Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick Album Reaction
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- Jethro Tull is an artist that I should've dug into a long time ago. This album was easily one of the best pieces of music I have ever heard. I was authentically inspired and mesmerized.
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On the original tour they came out and played the complete album, then Ian Anderson announced…”now for our second song”😅
I saw the TAAB2 Live show, and they did the same joke! The second song was TAAB2! And they even played a third song, Locomotive Breath, for the encore.
Epic 2 hours show!
You have been putting a particular emphasis on the flute, acoustic guitar and organ, yet don't overlook the drums. Barriemore Barlow was the glue. His drumming was immaculate.
Barrie Barlow was the most creative drummer ever!
The best england ever produced, according to john bonham, who is the best england ever produced
...Ian Anderson is an amazing artist...I've heard the album more than a thousand times...A Passion Play is another great album...
After 40 years I finally 'got' Passion Play recently... Fuck, it's amazing!
Passion Play…total masterpiece
@@Loy72bob Big time! So many great parts!
What Isn't Neighbor??!!
Yes, they played the full album straight through, with additional music on this tour. Geddy Lee has stated that it is his favorite tour he ever saw and it influenced Rush's desire to be musically technical while also entertaining. First time I saw them was on the Crest of a Knave tour in late '87 and they did an edit of it. There are so many great bands, but for me Jethro Tull did some things that no one else did, I am grateful for their music.
The first time I saw them was for the A Passion Play tour and they played Thick as a Brick as an encore. I don't remember if it was the complete version or an edited one, but the show was almost 3 hours.
This is my official all-time favorite album/song of all time. I found Tull in 1984 and have never looked back.
If you haven’t heard it, you need to give “Songs From The Wood,” a listen.
This album is absolutely incredible. Jethro Tull is one of the best bands to ever pick up instruments. I'm glad that you were so moved by this album. It's a complete treat. The fact that this isn't in my top 3 Tull albums is a compliment to just how good this band is, and not an insult to this album at all. If you like this one, consider their follow-up album, A Passion Play. From what I understand, the band decided to work more sincerely with the concept album idea, and wrote a beautiful and witty journey. Some fans find it too extravagent and complex for its own good, so proceed with caution on it, but if you like musicals or stage theater, and are fine with a jazzier rock than this album, I think you'll appreciate it a lot. If you're less interested in that kind of thing, Songs from the Woods is one of the greatest progressive folk albums ever made.
When you go to a movie theater to see a film, you don't necessarily need popcorn,
But it's extra special when you do.
When you listen to this album, you don't necessarily need to smoke pot,
But it's extra special when you do.
😊
Always be responsible at all times.
Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream.
This is onecof the first albums i bought at 16 in the 70's. Love your playing it! Thanks!
You liked this.... you really MUST MUST MUST review "Baker Street Muse" from the Minstrel in the Gallery Album. It is another epic in the Tull catalogue following on from TAAB and A Passion Play, and is a hidden gem in Tull's repertoire but still a favourite of many Tull fans. If you do review it though you need to see the lyrics as Anderson shows his unique mastery of wordplay throughout the song. Please review and enjoy....you will not be disappointed.
these Jethro Tull albums are a part of me since over 50 years! love it that you react on them ❤ it seems to me you like it as much as i do. good music is eternal.
i found you through Ren. enjoy your reactions very much. your enthusiasm, your ability to ‘hear’ so much. love to you
You are me, 50 years ago, so satisifying to see your joy and surprise! you use words like "fills my soul" and "beautiful"
Tull has been my favorite since I first heard them when I was in highschool, and I'm now 70 years old. Good to see young people discovering their genius.
I saw them perform this song live in June of '72 before I heard the studio album. In that show this song lasted almost an hour and was interspersed with several little Monte Python style skits.
