Quadrophenia | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Who
Label: Mca
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  287 reviews
Sales Rank: 427
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 1
MPN: 11463
UPC: 008811146320
EAN: 0008811146320
ASIN: B000002P1P
Release Date: July 2, 1996
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Disc 1
| • | I Am The Sea | | • | The Real Me | | • | Quadrophenia | | • | Cut My Hair | | • | The Punk And The Godfather | | • | I'm One | | • | The Dirty Jobs | | • | Helpless Dancer | | • | Is It In My Head? | | • | I've Had Enough |
Disc 2
| • | 5:15 | | • | Sea And Sand | | • | Drowned | | • | Bell Boy | | • | Doctor Jimmy | | • | The Rock | | • | Love, Reign O'er Me |
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Amazon.com essential recording
An excellent and frequently astonishing album, Quadrophenia is both more ambitious and less accessible than Tommy, the first and most well known rock opera. At its simplest level, Quadrophenia is a coming-of-age story with an awesome soundtrack. The album features some of the Who's finest material, in songs like the enraged "Real Me," the cynical "Punk Meets the Godfather," the wistful "5:15" and "Sea and Sand," and the powerful "Love, Reign O'er Me." The songwriting (courtesy of Pete Townshend) is top-notch, as is the production (the Who actually managed to use synthesizers in an original manner, something few rock bands can aspire to). The mix of powerful songwriting and skillful composition makes this one of the Who's finest moments. --Genevieve Williams
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 A BRILLIANT PRODUCTION ! (introspective and deeply personal, Quadrophenia is a rock opera that rocks) August 3, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Who's Quadrophenia (1973) is a double album rock opera that covers a Monday through Friday week in the life of Jimmy, a young man afflicted with a multi-personality disorder that includes four personalities.
A tough guy, a helpless dancer.
A romantic, is it me for a moment?
A bloody lunatic, I'll even carry your bags.
A beggar, a hypocrite, love reign over me.
Schizophrenic? I'm bleeding Quadrophrenic.
Each of the four personalities supposedly reflects the personality of a member of The Who. As with all concept albums, the story is somewhat open to interpretation, and in this case that's a good thing. A lot of these songs are so personally affecting that applying the lyrics strictly to the concept might be distracting, and mitigate any personal identification with the songs. The best of this music can be very meaningful even without applying it to the Quadrophenia story.
The production of Quadrophenia is powerful and extraordinarily well developed. Orchestrated and vocal sequences of the main songs play throughout and connect the songs with the story, and several sound effects, including those of the sea and the rain, add an imaginitive visual. The booklet included with the 2-disc set features an essay by Pete Townsend that helps to explain the Quadrophenia story, some relevant black and white photographs, and the lyrics to the songs.
The songs on the album include some of the best The Who have ever done. It just doesn't get any better than The Real Me, 5:15, Doctor Jimmy, and Love Reign O'er Me. These songs rock like nothing the band had ever done, or would ever do again. The Who at the very peak of their powers. Nearly everything else on the album is satisfying, too, although not nearly as epic as the songs mentioned. Quadrophenia is one of The Who's best albums, and an essential and powerful piece of rock n' roll history. The album is an emotional experience, and quite a revelation when listened to in it's entirety. It can be very moving, and even sacred, if you let it take you into it's world. It ends with the spiritual healing of Jimmy while he stands screaming on The Rock in a raging rainstorm.
Only love can bring the rain
That makes you yearn to the sky
Only love can bring the rain
That falls like tears from on high
Love, reign o'er me
Love, reign o'er me, reign o'er me
Fantastic album July 23, 2008
This would have to be The Who's best album. John Entwistle brings some of his best bass playing on The Real Me. Keith Moon's drumming is awesome. Love Reign O'er Me is a truely awesome song.
Another masterwork from the Who July 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The music on Quadrophenia (1973) is sophisticated and represents the second large scale concept album by the group (the other being Tommy). The concept on Quadrophenia, which revolves around English youth, is handled carefully and with great intelligence, resulting in a concept work that is deep, multidimensional, and ever engrossing.
On Quadrophenia, Townshend once again amply demonstrates his ability to embellish just a few central musical themes with instrumental preludes, interludes and postludes, all of which create the impression of something much larger and complex. In addition, highly melodic vocal, guitar and synthesizer parts weave and soar above a positively thunderous rhythm section to create some very interesting music. Speaking of which, John Entwistle is a ripping bass player and drummer Keith Moon is simply phenomenal.
This remastered package is pretty nice and features a nicely detailed booklet and good sound quality.
Quadrophenia is an excellent album and is highly recommended along with Tommy and Who's Next.
Awesome July 10, 2008
Nobody writes stuff this good anymore, except maybe Nick Worrall. Simply stunning in every way possible.
"Is it me... for a moment?" July 5, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
It's better than Tommy. Waaaaaaay better. After a couple of listens to Quadrophenia, you'll never need to hear about Captain Walker or his unfortunate spawn ever again. See, where Tommy was an exploratory stab at an album-length rock opera, Quadrophenia is a confident, competent, expertly executed conceptual masterpiece. Where Tommy often feels slipshod and thrown together, Quadrophenia is airtight and well thought out. Quadrophenia replaces Tommy's contradictions with complexities, its banalities with genuine emotion. The deep parts are deeper, the comic relief is funnier, and the story is less, er, stupid.
It also has better songs. It has "The Real Me," which is a gorgeously chaotic slab of hyperamplified teenage angst. It has the sweet delirium of "5:15," and the vicious identity crisis of "Doctor Jimmy." It has such harrowing classics as "The Punk And The Godfather" and "Helpless Dancer," and it has the anthemic, bitter "I've Had Enough." And the desperate romance of "Sea And Sand." And the apocalyptic "Love, Reign O'er Me." And the hilarious "Bell Boy." And some really well-placed synthesizers. And a really cool story, which I'll let you discover on your own. Bon appetit!
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