Jethro Tull – Too Old To Rock ‘N’ Roll: Too Young To Die! (Deluxe) (1976/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jethro Tull – Too Old To Rock ‘N’ Roll: Too Young To Die! (Deluxe) (1976/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:21:18 minutes | 2,66 GB | Genre: Progressive Rock
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Jethro Tull’s Concept Album About An Aging Rocker Is Expanded for A 2CD/2ADVD Set that Features Unreleased Music And Footage Recorded For A British TV Special. Remixed by Steven Wilson.

Jethro Tull’s Too Old to Rock ‘N’ Roll: Too Young to Die! remains one of the minor efforts in its catalog. Though the group was never a critical favorite, this 1976 album was particularly dismissed, and it didn’t find as much favor as usual from fans, either. At the time this reissue was released, 26 years after the original LP, it remained the group’s only release of the 1970s not to have at least gone gold in the U.S. In his liner notes to the reissue, bandleader Ian Anderson claims that the collection was intended to support a stage musical “based on a late-’50s motor cycle rocker and his living-in-the-past nostalgia for youthful years. Not me, guv, honest,” he added. “Why do people always think it has to be autobiographical?” Perhaps because the main character, Ray Lomas, bears a striking resemblance to Anderson in the cartoon strip included with the album and because the sentiments expressed in the songs revealed a curmudgeonly attitude familiar from past Jethro Tull efforts penned by Anderson. The songs don’t conform to the story line developed in the strip, nor do they tell a coherent story on their own, though they do have their own separate stories to tell. For example, “Crazed Institution,” in the strip, has something to do with Lomas’ revulsion at a department store called “Horrids” (i.e., Harrod’s), but the song sounds like a putdown of glam rockers who “live and die upon [their] cross of platinum.” The title track, which went on to become a classic rock and concert favorite, remains the most striking tune.

Tracklist:

1-1. Jethro Tull – Prelude (Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) (00:53)
1-2. Jethro Tull – Quiz Kid (Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) (04:03)
1-3. Jethro Tull – Crazed Institution (Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) (04:35)
1-4. Jethro Tull – Salamander (Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) (02:52)
1-5. Jethro Tull – Taxi Grab (Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) (03:50)
1-6. Jethro Tull – From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser (Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) (04:11)
1-7. Jethro Tull – Bad-Eyed And Loveless (Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) (02:10)
1-8. Jethro Tull – Big Dipper (Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) (03:33)
1-9. Jethro Tull – Too Old To Rock ‘N’ Roll: Too Young To Die! (Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) (05:34)
1-10. Jethro Tull – Pied Piper (Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) (04:36)
1-11. Jethro Tull – The Chequered Flag (Dead Or Alive; Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) (05:23)
1-12. Jethro Tull – From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser (Steven Wilson Stereo Remix, Monte Carlo January 1976) (04:09)
1-13. Jethro Tull – Bad-Eyed And Loveless (Steven Wilson Stereo Remix, Monte Carlo January 1976) (02:12)
1-14. Jethro Tull – Big Dipper (Steven Wilson Stereo Remix, Monte Carlo January 1976) (03:36)
1-15. Jethro Tull – Too Old To Rock ‘N’ Roll: Too Young To Die! (Steven Wilson Stereo Remix, Brussels November 1975) (05:43)
1-16. Jethro Tull – The Chequered Flag (Dead Or Alive; Steven Wilson Stereo Remix, Brussels November 1975) (05:23)
1-17. Jethro Tull – Quiz Kid (Version 1, Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) (04:39)
2-1. Jethro Tull – Salamander’s Rag Time (Steven Wilson Mix) (03:22)
2-2. Jethro Tull – Commercial Traveller (Steven Wilson Mix) (03:30)
2-3. Jethro Tull – Salamander (Steven Wilson Mix, Instrumental) (03:21)
2-4. Jethro Tull – A Small Cigar (Steven Wilson Mix, Acoustic Version) (03:38)
2-5. Jethro Tull – Strip Cartoon (Steven Wilson Mix) (03:17)
2-6. Jethro Tull – One Brown Mouse (Early Version, Original Master Mix) (03:32)
2-7. Jethro Tull – A Small Cigar (Orchestrated Version, Original Rough Mix) (04:32)
2-8. Jethro Tull – Too Old To Rock ‘N’ Roll: Too Young To Die! (Demo, Steven Wilson Mix) (06:04)
2-9. Jethro Tull – Prelude (00:55)
2-10. Jethro Tull – Quiz Kid (04:14)
2-11. Jethro Tull – Crazed Institution (04:48)
2-12. Jethro Tull – Salamander (02:51)
2-13. Jethro Tull – Taxi Grab (03:54)
2-14. Jethro Tull – From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser (04:09)
2-15. Jethro Tull – Bad-Eyed And Loveless (02:12)
2-16. Jethro Tull – Big Dipper (03:36)
2-17. Jethro Tull – Too Old To Rock ‘N’ Roll: Too Young To Die! (05:44)
2-18. Jethro Tull – Pied Piper (04:33)
2-19. Jethro Tull – The Chequered Flag (Dead Or Alive) (05:27)

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