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Classic Album Discussion Thread: The Kinks-Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Pt. 1 (2 Viewers)

Paranoid is interesting. I happen to love the title track and Fairies Wear Boots the best. Iron Man is overdone, but I'll never forget the time in D.C. I saw a millennial band covering War Pigs. Guy looked like his bookers was chasing his skull, but Black Sabbath would have been proud of that cover. That sailed and soared. Great album to listen to on pot.

Anyway, that's about it.   

 
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Much prefer Black Sabbath over Paranoid but it doesn't really fit the classic rock label like Paranoid does. Love Warpigs and the title track but always thought Ironman was over-rated while Planet Caravan and Fairies were vastly underrated.

 
Raging weasel said:
Much prefer Black Sabbath over Paranoid but it doesn't really fit the classic rock label like Paranoid does. Love Warpigs and the title track but always thought Ironman was over-rated while Planet Caravan and Fairies were vastly underrated.
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Ironman is pure cheese. Fun riff but what a hillarious song- sounds like they were commissioned to create a song for a Saturday morning cartoon. 

 
Jethro Tull- Aqualung- 1971

Side One

Aqualung

Cross Eywd Mary

 Cheap Day Return

Mother Goose 

Wonderin’ Aloud

Up to Me

Side Two

My God

Hymn 43

Slipstream

Locomotive Breath

Windup

There’a a great scene during the first season of Breaking Bad in which Jesse Pinkman discovers that his younger brother plays the piccolo in his 8th grade band. Thinking that it’s a flute, Jesse says “dude! Play some Jethro Tull!” 

Which shows how, after so many years, this band remains so distinctive in their sound. Ian Anderson jumping around like Fagin from Oliver Twist while the band wither puts out old English folk music or startlingly good hard rock, or both in the  same song. My favorite tune of theirs on this album, and all time, is Mother Goose. But I love the whole album. 

 
Ilov80s said:
Ironman is pure cheese. Fun riff but what a hillarious song- sounds like they were commissioned to create a song for a Saturday morning cartoon. 
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That riff justifies the whole thing, though. Plus Geezer Butler busting holes all throughout his drum kit.

EDIT: I mean Bill Ward :bag:  

 
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Ilov80s said:
Maybe... I mean when some kind of robot demon says "I am Ironman" it is hard to not laugh at the song. 
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Yeah, the riffage is cool, the song silly. 

But some of the Springsteen ones bordered on a bit silly about the teenage romance thing. That's its own riff, in a way.  

 
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But wait, let me say something. I don't even like teen romance songs from the seventies-era. I think The Hold Steady, while sometimes awesome, is really overrated. They're Western Mass. bar bands, for chrissakes.

eta*I know Bruce isn't, but he influenced a whole weird part of America.   

 
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I really dug Aqualung, lots of great tunes on it. I remember liking Thick as a Brick too but don't remember much from it. I think it was a concept album.

 
Doug B said:
One 45-minute song :D  ... with a 4-minute radio edit.
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:lmao:  I knew there was something different about it. Forgot there weren't actual songs.

Anderson has also said that "the album was a spoof to the albums of Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, much like what the movie Airplane! had been to Airport" and later remarked that it was a "bit of a satire about the whole concept of grand rock-based concept albums".
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As an aside, isn't it funny how some bands immediately make you think of a specific person who just happens to have been a huge fan of that band? Tull immediately reminds me of this guy Eddie who I worked in a machine shop with. Huge Tull fan. The only one I ever met. Talked about them all the time.

 
timschochet said:
Locomotive Breath from the same album is an AOR standard. 
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These guys kicked ### live.  One of the best concerts I have seen.  Hara Arena '77-'78 time frame.  Festival seating ...they didn't open the doors on time and ######s started pushing us into the glass doors (we were about 5 deep from the front door).  Broke the glass doors and then proceeded to push up the floor-to-ceiling metal expansion gate inside.  Kids screaming past cops and security swinging their clubs to keep people away from them.  

 
Never even heard of Cross Eyed Mary. Maybe it will be one of those songs I recognize and never knew the name or artist. I am I looked it up and it was on his greatest hits album I owned so it obivously didn't catch my attention in the 90s.

 
Ilov80s said:
Never even heard of Cross Eyed Mary. Maybe it will be one of those songs I recognize and never knew the name or artist. I am I looked it up and it was on his greatest hits album I owned so it obivously didn't catch my attention in the 90s.
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That's probably because it was a hit in the 70s.  

 
Really like Tull and have seen them live 4 times and always a great show. Most of their hits are from this album and it's about their only radio friendly album until the heavy metal classic Crest of a Knave.

 
Never listened to JT.  Honestly, the only time I know of hearing them is playing Aqualung on Rock Band.  If it wasn't for that, I would not know if I had ever heard a JT song or not (probably have heard something listeneing to classic rock stations, but wouldn't know what).

 
Raging weasel said:
Really like Tull and have seen them live 4 times and always a great show. Most of their hits are from this album and it's about their only radio friendly album until the heavy metal classic Crest of a Knave.
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Is that the one that beat out Metallica for the Grammy for best metal album? Couldn't believe that.

I'll have to check it out.

