Thick As a Brick

Product Details

Artist : Jethro Tull
Format : Extra tracks
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0724349540026
Label : Chrysalis
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1998-06-08
UPC : 724349540026

ASIN : B00000AOUD

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Thick As A Brick
2. Thick As A Brick
3. Thick As A Brick
4. Interview With Jethro Tull

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Customer Reviews

A brick to build on... (2008-08-18)

I was born in the early 80s, so obviously would have had some trouble catching this the first time round. I first got this as a stocking filler aged 14 and immediately fell in love with it. What makes it so special is that it's unlike anything else I know. I own a lot of other prog rock, but nothing really is so hard to define as this. What is it? A rock opera? A concept album? One song or a hundred?I really don't know, but what is evident is that it has stuck with me without diminishing in any respect in my view - it sounds fresh, creative, unbloated (which is unusual for prog rock) and always inspirational and I never tire of it. I will play it to my kids one day."We'll have Superman for president, let Robin save the day".

30 years of the life of a brick in a wall (2008-07-15)

Prog-rock excrement. Would only appeal to lovers of the meaningless & noodly. As an impressionable teenager I spent countless hours listening to this (well, at that age you have all the time in the world. You needed it for this) and read every single word of the newspaper gatefold (lyrics included). I even went to see them perform the whole album at the Albert Hall. Of course I must have loved it then. We all did. Hmmm, makes you wonder. Get This Was, Stand Up, Benefit or Aqualung instead. This has no merit whatsoever.

Classic Tull (2008-05-31)

If you like jethro Tull and dont have this album please go out and buy it is one of the best Tull albums the band did.I have a large Tull collection and this album along with Aqualung is my favourite.Remastered sound quality on album is excellent and gives great sound quality.Other classic Tull albums to look at are;Songs From The Wood.Heavy Horses.Too Old To Rock and Roll superb albums and all are digitally remastered.Thick As A Brick an absolute must for your collection.The music on the album is just fantastic and at this point in there career Tull were on a huge high, this album went to no 1 in the States and was a huge seller worldwide for the band which just goes to show the acclaim this album received.You really will enjoy this work.Hope review is of help to you.

'So Where the Hell was Biggles, When You Needed Him Last Saturday?" Tull's most cohesive & complex work - with some great tunes! (2007-10-09)

When I was getting into Jethro Tull in the mid-to-late 70s, I was drawn to both the newer albums of the time ('Songs from the Woods', 'Heavy Horses' etc.) as well as the classic earlier albums ('Aqualung', 'Stand Up' etc.), but wasn't sure if buying an album with my prized pocket money with apparently no track listing, and a newspaper for a cover was going to be a major disappointment or not. I'm pleased I took the plunge, because for me it remains their best album and the one I return to even in my older years!Firstly, the whole thing just flows... from its classic acoustic guitar start through all the guitar and keyboard-orientated sections (some amazingly powerful) and then takes you back home right at the end. Great recurring themes and tunes (very melodic at times), a variety of time signatures, and an engaging lyrical theme - make this not only a Prog Rock concept album masterpiece, but a Classic Rock one too!Do I follow all the lyrics? - well, not really. But I can see it's about a boy's journey towards adulthood (autobiographical by Ian Anderson?) into the world where freedom is despised and conventionality is praised. In fact, I always think Ian did a better job with this album than Roger Waters did with parts of 'The Wall' in expressing this anti-establishment sentiment.What the album really benefits from are some really great tunes that stay in your head and have you humming the notes for hours after listening to them (something lacking in the likes of 'A Passion Play' and some later albums). However, I agree with an earlier reviewer that despite this melodic accessibility for a concept album, the album needs to be focussed on (rather than played in the background) to get the most out of it.On the new CD version itself and in recent interviews, Ian likes to treat it as a humourous attempt to make the ultimate 'tongue-in-cheek' prog rock concept album. Well I just don't buy that (well not all of it anyway) and think for credibility reasons he's trying to distance himself (in hindsight) from what is often a mocked concept by the music industry (to be fair some concept albums deserve it!). The idea of 'creating' a concept might have been a fun one for the band at first, but you only need to listen to the complexity and exhurbence of the playing and most importantly the acidity and bite in Ian's lyrics to know they were well into the concept. Whatever the thinking behind it, it's a 70s masterpiece and well worth a few pounds of anyone's money, especially those younger listeners rediscovering 70s prog via Yes and Genesis reissues or the likes of 'Spock's Beard'. It's just a shame the CD can't give you all the 'Monty Pythonesque' newspaper articles - but long live Gerald 'Little Milton' Bostock (wherever he is!)

A progressive rock masterpiece (2007-08-09)

When my brother first introduced me to Thick As A Brick in the early '90s (he had an LP) I was captivated by it. Sometime later I bought it on CD and one day, on my way to work on the train, decided to listen to it through my earphones. A special bond was about to be forged.This will sound melodramatic, but I mean it: I tell you that album was made for that train trip. The first three minutes of the music and the train ride are calm and easy. Suddenly, both music and train become loud and frantic. At various times throughout both, the speed and energy rises and falls in close synchronisation. Although it's far too difficult and lengthy to go into all the details, I must say it was quite uncanny how well the music in my ears was so appropriate to the vision in my eyes.I will always remember those days fondly, and Thick As A Brick will forever occupy a very special part of my heart and mind.It's a very pleasant, positive sounding album in many respects, thanks to the chord progression and the use of flute, xylophone (or is it glockenspiel?), acoustic guitar and the synthesiser of the day (was it the Moog? I'm not quite sure). At the same time, if one examines the lyrics, one finds them to be less than positive and very metaphorical, as they are concerned with society and its often absurd rules and ways, and there is an inferred criticism towards these rules.Instructions for listening:You must not put this on in the background and do other things that distract you from the music: you absolutely must give it your undivided attention. It deserves nothing less, especially if you want to get the complete feeling and imagery it delivers. Immerse yourself in this masterpiece and you will be richly rewarded.This album went to number one in the US and number five in the UK. It's widely regarded as perhaps Jethro Tull's finest work - their magnum opus - THE concept album. One of my favourite albums, closely followed by their next album "A Passion Play", an album that polarises people, but that's another story.

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