Hey, laughing in the playground
Gets no kicks from little boys
Would rather make it with a letching gray, yeah
Or maybe her attention is drawn by Aqualung
Who watches through the railings as they play
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
1971
What a strange, and somewhat disturbing album. Here's a guy (Ian Anderson) talking up God while absolutely slamming organized religion. Pretty commonplace today but not so much so 43 years ago. Up to this point Tull had been somewhat of a cult band and hadn't quite honed their melding of hard rock with old English acoustic stylings. This album changed all that becoming a big success on both sides of the Atlantic on the strength of its FM hits Cross-eyed Mary, Locomotive Breath, Hymn 43, and the title track. From this point on Jethro Tull was a full blown arena rock act.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
Last edited by Chula Vista; 12-10-2014 at 10:16 AM.
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