I've been listening to this album for decades, and no matter how many times I hear it, it never gets old. "Thick As a Brick" is still my favorite Jethro Tull album, and I still get just as much joy out of it as I did the first 5 times I heard it...a REAL masterpiece if there ever was one.
Written (in chunks), recorded (as a band, together, in the studio), mixed and finished all inside two weeks! Writing and producing the cover newspaper took rather longer.
In 1972 I was 14 and that summer and worked part time doing construction for my dad. When I got my first check I bought my first four albums, Emerson Lake And Palmer's first album, Yes's "The Yes Album", Black Sabbath's first album, and "Thick As A Brick" by Jethro Tull. Those albums blew my mind. They were completly different from what I was used to on the radio. You see this music from a backwards perspective, 50 years later, but at the time, these albums were almost shattering. I truely fell in love with music playing these albums. I loved the 70s sound.
Nice one again Jim, this album has been between my ears since the day it came out. Absolutly fantastic, very British. It is an adventure to listen to. It also made me realize that Ian Anderson is a great guitar player as well. Thanks a lot Jethro Tull for this great epic. This made me buy all your albums.
Bananas! And thus the world was introduced to Barriemore Barlow, one of the greatest rock or any genre drummers period and a favorite drummer of John Bonham's. A friend of the band, he was plucked from obscurity to record Thick As A Brick. Imagine this album being your first major recording debut? Next level drumming for 1972.
Something was in the air back then. Look up the number of masterpieces that came out in that small window of about 36-48 months. Plus, all these great bands toured and performed them live so you got to see them do it.
The whole album is great but if I had to choose, I think "Thick as a Brick, Part II" is my favorite and on this second side my favorite sub-part is "Legends and Believe in the Day" which for me musically speaking anticipates the next album, A Passion Play (I also love the final with the strings, unfortunately too short for my taste). ...and now, A Passion Play reaches out to you ! 😉
"and sweeping strings" Yes, I think of the string section as the kitchen sink. Ian, "why Barrie, what have we left out" Barrie "Ian, i think we need some sweeping string section, something for David Palmer to do"
I've read that Tull did rarely perform this entire record live, but for the most part, their live shows ran with an edited version of Thick as a Brick that ran about 12 minutes long. For your personal amusement, it would be well worth the time to track down a UA-cam video of one of the live shows. The antics of the entire band on this piece were fun to watch, particularly Ian and keyboardist John Evan.
on that tour they played all, on the passion played they played last half or so, and then went to the 12 min version which imo leaves all the best bits out. :-(
I was fortunate enough to see Tull on the original Thick as a Brick tour, when they performed the entire song. It was a great show! As a side note, The Eagles were the opening act. They were not yet famous.
My dad saw the Thick as a Brick tour in 1972-1973 in Seattle Coliseum and they played all of the material from the album PLUS each musician had a lengthened solo. Then they played 2 more hours from their catalogue! Good Lord! LOL That tour Yes was opening for Tull along with The Eagles.
I have read that this was the 2nd studio take. The first, the reel to reel dragged and Tull had to play it all over again. This was not a piecemeal, but a full take from end to end. Hard to believe until you've seen them live in their prime with all the stuff they had to remember and flawlessly perform. I can believe it.
"so many ideas in one piece of music "Yes yes yes! twist and turns, ups and downs, warmth, humor, anger. Above all others! I think perhaps Ian thought of it as a parady and that really set his creativity free. Perhaps the pressure off of getting everything right? And, it really helped his musicians were brilliant. I believe they recorded the thing over 2 weeks. Ian wrote it as it was being recorded! They would record and he would go home each night and write the next bit.
I’m guessing that that may not be the last time that this album graces your turntable. It really needs about a 100 listens to catch it all which of course one of the reasons it is so great. For some more brilliant angry folk Rock and some really sensitive beautiful folk rock look out some Roy Harper in the vinyl bins. Stormcock, Bullinamingvase, HQ and The Unknown Soldier would be the suggested targets but all his studio albums ( all 22 of them) have something to offer.
@@JimNewstead Well, so many great albums out there that maybe it is not wise to name only one. Octopus by Gentle Giant, Fragile by Yes, Selling England by the Pound by Genesis and Thick as a Brick are in the same line from the 70's, The All Is One by Motorpsycho, Sparta by Kenso and Dancing by Mike Keneally are great from contemporary prog. And maybe even Shadow Theater by Tigran Hamasyan can be regarded as prog. And of course 2nd Hands by Gourishankar. A hidden gem, especially nowadays, since the band comes from Russia.
