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Jethro Tull — Living In The Past
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Donna_Stride
(London, UK)
Posted: May 17, 2013 - 03:43
 
Just fantastic. As is most of JT

maxmox
(Broome, Western Australia)
Posted: Apr 22, 2013 - 15:07
 
Love the clave throughout. Try it at home. No? Tricky aren't they........

TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: Apr 15, 2013 - 20:19
 
All this was done whilst standing on one leg......imagine what he might have accomplished if he'd stood on both.

EllaGuru
(Upstate NY)
Posted: Apr 15, 2013 - 20:16
 
One of my all time favorite songs!  Thanks Radio Paradise!

unclehud
(now 50 feet above the planet in Boston)
Posted: Feb 18, 2013 - 17:40
 
Somedays it seems that I can't avoid living in the past.  Three or four rows above the floor in the Omni, ear-splitting volume, and my girlfriend sitting in my lap.  She wasn't my girlfriend when us rockers bought tickets, and her seat was close to the rafters.  

"She was a good girlfriend," he said to himself, then realized he was — for a moment — living in the past. 

Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Jan 18, 2013 - 10:01
 

Big 10...  wish I could vote higher... from a brilliant double album...  love it...
 

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Jan 11, 2013 - 16:29
 
 Gregorama wrote:


A well reasoned comment. Bravo, GT66.
 
1 man, 1 vote.  It works. 

gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Dec 18, 2012 - 01:22
 
Masterful adaptation of classical themes into modern music. This album has always been one one of my favorites.

A solid eight from the Arizona contingency 

skooba
(The tip of Americas Wang)
Posted: Dec 11, 2012 - 07:26
 
No one rocks a flute like Ian Anderson!  {#Dancingbanana}{#Bananasplit}

ottojschlosser
(Beaverton OR (no, really, that's its name))
Posted: Nov 16, 2012 - 16:39
 
Favorite Tull song ever... and that is saying a lot.

dew34
(Wisconsin-quite woodsy)
Posted: Sep 14, 2012 - 19:02
 
Anarchists!     The music will always win out because issues, problems, concerns man himself is transitory, the song inside will always emerge and give the listener that answer which most resonates within him/her.     

Gregorama
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Aug 14, 2012 - 07:40
 
 GT66 wrote:


All the world's ills are not laid at the feet of the 1%. However, their domination of our "representative" government can be laid at their feet and as long as the 1% insist on ensuring their 3/4 share of the representation then they can take the bad along with the good.

Look at it this way, a corporation is considered a person with a right to representation Who sits on those corporate boards? So not only do the 1% get their personal "representation" but their corporate interests get another slice of the representative government pie.

And also, who lobbies for the average person? No one, that's who. Yet the 1% AND their corporations have 24/7 lobbying access to THE PEOPLE'S representatives and the other 99% only have indirect (and dwindling) lobbying means through letters, phone calls and protests all of which are "filtered" through lackeys.

Again, the %1 may not be at fault for every ill in the world but as long as they are hogging the queue to make sure their needs are met first and foremost, the issues left to go on corrupted or unaddressed as a result might as well be their fault.


 



A well reasoned comment. Bravo, GT66.

2cats
(Oklahoma)
Posted: Jun 12, 2012 - 06:05
 
Great segue

coloradojohn
(A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver)
Posted: Jun 05, 2012 - 08:12
 
I can recall hearing this for the first time on Dad's radio in the living room and digging the flute, and the sentiment...  I can also recall one of my former friends at high school scoffing and deriding me for liking it.  It took me a few years to realize WTF did HE know, about music or anything else, for that matter?  I liked it, that I knew, and I knew it was good, not because I liked it, but...  AND THIS IS WHY I LOVE RP!

GT66
Posted: May 11, 2012 - 11:08
 
 Bad_Art wrote:

While I applaud their desire to change the status quo, the idea that so many of the world's ills can be set at the feet of this mythic 1% seems a bit too easy an answer.  Not much in this world is that simple. 
 

All the world's ills are not laid at the feet of the 1%. However, their domination of our "representative" government can be laid at their feet and as long as the 1% insist on ensuring their 3/4 share of the representation then they can take the bad along with the good.

Look at it this way, a corporation is considered a person with a right to representation Who sits on those corporate boards? So not only do the 1% get their personal "representation" but their corporate interests get another slice of the representative government pie.

