I had the unfortunate pleasure of signing up for Columbia records “buy one, get 13 for free” deal sometime around 1973.
With no idea of what I was in for, wasted many picks on the Beach Bros, but happened into Jethro Tull.
I was 11 years old at the time.
Between “Thick as a Brick”, “Too old too Rock and Roll” and later “Songs from the Wood”, I found a genius.
It was much later that I even heard, much less understood “Locomotive Breath” or “Aqualung”.
Music has a long history with the expression of social or cultural changes, but it seems to me that those issues have been set aside.
I suppose, nobody wants to be told that they are idiots.
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I started amassing vinyl when I was 17 or 18... the collection is bizzare but very focused. I own just about every Ramones record. I also started colleting Tull albums, some Moody Blues... some Floyd, some The Who... and a lot of really uncategorizable things.
This Was became a favorite... Passion Play another... I have all the albums still, but music had left my life, with rare exception. Boards of Canada sums up my state of mind very often... it’s my go-to... but I can’t connect very well via music anymore... I am probably how Little Milton turned out, in the end.
When driving, either talk radio is on or the radio is off.
OH! and Yes some Kinks too... and I agree, One for the Road ranks right up there as one of the all time best... I can listen to Celluloid Heroes over and over again.
But the best live album EVAR is Mothers of Invention Fillmore East ‘71.