ide one "With You There to Help Me" 0:01 "Nothing to Say" 6:19 "Alive and Well and Living In" 11:32 "Son" 14:20 "For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me" 17:11 Side two "To Cry You a Song" 21:06 "A Time for Everything?" 27:19 "Inside" 30:03 "Play in Time" 33:51 "Sossity; You're a Woman" 37:40
My father looked after them all night at their hotel after the gig in Bournemouth in 1970. I was in the front of the gig aged 13. When the band heard that they gave my dad 3 signed copies of this album...Get In !! 🤩🤩
Jethro Tull - Benefit - -From Wikipedia - -Benefit is the third studio album by the British rock band Jethro Tull, released in April 1970. It was the first Tull album to include pianist and organist John Evan - though he was not yet considered a permanent member of the group - and the last to include bass guitarist Glenn Cornick, who was fired from the band upon completion of touring for the album. It was recorded at Morgan Studios, the same studio where the band recorded its previous album Stand Up; however, they experimented with more advanced recording techniques. Frontman Ian Anderson said that he considers Benefit to be a much darker album than Stand Up, owing to the pressures of an extensive U.S. tour and frustration with the music business. Production Guitarist Martin Barre said that Benefit was a lot easier to make than previous albums, as the success of Stand Up allowed the musicians more artistic latitude Bassist Glenn Cornick stated that the band's intention was to capture a more "live" feeling as "I felt the last one sounded like a group of session musicians performing various songs. It was pretty cold." Benefit incorporated studio techniques such as reverse recording (flute and piano tracks on "With You There to Help Me"), and manipulating the tape speed (guitar on "Play in Time"). In a 1970 interview Anderson noted that the addition of keyboardist John Evan had changed the band's style: "John has added a new dimension musically and I can write more freely now. In fact anything is possible with him at the keyboard". Musical style Ian Anderson said that Benefit was a "guitar riff" album, recorded in a year in which artists like Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin were becoming more riff-oriented. Anderson also noted that Benefit is "a rather dark and stark album and, although it has a few songs on it that are rather okay, I don't think it has the breadth, variety or detail that Stand Up has. But it was an evolution in terms of the band playing as 'a band.'" Overall, Anderson considered the album "a natural part of the group's evolution". According to Martin Barre "To Cry You a Song" was a response to Blind Faith's "Had to Cry Today", "although you couldn't compare the two; nothing was stolen ... The riff crossed over the bar in a couple of places and Ian and I each played guitars on the backing tracks. It was more or less live in the studio with a couple of overdubs and a solo. Ian played my Gibson SG and I played a Les Paul on it." Releases The UK and the US release are different. The US version (with flute) of "Teacher" was placed on side two of the album, and the track "Alive and Well and Living In" was excluded. In the UK, "Teacher" was the B-side of the non-album single "The Witch's Promise", and was without a flute. In 2013, the Collector's Edition of Benefit was released. It contains bonus tracks mixed by Steven Wilson, a disc with mono and stereo mixes of rare and previously unreleased versions of tracks and singles and an audio-only DVD that includes a surround sound mix of the original album. The Collector's Edition also includes a booklet featuring an 8,000-word essay written by Martin Webb, as well as interviews with band members and a selection of photos, some previously unseen. For the 50th anniversary of the album, an enhanced edition was released in 2021, consisting of four CDs and two DVDs. Critics were generally unimpressed with Benefit upon its release. Rolling Stone called the album "lame and dumb". Disc and Music Echo was also unimpressed but recognized the band's quality: "This album doesn't advance by such a drastic leap as Stand Up did from This Was. It's more like the Jethro Tull we've seen and heard for the past year. It seems to be a remarkably long album, and shows what an exciting group this is. Exciting because they can have quite long guitar breaks and still retain a very tight and together sound".The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau appreciated the riffs around which all the songs were constructed, but wasn't impressed by the lyrics that he judged hard to recall. Legacy AllMusic and Record Collector's much-later reviews were more positive in accepting the album's style. Bruce Eder stated that: "Most of the songs on Benefit display pleasant, delectably folk-like melodies attached to downbeat, slightly gloomy, but dazzlingly complex lyrics, with Barre's guitar adding enough wattage to keep the hard rock listeners very interested. 