Thank you Kenny for letting me listen to Auqalung for the first time in your bedroom in 1975. I miss you brother. Our souls will all be free one day. your little brother Scott
You cant compete with this band it has everything. Songs that tell stories, the most bad ass rocking panflute that ever existed, and then a kick ass guitar. Just such an original sound and no one has answered with anything even close to Jethro Tull in over 50 years 😳
Don't forget the bass player....I am 70 and I grew up with this music and Jeffery Hammond -Hammond has got to be one of top 5 most underrated bass player in rock....I used to sit down with my vinyl and my Richenbacher 4001 bass and learned how to play many Tull songs just because of the bass lines....badass Bassist for sure
Morbid Beauty My GOD,help me JESUSSSSS! Yes, 'morbid' it seems you are. Please go see a minister,priest, or psychologist. THIS 'music' IS unGodly SHiITe!
I'm on my downward hill to 30 and considered a millennial. Glad I had parents that introduced me to good music at a young age. I hardly get on social media, I work hard and dont complain or make excuses. I work to make my lot in life better. I definately feel like I'm grouped in the wrong generation...
It's a great song and that is why I am here. But fancy thinking all the good music has been done. People are always creating genius. To think there is no more good music to be had is a very old headspace.. Dig a little deeper Bro.
I remember in 71 sitting on a bench at my local plaza after school waiting for my ride home, the loudspeakers playing this song across the street from the local record store. not understanding the foreign language, but the music left me numb. All I could remember was Aqualung. 50 years later I found an old copy of the album at a goodwill and now I relive this masterpiece everyday😳
@@rs2619 Puerto Rico, back then new music releases took a few years to hit the island. worked at pizza joint making pies and tried to keep the juke box with the latest 45's🤣
I know a poor old man, like this song, makes me sad to see he's so Alone... And filling his lonely days w restaurant's and the restaurant/bar down street from my house, he doesn't wash anything and no matter what u tell him he doesn't want to hear it, I pray and try to talk w him when I see him.. I DONT WANT TO BE OLD AND ALONE, I thank God, I know Jesus now...
That s why I got into opera. The only time my ex was off my back was when I listened to opera, especially Wagner. I got opera recordings, the dog, and my dignity back in the divorce, so I did okay.
"Do you still remember December's foggy freeze" is where this song really takes off for me and makes me start speeding like crazy when I'm driving. This song, along with Radar Love, have both been responsible for a couple tickets in the past!
The whole Songs From the Wood album basically takes place in a medieval time (one in which highborn hunting girls can temporarily turn farmers into horses, among other things.)
What a beautiful, devastating, painful, amazing song!! Each word can be thinking and rethinking.. a poetry.. a cry.. a threat.. Deep genius masterpiece! I'm so grateful for it , it helped me overstep my prejudice and ignorance ❤
I'm happy about the time I lived because I have been able to enjoy the music of so many legends. I was born in 72, and grew up in a home with so many people listening to different music and they turned me on to all the awesome music, from their era, my uncles, and a few aunts, cousins, brothers and friends, and my own as well. So I love all types of music.
"Don't you start away, uneasy." Is NOT a question, to have a question mark following it, but rather, the singer is imploring the person he is addressing not to be so jumpy and not to run off at the singer's approach. It is a request, in the imperative, not a question. "You poor old sod, you see it's only me." The song is alluding to the biblical verse, Proverbs 28:1: "The wicked flee where no one pursues."
@@Rowen170 The writer of the song is implying that the titular character, "Aqualung," has a "guilty mind," that he is fearful that he will be accosted for something of which he may be guilty, or be thought guilty. The verse from Proverbs is telling the reader about this phenomenon: those who have behaved immorally or wickedly are often afraid, even when they are not being pursued for their crimes. They are tormented by the fear that they will be called to account for acts the law will punish if the crimes are discovered.
A classic as music, painting a story in lyrics and tone, and performed as a classic should be respecting the material. Shifting points of view, lyrics that give you a Chaucer feel in learning about a character, and making someone invisible too often in an urban setting a real breathing human being you think about later. Simply a classic.
The song is one story told by three different characters. First is Anderson observing Aqualung and is positive that he knows what's going thru the Old man's head, "Eyeing little girls, with bad intent!"...Second is Aqualung himself.."...an old man cold and lonely, taking time the only way he know's, leg hurtin' bad as he bends to picck a dogend..." and third, someone who knows the Old Man, "..Aqualung my friend, don't you start away uneasy, you poor old sog, you see it's only me"
I always thought it was "five little girls". "eyeing" makes MUCH more sense. Thanks for the lyrics! I also thought 'lung' not 'luck' 'bar' not 'bog' the 'army' as in the Salvation Army--I never got that until I saw this video.
