Watch official video, print or download text in PDF. Find more of Jethro Tull lyrics. Explore 4 meanings and explanations or write yours. CD $ 19.31 $19.99 Save 3% Current price is $19.31, Original price is $19.99. $21.99. $19.31. Thick As A Brick was released all the way back in 1972 and was apparently Ian Anderson's idea of a piss take of the ever increasingly bloated progressive rock scene. Ian Anderson and Martin Barre of Jethro Tull in Chicago, 1973. STREAM THE ALBUM. SHOP TAAB ON BURNING SHED. “Thick as a Brick” is perhaps Jethro Tull’s definitive progressive rock album. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? Born from a desire to really produce a concept album after the rock critics so dubbed the previous year’s “Aqualung,” the record features a rock first: one continuous song on both sides. by Jethro Tull | Read Reviews. The lyrics and musical style of Thick as a Brick contribute to a sense of unified disjointedness, flitting from image to image, feeling to feeling, and sound to sound amidst the larger panoply of disaffection. View All Available Formats & Editions. ##### This file is a compilation of all the separate files of parts of "Thick as a brick", to make one file for the whole album. Ship This Item — Qualifies for Free Shipping Buy Online, Pick up in Store Thick As A Brick was edited and released as a single in April 1972, a month after the album’s release. Original lyrics of Thick As A Brick song by Jethro Tull. CD. Vinyl LP. To be thick as a brick And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away In the tidal destruction the moral melee The elastic retreat rings the close of play As the last wave uncovers the new-fangled way But your new shoes are worn at the heels And your suntan does rapidly peel And your wise men don't know how it feels To be thick as a brick But skimming the cream from a three-quarter-hour masterwork was never going to be easy. Flag this item for. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! share. His response to albums from the likes of ELP, Yes and King Crimson was two create his own twin track album, one that manages to reach over the forty minute mark. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it failed to make the charts on either side of the Atlantic. Comment and share your favourite lyrics. The song starts with Ian Anderson expressing his low expectations for his target ("I may make you feel but I can't make you think") before singing about class structures, conformity, and the rigid moralistic beliefs of the establishment that perpetuates it. "Thick as a brick" is a phrase meaning stubbornly dumb, as one's head is so thick that no new thoughts can enter it. flag. An analysis of the remainder of the poem would only be served by a lengthy tome, and no justice can be had within the confines of this blog. Jethro Tull: Thick as a brick, the whole album Chords and tabs: Håkan Mattsson, Paco Jimenez, Paul Tarvydas. Thick as a Brick was the first Tull album to reach number one on the (US) Billboard Pop Albums chart with the following year's A Passion Play being the only other to do so. No_Favorite. Thick As A Brick Audio Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. 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