Editing Repeat – The Best of Jethro Tull – Vol II

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Repeat - The Best of Jethro Tull - Vol II
| type       = greatest
| artist     = [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]]
| cover      = JethroTullRepeatVol2.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 9 September 1977 <small>(UK)</small><br />7 November 1977 <small>(US)</small>
| recorded   = 1969–1975
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Progressive rock]]
| length     = 39:26
| label      = [[Chrysalis Records|Chrysalis]]
| producer   = [[Ian Anderson]]<br />[[Terry Ellis (manager)|Terry Ellis]]
| prev_title = [[Songs from the Wood]]
| prev_year  = 1977
| next_title = [[Heavy Horses]]
| next_year  = 1978
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r41778|pure_url=yes}} Jethro Tull - ''Repeat - The Best of Jethro Tull - Vol II'' (1977) album review by Dave Connolly, credits & releases]</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref>
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'''''Repeat – The Best of Jethro Tull – Vol II''''' is a 1977 [[greatest hits]] [[album]] from [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]], featuring one track which, up to the time of this album's release, had not been issued. The album's first volume was ''[[M.U. – The Best of Jethro Tull]]''.

==Track listing==

{{Track listing
| all_writing = [[Ian Anderson]], except where noted
| title1 = Minstrel in the Gallery
| note1 = Edited version
| length1 = 4:17
| title2 = [[Cross-Eyed Mary]]
| length2 = 4:11
| title3 = A New Day Yesterday
| length3 = 4:10
| title4 = [[Bourrée in E minor|Bourée]]
| note4 = [[Instrumental]]
| writer4 = [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], [[Arrangement|arr.]] by Anderson
| length4 = 3:46
| title5 = [[Thick as a Brick]]
| note5 = Edit #4
| length5 = 3:27
| title6 = War Child
| length6 = 4:37
| title7 = [[A Passion Play]]
| note7 = Edit #9
| length7 = 3:33
| title8 = To Cry You a Song
| length8 = 6:14
| title9 = [[Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die (song)|Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die]] 
| length9 = 5:42
| title10 = Glory Row
| note10 = Previously unreleased 
| length10 = 3:33
}}

==Notes==
* "Thick as a Brick (Edit #4)" consists of the section of Part I beginning with "I've come down from the upper class..." on the [[Thick as a Brick|original album]] (1972).
* "A Passion Play (Edit #9)" consists of the segment identified as "Flight from Lucifer" on a March 1998 [[Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab]] gold CD issue of 1973's ''[[A Passion Play]]'' - this begins at 16:58 in Part II of the current CD issue.
* "Glory Row" is now available as a bonus track on the remastered version of ''[[War Child (album)|War Child]]'' (1974).
* "Glory Row" had been previously made available in the Spanish LP edition of ''[[Aqualung (Jethro Tull album)|Aqualung]]'' (1971) (which was not released until 1975) in place of "[[Locomotive Breath]]", which was already available in ''[[Living in the Past (album)|Living in the Past]]'' (1972).

==Personnel==
* [[Ian Anderson]] – [[Singing|vocals]], [[flute]], [[mandolin]], [[Steel-string guitar|acoustic guitar]], [[guitar]], soprano & alto saxophone, voices, producer<ref>[https://www.discogs.com/Jethro-Tull-Repeat-The-Best-Of-Jethro-Tull-Vol-II/release/2672735 Jethro Tull - ''Repeat - The Best of Jethro Tull - Vol II'' (1977) album releases & credits at Discogs.com]</ref>
* [[Martin Barre]] – acoustic guitar, [[electric guitar]]
* [[John Evan]] – [[accordion]], [[piano]], [[synthesizer]], piano-accordion, [[Organ (music)|Hammond organ]], keyboards on 1, 2, 5-10
* [[Glenn Cornick]] – [[bass guitar]] on tracks 3, 4, 8
* [[Jeffrey Hammond]] – bass guitar on tracks 1, 2, 5–7, 10
* [[John Glascock]] – bass guitar; vocals on track 9
* [[Clive Bunker]] – [[Drum kit|drums]], [[percussion instruments|percussion]] on tracks 2–4, 8
* [[Barriemore Barlow]] – drums, percussion on tracks 1, 5–7, 9, 10
* [[Dee Palmer]] – arranger, [[saxophone]], synthesizer, keyboards, conductor
* [[Maddy Prior]] – backing vocals on 9

===Recording personnel===
* [[Terry Ellis (manager)|Terry Ellis]] – producer
* [[John Burns (audio engineer)|John Burns]] – engineer
* [[Andy Johns]] – engineer
* [[Robin Black (engineer)|Robin Black]] – engineer
* [[Frank Duarte]] – illustrations

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
! Chart (1977)
! Peak<br/>position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian Albums ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref>
| align="center"| 92
|-
{{Album chart|Billboard200|94|artist=Jethro Tull|refname=Billboard 200|rowheader=true|accessdate=June 20, 2024}}
|}

== Notes ==
* Also known as '''''Repeat: The Best of Jethro Tull, Vol. 2''''' or '''''Repeat: The Best of Jethro Tull - Vol II'''''

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.allmusic.com/album/repeat-the-best-of-jethro-tull-vol-2-mw0000190473 Jethro Tull - ''Repeat - The Best of Jethro Tull - Vol II'' (1977) album review by Dave Connolly, credits & releases] at [[AllMusic.com]]
* [https://www.discogs.com/Jethro-Tull-Repeat-The-Best-Of-Jethro-Tull-Vol-II/release/2672735 Jethro Tull - ''Repeat - The Best of Jethro Tull - Vol II'' (1977) album releases & credits] at [[Discogs|Discogs.com]]
* [https://play.spotify.com/album/6ldHzgzoAgWgs2yNYJpZzo Jethro Tull - ''Repeat - The Best of Jethro Tull - Vol II'' (1977) album to be listened] as stream at [[Spotify|Play.Spotify.com]]

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