THICK AS A BRICK

Why this album is at #4 or 5 of the greatest prog albums of all time according to this site completely baffles me. This album is much less a prog album than your typical classic rock song horribly overextended. The first 5 or so minutes are pure gold, with the acustic guitar, flute, and Anderson's catchy folk singing. After that, sadly, it all goes downhill. Then your in for 35-40 minutes of hard rock drone with little variation. I find the whole experience terribly boring. There is only one other good part of the album, and that is a pretty good strings section towards the middle of Part 2. All in all, a complete waste of time. Buy Tull's greatest hits to get the radio edit of Thick as a Brick, buy this album for the newspaper that comes in the sleeve but nothing more.