Thick As A Brick 2: Whatever Happened To Gerald Bostock?
by Ian Anderson
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Thick As A Brick 2: Whatever Happened To Gerald Bostock? is ranked as the best album by Ian Anderson.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| 12/27/2025 16:01 | TonySayers61 | 23,885 | 64/100 | |
| 04/11/2022 12:09 | Moondance | 20,201 | 72/100 | |
| 02/08/2022 11:02 | salvador | 1,460 | 81/100 | |
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.3/100, a mean average of 75.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.1.
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nitomano 05/11/2017 00:57 | #190605
Siendo Thick As a Brick uno de mis discos favoritos de toda la historia al enterarme de la existencia de esto tuve que escucharlo inmediatamente y debo admitir que si no le llega a la grandeza del original es una gran disco con asombrosas canciones y solos de guitarra que en verdad me agradaron.
El album al igual que su predecesor debe ser escuchado en su totalidad, funciona mucho mejor como un todo.
I for one, liked the 2 at the end.
Really, it's one big song, just like the last one, except with labelled movements.
sageamagoo 12/06/2012 21:27 | #56934
If you took away the poetry, the cheesiness, and the final word (why, after such a great reprise of the original album, would you add the number 2 on the end of Think As A Brick? And in such a weird tone of voice... if only it was cut 3 seconds, I would have been fully satisfied, but no...) then this is a fantastic album. A Change Of Horses is a masterpiece: really, if you give that a listen, then you've heard the best this album has to offer. Besides that, there are some good moments that rock hard, but a bit too much flute (I guess you have to expect an Ian Anderson solo album to have a bit too much flute).
Seriously, overall, it needs a proper listen. This is an album you need to concentrate on. It's worth it: everything up to A Change Of Horses is a nice build-up and the pacing is great. There's always something interesting coming up, and you'd swear it was longer than 50 minutes. Works best as a full album, nothing really is that great as a stand-alone song; it makes sense considering its predecessor.
A pleasant surprise.
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