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Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson - TAAB2 (2012) {Japan 1st Press}

Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson - TAAB2 (2012) {Japan 1st Press}

BAND/ARTIST: Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson

  • Title: Thick As A Brick 2
  • Year Of Release: 2012
  • Label: Chrysalis / EMI Music Japan Inc. #TOCP-71283
  • Genre: Folk Rock, Progressive Rock
  • Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue, Log) / MP3 CBR320
  • Total Time: 00:53:45
  • Total Size: 306 / 135 Mb (Covers)
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Released in 2012, Thick as a Brick 2, abbreviated TAAB 2 and subtitled Whatever Happened to Gerald Bostock? is the fifth studio album by Ian Anderson, and is a follow-up of Thick as a Brick, Jethro Tull’s highly acclaimed 1972 album. Thick As A Brick 2 focuses on Gerald Bostock, the fictional boy genius author of the original album, forty years later. “I wonder what the eight-year-old Gerald Bostock would be doing today. Would the fabled newspaper still exist?” – Ian Anderson. The follow-up album presents five divergent, hypothetical life stories for Gerald Bostock, including a greedy investment banker, a homosexual homeless man, a soldier in the Afghan War, a sanctimonious evangelist preacher, and a most ordinary man who (married and childless) runs a corner store; by the end of the album, however, all five possibilities seem to converge in a similar concluding moment of gloomy or pitiful solitude. In March 2012, to follow the style of the mock-newspaper cover (The St Cleve Chronicle and Linwell Advertiser) of the original Thick as a Brick album, an online newspaper was set up, simply titled St Cleve.

Some 40 years after the release of Jethro Tull's prog landmark Thick as a Brick, chief Tull Ian Anderson crafts a sequel. Sensibly titled Thick as a Brick 2, this 2012 set brings us up to speed with the life of Gerald Bostock, who was a mere lad of 10 at the time of TAAB but is now an adult shouldering a myriad of responsibilities. His disappointments and mild triumphs make him a different man than he was, yet underneath it all he's still that recognizable child, and the same can be said for Anderson's music: it's cleaner and streamlined, not as indulgent or idealistic as his younger work, boasting a more sensible structure, yet it still bears all of his signatures from the flute to rambling folk-rock. To criticize TAAB2 for not having a clear hook to pull you inside is unfair: Anderson is assuming a familiarity with his work, so he's giving himself time to write around the point, taking diversions wherever he finds them, sometimes in the form of eight-minute mini-suites, sometimes in the form of brief two-minute interludes. TAAB2 doesn't sound contemporary but it doesn't sound classic either – it sounds caught between the two eras, as if it was recorded in 1990. That may turn off some listeners, but they're the kind who wouldn't spend any time with an Anderson album anyway. Those diehards who are still curious after all these years will find Thick as a Brick 2 an effective, if not quite compelling, sequel to a beloved classic.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music

Track List:

01. From a Pebble Thrown [0:03:06.14]
02. Pebbles Instrumental [0:03:30.20]
03. Might-Have-Beens [0:00:50.32]
04. Upper Sixth Loan Shark [0:01:13.03]
05. Banker Bets, Banker Wins [0:04:27.38]
06. Swing It Far [0:03:28.02]
07. Adrift and Dumfounded [0:04:25.14]
08. Old School Song [0:03:06.53]
09. Wootton Bassett Town [0:03:43.43]
10. Power and Spirit [0:01:58.73]
11. Give Till It Hurts [0:01:12.04]
12. Cosy Corner [0:01:24.45]
13. Shunt and Shuffle [0:02:12.27]
14. A Change of Horses [0:08:04.31]
15. Confessional [0:03:08.39]
16. Kismet in Suburbia [0:04:17.20]
17. What-Ifs, Maybes and Might-Have-Beens [0:03:36.03]

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Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson - TAAB2 (2012) {Japan 1st Press}


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  • mufty77
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