Jethro Tull recent Remasters vs Mobile Fidelity?

I agree with the "Aqualung" assessment. I have over thirty Tull LPs plus assorted CDs and I consider Aqualung to be among the poorest of their releases.

I can't speak for Ian and the boys, but if you'd been playing the same song for over thirty years now (in many cases) don't you think you'd want to do something different.

Sorry Tweekerman but I'd put "Living in the Past" in the same catagory as Aqualung; not one of their better outings. Everyone has their preferences though.

I bought a used copy of "This Was" in great shape on Ebay last year for only a few bucks. I also got an original release of "Living in the Past" with the book and everything for under twenty dollars. A lot of this stuff can still be found without too much work.

Again, happy hunting!

Hate to be a buzzkill...but incorporating flute in rock...even progressive rock...is just plain wrong...remastered or not...JT will always give me a migraine...next! I second the DOug Sax Floyd remasters...amazing sonics...for 1/10 the price of MFSL...

Blasphemy! Ian Anderson is an absolute Musical Genius! Right up there with the likes of a Beethoven, Dylan or Billy Corgan. I actually think he is one of the best acoustic guitar players ever, but few give him the recognition he deserves. Was anyone else really, really disturbed to see Tull not make VH1's list of the top 100 all time Rock artists. Sad state of affairs!

I thoroughly enjoy most every Tull album from "This Was" up to "Songs From the Wood," after that things got really bad, up until "Divinities", which is an amazing instrumental work. "Roots to Branches" was pretty good too, but "Secret Language of Birds" didn't do anything for me. www.j-tull.com had info about another instrumental release, hopefully coming soon. Divinities is really something special, everyone that I've let hear the album always buys it, even if not a Tull or instrumental fan.

Anyone care to second my concern that one of the best Jethro Tull albums is out of print, Living In The Past, and their disgust at the release of Living With The Past??? Yes Anderson has a nice sound to his flute playing. Got to hear him on Living In The Past album!!! They put on a real great show circa 1970-1974.

Tull had their ups and downs, but "Thick as a Brick" always takes me back to high school days!

After reading this thread a couple of days ago, I was scrounging through several hundred older LP's that are in queue to be cleaned and came across a rather obscure copy of "Supercharged" which contains a live LA performance of Tull. On the cover is a particularly maniacal picture of IA in the throes of performing. My wife and I were talking about "Jethro Tull" and various and sundry memories. My eight year-old nephew, upon spotting the LP cover says, "Wow. That Jethro is a wild looking dude".

Wild, indeed.