Jethro Tull recent Remasters vs Mobile Fidelity?

Sorry folks Living In The Past is out of print, one of, if not the best album Tull ever put out. They have a CD named Living WITH The Past, a collection of "greastest Hits" (like we really need another greatest hits, ..vol 5!!!) and get this the song Living In The Past is on it , but is a horrible semblence to the orginal which is a great composition. ??? Why would Tull even alow this crummy version to be on print is beyond me??? These modern times we live in!

I agree with the "Aqualung" assessment. I have over thirty Tull LPs plus assorted CDs and I consider Aqualung to be among the poorest of their releases.

I can't speak for Ian and the boys, but if you'd been playing the same song for over thirty years now (in many cases) don't you think you'd want to do something different.

Sorry Tweekerman but I'd put "Living in the Past" in the same catagory as Aqualung; not one of their better outings. Everyone has their preferences though.

I bought a used copy of "This Was" in great shape on Ebay last year for only a few bucks. I also got an original release of "Living in the Past" with the book and everything for under twenty dollars. A lot of this stuff can still be found without too much work.

Again, happy hunting!

Hate to be a buzzkill...but incorporating flute in rock...even progressive rock...is just plain wrong...remastered or not...JT will always give me a migraine...next! I second the DOug Sax Floyd remasters...amazing sonics...for 1/10 the price of MFSL...

Blasphemy! Ian Anderson is an absolute Musical Genius! Right up there with the likes of a Beethoven, Dylan or Billy Corgan. I actually think he is one of the best acoustic guitar players ever, but few give him the recognition he deserves. Was anyone else really, really disturbed to see Tull not make VH1's list of the top 100 all time Rock artists. Sad state of affairs!

I thoroughly enjoy most every Tull album from "This Was" up to "Songs From the Wood," after that things got really bad, up until "Divinities", which is an amazing instrumental work. "Roots to Branches" was pretty good too, but "Secret Language of Birds" didn't do anything for me. www.j-tull.com had info about another instrumental release, hopefully coming soon. Divinities is really something special, everyone that I've let hear the album always buys it, even if not a Tull or instrumental fan.

Anyone care to second my concern that one of the best Jethro Tull albums is out of print, Living In The Past, and their disgust at the release of Living With The Past??? Yes Anderson has a nice sound to his flute playing. Got to hear him on Living In The Past album!!! They put on a real great show circa 1970-1974.