Srdjan
Super Beba
Pridružio: 19 Jul 2006
Poruke: 2497
Lokacija: Beograd
Poslao: Ned Jun 03, 2007 9:56 pm
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E ovo je album koji treba preslusati i doziveti, nikad vise nijedan bend nece biti u stanju da napravi ovakav album. _________________ NEVERNE BEBE I 1994
1000 godina, sanjaj, kad me napuste svi, daire, oktobar fest, veliki je bog, zivot je kazna, saga, dva minuta za nas, sve nase godine...ISTORIJA
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Deathangel
Super Beba
Pridružio: 04 Avg 2006
Poruke: 1141
Lokacija: Apatin
Poslao: Pon Jun 04, 2007 9:13 am
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Ovaj album me u neku ruku podseca na O:M od Queensryche-a jer je isto toliko pljuvan i osporavan kada je izasao,a danas vazi za jedan od najvecih remek dela u muzici. _________________ "Of all the creatures man is the saddest
for he is but an animal
yet has the ability to realize it"
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Deathangel
Super Beba
Pridružio: 04 Avg 2006
Poruke: 1141
Lokacija: Apatin
Poslao: Sre Jun 06, 2007 3:27 pm
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JETHRO TULL
Thick As A Brick
"Thick as a Brick" is perhaps Tull's definitive progressive rock album. 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. The music, and the lyrics, are challenging to the listener and reflect complex influences of folk, jazz, and rock. With "Thick," Anderson and company broaden rock beyond the limitations of the short song format.
Understanding "Thick" requires recognition of the popularity of Monthy Python in the early 1970's. Anderson meant for the album to be a send up of rock pretentiousness, critics, and the band itself. The album cover claimed, outrageously enough, that the lyrics had been written by an eight year-old boy, Gerald Bostock, and set to music by the band. Even today, Anderson still gets the occasional person asking about Bostock or commenting about the prodigy's advancing age.
While the "Aqualung's" lyrics are fairly straightforward, "Thick's" metaphorical tendencies " are intentionally intricate, obscure, and bewildering as part of the running joke. If there is any true central theme, perhaps it is the sociological experiences of gifted youngsters in the modern world with a touch of paternal relations again. The lyrical incohesiveness, far greater than "Aqualung," leads Craig Thomas, who penned Tull's 25th Anniversary Set booklet, to seriously question whether it is properly deemed a concept album. Rather, he views it more of an adaptation of the "kind of free-jazz...improvisations of the 1960." Indeed, several segments were recorded in just one improvisional take.
No discussion of "Thick"" is complete without noting the legendary 12-page newspaper, "The St. Cleve Chronicle" original cover packaging. Written by Ian, Jeffrey Hammond, and John Evan, the paper actually took longer to produce than the music. There are a lot of inside puns, cleverly hidden continuing jokes (such as the experimental non-rabbit), a surprisingly frank review of the album itself, and even a little naughty connect-the-dots children's activity.
The 1972 tour featured the entire album (with a brief break featuring comedy skits between sides). The tour established the band's reputation for often outlandish theatrical-type performances. By today's standards, the concerts were hardly major productions. But for the time, Tull was rather unique.
"Thick" hit #1 in the U.S. and arguably represented the band's height of popularity in America. Somewhat unfairly and commercially limiting as musical fashion changed, the album would define Tull as a progressive rock act. _________________ "Of all the creatures man is the saddest
for he is but an animal
yet has the ability to realize it"
www.antologija.co.yu
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