prelude" (instrumental) – 2:14
–III. "The Silver Cord" – 4:29
–IV. "Re-Assuring Tune" (instrumental) – 1:11
-Act 2 - The Memory Bank - a small but comfortable theatre with a cinema-screen (the next morning).
–V. "Memory Bank" – 4:20
–VI. "Best Friends" – 1:58
–VII. "Critique Oblique" – 4:38
–VIII. "Forest Dance #1" (instrumental) – 1:35"
2. "A Passion Play, Part II"
-Interlude - The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles.
–IX. "The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles" – 4:18 (Anderson, Hammond, Evan)
-Act 3 - The business office of G. Oddie & Son (two days later).
–X. "Forest Dance #2" (instrumental) – 1:12
–XI. "The Foot of Our Stairs" – 4:18
–XII. "Overseer Overture" – 4:00
-Act 4 - Magus Perdé's drawing room at midnight.
–XIII. "Flight from Lucifer" – 3:58
–XIV. "10:08 to Paddington" (instrumental) – 1:04
–XV. "Magus Perdé" – 3:55
–XVI. "Epilogue" – 0:43"

Personnel:
- Ian Anderson – flute, acoustic guitar, saxophones, vocals
- Martin Barre – electric guitar
- John Evan – piano, organ, synthesisers, vocals
- Jeffrey Hammond – bass guitar, narrator on "The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles"
- Barriemore Barlow – drums, percussion

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Jethro Tull / A Passion Play (MFSL)

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