"The very best of Jethro Tull" with its 20 songs offers an overview of the great career of an ambitious rock band, whose reputation still not is certainly high, but reasonably high, because their music quality surpasses just about everything from the big era of rock music, that of the 60s and 70s, is still highly traded. The band's music is characterized by a mixture of straight rock elements, melodious folk elements and the outstanding instrumentalists. In the foreground, the songwriting and often narrative, brilliant vocals of frontman Ian Anderson are (yeah right, with the flute). So it is a big band; and of course her life's work is too large to be adequately represented in such a best-of disc. The band's music is particularly important in the context of the respective studio albums to its best advantage, since these are characterized by a single works always unique, tied to certain associations atmosphere. Nevertheless, I think that the offered in this best-of setlist quite finds its rationale and for beginners and casual listeners offers a good cross section of the career of the band led by Anderson. Although Jethro Tull has never been a band of hit singles and their popularity is based on the great album contexts, can this best of yet thoroughly recommend to those who a first overview of the works of folk-rocker with the Metusalem-Image want to win, or might not even have the ambition to deal on this overview out in detail with the various releases of their band history. However, anyone who is already sure to be interested seriously for Jethro Tull, you should get one of the most easily accessible studio albums and then work through Anderson's work. For beginners are especially recommended albums like "Stand up" or "Songs from the Wood". The music of Jethro Tull One should not be missed, in any form and detail whatsoever!