I too saw Tull perform the one hour plus Thick as a Brick in June (11)1972 in Seattle. As much as I love the album, their live performance took it to a whole new level. They played it impeccably and incorporated virtuosic solos and hilarious skits based on the St Cleve Chronicle newspaper articles. It was pure genius. After a 5 minute standing ovation Ian Anderson announced "and now, for our second number..." and they played another 90 minutes from Aqualung and Stand Up. The band was exceptionally powerful, especially the blistering electric guitar work of Martin Barre who just tore the place down. it was without question the best rock concert I ever attended, and I went to a lot of shows through the 70s. I enjoyed your reaction AquaticDoc, wish you could have attended that concert more than 50 years ago!
I saw them in July that year, and it was my first live concert. What a way to start... 😊
Saw them in New York in December of that year. An amazing show.
@@mattbush5848Verry interesting. Greetings from Berlin 👍
Having been to the full show in 1972 it was the greatest concert I've ever seen. They played most of the song. Took an hour and a half. They then played for another hour. Humor with scuba diver, rabbit costumes and great musicianship. Great memories.
I saw them in 97 on the 30th anniversary tour, and they only played the first 3 minutes of thick as a brick, and just Ian and a mandolin. It was a great show but I was disappointed that I didn't get more thick as a brick.
I saw them at Cinn Gardens in 1972. What you hear on the studio recording is what came off the stage. They opened with the entire album. After that Ian Anderson said...and now for our second song proceeding to play the ENTIRE Aqualung album.
❤😮❤
"Biggles" ... A fictional WW1 fighter pilot ace.
The hero of many children's books ... just the man to come and "save the day" in those stories.
I have listened to this album for over 55 years and will continue to till the day I die. The greatest album I have ever heard. An absolute masterpiece!
Not a bad effort, seeing that now in 2023 it's 51 years old! But I agree. "Thick As A Brick" has been the soundtrack of my life from when I was 13 until now at 64 years of age. Nothing better IMHO has ever come close to this.
Well said Daniel! I could not agree with you more!
Great prog concept album: The Power & The Glory by Gentle Giant. They were quite friendly with Tull and opened for them on the Thick as a Brick tour.
You have to listen to Gentle Giant to measure your prog chops.
Yep, Gentle Giant, and it was actually Derek Shulman who convinced Ian Anderson to record TAAB2 in 2012.
At your 57 minute reminds me of cartoon music. Would love to see the whole thing animated. Yes, they toured it in 1972, the whole thing. It was even extended by about 20 minutes with solos and so on. They toured it again in 2012 with Thick as a Brick 2 which is also very satisfying but very different, more of a song format.
Walter, you are really amazing, sharing your thoughts and feelings about music. I'm an old guy. The Thick as a Brick concert was the first concert I ever went to. I was 16 years old. I have been a die hard Tull fan ever since, and have seen the different versions of Ian Anderson and the band about 15 times over the years. Thank you, Walter for appreciating and showcasing the music that I grew up with!
The strings are very beautiful, but I think someone said, "wait, we haven't had any strings yet!" They are the kitchen sink
This album is a masterpiece, definitely on the Mt Rushmore of prog rock. Right up there with Close To The Edge, In the Court Of The Crimson King, and Dark Side Of The Moon (if I had to only pick 3 others, there are so many good ones).
Another great Jethro Tull album similar to this one to check out is Songs From The Wood.
First time watching any of your reacts,bro--- the full TAAB drew me in. Great job! Just want to give an fyi--if you haven't heard anything by Neal Morse--you MUST! He's a modern prog rock legend! Started out with Spock's Beard and wrote 6 albums with them. Also has Transatlantic, Flying Colors, sol concept works and The Neal Morse Band (4 albums- 2 are double concepts). Being you love this Tull album, I highly recommend Neal Morse to you. Maybe a great place to start would be NMB's 'The Grand Experiment' album. Then their double, 'The Similitude Of A Dream'. It's all influenced by the greats- Tull,ELP,Kansas,Rush,Yes,Genesis,later Beatles. Neal knows how to write awesome prog while keeping great catchy songs/motifs flowing. Would love to see you react to some...Cheers! T
Thank you so much for this. Glad to see and read the people enjoying that album embedded into my brain for the rest of my days
It seems to me you will realize the existence of 50 more great band within a year, most of them active in the 70s.
