Album Rating: 5.0
me too ; )
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Album Rating: 4.0
Ok, seems like it has been fixed.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Third attempt at this album and I've gotta admit...pretty much hate it.
This is real 'wizard skipping along with a flute in the enchanted glade' stuff - I think I read somewhere that this is a 'half joking/prog parody' album so maybe I've missed the joke and this isn't supposed to be taken seriously?
Either way, not finding it enjoyable.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Ah, scanning the internet and this IS supposed to be a parody album...maybe on that level this sort of works.
'Thick As A Brick sold millions, though its wit is so dry and so subtle that many missed the joke. Over the past 40 years, Thick As A Brick has been slammed by prog-haters as an example of the genre at its most excessive, and embraced by prog-lovers for more or less the same reason. It’s easy to understand the confusion.'
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It is absolutely a parody. It's taking the piss out of prog and specifically concept albums, whilst being better than everything it's parodying.
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how is that even possible to miss the joke here Doof o.O
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Album Rating: 2.5
I haven't read the lyrics and this does sound like a lot of prog from the 70s, it's only taken a tiny step beyond what I'd expect.
I'm not sure I need any joke that lasts 40+ minutes with copious fluttering flute and organ solos in my life. At least I feel I sort of get where the album is coming from now.
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Lyrically this is the best prog album out there, which isn't surprising as Anderson was way ahead of everyone else in the genre in terms of songwriting. Not that Tull were really part of the prog genre other than when they were parodying it. This and A Passion Play (which is even more tongue-in-cheek and ridiculous than this) are their only real prog albums.
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Album Rating: 2.5
I mean it isn't any more ridiculous than most Rick Wakeman albums so you can see why people wouldn't necessarily get the joke :/
I feel like I'm embracing the (anti)concept now, but it still is such an effort to actually care about this musically. Just overstuffed and you'd have to love, and I mean really really LOVE the flute as an instrument to even start to want to listen to this.
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Album Rating: 2.5
The Sput review makes no reference to this being a parody at all, it only says the concept of the boy being disqualified for using a naughty word is quite amusing. I'm getting the feeling this is a misunderstood album by a huge proportion of people out there.
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prob
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah, I think this album doesn't really benefit from being a parody. I wouldn't listen to a 40 minute song just for the laughs. I do it for the song-writing though. There definitely are some obviously tongue-in-cheek moments though, but they are the worst parts imo, especially that mind-numbing drum solo in the middle, jesus.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
doof delete yourself
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Album Rating: 5.0
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That's a new low, Doof.
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Album Rating: 2.5
I'm really picky with what prog I like and as the joke with this album is it's purposefully trying to be the most ridiculous n' proggiest of all prog ever then really it's not a major surprise I don't dig this too much. I kinda get why this is good now though, I wouldn't rate it lower than a 2.5 because it accomplishes what it sets out to do.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Can you not
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Album Rating: 4.5
Doof I think you need to give this another few goes dude. This album is as good as it gets.
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Album Rating: 4.5
this requires repeated listens before it presents its amazingness
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"I mean it isn't any more ridiculous than most Rick Wakeman albums"
I think you just answered your own question :-)
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Album Rating: 5.0
Best prog so far
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