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“Who is God’s favourite rock star this week?”
An imaginary compilation expanding “A Passion Play” as a double album.
Inspired by various threads on The Steve Hoffman Music Forums.
SIDE A: God & Theatre [21 minutes]
- The Big Top
- Scenario
- Audition
- Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day
- Sailor
- No Rehearsal
SIDE B: Man & Animal [22 minutes]
- First Post (Animelee (1st Dance), part 1)
- Animelee (Animelee (1st Dance), part 2)
- Tiger Toon (Animelee (2nd Dance) reworked as Prelude for A Passion Play)
- Look At The Animals (Law Of The Bungle, part 1)
- Law Of The Bungle (sometimes listed as Tiger Toon, different to Law Of The Bungle, part 1)
- Law Of The Bungle, part 2
- Bungle In The Jungle
SIDE C: Man & Critic [22 minutes]
- Left Right
- Solitaire
- Critique Oblique (Critique Oblique, part 1)
- Post Last (Critique Oblique, part 2)
SIDE D: A Passion Play [22 minutes]
- Forest Dance
- The Foot Of Our Stairs
- Overseer Overture
- Flight From Lucifer
- 10.08 To Paddington
- Magus Perdé
- Epilogue
“A Passion Play” was the follow-up album to 1972’s “Thick As A Brick”. Recording sessions originally took place at the Chateau d’Herouville Studios in France during 1972. These sessions were later dubbed “The Chateau d’Isaster Tapes” as Ian Anderson was unhappy with the challenges of the studio environment.
Back in the UK, Jethro Tull decided to start afresh, and the resulting album was released in July 1973 to less-than-critical acclaim.
This imaginary album is my attempt to reconstruct a double album that could have been released instead, using all available recordings.
Certain songs from the “Chateau d’Isaster” sessions had additional flute overdubs recorded in 1988 before being released on the “Nightcap” rarities compilation in 1993. In most cases I prefer these versions to the Steven Wilson remixes from 2014.
A few of the tracks have different titles on the “Nightcap” album and the 2o14 reissue of “A Passion Play“.
I left off “The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles” (it should appear between “Forest Dance, parts 1 & 2) because it is only funny the first time you hear it, after that it is just jarring.
Sources
- The Chateau d’Herouville Sessions 1972 [2014] Spotify
- A Passion Play [2014] An Extended Performance
- Nightcap: The Unreleased Masters 1973–1991 [1993] My Round: Chateau d’Isaster Tapes
- War Child [1974]