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Review Summary: The only way to hear a 40 minutes long song without being boring, is definetly this. "Thick as a Brick" is a epic with no doubt, and it's, also, the best of Jethro Tull, it's the Ian Andersen creativity at its apex. Absolute Classic. You start hearing at it. As you hope, it's a 40 minutes song, splited in two tracks. It's like any of the Jethro' songs: Folky, full of flutes, funny, cheeky. Very, very cheeky, indeed. As it softly introduces the piano, the strings, the wind and the metals, aside the electric part of the band. You know, guitar, basses, and all those things. It's incredible how Andersen spent his time to play all this instruments. Yes, my friends, he not only plays the acoustic guitar and the flute. That bastard even plays trumpet and violin! And the madness orchestra walks toward a mix of Jethro Tull's traditional Prog-Rock, Hard Rock, Jazz, Blues and Classical Music, with all the european eccentric humor. The album tells the history of Little Milton, a prodigious boy that writes a awesome poem, but it loses the award to another girl, that wrote a poem about religion. Here it starts the critics for the English religious fanatism, a constant on Ian lyrics. Then the lyrics go to the war, the oldness, misery and love. I have to say I prefer the first piece of this one, I don't know if it's because it's more fast-paced, but the second part, it's great, too. The album itself it's a fine piece of art, and the album cover art itself worths the buying. It just catchs your attention.
I don't have much to say about this album. Maybe it's because it have only two "songs" (quotes, because, nevertheless, it's just one song), but the word to say about this is just that: Amazing. The best of the best. The greatness at its apex. The only way to hear a 40 minutes long song without being boring, is definetly this. "Thick as a Brick" is a epic with no doubt, and it's, also, the best album of Jethro Tull, it's the Ian Andersen creativity at its apex. Absolute Classic.
It's suffering to see they drowning on the pressure of the mainstream, bleeding to death, till absence. Hope it keep performing their great old songs, even if they don't record any piece of art like this anymore.
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e210013 (5)
The father, or mother as Ian Anderson said, of all concept albums....
vanderb0b (5)
One of the most essential progressive albums to ever be created, Thick As A Brick deserves a spot in...
Hellwhore (5)
Jethro Tull wrote an extremely ambitious and unique album... and it worked astonishingly well!...
pulseczar (5)
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Album Rating: 5.0
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Album is fantastic. Review needs more details about the sound/feel of the album. I've heard this tons of times, so I know what it sounds like, but the review is not directed towards fellow Tull-fanatics, and rather those that have never heard the album. They would not have a very good understanding of this album based off the review. Also, there are frequent grammatical errors.
Fix:
Here it starts the critics for the English religious fanatism, a constant on Ian lyrics.
As it softly introduces the piano, the strings, the wind and the metals, aside the electric part of the band.
Also, if you know that you have little to say about an album, then don't review it. Review albums that you know you can adequately describe. That said, good effort for a second review.
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i love this too, but i think you need more to justify a 5.0
| | | Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Well, first to the vanderb0b comment, sorry for my, sometimes, bad english, but I'm brazilian. Anyway, I think I can rewrite the review, and, anyway, I didn't have little to say about the album, I actually had a short time to write. Unless, I would write a lot more. And, eggsvonsatan, I really think this is a 5.0 rating album. A outstanding classic and, as I said, It's a fine piece of art, don't matter how many words you use to say that.
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Album rules. English is not my mother tongue neither.
Keep on practicing and don't be afraid of the language barrier.
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@AvantKiller
You don't need to re-write, maybe edit a bit, but not re-write. Also, like Jethro said, definitely keep on writing reviews. You'll get much better at the language rather quickly.
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this is prob my favourite 70s prog album
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damn, never knew you liked this that much
| | | Album Rating: 5.0
theres never anything boring and its a 40 min song. incredible
| | | Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Just read the summary, amd want to say: give Edge of Sanity’s Crimson a go ;)
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