Warchild [Original recording remastered]

Product Description
24-bit digitally remastered reissue of 1974 album with 7 added bonus tracks 'Warchild Waltz', 'Quartet', 'Paradise Steakhouse', 'Sealion 2', 'Rainbow Blues', 'Glory Row' & 'Saturation'. Capitol. 2002.

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Warchild [Original recording remastered]

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One of My Favorite Albums
War Child - Hoorah
Jethro Tull in short-hand
One of Jethro Tull's last good albums
A very good album.

Warchild
Jethro Tull
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006JKON
Release Date: 2002-11-05

Tracks:

WarChild
Queen And Country
Ladies
Back-Door Angels
Sealion
Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day
Bungle In The Jungle
Only Solitaire
The Third Hoorah
Two Fingers
Warchild Waltz
Quartet
Paradise Steakhouse
Sealion 2
Rainbow Blues
Glory Row
Saturation

Album Description

24-bit digitally remastered reissue of 1974 album with 7 added bonus tracks 'Warchild Waltz', 'Quartet', 'Paradise Steakhouse', 'Sealion 2', 'Rainbow Blues', 'Glory Row' & 'Saturation'. Capitol. 2002.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition of the Classic Tull Album that Includes the Hit Single "Bungle in the Jungle" and the FM Popular Favorite "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day" (Also Used as a Soundtrack of Many Commercials Years Later).

Customer Reviews:

One of My Favorite Albums.......2007-06-20

This is classic Tull. It is one of my favorite albums. Skating Away and Bungle in the Jungle were big hits, but this is one album that has multiple good songs. I can't say that about all of Tull's albums, but I can about this one.

War Child - Hoorah.......2007-06-09

At first I was not thrilled with this CD, but themore I listened to it, the more I liked it. There are some really good tunes on here, and some less that good ones, but overall, if you like Tull, yuou'll like this one. Quite a bit different from Aqualung, but it has some decent hits on it.

Jethro Tull in short-hand.......2007-06-05

After a few albums of album length song-suites ("Thick As A Brick" and "A Passion Play"), Ian Anderson decided to guide his Jethro Tull bandmates on a more light-hearted romp. The nine songs on "WarChild" never go longer than 5:30, and there was even a Top-40 novelty single with "Bungle In The Jungle." Even with the shorter songs, the Edwardian Prog-rock that Tull was best known for was still the main focus of "WarChild."

Switching from sax to his well known flute, Anderson went heavily on melodic songs here. It's hard not to get snapped up in the hooks he laid bare on "Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The new Day" or "SeaLion." He was also at his minstrel best with "Ladies" and "Back Door Angels," even as the harder songs took aim at politics/religion ("Queen and Country" and the title song). There is even the brief smack-down allegedly directed at LA Times critic Robert Hilburn (who once described Anderson as "a wild-eyed, super-charged Captain Hook gone mad") in "Solitaire."

While earlier fans derided "WarChild" when it came out, it became one of Jethro Tull's most successful US releases. It may have not held the epic sweep of "Thick as a Brick" or the mammoth riffing of "Aqualung" it still holds up to repeat listening all these years later.

One of Jethro Tull's last good albums.......2007-04-25

Jethro Tull's 1972 groundbreaking fifth album, _Thick as a Brick_ was tremendous. It also made Jethro Tull a lot of money, as any good album should.

So after releasing the interesting 2-record compilation _Living in the Past_ later that year (many of the cuts were singles which weren't included in their first four albums), Jethro Tull tried to deliberately reproduce the success of _Thick as a Brick_ with 1973's _A Passion Play_. But where _Thick as a Brick_ started out as a short song that naturally evolved into a long one, _A Passion Play_, while having its interesting moments, sounded contrived in more than a few spots.

So in 1974 they released _Warchild_, where the songs ended where they should have; the only songs that weren't very good were "Ladies" and "Only Solitaire" (negative critics should be ignored or responded to in interviews rather than answered on albums); the rest of the album is great.

A very good album........2007-03-15

Yes, there are a few shallow, fill-up-the-album type songs on here. Including one about having to fill up albums with shallow songs. But there are some excellent songs as well, touching on the usual themes of religious silliness, individuality, and "living large," that make this a must-have for any serious Tull fan.

