Album: Tommy by The Who
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:29 am
Yeah, just because this launched a genre as dubious as the rock opera does not make it crap. I think it's an amazingly cohesive piece of work, and in 1969 must have sounded completely unlike anything else.
This album used to freak the shit out of me when I was a little kid--something about the subject matter, which I could never quite get a handle on, and the weird cover art, and "Uncle Ernie" and "you didn't hear it, you didn't see it, you won't say nothing to no one" and the end where the disciples turn against him, etc.
I like the way the same instrumental theme winds throughout the album. "Sparks" is amazing. Peglegasus used to do a great version of it.
I've never seen the movie all the way through, but what I've seen is horrible.
Random thought: I remember that Tommy was one of those double-albums that put sides 1 and 4 on one disc and 2 and 3 on the other, so that if you stacked the records you could hear two consecutive sides in a row without flipping the record.
This album used to freak the shit out of me when I was a little kid--something about the subject matter, which I could never quite get a handle on, and the weird cover art, and "Uncle Ernie" and "you didn't hear it, you didn't see it, you won't say nothing to no one" and the end where the disciples turn against him, etc.
I like the way the same instrumental theme winds throughout the album. "Sparks" is amazing. Peglegasus used to do a great version of it.
I've never seen the movie all the way through, but what I've seen is horrible.
Random thought: I remember that Tommy was one of those double-albums that put sides 1 and 4 on one disc and 2 and 3 on the other, so that if you stacked the records you could hear two consecutive sides in a row without flipping the record.