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The Who, Quadrophenia

Quadrophenia?

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For me Bellboy sums up the alienation felt working in that sort of job.

Bell Boy! I got to keep running now.
Bell Boy! Keep my lip buttoned down.
Bell Boy! Carry this baggage out.
Bell Boy! Always running at someone's heel.
You know how I feel, always running at someone's heel.
 
ice-is-forming said:
can you see the real me DR DR...

love walking along the beach at 3 am singing the whole album at the top of my voice.
and yes do know ALL the words.

is it me or a moment......love it.:)
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Fucking YES!!! Entwhistles bass at the start of that is dirty as fuck man I love it.

As soon as I get home THIS is getting ON, yeah baby!! :D
 
Listened to Quadraphenia non-stop from about 1985-1989 with small breaks for things like sleep and going to school. A classic :cool:

I always liked Drowned and Had Enough... heheh.. depressing teenage suicide music.
 
Had this on over the weekend and was loving it as ever!

I have two copies of the original vinyl with the book inside. One of them is totally mint so i should find out the value at some point.
 
longdog said:
Quadrophenia is one of the best albums ever. Certainly the best "concept" album.

And that is a tobyjug fact.
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Well - its either 'Quadrophenia' or its 'The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust &The Spiders From Mars'.

It's definitely not Tommy.
 
one of my most favourate albums. there aren't too many albums you can listen to straight through without skipping the odd track. this is one of them imo. The real me is powerfull as fuck. enwhistles bass is fantastic! 515 is an other great tune, pure rock n' roll....
 
bertifrew said:
one of my most favourate albums. there aren't too many albums you can listen to straight through without skipping the odd track. this is one of them imo. The real me is powerfull as fuck. enwhistles bass is fantastic! 515 is an other great tune, pure rock n' roll....
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Who's Next is another one.

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There is a good documentary about Quadrophenia: Can you see the real me, available via iplayer.

In his home studio and revisiting old haunts in Shepherds Bush and Battersea, Pete Townshend opens his heart and his personal archive to revisit 'the last great album the Who ever made', one that took the Who full circle back to their earliest days via the adventures of a pill-popping mod on an epic journey of self-discovery.
But in 1973 Quadrophenia was an album that almost never was. Beset by money problems, a studio in construction, heroin-taking managers, a lunatic drummer and a culture of heavy drinking, Townshend took on an album that nearly broke him and one that within a year the band had turned their back on and would ignore for nearly three decades.
With unseen archive and in-depth interviews from Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, John Entwistle and those in the studio and behind the lens who made the album and thirty page photo booklet.
Contributors include: Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Ethan Russell, Ron Nevison, Richard Barnes, Irish Jack Lyons, Bill Curbishley, John Woolf, Howie Edelson, Mark Kermode and Georgiana Steele Waller.
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iplayer documentary

Anyone outside the UK who wants to watch iplayer may needs to download media hint (firefox add-on)
 
I saw them do this live 3 times this year. Twice in London and once in Newcastle. In Newcastle they fucking rocked its arse off! They were good in London, but out of town they put that bit of extra into it and kicked the shit out of it....
 
A genuine work of art. Fantastic album in my option but then I am a mod and the target audience but its actually a rock album when you think about it. A genre of music I don't normally find very comfortable on the ear.

From the opening sounds of the waves, the 4 little tasters of the tracks to come (reflecting the 4 personalities of the band members and the schizophrenic state of Jimmy)......Is it me for a moment, Bell Boy, Love Reign O'er Me, Can you see the real me then........BANG! Off we go with the thunderous intro to The Real Me! Wonderful stuff. Townsend's finest moment.

And how about this for the opening verse to a song.....

Every year is the same
And I feel it again,
I'm a loser - no chance to win.
Leaves start falling,
Come down is calling,
Loneliness starts sinking in.
 
Or:

The cracks between the paving stones
Look like rivers of flowing veins.
Strange people who know me
Peeping from behind every window pane.
The girl I used to love
Lives in this yellow house.
Yesterday she passed me by,
She doesn't want to know me now.
 
I ain't half been playing this album a lot again recently.

This lyric still seems to chime with me at times:
Why should I care
If I got to cut my hair?
I got to move with the fashion
Or be outcast.

I know I should fight
But my old man he's really alright,
And I'm still living at home
(Even though it won't last.)

Zoot suit, white jacket with side vents
Five inches long.
I'm out on the street again
And I'm leaping along.
I'm dressed right for a beachfight,
But I just can't explain
Why that uncertain feeling is still
Here in my brain.

The kids at school
Have parents that seem so cool.
And though I don't want to hurt them
Mine want me their way.
I clean my room and my shoes
But my mother found a box of blues,
And there doesn't seem much hope
They'll let me stay.
Zoot suit, etc.

Why do I have to be different to them?
Just to earn the respect of a dance hall friend,
We have the same old row, again and again.
Why do I have to move with a crowd
Of kids that hardly notice I'm around,
I have to work myself to death just to fit in.
I'm coming down
Got home on the very first train from town.
My dad just left for work
He wasn't talking.
It's all a game,
'Cos inside I'm just the same,
My fried egg makes me sick
First thing in the morning.
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I have a single CD and double CD version of this, and the film. Absolutely brilliant. Love this bit, I've felt his pain


If you've not watched it, or listened to it, you should. It's such a great story of teenage angst.
 
butcher said:
Or:

The cracks between the paving stones
Look like rivers of flowing veins.
Strange people who know me
Peeping from behind every window pane.
The girl I used to love
Lives in this yellow house.
Yesterday she passed me by,
She doesn't want to know me now.
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it's impossible to read this without punctuating it in your head with entwhistle's bass.
 
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