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Certain Songs #777: Jethro Tull – “Thick as a Brick (Part 1)”

February 1, 2017 by Jim Connelly

Album: Thick as a Brick
Year: 1972

It was repealed in the early 80s, so it’s lost to history, but in 1970, the U.K. Parliament passed what was colloquially known as the Prog Long Song Act.

Said Act stated that, in order to qualify for the Official U.K. Progressive Rock Artiste Registry, a “Progressive-English” artist had to release an album containing one song that either took up a whole side of an album, or was separated into “parts” or “movements” or “impressions” that when totaled together, were longer than 20 minutes.

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Certain Songs #776: Jethro Tull – “Aqualung”

January 31, 2017 by Jim Connelly

Album: Aqualung
Year: 1971

Jethro Tull were always kind of ridiculous, right?

I mean, they folksy prog-rock band led not just by a flautist — is there any more non-rock ‘n’ roll instrument than a flute? — but a flautist who looked like a fucking madman to boot.

Check out just about any Jethro Tull performance clip, and Ian Anderson is all crazy gestures and bug-eyed mugging as leaned into the mic to over-enunciate his vocals.

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