'To Cry You a Song', 'Son', and 'For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me' all defined Tull's future sound: Barre's amp cranked up to ten (especially on 'Son'), coming in above Anderson's acoustic strumming, a few unexpected changes in tempo, and Anderson spouting lyrics filled with dense, seemingly profound imagery and statements."Record Collector reviewer, analysing the Collector's Edition of 2013, praised the Steven Wilson remix and wrote: "Benefit forms the perfect bridge between the rolling, tumbling Tull of old and the tightly braided riffs and prickly lyrics presented by Aqualung."Paul Stump, in his History of Progressive Rock, said that Benefit "maintained the invention (and sales) of its predecessor, once again teasing unexpected emotional reflexes from time-honoured voicings and rhythms to signpost something that, if not a wholly new kind of pop song, at least offered the listener new bearings in his or her search." Track listing 1970 UK release All music is composed by Ian Anderson Side one No. Title Length 1. "With You There to Help Me" 6:20 2. "Nothing to Say" 5:10 3. "Alive and Well and Living In" 2:47 4. "Son" 2:52 5. "For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me" 3:59 Side two No. Title Length 6. "To Cry You a Song" 6:09 7. "A Time for Everything?" 2:43 8. "Inside" 3:40 9. "Play in Time" 3:45 10. "Sossity; You're a Woman" 4:35 -Personnel - - Jethro Tull - - - - Ian Anderson - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar (uncredited), flute, balalaika, keyboards, production Martin Barre - electric guitar Glenn Cornick - bass guitar, Hammond organ (uncredited) Clive Bunker - drums, percussion Additional musicians - - - - Dee Palmer - orchestral arrangements John Evan - piano, organ - - -
ide one
"With You There to Help Me" 0:01
"Nothing to Say" 6:19
"Alive and Well and Living In" 11:32
"Son" 14:20
"For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me" 17:11
Side two
"To Cry You a Song" 21:06
"A Time for Everything?" 27:19
"Inside" 30:03
"Play in Time" 33:51
"Sossity; You're a Woman" 37:40
Jethro Tull, escuto desde criança. Obra prima
One of their best albums
I got this album after Aqualung. I still think it is a masterpiece. Killer guitar.
My father looked after them all night at their hotel after the gig in Bournemouth in 1970. I was in the front of the gig aged 13. When the band heard that they gave my dad 3 signed copies of this album...Get In !! 🤩🤩
Cool. From pgh Pa. Daw them at least. 4 x in conceret.
😂Saw. Sorry fingers to big.
Jethro Tull - Benefit - -From Wikipedia - -Benefit is the third studio album by the British rock band Jethro Tull, released in April 1970. It was the first Tull album to include pianist and organist John Evan - though he was not yet considered a permanent member of the group - and the last to include bass guitarist Glenn Cornick, who was fired from the band upon completion of touring for the album. It was recorded at Morgan Studios, the same studio where the band recorded its previous album Stand Up; however, they experimented with more advanced recording techniques.
Frontman Ian Anderson said that he considers Benefit to be a much darker album than Stand Up, owing to the pressures of an extensive U.S. tour and frustration with the music business.
Production
Guitarist Martin Barre said that Benefit was a lot easier to make than previous albums, as the success of Stand Up allowed the musicians more artistic latitude Bassist Glenn Cornick stated that the band's intention was to capture a more "live" feeling as "I felt the last one sounded like a group of session musicians performing various songs. It was pretty cold."
Benefit incorporated studio techniques such as reverse recording (flute and piano tracks on "With You There to Help Me"), and manipulating the tape speed (guitar on "Play in Time"). In a 1970 interview Anderson noted that the addition of keyboardist John Evan had changed the band's style: "John has added a new dimension musically and I can write more freely now. In fact anything is possible with him at the keyboard".
Musical style
Ian Anderson said that Benefit was a "guitar riff" album, recorded in a year in which artists like Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin were becoming more riff-oriented. Anderson also noted that Benefit is "a rather dark and stark album and, although it has a few songs on it that are rather okay, I don't think it has the breadth, variety or detail that Stand Up has. But it was an evolution in terms of the band playing as 'a band.'" Overall, Anderson considered the album "a natural part of the group's evolution".
According to Martin Barre "To Cry You a Song" was a response to Blind Faith's "Had to Cry Today", "although you couldn't compare the two; nothing was stolen ... The riff crossed over the bar in a couple of places and Ian and I each played guitars on the backing tracks. It was more or less live in the studio with a couple of overdubs and a solo. Ian played my Gibson SG and I played a Les Paul on it."
Releases
The UK and the US release are different. The US version (with flute) of "Teacher" was placed on side two of the album, and the track "Alive and Well and Living In" was excluded. In the UK, "Teacher" was the B-side of the non-album single "The Witch's Promise", and was without a flute.
