AQUALUNG

I was very disappointed when I put an ear to Aqualung for the very first time (lately : I was 22, three years sooner). I don't know why, but I felt this album was so overrated. I read and heard a lot of good, nice things about this record, heard it was the best album Jethro Tull ever made (Thick As A Brick, which I never listen to yet, was also considered as a Tull masterpiece), one of the best prog-rck albums of all times, one of the best albums of the year 1971 (which was a great year for rock music : the fourth Led Zeppelin album, Pink Floyd's Meddle, Tago Mago by Can)... Well well well. The first track is good, and the following ('Cross-Eyed Mary') too, but I found the remainder a little boring ('Up To Me' and this flute, 'Hymn 43', 'Wind-Up'). 'My God' had a very good part in its middle, anyway. But I really hate 'Up To Me', 'Slipstream' and 'Wind Up'. Don't know why. Don't ask me why. Simple hate 'em. Ian Anderson has a voice I don't really like, maybe too theatrical. The sleeve is nice, with this tramp (Aqualung ?) and his dog. The album is part a concept, but I don't really see what kind of concept it is. Man against God ? God is dead ? God don't exist anyway ? God is Aqualung ? So, an album which is considered as a monument by a lot of proggers. I Know Jethro Tull fans would probably want to kill me, but I found it very boring and uninteresting.