In Collection
Rating:
10
Owner:
Jean-Henry Berevoescu
Rating:
10
Owner:
Jean-Henry Berevoescu
| 01 | Thick As A Brick (Side 1) | 22:40 | ||||||
| 02 | Thick As A Brick (Side 2) | 21:10 | ||||||
| 03 | Thick As A Brick [Live 1978] | Recorded live at Madison Square Garden, New York, 1978 | 11:50 | |||||
| 04 | Interview | Interview with Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, Martin Barre & Jeffrey Hammond. | 16:30 | |||||
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Notes
RemasterDate of US Release June 30, 1998
Recorded 1972
1 Bonus Track Recorded live 1978
Jethro Tull's first LP-length epic is a masterpiece in the annals of progressive rock, and one of the few works of its kind that still holds up 25 years later. Mixing hard rock and English folk music with classical influences, set to stream-of-consciousness lyrics so dense with the imagery that one might spend weeks pondering their meaning assuming one feels the need to do so the group created a dazzling tour-de-force, at once playful, profound, and challenging, without overwhelming the listener. The original LP was the best sounding, best engineered record Tull had ever released, easily capturing the shifting dynamics between the soft all-acoustic passages and the electric rock crescendos surrounding them. The sound on the original Columbia Records CD (not identified as such, but recognizable by a "VK" prefix in its catalog number) was harsh and thin, and left a lot to be desired in terms of richness the Mobile Fidelity audiophile disc (out-of-print) solved those problems, and the current Chrysalis disc is an improvement as well. [Thick as a Brick is also available in an import release.]