Jethro Tull were a unique phenomenon in popular music history. Their mix of hard rock, folk melodies, blues licks, surreal, impossibly dense lyrics, and overall profundity defied easy analysis, but that didn’t dissuade fans from giving them 11 gold and five platinum albums. At the same time, critics rarely took them seriously, and they were off the cutting-edge of popular music by the end of the ’70s. But no record store in the country was complete without their 1971 classic Aqualung .
205 Jethro Tull – Aqualung
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My top ten favorite flautists:
1. Ron Burgundy https://youtu.be/_c_ufaxeSTs?si=vlPesSHEmdGrBo3N
2. This flutin ass mother fucker from Jethro Tull
3.-10. I couldn’t name another flautist if my life depended on it and am honestly proud I even knew the term “flautist”.You can’t tell me that when that tootelly tootin starts going “tootelly toot toot toodely toot” that you aren’t feeling it! If you’re not down with “Aqualung” and “Thick as a Brick” you either take yourself too seriously, do not rock to an appropriate degree, or have some other major character flaw.
Medieval folk prog featuring prominent fluting should in no way shape or form work but dammit to hell does it totally and completely work. This album rocks.
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