Average customer rating:

"Meanwhile back in the year one...."
"A Million Generations Removed From Expectations"
"Stripped-down" Tull
An underrated Tull album
Ok Ok

Warchild
Jethro Tull
Manufacturer: Mobile Fidelity
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000ICLV
Release Date: 1999-03-23

Tracks:

WarChild
Queen And Country
Ladies
Back-Door Angels
SeaLion
Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day
Bungle In The Jungle
Only Solitaire
The Third Hoorah
Two Fingers

Customer Reviews:

"Meanwhile back in the year one....".......2003-04-26

When "War Child" came out they were playing "Bungle in the Jungle". It seems that with some groups, one of the weakest songs on an album becomes a top 40 hit. "Bungle" didn't even sound like Tull's style. But on a friend's advice, I went ahead and bought War Child. It has some of Ian Anderson's best acoustic guitar ("Only Solitaire", "Skating Away"). I turned on to this sound, listened to it a lot, don't like it as much now, but loved it then. Songs like "War Child" (the sirens at the beginning sound real) "Back-Door Angels", "Sealion" are some of Tull's best. "Back-Door Angels" has some great rhythms and heavy electric guitar. This was more conventional than Tull's previous work but not something I would say fit into mainstream rock and roll. It went with the time well, although I didn't buy it until early Fall of '75. "Minstrel in the Gallery" came out at about that same time, both were new to me at the time. Although I think "Minstrel" is better, "War Child" to me is still one of the best. The band has excellent musicians and Ian Anderson's lyrics are deep and poetic like Neil Peart's of Rush.

"A Million Generations Removed From Expectations".......2003-04-19

I definitely agree with the spotlight reviewer on why so many Tull fans hate War Child. I go one step further and state that this album is one of Tull's best. In fact, I think it is the best Tull album post-Thick As A Brick. It is not as brilliant as Aqualung, Stand Up, and Benefit, but it is more solid than Too Old..., Songs From the Wood, Heavy Horses, etc. I became a Tull fan in the late 1980s, and purchased their back catalogue in the order in which I found their records, not by chronology (A Passion Play being the last I bought). I, therefore, had no expectations when I put on War Child. I liked it when I first heard it and, unlike other albums, I like it more today than then. It has a folk sound, but not a woodsy sound like Songs From the Wood and Heavy Horses. It has a folk sound that might be appropriate on a old sailing ship setting off to find riches for jolly ol' England. It is also more solid than their later albums. Usually Tull albums have a song or two I skip or do not enjoy very much. I can play War Child straight through. It is a real pleasure to listen to. The only time I cringe is
during the last part of the otherwise soothing ballad "Ladies".

Besides this one complaint, the rest of the tracks are amazing. The heavy use of accordion and tracks like "Queen and Country" and "The Third Hoorah" gives the album a sea expedition theme. "Bungle in the Jungle," the most familiar track, may be a little too commercial but is still a fun number and probably attracted new fans (is that so terrible?). "Skating Away" is beautiful and so is "Only Solitaire" if you don't pay attention to the crude lyrics. "Back-Door Angels" and "Sea Lion" hook together to make a wonderful 9:00 theatrical number. "Two Fingers" is a version of "Lick Your Fingers Clean" which is on the boxed 20th anniversary set and is highlighted by excellent acoustic guitar. War Child is also the last album where you hear Ian Anderson's low, smooth voice. It begins to get a little higher on Minstrel in the Gallery and definitely changes by Songs From the Wood. My advice is to not listen to disgruntled Tull fans who dismiss this record as a "sell out". Besides "Bungle", nothing else on this album is outwardly commercial. "Skating" may be the more accessible of the other tracks but it does not sound like a sappy ploy for radio play. Grab a copy and find out for yourself.