How they toured with this? I think not. I saw them a number of times in the 70s and 80s. Unfortunately not when they were opening act for Jimi Hendrix in the concert hall in Stockholm (my friends did).
Some years later they made the 13 minutes version, as in the video clip, as part of a concert - I was so satisfied! - same red hat and jacket. At that time I might have heard the album 100 times.
In those day so much good music was produced, but so difficult to find. Occasional programs on radio, rarely TV, some music I couldn't find back to, until with TH-cam, 30 years later. Wish you a nice journey when you explore, Minstrel in the Gallery, Songs from the woods, Heavy horses. And after Jethro Tull, all the other bands...
Actually, they toured the whole thing in 72 and again in 2012. they made a video of the 2012 performance which is really good except Ian’s voice
@@jermaschinot Thanks! Information was not easily available back then. I went to my first concert ever (Zappa) 1973. But, of course I should have checked it up now. I know how to do.
I did not see Thick As A Brick live in 1972, but I am certain they played the entire piece. I saw them in 1973 live in Salt Lake City, and they played "A Passion Play" in its entirety which followed TAAB and had the same continuous musical piece format. Fabulous! I had never heard a band duplicate live what they did on record. Of course, it wasn't identical since for example there is only one flute being played live, but to my ears I was astonished. Then, in 2013, Ian Anderson put out "Thick As A Brick 2" with a completely different personnel lineup. My wife and I saw that concert at Ravinia near Chicago. The first half was the entirety of the original TAAB, then intermission, and the second half was TAAB 2 in its entirety. Double fabulous!
Thick As A Brick was played in full on their 1972 tour. I saw JT the first time in 1973 for A Passion Play, again full album live, which occurred to me as identical to the album - amazing. Then in 2013 Ian Anderson toured for a new album Thick As A Brick 2, and the first half was Thick As A Brick in its entirety and the second half was TAAB 2 in its entirety. I am fortunate to have heard TAAB and A Passion Play live both in their entirety. My wife and I saw Jethro Tull a month ago at Ravinia near Chicago, and TAAB was not part of the show, but part of the pre-show music.
Ian is a genius. He would write a section of Taab, bring it in the studio, teach the band, go home write the next section, etc. He claims it took longer to write the album cover than the actual piece. lol They followed Taab up with..... another epic concept piece called A Passion Play and on that tour they did Thick As A Brick start to finish and then A Passion Play front to back and then Ian would make a joke about ...and now for our next song. You are about to travel down one of the most rewarding rabbit holes of your musical journey. A rabbit will play a role in that journey. As an old fart, it does my heart good to watch a younger person experience the magic of this music for the first time. I have Taab in 5.1 surround. They have been issuing Tull "40th anniversary" box sets, they just released the 14th edition, "Broadsword and the Beast". Aqualung is a whole album, I don't know if you've done the whole record?
All the mentions of Monty Python are spot on. Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin contributed to funding Python's first movie, "Holy Grail".
While IA might have intended to satirise the prog rock scene, in the process he also created one of the greatest prog rock albums ever. Thick As A Brick may, on one level, be humorous but it is never a joke. On another level it's a very serious skewering of the class system, the roles that people are forced to adopt in life, about corruption and privilege, wrapped in a world class musical tour de force by a very skilled band. It's genius.
Sorry I'm overflowing your comment section! This is my favorite music of all time.
Just love how the "See there a son is born" in early Part 1 is in 5/8, and the "Man is Born" at the beginning of Side 2 is now in 6/8 so sneakily!
The MSG performance of this song is one of the greatest live music performances of all time. It blows the album away. I'm usually a more of a studio guy, but the MSG performance of TaaB and Pink Floyd's April 1970, California performance of Atom Heart Mother are vast improvements of the album versions of those songs. I don't even like the studio version of Atom Heart Mother, but the aforementioned live is one of my favorite songs.
