Jethro Tull – Thick As A Brick (G+/VG) – LP, AU 1972

Thick As A Brick is an LP by Jethro Tull from 1972 released on the Reprise Records label.

About this album

Thick As A Brick is Jethro Tull’s most audacious statement and one of prog rock’s great conceptual gambits. Released in 1972, the album presents itself as a single continuous composition, stretching across both sides of the original LP while parodying the era’s appetite for grand ambition. Led by Ian Anderson’s flute, sharp acoustic work and shifting time signatures, it balances virtuosity with humour and narrative invention. Its mock-newspaper packaging and tightly integrated structure helped turn it into a defining example of progressive rock excess done with wit, and it remains one of the band’s best-known and most discussed releases.