Editing Aqualung (album) (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="AllMusic Review" >{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/aqualung-mw0000024632 |title=Jethro Tull - Aqualung review |last=Eder |first=Bruce |work=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[All Media Network]] |access-date=10 April 2016 }}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
|rev2Score = C+{{sfn|Christgau|1981|p=1981}}
| rev4 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref>
|rev5 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock]]''
|rev5score = 4/5<ref name="super">{{cite web |url=http://www.superseventies.com/jethrotull.html |title=Aqualung - Jethro Tull |publisher=Superseventies.com |access-date=10 April 2016 }}</ref> 
|rev6 = [[PopMatters]]
|rev6score = 10/10<ref name="Popmatters">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/151720-jethro-tull-aqualung-40th-anniversary-special-edition/ |title=Jethro Tull: Aqualing (40th Anniversary Special Edition) |first=Sean |last=Murphy |magazine=[[PopMatters]] |date=9 December 2011 |access-date=12 July 2012}}</ref>
|rev7 = ''[[Record Collector]]''
|rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="collector">{{cite magazine |url=http://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/aqualung-40thanniversary-collectorsedition |title=Jethro Tull - Aqualung: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition |last=Rathbone |first=Oregano |magazine=[[Record Collector]] |date=December 2011 |access-date=10 April 2016 }}</ref>
|rev8 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev8score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |page=430 |edition=4th rev. |ol=21112308M}}</ref>
|rev9 = ''[[Zagat|Zagat Survey Music Guide - 1,000 Top Albums of All Time]]''
|rev9score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="super" />
| rev3 = The Daily Vault
| rev3Score = A<ref name=vault>{{cite web |url= http://dailyvault.com/toc.php5?review=2523 |title=The Daily Vault Music Reviews : Aqualung |first=Riley |last=McDonald |work=dailyvault.com |year=2019 |access-date=29 January 2019}}</ref>
}}

''Aqualung'' received mixed to favourable reviews from contemporary music critics. ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's Ben Gerson lauded its "fine musicianship", calling it "serious and intelligent", although he felt that the album's seriousness "undermined" its quality.<ref name="Rolling Stone Review">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/aqualung-19710722 |title=Jethro Tull - Aqualung review |magazine=Rolling Stone |author=Ben Gerson |date=22 July 1971 |access-date=6 April 2011}}</ref> [[Sounds (magazine)|''Sounds'']] said that its "taste and variety" made it the band's "finest" work.<ref name="Sounds Review">{{cite web |url=http://www.tullpress.com/s10apr71.htm |title=Jethro Tull Press: Sounds, 10 April 1971 |date=10 April 1971 |publisher=[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]] |access-date=6 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514193114/http://www.tullpress.com/s10apr71.htm |archive-date=14 May 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Aqualung'' was voted the 22nd best album of 1971 in ''[[The Village Voice]]''{{'}}s annual [[Pazz & Jop]] critics' poll.<ref name="pazz">{{cite news|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres71.php|title=The 1971 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll|date=10 February 1972|access-date=5 July 2013}}</ref> [[Robert Christgau]], the poll's creator, was more critical of the album in a 1981 review, and described Anderson's undeveloped cultural interests and negative views on religion and human behaviour as both boring and pretentious.{{sfn|Christgau|1981|p=1981}}

