It’s not official yet, but someone over on Steve Hoffman’s forum has come up with this info, with a Nov. 18 release date:
2CD + DVD
The Elevated Edition – Limited
CD 1 (All stereo remixes by Steven Wilson)
1- A New Day Yesterday
2- Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square
3- Bouree
4- Back To The Family
5- Look Into The Sun
6- Nothing Is Easy
7- Fat Man
8- We Used To Know
9- Reasons For Waiting
10- For A Thousand Mothers
Associated Recordings
11- Living In The Past
12- Driving Song
13- Bouree (Morgan version)
Previously unreleased
Original 1969 stereo single mixes
Only released in Japan and on a US FM radio promo
14- Living In The Past (stereo)
15- Driving Song (stereo)
BBC Sessions
Mono, previously released on the 2010 Collector’s Edition
16- A New Day Yesterday
17- Fat Man
18- Nothing Is Easy
19- Bouree
CD 2: Live at The Stockholm Konserthuset 9th January 1969
1- Introduction
2- My Sunday Feeling
3- Martin’s Tune
4- To Be Sad Is A Mad Way To Be
5- Back To The Family
6- Dharma For One
7- Nothing Is Easy
8- A Song For Jeffrey
9- To Be Sad Is A Mad Way To Be (First show version – different lyrics)
Original 1969 mono single mixes
10- Living In The Past (mono)
11- Driving Song (mono)
Radio Spots
Previously released on the 2010 Collector’s Edition
12- Stand Up Radio spot # 1
13- Stand Up Radio spot # 2
DVD (Audio & Video)
1- Steven Wilson remixes in 96/24 PCM stereo and DD/DTS 5.1 surround
2- 96/24 flat transfer of Stand Up original stereo master tapes from 5th June 1969
3- 96/24 flat transfer of original 1969 mono & stereo mixes of Living In The Past & Driving Song
Video footage from Stockholm 1969
To Be Sad Is A Mad Way To Be
Back To The Family
Hurrah! Glad they’ve decided to use the Swedish radio concert (and add the two songs filmed for TV as video). It was always more appropriate to this album than the (admittedly terrific) 1970 Carnegie Hall concert used on the previous deluxe edition. The main album was notable for NOT being remixed by Steven Wilson or anyone else, hence this new edition.
I’ll probably stick with my £3 CD with the two 45s as bonus cuts, but if I see it cheap…..it’s, by a very considerable margin, my favourite Jethro Tull album.
Like Free, also on Island, their debut was a pretty basic heads-down blues LP, too Ten Years After/Fleetwood Mac to be memorable, but the second album is remarkable and still….erm….stands up.
Massive hit too, it spent 5 (five!) weeks at No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart in August/September ’69.
Let’s celebrate this rare moment of harmony, Deram, with a bit of Stand Up (albeit performed a year later, 1970, which is, I know, the point at which steam using starts coming out of your ears…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyZYRNHOm9k
Not exactly, still Golden Age, just…..see ‘Let It Be,’ ‘Bryter Layter,’ ‘McCartney,’ ‘Trader Horne,’ ‘A Beard of Stars,’ ‘Memo From Turner’/’Performance.’
You’re (again) getting confused with 1971. I’ve told you before!
Ah, ‘Thick Ads A Brick is clearly a bridge too far, then?
Great album – looking forward to this.
Presumably the reissue programme will return to chronological order next year with Heavy Horses, which wil be celebrating its 40th anniversary.
I believe Songs From The Wood is next! (They might manage both of those next year – I think SFTW is done, audio-wise, already).
Yes – apologies – a bit of brain fade there!!
They peaked so early.
I know many others will argue for later albums, but for me Ian Anderson / J Tull went supernova with Stand Up and everything else has been the dying embers. And they took a long time to fade to nothing.
I will have to consider buying this.
Agree with this. I love Stand Up but my favourite Tull album is the debut This Was with Mick Abrahams on guitar.
After those two, I can live with selected albums like Heavy Horses, Living In The Past and a couple of “Best Ofs”
But JC, is Mick not a bit too ‘blues boom’-ish?
Exactly, Colin. Anderson is on record saying just that. Which is why poor old Mick left/was asked to leave, I understand.
Although those two Blodwyn Pig LPs have a touch of jazz rock about them.
Yes, that’s the funny thing – Mick left ostensibly to ‘play more blues’ and then made records which were about as close to the jazzy-bluesy-folky-proggy rock of POST-Mick Tull as one could get!
Mick gives great value in this DVD:
The early days are extensively and well covered but then it’s as if the film-makers ran out of interest in the folk-rock era. Still, less than £3…
I think I’ve got that DVD. Is it the one where all the ex-Tull members gather in a London pub?
Possibly the saddest thing I’ve ever seen is the episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks where Mick Abrahams appears on the Where Are They Now segment. It was heartbreaking the way Mick was humiliated by the smartarse talentless bedwetters on the Buzzcocks teams that night.
