Aqualung

No.

Only listened to it once but it's not my thing.

När det börjar spelas flöjt som en annan jädra hovnarr... Då tappar jag det, då är smärtgränsen överstigen, då blir det stoppknappen

Att ta sitt namn från en av de för industrialismens viktigaste innovatörer är naturligtvis positivt. Betydelsen av Tulls såningsmaskin ska inte underskattas. Men frågan är om de positiva slutar här. En blandning av folk, medeltid och tidig hårdrock. Det blir ingen vidare soppa.

25 sekunder av Cross-eyed Mary lovar gott. I övrigt är skivan en trist blandning av hårdrocksriff, medeltidsballader och akustiskt folkrock.

Stodgy dad rock

A Renaissance fair of riffs and flutes that never once clicked for me. Theatrical, preachy, and grating from start to finish.

I’m pretty sure I was not the target audience for this record. I was sophisticated enough to get the sly reference the name implies, but for me a pop dance record is not that interesting. Gay disco has been around for decades and frankly done better. None of these tracks are catchy enough to be memorable and time has not been kind to this record. I recall the faux outrage of the cover of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb, but the track is really a like it or leave it proposition. Listening to the album all the way through for the first time and then going back to see if I missed something, the record is rather kitschy but mostly lifeless. It’s bad when a dance pop record doesn’t catch your attention. And for that, Track 8 Music Is The Victim encapsulates how I feel about this record.

Not for me.

Sounds good. It just sounds kinda abstract

Terrible

opening your album with a song about a nonce is diabolical

This record smells like musty bongwater. Although I can certainly hear how this band has influenced bands I really like such as Ween, Beck, Man Man, etc, this kinda late 60s dirt fairy elf worship stuff is really not my jam. I am also not a big fan of the flute, especially how it is used outside of classical music contexts. (Really it only works overblown in Love and Rockets' cover of "No New Tale to Tell" and I think should not be allowed anywhere else, ever). Given that Tull features this instrument so prominently in almost all the songs here, and the above-mentioned aversion to any audio equivalent of dirty Birkenstocks, patchouli, and beaded headbands, the deck is stacked pretty squarely against me getting into this at all from the get-go. All I can see is grubby hairy white people in buckskin tassled leather vests grooving out in a field somewhere on mescaline when I hear this. Just, no. Overall, this is clearly proggy and stoney and conceptual. This is not a record for a sober mind. I like how it is kinda weird, but it's just not weird enough for me. Dude's vocals are also pretty annoying. I like when things rock out, and "Hymn 43" kinda gets there, but if I wanna hear aggressive stoney guitar riffs, I'm putting on Master of Reality instead of this. Overall, it feels like the soundtrack to a rock and roll musical and I'm way the fuck in the next county for it. Perhaps it would be super at home blasting out of a hi-fi in a wood paneled room in Laurel Canyon in the 70s or at a Renaissance Faire in any decade. One highlight is "Wond'ring Aloud", which has a good folksy Sunday afternoon vibe somewhat evocative of Nick Drake, but that's all I got here. Nothing else connects. Totally could have died without hearing this. The album art reminds me of digging through dusty bargain record bins. I've rifled past it a hundred times. It looks so much more vibrant than I recall ever seeing it. I like a good Black Letter type treatment, although there is some serious tangent action happening on the art. I mean, the graphic looks woodsy and psychedelic enough, which I reckon is the point, so it does receive passing marks for conveying exactly what is contained therein. Adequate but not exciting.

I was dreading this one since the few songs I've heard from Jethro Tull before did not inspire me to delve deeper into their work and It did turn out to be very difficult to get through. It actually took multiple tries. It is really not my type of music at all. While I acknowledge the stellar musicianship, if I was a douchebag music journalist, I'd write this is folk rock played by horndog fratguys. I get arrogance and cockiness wafting from every pore of this album. Mother Goose and Wond'ring Aloud were tolerable. I'll stick to Fairport Convention and Trees if I crave this kind of music (which I rarely do). I wouldn't even mentoin them in the same league as Pentangle.

ohhhhh boy. this is rough. the struggle was real to get through it. I did. but, why did I do it to myself. I did not enjoy any of it.

I don’t like

I imagine this is what rock and folk sound like to people who hate rock and folk.

