Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick
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Artist: Jethro TullEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-06-16
Music Label: Capitol
Product features:
- JETHRO TULL THICK AS A BRICK
- Thick As A Brick
- Thick As A Brick
- Thick As A Brick (Live At Madison Square Garden)
- Interview With Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, Martin Barre And Jeffrey Hammond
Music reviews of Thick As a Brick
Music Review: "g_ _r"
Rating: 5 Stars
Luis Mejia (son) - The previous Aqualung resulted in a smashing and critical success among Tull's works, but possessing a great fame, it also marked certain controversies about if the album was or wasn't a concept album, Anderson denied it was a concept album, but despite this everyone seemed to misunderstand an instead took Aqualung as a concept album. In a flush of anger, Anderson and the rest of Jethro Tull released the concept album Thick As A Brick, to stop the anxieties about a concept album, and in its structure, its notorious that Anderson composed a huge, epic masterpiece, while the main point of the concept album remains as a big parody of a concept album, bringing an impressive theme about a boy named "Gerald Bostock", who is disqualified in the last minutes of a poetry contest because, despite his poem is a crude and very serious perspective of the world by an 8 years old boy, it was considerated too insulting, while a series of controversies are unleashed (this you'll find if you read all the paper's content), so this album was an Anderson's exagerate warning about "this is what happens when I get mad". Despite its extremely humorous content, the album contains only one 46 minutes long song, while it becomes much more recognizable when dividing it into two parts (like the LP version). Being an uncanny masterpiece, it may be regarded as their only true progressive rock album, the strong varieties of styles in the song "Thick As A Brick" are some times lilting, sometimes soaring for its meaningful, conceptual lyrics, although while listening to the ongoing lyrics, its more of a mixture of poems' fragments to make it sound better, affecting its cohersion. Its main chorus and most memorable/recognizable mood is the somewhat woods-like, theatrical, medieval atmosphere of the acoustic guitar penned chorus and opening part, with some of Anderson's most memorable and acclaimed flute's riffs in all of his career, while its notorious a change when the song starts getting more louder and more progressive at the end of the 4th paragraph. While reaching onto the first "Later" of the first part of the song, the atmosphere changes considerably in a sofisticated way, it enters into a much more serious, somber atmosphere, with a dramatic scent, the final paragraphs of the first part and most of the second part of the song represent much more of a loud, heavy progressive aspect, but, while being more uncanny and having a distinctive fiercefulness, it also hit certain unconsistent textures, but quite few. The last paragraph of the second part is the second and final chorus of the song, returning into the song's previous mood. Characteristic among every progressive rock album, this is one of the most uncanny masterpieces of the world, being also one of the longest rock songs in the whole world, its extremely humorous, parodying concept, mixed with a fierceful, focused and unique aura in the song, switching from a number of moods and atmospheres, and keeping very meaningful and memorable traces in its music' fragments, take completely away the idea of boredom, but make sure to be in a patient mood before listening to it. And within performance details, new drummer Barriemore Barlow explosive moment comes in at the end of the 8th paragraph, while John Evan performance is breath taking. (this is the album's review, the next part is where I describe tha album's content).
Now, I'm going to speak about the album's major content: the booklet itself is a whole newspaper in its structure, just as if it were the morning paper of a real event, make sure to read the important contents and highlights in the newspaper, it explains the whole story about "Little Milton"'s "insulting" poem and its big impact when it was read out loud in B.B.C., making parents around the whole city complaining about the dark matter of the poem, and how they felt insulted by an 8 year old boy writing that kind of stuff, while they were specially bothered because of his usage of the word "g_ _ r" (which it isn't revealed the word but fans suspect that is the word "goer"), making Bostock's poem to be disqualified, and instead, they gave the first prize to a girl who wrote a poem about the beauties and majesties of the world (its so funny when you actually read it!). Later on it explains how this album was made, when local "minor" band Jethro Tull were fascinated by Bostock's poem and decided to make an album out of it, making Bostock its co-writter. Later on it tells how Bostock sign a contract with Chrysalis Records, and in other news' fragments its present a rumor about a 14 year old girl who is pregnant and claim Bostock is the father. And, the most humorous part is where, below the lyrics, its written a "music review" badly critisizing the album, speaking just like a professional reviewer!, this part made me laugh so hard when I decided to write a review about the album. Of course, all of this is Anderson's invention, but all of the album's content make a perfect, collectable album, mixed with the strong imagery of the song, this album is just perfect.
Description of Thick As a Brick
Limited Edition Japanese "Mini Vinyl" CD, faithfully reproduced using original LP artwork including the inner sleeve. Features most recently mastered audio including bonus tracks where applicable.The follow-up to that FM staple, Aqualung, 1972's Thick as a Brick demonstrated that Ian "Don't call me Jethro" Anderson had so much on his mind that even the previous record's side-long suites would not suffice. The result was an album-length "song" that simultaneously struck my young ears as Tull's finest work to date (and I had them all) and led to my never listening to any of their subsequent albums all the way through. The record was packaged in the popular fake-newspaper style of the day (John & Yoko's Some Time in New York City of the same year, the Jefferson Airplane's Volunteers, and the Four Seasons' bid for hipness, Genuine Imitation Life Gazette). Opening line: "Really don't mind if you sit this one out." --David Wolf
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