Thick as a Brick

Thick as a Brick is a 1972 album from the British progressive rock band Jethro Tull. It was commercially a very successful album; It was the first album of the band that came in the United States at number 1 on the Billboard-album list. It is considered to be one of the highlights of the considered progressive rock.

The entire album consists only one song by a total of 45 minutes. Lyrics and music were written by Ian Anderson, the leader of this band. It is a concept album, to a poem by the fictional boy Gerald Bostock.

The first pressing of the LP had a cover that looked like a local newspaper [1]  and could be expanded to a 12-page tabloid. Later pressings looked to the eye is still the same, but could no longer be expanded to newspapers format.



Content
[hide] *1 Lyrics  ==Lyrics[ Edit] == Although this album was intended as a parody of the concept album, Ian Anderson is a socially critical message with this album.
 * 2 Numbers
 * 3 Line up
 * 4 References
 * 5 external links


 * The album opens with the following rules, directed against the hippie culture:
 * I really don't mind if you sit this one out.
 * My words but a whisper-your deafness a shout!
 * I may make you feel, but I can not make you think.
 * Your sperm's in the gutter-your love's in the sink.


 * Later against the businessman:
 * We'll make a man of him, put him to trade,
 * teach him, to play Monopoly and how to sing in the rain.


 * Against the citizens:
 * "What do you do when the old man's gone-do you want to be him?
 * And your real self sings the song. Do you want to free him?
 * No one to help you get up steam,
 * and the whirlpool turns you ' way off-beam. "


 * The adolescents:
 * "Playing at the hard case,
 * you follow the example of the comic-paper idol,
 * who lets you bend the rules.

(...)


 * So, come on ye childhood heroes!
 * Won't you rise up from the pages,
 * of your comic-books, your super crooks,
 * and show us all the way.
 * Well, make your will and testament,
 * won't you? Join your local government.
 * We'll have Superman for president,
 * let Robin save the day. "

==Numbers[ Edit] == ¹ Bonus tracks on the remastered version for the 25th anniversary in 1997. ==Line up<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Guest Musician:
 * 1) "Thick As A Brick (Part I)"-22: 40
 * 2) "Thick As A Brick (Part II)"-21: 10
 * 3) "Thick As A Brick" (live in Madison Square Garden, 1978) ¹-11: 50
 * 4) Interview with Ian Anderson, Martin Barre and Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond ¹-16: 30
 * Ian Anderson (flute, acoustic guitar, violin, saxophone, trumpet, vocals)
 * Martin Barre (electric guitar, lute)
 * Barriemore Barlow (drums, timpani, percussion)
 * Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond (bass, spoken word)
 * John Evan (organ, piano, harpsichord)

==References<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * David Palmer (arrangement for Orchestra)
 * unknown Orchestra
 * 1) <span class="cite-accessibility-label" lang="en" len="7" style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px1px1px1px);overflow:hidden;-webkit-user-select:none;position:absolute!important;height:1px!important;width:1px!important;">Up ↑  Thick As A Brick -cover in newspapers form