This didnt do it for me

this was boring and too long

Really not my cup of tea, very fathers day CD compilation from Woolworths

This is the album whose gross overestimation by critics gave Iain Anderson his monstrous ego and inability to accurately assess his own output. Did we need a concept album about a predatory pedophile? Clearly not. Is there any redeeming feature to this album? Not really. Writing deliberately ugly lyrics and setting them to deliberately ugly music is not offset by virtuosity; if anything it makes it harder to forgive. It’s not that disturbing stories and subjects are off limits. It’s that they deserve to be treated seriously and this album is uptime trivial. One star because I’m not able to give it none.

A little too frenetic and disconnected for me. Sort of irritating in general. I couldn't finish this album.

While I recognize the musicianship, this album was not for me. I did warm to few of the tracks, particularly Mother Goose, but ultimately could not finish listening to the album.

Love a good flute solo but bogged down by boring prog rock riffs

dnf

Kind of interesting musically. But nothing grabs me. And it sounds like there is weird pedophile-y stuff (really). Like a poorly fitted brown 70's suit with ornamental lapels.

This fucking album STINNNKKKKKKKKSSSSSSSSSSS God it’s so lame and corny and “hehe haha we are knights of the round table”

I just couldn't get into this. Some songs felt like a draft

There is no song on this album I ever want to hear again. Not for me.

This album is overrated. The last few tracks where decent, but overall this wasn't great. Just kind of self important. I won't listen again.

When I think of Jethro Tull I think of them winning a hard rock/metal Grammy over Metallica. A flute in a metal album? It was quite the controversy in 1989. That aside, this music just seems to take itself too seriously. They have never been my thing and this is the first time I have intentionally listened to one of their songs in its entirety. Still not my thing.

kind of just boring middle of the road. there is some interest factor in the variety of sound and instruments used but at the end of the day it's just not my thing. 1/5 stars

Rubbish

Not for me

This is really not my thing. The flute in every song is kinda funny tho. I struggled to get through it. Personally, 1/5, but as an appreciator of music, 2/5.

The most boring album ever made And to add to the crap sandwich 15 minutes of interview with the most boring man on earth, talking about the most boring album ever made.

Turgid, pretentious and dated.

Don't know what all the fuss is about. I didn't get this album at all. Trippy lyrics, dreary music. Psychedelic rock definitely. Not for me

no es la música que me gusta

This was not for me. I kept hoping it'd be over but decided to stick with it in case it'll end up expanding my taste in the future. It had some nice sections but I didn't save any songs.

No.

Jack Black pitched up one octave.

no

1. aqua - 2 2. mary - 1 3. cheap - 0 4. gooze - 1 5. aloud - 1.5 6. up - 1 7. god - 1.5 8. hymn - 1 9. zteam - 1 10. locomotive - 1.5 11. uuind - 1 12. clean - 0 13. up - 1 14. intervieuu -

Ganz furchtbar.

Wasn’t a fan. Idk

I didn't like it that much. Also they got a Grammy in 1989 instead of Metallica. It should have been Metallica. I will always hate this band because of that.

Listened to the Title Track, the very first song on the album? Great. And you've heard any other classic rock songs from this era? Awesome - you've listened to the peak of this album (and admittedly it's not even a big peak, it's more like a small hill) and the rest is the same ideas you've heard a billion times on this list already. After track one, Aqualung, you can safely turn this album off and find something else, because nothing else is worth your time here.

Not my bag baby 👎

Absolutely not my thing. 1.5 stars.

fussy prog rock. a grim listen.

I didn’t like this. This reminds me of a movie or tv show my mom would put on and I hated. Just because I felt like this was against my will.

Yuck!

Sea shanty typa dig

Never really been a fan of Jethro Tull and this album didn’t change my mind.

not bad

Yeesh. I can see why people either love or hate progressive rock. It's long and boring and over the top. To be honest, apart from the title song I had never in my life heard any other Jethro Tull work until I listened to this album, while high of course. The flute is distracting. Instead of summoning Hobbits I felt like I wanted to join the Nazgûl and burn the Shire to the ground. On the plus side, Jethro Tull walked ... so that Spinal Tap, especially "Stonehenge" could run.

Twang.

