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Rating: I would like to start with three adjectives: varied, technical but also catchy. It's the fantastic album "Thick As A Brick" by "Jethro Tull". A single long song, totaling 43 minutes of pure auditory pleasure. A landmark album for "Jethro Tull" alongside "Aqualung". "Ian Anderson" and co. alternate slow moments with fast ones, classical moments with rock ones. The voice of "Ian Anderson" is at its peak splendor. The singer puts on a show playing a wide variety of instruments (from the violin, to the flute, to the tuba).
In this album, many different genres converge, giving it that little something extra that compels me to write this review. The lyrics are very beautiful and interesting. A treat for "Jethro Tull" fans: the album cover (I'm talking about the original one that contained "Thick As A Brick" on vinyl) is designed like a 14-page newspaper, the "Saint Cleve Chronicle" (the newspaper is obviously fictional), all the articles are invented by the band members, who spent more time writing them than preparing the album itself. All the aforementioned elements probably make it the best "Prog-Rock" album in history.
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By superstooge
The album is absolutely one of the pinnacles of the band’s career.
Thick As A Brick is a timeless work that retains its melodic freshness even many years later.
By STIPE
This is an album that has left an indelible mark in the history of rock.
Music that influenced for years and years, a deep, melodic, inspired record, in short one of the most beautiful albums in the history of progressive-rock.
By fedecure
From the first minutes, his guitar caresses the listener’s ear and then immerses them into the journey of this adventure.
It is an album with a subtle taste, where the length of the songs never seemed so short.
