FIRST TIME REACTING TO | Jethro Tull "Aqualung"
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Jethro Tull wrote this about the homeless problem in England. Initially, he expresses the view of others looking at "Aqualung," who sees this dirty old man who won't get a job. Then they take you through different views so you can see the different perspectives of the issue. Instead of being a dirty old man, he is a lonely man down on his luck, dependent on charity, freezing to death in the English cold, which has messed up his lungs. It's pretty powerful.
I believe I had read somewhere Anderson’s wife wrote or had contributed bits of the lyrics
@@tristanrl1940 Yes Anderson's wife wrote the lyrics.
He got the inspiration from photos of the homeless taken by his wife who was a photographer.
Jethro Tull is a "SHOW". The musical talent is on full display and the messages in the songs are hard hitting and unapologetic. The two 'voices' Ian uses are the outside voices of others looking at Aqualung and the inner thoughts of Aqualung himself. Looking down on homeless has been an issue for a long time. Dog Ends are bent cigarette butts, Bogs are bathrooms, and Salvation Ala Mode is the food the Salvation army hands out to those in need. One of the biggest issues homeless have is boredom and that is what the line 'taking time the only way he knows how' is all about. Aqualung is a breathing device for underwater use, it makes a distinct rattling sound and heavy breathing...think Darth Vader like sounds. Great react as always.
THIS. Very nicely written. 👏👏👏
You are a supreme educator!
Thank you. Never knew all those details of what the lyrics meant.
Precise, succinct, and correct. This song is a masterpiece, and the musical talent and showmanship is off the charts.
This is one of the best explanations of this song I've ever seen. I love Jethro Tull. I love this song. Over the years I have spent a lot of time figuring out part of it, then forgetting what it's about. Then figuring it out again. Then forgetting again. Perhaps this full explanation will stick in my head.
It is Ian’s take on homelessness!! ☮️💙💙💙
This song is about a real homeless person, that the singer actually knew and used to chat too. The electric part is how other people view him, as an old pervert, sitting in the park, ominously watching the children play. The acoustic part is the reality of the man he talked too. That he is a lonely old man, with a crippled leg and tuberculosis (aqualung) who is sitting on a park bench trying to get warm, while he waits for a Salvation army center to open so he can get warm and a have a cup of tea and something to eat. And in fact he is the one that is scared because people actually abuse him (don't start (run) away, it's only me).
So basically, don't judge by appearances.
In British slang, a "dog end" is a cigarette butt, and a "bog" is a toilet. The Salvation or Sally Army are a volunteer charity that help the homeless, poor etc.
This album tells a story, and should be listened to from start to finish in order. I wore this vinyl out back in the day.
The army up the road is a reference to Salvation Army Missions. Salvation served on the side with bowl of soup and some tea. You really need to listen to the entire album to get the full story of Aqualung’s life and how he came to be where he is, an old homeless man wandering lonely with a severe respiratory condition, hence the nickname Aqualung.
Thanks. Explained salvation army so much better than I could
Yes another example of a song that really needs to be listened to with the rest of the album to get the whole story
I am honored that I am the one who started you down the Jethro Tull rabbit hole. My journey started due to Ms. Atwood, my humanities teacher. This was her favorite band and would play his albums in class. Listen to "Bouree" no vocals but will blow you away.
It's crazy you fell in love with Jethro Tull without ever hearing Aqualung. This is easily their most well-known and successful song.
Probably the greatest concert I ever saw. Circa '72 when they were on their "Thick As A Brick" tour where they also performed the entire Aqualung Album. This was Tull at their peak. They blew the roof off the place. The Hammond organ blasting Leslie cabs was mind numbing. "Aqualung" is social commentary on homelessness. The quiet acoustic parts are Aqualung as he lives is life. The rock'n parts are how society perceives him. You have to listen to it a few times to get the real meaning.
