title: The Best of Jethro Tull – The Anniversary Collection
text: # The Best of Jethro Tull – The Anniversary Collection
  
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  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 biggest hits from 1968 to 1991.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  ### Disc 1
  
  * "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 2
  
  * "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 1
  
  * 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 2
  
  * 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)
  