Thick as a Brick

~ Song

Annotation

The 2012 reissue of the work lists it with the following splitting into parts:
1. Really Don’t Mind / See There a Son Is Born
2. The Poet and the Painter
3. What Do You Do When the Old Man’s Gone? / From the Upper Class
4. You Curl Your Toes in Fun / Childhood Heroes / Stabs Instrumental
5. See There a Man Is Born / Clear White Circles
6. Legends and Believe in the Day
7. Tales of Your Life
8. Childhood Heroes Reprise

Annotation last modified on 2021-07-24 16:40 UTC.

Relationships

lyricist and composer:Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull)
previously attributed to:Gerald Bostock
lyrics page:https://genius.com/Jethro-tull-thick-as-a-brick-lyrics [info]
SecondHandSongs:https://secondhandsongs.com/work/41895 [info]
Songfacts:http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=238 [info]

Recordings

DateTitleAttributesArtistLength
recordings
1971-12Thick as a Brick (both parts)Jethro Tull43:36
1971-12Thick as a Brick, Part 1 (original stereo mix)partialJethro Tull22:37
1971-12Thick as a Brick, Part 2 (original stereo mix)partialJethro Tull21:05
1977-11-21Thick as a Brick (live, 1977-11-21: Capital Centre, Landover, MD, USA)liveJethro Tull13:46
1977-12-06Thick as a Brick (live, 1977-12-06: Boston Garden, Boston, MA, USA)liveJethro Tull13:15
1978-05-28Thick as a Brick (live, 1978-05-28: Berne Festhalle, Berne, Switzerland)liveJethro Tull13:25
1978-05-28Thick as a Brick (5.1 mix) (live, 1978-05-28: Berne Festhalle, Berne, Switzerland)liveJethro Tull13:25
1978-10-09Thick as a Brick (live, 1978-10-09: Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY, USA)live and partialJethro Tull11:50
1984Thick as a BrickinstrumentalLondon Symphony Orchestra, David Palmer4:30
1987-10-29Thick as a Bricklive and partialJethro Tull6:39
1987-11-25Thick as a Brick (live, 1987-11-25: Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA, USA)live and partialJethro Tull6:35
1987Locomotive Breathlive and partialJethro Tull6:23
1987Thick as a BrickliveJethro Tull6:26
1989-09-27Thick as a BrickliveJethro Tull4:12
1992-05-05Thick as a Bricklive and partialJethro Tull9:29
1999-10-19Thick as a Bricklive and partialIan Anderson2:37
Aqualung / Living in the Past/Thick as Brick / The Whistlercover, instrumental and medleySilverwood Quartet5:08
Childhood Heroes (reprise)partialJethro Tull3:01
Legends and Believe in the DaypartialJethro Tull6:35
Really Don’t Mind / See There a Son Is BornpartialJethro Tull5:00
See There a Man Is Born / Clear White CirclespartialJethro Tull5:59
Tales of Your LifepartialJethro Tull5:24
The Poet and the PainterpartialJethro Tull5:30
Thick as a BrickliveJethro Tull6:27
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull3:02
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull?:??
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull3:53
Thick as a BrickliveJethro Tull6:22
Thick as a BrickliveJethro Tull7:04
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull12:27
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull13:51
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull3:02
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Thick as a Brick (live, 1978-10-09: Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY, USA)liveJethro Tull11:50
Thick as a Bricklive and partialIan Anderson13:51
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull4:07
Thick as a BrickliveJethro Tull11:24
Thick as a Brick (live, 1980-03-16: Nederlands Congresgebouw, Den Haag, Netherlands)liveJethro Tull7:29
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull3:01
Thick as a BrickliveJethro Tull7:48
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull12:31
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull9:01
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull8:05
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull14:19
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull7:01
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Thick as a BrickliveJethro Tull12:53
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Thick as a BrickJethro Tull10:22
Thick as a Brick (live, LA Forum)Jethro Tull?:??
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull22:45
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull9:39
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull12:45
Thick as a BrickliveJethro Tull9:37
Thick as a BrickliveJethro Tull6:27
Thick as a Brick (live: Iceland)liveIan Anderson51:48
Thick as a BrickJethro Tull3:03
Thick as a BrickliveJethro Tull6:57
Thick as a Brick (continued)live and partialIan Anderson17:39
Thick as a Brick (continued)live and partialIan Anderson20:18
Thick as a Brick (edit #1)partialJethro Tull3:01
Thick as a Brick (edit #4)partialJethro Tull3:23
Thick as a Brick (edit #4)partialJethro Tull3:27
Thick as a Brick (extract)partialJethro Tull3:02
Thick as a Brick (reprise)live and partialJethro Tull1:05
Thick as a Brick, Part 1 (2012 mix)partialJethro Tull22:44
Thick as a Brick, Part 1 (5.1 mix)partialJethro Tull22:42
Thick as a Brick, Part 2 (2012 mix)partialJethro Tull21:00
Thick as a Brick, Part 2 (5.1 mix)partialJethro Tull20:58
What Do You Do When the Old Man’s Gone? / From the Upper ClasspartialJethro Tull5:25
You Curl Your Toes in Fun / Childhood Heroes / Stabs (instrumental)partialJethro Tull6:49