The work of masters. Perfect in every way.

Where have I been for the past 39 years?

Absolutely phenomenal. Blends all of Jethro Tull's music into a 2-20 minute song masterpiece..

Written by Deny Reality on 26.06.2011 at 18:53

Absolutely phenomenal. Blends all of Jethro Tull's music into a 2-20 minute song masterpiece..

I can't say I agree. Brick represents one very specific style and era for Jethro Tull. It's hardly representative of their entire back catalogue. That said, it's my favorite of the albums that I know by them. I'm not an expert nor a huge fan, but it's probably my favorite prog rock album of its time (or ever, maybe).

The countdown on the official website finally ended... they are releasing a sequel to Thick As A Brick plus playing it in it's entirety on tour!!! http://www.jethrotull.com/

Written by Introspekrieg on 01.02.2012 at 02:08

The countdown on the official website finally ended... they are releasing a sequel to Thick As A Brick plus playing it in it's entirety on tour!!! http://www.jethrotull.com/

why a sequel to TAAB? this will rise up people's expectations too much; and JT does not deliver the great music they used to. I'm skeptical already.

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Written by Introspekrieg on 01.02.2012 at 02:08

The countdown on the official website finally ended... they are releasing a sequel to Thick As A Brick plus playing it in it's entirety on tour!!! http://www.jethrotull.com/

why a sequel to TAAB? this will rise up people's expectations too much; and JT does not deliver the great music they used to. I'm skeptical already.

I fear the results as well, but dammit I've been waiting for that countdown on the website to end for months! I'm not writing the band off just yet, who knows?

This album is the work of a band at their creative peak. You can hardly ignore the intensity of the drum solos and insane use of the keyboards, not to mention the other instruments each playing their own part beautifully. Anderson's vocals fit the nature of the lyrics perfectly, and though some may argue he doesn't favour the flute as much as on earlier releases, i believe you really have to listen to the whole of the through and through to see that the use of the flute is significant. Roll on part 2 of Thick as a Brick this year...

One of the best albums created by mankind. One spectacular song with a length of 43 minutes. Genious!!!

By far my favourite prog rock album of all time! Absolutely incredible musicianship that can be topped by very few.

This is incredible

Written by LeKiwi on 21.11.2014 at 11:38

This is incredible

C'mon, man. You don't think this is 10-worthy?

Written by Diverge on 21.11.2014 at 20:15

C'mon, man. You don't think this is 10-worthy?

I want to! I have to listen to it properly though, I only really concentrated on about 2/3 of it

Masterpiece

Essential progressive rock. Arguably even quintessential.

As Prog Fan, I will never sell this fuckin' greatest stuff.

One of the best prog albums of all time, which is ironic consider they made the record with intentions of making fun of the prog scene

Not fully convinced that having these long ass songs is the best format for this music. HAving the album in digital, though, enables to do some splittin'

Listened to it a few more times and now it's pretty safe to say that the album definitely has some of the best JT material ever. However with this song format and a few skippable moments it doesn't feel like a real masterpiece to me. Still I can see myself listening to it again

This one's a legit prog classic, despite actually being a parody of one. Maybe the latter's the reason why it's so inspired and witty and feels very tight and whole even if it only has two ridiculously long songs. It actually gets even funnier if you bother to invest some time and pay attention to every little detail it has to offer. The cover art is the best part, every story is as smart, wacky and surreal as it gets and the title literally mean "dumb as f**k" but back in the day people really didn't understand the language and took the whole thing very seriously.

Perfection