This was the second album I purchased and this track has always been my favourite.

It's a good one. Unforgetable!

OH YEA!! 

42 years old and still smokin' hot. What music from today will they still be listening to in the year 2055?

Man, what a great album...  still have this original vinyl...  love this song...

 

At Tommy's surprise birthday party, Paul says he's going to be in charge of the music, and Gina yells to him, "No Jethro Tull!" Three guesses as to what plays in the next scene... what film?

This is a classic, like it or not! Never really got the credit they deserved in my view...

Good Lord, I'd forgotten just how good this song was...

overplayed

 joelbb wrote: 
Gee, thanks Joe. Aren't you the milk of human kindness. Perish the thought that folk could post honest comments without having death wished upon them by other listeners. Well, just go blow, Joe

Drop dead, Fred.

One of the few true rockers by this very talented group.  Tull's repertoire included R&R, Hey-nonny-nonny, classical and Jazz.  What IS akdavey's problem?

I knew a girl who would come over to listen to this record, because her mom wouldn't allow it, because he said "balls."  What's funny about that is that her mom somehow didn't think I would be a terrible influence on her, but the lyrics would be???

ah, the old Louie Louie riff.

 akdavey wrote: 
What a dopey comment.  

I have RP on all the time at home and work, and I don't seem to hear an excess of JT.

And the most overrated band of the millennium is Radiohead, end of story. 

oh WOW......another great one!  Thank you RP!!!!  Don't mean to divert people, but if you love JT, check out the live videos on YouTube sometime.....esp. Isle of Wight.......who is as wild and daring as Ian these days?
 

chicka, chicka, chicka...

Nice piano intro, followed by one of the catchiest guitar riffs ever.

 akdavey wrote: 
How much nonsense!

Aaaaaand this is when I change the channel. Let's see what's on soma fm.
Way too much JT on RP and it's the only reason I switch. Maybe it's the rock flute or visions of trolls in the forest, but this is my kryptonite.
This has got to be the most overrated band of the millennium.

Always loved Tull, their sound is so much diffirent from the other bands around during the same era.

 DoctorHooey wrote: 

   Was too busy last night to post on the comments board but this cracked me up so much that I'm responding a day late.

Yes, ole Ian is really good with his "blemps" and "meeps" and other assorted noises.  My favorite is the upchuck noise he makes at the end of Windup on this album, just after he sings "I didn't mind if they groomed me for success...bleaaalff"!

 kazuma wrote: 
Congratulations and welcome to the fanclub! 

I've always really liked Tull but could never get into the "Thick as a Brick" album until I listened to RP about a month ago and finally "got it".

 Dave_Mack wrote: 
I saw them about a year ago. It was great. The venue was small so the volume was perfect. The band was great and the flute and Barre's guitar playing were magically. There was a guy at the back who kept yelling for Locomotive Breath. Ian Anderson kept saying he couldn't hear him and the guy continued to take the bait and yell out the song. He was loaded so it was sort of annoying and funny at the same time. Needless to say when the encore came around this guy was frantic and then went into some kind of convulsing mess when the song started up. Ah the power of music! Mind you we all wanted to hear this song by then.

I saw Jethro Tull last Tuesday, and they played nearly every song on Aqualung, but not in order. This was the encore. Very nice, though I wish they'd played a lot louder and Ian Anderson could still sing. He was still a monster on the flute though.

I'd been without Internet access for about a week, so had to grab my brother's computer when I could.  I have NEVER appreciated this song more than now. I had no MUSIC, much less Jethro Tull, Elvis Costello, Band of Horses...  I did some reconfiguring (talk about floundering blindly) and now, my new processor, monitor, and speakers are in perfect working order. (Pats self on back.)  Point is, one probably doesn't know what one has until one no longer has it.

This was one of my favorite Tull songs, and now, it is again.  To those who complain about hearing a song too much, I suggest walking away from music for a week or two. Deliberately deprive yourselves of RP, or of any music. Content yourselves with AM radio or nature sounds.  Then, when you're ready to cut off your own head and feed it to the dog, come back and listen with open ears and a wiser mind.

I'm back, head intact, with wiser ears, wider eyes, and a big grin.  RP was the first thing I put on my new system.

I wrote a huge paper on this somg for a class in University "20th Century Culture", a humanities elective for engineers.  I got an A

 rialdo1 wrote: 
DONE