M.U. - The Best of Jethro Tull

Infobox Album |
Name = M.U. - The Best of Jethro Tull
Type = Greatest Hits
Longtype = album
Artist = Jethro Tull


Released = January 1976
Recorded = 1968-1975
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 43:17
Label = Chrysalis
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rjtvadokv8w5 link]
Last album = "Minstrel in the Gallery"
(1975)
This album = "M.U. - The Best of Jethro Tull"
(1976)
Next album = ""
(1976)

M.U. - The Best of Jethro Tull, released in 1976, is the first proper greatest hits album by Jethro Tull. It spans the years 1969-75. The earlier "Living in the Past" compilation mainly dealt with non-album material, but this album only features one previously unreleased song, "Rainbow Blues".

"M.U." in the album title stood for "Musician's Union" David Rees, Minstrels in the Gallery: A History of Jethro Tull, SAF Publishing. 1998.] , which probably is a reference to musicians from different line-ups of the band being virtually together on the compilation album.

The album peaked at #44 in the UK charts and #13 in the USA, and went gold in the UK, Australia and New Zealand and Platinum in the USA and Canada.Rees]

Track listing

#"Teacher" – 4:07
#"Aqualung" – 6:34
#"Thick as a Brick (Edit #1)" – 3:01
#"Bungle in the Jungle" – 3:34
#"Locomotive Breath" – 4:23
#"Fat Man" – 2:50
#"Living in the Past" – 3:18
#"A Passion Play (Edit #8)" – 3:28
#"Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of a New Day)" – 4:02
#"Rainbow Blues" – 3:37
#"Nothing Is Easy" – 4:23

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