Stand Up (Jethro Tull album)

Stand Up
Studio album by Jethro Tull
Released	1 August 1969 (1969-08-01)
Recorded	April 1969 at Morgan Studio, London
Genre	Progressive rock, hard rock, folk rock
Length	37:48
Label	Island (UK) Reprise (US)/(Canada)
Producer	Ian Anderson and Terry Ellis
Jethro Tull chronology
This Was (1968) Stand Up (1969) Benefit (1970)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Rolling Stone
Disc and Music Echo	(Very favourable)
Robert Christgau	B−

Stand Up is the second album by Jethro Tull. Before this album, the band's original guitarist Mick Abrahams resigned because of musical differences with Ian Anderson. Abrahams wanted to stay with the blues-rock sound of This Was, while Anderson wished to branch out into other musical forms.

Stand Up represents the first album project on which Anderson was in full control of the music and lyrics. It also marks the first appearance of guitarist Martin Barre, who appeared on every Jethro Tull album from this point on. The album goes in a different direction from Ian Anderson's earlier work, revealing influences from Celtic, folk, and classical music. In particular, the song "Fat Man" showed an interest in unusual instrumentation, as Ian Anderson played mandolin, one of the first times the instrument had been used by a rock band. The instrumental "Bourée" (one of Jethro Tull's better-known songs) is a jazzy re-working of "Bourrée in E minor" by J.S. Bach.

The album reached #1 on the British charts. The gatefold album cover, in a woodcut style designed by artist James Grashow, originally opened up like a children's pop-up book, so that a cut-out of the band's personnel stood up — evoking the album's title. Stand Up won New Musical Express's award for best album artwork in 1969.

The album was re-issued in 1973 by Chrysalis Records and again in 2001 as a digital remaster. In 1989, an MFSL remaster was released. The album was reissued on 5 Oct 2010. The deluxe reissue includes six bonus tracks on disc one, and two additional discs of live material recorded at Carnegie Hall on 4 November 1970, including a DTS surround mix.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Ian Anderson unless otherwise indicated. 

Standard (CD, LP and cassette version)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"A New Day Yesterday"	4:10
2.	"Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square"	2:12
3.	"Bourée" (J. S. Bach arr. Anderson)	3:46
4.	"Back to the Family"	3:48
5.	"Look into the Sun"	4:20
6.	"Nothing Is Easy"	4:25
7.	"Fat Man"	2:52
8.	"We Used to Know"	4:00
9.	"Reasons for Waiting"	4:05
10.	"For a Thousand Mothers"	4:13
Total length:		37:48

2001 Digital Remaster
No.	Title	Length
11.	"Living in the Past"	3:23
12.	"Driving Song"	2:44
13.	"Sweet Dream"	4:05
14.	"17"	3:07
Total length:		51:07

2010 Deluxe Edition CD 1: Stand Up

1. "A New Day Yesterday" [2001 Digital Remaster]
2. "Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square" [2001 Digital Remaster]
3. "Bourée" [2001 Digital Remaster]
4. "Back to the Family" [2001 Digital Remaster]
5. "Look into the Sun" [2001 Digital Remaster]
6. "Nothing Is Easy" [2001 Digital Remaster]
7. "Fat Man" [2001 Digital Remaster]
8. "We Used to Know" [2001 Digital Remaster]
9. "Reason for Waiting" [2001 Digital Remaster]
10. "For a Thousand Mothers" [2001 Digital Remaster]
11. "Living in the Past" [2001 Digital Remaster]
12. "Driving Song" [2001 Digital Remaster]
13. "Sweet Dream" [2001 Digital Remaster]
14. "17" [2010 Digital Remaster]
15. "Living in the Past" [Original Mono Single Version] [2001 Digital Remaster]
16. "Bourée" [Top Gear BBC Radio Session]
17. "A New Day Yesterday" [Top Gear BBC Radio Session]
18. "Nothing Is Easy" [Top Gear BBC Radio Session]
19. "Fat Man" [Top Gear BBC Radio Session]
20. Stand Up (US Radio Spot #1) [2010 Digital Remaster]
21. Stand Up (US Radio Spot #2) [2010 Digital Remaster]

CD 2: Live at Carnegie Hall

1. "Nothing Is Easy"
2. "My God"
3. "With You There to Help Me"/"By Kind Permission Of" (John Evan)
4. "A Song for Jeffrey"
5. "To Cry You a Song"
6. "Sossity, You're a Woman"/"Reasons for Waiting"/"Sossity, You're A Woman"
7. "Dharma for One" (Ian Anderson/Clive Bunker)
8. "We Used to Know"
9. Guitar Solo (Martin Barre)
10. "For a Thousand Mothers"

DVD: Live at Carnegie Hall [DTS Surround Mix, No Video]

1. Introduction
2. "Nothing Is Easy"
3. "My God"
4. "With You There to Help Me"/"By Kind Permission Of" (Evan)
5. "A Song for Jeffrey"
6. "To Cry You a Song"
7. "Sossity, You're a Woman"/"Reasons for Waiting"/"Sossity, You're a Woman"
8. "Dharma for One" (Anderson/Bunker)
9. "We Used to Know"
10. Guitar Solo (Barre)
11. "For a Thousand Mothers"

Chart positions

Chart	Year	Peak position
UK Albums Chart	1969	1

Preceded by According To My Heart by Jim Reeves From Elvis in Memphis by Elvis Presley

UK Albums Chart number-one album 9 August 1969 - 30 August 1969 6 September 1969 – 20 September 1969

Succeeded by From Elvis in Memphis by Elvis Presley Blind Faith by Blind Faith

Personnel

• Glenn Cornick: bass guitar
• Clive Bunker: drums, percussion
• Martin Lancelot Barre: electric guitar, flute
• Ian Anderson: flute, acoustic guitar, Hammond organ, piano, balalaika, mouth organ, vocals
• Strings arranged and conducted by David Palmer
• Andy Johns: engineering and mixing