My Favorite Albums – Living in the Past – Jethro Tull

This was the first Jethro Tull album that I owned.

Jethro Tull’s Living in the Past is a particularly unusual album because it was not a conventional studio album at all, but a double-LP compilation assembled in 1972 to bring together the band’s singles, non-album tracks, alternate mixes, outtakes, a few previously released album songs, and two live performances. It was released in the United Kingdom on June 23, 1972,

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My Favorite Albums – Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edgar Allan Poe) – The Alan Parsons Project

The album takes its title from Edgar Allan Poe’s famous collection Tales of Mystery and Imagination and transforms many of Poe’s best-known poems and short stories into musical compositions.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edgar Allan Poe) was the debut album by The Alan Parsons Project and remains one of the most ambitious concept albums of the progressive rock era. Released in the United Kingdom on June 25, 1976, the album marked the beginning of the creative partnership between producer, engineer,

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