It confused me for a long time as an American, but when Ian says, "He bends to pick a dog-end, and goes down to the bog and warms his feet." A "Dog-end" is a cigarette butt, and the "Bog" is a public bathroom (many English refer to toilet paper as bog-roll), indicating that Aqualung is homeless...
I had no idea that "bog" was Brit slang for bathroom!
Yes, he is homeless and sick and bored with nothing to do. "spending time the only way he knows". Basically the Salvation Army will only feed a person near the meal times and the possible places to sleep are only used at night. This leaves a lot of free time.
You saved me having to write that out lol ty
Perfect
Mine too! Talk about creativity & uniqueness! They were so much fun! Talk about showmanship!
Ian Anderson is one of the most expressive and interesting performers in Rock history.
Love me some Jethro Tull. Perhaps the most unique sounding band ever. A blend of rock,folk,blues......no other band sound like them. That's the best compliment I can give.......you really should listen to anything off of their "Songs from the Wood "......Great reaction as per usual👍👍
A dog end is a discarded cigarette!!!!
It's a song about homelessness, a hobo.......a poor old sod is an English phrase meaning....a wretched soul down on his luck.......hope that helps!!!!
I'm a poor old sod from London 😂😂😂😂
Bursting Out. One of the best live albums!! ☮️❤️
The song is about perspective on a homeless guy. The intro characterizing him as somewhat threatening and even dangerous. But in reality he is just an old man trying to get through another day.
Ian Anderson and Tull is a very special kind of music. I like it.
A "bog" is a freshwater wetland of soft spongy ground - or in UK colloquialism a bog is also a toilet or water closet ...
Always loved this song. Could never really understand the words but who cares it’s still great.
Who needs the amazing Jethro Tull, just your facial expressions in this one are all the entertainment we need!!
Your first Tull show will make you want more...
My father bought me Thick as a Brick for my 15th birthday. I'm 65 it's still my favorite album.
Ian Anderson's (the lead singer) wife wrote the lyrics to "Aqualung" for Jethro Tull
The 'crescendo' is a lost art.
Hard to crescendo when you’re all loud all the time. Nuance has been lost in favor of standing out?
One of my favorite bands, Ian Anderson vocals, flute a musical genius and great performer, this band is on another level. I have been listening to them for 50 years! You should delve into them they have a huge catalogue of music. I recommend the album "Thick as a Brick", to start with.
Love Jethro Tull, this was the first album that I bought when I was 14. I saw them live several times in the 70's. They are my favorite Prog band. Ian Anderson is a great showman, and Martin Barre is an underrated guitarist.
Glad to see the ring is back.
Big influence in my favorite Broadway play of all time...Les Miserables
Martin Barre, a great guitarist. I used to play air guitar to this solo as a teenager.
I'm 70 and grew up with Jethro Tull. No other band compares.
This song speaks of the two perspectives on the homeless. One is societies negative viewpoint and the other is ones own personal point of view.
The two distinct voices sung express both perspectives.
Agualung refers to his labored breathing and a "dog end" is a crushed out cigarette butt.
It's a deep powerful song!
Ian Anderson chose a historic agriculturalist to name his band after. Jethro Tull invented the seed drill ! That's why you should listen to HEAVY HORSE because its also the farming theme!
"Deep sea diver sounds" refers to the rattling, bubbly breath of someone with a lung problem (probably TB) because the "flowers blooming" refers to coughing up flecks of blood.
Hey, Britt! So glad you're getting into Tull but like some others I wish you'd catch the studio versions first. I think hearing the initial version would help you catch the "extra sprinkles" Ian and the gang insert live. Great reaction anyway!
always the studio version first
Yes! I wish reactors would do this!
The song came from a picture his wife took of a homeless man in London. She was a pretty renouned photgrapher. The picture was redone as a painting for the cover of the album.
The song is about the plight of the homeless. The lung rattling that many get is the "aqualung"
The hardcore beginning refers to how the public sees a homeless man as dangerous.. Acoustic part shows his actual life, just trying to survive the night.