"Stripped-down" Tull.......2002-09-20

"War Child" contains all the magical musical and lyrical mayhem and adventure one could expect from a Jethro Tull album: even from a more basic work such as this. Although the suites from albums such as "Aqualung" and "A Passion Play" aren't present here, they're really not necessary in this case, since Ian Anderson and crew must've been worn to a frazzle since creating and producing three previous masterworks ("Aqualung", "Thick As A Brick" and "A Passion Play"). Hence, the band needed a break, so they just broke the concept down to a more simplified approach - writing mostly short and simple songs dealing with war and tyranny ("War Child"), victory ("Queen And Country"), freedom [from strife] ("Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day"), and just plain celebratory mayhem ("The Third Hoorah"), among other subjects. Ah, but since Jethro Tull was exhausted from completing (really) four "Stand Up" concept albums ("Living In The Past" included), the band felt they could afford to flirt with some nonsensical ideas, as presented in the silly lyrics and the semi-progressive flute and guitar drives featured in the whimsical "Sealion" - perhaps the standout track on "War Child". Even a poppish tune works well here in the sweet cadences of "Bungle In The Jungle", a number which reached the Top 30 in the U.S.. A further note of interest: At one point during the 1974-'75 concert tour in support of this album, Ian Anderson would introduce the title of the above latter selection as..."Rumble In The Bathroom"! (I wonder if he had a unique set of lyrics to go with the title change?) Funny stuff! One would call it "potty humor", if you get the joke. Anyway, as was sort-of stated earlier, virtually all the songs fit together to create a story of "biblical" proportions (mini-suites, as is the case here), as Jethro Tull had been known for in prior works. Even though a majority of the tracks on "War Child" contain a slight slant towards commercial pop, it still retains a grand degree of progressive charm, a Tull trademark. "War Child" will grow on you after the first listen, so pick this up only after you've listened to one of Tull's previous excursions ("Aqualung", "Thick As A Brick" or "A Passion Play") if you're one of the Tull uninitiated. Well worth the purchase (trust me)!

An underrated Tull album.......2002-02-17

Fans of the prog rock side of Tull don't like it because it's not "Thick as a Brick" or "Passion Play"; fans of the celtic-acoustic side of Tull don't like it because it's not "Songs from the Wood" or "Heavy Horses"; heavy rock fans don't like it because it's not "Aqualung". This, combined with the radio success of "Bungle in the Jungle"--a brilliant piece of music with bizarre lyrics that remains an occasional oddity on classic rock stations--turned off some people to "Warchild". However, I truly can't believe there are real Tull fans (or any people, for that matter) out there who think that this is one of the weaker albums in the Tull repertoire: "Warchild" is an excellent album. After two complex concept albums, I think that Ian Anderson was looking for a new direction with the band. Of course, that's what has kept Tull interesting for all these years. "Warchild" was originally intended to be a film (a film ABOUT WHAT has never been made entirely clear, although Rolling Stone at the time reported that Ian was going to play God). Too bad that never happened. I think that the plans for a film score are why this album introduces really complex orchestrations (courtesy of David Palmer and the Philamusica of London) along with the songs. Although Palmer had done orchesteral arrangements for Tull before this album, it was really on "Warchild" where the orchestra got to sound like part of the band, in a way that no group had done (or has since done). The running themes in the songs are also intriging--there's war, Britain, interesting ladies, the circus, victory, loss, religion, life, and death. The whole album seems to laugh at the oddness of the world we have constructed. However, the best thing about this album is the music: Listen to the driving guitar and complex percussion of "Sealion"; the vocal harmonies of "Only Solitaire"; the overall merriment and musical diversity of "Skating Away". There is really nothing else like this album. (P.S. I took off 1 star because I prefer "Lick Your Fingers Clean"--a song intended for "Aqualung" that was ultimately dropped from the album--to its reworking as "Two Fingers" on "Warchild". A minor point, really.

Ok Ok.......2001-06-18

Ok, so it isn't the best; I guess in that we can agree. But seriously, have you heard any of the modern stuff they call "rock"? In comparison this album is pretty darn good. I may not love every track on this album, but I like it enough to have bought it and listen to it on occasion(and if you are reading this, then more than likely you do too). There are at least 4 decent tracks on War Child which is more than most albums can claim :)

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Manufacturer: Houseball Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000KGYLJA

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