“Bungle In The Jungle” by Jethro Tull

"Bungle in the Jungle" is Ian Anderson turning the human race into a nature documentary, and it sits on Jethro Tull's 1974 album War Child. It started as a leftover: after the success of Thick as a Brick in 1972, the band holed up in Paris on the so-called "Chateau D'Isaster Tapes", a project meant to size up people by way of the animal kingdom. That album never came out, its songs got scattered across A Passion Play and War Child, and this one kept the concept's comparisons between beasts and humans, the tune Anderson called the catchiest of the lot.

Anderson wrote it, sang it and produced it, with Barriemore Barlow on drums and percussion, Jeffrey Hammond Hammond on bass and John Evan piling on Hammond organ, piano, accordion and synthesizer. Pulled as a single, it went top 20 in the US and top 5 in Canada, though Anderson always thought it a bit too commercial.

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