boingboing:
SIXTEEN MINUTES LONG.
Senator, you’re no Jethro Tull
@anon73430903 Blue Room” is the longest single to ever reach the UK charts.
Thick as a Brick is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Jethro Tull, released on 3 March 1972. The album contains one continuous piece of music, split over two sides of an LP record, and is intended as a parody of the concept album genre. The original packaging, designed as a 12-page newspaper, claims the album to be a musical adaptation of an epic poem by fictional eight-year-old genius Gerald Bostock, though the lyrics were actually written by the band's frontman, Ian Anderson.
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it made #5 !
But that was an album. Those extra few minutes made all the difference.
/s
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@anon73430903
I mean, we could take it seriously - but if we were to do that it would be A Passion Play.
A Passion Play is the sixth studio album by British progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released in July 1973 in both the UK and US. Following in the same style as the band's previous album Thick as a Brick (1972), A Passion Play is a concept album comprising individual songs arranged into a single continuous piece of music (which was split into two parts across the original vinyl release's two sides). The album's concept follows the spiritual journey of a recently deceased man (Ronnie Pilgrim)...
I forget, sometimes /s tags are necessary.
Not a criticism of you, It’s more me forgetting that my tone of thought isn’t always obvious.
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Religion, Politics, Food, Sex, Music… Poe’s Law covers them all!
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anon30760835:
Thick as a Brick
“Unfortunately the lecture was terminated by flying bottles which hit Mr. Jorgensen below the left eye.”
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What I was thinking about The Gloaming is “More uilleannn pipes!”
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jerwin
February 8, 2018, 7:53pm
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For some reason, your diagram brings to mind this video…
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I did the 2am-6am slot. 4 minutes isn’t enough time to get to the bathroom and back! Long songs saved my bladder. That and the fact no one is listening at 4 am so one could get away with a whole album side.
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What are leather clad-asses?
I had 6-9 for a couple years. Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Parts 1 - 4. That is all.
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FGD135
February 9, 2018, 6:54am
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Re: long tracks
Tubular Bells is the debut album by English musician Mike Oldfield, released on Virgin Records on 25 May 1973. It comprises two mostly instrumental compositions of over twenty minutes each. Oldfield recorded it when he was 19 and played most of the instruments.
Although sales were initially slow, Tubular Bells gained global attention when it was used on the soundtrack to the horror film The Exorcist (1973). In 1974, it reached number one in the UK, Australia and Canada, and number three on th...
no, that’s a leather-clad ass, medievalist suggested it should be leather
clad-asses, The only thing I can suppose is big loose lying heaps of
leather with a collection of various asses tied around them.
That’s what I wanted to know! Hmmm, p’raps Urban Dictionary can help.
One who adores Harry Potter, Anime, and Blondies. A rare species that can survive on Spaghetti with marinara and cheese or candy, the clads is often seen with a rifle, flag, or deathnote. The clads is very dangerous when aggressed, so don't cross her...
so what you’re saying is it basically means ass-asses who like Harry Potter?
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Well, it’s the best I can do with this one ¯(°_o)/¯