JETHRO TULL Benefit Rare Original UK Chrysalis Island LP White 'I' on label Prog
  £   90
  $   119

 


£ 90 Sold For
Jan 26, 2014 Sold Date
Jan 19, 2014 Start Date
£   10 Start price
8   Number Of Bids
  Great Britain Country Of Seller
eBay Auctioned at
 
save auction  

Description

              

 

Jethro Tull

Benefit

Very Rare original UK LP released on Chrysalis Records in 1970. 1st UK pressing on the Green label with a White 'i' logo at the top.

Matrix No's

Side One - ILPS 9123 A//2

Side Two - ILPS 9123 B//1

Benefit was the album on which the Jethro Tull sound solidified around folk music, abandoning blues entirely. Beginning with the opening number, "With You There to Help Me," Anderson adopts his now-familiar, slightly mournful folksinger/sage persona, with a rather sardonic outlook on life and the world; his acoustic guitar carries the melody, joined by Martin Barre's electric instrument for the crescendos. This would be the model for much of the material on Aqualung and especially Thick as a Brick, although the acoustic/electric pairing would be executed more effectively on those albums. Here the acoustic and electric instruments are merged somewhat better than they were on Stand Up (on which it sometimes seemed like Barre's solos were being played in a wholly different venue), and as needed, the electric guitars carry the melodies better than on previous albums. Most of the songs on Benefit display pleasant, delectably folk-like melodies attached to downbeat, slightly gloomy, but dazzlingly complex lyrics, with Barre's guitar adding enough wattage to keep the hard rock listeners very interested. "To Cry You a Song," "Son," and "For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me" all defined Tull's future sound: Barre's amp cranked up to ten (especially on "Son"), coming in above Anderson's acoustic strumming, a few unexpected changes in tempo, and Anderson spouting lyrics filled with dense, seemingly profound imagery and statements. As on Stand Up, the group was still officially a quartet, with future member John Evan (whose John Evan Band had become the nucleus of Jethro Tull two years before) appearing as a guest on keyboards; his classical training proved essential to the expanding of the group's sound on the three albums to come. Benefit was reissued in a remastered edition with bonus tracks at the end of 2001, which greatly improved the clarity of the playing and the richness of the sound; the four additional tracks are "Singing All Day," "Witch's Promise," the elegant, gossamer-textured "Just Trying to Be," and the original UK mix of "Teacher." Written and recorded prior to Benefit, they're all lighter in mood than the material from the original album, adding some greater variety but fitting in perfectly on a stylistic level.
 

 

TRACKS ARE :-

Side One

1 With You There To Help Me
2 Nothing To Say
3 Alive And Well And Living In
4 Son
5 For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me

Side Two

1 To Cry You A Song
2 A Time For Everything
3 Inside
4 Play In Time
5 Sossity: You're A Woman

 

  • Released on Chrysalis Records in 1970

  • Catalogue Number ILPS 9123

  • Record is in Near Mint condition

  • Sleeve is in Ex + condition (a little wear to edges)

 

 ***All Items must be paid for within 7 days***

 

 

 

 

  • POSTAGE RATES WITHIN THE UK: -

  • FIRST  7"  IS  £1.50 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL 7" ADD  50p

  • FIRST  10"  IS  £2.00 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL 10" ADD  50p

  • FIRST  12"  IS  £2.00 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL 12" ADD  50p

  • FIRST  LP  IS  £2.00 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL LP ADD  50p

  • FIRST  CD  IS  £1.00 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL CD ADD 50p

 

 




price rating