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Velvetclown 
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Posted: April 26 2004 at 02:33 |
Tulls Thick As A Brick has a special place in my heart, not only is it a great album, but it was also the first Tull concert that I attended. Last week I was lucky enough to get my hands on an OK sounding bootleg from this tour where they play the whole
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Paco Fox
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Posted: April 26 2004 at 03:00 |
I think 'Think as a brick' may be the first record I listened to KNOWING it was prog (I was a Mike Oldfield fan at that time, so I had a lot of prog on my back). I really love this album, although I could do without the drum part. I've always found dum
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Velvetclown
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Posted: April 26 2004 at 03:03 |
I agree, a bit of a filler, that part  
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Peter
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Posted: April 26 2004 at 16:41 |
 Great disc! I don't have much to add to my review of this classic, beyond affirming that it's my favourite Tull album, and one of the pinnacles of prog.
A real "desert island" dis
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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lucas
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Posted: April 26 2004 at 16:42 |
 Paco Fox wrote:
although I could do without the drum part. |
Great album but as said Paco the improvised part should not have been included.
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Easy Livin
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Posted: April 26 2004 at 17:00 |
I'd heard the albums a few times and rather liked it. Then I heard it on headphones and it blew me away! The use of stereo on Anderson's flute in particular adds to the albums unique quality. I've often thought of trying to identi
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Posted: April 26 2004 at 17:04 |
In its day, seems everybody threw a drum solo on the ol' vinyl. Maybe they felt if Bonzo, Palmer and every other drummer could do it well..... Also, drum solos seem to be the "breaktime" for everyone else to go backstage and change costume
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Posted: April 27 2004 at 13:07 |
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One of the worst album they have made...just too accessible and naive music.
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Posted: April 27 2004 at 13:12 |
philippe wrote:
One of the worst album they have made...just too accessible and naive music. |
 Which TULL's album you prefer Phil ?
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Prog On !
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Velvetclown
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Posted: April 27 2004 at 13:15 |
Too Old To Be Remastered, Too Young To Die, perhaps 
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Posted: April 27 2004 at 13:18 |
MAX@ wrote:
philippe wrote:
One of the worst album they have made...just too accessible and naive music. |
Which TULL's album you prefer Phil ? |
...Probably t
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Paco Fox
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Posted: April 28 2004 at 03:25 |
philippe wrote:
MAX@ wrote:
[QUOTE=philippe]One of the worst album they have made...just too accessible and naive music. |
Which TULL's album you prefer Phil ? |
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Posted: April 28 2004 at 04:42 |
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I like the bluesy feeling they had in their first album...but sorry 'Thick as a brick' is just common, sloppy, happy & hippy music...too pop and soft folk songs. I prefer by far the prog/ folk bands from France or Germany, which are more mystic and inc
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Velvetclown
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Posted: April 28 2004 at 05:40 |
It¦s the difference in taste, that makes this a fun place to visit
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lucas
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Posted: April 28 2004 at 13:19 |
philippe wrote:
'Thick as a brick' is just too pop and soft folk songs. |
I don't think songs that last over 15 min can be regarded as "pop" and moreover, the structures of the two son
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Easy Livin
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Posted: April 28 2004 at 14:36 |
Philippe, I too disagree with your view, but as a politician once said, I will defend to the death your right to express it! As Velvetclown says, that's what makes this place fun. Wouldn't the world be dull if we all liked th
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Paco Fox
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Posted: April 29 2004 at 03:27 |
[QUOTE=philippe]I like the bluesy feeling they had in their first album...but sorry 'Thick as a brick' is just common, sloppy, happy & hippy music...too pop and soft folk songs. ...It's just my opinion of things.
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Posted: April 29 2004 at 23:43 |
"Your sperm's in the gutter...your love's in the sink." Brilliant. I'm new here but I must comment on TAAB. My middle name is "Ian", which my father told me he chose because of Ian Anderson. I love TAAB, Aqualung, Songs from the Wood, Pa
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Paco Fox
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Posted: April 30 2004 at 06:46 |
[QUOTE=necromancing] "In fact, I would consider Tull more mainstream blues-based rock by and large than prog. I mean Led Zeppelin had some prog moments (Achilles's Last Stand, Song Remains the Same, Carouselambra, etc.) But he
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Posted: April 30 2004 at 22:25 |
Easy Livin, It was not a politician but the French philosopher Voltaire who said it, although the well know version is actually a paraphrasing of the actual statement which was apparently "I detest what you write, but I would give my life t
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