Jethro Tull - A Passion Play

Track List
1 Lifebeats (1:14)
2 Prelude (2:14)
3 Silver Cord (4:29)
4 Re-Assuring Tune (1:11)
5 Memory Bank (4:20)
6 Best Friends (1:5
7 Critique Oblique (4:3
8 Forest Dance, No. 1 (1:35)
9 Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles (4:1
10 Forest Dance, No. 2 (4:1
11 Foot of Our Stairs (4:1
12 Overseer Overture (4:00)
13 Flight from Lucifer (3:5
14 10.08 to Paddington (1:04)
15 Magus Perdé (3:55)
16 Epilogue (:43)

review:After the success of Thick as a Brick, Jethro Tull moved to France for tax purposes and began recording their new album. They didn't finish recording there, but much of what they did do formed the nucleus for A Passion Play, which was completed back in England. This album was another single-song affair, but the musical style had drifted yet again.

This time the addition of saxophones played by Ian Anderson gave the band a very different sound; coupled with some somewhat unconventional melodies, this reminds me a little of Gentle Giant, though the Ian Anderson songwriting style is unmistakable.