MenoSunday; Life Lived Easy

Thinking on about the 'desert island discs'; it struck one that everything in the collection is actually an 'album'; singles, as such, were never bought. One or two were given, when black vinyl was still the playing medium (Mack the Knife... The Mighty Quinn... oh yeah, they were the songs....). Picking just one item from an album is, therefore, fraught with the risk that by the time this goes to air, it might be thought that another would be a better representative.

Oh the angst.

As an aside, you did realise that virtually everything I have 'played' you this year represented something out of my personal collection??? I do try to only provide here something that I have already paid money for. Not everything, but most. Thus, in a protracted way, you have already been seeing my DIDs. This is not an excuse to wriggle out of the challenge. No, am just dawdling for time as I muck around in the back of my head which, out of the 27 Jethro Tull albums (you read that right - 27) would be my pick and then which song..................... sigh................ sigh again................ I love Tull for their strongly environmentally and socially aware lyrics which stand as poems without the music. Then with the music, they have an enduring and classic quality. This is borne out by the fact that several  Symphony Orchestras have taken up Tull items in their repertoire.

I have attended no less than three Tull concerts, two in Edinburgh and one in Sydney (it would have been four, but the last one was cancelled due to Ian suffering a major DVT incident; he wrote at length about it on his website (definitely worth a read - very entertaining and informative!) They have always been wonderful and giving performers and on all three occasions, we got at least half an hour more than was scheduled.

Right-oh. Going the Heavy Horses. This clip is brill as it also provides the lyrics (though Ian's always very good in diction, it is nice to read as it goes).