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Geared towards the Average AND the Exceptional?
Early in Side B of Jethro Tull’s 1972 concept album Thick as a Brick, a faint voice, that of bassist Jeffrey Hammond Hammond, can be heard uttering the words: “we will be geared toward the average rather than the exceptional”. … Continue reading
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Vinyl’s comeback
I am realising more and more just how significant the vinyl record is within my discussion of ‘concept albums’, and how certain concept albums released in the 60s, 70s and 80s utilised the vinyl’s extra-musical properties (such as the large … Continue reading
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Ontograph – ‘The Album’. Some useful trains of thought: What it is like for an album to be an album? Although it is impossible for me to know this, as i am ‘restricted to the resources of my own mind’ … Continue reading
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