jueves, 1 de julio de 2010

Jethro Tull - Aqualung - 1971


"Aqualung" es el cuarto álbum de estudio de la banda de rock Jethro Tull.
Fue publicado en 1971.

AQUALUNG

AQUALUNG

Sitting on a park bench 
eyeing little girls with bad intent. 
Snot running down his nose 
greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes. 
Drying in the cold sun 
Watching as the frilly panties run. 
Feeling like a dead duck 
spitting out pieces of his broken luck.
Sun streaking cold 
an old man wandering lonely. 
Taking time 
the only way he knows. 
Leg hurting bad, 
as he bends to pick a dog-end 
he goes down to the bog 
and warms his feet.

Feeling alone 
the army's up the rode 
salvation à la mode and 
a cup of tea. 
Aqualung my friend 
don't start away uneasy 
you poor old sod, you see, it's only me. 
Do you still remember 
December's foggy freeze 
when the ice that 
clings on to your beard is 
screaming agony. 
And you snatch your rattling last breaths 
with deep-sea-diver sounds, 
and the flowers bloom like 
madness in the spring. 

A pesar de la desaprobación de la propia banda y fundamentalmente de su líder Ian Anderson (quien generalmente ha renegado de la etiqueta de "rock progresivo" o sinfónico), está considerado un disco conceptual cuyo tema central es "la distinción entre la religión y Dios".

MY GOD

MY GOD

People, what have you done?
Locked him in his golden cage, golden cage
Made him bend to your religion
Him resurrected from the grave, from the grave

He is the God of nothing
If that's all that you can see
You are the God of everything
He's inside you and me

So lean upon him gently
And don't call on him to save you
From your social graces
And the sins you used to waive, you used to waive

From the bloody church of England
In chains of history
Requests your earthly presence
At the vicarage for tea

And the graven image you know who
With his plastic crucifix, he's got him fixed
Confuses me as to who and where and why?
As to how he gets his kicks, he gets his kicks

Confessing to the endless sin
The endless whining sounds
You'll be praying till next Thursday
To all the gods that you can count

Está inspirado en fotografías de vagabundos realizadas por la esposa de entonces de Ian, Jennie y por vivencias del propio Ian ("Cheap Day Return" es un claro ejemplo).

CHEAP DAY RETURN

CHEAP DAY RETURN

On Preston platform
do your soft shoe shuffle dance.
Brush away the cigarette ash that's
falling down your pants.
And you sadly wonder
does the nurse treat your old man
the way she should.
She made you tea,
asked for your autograph
what a laugh.

Representa uno de los momentos cumbre de la formación, tal vez el mejor para muchos fans como quien ésto escribe.También éste álbum, con más contenido acústico, representó su primer éxito masivo significativo.Está considerado, con justicia, uno de los mejores discos de rock de la historia.
Con temazos, como éstos que siguen...

CROSS EYED MARY

CROSS EYED MARY

Who would be a poor man, a beggarman, a thief
if he had a rich man in his hand.
And who would steal the candy
from a laughing baby's mouth
if he could take it from the money man.
Cross-eyed Mary goes jumping in again.
She signs no contract
but she always plays the game.
Dines in Hampstead village
on expense accounted gruel,
and the jack-knife barber drops her off at school.
Laughing in the playground - gets no kicks from little boys:
would rather make it with a letching grey.
Or maybe her attention is drawn by Aqualung,
who watches through the railings as they play.
Cross-eyed Mary finds it hard to get along.
She's a poor man's rich girl
and she'll do it for a song.
She's a rich man stealer
but her favour's good and strong:
She's the Robin Hood of Highgate
helps the poor man get along.


LOCOMOTIVE BREATH

LOCOMOTIVE BREATH

In the shuffling madess
of the locomotive breath,
runs the all-time loser,
headlong to his death.
He feels the piston scraping
steam breaking on his brow
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train won't stop going
no way to slow down.
He sees his children jumping off
at the stations - one by one.
His woman and his best friend
in bed and having fun.
He's crawling down the corridor
on his hands and knees
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train won't stop going
no way to slow down.

He hears the silence howling
catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
has got him by the balls.
He picks up Gideons Bible
open at page one
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train won't stop going
no way to slow down. 
PROGRAMA
Todas las canciones compuestas por Ian Anderson."Aqualung" ha aparecido acreditada a Ian y Jennie Anderson."Bourée", es composición de Johann Sebastian Bach, con arreglos de Ian Anderson.
Cara A – Aqualung
01.«Aqualung» 6:34
02.«Cross-Eyed Mary» 4:06
03.«Cheap Day Return» 1:21
04.«Mother Goose» 3:51
05.«Wond'ring Aloud» 1:53
06.«Up to Me» 3:15
Cara B – My God
07.«My God» 7:08
08.«Hymn 43» 3:14
09.«Slipstream» 1:13
10.«Locomotive Breath» 4:23
11.«Wind-Up» 6:00

PERSONAL
Ian Anderson – voz, flauta y guitarra acústica
Martin Barre – guitarra eléctrica.
Clive Bunker – batería y percusión
Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond – bajo
John Evan – piano, órgano y melotrón
David Palmer - arreglos orquestales
Producción
Ian Anderson y Terry Ellis - producción
John Burns, Bob Conduct, Allen Harris y Tony Wilson - ingeniería
Burton Silverman - portada

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