The Best of Jethro Tull – The Anniversary Collection
# The Best of Jethro Tull – The Anniversary Collection

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The Best of Jethro Tull – The Anniversary Collection is a greatest hits album by Jethro Tull, released in 1993. It includes some of the band's biggest hits from 1968 to 1991.

## Track listing

### Disc 1

* "A Song for Jeffrey" – 3:19
* "Beggar's Farm" – 4:19
* "A Christmas Song" – 3:07
* "A New Day Yesterday" – 4:09
* "Bourée" (Instrumental) – 3:46
* "Nothing Is Easy" – 4:23
* "Living in the Past" – 3:21
* "To Cry You a Song" – 6:15
* "Teacher" – 4:01
* "Sweet Dream" – 4:02
* "Cross-Eyed Mary" – 4:09
* "Mother Goose" – 3:53
* "Aqualung" – 6:36
* "Locomotive Breath" – 4:25
* "Life Is a Long Song" – 3:19
* "Thick as a Brick" (extract) – 3:02
* "A Passion Play" (extract) – 3:47 ("Magus Perdé")
* "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day" – 3:52
* "Bungle in the Jungle" – 3:39

### Disc 2

* "Minstrel in the Gallery" (Edited version) – 6:10
* "Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die" – 5:40
* "Songs from the Wood" – 4:54
* "Jack-in-the-Green" – 2:30
* "The Whistler" – 3:32
* "Heavy Horses" – 8:57
* "Dun Ringill" – 2:41
* "Fylingdale Flyer" – 4:32
* "Jack-a-Lynn" – 4:42
* "Pussy Willow" – 3:53
* "Broadsword" – 4:59
* "Under Wraps II" – 2:14
* "Steel Monkey" – 3:34
* "Farm on the Freeway" – 6:28
* "Jump Start" – 4:53
* "Kissing Willie" – 3:31
* "This Is Not Love" – 3:54

## Musicians

### Disc 1

* Ian Anderson – flute, balalaika, mandolin, Hammond organ, acoustic guitar, vocals (all tracks)
* Mick Abrahams – electric guitar (tracks 1 – 2)
* Clive Bunker – drums, glockenspiel, percussion (tracks 1 – 14)
* Glenn Cornick – bass, Hammond organ (tracks 1 – 10)
* Martin Barre – electric guitar (tracks 4 – 19)
* Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond bass (tracks 11 – 19)
* Barriemore Barlow – drums (tracks 15 – 19)
* David Palmer – orchestral arrangement and conducting (tracks 3, 10 a 17 – 19)

### Disc 2

* Ian Anderson – flute, balalaika, Hammond organ, acoustic guitar, vocals (all tracks)
* Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond bass (track 1)
* Martin Barre – electric guitar (tracks 1 – 17)
* Barriemore Barlow – drums (tracks 1 – 7)
* John Glascock bass, vocals (tracks 2 – 7)
* David Palmer – orchestral arrangement and conducting (tracks 1 – 7)
* Dave Pegg – bass, mandolin, vocals (tracks 8 – 17)
* Mark Craney – drums (track 8)
* Gerry Conway – drums, percussion (tracks 9 – 11 and 15)
* Peter-John Vettese – keyboards, piano, synthesizer (tracks 9 – 12)
* Doane Perry – drums (tracks 12, 14 a 16 – 17)
* Maartin Allcock – keyboards (track 16)
* Andrew Giddings – keyboards (track 17)

**Guest musicians**

* Lou Toby – string arrangement, conducting (disc 1, track 7)
* Maddy Prior – backing vocals (disc 2, track 2)
* Darryl Way – violin (disc 2, track 6)
* Eddie Jobson – keyboards, electric violin, (disc 2, track 8)
