I do not know what actually constitutes the charm of this album. Certainly has the gruff folk determined from start to finish and this absolute authenticity that just as (I know well what I am talking) applies to the old-English country life, the largest share of it. Certainly could no other musician in the world exactly better interpret this theme as Ian Anderson. Ultimately, it is this small, (maybe sentimental-) set to music stories and narratives as 'One brown Mouse' or 'rover' or also the opening track '... and the Mouse Police Never Sleeps', which represent the real potential of this album , You are a magnificent balance between fable and reality.
Of course, the other takes are the previously mentioned by no means of this album. Must emphasize one fact everyone! I call now, but only the great orchestrated 'No Lullaby', clearly the most rocking and progressive piece of the disc, and the wonderfully mystical 'Journeyman'.
The highlight is and remains simple but the title track, with its beautiful, melancholy mood, the plaintive or better accusatory text and also beautiful chorus. This piece is truly a hymn! A hymn to a time that is irrevocably past, but of the (purely agricultural viewed) yet any sensible person knows that it was fundamentally wrong to have not adhered to it. But to philosophize about it I spare me and the readers.
'Heavy Horses' is simply awesome! -that Applies to the take itself, as well as for the whole disc. An absolutely top-class and highly recommended piece of English rock music, which should be in every, even halfway ambitious music collection.
The only drawback is once again the completely unnecessary copy of the remastered Tull albums. The normal consumer would certainly listen to this music sometimes in the car or on mp3 players. The copy can these alternatives, at least for the masses, not to. Others help halt once again only the Iso Buster ....
Whether this is but the intention, I leave time to be seen.