My favorite band in junior high school! Great reaction and this band bypassed the drug scene and he has some amazing things in his life. Thank you so much for reacting to them! Much love and appreciation from California.❤️🌈🍀😇🙏🏻❣️
OK Britt. You are my new guilty pleasure. You are quite funny and I appreciate how much you appreciate the songs you react to. Going down the rabbit hole watching your vids. Thanks.
Budapest is a great song in concert!!!❤
Started My English lessons with that one in 71
Will always be special to me
Maybe Lokomotive breath would be a good pick great reaction
British lingo and references are missed by contemporary listeners. Social outrage colors the listeners ability to hear the message which is hidden in plain sight by the use of metaphor and artistic expression. I love your openness to this great legendary artist. Love your reviews and expressions
In my top 5 favorite bands. Thx for the reaction Britt!
Love your reaction.
A dog end is a cigarette but, a bog is a public restroom, and he's talking about the salvation army.
My favorite Jethro Tull song is Wondering Aloud. It shows a sensitive side to the band. One of the sweetest songs ever. The last line of the song is a mantra I've tried to live by since the late 1970's. *smile*
This was the biggest "hit" song Jethro Tull had early in their career. It was not a pop hit, they were rarely heard on pop radio, but on album radio this was a big hit. Don't worry if you don't know what album radio is, its not a thing anymore. Back in the day, pop music could be found on AM radio, but the good stuff was on FM.
A Bog is an English word for a swampy marsh
Yes this band played a concert just down the road from me in 1976!
Started as a blues band from Scotland 🎸
You are seriously the best "reaction" channel ever :)
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Their song Cross-Eyed Mary rocks
I saw hm in 1973 he never stops moving for the entire show one if not the best concert I have ever been to
Even 50 years later, it feels spot on, politically as well as musically. I always get tears in my eyes, thinking how a human creature (Aqualung) endures this kind of life. This is perhaps one of the most artistic albums of all Time, lyrically and musically. You have to question whether they receive the appreciation they deserve for this.
It's about an sickly old homeless man. Aqualung is referring to the sound of his breathing which is rough. The song has a couple view points. One from the people who see him. And then his view point.
👍 Thank you.
This comes in at about #150 in my list of top Tull tunes. Still gets a like.
Love Tull! Saw them twice and they do NOT disappoint. Ian Anderson is a modern day bard for sure.
Britt, You need to listen to a few other songs from that album to understand more about the character, Aqualung and what he's all about. One of the songs, "Locomotive Breath" which I hear as sort of the precursor to Aqualung's situation, explains the beginnings of his fall, and also the song "Cross-Eyed Mary" which I'll touch on later in this post. For me, those songs kind of tie it all together sort of to get a better picture of Aqualung's story. My interpretation is that Aqualung (a term which can refer to wheezy breathing due to smoking too many cigarettes or whatever) is a homeless Vietnam vet who went to war and was wounded in battle while away at war. Note the lyric "Leg hurting bad as he bends to pick a dog-end (a used cigarette butt). In the song, "Locomotive Breath" He comes home from the war only to find his family had basically abandoned him. He caught "his wife in bed with his best friend and having fun", His children started to abandoned him (They "jumped off at the stations one by one") You conclude that his time in the military had taken control and stolen his life which is spiraling out of control like a runaway train "Old Charlie stole the handle and the train it won't slow down, it never will slow down" ("Charlie was a term that soldiers in Vietnam used to refer to the enemy forces of the Viet Cong) So, basically I take that phrase as saying his time in Vietnam and his injury at the hands of "Charlie" basically ruined his life as evidenced by how he was loosing everything he had at home. So, he eventually becomes homeless. He's a lonely old man, who finds himself roaming the streets and hanging around schoolyards peering through the fence and watching young girls. As it turns out there's one school girl who's an outcast with all the other girls because she's little more, umm,.. _matured_ you might could say, lol. She' bored with being a school girl and notices Aqualung watching through the fence railing. "Cross-eyed Mary gets no kicks from little boys and she'd rather make it with a letching grey" (a dirty old man) "Maybe her attention is drawn to Aqualung who watches through the railings at them play...Cross-eyed Mary finds it hard to get along, she's a poor man's rich girl". So, anyway, if you listen to those 2 other songs and follow along with the lyrics, I think you start to get the picture about the man, Aqualung.
