I was familiar with the song 'Aqualung' for ages because a friend of mine played it A LOT back in high school, and a few years ago my brother got into Tull, but I didn't really. Listening to it now, I'll admit this is a really good album.
With a few of the albums coming up now in the list I can see this trend for extended, virtuosic, prog-rock tracks/albums which I guess eventually built up to a point, inspiring the explosion of "no nonsense, stripped back, anyone can play" punk music.
You could almost see the 70s as being this experimental 'muddying of the genre waters' in a way, in that bands like Jethro Tull and Queen were counted as containing 'metal' influences (to the extent that Jethro Tull famously pipped Metallica for 'best metal/hard rock performance' at the Grammys one year) and in turn influencing future 'metal' bands. At the same time, Tull have a strong folk vein running through, and 80-90% of the time could not be labelled purely as 'metal' in the same way that Queen folded in music-hall, opera and various other elements.
No comments:
Post a Comment