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 hits from 1968 to 1991.

Track listing

Disc one

"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 two

"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 one 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 two 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)

Charts Chart (1993–1994) Peakposition Australian Albums (ARIA) N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart. 112

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