In 2013, the Collector's Edition of Benefit was released. It contains bonus tracks mixed by Steven Wilson, a disc with mono and stereo mixes of rare and previously unreleased versions of tracks and singles and an audio-only DVD that includes a surround sound mix of the original album. The Collector's Edition also includes a booklet featuring an 8,000-word essay written by Martin Webb, as well as interviews with band members and a selection of photos, some previously unseen.
For the 50th anniversary of the album, an enhanced edition was released in 2021, consisting of four CDs and two DVDs.
Critics were generally unimpressed with Benefit upon its release. Rolling Stone called the album "lame and dumb". Disc and Music Echo was also unimpressed but recognized the band's quality: "This album doesn't advance by such a drastic leap as Stand Up did from This Was. It's more like the Jethro Tull we've seen and heard for the past year. It seems to be a remarkably long album, and shows what an exciting group this is. Exciting because they can have quite long guitar breaks and still retain a very tight and together sound".The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau appreciated the riffs around which all the songs were constructed, but wasn't impressed by the lyrics that he judged hard to recall.
Legacy
AllMusic and Record Collector's much-later reviews were more positive in accepting the album's style. Bruce Eder stated that: "Most of the songs on Benefit display pleasant, delectably folk-like melodies attached to downbeat, slightly gloomy, but dazzlingly complex lyrics, with Barre's guitar adding enough wattage to keep the hard rock listeners very interested. 'To Cry You a Song', 'Son', and 'For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me' all defined Tull's future sound: Barre's amp cranked up to ten (especially on 'Son'), coming in above Anderson's acoustic strumming, a few unexpected changes in tempo, and Anderson spouting lyrics filled with dense, seemingly profound imagery and statements."Record Collector reviewer, analysing the Collector's Edition of 2013, praised the Steven Wilson remix and wrote: "Benefit forms the perfect bridge between the rolling, tumbling Tull of old and the tightly braided riffs and prickly lyrics presented by Aqualung."Paul Stump, in his History of Progressive Rock, said that Benefit "maintained the invention (and sales) of its predecessor, once again teasing unexpected emotional reflexes from time-honoured voicings and rhythms to signpost something that, if not a wholly new kind of pop song, at least offered the listener new bearings in his or her search."
Track listing
1970 UK release
All music is composed by Ian Anderson
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "With You There to Help Me" 6:20
2. "Nothing to Say" 5:10
3. "Alive and Well and Living In" 2:47
4. "Son" 2:52
5. "For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me" 3:59
Side two
No. Title Length
6. "To Cry You a Song" 6:09
7. "A Time for Everything?" 2:43
8. "Inside" 3:40
9. "Play in Time" 3:45
10. "Sossity; You're a Woman" 4:35
-Personnel - -
Jethro Tull - - - -
Ian Anderson - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar (uncredited), flute, balalaika, keyboards, production
Martin Barre - electric guitar
Glenn Cornick - bass guitar, Hammond organ (uncredited)
Clive Bunker - drums, percussion
Additional musicians - - - -
Dee Palmer - orchestral arrangements
John Evan - piano, organ - - -
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@@user-ej7zi1bu3t have a nice life !
My version, in Australia, had Teacher in it.
Спасибо🙏.Jethro лучшая группа МИРА.❤👍👍👍
Gosto muito....... rock proguessivo é minha vida......
Najlepší album Prvé tri albumy boli najlepšie To bol ten pravý jetro tuĺl ktorý mal správne čaro
Grazie per la pubblicazione di questo bellissimo album gran capolavoro
1970...A Classic/Vintage Overlooked Year...
My favorite Tull album.
thank you i love this album.
Great album! Never gets old.
Thank you
Sensacional!!!
Probably my favourite Tull album. Excellent!
One of my High School daze soundtracks.
yes💫👍🏻...
Their second best album, the first one is Aqualung.
Stand Up pretty good too .
Sitting on a park bench......Indeed. However, I embrace Progressive masterpieces. Thick as a brick, Passion play.........
Still have it on CD
Mohamed jazouly casa maarîfe maroc les Anne 70 80 mohamed good music
Vynikajici poslechova hudba
A un tengo el Disco Original de la Epoca, debes encuando lo escucho, me gusta en especial Nothing To Say, me gusta la guitarra de esa melodia,
Лучший альбом !
Nowadays it would be called "Benefits."
Pau a pau com pink Floyd.
Not all these tracks are actually on "Benefit" !
Кто то на повторе.
Any music critic that is unimpressed with a Jethro Tull album should quit his jump and become a bum.
Mohamed jazouly casa maarîfe maroc les Anne 70 80 mohamed good music