Artist: THE WHO
Album: QUADROPHENIA REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1973/ 2000
EAN/UPS: 0731454369121
Media type: CD

Quadrophenia is the sixth studio album by the English rock band The Who. Released on 19 October 1973, by Track, Polydor in the United Kingdom and Track and MCA in the United States, Quadrophenia is a double album, and the group's second rock opera. Its story involves social, musical, and psychological happenings from an English teenage perspective, set in London and Brighton in 1964 and 1965.

The name is a variation on the incorrect popular usage of the medical diagnostic term schizophrenia as dissociative identity disorder to reflect the four distinct personalities of Jimmy, the opera's protagonist—each said to represent the personality of one member of The Who.

By the early 1970s, rock & roll had been around long enough to begin to examine its own past. In the States, this resulted in Sha Na Na, but in Great Britain, where the popular culture of the young was more complex and coded, the Who's QUADROPHENIA was the most powerful example of this nostalgic view. Reviews at the time focused primarily on the obscure psychological aspect of the story--supposedly, the four sides of the original double-album set are meant to examine the four sides of the main character's personality, each one represented by a different member of the Who. However, the most interesting aspect of QUADROPHENIA is its seamy but poetic depiction of London's early-'60s Mod subculture, from which the Who originally sprang.

Set during the weekend of a climactic seaside gang fight between the Mods and their archenemies the Rockers, Townshend's story follows Jimmy, the archetypal Mod. The impressionistic songs tell an elliptical tale, but also function on their own as vintage '70s Who at their hard-rock height--the sneering "The Punk and the Godfather," the driving "5:15" and the anthemic, redemptive closer "Love, Reign O'er Me" are among Townshend's finest work.

TRACKLIST:

1. I Am the Sea - The Who
2. Real Me - The Who
3. I'm One - The Who
4. 5:15 - The Who
5. Love Reign O'Er Me - The Who
6. Bell Boy - The Who
7. I've Had Enough - The Who
8. Helpless Dancer - The Who
9. Doctor Jimmy - The Who
10. Zoot Suit - The High Numbers
11. Hi Heel Sneakers - Cross Section
12. Get Out and Stay Out - The Who
13. Four Faces - The Who
14. Joker James - The Who
15. Punk and the Godfather - The Who
16. Night Train - James Brown
17. Louie, Louie - The Kingsmen
18. Green Onions - Booker T. & the MG's
19. Rhythm of the Rain - The Cascades
20. He's So Fine - The Chiffons
21. Be My Baby - The Ronettes
22. Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals
23. I'm the Face - The High Numbers

LINE-UP:

Pete Townshend (vocals, guitar, keyboards)
John Entwistle (vocals, bass, horns)
Roger Daltrey (vocals)
Keith Moon (drums, percussion, vocals)

Additional personnel:
John Curle (spoken vocals); Chris Stainton (piano)