[cador]

I've been a Jethro Tull fan for a few years and I try to buy CDs of this band every chance I get. I stumbled upon _Stormwatch_ at a music store and I bought it.

It was originally released in 1979 and the concept of the album is that the world is running out of oil. Since it was recorded in the context of the 1970s oil crisis, I could imagine that this album seemed dated during the "prosperous" 1980s and 1990s when all the doomsayers were supposedly proved wrong.

Here are some of the lyrics from the album that really stand out for me:

"New-found wealth sits on the shelf of yesterday
Hot-air balloon --- inflation soon will make you pay
Riggers rig and diggers dig their shallow grave
But we'll be saved and what we crave
is North Sea Oil"

"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."

"Come and see bureaucracy
make its final heave
and let the new disorder through
while senses take their leave.
Families screaming line the streets
and put the windows through
in corner shops
where keepers kept
the country's life-blood blue."

It's a great album. Regardless if Ian Anderson was a visionary or he just happened to be right for the wrong reasons, the music is more relevant today than the time it was originally released in. Sent a few shivers down my spine as I listened to the first four songs...

[StayOnTarget]

I haven't listened to that album in like 10 years. But seeing your post, I whipped it out and am listening to it now. Very relevent, almost 25 years later.

One of my favorite albums of all time is a JT album, Benefit.

My other two fave's are Thick as a Brick and Minstrel in the Gallery.



Cheers

[NeoPeasant]

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