And also, who lobbies for the average person? No one, that's who. Yet the 1% AND their corporations have 24/7 lobbying access to THE PEOPLE'S representatives and the other 99% only have indirect (and dwindling) lobbying means through letters, phone calls and protests all of which are "filtered" through lackeys.

Again, the %1 may not be at fault for every ill in the world but as long as they are hogging the queue to make sure their needs are met first and foremost, the issues left to go on corrupted or unaddressed as a result might as well be their fault.



(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: May 11, 2012 - 11:00
 


absolutely magnificent...  love it...

 

krysthal
(Toronto, Canada)
Posted: May 04, 2012 - 14:04
 
 dkwalika wrote:
Nice way to slide into the weekend. Memories of high school . . .
  
Seems like you enjoy living in the past? {#Drool} Brings back those teenage memories for me as well. A classic Tull tune for sure!

Eros92450
(Loveland, Colorado)
Posted: May 04, 2012 - 14:01
 
 dkwalika wrote:
Nice way to slide into the weekend. Memories of high school . . .
 



Yes is. Still sounds so good!

dkwalika
(Upper Midwest)
Posted: May 04, 2012 - 13:59
 
Nice way to slide into the weekend. Memories of high school . . .

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Apr 02, 2012 - 21:04
 


As good as it gets...  love it madly...

 

Bad_Art
(Outa' Space -- EVE Online)
Posted: Jan 05, 2012 - 13:38
 
 Cynaera wrote:

I'll add a little to this - sometimes the Occupy movement might get a little sidetracked by the media (dazzled by that fifteen minutes of fame or the excuse to be "bad,") but the core of the movement remains solid and determined to continue the protest. It's interesting that the longer these valiant folks stand firm, the angrier the targets get, and the more unscrupulous their methods to desist become (as if they could be any more unscrupulous.) A wise man once told me, "If you throw a rock into a pack of wild dogs, the one that yells the loudest is the one who got hit."  All we have to do is listen for the loud yell of that wild dog who got hit.

I agree, kaybee - not my favorite Tull song, but it's still good to hear it sometimes.

 
 
While I applaud their desire to change the status quo, the idea that so many of the world's ills can be set at the feet of this mythic 1% seems a bit too easy an answer.  Not much in this world is that simple. 

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Dec 29, 2011 - 18:04
 
 kurtster wrote:
Damn, this is still great after all these years.

9 to 10.
 


Yes, I agree...  love it...


 

kurtster
(Back in Ohiya, for now ...)
Posted: Dec 29, 2011 - 17:51
 
Damn, this is still great after all these years.

9 to 10.

Cynaera
(In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.)
Posted: Dec 04, 2011 - 18:36
 
 kaybee wrote:

The Occupy movement knows very well what it's fighting - the greed and brutality of the less than 1% of the people who are unbelievably rich and are destroying the planet, spending the people's hard-earned money on wars that kill millions (all for oil and land) and who are destroying the environment and our children's future at the same time.

On that note, I must say, this is not one of my favourite Tull songs, although it's nice to listen to.  I think it's the complacent lyrics that irritated me.  Try telling someone in Watts or Harlem dealing with police brutality or someone just drafted to fight in Vietnam they "don't know what they're fighting".
 
I'll add a little to this - sometimes the Occupy movement might get a little sidetracked by the media (dazzled by that fifteen minutes of fame or the excuse to be "bad,") but the core of the movement remains solid and determined to continue the protest. It's interesting that the longer these valiant folks stand firm, the angrier the targets get, and the more unscrupulous their methods to desist become (as if they could be any more unscrupulous.) A wise man once told me, "If you throw a rock into a pack of wild dogs, the one that yells the loudest is the one who got hit."  All we have to do is listen for the loud yell of that wild dog who got hit.

I agree, kaybee - not my favorite Tull song, but it's still good to hear it sometimes.

 


(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Dec 04, 2011 - 18:34
 


Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...


 

kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Oct 27, 2011 - 17:40
 
 Queue wrote:
"Now there's revolution, but they don't know what they're fighting"   Sounds like current events, eh?

(the Occupy ________ movement)

 
The Occupy movement knows very well what it's fighting - the greed and brutality of the less than 1% of the people who are unbelievably rich and are destroying the planet, spending the people's hard-earned money on wars that kill millions (all for oil and land) and who are destroying the environment and our children's future at the same time.

