Thick as a Brick Appreciation thread

I believe this has been here already, but didn´t find it, so probably it has some time. Started this because there has been quite much discussion about Jethro and also this masterpiece of theirs. To me first album I´ve heard was Stormwatch and I loved it immediately! I think about same time my brother´s friend loaned us "Bursting Out" and loved that too! But one of my friend had older brothers as I did and they got old great albums. Really wondered what that newspaper-album was! Well, we listened it and I noticed it´s Jethro! Vinyl was in a really bad condition, but through those scratching I hear marvellous music!

TAAB is one of, if not the best, examples of progressive rock there is. But I love nearly everything from This Was through Stormwatch (just Benefit and Too Old...sink it). What an amazingly creative string of albums. 

Man With Hat wrote: TAAB is one of, if not the best, examples of progressive rock there is. But I love nearly everything from This Was through Stormwatch (just Benefit and Too Old...sink it). What an amazingly creative string of albums.

Agree fully, except Benefit is also really dear one to me! If I could take only five albums to desert island and they had to be prog, I will take:

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!

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!  

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")?

^"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

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.

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.