Living in the Past

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Living in the Past

Compilation album by Jethro Tull
Released	June 23, 1972 (UK) October 31, 1972 (US)
Recorded	Feb 1969-May 1971
Genre	Rock
Length	1:27:28 (original)/1:14:28 (reissue)
Label	Chrysalis
Producer(s)	Ian Anderson
All Music Guide link
Jethro Tull chronology
Thick as a Brick (1972)	Living in the Past (1972)	A Passion Play (1973)

Living in the Past is a double album quasi-greatest hits collection by Jethro Tull which contains album tracks, unreleased songs, and a number of singles and b-sides that had initially only appeared as British releases before being compiled on Living in the Past for the first time in the American market. The album was released in an elaborate gatefold packaging that contained a large color photo booklet with over 50 photos of the band - subsequent CD reissues contain only a fraction of these pictures. Two songs, "By Kind Permission Of" and "Dharma for One," were recorded live at Carnegie Hall.

Due to differences in the songs selected between the US and the UK editions of the album, several different tracklistings exist for newer CD versions, depending on the region they come from. A 1994 CD reissue omits several songs from the original running time in order to fit the album on one disc (most notably "Bouree" and "Teacher," which are not present on either the US or the UK editions), and, depending on the area, has tracks that are available in one country and cannot be found in the other: "Alive and Well and Living In" is omitted from British versions, "Locomotive Breath" is not on American editions, and "Hymn 43" (which was not on the original vinyl release) is on American discs, but unavailable on the British ones. However, a two-disc Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab reissue contains every song selected for the compilation, including the ones that were added later, and the tracks that are region-specific.

The album peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 charts and went gold not long after its release. The title track from the album became Tull's first top 40 hit in the United States, reaching #11, a full three years after it performed well in Britain.

1 Track listing
- 1.1 Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab edition:
  - 1.1.1 Disc one
  - 1.1.2 Disc two
- 1.2 American single-disc reissue
2 Miscellanea
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Ian Anderson unless otherwise indicated

[edit] Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab edition:

[edit] Disc one

"Song for Jeffrey" – 3:20
"Love Story" – 3:02
"Christmas Song" – 3:05
"Living in the Past" – 3:20 (Anderson/Ellis)
"Driving Song" – 2:39
"Bourée" – 3:43 (Bach arr. Jethro Tull)
"Sweet Dream" – 4:02
"Singing All Day" – 3:03
"Teacher" – 4:08
"Witch's Promise" – 3:49
"Inside" – 3:49
"Alive and Well and Living In" – 2:45
"Just Trying to Be" – 1:36

[edit] Disc two

"By Kind Permission Of" – 10:11 (Live track) (Evan)
"Dharma for One" – 9:45 (Live track) (Anderson/Bunker)
"Wond'ring Again" – 4:12
"Hymn 43" – 3:17
"Locomotive Breath" – 4:24
"Life Is a Long Song" – 3:18
"Up the 'Pool" – 3:10
"Dr. Bogenbroom" – 3:59
"For Later" – 2:06
"Nursie" – 1:38

[edit] American single-disc reissue

"Song for Jeffrey" – 3:20
"Love Story" – 3:02
"Christmas Song" – 3:05
"Living in the Past" – 3:20 (Anderson/Ellis)
"Driving Song" – 2:39
"Sweet Dream" – 4:02
"Singing All Day" – 3:03
"Witch's Promise" – 3:49
"Inside" – 3:49
"Alive and Well and Living In" – 2:45
"Just Trying to Be" – 1:36
"By Kind Permission Of" – 10:11 (Live track) (Evan)
"Dharma for One" – 9:45 (Live track) (Anderson/Bunker)
"Wond'ring Again" – 4:12
"Hymn 43" (not included in the UK edition of the album) – 3:17
"Life Is a Long Song" – 3:18
"Up the 'Pool" – 3:10
"Dr. Bogenbroom" – 3:59
"For Later" – 2:06
"Nursie" – 1:38

[edit] Miscellanea

The song "Living in the Past" was written in the rarely-used quintuple meter (5/4), inspired by "Take Five", a classic jazz piece first recorded by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.