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- Length
- 2 tracks, 4:30
- Release Date
- 26 April 1973
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- Length
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- Release Date
- 26 April 1973
Jethro Tull's second album-length composition, A Passion Play is very different from – and not quite as successful as – Thick as a Brick. Ian Anderson utilizes reams of biblical (and biblical-sounding) references, interwoven with modern language, as a sort of a rock equivalent to T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland. As with most progressive rock, the words seem important and profound, but their meaning is anyone's guess ("The ice-cream lady wet her drawers, to see you in the Passion Play…"), with Anderson as a dour but engaging singer/sage (who, at … read more
Jethro Tull's second album-length composition, A Passion Play is very different from – and not quite as successful as – Thick as a B… read more
Jethro Tull's second album-length composition, A Passion Play is very different from – and not quite as successful as – Thick as a Brick. Ian Anderson utilizes reams of … read more
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