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Been searching for something to listen and since this was already in the CD player (I will admit this is not my CD) and since I'm way too lazy to get up off my ass and find something else thought I'd give this a spin.
Okay, I've never been one for prog-rock for I always found the genre of music to be completely pretentious and boring belonging to the 70's-era listened only by stoners who hang black light posters up in their parent's basement while cleaning out the resin of their bong sitting listless on that ugly brown and orange furniture. Now some of you may be big fans of this but long-winded "jazz-fusion" inspired mutterings and inane lyrics such as "marlins jump out of the lake and stand there" make me cringe.
And I've never been one to stand Jethro Tull. Nothing personal, just that every time you tune on the terrestrial radio there is the pentatonic scale of 'Aqualung' being played to death. I'm sure Ian Anderson as a high-caliber musician cannot be argued but for the past hour while listening to this it's kind of freaking me out. Reading all the reviews I could find on this record (even from hard core Tull fans) say 'Stormwatch' isn't one of their best efforts deeming it the "environmental issue concern Tull record" (so?) What gets me is that in the 30 plus years since this was recorded the topics seem to be more prevalent than ever: dependence on (foreign) oil, the greed and rape of landscapes, disregard to eco-systems, people becoming more huddled and condensed in high-density housing dwellings spoon-fed on propaganda and materialism while experiencing a neurotic dread cynicism of a dark time to come that may already be here:
"The big jet rumbles over runway miles that scar the patchwork green where slick tycoons and rich buffoons have opened up the seam of golden nights and champagne flights. Ad-man overkill and in the haze consumer crazed we take the sugar pill."
No reason for this post other than to reiterate this record is creeping me out a bit. Now I can see why Miley is so popular these days.
Maybe her hair care products and all that shit she dresses her face with might be harmful to the environment...life goes on.
Okay, I've never been one for prog-rock for I always found the genre of music to be completely pretentious and boring belonging to the 70's-era listened only by stoners who hang black light posters up in their parent's basement while cleaning out the resin of their bong sitting listless on that ugly brown and orange furniture. Now some of you may be big fans of this but long-winded "jazz-fusion" inspired mutterings and inane lyrics such as "marlins jump out of the lake and stand there" make me cringe.
And I've never been one to stand Jethro Tull. Nothing personal, just that every time you tune on the terrestrial radio there is the pentatonic scale of 'Aqualung' being played to death. I'm sure Ian Anderson as a high-caliber musician cannot be argued but for the past hour while listening to this it's kind of freaking me out. Reading all the reviews I could find on this record (even from hard core Tull fans) say 'Stormwatch' isn't one of their best efforts deeming it the "environmental issue concern Tull record" (so?) What gets me is that in the 30 plus years since this was recorded the topics seem to be more prevalent than ever: dependence on (foreign) oil, the greed and rape of landscapes, disregard to eco-systems, people becoming more huddled and condensed in high-density housing dwellings spoon-fed on propaganda and materialism while experiencing a neurotic dread cynicism of a dark time to come that may already be here:
"The big jet rumbles over runway miles that scar the patchwork green where slick tycoons and rich buffoons have opened up the seam of golden nights and champagne flights. Ad-man overkill and in the haze consumer crazed we take the sugar pill."
No reason for this post other than to reiterate this record is creeping me out a bit. Now I can see why Miley is so popular these days.
Maybe her hair care products and all that shit she dresses her face with might be harmful to the environment...life goes on.
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