Jim, I am thankful I grew up when all this great music was coming out. I saw Jethro Tull live twice in the 70's. They were awesome live! I have a suggestion. You should react to the Live Jethro Tull album called "Bursting Out" all 4 sides. You will love it.
A fantastic album from JT. I believe I last listened to this about 2 years ago while laid up in the house recovering from minor surgery. So now every time I hear it, I am reminded of my surgery 😂 Great fun and I’m glad you loved it Jim. ✌️
Great to see Scot Lade, the Magister Ludi of Prog Corner, making a cameo appearance! I shall have to find my paperback edition of the Boy Scout Manual, although I am not sure why. I shall go to Helvering and inquiet, in choir, ink wire, inquire, I'll fire my cerebrum torge the solvino auf der Conandra du jour. Pardonez mon macaronicatae. Je blame Tull.
If it's true that this is JT saying we're not prog, one has to wonder if the sudden shift at the end back to the starting melodies and the sudden orchestration are also done tongue in cheek. Anyone know? This album reminds me of my childhood when my older sister bought this and we played it repeatedly. (And yes, we have the full newspaper version). Such a great album!
@@gabiesiren they certainly are, but as we head into winter they become less effective. They are best from about April to mid October, then the winter months we will have to rely more on the grid.
Brilliant, essential prog! Loved it! Suggest roping in a (sheet) music stand for the LP covers. Jim! We're all on the 'huh! (vid camera rotated 15deg ish)... :)
Slightly on the huff! Oh man, I’d forgotten you were from East Anglia…. That’s a proper old Sarfook saying! Y’all roight bur? I hadn’t even noticed! What’s that say about me?
@@JimNewstead Yuss I'm aalrought. Ha your fa gotta dicky, bouy? I suspect yuorr ben havin one tu menny them haggissisfrom thas' there Scoutlund; the're a bit doon on tha'side tooo. Yus. :)
Hello Jim, I'm not a super fan of 70's music, this one is good, same level as close to the edge ! I wouldn't listen to it again tomorrow, but maybe next year !
My favorite piece of music of all time. As JT never quite duplicated this experience, although they tried on A Passion Play, which I am also a fan of, I am wondering what else is out there that might compare, no matter the genre? Never get sick of it, which is inexplicable. Of course anything you get used to dulls with repeats thanks to our brains, so I listen to many other things that I also love. Reaction Videos gives an opportunity to hear it newly. I heard it performed all the way through as a live performance once, but not the original band except in 2013 when Ian Anderson did a tour with his latest band where the first half of the concert was the complete Thick As A Brick, and the second half was the new Thick As A Brick 2, not nearly the music this is.
With so many amazing albums, Aqualung, Minstrels in the Gallery, Benefit, Heavy Horses, Songs from the Woods,it is hard to pick his best albums. For me they could have banned music worldwide after this album, because it has everything you would ever need to hear in the rock genre. Funny this is ranked by many music critics as one of the top 10 prog rock albums of all time, to which I would agree. Thick as a brick arguably the best Tull has ever done.
I was 18 when this came out. I always loved it but some critics such as Rolling Stone magazine only gave it a so-so review. Also, did you know that Jethro Tull had to do the second side all over again because they lost the first tape?
I will note that, at 11:49, when you remarked surprise at "folky" music being angry, the American folk singer Woody Guthrie played a guitar emblazoned with the phrase "This Machine Kills Fascists". At least in America, anger at injustice is kind of folk music's raison d'etre.
You really should spin Thick as a Brick 2 (2012, I think), now that you've just done the 1st one, while it's still fresh on everyone's mind. You know how much you enjoyed the 1st one....
There is a lot of great traditional folk music out there. I prefer the Celtic variety. It's just full of war, murder, adultery, drinking, etc. (when it's not a heartbreakingly beautiful ballad). A lot of fiery accompaniment too - fiddles, banjos, flutes, pipes, etc. Try something by Planxty or Silly Wizard. Great stuff! (Or take the intermediary step of listening to the folk/rock hybrid Steeleye Span, Tull's label-mates)
It would be a fascinating experiment to sit down a hundred 16 year-olds and get them to listen to this uninterrupted then canvass opinions. Would they be more impressed than 100 40 year-olds? 100 65 year-olds who maybe heard it first time round? Or would they insist on going back to Dua Lipa or whoever is cool these days? One of the very, very best.