In Chicago, where I grew up, we had a bum, yes, the homeless then (70's) were called "bums". We had a neighborhood bum that looked like "Aqualung" on the cover, so we called him Aqualung. When I had cash, I used to buy him a warm bowl of chili, from this hotdog joint. He scarfed it up, and just nodded his head without saying a word. In fact I never heard him utter a sound, but after being around him , you knew he wasn't deaf. While I was away in the service, I heard he had passed away. When I came home, my friends told me he had over 200 grand in a bank account! That wasn't allocated anywhere..so the state kept it. Well, shit, I should have bought him more chili....
@@parulmishra8529 No he's actually right i'm from Chicago myself & if i remember there was a story about a bum who was living on the streets & people used to feed him he died come to find out he was a stock broker or something but he suffered from schizophrenia
Thanks for posting the lyrics to this. It’s good to know that after the best part of fifty years and never actually reading the lyrics, I can still remember then all off by heart without getting a word wrong! My long term memory is 100% but I can’t remember half of what I did yesterday 😅
I was attending an All Girl Parochial Preparatory Academy when I discovered J.T. Thanks to my Senior Girl's Club" big sister. She taught me many things as a lowly freshman. Aqualung was my favorite lesson!
7decaderocker so true. very few bands have an album that every song is fantastic. appetite for destruction, paranoid, facelift, toys in the attic to name a few. aqualung is definitely a masterpiece
"Snot running his nose Greasy fingers, smearing shabby clothes" I had a arson fire in late Oct 2019 My income , home shop totally destroyed,all my tools and ability to earn a income all gone, truck burned .Electric meter burned , so no power, no water. I decided to stay and rebuild, stand my ground against the arsonist. I was in effect border line homeless The cold was brutal, as I cleaned up to try to make things better, this lyrics eep going through my head as it was so applicable Snot running down his nose Smearing shabby clothes.......so true It's only December 24th 2019, long way to go before spring
Hey bro, just read your comment, June 4th, I'm small business like it sounds like you are, auto body repair where I live. One thing I've learned over the years is that once you've provided for your self (ran your small business) whatever life throws at you one way or another you'll handle it, hopefully things have gotten better for you since you're fire. Prayers for you!!!
......"sun streaking cold, an old man wandering lonely, taking time the only way he knows..... " what lyrics painting a sad picture, the unforgettable poetry of Ian, the one legged floutist.
You know that feeling you get when you hear someone talk about a song, and out of curiosity or boredom you look it up, and it turns out to be a song that you heard a million times as a kid but never knew the name of? Yeah...and all because one character in a game I was playing was viciously insulting another character, and one of the insults she used was "Aqualung", and I just had to find out how "Aqualung" was an insult. Now I know, and I've been reunited with an old classic from the good old days. So I guess I owe a hearty thanks to Luna from BlazBlue! ...not a game you would expect to reference an American 70s rock song...but then again, there's JoJo's Bizarre Adventures and its barrage of classic rock referencing. The moral of this story is: Music ties EVERYTHING together! :D
As a teenager and young adult, I liked the heavy beginning and end of the song the best...as I've gotten older,I like the middle part of the song now the best...
I bought this album around mid 71, cause a friend's older brother had one... so we had our own cause his brother wouldn't let us touch any of his records ... we toked our brains out on this album... hahaha THEN WE GOT BLACK SABBATH and went mental at just 15yrs old
Dude, could you please spend a few minutes and explain what does "Aqualung" means anyway? Although I speak English fluently, it is still far from pefrection. I am sure, there is second meaning to it, slang, or something else (like a "dog-end" i didnt know that one either, now i know). I cant see any connection of these lyrics with a device allowing men to breath underwater.
yeah he had pneumonia so his lungs were full of fluid you usually die from this without treatment and as a homeless man he couldn't afford to see a doctor
They played this so much when I was a tot I didn’t even understand the words now years later now it makes me laugh and cry because now I relate to the body wearing out part of it but wow what a masterpiece!!!!
Much of the older music has qualities that most newer music does not. The artists...such as Tull, Yes, Floyd, etal, grew up with classical training and influences. Their music belays this experience and construction.
