25th Anniversary Box Set explained

25th Anniversary Box Set
Type:box
Artist:Jethro Tull
Cover:Jethro tull 25.jpg
Recorded:1969–92
Genre:Rock
Length:286:24
Label:EMI
Producer:Ian Anderson
Prev Title:A Little Light Music
Prev Year:1992
Next Title:The Best of Jethro Tull – The Anniversary Collection
Next Year:1993

25th Anniversary Box Set is a 1993 limited edition box set by Jethro Tull. It includes some of the band's best-known compositions from 1969 to 1992, many of them previously unavailable in the versions presented here. It was the second Jethro Tull box-set in five years, the first being the 3 CD/ 5 LP/ 3 Cassette 20 Years of Jethro Tull.

Four CDs

The CDs are housed in a mock cigar-box, along with a booklet featuring extensive notes and photographs, sealed with a label bearing an image of Ian Anderson.

The four CDs are:

Track listing

Disc One: Remixed Classic Songs

  1. "My Sunday Feeling"
  2. "A Song for Jeffrey"
  3. "Living in the Past"
  4. "Teacher"
  5. "Sweet Dream"
  6. "Cross-Eyed Mary"
  7. "The Witch's Promise"
  8. "Life Is a Long Song"
  9. "Bungle in the Jungle"
  10. "Minstrel in the Gallery"
  11. "Cold Wind to Valhalla"
  12. "Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!"
  13. "Songs from the Wood"
  14. "Heavy Horses"
  15. "Black Sunday"
  16. "Broadsword"

Disc Two: Carnegie Hall, New York City, New York, 1970

  1. "Nothing Is Easy"
  2. "My God"
  3. "With You There to Help Me"
  4. "A Song for Jeffrey"
  5. "To Cry You a Song"
  6. "Sossity: You're a Woman"
  7. "Reasons for Waiting"
  8. "We Used to Know"
  9. "Guitar Solo"
  10. "For a Thousand Mothers"

Disc Three: The Beacons Bottom Tapes

  1. "So Much Trouble"
  2. "My Sunday Feeling"
  3. "Some Day the Sun Won't Shine for You"
  4. "Living in the Past"
  5. "Bourée" (Instrumental)
  6. "With You There to Help Me"
  7. "Thick as a Brick"
  8. "Cheerio"
  9. "A New Day Yesterday"
  10. "Protect and Survive" (Instrumental)
  11. "Jack-A-Lynn"
  12. "The Whistler" (Instrumental)
  13. "My God"
  14. "Aqualung"

Disc Four: Pot Pourri Live Across the World & Through the Years

  1. "To Be Sad Is a Mad Way to Be" (Recorded at Stockholm Concert Hall, Stockholm, Sweden – 9 January 1969)
  2. "Back to the Family" (Recorded at Stockholm Concert Hall, Stockholm, Sweden – 9 January 1969)
  3. "A Passion Play (Extract)" (Recorded at Palais des Sports, Paris, France – 5 July 1975)
  4. "Wind-Up/Locomotive Breath/Land of Hope and Glory" (Recorded at Golders Green Hippodrome, London, England – 2 February 1977)
  5. "Seal Driver" (Recorded at Congress Centrum, Hamburg, Germany – 8 April 1982)
  6. "Nobody's Car" (Recorded at Hammersmith Apollo, London, England – 9 September 1984)
  7. "Pussy Willow" (Recorded at Hammersmith Apollo, London, England – 9 September 1984)
  8. "Budapest" (Recorded at Leysin Festival, Leysin, Switzerland – 10 July 1991)
  9. "Nothing Is Easy" (Recorded at Leysin Festival, Leysin, Switzerland – 10 July 1991)
  10. "Kissing Willie" (Recorded at Tallinn Festival, Tallinn, Estonia – 20 July 1991)
  11. "Still Loving You Tonight" (Recorded at Hammersmith Apollo, London, England – 8 October 1991)
  12. "Beggar's Farm" (Recorded at Beasley Theater Quad, Pullman, Washington – 24 October 1992)
  13. "Passion Jig" (Instrumental) (Recorded at Riviera Theater, Chicago, Illinois – 10 October 1992)
  14. "A Song for Jeffrey" (Recorded at Riviera Theater, Chicago, Illinois – 11 October 1992)
  15. "Living in the Past" (Recorded at Theatre St. Denis, Montreal, Quebec, Canada – 9 November 1992)