Repeat – The Best of Jethro Tull – Vol II

Repeat - The Best of Jethro Tull - Vol II
Greatest hits album by Jethro Tull
Released	9 September 1977 (UK) 7 November 1977 (US)
Recorded	1969 - 1975
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	39:26
Label	Chrysalis
Producer	Ian Anderson Terry Ellis
Jethro Tull chronology
Songs from the Wood (1977) Repeat - The Best of Jethro Tull - Vol II (1977) Heavy Horses (1978)

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Repeat – The Best of Jethro Tull – Vol II is a 1977 greatest hits album from Jethro Tull, featuring one track which, up to the time of this album's release, had not been issued. The album's first volume was M.U. – The Best of Jethro Tull.

Track listing

All songs by Ian Anderson, except where noted.

1. "Minstrel in the Gallery" (Edited version) – 4:17
2. "Cross-Eyed Mary" – 4:11
3. "A New Day Yesterday" – 4:10
4. "Bourée" (Instrumental) (Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. by Anderson) – 3:46
5. "Thick as a Brick (Edit #4)" – 3:27
6. "War Child" – 4:37
7. "A Passion Play (Edit #9)" – 3:33
8. "To Cry You a Song" – 6:14
9. "Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die" – 5:42
10. "Glory Row" (Previously unreleased) – 3:33

Notes

• "Thick as a Brick (Edit #4)" consists of the section of Part I beginning with "I've come down from the upper class..." on the original album (1972).
• "A Passion Play (Edit #9)" consists of the segment identified as "Flight from Lucifer" on a gold CD issue of A Passion Play (1973) - this begins at 16:58 in Part II of the current CD issue.
• "Glory Row" is now available as a bonus track on the remastered version of War Child (1974).
• "Glory Row" had been previously made available in the Spanish LP edition of Aqualung (1971) (which was not released until 1975) in place of "Locomotive Breath", which was already available in Living in the Past (1972).

Personnel

• Ian Anderson – flute, mandolin, producer, acoustic guitar, guitar, sax (alto), vocals, voices, sax (soprano)
• Martin Barre – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• John Evan – accordion, piano, synthesizer, piano-accordion, Hammond organ, keyboards
• Glenn Cornick – bass guitar on tracks 3, 4, 8
• Jeffrey Hammond – bass guitar on tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10
• John Glascock – bass guitar, vocals on track 9
• Clive Bunker – drums, percussion on tracks 2, 3, 4, 8
• Barriemore Barlow – drums, percussion on tracks 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10
• David Palmer – arranger, saxophone, synthesizer, keyboards, conductor
• Maddy Prior – backing vocals on 9

Recording personnel

• Terry Ellis – producer
• John Burns – engineer
• Andy Johns – engineer
• Robin Black – engineer
• Frank Duarte – illustrations

Notes

• Also known as Repeat: The Best of Jethro Tull, Vol. 2 or Repeat: The Best of Jethro Tull - Vol II
• Released in United States on 7 November 1977, where it charted #93

References

1. Allmusic review