“Up to Me” is from the Aqualung album. With all of the other great tunes on the album, most reviewers don’t spend much time on it. That’s OK. The lyrics are inventive and build a world like so many of Ian Anderson’s lyrics. Take her to the cinemaAnd leave you in a wimpy barYou tell…
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A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Day 20 – Thick as a Brick – BONUS: whole album! (1972)
Thick as a Brick is their fifth studio album, released in March 1972. It contains a continuous piece of music, split over two sides of an LP record, and is a parody of the concept album genre. The original packaging, designed like a newspaper, claims the album to be a musical adaptation of an…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 19 Steel Monkey, from Crest of a Knave (1987)
Crest of a Knave is their sixteenth studio album, released in 1987. It was recorded after a three-year hiatus caused by a throat infection of vocalist Ian Anderson, resulting in his changed singing style. Following the unsuccessful electronic rock album Under Wraps, Crest of a Knave had the band returning to a more hard rock…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 18 Reasons for Waiting (from Stand Up)
ClemofNazareth said of the song: Reasons for waiting is a bit of a jam song, just a little bit of pretty much every instrument on the album finds its way into this one. Here again the bass is surprising prominent for a folk album. The Whistler says: Reasons for Waiting is another lush ballad,…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 17 Quizz Kid (from Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young to Die!) (1976)
Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young to Die! is their ninth studio album, recorded in December 1975 and released in 1976. It is the first album to include bassist John Glascock who also contributes with backing vocals. Ian Anderson explains that the concept came from the turmoil of the rise of the punk…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 16 Pibroch (Cap in Hand,) from Songs from the Wood (1977)
Songs from the Wood is their tenth studio album, released February 1977. Inspired by English pagan folklore and countryside living, it signaled a stylistic change. Performing in a wide-ranging folk rock style which combined traditional instruments and melodies with hard rock drums and electric guitars, it is rooted in the band’s complex progressive rock style….
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 15 Old Ghosts (from Stormwatch) (1979)
Ivan Melgar M at Prog Archives said of the “Stormwatch” album: Being absolutely honest I must say that 1979 was not the best year for Progressive Rock; the former big bands were taking giant steps towards mainstream, flirting without embarrassment with easy POP and trying to be a lucrative alternative to Disco and Punk that…
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