Hi Jim, Just download a picture of the record sleeve and place it in the right upper corner of the screen 😋. I don’t like the first part of this side that much. It gets much better after the hodgepodge of drumming and other sounds. The drumming is great but it shouldn’t have been combined with that squeaky organ. The last piece is great again. I still prefer the more folk-rock orientated first side of this record. There are many bands that produce excellent folk music: Steeleye Span, Faun, Fairport Convention, Omnia. Dark Folk: Heilung, Wardruna, Skald, the Hu, Nytt Land, Danheim.
I'd say don't spend TOO much time analyzing the lyrics. They have a message, and the message is present and clear throughout many different sections of the lyrics, and they're delivered with clever turns of phrase. But the joke of the album is that it's the sort of message that a precocious 8 year old would come up with, and doesn't have a whole lot of real depth to it. To me that seems like Ian Anderson making a dig at the perception of prog rock and concept album lyrics (including his own) as being especially deep or literary by saying "A talented child could write this stuff."
Anthony fantano, whose content I'm entirely tired of, uses a little bit of green paper pinned to his wall to digitally show the album covers.. look into it? Could be nifty!
So yes, the payoff I was referring to was just the way the very frenetic keyboard and flute sections break down into swelling strings and such, and he reaches back to the earlier lyrics, I just love the way it comes back around, bigger and better
I think, to be fair, music that approximates this is still being produced, but yeah the audience has shrunk... To be honest, I think mogwai might be one of a number of heirs to this approach, their music is substituted subversive (just referencing the aforementioned upcoming re-release of Come On Die Young)
Side 2 always reminds me of Mike Oldfield. Glad you like it, Jim, although my criticism of side 1 stands: too many ideas not all well connected, with lyrics more obtuse than The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. This is where prog jumped the shark for me.
One of my top favorite records of all time! My only criticism of it, and some other Tull stuff ( Tull is my favorite ) is that lines such as "sperm's in the gutter" 50 years later don't really have the same "charm" today as they did in the early 70s, and ( for me ) detract a bit from the incredible music and lyrics here in the next century. Still one of the best albums of all time.
Really not enough analyzes of the musicality of this masterpiece! Tell us about the instruments, their interactions, movements/tempo changes or whatever you want but react, my god! There are plenty of videos on reactions without musically dissecting the flavors of the musicians' playing. I will continue to listen to Daily Doug who offers a deepening of the works that are worth it...
Hey hey, PinkyFloydyFan…. If you are only interested in academic discussion and dissection of the music then absolutely this is the wrong place for you. The rest of us are here to kick back, chill with friends and chat. Listening to amazing music with friends is surely the best way to hear it. Say hi to Doug from me! 👋
@@JimNewstead I understand your point, but what you're suggesting I can do without video input. If we take the trouble to record comments on masterpieces, it goes without saying for me to do research and communicate information on music that is worth it. The pleasure of listening increases when we can discover, with the help of experts, aspects that have escaped us. When we wait 3 minutes before you react on great passages (for example, the use of silences and drums within 5 minutes of side 2 of TAAB...), we just missed something... My comments here are not to discredit you, but to invite you to make us better appreciate music through discoveries of revealed musical aspects.
@@pinkyfloydyfan1 As much as I also appreciate Doug's in-depth analyses I have to say that a sure-fire way to ruin something for me is to analyze it to death. With Jim I derive a certain voyeuristic pleasure in seeing someone discover something new and amazing. That's why both approaches have merit and why there are, in fact, a hundred different flavors of reactors.
I went about 40 years not knowing this little tasty tidbit. "Hows your granny and good old ERNIE coughed up a tenner on a premium bond win" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bond#:~:text=The%20government%20pays%20interest%20into,Electronic%20Random%20Number%20Indicator%20Equipment.
"The level of talent on display here is staggering!" There is nothing else like it. This is why Jethro Tull has always been my favorite band!
Sparkling brilliance
This album is art at a very high level.
I've been listening to this album for decades, and no matter how many times I hear it, it never gets old. "Thick As a Brick" is still my favorite Jethro Tull album, and I still get just as much joy out of it as I did the first 5 times I heard it...a REAL masterpiece if there ever was one.
To talk about having to listen more than once…..I listen to this on every flight I go on. I fly about 70-100 times a year!
Just brilliant Ian Anderson was on this album. Released the same yr as Close to the Edge, must have been something in the British ale.
