Jethro Tull - WarChild
Chrysalis  (1974)
Folk-Rock

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LP    10 tracks  (39:07) 
   01   WarChild             04:34
   02   Queen And Country             03:02
   03   Ladies             03:20
   04   Back-Door Angels             05:29
   05   Sealion             03:37
   06   Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day             03:58
   07   Bungle In The Jungle             03:37
   08   Only Solitaire             01:30
   09   The Third Hoorah             04:51
   10   Two Fingers             05:09
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Details
Cat. nummer 202 660-320
UPC (streepjescode) 762185169148
Verpakking Jewel Case
SPARS DDD
Geluid Stereo
Opmerkingen
Date of US Release October 1974 As a return to standard-length songs following two epic-length pieces (Thick As a Brick and A Passion Play), it was inevitable that the material on War Child would lack power. The music was no longer quite able to cover for the obscurity of Tull's lyrics: The title track is reasonably successful, but "Queen and Country" seems repetitive and pointless. "Ladies," by contrast, is one of Tull's folk-based pieces, and one of the prettiest songs on the record, beautifully sung and benefiting from some of Anderson's best flute playing to date. The band is very tight but doesn't get to really show its stuff until "Back-Door Angels," after which the album picks up: "Sealion" is one of Anderson's pseudo-philosophical musings on life, mixing full-out electric playing and restrained orchestral backing, while "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day" is a beautiful, largely acoustic number that was popular in concert. "Bungle in the Jungle," with a title that went over well, got most of the radio play.