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Music CD - Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
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Music CD: Thick as a Brick
Artist: Jethro Tull
List Price: $16.98
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Manufacturer: Capitol
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Tracks:
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1. Thick As A Brick
2. Thick As A Brick
3. Thick As A Brick (Live At Madison Square Garden)
4. Interview With Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, Martin Barre And Jeffrey Hammond
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724349540026
Format: Extra tracks
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: 1997-06-16
Studio: Capitol
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Tull's Masterpiece
Comment: This is the best thing Jethro Tull ever did, and it's also my all-time favorite album. You might say it's pretentious except that pretension implies unfulfilled ambition. You'll find none of that here; Tull deliver heroically on every level. ELP, Yes, and most of the other prog bands were pretentious. They sounded silly sometimes because they took themselves really seriously. I think it's funny how those bands, whose members were often classically trained, tried so hard to be sophisticated and profound, and then Ian Anderson, a blues flute player with no musical education at all, beat them at their own game while making fun of them at the same time. Tull had a sense of humor about progressive rock which, combined with their overall superior musicianship, resulted in success where others would have made fools of themselves. With Thick as a Brick the spoof surpassed the spoofed.
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Summary: Stick around for the bonus track
Comment: Tull struggled to sustain the level of invention and listener involvement over the course of this one. It certainly has its moments, however, the real prize here is the 12 minute live distillation, from N.Y 1978. This has all of the essential moments from the album, seamlessly joined, and, played with no little abandon. This one rocks.
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Summary: Tull takes on the Concept Album
Comment: 'Thick as a Brick' is Tull's 'intentional' concept album, telling the tale of Gerald (Little Milton) Bostock. Putting the lyrical content aside for a moment, the album is prog rock excellence, with the organ, synth and guitar taking the forefront of the music. Ian Anderson's vocals are outstanding as can be expected from this time period in the long career of Tull. Both part 1 and 2 of TAAB really shine, although for a strange reason the cd manufacturer decided to keep the break between sides 1 and 2 of the original LP. The live version is much shorter, just hitting the highlights and comes off rather well. The interview with Ian Anderson, Martin Barre and Jeffrey Hammond, while interesting, probably could've been left off, unless you're interested in hearing the tale of the urine tainted rabbit costume head. At any rate, for those who are building up their Tull collection this one, as it goes without saying, is essential, and is ranked highly for good reason.
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Summary: One of the Best Albums Jethro Tull has ever done!
Comment: When I first bought this album on LP record, I didn't like it. I took it over to my younger brother's house to play and told him I didn't like it. He was surprised. He played it. I left it over his house and every time I'd go there, he'd play it. Gradually, the album got into my blood and I think I bought about 3 or 4 copies of it because I played it so much.
I taped it and played it every day on my way to and from work. That was sometime in the '70's and today, I have it on CD and also made a tape of it that I play in the car. I think it's the kind of album that you have to play a while until it gets into your blood. I especially like the ending of Side I where he sings: "I see you shuffle in the courtroom with your rings upon your fingers and your downy little sidies and your silver-buckle shoes. Playing at the hard case, you follow the example of the comic-paper idol who lets you bend the rules." (Words in quotes by Ian Anderson and Gerald Bostock from Thick As A Brick.)
On side II, it seems like they wasted some time before they really got into it, but once they did, it was a masterpiece. I have often said, that if they let me take 2 albums with me when I pass from this earth, it's going to be "Thick As A Brick" and "A Passion Play," both by Jethro Tull.
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Summary: HYMN #44: A SONG FROM THE GOOD
Comment: I have often been intrigued by the multitalented Jethro Tull since the seventies. Thick as a Brick is a nice package for the listener who wants a change of pace from the tiring pop music and the typical, overplayed, classic rock that are so often geared to specific age groups or audiences. This should be on many a magazine's list of 100 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Even attempts at cultural and musical format crossovers by many have not impressed me. What UK acts such as Donovan and The Beatles did for the 1960s, Jethro Tull did for the 1970s. Just as the prominence of the violin in the Beatles' Eleanor Rigby and the use of the harmonized guitar riffs with the harpsichord in Donovan's Sunshine Superman were groundbreaking, Ian Anderson's perpetual transition from flute to trumpet to saxophone to acoustic guitar was no less musically original.
Released in 1972, Thick as a Brick is regarded as Jethro Tull's definitive progressive rock album. Like the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper with its printed song lyrics and Dylan's Blonde on Blonde in the never-before-released packaging of two discs of exclusively new material, Thick as a Brick has its own distinctive first: a full length LP with a continuous song on both sides.
Lavishly produced for its time, Thick as a Brick was supported by a tour with a stage production that was every bit as lavish and represented what possibly might have been the pinnacle of Tull's popularity, a time when the group was also raking in the sales of the now-immortalized, U.S. certified triple platinum album from the year before, namely Aqualung.
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