Thick As a Brick
Jethro Tull
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Thick As a Brick, Pt. 1 (1997 Remaster) | Jethro Tull | 22:40 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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Thick As a Brick, Pt. 2 (1997 Remaster) | Jethro Tull | 21:10 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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Thick As a Brick (Live At Madison Square Garden) | Jethro Tull | 11:50 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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Interview With Jethro Tull | Jethro Tull | 16:30 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| Total: 4 Songs |
iTunes Review
Coming off the great success of the conceptual juggernaut Aqualung, Jethro Tull decided to try something even more expansive: a single track that would take up both sides of an LP while musically and lyrically weaving around a multitude of themes. The album cover art (a fictitious newspaper article championing and excoriating a poem by a child prodigy) skewers the composition's "grand statement," which, if pressed, has something to do with how "wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a brick." Leader Ian Anderson's stream-of-consciousness lyrics sound phenomenal, and the band's ability to shift dynamics on hairpin stylistic curves has never been more pronounced. Organ and flute chase one another through dexterous rampages, while the guitars store their energy for the epiphanic power-chord moments. Due to its 45-minute length, the track is hardly the most accessible in the group's catalog. However, it repays with every listen. A progressive rock high point.
Customer Reviews
One of the greatest ever made!
Wow - no reviews.
This is one of the greatest concept albums ever made. This album put Ian Anderson into the category of musical genius. I think genius is an overused word in our world today. In the case of music, Anderson created one of the greatest pieces ever written in rock history.
Lyrically, it is an interesting piece of writing that is serious, yet puts a smile on your face. Musically, only great musicians can pull off the acoustic and rock portions of the album. Barriemore Barlow is the only drummer that could pull off what he did on this album.
My favorite Jethro Tull album, by far.
To enjoy it fully, you need a couch, shoo the wife and kids away and listen to the music. (Mind altering drugs not required, the music does it naturally for you).
Excellent!
Great album, great memories from the 70's. I agree it is musical genius. No one makes albums like this anymore.
Best Tull Album.
This is easily the best and most popular Tull album. It used to have over 6 pages of reviews here but itunes had to delete that version of TAAB on itunes (there were 2 at the time, yet were identicle). In Apple's extreme geniusness, they deleted the much more prominent one with all the ratings and reviews and kept this one, which has... 3 (four counting this one I am writing.)
Biography
Formed: 1967 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s
Top Albums and Songs By Jethro Tull
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Aqualung | Aqualung | 6:36 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Locomotive Breath | The Very Best of Jethro Tull | 4:26 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Bungle In the Jungle | The Very Best of Jethro Tull | 3:36 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Thick As a Brick (Edit No. 1) | The Very Best of Jethro Tull | 3:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Cross Eyed Mary | Aqualung | 4:09 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Locomotive Breath | Aqualung | 4:26 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Aqualung | The Very Best of Jethro Tull | 6:37 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Living In the Past | The Very Best of Jethro Tull | 3:21 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Hymn 43 | Aqualung | 3:19 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of the New Day) | Warchild (Remastered) | 4:12 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
- $9.99
- Genres: Rock, Music, Hard Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Arena Rock
- Released: Apr 1972
- ℗ Digital Remaster 1997 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Chrysalis Records Ltd