One of my all time favourites!! Fun to watch your reactions. Great job!!
one of my favorite tull albums. bought the vinyl when it first came out and have listened to it so many times i have all of the lyrics memorized still to this day. 70 years old now and my two favorite bands of all time ? TULL from back then - saw them 3 times live in the early 70's - and now ff to the future- japanese all female metal queens LOVEBITES. still waiting for them to come to the states to fulfill my dream of seeing them live. bucket list for sure
Among all the stated influences, I personally hear a lot of Zappa in this album as well. Some of the longer jams, the social commentary, the humor, the sometimes scatalogical and earthy references ... Ian was definitely a Zappa fan. This album will stand the test of time as one of the greatest ever made.
thanks for this. I love Tull but I have never actually seen the printed lyrics for some of these great tunes. You were so right in saying this is poetry. I learned something after getting into prog in 79. Ian paints such great imagery with his lyrics but I had never thought of poetry.
Also, this is the first time ever hearing this complete album and with headphones. I have only ever head the radio edit. This is definitely a FOR HEADPHONES ONLY
Saw Thick as Brick (both nights) in NYC same with Passion Play have never seen anything like these two shows. Fantastic, hard to believe so long ago!
This was created day by day. Ian would write the lyrics at night and bring them to the band the next day. I think over about a 2 week period. Amazing yes?
For perspective: I listened to it for the first time last night. I'm currently listening to it for the 4th time.
love it, gives me joy@@walterooski
@@walterooski I love it when you youngsters appreciate the stuff I've loved for 50 years! Found you on a HI REN reaction, immediately subscribed & spent hours after work yesterday listening to you react to Tull & The Big Push. Love you, kiddo!
Keep in mind, he was like 24 years old when he wrote this 😮
Upon Thick's release dj Scott Muni of the legendary radio station WNEW- FM New York played the entire album . He also played the entire A Passion Play album .
Lord, how I miss independent radio stations with real DJs.
Rooski, I only became familiar with your channel last month when I viewed some of the videos on your quitting weed. I thought I would look to see what else was here, and came across this, one of my all-time favorite albums. Appreciated your reaction very much and--despite usually abhorring interruptions--I didn't mind yours as they were informative to one who lacks any sort of technical musical training or background. I have attained an age where I don't like to waste time checking details, but if my memory serves me I remember reading somewhere that TAAB was composed in daily chunks by Anderson over a period of several weeks, he would write a part and bring it to the next day's session where the band would work out the music, and the process repeated until it was completed. This is quite unlike Pink Floyd's methodology which was very deliberate and consumed months and months. Both groups created some of the best music out there using different approaches. You might be interested in viewing (for personal enjoyment, not for a reaction video) the cover version of TAAB performed by a group of Berklee College of Music students that is available on youtube, it is extremely well-done despite the obvious complexities of the music.
The hard chords in the middle are the closing of the curtain on side one, and the chords afterward are the curtain opening of side 2 of the vinyl. This work was not underrated at the time, I was in high school when it came out. it went to Number 1 in the USA. We listened to it every day.
It was massive here in Australia as well...
I always hear something new when I listen to this music. Thanks.
"I see you shuffle in the court room, with your rings upon your fingers, and your downey little sidies, and your silver buckle shoes..."
I really related to what you're saying here about the satirical aspect of this album. I didn't realize the Monty Python influence was so strong.
After my cult experience, described in the post below, I went to and graduated from a non-cult college. During that time, I was really impressed and enamored of a lot of rock music that emulated the complexity of classical and/or jazz music, and some of my favorites were Tull, Yes, ELP, and Kansas, for the classical influence, and Mahavishnu and Return to Forever for the jazz. I was a bit of a snob, who missed a lot of the value in music that didn't sound so fancy.
After college, I was eventually influenced by friends to reconsider those tastes, and with exposure to punk, reggae, and new wave, and also soul music, all of which I initially found inferior to my fancy stuff. I came to reject all that prog and art rock, embracing the value of more simplicity in music Which was not really so simple, once I really heard it.
After a while I realized I was being dogmatic about my musical tastes, and allowed myself to enjoy whatever I liked intuitively, regardless of category.
With that, I eventually found that I still could not stand all that prog and art rock, find it too pompous and overblown.