There’s always something in the British ale!
The last 90 seconds of this epic is my favorite 90 seconds of music ever….
The next few seconds after the last 90 seconds are my favourite part of this video!!!! I guess you didn’t see it yet!
@@JimNewstead Ha ha!!! I just saw my face pop up...
Love it!
I love the album to pieces, but it still amazes me that it went to number 1 in the U.S. Very different times and tastes.
Very ,very ...progressive album and progressive group , super I like it this album, fantastic musicians!!!1972 👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸✌️✌️✌️
Thanks for listening
Written (in chunks), recorded (as a band, together, in the studio), mixed and finished all inside two weeks! Writing and producing the cover newspaper took rather longer.
Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
In 1972 I was 14 and that summer and worked part time doing construction for my dad. When I got my first check I bought my first four albums, Emerson Lake And Palmer's first album, Yes's "The Yes Album", Black Sabbath's first album, and "Thick As A Brick" by Jethro Tull. Those albums blew my mind. They were completly different from what I was used to on the radio. You see this music from a backwards perspective, 50 years later, but at the time, these albums were almost shattering. I truely fell in love with music playing these albums. I loved the 70s sound.
Those strings are so beautiful, I could do with some more of that.
Nice one again Jim, this album has been between my ears since the day it came out. Absolutly fantastic, very British. It is an adventure to listen to. It also made me realize that Ian Anderson is a great guitar player as well. Thanks a lot Jethro Tull for this great epic. This made me buy all your albums.
How can you dislike this album 😁
The answer is you cannot unless you have deplorable taste in music. Period. :)
Bananas! And thus the world was introduced to Barriemore Barlow, one of the greatest rock or any genre drummers period and a favorite drummer of John Bonham's. A friend of the band, he was plucked from obscurity to record Thick As A Brick. Imagine this album being your first major recording debut? Next level drumming for 1972.
One word Spatacular!
Passion Play? Jim? You know you want to...! A. Unique. Band. Thanks.
I do, I will… not today though!
@@JimNewstead Quite! You'll need a rest!
@@JimNewstead ..I have to say...I have heard nothing like it! Just sayin'... it took time...a bit like Marmite. Now.. I love it.
Have a great time getting to know this music!!!
I like that tubby sounding floor tom!
Something was in the air back then. Look up the number of masterpieces that came out in that small window of about 36-48 months. Plus, all these great bands toured and performed them live so you got to see them do it.
The whole album is great but if I had to choose, I think "Thick as a Brick, Part II" is my favorite and on this second side my favorite sub-part is "Legends and Believe in the Day" which for me musically speaking anticipates the next album, A Passion Play (I also love the final with the strings, unfortunately too short for my taste). ...and now, A Passion Play reaches out to you ! 😉
"and sweeping strings" Yes, I think of the string section as the kitchen sink. Ian, "why Barrie, what have we left out" Barrie "Ian, i think we need some sweeping string section, something for David Palmer to do"
I haven’t listened to this album for years but I still know all the lyrics. It was a pleasure, Jim, to listen to it with you.
Gotta love Jethro Tull!🤩
Yes it’s the law!
Known for his flute playing , Ian Anderson is an incredible acoustic guitar player!
Do you believe in the day? Do you? Believe in the day.
I've read that Tull did rarely perform this entire record live, but for the most part, their live shows ran with an edited version of Thick as a Brick that ran about 12 minutes long. For your personal amusement, it would be well worth the time to track down a UA-cam video of one of the live shows. The antics of the entire band on this piece were fun to watch, particularly Ian and keyboardist John Evan.
on that tour they played all, on the passion played they played last half or so, and then went to the 12 min version which imo leaves all the best bits out. :-(
I was fortunate enough to see Tull on the original Thick as a Brick tour, when they performed the entire song. It was a great show! As a side note, The Eagles were the opening act. They were not yet famous.
Ian wrote a follow up.Thick as a Brick 2,and did both thick as a bricks live on tour.Hissinging voice isshot now and he hascopd.
My dad saw the Thick as a Brick tour in 1972-1973 in Seattle Coliseum and they played all of the material from the album PLUS each musician had a lengthened solo. Then they played 2 more hours from their catalogue! Good Lord! LOL That tour Yes was opening for Tull along with The Eagles.