Yeah, saw Jethro Tull in 69. Quite a show. Good memories.
saw Jethro here in Chicago.....Best Flute rocker ever......I love it when he plays the flute on one leg....He's a showman...awesome....Badass!
Such a great band to see live. Great reaction, hope the comments help you to appreciate it more.
New here. I love your enthusiasm. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴. England.
Ian Anderson hated that people called the album Aqualung a "concept album" so he decided to make what he called the "mother of all concept albums", which of course turned out to be the epicl 43 minute long, single track album, Thick as a Brick. Which was followed by the even longer- and in my opinion better- A Passion Play, also an album consisting of a single track.
Yes, the first time I heard "Thick as a brick" in a record store, the salesman was freaked out that there were only two songs on it,
because he wanted to jump to the next songs on the CD player, but there were no more :D
@@gablen23 Lol! I think I was the same way. I'd never heard of a song taking up an entire album.
@@j.woodbury412Michael Oldfield did some.
@@friedemannkemm63 That's true. Tubular Bells is a great album, and I have listened to it, But Thick as a Brick was the first one I ever heard.
Ian Anderson, the most theatrical front man, and yet with perfect diction. Tull, masters of their instruments. JT the complete package. Ian Anderson is a poet who puts his words to music with incredible musicians. Aqualung is a tramp, a dogend is a cigarette butt, the bog is a toilet. All English slang. Salvation Army is a church charity that provide for the likes of Aqualung.
they are great!
@@brittreacts I have followed JT since 'This Was' released in 1968, though 'Stand Up' in 1969 was the first true Tull album after Martin Barre joined. Old age is the price I am paying for being there at the start, yet I do not regret a single day. It is great that young people are discovering these great bands of the 60s and 70s. I have to say my favourite video of yours is your reaction to Freddie Mercury sliding off the piano stool and grabbing the stick mike in 'Somebody to Love', a mixture of joy and disbelief. I just keep playing it over again.
Taxi Grab is a great tune by TULL !!!
It is about a homeless old man living the last days of his life and is in the final stages with his death rattle
"Dress like Pirates".. yes J.T is awesome. Need to Try some Adam and the Ants.
Excellent reaction later girl.❤️😎
An “aqualung “ is the air tank divers use to breathe under water.
Back in the old days homeless men were called bums. Swamps are called bogs in Great Britain as they're called bayous in Louisiana. Aqualung could be similar to bronchitis in Britt speak AKA British speak. So what you got is a bum on a bench with wet coughs in grimey clothes. Watching the people around the park including little girls!
Listen to the studio version my dear..... Tull's first 10 or o albums are all really really good.
Compassion for the homeless and broken, well before it was a thing anywhere else.
Aqualung is just a way of saying the homeless man is ill with lung problem where he's drowning in moisture.
I'm 70 and Grew up with Jethro Tull, these earlier albums are harder, but, when this was written there were lots of homeless WW2 Veterans around, Homeless and left to Freeze to death, Try Never Too Old to Rock and Roll, Warchild and or North Sea Oil. These albums are Basically older English Folk Music, set to rock and a bit of Jazz, about the problems in our world, if you look on Google for the words you don't understand under English slang from the 70's you should find it all. So glad you enjoyed The Tull. For example, Aqualung was probably someone once and now his old Homeless, and probably drinking a mix of Methylated sports and This Kind of old strong cheap wine, that Roman soldiers drank, supposed to be mixed with water, not Meth. They used to live in parks 24/7 year round incontinence would have been a problem, left to Dry in the warm sun. Watching the young women with short skirts and frilly knickers was his only entertainment, not a child molesting thing we wouldn't have tolerated that. This was the 70's, Hope you enjoy them, you'll have to switch time Zones. All the Best.
