Quadrophenia

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Quadrophenia
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Artist: The Who
Released: 1973, 3 November
Average rating: Based on DM and site visitor ratings
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Tracks

  I Am the Sea (Townshend) - 2:08 Lyrics
  The Real Me (Townshend) - 3:20 Lyrics
  Quadrophenia (Townshend) - 6:13 Lyrics
  Cut My Hair (Townshend) - 3:44 Lyrics
  The Punk and the Godfather (Townshend) - 5:10 Lyrics
  I'm One (Townshend) - 2:37 Lyrics
  The Dirty Jobs (Townshend) - 4:29 Lyrics
  Helpless Dancer (Townshend) - 2:33 Lyrics
  Is It in My Head (Townshend) - 3:43 Lyrics
  10  I've Had Enough (Townshend) - 6:14 Lyrics
  11  5.15 (Townshend) - 4:59 Lyrics
  12  Sea and Sand (Townshend) - 5:01 Lyrics
  13  Drowned (Townshend) - 5:26 Lyrics
  14  Bell Boy (Townshend) - 4:55 Lyrics
  15  Doctor Jimmy (Townshend) - 8:36 Lyrics
  16  The Rock (Townshend) - 5:48 Lyrics
  17  Love Reign O'Er Me (Townshend) - 6:37 Lyrics
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Credits

Roger Daltrey - Vocals
Pete Townshend - Composer, Sound Effects, Special Effects, Multi Instruments, Producer
Jon Astley - Reissue Producer, Remixing, Reissue Remixing
Keith Moon - Percussion, Vocals
Chris Charlesworth, Bill Curbishley - Executive Producers
John Entwistle - Bass, Horn, Vocals
Glyn Johns - Engineer, Associate Producer
Rod Houison - Sound Effects, Special Effects
Pete Kameron - Executive Producer
Kit Lambert - Executive Producer, Pre-Production
Bob Ludwig - Remastering, Reissue Remastering
Andy MacPherson - Reissue Remixing
Ron Nevison - Sound Effects, Special Effects, Engineer
Chris Stanton - Piano
Bobby Pridden - Mixing
Ron Fawcus - Engineer, Assistant Engineer, Mixing
Chris Stamp - Executive Producer
Graham Hughes - Design, Photography
Ethan Russell - Art Direction
John Curle - Voices
Andy McPhearson - Remixing
George Jones - Mastering
Richard Evans - Art Direction, Design
The Who - Producer

Reviews

Site visitor reviews
10/10 MГЎrcio Ivam. (December 14, 2010)
The song "Cut my Hair" shows that Townshend`s genius.His voice is perfect!The band are allright.Keith Moon, in my opinion, the best drummer of Rock n roll.Very crazy!The mad side of the moon!
5/10 Bruce Beatlefan (March 13, 2010)
Quadrophenia has been, by acclamataion of the rock critics and the Who's apologists, accepted into the canon of Classic Albums From The Who, along with Tommy and Who's Next. I don't want to make an argument with those who find the album rewarding, or thoughtful, or Townshend at his most articulate... but granting all this to be so, I find Quadrophenia to be one of the most unlistenable and overwrought albums in rock history--it may qualify as the poster child for the pretentious prog rock album that brought that great era to a crashing halt (Quadrophenia, or maybe Yes's Tales of Topographic Oceans).

There are nice moments, to be sure: the segue from "The Real Me" to "Quadrophenia" is wonderful, two songs rock very enjoyably: "The Punk and the Godfather" and "5:15", and the track "Drowned" is terrific. Aside from a few other isolated nice moments ("Helpless Dancer", "Is It in My Head", "Love, Reign O'er Me") the listener is assaulted with an exhausting array of complicated four-part "themes", stories about a punk kid who engenders little sympathy (how different from Tommy), and a wall of blazing synthesizers, guitars, and horns that make Phil Spector sound positively sparse.

It is clear that Pete Townshend poured a lot of thought and commitment into this project--in the music you can practically hear him straining to pour all his pain and pathos into telling "Jimmy's" story, but the truth is that in pop/rock music one of the most common pitfalls is to be found "trying too hard". The music is wearisome and, ultimately, unsatisfying. When I put my Quadrohphenia CD into my boombox and press play, I feel like a man who is shouldering an unpleasant and burdensome task...
8/10 JMR (August 24, 2005)
Plays and sounds like an epic movie soundtrack, something from a
David Lean movie buts its rock and roll. In credible.

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