AQUALUNG

I've been surprised looking "thick as a brick" rated better than "aqualung". Maybe the former embodies the idea of Progressive and it's the greater Tull's product in this sphere. But the latter, in my opinion, is their archetipal album: apart from the title track (a masterpiece anyway) every song, every riff can move you, and lead to something I'd define "ancestral": echoes, old piano sound, and of course Ian Anderson's "double voice": his timbre, marking the magical lyrics, and the sound of his magic flute, which notes seem to be one with all the rest, giving complexity to the whole sound and encrowning it at the same time.

Thus, from the second to the last track there's a perfect top-down harmony, starting within the riffs straight to the whole tracklist, paasing by the single tracks, each of them capable to ram in your head both immediately and for long.

one anecdote:I was eleven, and Tull were on stage (for free) in the small Italian town in which we're spending our summer holydays. I was not there, but I casually passed in the small conduct behind the arena that led to a subway. I stayed an hour there, catching glimpses of their faces (I only saw their backs!) but all of their songs, among them, I remember especially Locomotive Breathe...thanks to which I started listening to Rock music.

To sum up briefly, "Thick" could be objectively better, but if I have to give 5 stars to a band like Tull that overally deserves all of them, I choose Aqualung: you may say that it's an odd choiche, but from what "tastes" come if not from personal experiences and feelings?