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Free Music Review: Tommy revisited
Hit: 5 Stars
Tommy came out my freshman year in college and I listened to it continuously. The Dayton Ballet just did an awesome ballet version of Tommy in April, so I bought this for my daughter's 13th birthday, she loves it!Free Music Review: it started here
Hit: 5 Stars
The music of Tommy is where I first began really appreciating rock and roll, way back in 1988 when I was only 7 years old. That was a very important day in the life of me. There's no telling which direction my taste in music would have gone had I not heard some of the wonderful tunes from Tommy. I fear it would have eventually gone towards Limp Bizkit and other similar unenjoyable bands.
The music on this album is simply incredible. It's one thing to make a concept album and tell a good story. It's another when you can take a story and wrap *extremely* memorable music around it, which is what Tommy does so well.
I didn't really appreciate Keith Moon's drumming when I first heard this album, or Daltrey's emotional roller-coaster ride of a voice, going from convincingly angry to touching and sad. He's very good at going back and forth between those two emotions.
Still, I can't help but think back to my childhood. The line "See me, feel me, touch me, heal me" has stuck with me all these years, and there's a feeling when I listen to how that melody is sung that strucks me on a personal note. The "Right behind you, I see the millions" vocal line is another hook that has always stood up well, and will probably continue to do so.
I admit, Tommy is probably not my favorite Who album these days, because I've familiarized myself with other Who albums in the last decade. Denying the influence this album had on me would be ignorant and wrong, because Tommy is where my rock and roll obsession took off. The rest is history, my friend.
Free Music Review: That was nobody... and this is?
Hit: 5 Stars
Ah Amazon again... nice to be back been away a while.... Tommy eh... there's some audio clips of this record on Amazon and if you ask me you should write down in words what you are thinking now before you buy this one.
It's an opra eh? It's a story of some kind I don't know much about these things but I know what I like and I like Tommy best... and that's a lot of music isn't it? I still listen to a very select selection of other bands but nothing satisfies like my Tommy.
Here it's almost funny what you can do with a four piece rock group but it's true... The Who in their original recording line-up are featured on this double album.
Pete Townsend plays the guitars and wrote most of the songs. All fine guitar work by anybodies standard with some stuff that to me surpasses genius and goes by Arcturus as well. Some parts bore mystify even enlighten but it seems to make it's presence in the recording sound planned if you catch my drift. There's no screaming out of tune high pitched feedback or anything like that at all... just well planned and executed guitar work. Very inspiring.
Roger Daltrey was the front man in those days the days of Tommy... as usual he's the best part about Who albums. I saw the band later at Pontiac stadium in Detroit... Michigan and Roger was just a showman....
The late John Entwistle plays bass and most of the French Horns on this record... you have to appreciate Pop bass playing to get a hold of his stuff. He sang on some of the recordings and his voice always makes the Who sound very near...
The late Kieth Moon played drums... you might want to look up Pop drumming here as well cause Kieth always played for all it was worth...
The recording itself is appropriate for the kind of undertaking the Who brought about and I don't think anyone will hold it against them.... Sounds like a real pro was in the booth. Nice stereo effects planning and presentation....
Go to the mirror boy..
Free Music Review: A Classic
Hit: 5 Stars
Tommy is Pete Townsend's classic rock opera. It tells the story of a boy born deaf, dumb, and blind, and his eventual coming out and triumph. The music is tremendous with great soaring pieces, well crafted lyrics, and an interesting story line. Plus, it's the WHO; probably the best rock band ever. This is the album the include I'm Free, Pinball Wizard, Amazing Journey, and We're Not Gonna Take It. Actually, I really like the Overture.
This was one of the first albums I bought. It was my introduction to the WHO. And, I play it quite frequently.
It is a classic album, and well worth the listen.
Free Music Review: Brilliant!
Hit: 5 Stars
The Who-Tommy*****
The Who's Tommy could quite possible be the greatest album of all time, in fact I would go so far as to say it is the greatest album of all time. No other album in history has been able to tell a story so beautifully and so perfectly it would make William Shakespeare blush. This album once and for all proved that Pete Townshend was not just a mere lyricist or songwriter but a composer of rock and roll masterpieces.
His lyrics and vocals are spectacular throughout especially through songs like the brilliant `1921' and `It's A Boy.' The imagination behind songs like `Go To The Mirror' and the sharp lyrics of `Christmas' Undoubtably rank Townshend among music's best lyricists. Lets not forget the masterful guitar played by the man. This was the first album to really solidify Townshend as a guitar God, especially on tracks like `Sparks' and `Christmas,' and lets not forget the killer intro on `Pinball Wizard'. Roger Daltry's power vocals and sometimes screams are absolutely over the top, as if his good looks don't help his appeal, but that's another story. John Entwistle who not only played some of the best bass of his life but he also lent lyrics to some of the albums great songs like `Cousin Kevin' and `Fiddle About,' honestly this album would be nothing without Entwistle. Keith Moon plays drums as only Keith Moon knows how which is completely out of this world. This album helps to prove once and for all that Moon is the all greatest drummer in the history of playing. The Who are truly one of the greatest bands of all time and this album shows it more then any other because of the interaction between the four counter parts.
The story of a deaf, dumb, and blind kid is one of the craziest most outlandish ideas for a premise of and album I have ever heard, but it is also one of the best I have ever heard, if not the best. When this album was originally released in the 1960's the subject matter of being blind, deaf, and dumb was very taboo. Not to mention the thought of a song about a boy who was molested by his uncle then went on to become a joke religious leader was enough to outrage most of the world resulting in The Who being banned from the BBC in England and from many states in the United States not to mention the ban from almost all of the radio stations in the country at the time. When first buying this album I thought with a reputation like this, Tommy better be one of the best damn albums I will ever hear, and it was the greatest album I had ever heard.
This is one of the best, and strongest albums in all of rock and roll history, not to mention music history. The subject matter is not for the timid, it is truly a work of art which should be heard by all. So for my final verdict this is one album I recommend to the entire world.