In retrospective reviews the album is generally lauded and viewed as a classic.<ref name="super"/><ref name="collector"/> [[AllMusic]]'s Bruce Eder called ''Aqualung'' "a bold statement" and "extremely profound".<ref name="AllMusic Review" /> In a review of the album's 40th anniversary re-release, Sean Murphy of [[PopMatters]] said that ''Aqualung'' "is, to be certain, a cornerstone of the then-nascent prog-rock canon, but it did—and does—exist wholly on its own terms as a great rock album, period." Murphy also praised the additional material featured on the release, finding that the new content was "where a great album gets even better".<ref name="Popmatters" /> Paul Stump's ''History of Progressive Rock'' was more measured in its praise, saying that ''Aqualung'' made little advancement over the group's previous album, ''[[Benefit (album)|Benefit]]''. He identified the improvements as the deeper, wider arrangements, and the diversions of the melody from the bassline accompaniments. He found the side two song cycle rambling but added that "if the lyrics were now tending towards the provocatively obscure, they were none the less possessed of some style, not least in their Blakean allusions".{{sfn|Stump|1997|p=166}} [[Steve Harris (musician)|Steve Harris]], the bass player for the heavy metal band [[Iron Maiden]], has called ''Aqualung'' "a classic album", lauding its "fantastic playing, fantastic songs, attitude [and] vibe". Iron Maiden would go on to cover "[[Cross-Eyed Mary]]" as the [[B-side]] of their 1983 single "[[The Trooper]]".<ref name="Classic Rock Presents Prog"/>

===Accolades===
''Aqualung'' has also been appraised highly in retrospective listings, compiled by music writers and magazines. Martin Barre's solo on the album's title track was included in [[Guitarist (magazine)|''Guitarist'']] magazine's list of "The 20 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time" at number 20.<ref name="Solo">{{cite web |url=http://www.musicradar.com/guitarist/the-20-greatest-guitar-solos-of-all-time-403987 |title=The 20 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time |work=[[Guitarist (magazine)|Guitarist]] |date=22 March 2011 |access-date=18 April 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110429083439/http://www.musicradar.com/guitarist/the-20-greatest-guitar-solos-of-all-time-403987| archive-date= 29 April 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>

{|class="wikitable" border="1"
|-
! Publication
! Country
! Accolade
! Year
! Rank
|-
| ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| US
| The 1971 [[Pazz & Jop]] Critics Poll<ref name="pazz" />
| 1972
|align="center"|22
|-
| ''[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]''
| UK
| The 100 Greatest Rock Albums of All Time{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
| 2001
|align="center"|30
|-
| ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| US
| [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/jethro-tull-aqualung-37848/| year=2012| title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time| publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]| access-date= September 9, 2019}}</ref>
| 2012
|align="center"|337
|-
| ''The 100 Best-Selling Albums of the 70s''
| UK
| <ref>{{cite book |last1=Champ |first1=Hamish |title=The 100 Best-Selling Albums of the 70s |publisher=Amber Books |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-904687-11-5 }}<!--|access-date=9 April 2016 --></ref>
| 2004
|align="center"|90
|-
| ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| UK
| 40 Cosmic Rock Albums<ref name="Q">{{cite journal |date=July 2005 |title=Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog |journal=Q & Mojo |volume=1}}</ref><ref name="Q list">{{cite web |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/q_mojo_se.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060507010757/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/q_mojo_se.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=7 May 2006 |title=Rocklist.net&nbsp;... Q & Mojo Magazine Special Editions Vol. 1 |publisher=Rocklist.net |access-date=8 April 2011}}</ref>
| 2005
|align="center"| 7
|-
| ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]''
| US
| <ref>{{cite book | last1 = AA.VV. | title = [[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]] |editor= Robert Dimery | publisher = Universe Publishing | date = 7 February 2006 | isbn = 978-1-84403-392-8}}<!--| access-date = 22 May 2013 --></ref>
| 2005
|align="center"| No order
|-
| ''[[Guitarist (magazine)|Guitarist]]''
| UK
| The 20 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time<ref name="Solo" />
| 2011
|align="center"|20
|-
| ''[[Prog (magazine)|Prog]]''
| UK
| The 100 Greatest Prog Albums of All Time<ref>{{cite web |url=http://teamrock.com/feature/2014-08-06/the-100-greatest-prog-albums-of-all-time-60-41 |title=The 100 Greatest Prog Albums Of All Time: 60-41 |last1=Kilroy |first1=Hannah May |last2=Ewing |first2=Jerry |date=6 August 2014 |access-date=9 April 2016 }}</ref>
| 2014
|align="center"|43
|-
|}