Jethro Tull's Aqualung (33 1/3)

Jethro Tull's Aqualung (33 1/3)
by Allan Moore

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Author: Allan Moore
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-08-10
ISBN: 0826416195
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Continuum

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Summary: 5 Stars

Reading this book sent me into a Jethro Tull whirlpool. While reading the book I listened to Aqualung non-stop, and the song in particular. The author, Allan F. Moore, wrote a bit too high brow for the subject matter, but I suppose he did that to give the album literary credibility, or perhaps that is the only manner in which he knows to write. Nonetheless, it is a great and fun read. In fact, it made me want to read more of the series, something I have yet to do. In Aqualung, Moore dissects each and every song, and spends a great deal of time writing about "Aqualung" and "My God." He also divides the album in halves by its original lp sides, and discusses them as separate themes, something I'd toyed with when listening to the album in the early seventies, but never could delineate such as Moore did. I found myself wanting to listen to each song as I read about it, and try to get a good grip about the themes he discussed. Sometimes I agreed, sometimes I thought he was a bit adrift. At slightly over 100 pages, it went fast and since I had great interest in the topic, it went particularly fast for me. It works well to listen to the album first, then read the book all the way through, then read it and listen to each song as he discusses them.
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Summary of Jethro Tull's Aqualung (33 1/3)

Formed in 1968, Jethro Tull are one of rock?s most enduring bands. Their 1971 album Aqualung, with its provocative lyrical content and continuous music shifts, is Tull?s most successful and most misunderstood record. Here, music professor and fan Allan Moore tackles the album on a track-by-track basis, looking at Ian Anderson?s lyrics and studying the complex structures and arrangements of these classic songs. EXCERPT It was buying your first great-coat that did it. That image of a crazy, probably dangerous individual with unkempt hair, strangely wandering eyes and an inability to keep both feet on the floor at the same time, as seen on Top of the Pops when Jethro Tull and his anonymous backing musicians performed ?Witch?s Promise? in 1970, remains to this day one of the most striking I can recall. And when the great-coat appeared in all its glory clothing Jethro?s alter ego on the cover of Aqualung, it was clear to us that we were insiders, that we lived in exactly the same crazy world, that we ?knew what it was all about?, even if we actually hadn?t a clue.

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