Rock Island (album)
Rock Island is the 17th studio album by the British rock group Jethro Tull, released in 1989. The album continued the hard rock direction the band took on the previous effort, Crest of a Knave (1987). The line-up now included Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, Dave Pegg and drummer Doane Perry in his first full recording with the band, although he was already a member of Jethro Tull since 1984. Without a permanent keyboard player, the role was shared by Fairport Convention's Martin Allcock and former Tull member Peter Vettese.
Rock Island went Gold in the UK, with good sales also in Germany, were peak the Nº 5. Good sales also for the "Kissing Willie" single, that reach the Nº 6.[3]
The staging on the 1989 tour supporting Rock Island featured projected silhouettes of lithe dancers during the song "Kissing Willie", ending with an image that bordered on pornographic. The song "Big Riff and Mando" reflects life on the road for the relentlessly touring musicians, giving a wry account of the theft of Barre's prized mandolin by a stage-struck fan.
Track listing
All tracks written by Ian Anderson.
|
|
| 1. | "Kissing Willie" | 3:32 |
| 2. | "The Rattlesnake Trail" | 4:02 |
| 3. | "Ears of Tin" | 4:55 |
| 4. | "Undressed to Kill" | 5:25 |
| 5. | "Rock Island" | 6:54 |
|
|
| 1. | "Heavy Water" | 4:12 |
| 2. | "Another Christmas Song" | 3:32 |
| 3. | "The Whaler's Dues" | 7:53 |
| 4. | "Big Riff and Mando" | 5:58 |
| 5. | "Strange Avenues" | 4:10 |
|
|
|
| 11. | "Christmas Song" (Live) | 3:06 |
| 12. | "Cheap Day Return/Mother Goose" (Live) | 3:10 |
| 13. | "Locomotive Breath" (Live) | 3:38 |
- The bonus tracks were recorded live in Zurich, Switzerland on 13 October 1989. They had previously been released on the UK CD single of "Another Christmas Song".
Personnel
- Jethro Tull
- Additional personnel
- Martin Allcock – keyboards on tracks 1 & 10
- Peter Vettese – additional keyboards on tracks 3, 4, 5 & 6
- Jim Gibson - Illustrations
- Mark Tucker - Mixing
References
|
|---|
|
|
|
| Studio albums | |
|---|
|
| Live albums | |
|---|
|
| Compilations | |
|---|
|
| Boxed sets | |
|---|
|
| Videos | |
|---|
|
| Singles / EPs |
- "Sunshine Day"/"Aeroplane"
- "A Song for Jeffrey"/"One for John Gee"
- "Love Story"/"Christmas Song"
- "Living in the Past"/"Driving Song"
- "Sweet Dream"/"Reasons for Waiting"
- "Bourée"/"Fat Man"
- "The Witch's Promise"/"Teacher"
- "Inside"/"Alive and Well and Living In" (UK)/"A Time for Everything" (US)
- "Hymn 43"/"Mother Goose"
- "Life Is a Long Song"/"Up the Pool"/"Doctor Bogenbroom"/"From Later"/"Nursie"
- "A Passion Play" (Edit #8)/"A Passion Play" (Edit #9)
- "A Passion Play" (Edit #6)/"A Passion Play" (Edit #10)
- "Bungle in the Jungle"/"Back-Door Angels"
- "Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day)/"Sealion"
- "Minstrel in the Gallery"/"Summerday Sands"
- "Living in the Past"/"Requiem" (UK)/"Christmas Song" (US)
- "Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die"/"Rainbow Blues" (UK)/"Bad-Eyed and Loveless" (US)
- "Locomotive Breath"/"Fat Man"
- "The Whistler"/"Strip Cartoon"
- "Moths"/"Life Is a Long Song"
- "A Stitch in Time"/"Sweet Dream"
- "North Sea Oil"/Elegy"
- "Home"/Warm Sporran"
- "Working John, Working Joe"/Fylingdale Flyer"
- "Beastie"/"Pussy Willow"
- "Fallen On Hard Times"/Broadsword"
- "Lap of Luxury"/Astronomy"
- "Living in the Past"/"Cross-Eyed Mary"
- "Coronach"/"Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow"
- "Farm on the Freeway"/"Said She Was a Dancer"
- "Steel Monkey"/"Down at the End of Your Road"
- "Said She Was a Dancer"/"Dogs in the Midwinter"
- "Part of the Machine" (Edit)/"Stormy Monday Blues"/"Lick Your Fingers Clean"/"Minstrel in the Gallery"
- "Kissing Willie"/"Heavy Water"
- "Another Christmas Song"/"Intro - A Christmas Song"
- "Rocks on the Road"/"Rocks on the Road" (Live)/"Bouree" (Live)/"Jack-A-Lynn"/"Night in the Wilderness"/"Jump Start"
- "Living in the (Slightly More Recent) Past"
- "Bends Like a Willow"/It All Trickles Down"
|
|---|
|
| Tours | |
|---|
|
| Related | |
|---|
[1]