EXCEPT - I found that I still liked and enjoyed Jethro Tull as much as ever, while I continued to have no interest in those others (except also liking Mahavishnu again).
I felt that the reason I still liked Tull was that they sounded like they were not taking themselves so seriously. The others, especially my old fave Kansas, sound intolerably pompous to me, to this day.
So, that sense of humor in JT is what separates them, for me, from the others of similar genre that I now dislike. I have recently learned to love Pink Floyd, who I was not very into back in the day. Roger Waters' political integrity made me connect with them.
Thx for reminding me that I haven’t listened to this in far too long.
Really enjoyable reaction. I've been listening to this album since I found it at a flea market for a $1...in 1977 so wonderful to see such a genuine response.
Re: different versions, note there was a "radio" edit, that ended right as Ian sang, "spin me down the long ages", that was on FM radio for years. More Tull please.
Love that drum solo at 39:52 ... Tulls drum solos were not boring like most other bands, and they were often pretty long and complicated. See - Dark Ages.
Truly a prog masterpiece
1:04:00 - You were talking right before this massive masterful tempo change so I'm not sure you heard it, but that blows me away.
I've loved those album since it first came out. Your reaction was great!
In the spring of '74, I was at a college where the cult I was in trained their ministers, when a large number of ministers and members made a Reformation-like rebellion against the deception and corruption, etc. I remember skipping church services (full of cult propaganda, which I wasn't buying anymore), getting drunk, and laying in bed listening to this album with headphones. It totally blew my mind, in a way that makes it hard to believe, in my memory, that I was not high on weed, which I didn't first try until some months later.
All the lyrics seemed to be spot-on about my current cult situation, especially with the power mongering games of the father and son - perfectly representing to me the cult leader and his charismatic son!
And the music was mind blowing, as well.
By the way, there is a second flute player - lead guitarist Martin Barre also played flute, even before Ian picked it up, and did so on this album. Also, if I remember the credits correctly, I think that is Ian playing the violin in one section!
Great job. I really enjoyed this.....your reactions seemed genuine! I adore this piece of music as well.
"The nursery rhyme winds along"
He's not a poet... he's a bard, a minstrel, a jester, and a badass.😂 Definitely recommend the albums Minstrel in the Gallery, Stormwatch, and Crest of a Knave. Three of my favorites
I would also add that when I bought Thick As A Brick in 1972 while at college, I played nothing but that album for 3 months.
You mentioned The Decemberists. I remember the first time I heard The Crane Wife I was sure there was tons of Tull DNA in there. I have always felt that the landlords daughter segment of The Island would be right at home on Thick as a Brick! Welcome to the rabbit hole!
a late note: it took longer to create the packaging than to write and record the album, the packaging is an essential aspect of understanding the monumental nature of how important Thick as a Brick was as an album. It went to number one, as a 43 min song. Imagine that today. It couldn't happen. And not only did they do it, they went to number one two albums in a row, with long-form, 'single song' albums. Thick as a Brick, and then A Passion Play the next album, which was similar in nature but a bit more segmented. No one can really compare to that sort of audacity.
He's a bard. Saw him a few times in the 70s. Always fun.
This album was also a social commentary on what was going on in the UK. If you read the album cover you'll see. The traditional lords and and commons.
I see I'm late to the party, but let me add some things. He and the band composed this, and rehearsed it to a performance level in a few weeks and went into the studio to record it. All told from start to finish was perhaps 2 months. Yes, everyone had to be on their game as there was no digital funny business. It was not a wurlizer, but a Hammond B3 organ. And a number of classical instruments are used as well, such as tubular bells, glockenspiel, tympani, cello and that fairy tale sound you mentioned is a harpsichord. The flute part which has heavy tremolo is done with a tremolo box which the mic is run through. You can articulate that kind of sound playing the flute (I did play one and Ian was my hero), but you can only do it with your tongue for about 20 seconds...
