I had an early affinity for them, and I can’t help but wonder how much of it was the actual music, and how much of it was budding hormones reacting to Messrs. Anderson and Barre. No, because my first experience with them was hearing them on the radio, some new track (can’t remember which offhand) from their then-new album Stormwatch.
If you want to hear the Chateau d'Isaster Tapes, what’s left of them is available on the double CD Nightcap*. Some of it did get integrated into A Passion Play, so it’s interesting to hear it in embryonic form.
I have heard some people who read the fake newspaper that came with the original Thick As A Brick, and they really did think that some bespectacled ten-year-old wrote the lyrics, and got into a lot of trouble for it!
*though most of what’s there is now more easily available as bonus tracks on the inexpensive remastered CD editions
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If you want to hear the Chateau d'Isaster Tapes, what’s left of them is available on the double CD Nightcap*. Some of it did get integrated into A Passion Play, so it’s interesting to hear it in embryonic form.
I have heard some people who read the fake newspaper that came with the original Thick As A Brick, and they really did think that some bespectacled ten-year-old wrote the lyrics, and got into a lot of trouble for it!
*though most of what’s there is now more easily available as bonus tracks on the inexpensive remastered CD editions