[lbo-talk] Stuck on a desert island

[John Adams]

On Apr 5, 2005, at 8:41 PM, W. Kiernan wrote:

> ...yeah yeah sure y'all are talking some good stuff and I know you 
> don't want to seem too obvious or anything, but come on: Cross-Eyed 
> Mary, Hymn 43, Locomotive Breath, _Aqualung_.  "But for Christ's sake 
> he'd better start looking."  Who in pop music these days pours love 
> over emphysemic old parkbench bums?  (Or out of pop music, for that 
> matter.)  And after Mick Abrahams left Tull he wrote "Walk on the 
> Water" for Blodwyn Pig. What was up with those guys and Christianity, 
> anyway?

_Aqualung_ is a great record, no doubt about it--I just like the 
earlier ones better. I'm pretty fond of _Living in the Past_, too, come 
to think of it.

You also raise an important point--Jethro Tull was one of the most 
effective anti-clerical voices in popular culture in their day. I still 
occasionally hear "Hymn 43" on Hot Rock Radio--If The Records Weren't 
Free, We'd Be All News.

	John A