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- #1
- Posted: 01/23/2013 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#799): Thick As A Brick by Jethro Tull
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Today's album of the day
Thick As A Brick by Jethro Tull (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1972.
Overall rank: 354.
Average rating: 82/100 (from 129 votes).
Tracks:
1. Thick As A Brick, Part 1
2. Thick As A Brick, Part 2
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety.
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Applerill
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- #2
- Posted: 01/23/2013 21:35
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OMGOMOMGOMG
An absolutely perfect album. 10/10. I could write a whole book on this if I wanted to.
I think I will.
You see, I think this may be one of the biggest hidden gems in all of music. Not because the band is particularly obscure, because it obviously isn't. But the concept here at first glance seems to be absolutely laughable.
A 45-minute song? REALLY!?!?!? And normally we shrug it off as some Zareika-esque masturbatory pipe dream.
But guys, listen to this, and you'll realize it's much, much, MUCH more.
Starting with the superficial notes, the album art may be among the greatest ever, packed to the brim with intellectual content. Do any of you other guys have it on vinyl? It's such a shame it's out of print, but I was able to get a used copy in wonderful condition 
Whether the lyrics were meant to be taken seriously or not, Ian Anderson's poetry really cuts to the core of what's wrong with society today. My brother even compares it to the Book of Isaiah.
In the early seventies, we were beginning an era in music history where technical prowess had little to do with talent. The biggest intellectuals weren't the clean-shaven Oxford grads, but the boys kicked around in Birmingham.
"The doer and the thinker, no allowance for the other."
That line sums up the album perfectly. Unlike any other prog album, it could make us feel AND make us think. Our world's in the gutter, but our love's the sink.
You see, while certainly an amazing album in it's own right, these guys were a bit sloppy on Aqualung. That record could bring you to tears, but you had to let it do that.
But here, the ornate beauty of the instruments is as easy to see as the the sun at dawn. And to thnk that all of this beauty, that not even Pink Floyd's The Wall can match, comes from ONE SONG!!! That simply blows my mind.
Without a doubt, this is the greatest classical composition of the past 50 years. Forget that dork Arvo Part, or even the wondrful Tubular Bells. 200 years from now, people will put Jethro Tull next to Vivaldi and Handel.
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- Posted: 01/23/2013 22:01
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- Posted: 01/23/2013 22:06
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| Applerill wrote: | | Zareika-esque masturbatory pipe dream. |
I didn't bother to read past this. Zaireeka is genius. And spelled "Zaireeka".
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Borve Baunehoj
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- Posted: 01/23/2013 22:13
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Awesome album for sure. I love clumsy 70s music done right
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Applerill
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- Posted: 01/23/2013 22:31
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| lethalnezzle wrote: | | I didn't bother to read past this. Zaireeka is genius. And spelled "Zaireeka". |
Silly Nezzle. I actually love Zareika, too. I was just being "objective" when it comes to what the average person thinks of Thick As a Brick (since people have the same misconception with Zareika.)
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- Posted: 01/23/2013 22:35
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| Applerill wrote: | | Silly Nezzle. I actually love Zareika, too. I was just being "objective" when it comes to what the average person thinks of Thick As a Brick (since people have the same misconception with Zareika.) |
I was only joking too. I actually read the entire thing and tomorrow I'll probably relisten to Thick As A Brick for the first time in years. And it's spelled "Zaireeka".
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Robert Anton Wilson
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- Posted: 01/24/2013 00:06
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Great great masterpiece and I had the privilege to see the 2012 concert of Ian Anderson doing the Thick as a Brick albums I & II in their entirety - marvelous. Another old fart in amazing shape still doing in the dusk of his life what he has been doing since the dawn.
What is funny about Thick as a Brick is that it started out because the critics and music literari of the days kept praising the album Aqualung for being such an amazing concept album when Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull never really thought of Aqualung as a concept album. As a tease the response was, you think we make concept album, we'll show you what a concept album is ...
And history was made
A must for any proghead, and a strong recommendation from me for music lovers at large.
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Defago
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- #9
- Posted: 01/24/2013 01:30
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Amazing album. Zareika is amazing too.
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Happymeal
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- Posted: 01/24/2013 03:57
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It's a nice album.
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