Tommy, Who's Next and now This!!!!!!!!!.Wow! that sums up this album. This is The Who at their best! This album is what you call a Rock Opera, A Rock Opera is a album that is a story, all the songs make up a story. Its sort of like movie except that it is music. It comes with a 40 page book that helps descibe whats going on in the album. You will love the songs in here including "Love Reign O'er M... read more
Description:Tommy, The Who's hugely successful rock-opera started it all. Quadrophenia was the 1973 follow-up, a disillusioned flashback to the early 60s, when mods engaged in pitched battles with rockers on the Brighton seafront. Pre-dating Trainspotting by two decades in its portrait youthful nihilism, drugs, violence and rock 'n' roll, Songs fTommy, The Who's hugely successful rock-opera started it all. Quadrophenia was the 1973 follow-up, a disillusioned flashback to the early 60s, when mods engaged in pitched battles with rockers on the Brighton seafront. Pre-dating Trainspotting by two decades in its portrait youthful nihilism, drugs, violence and rock 'n' roll, Songs from Quadrophenia is the soundtrack to the 1978 film based on the original album. The film dropped several numbers, with The Who providing new songs "Get Out And Stay Out", "Four Faces" and "Joker James" (as well as producing re-recorded versions many of the original tunes) to fit the adapted storyline. The vinyl version of the soundtrack included several Motown classics missing from the CD, though this release does include two scene-setters by The High Numbers, before launching into 13 tracks by The Who. There are some rock classics here, with "Love Reign O'er Me" being particularly memorable, though given that the new songs are not up to the standard of those on the original Quadrophenia, that must really be the album to get first. Serious Who collectors will want both, and Songs from Quadrophenia has the bonus of serving as a souvenir of one of the most powerful British films ever made. --Gary S. Dalkin... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Polydor Release date : 17 April 2000 Number of discs : 2 EAN: 4988005237538 UPC: 4988005237538
"Most people would go with "Tommy," and yeah, Tommy's good and the story is a little more evident, but it really falls apart after "Sally Simpson." Quadrophenia stays strong the whole way through. It's about Jimmy. At the start, Jimmy has some mental problems and they don't get better from there. He becomes disillusioned with the bands he loves, he becomes disillusioned with his Mod lifestyle, he's sexually frustrated, he gets heavy with drugs and he's having breakdown after breakdown. It's a sto"
“Tommy, Who's Next and now This!!!!!!!!!.Wow! that sums up this album. This is The Who at their best! This album is what you call a Rock Opera, A Rock Opera is a album that is a story, all the songs make up a story. Its sort of like movie except that it is music. It comes with a 40 page book that helps descibe whats going on in the album. You will love the songs in here including "Love Reign O'er Me" "Bell Boy' and "The Real Me". So get this album, you will enjoy it.” read more
"Released - 1973
Track listing:
01. I Am the Sea
02. The Real Me
03. Quadrophenia
04. Cut My Hair
05. The Punk and the Godfather
06. I'm One
07. The Dirty Jobs
08. Helpless Dancer
09. Is It in My Head?
10. I've Had Enough
11. 5.15
12. Sea and Sand
13. Drowned
14. Bell Boy
15. Doctor Jimmy
16. The Rock
17. Love, Reign o'er Me"
""The album that brought back Vespascooters, parkas and uppers: Pete Townshend drew on the Who's roots in the London mod scene of the early Sixties and composed this expansive, messy rock opera about a lonely teenage boy looking for love in the city. It gets even better when you check out the movie.""
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