The "Bursting Out" Version is excellent.....truncated (that's a big word)
I have read that this was the 2nd studio take. The first, the reel to reel dragged and Tull had to play it all over again. This was not a piecemeal, but a full take from end to end. Hard to believe until you've seen them live in their prime with all the stuff they had to remember and flawlessly perform. I can believe it.
Stunning LP.....
"so many ideas in one piece of music "Yes yes yes! twist and turns, ups and downs, warmth, humor, anger. Above all others! I think perhaps Ian thought of it as a parady and that really set his creativity free. Perhaps the pressure off of getting everything right? And, it really helped his musicians were brilliant. I believe they recorded the thing over 2 weeks. Ian wrote it as it was being recorded! They would record and he would go home each night and write the next bit.
Extraordinary!
I’m guessing that that may not be the last time that this album graces your turntable. It really needs about a 100 listens to catch it all which of course one of the reasons it is so great. For some more brilliant angry folk Rock and some really sensitive beautiful folk rock look out some Roy Harper in the vinyl bins. Stormcock, Bullinamingvase, HQ and The Unknown Soldier would be the suggested targets but all his studio albums ( all 22 of them) have something to offer.
This album was for many years for me the best album ever made. Still in the top 3.
What overtook it?
@@JimNewstead Well, so many great albums out there that maybe it is not wise to name only one. Octopus by Gentle Giant, Fragile by Yes, Selling England by the Pound by Genesis and Thick as a Brick are in the same line from the 70's, The All Is One by Motorpsycho, Sparta by Kenso and Dancing by Mike Keneally are great from contemporary prog. And maybe even Shadow Theater by Tigran Hamasyan can be regarded as prog. And of course 2nd Hands by Gourishankar. A hidden gem, especially nowadays, since the band comes from Russia.
...and Fairyport by the Finnish band Wigwam 😎.
This is still my favourite album of all time. However, depending on my mood it does get supplanted by UK’s first album
Jim, I am thankful I grew up when all this great music was coming out. I saw Jethro Tull live twice in the 70's. They were awesome live! I have a suggestion. You should react to the Live Jethro Tull album called "Bursting Out" all 4 sides. You will love it.
A fantastic album from JT. I believe I last listened to this about 2 years ago while laid up in the house recovering from minor surgery. So now every time I hear it, I am reminded of my surgery 😂 Great fun and I’m glad you loved it Jim. ✌️
I dont think the current generation,just sit down and listen to albums.
21:00 and change, that's when side 2 kicks in
50th anniversary vinyl recently issued which reproduces the full newspaper cover in all its glory plus half speed mastered. Must buy copy.
Time for Passion Play!
I wonder if the drummer is playing the chimes at the same time!
Ahhh!!!
2:50 in and you actually did it. Turntable brought to the other side of the video.
Ahhh!!!
ok, now of course passion play!!!
👍Of course !!! 😉
They were great in concert!!! An amazing epic night!🔥🔥
I saw them twice on the TAAB tour - two amazing shows with TAAB being introduced as "their new song".
Top Ten Album
Hey Jim,
What's amazing is of all the awesome Tull you've listened to you have not gotten to their greatest bits yet. Walt IMHO
childhood heroes was rather prophetic in terms of the MCU
This isn't an album I listen to often but aaaah it is so good! Every instrument is incredibly played and produced
Jim, I have a MFSL master recording of this album on CD amazing music.
its like listening to a part of my youth all over again great choice jim
Passion Play next...
Great to see Scot Lade, the Magister Ludi of Prog Corner, making a cameo appearance! I shall have to find my paperback edition of the Boy Scout Manual, although I am not sure why. I shall go to Helvering and inquiet, in choir, ink wire, inquire, I'll fire my cerebrum torge the solvino auf der Conandra du jour. Pardonez mon macaronicatae. Je blame Tull.
LOLs 😂
If it's true that this is JT saying we're not prog, one has to wonder if the sudden shift at the end back to the starting melodies and the sudden orchestration are also done tongue in cheek. Anyone know? This album reminds me of my childhood when my older sister bought this and we played it repeatedly. (And yes, we have the full newspaper version). Such a great album!
Good morning! In Montreal it's sunny, +0 celsius! Winter and snow is coming!
Tabernacle, go Leafs go
Brrrrr! It’s defo feeling autumnal here now. The heating is on and the gas bill is increasing 😬
@@lesblatnyak5947 go Habs Go! I live in Montreal not Toronto!
@@JimNewstead what about your solar panels?? Are they working??!
