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syphibliss
Both Tommy and Quadrophenia are great and flawless albums, I think I prefer Tommy tho. And also Tommy movie is much better than Quadrophenia movie imo
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HuppumiesIsPest
I don't like this much. Quadrophenia is better by leaps and bounds. Fiddle About is pretty creepy though.
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red-corner
Track 15 is "Go to the Mirror!", not "Smash the Mirror". Can you please correct? https://www.last.fm/it/music/The+Who/_/Go+to+the+Mirror!
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nfopuhfxir
a wonderful, entirely peculiar, absolutely amazing piece of art. I agree with keith moon though, it's a very un-who like album.
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MyMediaMusic
Awesome album. I don't know if it's better than Who's Next, but I do think it's better than Quadrophenia. Love how Townshend continued to build on the progressive rock leanings he started on The Who Sell Out. Really, this is a landmark album in the development of progressive rock.
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Chumsicles
You are all a bunch of pretentious hipsters. This is an order of magnitude better than Quadrophenia and the best Who album of them all
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MisterJunior
Hipsters love Quadrophenia? It seems more hipster-ish to reject The Who wholesale in favor of The Jam or to praise Face Dances or A Quick One as their best album or something like that, not state a mild preference for one super popular and acclaimed album that was turned into a movie over another super popular and acclaimed album that was turned into a movie and stage production.
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nfopuhfxir
lmao, Pete Townshend himself said he thought Quadrophenia is the best who album. Is he a pretentious hipster too?(well, yeah, but still)
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Chumsicles
He released some terrible Pete Townshend solo albums in the 80s and 90s so I wouldn't give his opinion on the best Who album that much weight, Anyways, this is like a 3 year old shout. Don't you have anything better to do?
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Bruce_92
Um dos grandes álbuns da história do Rock n Roll! Um dos 2, ou 3 álbuns q mudou completamente minha vida, oq esse álbum significa pra mim é algo totalmente espiritual, tornou-se essa grandiosidade eloquente em minha vida ao longo dos anos q o escuto, n sei se eu o acompanho, se ele me acompanha ou se ja somos somente 1, hahahaha'. Amadureci escutando-o, e tenho crtz q irei mais ainda tendo-o como trilha sonora, uma obra prima inestimável! Incrível como os anos 60 era farto de experiências e criações incriveis no Rock n Roll, tendo o ápice do gênero explodindo em meiado de 70, The Who, fantásticos!
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pteronophobic
Not to take anything away from the other band members, but I think Daltrey is the real star of this album (apart from Townshend's songwriting, of course.) His voice really matured and he really distinguished himself as one of rock's greatest singers with this album.
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MisterJunior
There are certain albums that transcend the "everyone has an opinion and opinion can be neither correct nor incorrect" platitude. Generally speaking I feel pretty strongly that "to each his own," but as I said, in certain cases one can simply be objectively wrong for disliking an album (or movie, book . etc.). This is one of those albums. If you don't like Tommy, you're wrong. Simple as that.
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MisterJunior
It's a cultural milestone/landmark -- the first "Rock Opera," with some of the most iconic riffs, lyrics, songs, individual passages in songs, etc, and it was one of the first Rock albums I listened to in full as a child and actually taught me about the transformative power of (Rock) music. Of course I was being a bit hyperbolic, but only a bit.
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MisterJunior
@CousinEarl You were listening to something great. Why'd you turn it off to look for something that's merely "good?"
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gokunirvana
Well, those were two walls of text... TL;DR: This album is awesome, but not better than Quadrophenia.
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gokunirvana
And the story is not that bad for a first try. What I really like is the coherence and consistency between the songs. As a clue, the plot is not about a literal "deaf, dumb and blind" kid, but it has many parallelisms with the life of Meher Baba, Pete's spiritual idol. Finally, of course Quadrophenia is better. That means the Who did evolve their sound. In fact, I think it's the pinnacle in their career, and my favorite album ever, but it would not have happened without Tommy.
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gokunirvana
@Abomination317: The Who started as a "power pop" band, and with Who Sell Out and Tommy they just started to develop their "classic" sound that you were expecting. As you can hear, as well, Roger was still looking for a suiting voice for the band. The arrangements alone of those simple songs is enough to see they were "really trying". Also, Tommy has a way better balance between story and music than what Waters did with The Wall. Don't get me wrong, I like that album, but there are many songs that could have easily worked as spoken word tracks. Don't Leave Me Now and Outside the Wall , for example.
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Abomination317
The worst song on The Wall is better than the best song on Tommy. And The Wall is still not a reat album.
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Abomination317
Frankly, the story is the least of its problems. It's easily ignored. Although it's a case of concentrating on the story and forgetting that there's supposed to be music as well. Because it does feel like they didn't really try.
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MisterJunior
Wow, shocked to see some hate for this album. I think it's rightly revered as a classic and it's one of the Who's very best. Yeah, the story kind of sucks, but the songs are awesome!
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Abomination317
So while I wasn't expecting Quadrophenia, this was very disappointing and honestly a poor album. The story is totally ridiculous, the singing quite tame and most of the music forgettable (I still have no idea what Pinball Wizard actually sounds like despite having heard it so much)
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GreenhouseFect
I remember hearing songs from this when I was four years old and I remember stopping suddenly as a child and frozen upon hearing songs from this ,... I remember all these jingles since then ,.. Some have tried to say this album isn't good and even that it isn't 'memorable' what-ever that means,..but I know for a fact that's B.s. and I'm living proof,.. and this album was so twisted and subconsciously a dream that penetrates your thoughts and dreams,.. that I would say it screwed up the American Family over time,.. at a time in the 60's when America was already fucked up,..
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JustUponASmile3
Che ne pensate di questa recensione di "Tommy"? Ci farebbe piacere avere il vostro parere: https://salteditions.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/the-amazing-journey/
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cooler-king
I never really got this album. It's ambitious but way too long and the songs just aren't that great. Especially when compared to that other rock opera from the Who...
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WhenProgWasKing
Still amazing after all these years. The Who really honed their craft in live performances. As a result, the band was able to record a proto-operatic album without the need for an orchestra or any outside musicians.
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