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Bursting Out | ||||
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Live album by | ||||
Released | 22 September 1978 | |||
Recorded | May-June 1978 | |||
Genre | Progressive rock | |||
Length | 93:31 [1] | |||
Label | Chrysalis | |||
Producer | Ian Anderson | |||
Jethro Tull chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
Rolling Stone | (mixed+) [4] |
Bursting Out is a 1978 live double album by the rock band Jethro Tull. The album was recorded during the band's European Heavy Horses Tour in May/June of that year.
The exact date for every single song has not been made public, but the introduction by Claude Nobs, most of "Flute Solo Improvisation", "Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die", "Aqualung", "Locomotive Breath" and "The Dambusters March" were recorded at the Festhalle in Bern, Switzerland, on May 28, 1978. The Bern show was recorded on a 24-track, while the rest of the shows were recorded on an 8-track. Ian Anderson recalled going through "hours and hours" of recordings in order to select the best takes. Additional sweetening was done at Maison Rouge Studio in June 1978. [5]
A spelling error on the spine of the first US, Canada, Spain and Sweden LP pressings listed the title as "Busting Out".
The album was later re-released as a double-disc CD in the UK and Europe. The original CD release in the United States was only one disc, with three tracks ("Quatrain", "Sweet Dream" and "Conundrum") omitted and some of the stage banter shortened to fit the 80 minutes running length. The double-disc 1990 CD version in the UK and Europe incorporated the first track, the introductions, in the song that followed. In 2004, the complete album was remastered and released worldwide as a two-disc set, with the introductions as separate tracks. A deluxe remixed edition is scheduled to be released June 21, 2024.
All tracks are written by Ian Anderson, except where noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Introduction by Claude Nobs" | Claude Nobs | 0:50 |
2. | "No Lullaby" (from Heavy Horses) | 4:48 | |
3. | "Sweet Dream" (single) | 6:30 | |
4. | " Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day" (from War Child) | 4:30 | |
5. | "Jack in the Green" (from Songs from the Wood) | 3:13 | |
6. | "One Brown Mouse" (from Heavy Horses) | 3:53 | |
7. | "A New Day Yesterday" (from Stand Up) | 2:27 | |
8. | "Flute Solo Improvisation / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Bourée [medley]" ( Instrumental; from Stand Up) | Anderson / Traditional, arr. Anderson / Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Anderson | 6:08 |
9. | " Songs from the Wood" (from Songs from the Wood) | 2:40 | |
10. | " Thick as a Brick" (from Thick as a Brick) | Anderson, Gerald Bostock | 12:27 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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11. | "Introduction by Ian Anderson" | 0:43 | |
12. | "Hunting Girl" (from Songs from the Wood) | 5:45 | |
13. | " Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die" (from Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!) | 3:57 | |
14. | "Conundrum" (Instrumental) | Martin Barre, Barriemore Barlow | 6:57 |
15. | "Minstrel in the Gallery" (from Minstrel in the Gallery) | 5:41 | |
16. | " Cross-Eyed Mary" (from Aqualung) | 3:58 | |
17. | "Quatrain" (Instrumental) | Barre | 1:33 |
18. | " Aqualung" (from Aqualung) | Anderson, Jennie Franks | 8:38 |
19. | " Locomotive Breath" (from Aqualung) | 5:33 | |
20. | "The Dambusters March" (Instrumental) | Eric Coates | 3:26 |
Chart (1978) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums ( Kent Music Report) [6] | 20 |
Austrian Albums ( Ö3 Austria) [7] | 16 |
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM) [8] | 24 |
German Albums ( Offizielle Top 100) [9] | 16 |
Norwegian Albums ( VG-lista) [10] | 20 |
New Zealand Albums ( RMNZ) [11] | 19 |
UK Albums ( OCC) [12] | 17 |
US Billboard 200 [13] | 21 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada ( Music Canada) [14] | Gold | 50,000^ |
United Kingdom ( BPI) [15] | Silver | 60,000^ |
United States ( RIAA) [16] | Gold | 500,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |