Another of those bands that most people don't know is considered Prog, but that is the genre in which many critics (and those who write about music) place Tull. Some of their albums from the late 70s find them placed in the sub-genre "progressive folk" (in particular Songs From The Wood - #76 on the list of "100 Greatest"). They're music was initially Blues based but, by the release of Aqualung in 1971, they started to become more progressive in style, and Thick As A Brick completed the transition to Prog.TAAB was actually created as a response to critics and writers who, in their reviews, kept insisting that Aqualung was a concept album, something Tull frontman Ian Anderson kept denying. So, in response, Anderson wrote this album, which consists of one very long song (43:46) that took up both sides of the original vinyl release. Satirical in nature, the album was said to be a poem written by an 8-year old (the fictional Gerald Bostock) set to music.
Though I'm somewhat surprised in came in as high as it did in the 100 Greatest Prog Albums poll, it is still great listening and certainly one of, if not the, best of Jethro Tull's output.
Here's the first part:
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