Yes, real engineering work was done - people today are rank idiots compared to both the musicians and sound engineers back then. Jethro Tull is sometimes described as "The Bard gets a Rock Band". I saw them live in the early 1970's. No, Thick as a Brick was never performed long version, always severely shortened, because of multi tracking on the studio version and so many additional instruments. it does not lend itself well to a live performance, but other Tull songs do.
Try Locomotive Breath, the studio, then watch him do it live 45 years later as follows:
th-cam.com/video/c4JqvK3Fwn8/w-d-xo.html (Locomotive Breath (2001 Remaster))
th-cam.com/video/d76pxiPlxHs/w-d-xo.html (Jethro Tull "Locomotive Breath" (HD - Official) Live at AVO Sessions)
Your statement that ".....Thick as a Brick was never performed long version, always severely shortened,....." is incorrect. Tull performed the complete 40 plus minutes of Thick As A Brick on their world tour showcasing the complete Thick As A Brick in 1972 in the UK, Canada, US, Australia and even Japan. I have bootlegs of some of these concerts, I was there in Australia when they performed it and it is a well-known fact they played TAAB in it's entirety on all of that tour. Anderson even played the complete Thick As A Brick on his 2012 tour.
40:00 - that drum solo and sort of meanders and gets lost, and them comes back joining up with the big pounding bass drum, boom, boom, boom ... and then it drops a beat and picks up and charges full speed ahead - and then gets pulled back like stopping horse by pulling on the reins ... it always amazes me. He just yanks the listener up and down and back and forth and fast and slow.
And the childish flute is like a teasing song like na na-na nah nah. ;-)
Bobstock the... I have not heard the album in forty years. It's got me in tears I sat this one out. Eye Am not part of the mess y'all got going on planet earth. What a wordsmith...
The poet and the wise man
stand behind the gun .... behind the gun.
That is damn near profound. 50 year old music.
LOVE your reaction!
I have never heard REN mention Jethro Tull as an influence but I can’t help thinking this song was at least a subliminal influence for Hi REN with the poetic lyricism and the lack of a popular song structure and the length.❤
Watched this at Oxford Town Hall when it was first released.
They played it through as one piece.
This album came out years before Wish You Were Here.
Guitarist, Martin Barre, sometimes played the flute in Jethro Tull concerts - when Ian was singing or playing the acoustic guitar
Martin also played the flute on his own music projects. When Martin first met Ian, he discovered that they both had been influenced by jazz flautist, Roland Kirk.
When u Play a Passion Play make sure u watch a video around half way point called "The Hare has Lost His Spectacles"
The Bursting Out Tour was my best concert experience ever!!
The music that you know and love would not exist without this album!!!! Truly!!
Biggles was a 1930`s fighter pilot action hero
One of my favorite albums. a couple of thousand years ago, when I first heard it and shared with my buddies..... I was the bomb. ;) I just obtained an old copy on vinyl. Just the album contents alone is enough to make it worth it.
I saw Jethro Tull in 1972 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne Indiana and their entire set list that night was only two songs and they played for almost 2 hours. They started by playing an extended version of "Thick as a Brick" straight through and then encored with "To Cry You a Song" from the Benefit album. It was a great concert and back then tickets for the concert only cost $5. Are you aware that Ian Anderson put out "Thick As A Brick II" in 2012, 40 years after the original, which continues the story? It's isn't as good as the original, what could be, but still worth a listen.
This is why those of us who grew up listening to album rock in the 70's don't bat an eye at the notion of Ren giving us 9 or 13 minutes at a shot! When I love the music, I don't want it to stop.
As for concept albums, a heavier treat for you would be Abigail by King Diamond. It's a continuous ghost story.
Yes ... Ian says in the first concerts they did they played the whole thing ... and it was grueling. Can you even imagine?
Same with Passion Play. Then they broke it up in edits - for the radio.
In spite of the bands efforts, the drummer just won't stop his solo.
Toward he end, he asks if they ever played the full piece in concert. I can enter an unqualified YES! Kosinekin Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 1972 -- they stretched this out to an hour and a half. What I wouldn't give for ab bootleg of this performances!
