> ...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