 
For those who have seen Tull live ... Ian Anderson is by far the most forward member of the band. But what's it like listening/watching Martin Barre live? For a guitarist who's not a household name, Barre has probably put out more instantly-recognizable riffs than anyone. Not a shredder by nature, but few players in rock have been as tasteful. (See also: Brian May)

 
Snot running down his nose  :X    I think Aqualong is a good album, but I have to be in the right mood to hear it. My favorite song from it is Hymn 43.

 
Always liked Aqualung a lot. If you’re a fan, check out the newer remaster done by Steven Wilson. Makes the album sound better than it ever has. 

 
timschochet said:
Jethro Tull- Aqualung- 1971

Side One

Aqualung

Cross Eywd Mary

 Cheap Day Return

Mother Goose 

Wonderin’ Aloud

Up to Me

Side Two

My God

Hymn 43

Slipstream

Locomotive Breath

Windup

There’a a great scene during the first season of Breaking Bad in which Jesse Pinkman discovers that his younger brother plays the piccolo in his 8th grade band. Thinking that it’s a flute, Jesse says “dude! Play some Jethro Tull!” 

Which shows how, after so many years, this band remains so distinctive in their sound. Ian Anderson jumping around like Fagin from Oliver Twist while the band wither puts out old English folk music or startlingly good hard rock, or both in the  same song. My favorite tune of theirs on this album, and all time, is Mother Goose. But I love the whole album. 
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For my money, best album yet listed here. Meaty. Clever. Theme-driven but varied. Musicianship, brilliant and round. Dramatic. Magical.

I have no idea why Tull isn't mentioned with Cream, Led Zep, Floyd among 2nd wave British Invasion bands. Their 1st two albums, this and Thick as a Brick have never left my heavy rotation, something i can;t even say about foundational Stones records. Ian Anderson is as thematically and lyrically evolved as Dylan or anyone and a great frontman.

What's more, even their early development is compelling. Basically a blues band to start, you could see the Public School cleverness begin to creep in on their 1st, This Was. Once leader Mick Abrahams left, the troubadour folk element began to replace the blues/jazz on Stand Up, Benefit rocked it up a bit, then two great rock masterpieces. Like most bands who went the prog route, they cleverclevered themselves out of viability, but i'll take that run. Fanboy out.

 
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Doug B said:
For those who have seen Tull live ... Ian Anderson is by far the most forward member of the band. But what's it like listening/watching Martin Barre live? For a guitarist who's not a household name, Barre has probably put out more instantly-recognizable riffs than anyone. Not a shredder by nature, but few players in rock have been as tasteful. (See also: Brian May)
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I saw them twice, but it was during my carefree youthful days, when our common practice was to combine multiple drugs with gallons of alcohol. I guess the idea was to enhance the experience, which may have happened, but the memories are cloudy at best. They were a great live band though. The live record "Bursting Out" was always what I reached for when in the mood for some Tull.

 
Good work, Tim, on completing the thread triumvirate of Tony Iommi playing with Jethro Tull at the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus.

Link provided again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqAaAy6Tm8s

As for Aqualung, but fan of the album even if not the biggest Tull fan. My favorite off the album is My God. Anderson going absolutely nuts on the flute here.

 
Never been a JT fan.  Though I do appreciate the album  - another one of those I can't knock someone who loves it, just not my cup of tea.

 
It's a highly listenable album, and Jethro Tull is underrated IMO. Ian Anderson is highly talented, no disputing that. But the flute though. Honestly I sort of whistle along a bit mockingly to the flute fills. Having said that, I would have my daughter listen to Tull as an example of fine musicianship and good songs from the old day. Maybe not Aqualung.

 
Just cruised through some of the recommended Tull here:
Loco Breath-yeah that is a good song, I remember it 

Cross Eyed Mary: awful

Teacher: probably the best JT song  Sun-tanned, drink in hand, lying there in bed

Mother Goose: Pretty good

Also the cover for the album immediately reminded me of the artwork for the film The Last Laugh- almost look like it was the same artist 

 
A little catch up to do:

Petty - falls into the same category as my Bowie/Prince comments earlier...artists being lost that I do not see replacements for in the current music scene/environment. DTT is a classic, though I gravitate to the less played songs (may be sacrilege, but "Refugee" was never one of my faves). Got heavy into Petty around "Southern Accents" through "Into The Great Wide Open" and I do think he has more diversity in his catalog then some give him credit for here. Glad I saw him live during this period (as well as once when he was backing Dylan)....killer band (though he could have used a little more variety of set list and let the band strecth out a little bit more). RIP

Springsteen - being NJ based, he is ubiquitous. Do love the Boss, but not in a worship way. Killer live show, and appreciate that he followed his muse in exploring some other mediums (though not always a fan of the exploration). BTR was my introduction to him and what a song cycle. Just not a bum one in the lot. From here to "The River" he did no wrong, then he reached for mass popularity with Born In The USA. Sort of lost touch until The Rising, which, being "local" to 9/11, just resonated once again with me. Don't know if you need to be from around here to understand, but encourage those who are open, but unsure, to take another look.

Sabbath - was quite anti-metal in my youth, but, with the grunge movement capturing my ear, it brought me to go back, explore, and appreciate the genre. That said, while I appreciate Sabbath, and their legacy, it is not in any regular listening rotation.

Tull - blind spot for me...my soon to be 17 year old had a Tull phase (how I don't know...think it was when he was buying cheap used vinyl and guess there was a lot of Tull available). Did not catch me any more the second time around than the first.  Can appreciate a few of the hits, but not much more beyond that.

 
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