🎵 Jethro Tull - AQUALUNG REACTION

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[RicoBurghFan]

Come on Brad, the guy is homeless and people are judging him, saying he's "eyeing little girls with bad intent" when he's probably just resting his bones on a bench. Lex got it right when she said it's sympathetic because the narrator/singer is telling us how much hardship this man has to go through, including the judgment of the ignorant. Seriously one of the great classics of all time.

[maxwellshammer]

This actually is two views of the same homeless man. One, the eying little girls, is how society may see him. When the softer acoustic parts start, it’s from the view of someone who knows him. Aqualung refers to the sound he makes breathing, dying from a lung disease, just trying survive. The army refers to the Salvation Army. A dog end is British slang for a cigarette butt.

[ReplicantSeven]

What do you see when you see a homeless old man on a park bench watching kids play? Do you see a predator who wants to molest little girls? Or do you see someone remembering what it was like to be a child, and who has a broken and sad life? This song says a lot more about the person watching the old homeless man than it does about the homeless man himself. Take that mindset in when listening to this song. That's really what this song is.

[JohnnyTalia]

Ian Anderson wasn't one to sugar-coat real life for a pop audience. Real life wasn't always about love and devotion, sweetness and happiness. Life was hard and brutal and ugly, and Ian wasn't afraid to show you that, and to point out how utopic platitudes dissolved against the reality of everyday life. And in the process of doing so, Jethro Tull emerged as one of the greatest progressive rock bands ever.

[neillydun]

I always thought that one 'voice' was what people perceived Aqualung to be about because of how he looked, while the softer voice was from the perspective of someone who had bothered to take the time to get to know him. Like knowing about his bad leg, etc, and was more sympathetic to his plight.

[timothynelms]

Ian Anderson is a musical genius, he can play almost any instrument (self taught), he wrights, produces and is hell of a performer.

[timcampbell]

Many of the negative things should be seen as being projected on the homeless. They are "ugly" on the outside - snot running down his nose. We then project a justification and our indifference for the homeless by dehumanizing them - checking out the girls in the park. Thus we match the outward ugliness with a perceived inward ugliness, which then allows us to justify why we don't help this person who us someone's brother, sister, child or parent. The song is about our reaction to the homeless and why we don't fix the problem.

[lbd-pocl]

The song is about peoples perceptions of an old, sick, homeless man. The dissonant opening chords and verse are meant to unsettle you, as they give the general public’s view of the homeless, while the other voice tells the reality and the view of the charity workers trying to connect with him. A truly remarkable song, which couldn’t be written today. Ian Anderson is a genius songwriter.

[robinreiley]

The song is about how the Old, the Lost and Homeless are perceived. He sits on a bench because his legs hurt bad, he looks at the children not with lust, but with longing for his youth.

[newname]

When you understand this song, it can literally bring tears to your eyes.

[scifimonkey]

The song is two opposing view of the homeless man - the first judgemental and prejudiced the second empathic and sympathetic.Its a comment on the divisions in our society and maybe also on the couch

[metalmark]

Brad and Lex, this a Jethro Tull classic song, probably his most well known song. Aqualung is a homeless man with poor hygiene. Ian Anderson wrote it about a character he made up based on actual photographs of transient men. Ian's wife at the time, Jennie, was an amateur photographer and had brought the pictures for Ian to look at. Many of the lyrics are Ian describing the men in the pictures.

[geoffsimpkins]

Brad, he wasn’t preying on the kids. That was just the perception of him, while he was just a broken man. By the way, this entire album was pure genius.

[jamesyoung]

The line that always hit me hard was "And you snatch your rattling last breaths, with deep sea diver sounds, and the flowers bloom like madness in the spring" It has just always reminded me that life will continue as it always has with no notice for our demise.

[artgentile]

One of the great lines in rock, "spitting out pieces of his broken luck."

[stevewalsh]

He wasn’t preying on little girls, but, because of the way he looks, he was judged by the masses as being a danger

[bennetbayer]

A classic in every sense..."as he bends down to pick a dog-end" (a used cigarette butt) is one example of the UK vernacular ("sod" being another) used throughout Jethro Tull's work. This was a high school soundtrack with air guitar and volume turned up.

[jonhenke]

You guys definitely need to do the studio version of Locomotive Breath to hear a flute solo taking the place of a guitar solo! It sounds kind of silly but once you hear it you might have to put a pillow on your lap to catch your jaw!! Besides that it's a great song! I think you'll like it much better than Aqualung!!!

[michaelbolson]

Lex absolutely nailed it. It’s an extremely deep song from a genius of an artist.

[denystull]

There is so much Jethro Tull that hardly anyone ever reacts to though. Teacher, Witch's Promise, Living in the Past, Rainbow Blues, Fat Man, and a lot more.