Thick as a Brick Appreciation thread

Aqualung, Songs, Live - Bursting Out, Living in the Past was the order of my album purchases that got me into Tull as a teenager (when your pocket money needed to be spent carefully and wisely). Think I bought TAAB relatively later (definitely after Stand Up, Benefit and Minstrel) - but what a revelation it was! Superb - flowing musical invention, wonderful lyrics, repeat motifs, light and shade. Side 1 seemed perfection and Side 2 eventually clicked fully as well. I still love that keyboard sound that washes through the whole album. Up there with Foxtrot and CTTE still!

Top Ten Album for me. Easily JT's best and right up there with CTTE, SEBTP, DSOTM, ITCOTCK, etc.

Mortte wrote: I prophesy disaster wrote: Mortte wrote: How many of you does have the original newspaper-vinyl?   I do. I like the somewhat Pythonesque humour of the newspaper articles.       I do also like the humour, I think they write stories themselves and also were in pictures!

I prophesy disaster wrote: Mortte wrote: How many of you does have the original newspaper-vinyl?   I do. I like the somewhat Pythonesque humour of the newspaper articles.

I do also like the humour, I think they write stories themselves and also were in pictures!

Sean Trane wrote: What's most amazing is that TAAB's lyrics are still very much modern and not outdated at all (bar a few time capsule mentions). They're still biting as ever. Two of my fave moments after the first 15 mins are the 18-21 mins mark when returning and on the flipside, the "Do You Believe" movement starting the 28:15 mark, but really kicking at 29:00... unstopped sheer brilliance until the 35-mins mark.

I prophesy disaster wrote: Mortte wrote: How many of you does have the original newspaper-vinyl?   I do. I like the somewhat Pythonesque humour of the newspaper articles.

Bought it used for the newspaper, got rid of the vinyl.

^"Clear White Circles" has always also been my big faves. Really also love that avantgarde section with nonsense speaking of Jeffrey! And love too rotation of "Let me tell you/so come on all the young men". How many of you does have the original newspaper-vinyl? I first bought just gatefold-repress, but found original US-version from the nineties.

Edited by Mortte - February 02 2020 at 03:20

cstack3 wrote: I saw Jethro Tull perform TAAB in concert in Chicago, Nov. 10, 1972.   Opening for the band was Glenn Cornick's fantastic band Wild Turkey!   It was an amazing show.  I'd put TAAB up there with any of the other prog masterpieces of the era, including CTTE.  They were great times to live through and witness.

Really great!! What was purpose of those rabbits, do you remember? In that video clip they seem to fight about that telephone. And do Ian said something else when he answered the telephone (in the clip he says "might be fish on the line")?

I saw Jethro Tull perform TAAB in concert in Chicago, Nov. 10, 1972.   Opening for the band was Glenn Cornick's fantastic band Wild Turkey!  

I have also always really loved that string part in the end. When there has been really high energies in whole album, that end rises it even higher! One of the touching moments in the whole music history! Also, it also shows how Ian did those days many things different than others, when others do whole entity with string orchestras, Ian decided to use it only into that great ending with really genius result! And yes, after the all has gone really flamboyant, there comes that simple acoustic ending, not even echo in the vocals! It´s just brilliant!