Although you have to ask, why did he agree to do it?
It used to be on YouTube, but a quick search just now proved fruitless.
No, it’s not that one. That was ‘Living With The Past’. I was always a bit disappointed with the very sanitised/processed sound of those pub reunion clips:
I think it’s in the doc I was recommending where Cornick describes Mick rather witheringly as ‘Three-lick Mick’.
“Not available in your country”
Those Eagle Rock video people are on the ball.
Joe Bonamassa picked This Was as one of his top 10 favourite records recently and singled Mick out for special praise.
Joe B – the one-man reincarnation of the ‘blues boom’. *shivers*
Needless to say, among Joe’s other pics were The Beano Album and Jeff Beck’s Truth.
“Stand Up is titanic in its delivery and its ingenuity.” says Joe
http://alanpaul.net/2011/12/joe-bonamassa-and-the-black-crowes-pick-their-favorite-blues-albums-30-vital-titles/
Got a lot of time for Bonamassa. A fine player of electric and acoustic blues, gives due recognition and promotion to the artists who have influenced him or whose songs he is playing.
Well said, JW,
Bonamassa is the real deal and really respects the music made years before he was born.
Amazingly, lads, I’ve just had lunch with a muso friend who asked’ The Beano album – is it really any good?’ He’d considered buying it a few times but always thought it would be one of those things that doesn’t live up to the hype.
How did it come up in conversation? I hope you told him it would prove to be a life-changing experience?
Seriously though, unless your friend is already open to that style of blues – and takes the historical aspect into account – he may well fail to see what the fuss is about.
I actually can’t remember, but my friend (a pro singer/songwriter and occasional electric band leader) has lots of influences (mostly American) – I was surprised recently when he said the key influence on his first CD’s booklet design/pic montage (back in 1994) was Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Blues Jam In Chicago’ album.
But I did explain how a lot of the fuss was about the pioneering way the sound was recorded, the then-impressive guitar/amp sound etc. I still haven’t actually heard the thing, you know! (only snatches here and there – enough to know the sound of it…)
As I keep saying, it’s all a matter of context. It’s been done equally well if not better since, but the Beano Album was the blueprint for so much that followed.
It’s like looking at a modern Ferrari and wondering why the Model T Ford was so important.
Phew, did it really take 17 (Tull reference ahoy!) posts till the first mention of the ‘Beano’ album?
You guys are getting lame.
And verily it is written (on whatever they write things on up there) that whenever two or more old blokes are gathered together, then it is decreed that talk shall inevitably turn to the sacred Beano Album.
My days has been thrown into upheaval – reached for the Blues in Chicago disc and not in the rack. Not under blues or Rock – Mac.
Crisis.
Some great clean understated playing by Green on that record.
Point of detail here. The original 1969 UK version of the album was titled Blues Jam At Chess
Perhaps because Chess studios meant very little to American record buyers, the US version was given a new cover and re-titled Fleetwood Mac in Chicago.
Then, when the CD arrived it was again re-titled as Blues Jam In Chicago Vol. I & II.
And yes, some great playing from both Green and Danny Kirwan on that album, Some great between-song banter from Green and Mike Vernon too.
Well, I’m in. Though now wondering if it’s going to be the same format as the 4-disc sets.
Ah, but will it have the “stand up” cut-outs of the band like on the early LP? Here’s a couple I made earlier
http://i.imgur.com/ByoNKFO.jpg
Nearly all of the previous CD reissues had an exact (and working) reproduction of the pop-up thingy. I’m pretty certain the new edition will come in the standard hardcover book style, and there’s enough space in there for it.
Indeed. Let’s hear it for woodcarver James Grashow
Although the first couple of CD versions didn’t have the pop-ups and even later pressings of the LP dispensed with it.
There’s a picture of the new set on SDE: http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/jethro-tull-stand-up-the-elevated-edition-2cddvd-deluxe-set/#more-125713
Looks great. I love seeing those miniaturised versions of artwork we know so well
Sorry all been on hols. ..late to the discussion. ..this is a splendid album though nowhere near my favourite. Looking forward to it nonetheless.
We were getting worried there, Twang. It was getting close to ringing up Ian and asking him to postpone the release until all the hedgerows and ditches in the Bedfordshire area could be searched…
Public Service Announcement:
Best online price would seem to be http://www.spincds.com at £19.99
This compares to an astonishing £35.99 at the tax-dodgers.
That’s a very good price – it’s £25.99 from Burning Shed.
Bear this in mind: I ordered something from Spin CDs a while back, deliberately giving my modest business to someone other than the tax dodgers, and was very disappointed that it didn’t arrive for about three weeks after the release date (when the item was definitely available elsewhere).