@@gabiesiren they certainly are, but as we head into winter they become less effective. They are best from about April to mid October, then the winter months we will have to rely more on the grid.
Brilliant, essential prog! Loved it!
Suggest roping in a (sheet) music stand for the LP covers.
Jim! We're all on the 'huh! (vid camera rotated 15deg ish)... :)
Slightly on the huff! Oh man, I’d forgotten you were from East Anglia…. That’s a proper old Sarfook saying! Y’all roight bur?
I hadn’t even noticed! What’s that say about me?
@@JimNewstead Yuss I'm aalrought. Ha your fa gotta dicky, bouy? I suspect yuorr ben havin one tu menny them haggissisfrom thas' there Scoutlund; the're a bit doon on tha'side tooo. Yus.
:)
A Passion Play is next, right!?!?!
Maybe…. But I don’t think I’ve got it yet!
I commented on side 1, Barrie Barlow does not get enough credit as a great drummer! ")
Hello Jim, I'm not a super fan of 70's music, this one is good, same level as close to the edge ! I wouldn't listen to it again tomorrow, but maybe next year !
My favorite piece of music of all time. As JT never quite duplicated this experience, although they tried on A Passion Play, which I am also a fan of, I am wondering what else is out there that might compare, no matter the genre? Never get sick of it, which is inexplicable. Of course anything you get used to dulls with repeats thanks to our brains, so I listen to many other things that I also love. Reaction Videos gives an opportunity to hear it newly. I heard it performed all the way through as a live performance once, but not the original band except in 2013 when Ian Anderson did a tour with his latest band where the first half of the concert was the complete Thick As A Brick, and the second half was the new Thick As A Brick 2, not nearly the music this is.
Good morning, Jim. ☀️
Morning!
Good morning Jim! Hope you enjoy side 2. I think you will.😎
Morning! Let's se shall we!
Morning all
@@lesblatnyak5947 😎Alyona is doing a livestream. It's in hour 31! I watched 23 straight hours. Got 2 hours sleep.
@@jeffschielka7845 thought you were of German decent
@@lesblatnyak5947 Nope. Polish actually. 😎
With so many amazing albums, Aqualung, Minstrels in the Gallery, Benefit, Heavy Horses, Songs from the Woods,it is hard to pick his best albums. For me they could have banned music worldwide after this album, because it has everything you would ever need to hear in the rock genre. Funny this is ranked by many music critics as one of the top 10 prog rock albums of all time, to which I would agree. Thick as a brick arguably the best Tull has ever done.
I was 18 when this came out. I always loved it but some critics such as Rolling Stone magazine only gave it a so-so review. Also, did you know that Jethro Tull had to do the second side all over again because they lost the first tape?
Did they? Nightmare!
A Passion Play came after this and was very long and proggy as well.
I will note that, at 11:49, when you remarked surprise at "folky" music being angry, the American folk singer Woody Guthrie played a guitar emblazoned with the phrase "This Machine Kills Fascists". At least in America, anger at injustice is kind of folk music's raison d'etre.
You really should spin Thick as a Brick 2 (2012, I think), now that you've just done the 1st one, while it's still fresh on everyone's mind. You know how much you enjoyed the 1st one....
Ian Anderson is the modern day Mozart..
Astonishing, right?!
There is a lot of great traditional folk music out there. I prefer the Celtic variety. It's just full of war, murder, adultery, drinking, etc. (when it's not a heartbreakingly beautiful ballad). A lot of fiery accompaniment too - fiddles, banjos, flutes, pipes, etc. Try something by Planxty or Silly Wizard. Great stuff! (Or take the intermediary step of listening to the folk/rock hybrid Steeleye Span, Tull's label-mates)
great reaction Jim, "strings...why not"?
It would be a fascinating experiment to sit down a hundred 16 year-olds and get them to listen to this uninterrupted then canvass opinions. Would they be more impressed than 100 40 year-olds? 100 65 year-olds who maybe heard it first time round? Or would they insist on going back to Dua Lipa or whoever is cool these days? One of the very, very best.
I fear they’d just hate it!
Visceral folk music...
Have you ever listened to Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and early Bob Dylan (lyrics, anyway)?
Hi Jim,
Just download a picture of the record sleeve and place it in the right upper corner of the screen 😋.
I don’t like the first part of this side that much. It gets much better after the hodgepodge of drumming and other sounds. The drumming is great but it shouldn’t have been combined with that squeaky organ.
