Jethro Tull "Stand Up" Island ILPS 9103 UK 3rd Label A/B g/fold pop-up 1970
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Jethro Tull ?"Stand Up" Island Records ?ILPS-9103 UK 1st reissue (3rd label). Vinyl, LP, released on the textured Pink I label in a gate-fold sleeve with pop-up of artists. There is no E.J Day printer credit on the sleeve. The LP was released in 1970.
The vinyl appears to have been lightly played and is in great condition. It played through beautifully on my elderly stereo - no hop, stick or jump. The gate-fold sleeve is a little grubby and has some ring-wear to the rear, but it is intact with no rips or writing. The spine is intact and legible. The pop-up centre is intact and working. Matrix / Runout Side One : ILPS+9103+A2 Matrix / Runout Side Two : ILPS+9103+B
"Stand Up" is Jethro Tull's second studio album, released in 1969. Before recordings for the album began, the band's original guitarist Mick Abrahams resigned because of musical differences with Ian Anderson; Abrahams wanted to stay with the blues rock sound of their 1968 debut, "This Was", while Anderson wished to add other musical influences such as folk rock. He was replaced by guitarist Martin Barre, who appeared on every Jethro Tull album from this point onwards.
"Stand Up" represents the first album project on which Anderson was in full control of the music and lyrics. The result was an eclectic album with various styles appearing in its songs, yet an album which remained somewhat in the blues rock mould, which would be the last such album from Jethro Tull.
The album quickly went to No. 1 on the UK charts, while the non-album single "Living in the Past" peaked at No. 3.
The design of the album cover started with a visit to New Haven, Connecticut during a concert tour in late February 1969. Under the direction of producer Terry Ellis, the band met a woodcarver named James Grashow who followed them for a week in order to properly represent them in wood. The resulting gate-fold album cover, in a woodcut style designed by Grashow, originally opened up like a children's pop-up book so that a cut-out of the band's personnel stood up, evoking the album's title. "Stand Up" won New Musical Express's award for best album artwork in 1969. The pop-up was not carried over to the 1973 album reissue.
"Stand Up" received mixed reviews upon its release, but more recent evaluations praised the album as a whole, for the production and musicianship.
The 1969 Rolling Stone review was quite positive, stating that the album "has a fairly low raunch quotient, true to form, but it is quite marvellous" and also that "the album is not really funky; rather, it is a meticulously crafted work (no sterility implied) which deserves careful listening. At a time when many of the established stars are faltering, it is a particular pleasure to hear an important new voice." The contemporary Disc and Music Echo review was less favourable; it considered the expensive cover the "most impressive" part of the album and Jethro Tull a good live band but still incapable of producing a "musically interesting" release. American critic Robert Christgau reiterated his dislike of the band, but judged the album "adequate" in his Village Voice review.
A retrospective AllMusic review was positive, saying that the band had "solidified their sound" with the album, bringing an "English folk music" influence to several of the songs, atop an overall blues rock foundation. Sean Murphy of PopMatters more emphatically wrote that "Stand Up" was a "meaningful document from what turned out to be a very transitional moment in rock history... a document created in a rapidly closing artistic window, pre-prog but post-British blues and psychedelic rock." He praised the musicianship of the players and remarked the first examples of "the first-rate lyricist Anderson would quickly become." The Record Collector review highlights how "the album captured the band on a vertiginous upswing, jubilant with confidence following the drafting in of guitarist Martin Barre" and contained "a fresh batch of diverse but uniformly strong compositions".
A variety of rock artists have cited Stand Up as an all-time favourite album over the years, including Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Aerosmith's Tom Hamilton, Joe Bonamassa, and Joe Satriani.
During an interview with BraveWords in 2015, Anderson selected "Stand Up" as his favourite Tull album: "I suppose if you were to really twist my arm, I would probably go back to 1969, with the "Stand Up" album, because that was my first album of first really original music. It has a special place in my heart."
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