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Jethro Tull's seminal album Aqualung is an exploration of Ian Anderson's view on religion. And while many of the songs are allegorical (like the title song and the much-played "Locomotive Breath") there are several tracks in which he says explicitly what is on his mind. Here's an example:

 

 

For a period Jethro Tull (named for a famous English eccentric) was one of the most mocked bands in the world. that Grammy voters preferred them to Metallica was a prime sign of how "out of touch" the Grammys had become. But for a period in the 1970s Ian Anderson's band produced some great albums. Like Thick as a Brick, which was released as a single 45-minute track split across the two sides of an LP record.

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Jethro Tull's seminal album Aqualung is an exploration of Ian Anderson's view on religion. And while many of the songs are allegorical (like the title song and the much-played "Locomotive Breath") there are several tracks in which he says explicitly what is on his mind. Here's an example:

 

 

For a period Jethro Tull (named for a famous English eccentric) was one of the most mocked bands in the world. that Grammy voters preferred them to Metallica was a prime sign of how "out of touch" the Grammys had become. But for a period in the 1970s Ian Anderson's band produced some great albums. Like Thick as a Brick, which was released as a single 45-minute track split across the two sides of an LP record.

Jethro Tull was named for the agriculturist who invented a type of seed drill. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethro_Tull_%28agriculturist%29

 

"Thick as a Brick" was actually more of a parody of the popular prog rock concept albums of the time.

 

From Wikipedia:

 

Band frontman Ian Anderson was surprised by the critical reaction to their previous album, Aqualung (1971), as a "concept album", a label he firmly rejects to this day. In an interview on In the Studio with Redbeard (which spotlighted Thick as a Brick), Anderson's response to the critics was: "If the critics want a concept album we'll give the mother of all concept albums and we'll make it so bombastic and so over the top".[6] Ian Anderson has been quoted as stating that Thick as a Brick was written "because everyone was saying we were a progressive rock band, so we decided to live up to the reputation and write a progressive album, but done as a parody of the genre." With Thick as a Brick, the band created an album deliberately integrated around one concept: a poem by a super-intelligent English schoolboy, named Gerald Bostock, about the trials of growing up. Beyond this, the album was a send-up of all pretentious "concept albums". (The idiom "thick as a brick" is an expression signifying someone who is "stupid" or "slow to learn or understand".[7])

 

Anderson also stated in that interview that "the album was a spoof to the albums of Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, much like what the movie Airplane! had been to Airport." The formula was successful, and the album reached number one on the charts in the United States.

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