The tweak to the title of 1972’s Living In The Past compilation practically invites comment on its dated elements – and in fairness, some of those live drum solos haven’t aged too well. But there remains something about vintage Jethro Tull which, in 2025, still throws up surprises.
Nobody ever sounded quite like them, and the colourful identity established by Ian Anderson’s poeticism and social observation, alongside some quicksilver musicianship, sets them apart from lazy assumptions of what prog was doing in the early 70s.