Aqualung Aqualung • ...wtf. Is this about a perverted homeless with pneumonia? Bit of whiplash from this one. Bass really moves though. Cross-Eyed Mary • Cool bass and flute to open. Don't hear that often. Reference to Aqualung means this'll be a concept album? What's the story? Cheap Day Return • Nice acoustic guitar. Not much to say. Mother Goose • Lyrics have to just be nonsense? Feel like this is yet another group I would like more without vocals. Why is singing considered so essential? Wond'ring Aloud • Just sorta fine. Strings are good. Up to Me • This one kinda rips. Percussion lays it down and the flute's melody is entrancing. My God • Who is this for? Just sorta goofy. Corny sort of "epic". That rambles for 7+ minutes. Flute and chants at 3:30 go harder than Ron Burgundy though. Hymn 43 • Starting to get bored. Starting to just blur together. Slipstream • Really appreciate the strings! Eerie ending is neat too. Refreshing. Locomotive Breath • Pulsing bass is sweet. Woulda been a great track to have the vocalist shut up for. Flute brings me back though and puts the track at a highlight. Wind-Up • 2:10 guitar is the only thing I like on this one. Lick Your Fingers Clean • Microcosm for the album: Nice instrumentation and grating vocals. Jethro Tull is Jack Black lyricism & vocals absent charm and humor. Audible respite is given through flares of Ron Burgundy's flute chops. Unfortunately, solid instrumentals are back seat to grating vocals of indiscernable and nonsensical lyrics. This dichotomy was jarring. The music presented in this album became one dimensional and bland rather quickly. Strong 2 to weak 3.

Didn’t like this

Bonus star (up from zero) because I got to make my gf experience this for the first time. This is legitimately one of my least favorite albums (and bands) ever recorded

what the fuck is this shit we start a song about some disgusting hobo-wannabe-child predator, followed by a song about a school girl who may be into that hobo?.. how do you propose the idea and the lyrics to the rest of the band and everybody says "yah good idea man"?? ah man followed by a throw-away song and then immidiately more schoolgirls... overall, whack, musically might have been a 2/5 NNN

not for me but decent intrumentals

Ich weiß nicht - für mich klingt das wie eine Schülerband, wo man den besten Kumpel, der Querflöte spielt, halt auch mitmachen lässt... Krass, dass die so lange so erfolgreich sind!

TIL I really, really don’t like Jethro Tull

I enjoyed the radio songs that I already knew, The rest sounded like Merlin's Monocle tribute band.

Wife asked me to turn it off, which kind of sums it up.

🥱

I was into these guys a little bit in high school but can’t handle them at all now. They’re the people you know whose whole personality revolves around role playing games or renaissance fairs. Nothing wrong with either of those but branch out, buddy. Also - way too may flute solos.

Sounds like a Christian rock band trying to cover metal? F‐

The flute needed to be used much more sparingly.

Just don't like it

This record is an absolute parody of the 1970s. When I saw that this was my first recommendation via this website, I lost interest. Yuck. What's next Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band or The Eagles Hotel California. Just awful music.

Non mi piace

Self indulgent rot. A template for spinal tap... also the focus on snot is unseemly

too folksy for me, can only take so many flute solos per hour and this pushed it too far

Boring and whiny are the must positives things I can say about this psycadelica

A Ron Burgundy classic!

1001 albums to listen to before the Shire. Hobbit rock music.

Couldn’t get past 2 songs.

Possibly the worst 'classic' album of all time

no thanks

First time listening. Upon the very first song, I can see why this album has detractors; I am among the detractors. This is prog rock with zero teeth. Floundering hard rock songs with a handful of folky interludes. Although not terribly offensive, I don't think I found a single song to stand out in the bunch. I'm close to filing this under SteelyDanCore. Not a fan.

Can't stand this flute - I was once saw this band in a Prague concert 20 years ago or so, only knowing a few songs - it all sounded the same.

Most of the first track is good, but, like the album, there's too much uninteresting prog nonsense interrupting it.

Meh. I didn't turn it off but I really didn't like it.

No place for the flute

Alkaa hupaisalla minioopperalla laitapuolenkulkijasta; päätyy blues-hevi-pilipali-suvantoon, josta ei koskaan pääse ulos. Eikä mitään jää mieleen. OK, 1,5.

Bad.

awful, really bad, plus...a fucking flute!

Unlistenable. Punchable. Terrible.

Fucking shithouse. How do people listen to this shit. Sounds like the creators of South Park are singing this. Genuine torture. Just take a moment to listen to the lyrics here. Fucking hell. 1 star but would give less if I could.

awful, garbage.. yuck...

This was a lot more melodic than I expected. Quite tuneful

No thank you.

Verschrikkelijk!

Not my vibe

Didn't like the style.

That was terrible. Forgot I'd listened to it an hour later