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Aqualung [Digipak] by Jethro Tull (CD, 1971)
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Product Identifiers
ProducerTerry Ellis; Ian Anderson
Record LabelChrysalis Records
UPC5099908799920
eBay Product ID (ePID)12050149523
Product Key Features
Release Year1971
FormatCD
GenreRock
Run Time88 Mins 6 Seconds
StyleArt Rock
ArtistJethro Tull
Release TitleAqualung [Digipak]
Additional Product Features
DistributionEMI
Country/Region of ManufactureUSA
Number of Discs2
EngineerJohn Burns; John Wood; Robin Black; Victor Gamm
ReviewsRolling Stone (10/11/01, p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...They were the most frazzled British art rockers of their day..." Q (7/96, p.140) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...occupies a special place in the idiosyncratic Tull pantheon. Many of its key songs have been lionised in live sets....The smaller stuff stands up well too..." Q (7/96, p.140) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...occupies a special place in the idiosyncratic Tull pantheon. Many of its key songs have been lionised in live sets....The smaller stuff stands up well too..." Uncut (p.90) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "AQUALUNG was where Tull's then-daring mix of hard rock and folk melodies reached its apotheosis." Mojo (Publisher) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Q]uintessential hard rockin' bucolic grot." Mojo (Publisher) (3/01, p.57) - "...Demonstrates a new maturity in Ian Anderson's songwriting as he draws together disparate folk, jazz and heavy metal influences. The tramp on the cover quickly became the Tull persona in the public mind..." Record Collector (magazine) (p.97) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Even the mere stereo mix...is a work of immense subtlety which nevertheless lends a newfound clarity and immediacy to beloved old riffers..."
Additional informationJethro Tull: Ian Anderson (vocals, acoustic guitar, flute); Martin Barre (guitar, descant recorder); Jeffrey Hammond (alto recorder, bass, background vocals); John Evan (piano, organ, Mellotron); Clive Bunker (drums, percussion). Recorded at Island Studios, London, England. Originally released as Reprise (2035). Audio Mixers: Steven Wilson; Robin Black . Liner Note Authors: Steven Wilson; Dom Lawson. Photographers: Norbert Unfried; Bubi Heilemann; Michael Putland; Jennie Anderson. The leap from 1970's BENEFIT to the following year's AQUALUNG is one of the most astonishing progressions in rock history. In the space of one album, Tull went from relatively unassuming electrified folk-rock to larger-than-life conceptual rock full of sophisticated compositions and complex, intellectual lyrical constructs. While the leap to full-blown prog-rock wouldn't be taken until a year later on THICK AS A BRICK, the degree to which Tull upped the ante here is remarkable. The lyrical concept--the hypocrisy of Christianity in England--is stronger than on most other '70s conceptual efforts, but it is ultimately the music that makes the album. Tull's winning way with a riff was never so arresting as on the chugging "Locomotive Breath," or the character studies "Cross Eyed Mary" and "Aqualung," which portray believably seedy participants in Ian Anderson's story. The fable imagery of "Mother Goose" and the vitriolic anti-authoritarian sentiments of "Wind Up" both serve notice of Anderson's willful iconoclasm and his disillusionment with the spiritual traditions to which he was born. Varied but cohesive, AQUALUNG is widely regarded as Tull's finest hour.
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