The Who, Quadrophenia

[poului]

well?

Greatest concept album ever or overlong self-indulgent twaddle?

 

[Dubversion]

i think it's a bit poo but i'm not voting cos i think the editor will ban anyone who says 'crap'

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Well I liked it

Reminded me of Bank Holiday riots in Southend

 

[Divisive Cotton]

I can see it as one of the Who's greatest albums... both musically and lyrically they seem to keep it together for one whole album, which is very rare for The Who, but saying that, it's not an album I've ever listened to more than a few times, and I doubt I'll listen to it again.

 

[A Dashing Blade]

Voted crap thinking you were talking about the film

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

*really must read threads more carefully*

Thought you were talking about the film

 

[bluestreak]

generally the who bore me. some of their live performances were electric, but recorded it rarely interests me that much.

 

[internetstalker]

quadrophenia is a fooking great album, it changed peoples lives man!!


anyone who thinks its crap, well they have no taste!!

absolutely none, zip, nada!!

 

[Sweet FA]

The album is excellent - The Real Me, I'm One, I've Had Enough, 5.15, Love Reign O'er Me; all top tunes.

And how fucking is that cover?

 

[goldenecitrone]

Never heard it. Is it as good as Jeff Wayne's 'The War of the Worlds'?

 

[Groucho]

no it's not.
Q... the film was great tho.

 

[Onket]

Errrrr, another vote for the FILM being crap here.

Album? No idea.

 

[Billy Hunt]

"You can't whack The Who."

 

[Leica]

It's a great album, I've been subjected to it far too many times to say otherwise.

 

[AverageJoe]

One of my suprious claims to fame is that I'm in Quadrophenia. I'm in one of the cars that they fight around. When it was filmed they werent given permission to close off the seafront, so the director just did it anyway, which is why their are loads of people watching in bemusement.

I was about 5-6.

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

Mods rule!
Do they fuck
All they do is fart and suck.

Definately crap, and the films got Sting in it.

 

[editor]

Awesome album. Fantastic, hard hitting, intelligent lyrics - some of the finest ever written about growing up, taking drugs, getting pissed and not fitting in.

Pretty good film too, but not a patch on the brilliance of the album.

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

So is the album basically what you get in the film or is there more to it?

 

[editor]

So is the album basically what you get in the film or is there more to it?

No way jose!

The album is a self contained double LP concept piece that tracks Jimmy's life - loads of it doesn't appear in the film.

If you get the original vinyl, there's a massive photo booklet with some great photos.

Here's the wikipedia description of the plot:

To the extent that Quadrophenia can be said to tell a story at all, it tells it in the first person. The first half of the opera treats us to the frustrations and insecurities that govern Jimmy's life, including brief glimpses of his home life, his job, his psychoanalyst, and his unfruitful attempts to have a social life.

Halfway through the opera he sings "I've Had Enough", finds himself kicked out of his home when his parents find his dope, gets pilled up and takes a train ride to the coast (Embodied in the song 5:15, which is supposed to be the time when the train arrives), steals a boat and takes it out to a barren rock protruding from the sea, and crashes psychologically. With nothing left to live for he finds redemption in the pouring rain, which is expressed in the final song, "Love, Reign o'er Me"

 

[RubberBuccaneer]

I've seen the film and like the story as it's transferable to youth cults.

It's the opera bit I can't get past/

OK so if I was to download one song as a taster with view to being swayed what would it be?

 

[editor]

5:15? Cut my hair?

 

[Sweet FA]

5.15

 

[DeadManWalking]

Voted crap when I meant not!

Out of my brain on the train

 

[DeadManWalking]

I've seen the film and like the story as it's transferable to youth cults.

It's the opera bit I can't get past/

OK so if I was to download one song as a taster with view to being swayed what would it be?

The real me

 

[Major Tom]

Great album - maybe the greatest ever - I went on a Quadrophenia mission round Brighton and Eastbourne way once - with the album on headphones I cycled round all the locations in the film and listened to the music. I got carried away on Beachy Head and nearly threw my bike off. I was only about 20 at the time though.

 

[Onket]

Out of my brain on the train

That one is in the film isn't it?

If it's the one when he is on the train then it's shit.

 

[nino_savatte]

Excellent album though I do object to one line in Doctor Jimmy.

What is it? I'll take it
Who is she? I'll rape it.

 

[editor]

Excellent album though I do object to one line in Doctor Jimmy.

But that's the point. It's about the badass character who takes over when he's off his head and he wonders if that's the "real me" or not:

Doctor Jimmy and mister Jim
When I'm pilled you don't notice him,
He only comes out when I drink my gin...

Doctor Jimmy and mister Jim etc.
Is it me? For a moment
The stars are falling.
The heat is rising
The past is calling.

I'm going back soon
Home to get the baboon.
Who cut up my eye,
Messed up my Levis.
I'm feeling restless
Bring another score around
Maybe something stronger
Could really hold me down.

 

[internetstalker]

Awesome album. Fantastic, hard hitting, intelligent lyrics - some of the finest ever written about growing up, taking drugs, getting pissed and not fitting in.

Pretty good film too, but not a patch on the brilliance of the album.

on this topic me and ed...........

are one!!

 

[Kaka Tim]

That album cost me two weeks worth of dinner money when I was 13 - played it death on my suitcase mini mono record player whist pouring over the lyrics and booklet - my dad got in a strop over the sweraing and the nude pics on Jimmys wall - cycled around pretending I was on a vespa - jumpers for goalposts ....

great stuff - far better than 'Tommy'.