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Performer: The WhoEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Hybrid SACD, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-10-28
Music Label: Geffen Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Overture
- It's A Boy
- 1921
- Amazing Journey
- Sparks
- Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)
- Christmas
- Cousin Kevin
- The Acid Queen
- Underture
- Do You Think It's Alright
- Fiddle About
- Pinball Wizard
- There's A Doctor
- Go To The Mirror!
- Tommy Can You Hear Me?
- Smash The Mirror
- Sensation
- Miracle Cure
- Sally Simpson
- I'm Free
- Welcome
- Tommy's Holiday Camp
- We're Not Gonna Take It
- See Me Feel Me/Listening To You
- I Was
- Christmas (Out-Take 3)
- Cousin Kevin Model Child
- Young Man Blues (Version 1)
- Tommy Can You Hear Me? (Alternate Version)
- Trying To Get Through
- Sally Simpson (Out-Takes)
- Miss Simpson
- Welcome (Take 2)
- Tommy's Holiday Camp (Band's Version)
- We're Not Gonna Take It (Alternate Version)
- Dogs (Part 2)
- It's A Boy
- Amazing Journey
- Christmas
- Do You Think It's Alright?
- Pinball Wizard
Free Music Notes for Tommy
Free Music Review: the album that immortalized The Who still sounds great nearly 40 years on
Hit: 5 Stars
The Who's fourth studio (and fifth overall) album Tommy was released in May of 1969.
The Tommy album by The Who was the make or break for the group because if Tommy had failed, The Who would have probably disbanded due to lack of funds despite their concerts selling out based on Pete Townshend's guitar smashing and Keith Moon's drum kit demolishing at the end of each gig.
Guitarist Pete Townshend, under the gun after "I Can See For Miles" failed as a single in the UK (although it was their biggest ever hit here in the US) came up with a rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind kid named Tommy whom becomes those aforementioned things after witnessing an event as a child that traumatized him (his father killing his step-father whom he considered his father).
Originally considered to be a single length album, the band felt it didn't make sense so they expanded it into a double album and the result is one of rock's Top 10 greatest double studio albums in history (alongside other classic double albums like the then-already released Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland and The Beatles' White album and would help pave the way for more classics like The Rolling Stones' 1972 masterwork Exile on Main Street, The Who's 1973 release Quadrophenia, Elton John's 1973 classic Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Genesis' 1974 masterwork The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Led Zeppelin's 1975 classic Physical Graffiti, Pink Floyd's 1979 masterpiece The Wall and Bruce Springsteen's 1980 classic The River among many others).
Alot of classics appear on this album like the "Overture", the classic Top 20 hit "Pinball Wizard", "Amazing Journey", the "Underture" (best instrumental on here which is basically a repeat of the album's other instrumental "Sparks"), "Go to the Mirror", "I'm Free", "Cousin Kevin" (one of bass player John Entwistle's greatest compositions), "Fiddle About" (about the perverted Uncle Ernie also penned by The Ox), "Tommy's Holiday Camp" (another excellent ditty written by drummer Keith Moon whom did an excellent rendition in the film version of Tommy in 1975) and the classic finale "We're Not Gonna Take It"/"See Me Feel Me".
The other tracks on the album "It's a Boy", "1921 (You Didn't Hear It)", "Eyesight to the Blind", "Christmas", "The Acid Queen", "Do You Think It's Alright", "There's a Doctor I've Found", "Tommy Can You Hear Me?", "Smash the Mirror", "Sensation", "Miracle Cure", "Sally Simpson" and "Welcome" are all great pieces as well though tend to be overlooked.
The album made The Who legends for good and peaked at #4 on the Billboard chart and was their first Gold seller (eventually Platinum).
In 1996, the album was re-released as a remastered CD but used a first generation master tape for the remixed reissue.
In October of 2003 (a few months before Tommy's 35th Anniversary), Geffen Records (formerly known as MCA) re-released the album as a 2-disc Hybrid SACD with the original 1969 mix on the CD layer and a killer 5.1 mix on the SACD layer and this version uses the very original tapes that were found in Universal's vault after being said that the original tapes were destroyed by Kit Lambert in a fire. As a result of the discovery of the original tapes, the sound quality is amazing on here.
Disc two has great outtakes and demos like "I Was", The Who trying to record Sally Simpson with hilarious results and instrumental versions of Tommy Can You Hear Me, Christmas and Tommy's Holiday Camp among many other rarities (like Dogs Part 2, Cousin Kevin Model Child) plus a cool booklet with rare photos of the band recording the album.
Highly recommended.
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