How come this music and album never mentioned by critics as a classic for me it's as good if not better than sgt peppers which sounded like a village brass band playing it ....this is violent and haunting
of the two instrumentals on this album, the Rock is probably my favorite because it has a more consistent key structure and combines the themes in a more intimate way (hearing them all at the same time), this one definitely works well as a quasi-overture though
TOMMY and QUADROPHENIA on one side of the fence, THE WALL and DARK SIDE OF THE MOON on the other. Why don't we just agree that these are two of the world's greatest bands, and have done with it? There's room for all...
a poor boy,closed in his room,no money,no girls,only some cigarettes and many,many hunger,the life is outside,but he can't go out from his room,from his mind,and he lie in his bed,this music in his ears and he cries...this is quadrophenia
i was lucky and saw the Who live when I was in the Army. It was in Nurnberg, Germany at the stadium were Adolph Hitler held all his mass rallies back In WW2. Opening acts were; AC/DC, Molly Hachett, Cheap Trick, StatusQuo. and I think Atlantic Rhythm Section. 1979!!! A lifetime of memories
as a kid listening to this i so desperately wanted to be English, but i was a suburban Canadian and that was tough to accept because nothing cool ever emerged from my latitude. after awhile i realized the universal theme of Quadrophenia and Jimmy, my age, my awkwardness, my country and growing up wasn't so bad with this album on loop in my head.
Wow. I'm speechless. I'm just now rediscovering this after playing it to death 40 years ago. It is just as pungent and has just as much expressive intensity as it did back then. Townsend was a visionary with towering ambition.