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Aqualung
After veering sharply from the blues inluences of their debut, This Was, Jethro Tull's sound quickly coalesced around jazz-tinged English folk influences and the antics of frontman/flautist Ian Anderson. But it was guitarist Martin Barre's swaggering riff off the title track of the band's fourth album that would become Tull's indelibly clichéd trademark--and the band's entrée into a long reign as arena-rock perennials. But there's a lot more to Aqualung than the riffage of that cut and its cousins, "Cross-Eyed Mary" and "Locomotive Breath." In an era when pseudo-Christian spirituality was a de rigueur, if cheap, musical commodity (from the overblown operatics of Jesus Christ Superstar to one-hit pop wonders such as "Spirit in the Sky" and "Put Your Hand in the Hand"), Anderson and company openly challenged the value of organized religion with a thematic album savvy enough to layer its thought-provoking lyrics between heavy strata of FM-friendly guitar bedrock. A cliché, perhaps; a landmark, no doubt. And a record many maintain is still Tull's finest hour. --Jerry McCulley
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Tracks| 1 | Aqualung | | 2 | Cross-Eyed Mary | | 3 | Cheap Day Return | | 4 | Mother Goose | | 5 | Wond'ring Aloud | | 6 | Up to Me | | 7 | My God | | 8 | Hymn 43 | | 9 | Slipstream | | 10 | Locomotive Breath | | 11 | Wind Up | | 12 | Lick Your Fingers Clean | | 13 | Wind Up | | 14 | Excerpts from the Ian Anderson Interview - Jethro Tull, | | 15 | Songs for Jeffrey | | 16 | Fat Man | | 17 | Bouree |
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