On that note, I must say, this is not one of my favourite Tull songs, although it's nice to listen to.  I think it's the complacent lyrics that irritated me.  Try telling someone in Watts or Harlem dealing with police brutality or someone just drafted to fight in Vietnam they "don't know what they're fighting".



Queue
(ROKville, MD)
Posted: Oct 27, 2011 - 10:10
 
"Now there's revolution, but they don't know what they're fighting"   Sounds like current events, eh?

(the Occupy ________ movement)


Cynaera
(In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.)
Posted: Oct 02, 2011 - 14:26
 
 shakylegs wrote:
Jethro Tull can be overly played on Radio Paradise, but I'm okay with this song.
(First album ever bought was "Thick as a Brick." I'm old, get off my lawn.)
 
I agree with you. And I always loved "Thick as a Brick."  I'm old, too - mind if I pull up a lawn chair next to you?  I've brought a cooler of beer... {#Daisy} 

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Oct 02, 2011 - 14:24
 
 cschneiderwa wrote:
Bring back the FLUTE!
 
 

I hear ya...  dig that flute out of the past...  love this song...
 


cschneiderwa
Posted: Oct 02, 2011 - 14:18
 
Bring back the FLUTE!
 

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Aug 25, 2011 - 09:04
 
 agkagk wrote:
I love this song (and most of what Jethro Tull produced). But Ian Anderson wasn't so enamoured. In a live version of this song he introduces it as "a song we've utterly loathed for 30 long years". I can see why, because it is a bit of simplistic pop, not their most creative piece of work. It's still a 9 to me.

 
It's not that "simplistic" - for one thing: it's one of their only (if not the only) tunes which is not in 4/4 time.  It's also one of the only tunes by them I can bear to hear anymore.


gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Aug 25, 2011 - 09:03
 
One of my all-time favorite albums. {#Clap}

Webfoot
(Eugene, Oregon)
Posted: Aug 25, 2011 - 09:01
 
Flute-rock!

NickDanger
(in absentia)
Posted: Jun 23, 2011 - 11:22
 
This song leads me to live in the past.

shakylegs
(Montreal)
Posted: Jun 23, 2011 - 11:21
 
Jethro Tull can be overly played on Radio Paradise, but I'm okay with this song.
(First album ever bought was "Thick as a Brick." I'm old, get off my lawn.)

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: May 22, 2011 - 19:20
 
 jersey_birdman wrote:
great song
 


Yeah, this song is special...  love it...

 

Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Apr 28, 2011 - 05:01
 
Love it!

Heard a Wolfmother song the other day with a mad flute solo and thought of Tull. 

nicolewe
Posted: Feb 17, 2011 - 08:48
 
Living in the past isn't good for you, but this song sure is. {#Lol}{#Lol}{#Lol}


agkagk
(Aurora, Ontario, Canada)
Posted: Dec 16, 2010 - 17:27
 
I love this song (and most of what Jethro Tull produced). But Ian Anderson wasn't so enamoured. In a live version of this song he introduces it as "a song we've utterly loathed for 30 long years". I can see why, because it is a bit of simplistic pop, not their most creative piece of work. It's still a 9 to me.


linzie
Posted: Dec 16, 2010 - 17:20
 
All too good...I remember when It first came out, and it's every bit just as good listening...

jersey_birdman
Posted: Dec 16, 2010 - 17:18
 
great song

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Dec 16, 2010 - 17:14
 


perfect...

 

Zep
Posted: Nov 23, 2010 - 12:11
 
 Propayne wrote:
Don't think they've re-mastered this LP yet.

Wish they would.  
 
This copy sounds really crisp, much more so than the old LP (I ought to know, I only listened to it a million times...). 

I do love me this track - that flute is nice.



(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Nov 21, 2010 - 19:27
 


love it...





Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Oct 14, 2010 - 07:16
 
Nice!

Huey
(Netherlands)
Posted: Sep 19, 2010 - 10:25
 
Gotta give Romeo credit, with all his comments here, he REALLY likes this one.

Me too. 8.


DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: Sep 19, 2010 - 10:23
 
Great ol' Tull tune {#Music}

lisapizza58
Posted: Sep 12, 2010 - 15:23
 
EPIC!!

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Sep 12, 2010 - 12:39
 
Easily a 8 to 9! Love this!

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Aug 18, 2010 - 09:42
 


This song will always be true...  love it...