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| 5.0 classic | TheIntruder | September 2nd 15 |
Thick As A Brick is a very ambitious album. It combines successfully hard rock, jazz, and folk with great melodies which turn the album into a progressive rock opus. The music on this concept album is brilliant from the first to the last minute. Every single note sounds beautifully. Even now, when more than forty years passed, it still sounds great and better than ever. It is very easy to get into its music, and is much easier to listen to than many other progressive albums, which are much more complex and difficult to listen. Definitely, it crowns the genre of the progressive folk music.
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| 0.0 | Gwynbleiddsfang | June 15th 12 |
It's just crazy the kind of lengths these guys would go in order to prove a point(or try). In case you didn't know, this... "Album" was made in order to parodize concept albums(more or less anyway), this is because JT's previous album, 'Aqualung', was called a concept album by critics, something that Ian Anderson, the band's singer, strongly opposes to this day. It's weird, to this day i still don't understand what was his point with this. Was he trying to show the critics something about what is and what isn't a concept album, making a song with based around one concept the entire album, or was he just wanking to his songwriting ability? whatever, this "album" stills kicks plenty of ass regardless of the reasons behind it. It's long, yes, and theres no way you'll get the full experience without hearing it completely, and admitedly i found myself a bit disinterested at certain times, but the good moments more than made up for them. It's an album that, i think, most people who give it the time to really shine, will love it.
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| 4.0 excellent | praise jimmy EMERITUS | April 3rd 14 |
JamieTwort bb, are you not satisfied? I did it! I finally did it!
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| 4.5 superb | NightmareCinema16 | July 29th 13 |
The greatest intentional conceptual parody, I'd say.
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| 4.0 excellent | Introu1 | January 16th 22 |
what an insane prog rock album damn, literaly the best you can find 4,3/5
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| 4.0 excellent | charlopiano | April 29th 21 |
The story behind this album is very funny. After critics called and judged their last album as a concept album, when according to them it wasn?t, they were so mad that they decided to make a parody concept album, and what they ended up doing was one of the best prog rock records of all time. And I can understand why it?s here. As a prog rock release, it totally earns all the praise it gets, and I think it?s also important to represent parody albums, since they can be an important part of culture. So yeah, it?s very good, as far as prog rock goes, it?s not among my favorites, but it?s still a great album.
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| 4.5 superb | XSebbyMcMuffinX | February 20th 21 |
I literally just heard this for the first time, and I can't believe how much fire there is in here. Amazing riffs / song composition. Easily a progenitor of modern prog rock. Contemplating a 5. Btw, I'm guessing musicians' issue with the "concept album" label is the fact that literally any album that's about anything is a "concept" album. Kind of like how most bands that use advanced compositional techniques are generally considered "prog."
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| 4.0 excellent | GamamJ | July 31st 20 |
An excellent album, and as a middle-finger to the critics, just great. The first part is flawless, but the second part took some time to pick up, not helped by the blocky transition between parts. Furthermore, the second half seems to veer a bit away from the concept and more towards purposeless wank for much of its second half. Still an excellent record.
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| 4.5 superb | Deadwing2112 | April 2nd 20 |
Ian Anderson unintentionally composes a progressive rock landmark by poking fun at the genre through channeling his inner 8 year old alias Gerald Bostock. And rather than laughing at Jethro Tull's musical satire, enthusiasts of the band embraced the album wholeheartedly.
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| 5.0 classic | Aidan McIntosh | January 22nd 20 |
Gets stuck in my head too much. For how complex this two-piece "epic" is, it's catchy enough that you'd reckon it be some sort of pretentious art pop-goes-medieval project. Makes me think I'm living in London. Anyways, really catchy and yeah, probably perfect, which is too rare for most progressive rock albums, as good as they are.
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| 5.0 classic | dlbk03 | February 11th 19 |
Probably one of the most masterfully written works of musical art ever to exist. Only Jethro Tull could take what was supposed to be an extended piss-take on progressive rock cliches and turn it into pure art.
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| 4.0 excellent | Alabaster Jones | July 24th 17 |
Perhaps I'm in the minority here, but I personally find Aqualung to be Jethro Tull's magnum opus. Not that Thick As A Brick isn't a great record; it totally is, but the songwriting seems just a bit too meandering here for it to reach the level of its predecessor. The production is still great if nearly unchanged from Aqualung and Ian Anderson does his thing as good as he'll ever do it here. Though some of the ideas here don't lead anywhere, there's so many ideas that do that it almost doesn't matter. There's undeniably great moments here, like the middle-to-end of the second part of the title-track (the climax to the whole thing is very strong), that rank up there with the best of this proggy, folky version of Jethro Tull that would end up being their greatest period, so needless to say this is still a must-hear for fans of progressive rock.
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| 4.5 superb | btati | November 12th 15 |
This is one of Jehtro Tulls best albums. It has some of the greatest instrumentation and composition of many progressive rock albums in that decade. I only wish that it had been broken up more even. Some versions are split in two which does help. My CD version is just one song and while I am no stranger to listening to long songs, I would prefer more accessibility to the different musical movements within the album, much like the way Passion Play is broken up but probably less pieces. Overall a great highlight in Jehtro Tull's long discography and one of the best records of that time.
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| 5.0 classic | smaugman | March 10th 15 |
When I heard this for the first time, I was completely blown away. At first I was skeptical to the band (Tull means joke), and after that I got into other stuff like Aqualong and Minstrel in the gallery...rAnyway, 5,5/5, one of the best albums ever
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| 4.0 excellent | jackalope11 | May 12th 12 |
These two songs tell a better story than any other ballad I've ever heard. Every mood and ambition is set. It's wonderful. Sadly, the end of the first song bothers me way to much to 5 this
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| 4.0 excellent | Zilla2112 | November 26th 11 |
Solid progressive rock epic that shows the best Tull has to offer. It's funny considering that it's somewhat of a parody as well.
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| 5.0 classic | AvantKiller | June 5th 10 |
The rating I gave before was different from the rating I gave on the review I wrote.
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