It's amazing how a joke ended up being the best of the genre.
You could lay the best of Zeppelin, Floyd, Yes, ELP, King Crimson, and this album, on a table and put a gun to my hand and demand I pick one, I'd pick this every time. And I honestly don't even need the second side.
Edit: I just went to clarify something while I'm listening to side two that I absolutely love everything about side too I'm just saying that if I only had side one I'd be completely content with that. But it's a completely flawless album in my opinion.
his guitar is always capo-ed high up on the neck..wonderful stuff...you should start doing some Camel, another amazing underrated prog band from the same time, Andy Latimers guitar is on par with Gilmour.
Martin Barre also plays flute.
I have no clue where my album is so thanks for doing this.
During the major drum fill, that was a flute and a glockenspiel accenting it, and finished off with tympany
Man i love how you get it. You understand why this is so important and the fact they aren't in the RRHOF means that the hall is useless. Ian Anderson is among the greatest writers musicians and performers that ever lived. This era tull is so badass. But their music continues to be good the whole way through.
This album is in my opinion the greatest musical journey of all time.
This may have already been said. I'd suggest Thick As A Brick 1&2 live in Iceland. Absolutely amazing! Both albums played in their entirety!
It's a real winner!😊
on the original tour they started with Brick for about and hour(yes it was actually extended) and then played several hits after including Aqualung and Loco breath.
The three great poets/story tellers of the rock world are of course Ian, Jim Morrison and Robert Plant! What the band played live in later years was pretty much the FM radio edit, we who heard it first on the radio and went on to buy the album got so much more than we ever expected from we we had heard on the air waves! I personally loved “A Passion Play” when it came out but it was not received well at all, even Ian said on reflection at the time it was a bit overdone, decades later it is now regarded as quite an accomplishment, however I don’t know if Ian has changed his mind over time. Surprised that no one has mentioned here that this album came about because critics labeled “Aqualung” as a concept album when it was released, Ian reacted in the negative and to prove his point, this is what he wrote and released next, taught those dumb ass critics a lesson I’d say!
Nice reaction. Someone below mentioned 'Baker St. Muse' - I second that. TAAB is wondrous no doubt. I wrote this evening because the lyric copy you showed was incorrect. Check the original - something as simple as, 'Do you believe in the day?' is also scripted as, 'Do you? Believe in the day!' fyi
Early stuff! Go look for it!
This Was (1968)
Stand Up (1969)
Benefit (1970)
They predate Aqualung and contain some achingly beautiful songs. Then you can come forwards. It is all astonishing.
One of a kind masterpiece! Born out of a middle finger to the record company and concept album BS.
Incredible, Thanks
I'm gonna take a good look at your face before you listen to this.....
😂...yep thought so!
Glad you liked it. Still good for a yearly listen 51 years after first hearing this. Was already a Tull fan but this left me a zombie the first time.
could anyone today write a masterpiece this epic ? i think not. long live ian anderson
Ian Anderson, Lou Reed, Peter Hammill, Al Stewart - should all be remembered for their "poetry" as much as for thier music.
Ian's lyrics always had more than one level to them ... often with a hidden barb.
@@Qkano Anderson's such a thoughtful writer. Even when he's cracking on prog lyricism in this song, he seems incapable of making trite. There's so much meat in this piece and in all of their albums, really. Nice call to Hammill. Absolute genius with the pen.
@@Qkano You left the first poet of the rock world off the list, Jim Morrison, many Doors songs were set to Jim’s poetry!
This is what I used to listen to in college. However, it's hard to see the forest for the trees. With Jimi Hendrix, you can see the forest.
Hi Boy, this is the best album of rock history, The masterpiece between masterpieces!!!
Had the album with the fake newspaper foldout. Just smoke an old columbian brown pot joint and play some c64 games back in early 80s. So fun.
At the end ... I like your comments about the mother of all concept albums, but I think it is more than that, and I think most JT/IA is best when it is more human. Aqualung, Thick As A Brick, Roots To Branches, Zealot Gene all have this quality of somehow being closer to humanity - more relatable.