781 ( Jethro Tull - Left Right )

781 ( Jethro Tull - Left Right )


I have started listening to this compilation album again the last week and have decided to choose this track off the My Round: Chateau d'Isaster Tapes CD.
The music on this disc was originally recorded in 1972 at the famed Chateau d'Hérouville studios, which is where some other albums of renown have been recorded.
After the ill-fated sessions were abandoned and scrapped, they made the hit concept album: "A Passion Play" in the 17 days left before their U.S. tour was scheduled to start. Some of the music and lyrics from the songs would find its way to the "A Passion Play" album, and a couple songs would come to the "Warchild" album as well.
After some fans found out about the existence of these tracks, many asked and begged Ian to release them. Ian finally did some work on these raw recordings, re-mastering them and added some instrumentation, mostly flute, to help polish the tracks; it was released in 1993 on the album "Nightcap" along with some other unreleased songs. As Ian put it best in the liner notes of how it ended up: "Not a cup of tea for everyone, but a slightly dizzy night cap for old friends in need of that last dram before laying down their heads to dream of what might have been."
This is one of the heavier songs on the disc; the music is distorted and quite raucous at times. Both Martin Barre's guitar and John Evan's organ are excellent holding down the melody and soloing at different points throughout; Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond's heavily distorted bass is a major draw as well.
There is a bit of discussion among 'Tull fans concerning the subject matter of this song in particular. One thought is that it was written to music critics, which was exemplified by the the lyrics through verses of the song and is further reinforced by the 40 seconds of distorted crying babies at the beginning of the song, which is, from what I understand, supposed to symbolize their blathering. However, when you listen to the bridge section, the subject matter of the verses can be interpreted differently and it becomes quite heavier in the vein of Ian's music concerning God, mankind, and religion.

Here is the recording of the song.
Here is part of a live recording of the song with part of "Audition" as well.



My song pick a year ago today: #409 Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes
My song pick two years ago today: #41 Eisbrecher - Ohne Dich


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