Jethro Tull- Fat Man

[mark1092]

Boogie Nights :)

[beowulf916]

"roll us both down a mountain and I'm sure the fat man would win." cracked up when i heard that part.

[PolskaProdigy]

@beowulf916 Same here! ...... Lol he just said now too while I was typing!

[PolskaProdigy]

This song = awesome meaning, happiness to the ears and a great time!!!!

[TheWOParmy]

the balalaika is so sick in this song

[RoCkStarMentAliTy171]

i met him in hershey and partied with him. super and beyond yrs even as i am his age

[PolskaProdigy]

@ Jethro Tull I agree with you.

[jamirosmajicrocks]

im the fat man, scibidoobiedab die boob boob.

[willicat441]

Anyone remember the eight tracks changing in the middle of the tablas fill? Extremely crappy sound production too!

You guys don't know how much better you got it nowadays.

[vampyros1]

I love the lyric to this song; it's so straight forward, and no, I don't think it's a metaphor either. And that's what's so charming about it. It's simple. He doesn't want to be fat, and what's wrong with that?  Sing about it, and make it modal with some balalaika while you're at it. What a refreshing deviation given all the 'message' songs of the era. Perfect.

[Rawbie100]

only my belly is fat

[centralparocker]

Nope, I don't want to be one....sorry....

[mrrockmonkey123]

im fat man and i aprove this massage!

[twiggypeerzingz]

@mrrockmonkey123 You got a massage???? I want one!! >:/ no fair

[Chadzxx1]

Beautiful, killer music...Very Bad lyrics unfortunately...Did he run out of ideas for a good song? He may as well be singing about socks...Oh how I love uove love u ove os so socks aw ocks...I want to keep a hee appep a wearing one...They go so swell with shoes a hwosa shoes..."BIt of flute here"...

[Djang0ilBastardo]

@Chadzxx1 I disagree. I don't think that the lyrics mean that he literally doesn't want to be fat. I think that song is actually about not being greedy in wealth or material goods, at least that's what I got from it. Listen to it again with that idea in mind.

[trekkinlikeitshot]

This needs to be the theme song to Biggest Loser.

[fyfytj]

@trekkinlikeitshot- Does it?

[fohkukohgeki]

2 people are fat! 

[19RaS93]

I'm fucking fat, and they are fucking right.

[jmugm]

@19RaS93 Go on a diet.

[19RaS93]

@jmugm Diet is much more worse than being fat. :)

[lumpagogo]

@19RaS93

My am "The Fat Man"----biggie phatttt-biggie: 5'6" 188--40" W. Ouch--it an ouch-meee!

lump aka Large-Fat Lattington

[unclearthur68]

Brilliant song- best heard on the compilation album 'MU' cos it's got 'Living in the past' on it too!

[thedarkinthematinee]

46 963 views,what a shame :(

[GibbedHGR]

Rahad Jackson, Boogie Nights

[FRANKyyyyy100]

I love this piece! It should be longer! I am starving...;)

[anthropod4]

When will I be able to buy my 3rd record collection with all my oldies albums that I grew up with? Are the music execs stupid or do they just want us to go without?

[TheFrickinPope]

I love the Indian sound to it. One of my favorites off this album.

[showusyertube]

Hate to admit it to myself but this is so apt for me ; )

[anitaforgeth]

old times.......good times!!!!!

[TheRaymond629]

I hear a sitar influence in this song with bongos and drums. It's a sweet mix of fun and frolic. It may have the Celtic's music in mind but more like Indian to me.

[MustafaCemal]

Fuck! They actually ROCK!

[beowulf916]

anyone who dislikes this song is obviously fat

[jwmellott]

Who's the one guy who doesn't like this song and why doesn't he like it?

Oh, wait, let me guess.

It's hard to imagine that the former President of the Evansville City Council and current Head of Security for the local Catholic Schools would have time to watch youtube.

[guinness02122]

Great tune obviously. But Ian was never fat, young or old (that I can rmember).

[007Pogo]

Im fat and i love this song.

