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Cousin Skeeter is an American sitcom, that originally aired on Nickelodeon from 1998 to 2002. It starred Robert Ri'chard as Bobby, a young boy whose life is changed when his strange cousin, Skeeter, comes to stay with his family. With Skeeter's help, Bobby learns life lessons and tackles the ups and downs of growing up.
"Locomotive Breath" was released on Jethro Tull's 1971 album Aqualung in 1971. An edit of the song was released in the US as a single in 1971, backed with "Wind-Up", though it did not chart. A 1976 single release of the song, backed with "Fat Man", was more successful, reaching number 59 on the Billboard charts [8] and number 85 in Canada. [9]
The song was written by the band's frontman, Ian Anderson, and his then-wife Jennie Franks. While this track was never a single, its self-titled album Aqualung was Jethro Tull's first American Top 10 album, reaching number seven in June 1971. [4] After "Locomotive Breath", it is the song most often played in concert by Jethro Tull. [5]
M.U. – The Best of Jethro Tull, released in 1976, is the first proper greatest hits album by Jethro Tull.It spans the years 1969 to 1975. The earlier Living in the Past (1972) compilation mainly dealt with non-album material, but this album only features one previously unreleased song, "Rainbow Blues".
Songwriter Ian Anderson described the song as "a blues for Jesus, about the gory, glory seekers who use his name as an excuse for a lot of unsavoury things. You know, 'Hey Dad, it's not my fault — the missionaries lied.'" [3] Sean Murphy of PopMatters wrote that, "For “Hymn 43” Anderson sets his sights on the US and in quick order sets about decimating the hypocrisy and myth-making of ...
In order to impress Nicole, Skeeter sneaks the kids into a space shuttle which has the four crash-land on the planet, Tunica. But the four find out that the Tunican plot is to take over Earth by replacing every teenager with a Tunican clone. Skeeter's personality gets the kids out of jail and into battle with the evil Tunicans.
Louder magazine praised the song for "providing the light relief" on the album, amongst songs like "Locomotive Breath" and the title track. [8] Anderson made a similar point in an interview, noting the combination of the "amusing surreal moments" of acoustic songs like "Mother Goose" and "Up to Me" balanced with the album's more "dramatic ...
A remix of the song was used as the theme song of American children's sitcom Cousin Skeeter. Although the term "steelo" had already been used by hip hop duo Mobb Deep in their song " Hit It from the Back " (1993), [ 3 ] the popularity of "Steelo" caused the slang word to become widespread, being added to various online dictionaries under the ...