It’s official! Just been offered opportunity to interview IA about it. 18th Nov release. Press release:
JETHRO TULL’S STAND UP: THE ELEVATED EDITION
The Band’s Second Album Is Expanded For A 2CD/1DVD Set That Features Rare And Unreleased Music, Plus Live Footage From A 1969 Concert In Sweden
Available On November 18th From Parlophone
LOS ANGELES – Jethro Tull’s second album, Stand Up, marked an early turning point for the band with the addition of guitarist Martin Barre along with Ian Anderson’s introduction of folk-rock influences to the group’s blues-based sound. Released in the summer of 1969, Stand Up rose quickly to the top of the U.K. Albums Chart, and eventually earned gold certification in the U.S.
This fall, Parlophone will release a deluxe version of the album as a 2CD/1DVD set. STAND UP (THE ELEVATED EDITION) will be available on November 18th.
Highlights from the set include:
– Original album and bonus tracks (including the previously unreleased “Bouree”) remixed in 5.1 surround and stereo by Steven Wilson
– 96/24 flat transfer of the original stereo master tapes
– 96/24 flat transfer of the original mono and stereo mixes of “Living In The Past” and “Driving Song”
– Video of the band performing live in January 1969
– Presented in the now familiar book sized packaging that includes a 112-page booklet with an extensive history of the album, track-by-track annotations by Ian Anderson, plus rare and unseen photographs
– Includes the original album’s pop-up book artwork designed by James Grashow
Stand Up was the first album where Anderson controlled the music and lyrics, resulting in a group of diverse songs that ranged from the swirling blues of “A New Day Yesterday” and the mandolin-fueled rave-up of “Fat Man,” to the group’s spirited re-working of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Bouree in E Minor.” In a recent interview, Anderson picked Stand Up as his favorite Jethro Tull album, “because that was my first album of first really original music. It has a special place in my heart.”
The first disc features Steven Wilson’s new stereo mixes of the original album, along with a number of rare recordings, including an unreleased version of “Bouree.” Other highlights include four songs recorded at the BBC, plus stereo single mixes for “Living In The Past” and “Driving Song.”
The second disc captures Jethro Tull performing live in Sweden, where the band opened for Jimi Hendrix in January 1969. Recorded only a few weeks after Barre joined the band, the concert includes songs from Tull’s debut album (“A Song For Jeffery” and “My Sunday Feeling”), as well as two songs destined for Stand Up: “Back To The Family” and “Nothing Is Easy.” Rounding out the disc are mono single mixes for “Living In The Past” and “Driving Song,” plus two radio spots promoting the album.
The DVD includes concert footage of the band performing “To Be Sad Is A Mad Way To Be” and “Back To The Family.” The disc also features Steven Wilson’s remix of the original album in PCM stereo and DD/DTS 5.1 surround sound; a 96/24 flat transfer of the original stereo master tapes; plus a 96/24 flat transfer of the original mono and stereo mixes of “Living In The Past” and “Driving Song.”
STAND UP: THE ELEVATED EDITION
Track Listing:
CD1: Stereo Mixes by Steven Wilson
1. “A New Day Yesterday”
2. “Jeffery Goes To Leicester Square”
3. “Bouree”
4. “Back To The Family”
5. “Look Into The Sun”
6. “Nothing Is Easy”
7. “Fat Man”
8. “We Used To Know”
9. “Reasons For Waiting”
10. “For A Thousand Mothers”
11. “Living In The Past”
12. “Driving Song”
13. “Bouree” – Morgan Version*
14. “Living In The Past” – Original 1969 Stereo Single Mix
15. “Driving Song” – Original 1969 Stereo Single Mix
16. “A New Day Yesterday” – BBC Sessions
17. “Fat Man” – BBC Sessions
18. “Nothing Is Easy” – BBC Sessions
19. “Bouree” – BBC Sessions
CD2: Live at The Stockholm Konserthuset (January 9, 1969)
1. Introduction
2. “My Sunday Feeling”
3. “Martin’s Tune”
4. “To Be Sad Is A Mad Way To Be”
5. “Back To The Family”
6. “Dharma For One”
7. “Nothing Is Easy”
8. “A Song For Jeffery”
9. “To Be Sad Is A Mad Way To Be” – first show version
10. “Living In The Past” – Original 1969 Mono Single Mix
11. “Driving Song” – Original 1969 Mono Single Mix
12. Stand Up Radio Spot #1
13. Stand Up Radio Spot #2
DVD1: Audio and Video
Steven Wilson remixes in 96/24 PCM stereo and DD/DTS 5.1 surround
96/24 flat transfer of Stand Up original stereo master tapes from June 5, 1969
96/24 flat transfer of original mono and stereo mixes of “Living In The Past” and “Driving Song”
Video footage from Stockholm 1969: “To Be Sad Is A Mad Way To Be” and “Back To The Family”
* Previously Unreleased
Thank goodness it’s not a Benefit re-re-reissue, of he’d have Nothing To Say…
Let’s have some New Day Yesterday…
Here’s a young Joe Bonamassa (he said hopefully) doing a passable version of A New Day Yesterday with a bit of Yes thrown in at the end