The angular sinister-sounding riff that bookends the song depict the general public's perception of a homeless man on first prejudiced glance. The middle section shows us who he really is and what he is really thinking
It's a story about a homeless man in England and how they used to treat their
Tull are brilliant. Anderson is a musical and lyrical giant.
A dog-end is an extinguished cigarette
It’s people from the era before your parents … take it as a learning experience 😊 there are so many more amazing musics to learn about.
I saw your reaction to each exchanges, therefore you have the feeling of melodies. Give yourself a chance and you will discover a new dimension of music
I first saw JT in a small venue in Denver, Mammoth gardens, a converted old skating rink, when they were touring/promoting their second album Standup. I watched from less than 15 feet from the band. It was pretty incredible. Then had the pleasure of seeing them again at Red Rocks 3 years later when they were promoting Aqualung. Unbelievable show after the tear gas had settled from the police setting off tear gas to ward off the gate crashers. The police finally gave up and it was on with the show. That delayed the show a bit. But it was great once they started rolling.
It's two different takes on a homeless man. The 2nd take (acoustic slow part) is empathy. Ian Anderson is Scottish. Their whole catalog is intelligent lyrics and progressive folk-rock, hence the medieval/old England style.
Out band opened up for Tull in 1970, in Miami. Watching them from the side of the stage was an incredible experience. And Ian is so very intelligent, if we were visited by aliens I'd like him to speak on behalf of the world.
A "bog" in British slang is a restroom. So, I guess he went into a restroom to get out of the cold?
Ian's wife was a photographer. She took a picture of a homeless man that led Ian to write a song about how the public view homeless people sketchy and evil. The softer parts are the truth of it.
Take a hit of acid, then go to a Renaissance fair. That is the Jethro Tull experience.
Poetic masterpiece! Great react
DOG END ( CIGARETTE BUTT ) THE ARMY'S UP THE ROAD ( SALVATION ARMY ) 😊 KEEP IN MIND IT'S ABOUT THE HOMELESS, ( CROSS EYED MARY ) IS THE 2ND PART BRIT, SAME ALBUM.😊
Hello, Jacques Cousteau invented the Aqua-Lung.
A bog is a English term for a swamp.
My favourite song from him is "Broadsword" and what rock band were the lead singer plays the flute? After Queen I think my favourite band.
Hi, Britt. You might like "Living in the Past." Jethro Tull. Love your channel. Best to you and yours.
It's a statement on people's judgment of the homeless.
Ian Anderson decided to do some socially responsible music, a sort of protest against the UK social safety net which wasn't working - the character Aqualung is a homeless guy, the point of the song is to demonstrate the low quality and general misery of impoverished people in England - since you like their style, you might especially enjoy their longer compositions, like Velvet Green or Minstrel in the Gallery (good live versions of both on youtube) - Anderson often composes in the style of a first symphonic movement, A-B-A format -- exposition, development, recapitulation -- but the arrangements are always complex, the band is quite up to them, and Anderson does put on a performance - the wise-fool bard, the singing jester with a sardonic twist
Aqualung is a person that drinks like a fish, Ian is also a mason
The songwriter had watched a lonely street person for a while and tried to imagine his world...
When I was young, this song was a banger. Having grown and learned its true meaning, it makes me cry. Such a sad song.
Dog end is a cigarette stub. The 'duality' of the song is a comparison between the perseption of 'outsiders' and the 'reality' of the asthmatic vagrant's life.
He (Ian Anderson) wouldnt perform at the original Woodstock because he is ant-drug and anti-drink. Besides being incredibly wealthy as the songwriter of this extremely succuessful band in the 70's - he also ran one of the biggest salmon farms at the time in Scotland. He has some recent youtubes performing with a small 5 piece orchestra that are beautiful (Life is a Long Song).
It's a song about perceptions is my thinking
Before listening to your reaction, LOL. Next Cross-Eyed Mary, it is the follow-up song.