The last piece is great again. I still prefer the more folk-rock orientated first side of this record.
There are many bands that produce excellent folk music: Steeleye Span, Faun, Fairport Convention, Omnia.
Dark Folk: Heilung, Wardruna, Skald, the Hu, Nytt Land, Danheim.
Wonder where "Little Milton" is today? Hope he's doing well.
He founded a new town now city called Milton Keynes, It's where I live!
@@JimNewstead lol Brilliant, love it
Ian hasdone a thick as a brick 2.It catches up with Gerald Bostock in hislater years.
I'd say don't spend TOO much time analyzing the lyrics. They have a message, and the message is present and clear throughout many different sections of the lyrics, and they're delivered with clever turns of phrase. But the joke of the album is that it's the sort of message that a precocious 8 year old would come up with, and doesn't have a whole lot of real depth to it. To me that seems like Ian Anderson making a dig at the perception of prog rock and concept album lyrics (including his own) as being especially deep or literary by saying "A talented child could write this stuff."
Yessir time for that payoff!
Anthony fantano, whose content I'm entirely tired of, uses a little bit of green paper pinned to his wall to digitally show the album covers.. look into it? Could be nifty!
So yes, the payoff I was referring to was just the way the very frenetic keyboard and flute sections break down into swelling strings and such, and he reaches back to the earlier lyrics, I just love the way it comes back around, bigger and better
I think, to be fair, music that approximates this is still being produced, but yeah the audience has shrunk... To be honest, I think mogwai might be one of a number of heirs to this approach, their music is substituted subversive (just referencing the aforementioned upcoming re-release of Come On Die Young)
I will!
That’s quite clever actually!
Side 2 always reminds me of Mike Oldfield. Glad you like it, Jim, although my criticism of side 1 stands: too many ideas not all well connected, with lyrics more obtuse than The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. This is where prog jumped the shark for me.
I don't think I could handle if music like this was still being made by modern bands. I have a sick feeling it was be a pale pale comparison.
One of my top favorite records of all time!
My only criticism of it, and some other Tull stuff ( Tull is my favorite ) is that lines such as "sperm's in the gutter" 50 years later don't really have the same "charm" today as they did in the early 70s, and ( for me ) detract a bit from the incredible music and lyrics here in the next century. Still one of the best albums of all time.
Nobody listens too 20 minute tracks don't seem too have time bi the way I'm in my sixty's so norm for me
Give JT "Benefit" a listen. IMHO it is much better than "Stand Up" and easily comparable to Aqualung due to its 10 nearly flawless songs.
Yes, Benefit is the most underrated Jethro album. For no good reason.
All in good time 👍🏼
Really not enough analyzes of the musicality of this masterpiece! Tell us about the instruments, their interactions, movements/tempo changes or whatever you want but react, my god! There are plenty of videos on reactions without musically dissecting the flavors of the musicians' playing.
I will continue to listen to Daily Doug who offers a deepening of the works that are worth it...
Hey hey, PinkyFloydyFan…. If you are only interested in academic discussion and dissection of the music then absolutely this is the wrong place for you. The rest of us are here to kick back, chill with friends and chat. Listening to amazing music with friends is surely the best way to hear it. Say hi to Doug from me! 👋
@@JimNewstead
I understand your point, but what you're suggesting I can do without video input. If we take the trouble to record comments on masterpieces, it goes without saying for me to do research and communicate information on music that is worth it.
The pleasure of listening increases when we can discover, with the help of experts, aspects that have escaped us.
When we wait 3 minutes before you react on great passages (for example, the use of silences and drums within 5 minutes of side 2 of TAAB...), we just missed something...
My comments here are not to discredit you, but to invite you to make us better appreciate music through discoveries of revealed musical aspects.
@@pinkyfloydyfan1 As much as I also appreciate Doug's in-depth analyses I have to say that a sure-fire way to ruin something for me is to analyze it to death. With Jim I derive a certain voyeuristic pleasure in seeing someone discover something new and amazing. That's why both approaches have merit and why there are, in fact, a hundred different flavors of reactors.
There were a lot of great bands, but could any of them replicated thick as a brick?
I went about 40 years not knowing this little tasty tidbit. "Hows your granny and good old ERNIE coughed up a tenner on a premium bond win" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bond#:~:text=The%20government%20pays%20interest%20into,Electronic%20Random%20Number%20Indicator%20Equipment.
Ahhhh, bring British I knew that already!