what Pete hadn’t realized was that 'Turn It on Again' was in 13/8 time, which made it like a merry-go-round: He’d think he had got to the end and suddenly we would be off again. He spent the whole song trying to work that one out...
Jethro Tull's fifth LP is widely remembered for its intentionally ludicrous lyrics, drawing on the surreal epic poem of a fictional young boy, Gerald Bostock (officially credited on the elaborate sleeve). Bandleader Ian Anderson recalled in 1997 that his concept-album spoof, released at the heig...
Jethro Tull's fifth LP is widely remembered for its intentionally ludicrous lyrics, drawing on the surreal epic poem of a fictional young boy, Gerald Bostock (officially credited on the elaborate sleeve). Bandleader Ian Anderson recalled in 1997 that his concept-album spoof, released at the heig...
A Western tale of a hard-living, ill-fated cowboy named Big Jim Cooley who takes on a bet to drive some cattle over a plain. It doesn't go well — for him or, to an extent,us. The lyrics are, indeed, as awful as one might expect, from throwaway lines ("a rancher whose name ...
(You'll be drunk halfway through.) This 12-minute song is easily the "love it or hate it" moment onSelling England by the Pound, cramping some elite-level prog craftsmanship with one of the singer's most tiring lyrics. Gabriel was inspired by a news story about rival London gangs, ...