Jethro Tull – Aqualung

I can't find mine... Blue and white label, made in USA (sunset blvd, Los Angeles) run out A : T1 CRH-1044 31194-8 run out B T1 CRH-1044 31193-5. If anyone has any clue, I would greatly appreciate :)

This album CHR 1044 spine 0598 Chrysalis Records printed in USA - date 1971
I don't know enough to be able to tell if it is a reissue. In amazingly good condition.

Has anyone ever seen a copy of Aqualung CHR1004 with Plain Text titles on label, writing on edge of label, matrix ILPS 9145??

I think the best Tull albums are Stand Up and Benefit. This Was I felt was poorly produced and it has some standard blues on it. It's not horrible but better things were to come. With Aqualung I noticed that mainstream arena rock commercialism was setting in. It's not a bad album but I felt that their cutting edge days were behind them and that trend continued with Thick as a Brick

Funny there is not listed here the very very first uk pressing, just a couple were pressed!, with island palm tree label. Not that green charisma label.
Cheers.
https://www.popsike.com/JETHRO-TULL-Aqualung-MEGARARE-71-UK-PINK-RIM-ISLAND-LP/110449844049.html

Can someone help me identify my version? Can't find a match for the life of me:
- Chrysalis, Blue/White label
- Gatefold
- Runout, A-side: Ƨ CHR-1044 31193-7 /G sx E
- Runout, B-side: T1 CHR-1044-31194-3 D

Thanks in advance

I cant find this version of Aqualung on Discogs, which says on the labels:
CHR 1044-E "Manufactured in the UK for export only"
Anyone have a hint?

Actually, the lyric is "the ice that clings onto his beard".

This album contains the biggest rock bloopers ever from a band that generally made sense and generally made brilliant music. This album is a strange effort-bearing a title that has no apparent relevance to the subject matter depicted on the album cover-a wandering hobo. The aqualung is a device that enables people to breathe underwater-invented around 1943 by Jacques Cousteau-and later named "the aqualung"-a name that is some kind of acronym for wealth in some circles-which is like saying this is the album that will enable us to go scuba diving forever kind of thing-an album whose title track contains several strings of nonsense lyrics-("they iced the clings onto his beard with screaming agony"-???? & "frilly panties running around in the sun"-again-????-) what total crappolla-and generally what you see when a songs lyric is not finished-released as a finished piece of 'art rock' and hailed as musical genius by progressive rock fans around the world. I think its a weirdly cheap effort from J Tull-a band that has proved itself capable of taking things to a whole new level rock wise more times than not. This album-stupid title aside isn't really a great Tull album despite the now "immortal" guitar solo on its bizarrely named title track. Its a half finished effort through and through-with songs that are little more than an ode to dark and sinister children's nursery rhymes from bygone times in England's dark & dirty industrial revolution days circa the late 19th century. England still has a very dark side to it and this album dwells too much in that unique form of oblivion that still can be found here and there in contemporary England. I don't buy that the title is a reference to TB. Thats like calling sloppy work brilliance when its not. About seven months after this album was released in 1971 Led Zeppelin released their seminal fourth album-with a cover also depicting a hobo-this time in a photograph. Oddly the J Tull cover was based on a photo taken by Ian Anderson's wife. I think that there was a puzzlement about that J Tull album and Led Zeppelin used the cover on their fourth album as if to say-????.

Does anybody know if the record was released in the original form (11 songs)on CD in Australia - CDP number?