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Following the success of 1971’s Aqualung, Jethro Tull decided to go all in on the concept-album concept that was all the rage at the time, except not really. Although you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who picked up on it at the time, Ian Anderson had, in fact, been inspired by the work of Monty Python to get a bit cleverer with the band’s work and poke fun at the whole prog-rock genre and its grandiosity while also delivering the concept album to end all concept albums.
"The album was a spoof to the albums of Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer,” Anderson told The Arizona Republic in 2013. “Much like what the movie Airplane! had been to Airport.”
The original packaging of Thick As A Brick was designed to resemble a newspaper, one which assured readers that the contents therein were the band’s musical adaptation of a poem written by 7-year-old genius Gerald “Little Milton” Bostock, a work which had won Bostock an award from the Society of Literary Advancement and Gestation.
Thick As A Brick was designed as a single track (if one which was necessarily split between the two sides of the album), which made it decidedly difficult to release a song as a single, but a highly edited-down version of the title track has effectively been in regular radio rotation for 45 years, just to give you an idea of how successful the album has been over the years.
Track list:
A: Thick As A Brick (Part 1)
B: Thick As A Brick (Part 2)