Jethro Tull – Aqualung (Vinyl)
Chrysalis Records (1971 / This Pressing 1974)
$25.00
Scarce Early New Zealand Pressing With Really Nice Gatefold Cover! The Fourth (& Best Selling) Jethro Tull LP, ‘Aqualung’ Is An Unquestionable Masterpiece From Ian Anderson And His Band Of Merry Gentlemen.
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Scarce Early New Zealand Pressing With Really Nice Gatefold Cover! The Fourth (& Best Selling) Jethro Tull LP, ‘Aqualung’ Is An Unquestionable Masterpiece From Ian Anderson And His Band Of Merry Gentlemen.
Condition – Vinyl: VERY GOOD PLUS! Very light surface marks which do not affect play.
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Light shelf wear.
Side 1:
Aqualung
Cross-Eyed Mary
Cheap Day Return
Mother Goose
Wond’ring Aloud
Up To Me
Side 2:
My God
Hymn 43
Slipstream
Locomotive Breath
Wind-Up
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Geoff –
An essential '70s album, full of masterful guitar playing, sharp, introspective lyrics and minstrelesque melodies. Jethro Tull hit their peak with this, their fourth album -- the sterling 'Aqualung'. The record is full of masterful guitar playing, sharp, introspective lyrics and minstrelesque melodies. The title track is one of the band's most famous songs and is a total rock classic. With its bombastic riffs, soaring flutes and mood shifts, it is a superb piece of unique music. But it is certainly not the only great thing the album has to offer. "Cross-Eyed Mary" is a sturdy rocker while "Mother Goose" evokes a quieter mood. The band questions life and spirituality on the tracks "Wond'ing Aloud", "My God" and "Up To Me". "Hymn 43" is a powerful rocker and possibly the best song on 'Aqualung'. Another highpoint, of course, is "Locomotive Breath" which still sounds as solid and catchy as ever, with smoking guitar and propulsive beat. Jethro Tull would go on to greater heights of stardom with their fifth album 'Thick As A Brick' which is equally excellent. However, it is 'Aqualung' that is generally regarded as the band's crowning achievement -- definitely an essential '70s album!
AMG –
One of the most cerebral albums ever to reach millions of rock listeners. Released at a time when a lot of bands were embracing pop-Christianity (à la Jesus Christ Superstar), Aqualung was a bold statement for a rock group, a pro-God antichurch tract that probably got lots of teenagers wrestling with these ideas for the first time in their lives. This was the album that made Jethro Tull a fixture on FM radio, with riff-heavy songs like "My God," "Hymn 43," "Locomotive Breath," "Cross-Eyed Mary," "Wind Up," and the title track. And from there, they became a major arena act, and a fixture at the top of the record charts for most of the 1970s. Mixing hard rock and folk melodies with Ian Anderson's dour musings on faith and religion (mostly how organized religion had restricted man's relationship with God), the record was extremely profound for a number seven chart hit, one of the most cerebral albums ever to reach millions of rock listeners. Indeed, from this point on, Anderson and company were compelled to stretch the lyrical envelope right to the breaking point.