Thick As a Brick

Limited Edition Japanese "Mini Vinyl" CD, faithfully reproduced using original LP artwork including the inner sleeve. Features most recently mastered audio including bonus tracks where applicable.

The follow-up to that FM staple, Aqualung, 1972's Thick as a Brick demonstrated that Ian "Don't call me Jethro" Anderson had so much on his mind that even the previous record's side-long suites would not suffice. The result was an album-length "song" that simultaneously struck my young ears as Tull's finest work to date (and I had them all) and led to my never listening to any of their subsequent albums all the way through. The record was packaged in the popular fake-newspaper style of the day (John & Yoko's Some Time in New York City of the same year, the Jefferson Airplane's Volunteers, and the Four Seasons' bid for hipness, Genuine Imitation Life Gazette). Opening line: "Really don't mind if you sit this one out." --David Wolf