THICK AS A BRICK

A mother of all concepts albums, wraped in a newspaper, performed perfectly, instigated with humour and social critic... so, what went wrong? I mean, not with the album, Thick as a Brick is absolutely perfect, I'am refering of everything else: how do this album is not recognized as one of the most elaborated products of pop culture and art? Much of this honours lay on Pink Floyd' The Wall or even to The Woh' Tommy... but sincerely, TAAB beats them by hundred.

A full review here is impossible, as there is books and articles about TAAB. And I have read some of them through my adventure in progressive music. A whole complex, full of deep incision music reflecting both modern structures as folk and classical learnings.

The Minstrel-genius-boys-point of view is something quite unique. I believed that the levels of the concept are less mentioned - we have the level of the false concept, the spoof album; the Gerald Bostock level, of what this character has to say; and the level of the concpet as a whole, with the key phrase "We will be geared to the average rather than the exceptional" as the all explainer of the album, the Gerald Bostock and the moment Ian Anderson was perceiving.

No review can comprise this masterpiece, so, a good thing to do is punctuated the discussion:

- Consideer the music (composition) and the playing of the artists;

- Consideer the whole package as a unit and a singular production;

- Consideer the lyrics as poems;

- Consideer the levels of concepts inbricated in the messages of each individual point above and then what they mean together.

Conclusion: consideer Thick as a Brick a masterpiece.

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