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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Billy Connolly
Dream Theater
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Hagen Quartet
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Mike Keneally

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

I agree, a bit of a filler, that part

 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.

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.

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

 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

philippe wrote: One of the worst album they have made...just too accessible and naive music.

Which TULL's album you prefer  Phil ?

Too Old To Be Remastered, Too Young To Die, perhaps

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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It¦s the difference in taste, that makes this a fun place to visit 

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)

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

[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.

"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

"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

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

Fitzcarraldo,

Just proves I am indeed thick as a brick!!

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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 wher

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In the Wake of Poseidon

One thing about Thick As A Brick is love it or hate it, you have to downright admire how seamlessly the musical themes fit together in this piece (except the drum solo). I happen to be quite fond of this work, and would rank it among Andersen's best.

Fitzcarraldo:

Not quite...  See As follows:

Beatrice Hall

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defen

manni,

I am guessing that your quote is taken from http://www.classroomtools.com/voltaire.htm - http://www.classroomtools.com/voltaire.htm which discusses at some length the possible origins of the quotation. Tha

HI, THIS IS C+SAR INCA.

As many other prog-heads, I regard 'Thick as a Brick' as their definite masterpiece (though not their only masterpiece). I wouldn't change a thing on it (maybe, switch the string section for a mellotron, it

^ Great, sensitive, intelligent analysis of a classic, Cesar! "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

Not yet... but I might...I mean, therse's soooo much to review!! 'Thick as a Brick' was my first JT purchase: I boguht two JT albums that 1986 day: TaaB and 'Too Old to Rock'n Roll...'

regards.