[negrabrocos]

@007Pogo what a sweet comment!!!!!!!!!:D



[007Pogo]

@negrabrocos ty =3

[jeevesthepunk]

ok, kind of new to tull, so apologies if this sounds uneducated on the subject, but i thought this song was from aqualung, as it was on it when i bought it. Explanations anyone?

[crescentfreshbret]

@jeevesthepunk The version on Aqualung is a bonus track from a live radio performance.

[fengbaoshen]

Haha, definitely the best revenge good Ian could get on Abrahams. 

[TumbrelJockey]

Wasn't this scrapped at the last minute as the backing track for a Southwest Airlines ad campaign ?

[nickeax]

@TumbrelJockey GOLD!

[TumbrelJockey]

@nickeax Wow I had to travel 14 timezones to find intelligent life nickeax -glad it brought a laugh .Cheers TJ

[Cocarat206]

I am so glad to go on being one O_o

[DrWeirdPro]

What was cool about the Stand Up album was that when you opened it up, there was a cut out of the four members with the same illustrated bodies with their real faces on top.....which stood up at you.

Album art was one of the special things about vinyl.

[wannabeKeithMoon]

is that a mandolin or somthing?

[jeevesthepunk]

@wannabeKeithMoon yep, im beginning to think theres no instrument Ian Anderson cannot play

[wannabeKeithMoon]

@jeevesthepunk

what do you mean?

[jeevesthepunk]

@wannabeKeithMoon it is a mandolin, played by Ian Anderson. That brings the instruments I know he can play to guitar, flute, mandolin and vocals. Whats more, he plays them all well

[ChayDawg64]

this should have been on the nutty professor soundtrack... or shallow hal...

:)

[tjrxk7]

"Won't waste my time feeling sorry for him.....I've seen the other side of being thin.....Well let's roll down the mountain and I'm sure the fat man'd win!!!".....LMFAO

[pedrospike123]

is hard to be fat.....

[ty3165]

i have smoked the finest moroccan hashish in the world,sampled the finest weeds all over the world, but if there is one track to get stoned to it is this. and a fine album which is sadly overlooked

[tjrxk7]

@ty3165 It is indeed. Tulls' second and I believe the beginning of them really taking off after This Was.

[wyzrd777]

This would be a good song for the gym... lol

[pedrospike123]

can somebody tell me what the fuck this song is about?!..... anyway, it is a amanzing song, love the tull....

[AlwaysAbiggerFish]

@pedrospike123

I think the lyrics are best taken literally for this song; picture a tradional/culture sort of song about no wanting being a fat man.

[MrSamMagus]

@pedrospike123 When I saw tull bout a year ago, Ian explained this song was about a former band member who was indeed, well, fat. lol He then told us that he was a "former" member because of this song :P

[pedrospike123]

@MrSamMagus cool, thanks....

[dannyrose55]

don't want to be a fatman.

people would just think

iam good fun

[Ariosvaldo670]

strong to start to the the world!!...

[juliagabriel90]

love!

[iVenge]

i met them back in 1978

[jenzeppelin]

lucky!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) what were they like? down to earth or snobby? well, you know, people can go either way with fans... depends on their mood that day, i guess.

[GTX1123]

Whenever I hear this song I picture wild looking Celts and Picts running around Britain 2,000 yrs ago with lime/spiked hair, beating on ancient looking drums and stringed instruments

[pedrospike123]

@GTX1123 I listen this song while playnd Age of Empires..... you can't get any closer than this.....

[neohip]

@GTX1123

That is a very entertaining description!.

Not one that I now share.

When I first heard this, it reminded me of the late 18th Cent. because of the indian influence, and the "narrator was a man who saw people less fortunate than himself and sided with them. Rather than become a portly gentleman.,he prefers to "go native" and stay slim.

If you want to hear what Celtic music sounded like,you won't find it here.

They were big on Brass,apparently.

Try Herb Alpert.

[add2718]

@GTX1123 Whenever *I* hear this song, I think of Dirk Diggler running away from the drug deal gone bad in Boogie Nights.

[jazzmonkeycarpet]

I saw it live

[CoTT]

The lyrics. Quite true.

[UnholyConfessions10]

the cover to this album is so cool.