Old Enough to Forget

Aqualung, released in 1971, was the band's fourth album. Jethro Tull would release an album a year from 1968 to 1980, and then they'd slow down a little, but keep dropping albums through the '90s. I started my journey with Jethro Tull's Crest of a Knave, which gave the band an odd late career resurgence. I know that record gets shit on for being the fly in the ointment in Metallica's spooge party back in '89. Considering they had been releasing albums pretty consistently since 1968, it wasn't like they came out of nowhere. Were they metal? No, but they were rock enough to warrant being considered "hard rock" by the voting members. Back to Aqualung , the year was 1971, and with the burgeoning Jesus movement Jethro Tull would take a different tack and pose a different set of philosophical questions relating to the nature of God and human nature and which came first, the chicken or the egg. Or in this case, to paraphrase AC/DC, "Who Made Who?...