Jethro Tull — Benefit
album review

LYRICS FROM "TEACHER"
Well, the dawn was coming, heard him ringing on my bell.
He said, "My name's the teacher, or that is what I call myself.
And I have a lesson that I must impart to you.
It's an old expression, but I must insist it's true.
Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun,
No sense in sitting there hating everyone.
No man's an island and his castle isn't home;
the nest is for nothing when the bird has flown."

Album Review: Benefit was Jethro Tull's third album, and it marked the start of their rise to the top of the album-rock heap. It featured a transition away from their early blues-ish musings into a semi-progressive "thoughtful rock" mode. Ian Anderson's voice still retains most of its back-of-the-throat deepness from that earlier era, but it's still quite effective here combined with Benefit's innovative music and well crafted lyrics. "Teacher," a cryptic life lesson, was probably the best known song on the album, but Benefit features nothing but A+ tunes, including the eerie, almost-scary "To Cry You a Song"; the flowing, grinding "With You There to Help Me"; and the great lighthearted prison dirge, "Inside." There are really no weak spots on Benefit, and that fact helps put this effort among Tull's finest.

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