Aqualung

I'm sorry.

At number one, a little album that's coming out called Aqualung.

Oh,

that's Jethro Tull, too.

It was always there to the point where I wanted to get it, but it was played so much.

It was just like, I didn't get Aqualung by Jethro Tull.

Heard that so much, I never bought it.

I ended up buying it years later because I was like, holy shit, I don't have Aqualung.

Same thing with this record.

It just was played all the time.

How could they not? They had two of the most iconic albums of all time.

You know, Aqualung and Pickets of Brick.

Two amazing albums.

I don't want to pick on Jethro Tull, but they have been...

And this is covering their first five albums.

This was stand-up benefit Aqualung and thick as a brick.

Of course, all analog cut by Kevin Gray.

Now, this box set is a Rhino exclusive only for the time being, but like all the ones that have come in the past, I'm assuming they'll break it up and sell it individually with most people buying Aqualung.

That's kind of the Jethro Tull way.

What is cool about this announcement is right now you can actually buy it as a reel-to-reel as well.

Which...

Just the Aqualung.

Breezy fingers smearing shabby clothes.

Hey, Aqualung.

Drying in the cold sun.

Watching as the Taking time the only way he does.

That curtain pass as he bends to pick a dog and goes down to the park.

December's foggy freeze When the ice that clings onto your bed With screaming agony And you snatch a rattle of glass threats With deep sea divers sounds And the flowers bloom like madness in the spring Sun's shrieking cold An old man wants It goes down.

Aqualung, my friend Don't you start away anything You poor old sod You see it's only me guitar solo and the bridge.

That was the title track to 1971's Aqualung album, an album that would mark the band's international breakthrough.

They're great.

And I love the album Aqualung, but that's it.

I like the song Thick as a Brick.

The

Aqualung song, yeah.

Sitting on the pot bench.

They named an album after them.

Like their first three albums I really liked a lot.

And then with Aqualung, they started going more that concept album prog rock route.

And then by the time Thick as a Brick, once I, that album came out, I just, I actually threw that album out when I, after I bought it and listened to it.

I hated it so much.

So I guess the ones that go quickly are the best.

I, I, I struggled with the Aqualung album, for example.

That, that was for a number of reasons.

It, it didn't, it didn't go really quickly, and we didn't, you know, we did play some songs together in the studio, but some had to be constructed, um, because they weren't really clicking as live performances.

Oh, wow.

[laughs] That's amazing.

You, you mentioned the Aqualung, uh, record.

What was it about that record that was so ...