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Post by Gerrald Bostock on Oct 28, 2015 18:28:36 GMT
WTF !!!!
Rolling Stone agazine picks a Tull LP #7 for all time Prog Albums
7 Jethro Tull, 'Thick as a Brick' (1972) Jethro Tull, 'Thick as a Brick' Miffed that many critics mistook 1971's Aqualung for a concept album, Tull leader Ian Anderson decided to follow it up by parodying the entire concept-album concept. Consisting of one nearly 44-minute song stretched across a dizzying array of movements, Thick as a Brick came wrapped in a Monty Python-esque newspaper sleeve that attributed the song's lyrics to a fictional schoolboy and even "reviewed" the album within. It was a brilliant prank — one so seamlessly executed, in fact, that most people didn't get the joke. Not that they needed to in order to enjoy it. As Rolling Stone noted at the time, "Whether or not Thick as a Brick is an isolated experiment, it's nice to know that someone in rock has ambitions beyond the four- or five-minute conventional track, and has the intelligence to carry out his intentions, in all their intricacy, with considerable grace." D.E. Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-greatest-prog-rock-albums-of-all-time-20150617/jethro-tull-thick-as-a-brick-1972-20150617#ixzz3pt8fFlrB Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook
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Post by bambooflute on Oct 28, 2015 22:33:41 GMT
WTF !!!!
Rolling Stone agazine picks a Tull LP #7 for all time Prog Albums
7 Jethro Tull, 'Thick as a Brick' (1972) Jethro Tull, 'Thick as a Brick' Miffed that many critics mistook 1971's Aqualung for a concept album, Tull leader Ian Anderson decided to follow it up by parodying the entire concept-album concept. Consisting of one nearly 44-minute song stretched across a dizzying array of movements, Thick as a Brick came wrapped in a Monty Python-esque newspaper sleeve that attributed the song's lyrics to a fictional schoolboy and even "reviewed" the album within. It was a brilliant prank — one so seamlessly executed, in fact, that most people didn't get the joke. Not that they needed to in order to enjoy it. As Rolling Stone noted at the time, "Whether or not Thick as a Brick is an isolated experiment, it's nice to know that someone in rock has ambitions beyond the four- or five-minute conventional track, and has the intelligence to carry out his intentions, in all their intricacy, with considerable grace." D.E. Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-greatest-prog-rock-albums-of-all-time-20150617/jethro-tull-thick-as-a-brick-1972-20150617#ixzz3pt8fFlrB Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook Whoa!!! I always thought that Rolling Stone considered Tull to be on the same level as something you scrape off the bottom of your shoe. Is the planet about to leave its orbit? Never thought I'd see the day...
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Post by tootull on Oct 29, 2015 13:21:17 GMT
Top 10 Concept Albums WM TOP - Published on Oct 29, 2015
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Post by Quizz Kid on Oct 29, 2015 15:00:43 GMT
Eeeek!
It looks like TaaB has slipped to No 10! Has Jan Wenner pulled some strings and sacked the compiler?
It's still missing that all important album from '73 though.
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