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Binding: Audio CD
Brand: WHO
EAN: 0008811141721
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Mca
Manufacturer: Mca
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mca
Release Date: March 12, 1996
Sales Rank: 798
Studio: Mca
Disc 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
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Album Description:
Japanese-only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) pressing of this classic rock album. SHM-CDs can be played on any audio player and delivers unbelievably high-quality sound. You won't believe it's the same CD! Universal. 2008.
Amazon.com essential recording:
Tommy had the dubious distinction of being the first-ever rock opera; however, it's none the worse for that, Ken Russell's adaptation notwithstanding. Due largely to Pete Townshend's skill as a songwriter and composer, Tommy tells a coherent story and includes quality rock and roll at the same time, an impressive feat by itself. While surprisingly more linear than the later Quadrophenia, Tommy boasts several songs that stand up well on their own, including the classic 'Pinball Wizard,' 'The Acid Queen,' 'I'm Free,' and 'Sally Simpson.' Much of the rest doesn't make much sense lyrically unless you listen to the entire album, but you'll probably want to do that anyway, preferably with the lights low and the stereo cranked. --Genevieve Williams
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Rating:  - listen carefully
I know most of the other reviews say this is a great album . well it is , however during this sacd version there are many drop outs not found on the dvd audio version . you can really here it on John's voice during the acid queen. also the dvd audio lets you enjoy this masterpiece without changing discs . get the dvd audio version for the best reproduction of this classic.
Rating:  - Doctor Who
A clinical and seminal meditation on alienation, popularity-seeking, and the decline of Western man encased in a rock opera about a handicapped boy. Albert Einstein spoke of his own "retarded" youth, being withdrawn from the world, and how that aided him in opening new vistas in science. "Tommy" isn't so fortunate.
"Amazing Journey" shows the advantage of Tommy's "retardation" yet shadows of "normalcy" lurk. Pete Townshend's medicinal lyrics bring to mind the Christian sentiment that only one with a child's disposition can enter the Kingdom of G-d.
"Ten years old
With thoughts as bold as thought can be
Loving life and becoming wise
In simplicity
Sickness will surely take the mind
Where minds can't usually go
Come on the amazing journey
And learn all you should know..."
Tommy's infirmities are an opportunity for his family and others to practice compassion. The boy is a living embodiment of "The Other" as found in the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. Tommy's line of "See me, feel me, touch me, heal me" (and, Levinas might have added, "...in order for both to be healed.") is the invitation to caring. The invitation is ignored.
The boy's path to "normalcy" opens when he becomes a "Pinball Wizard." Pinball reflects Tommy's upbringing, being bounced from one relative to another, one bad experience to the next. Townshend is also opening a window into the culture of games and entertainment and how that is ... Read More
Rating: - Tommy in Surround Sound
I"ve always been a big Tommy fan. My car now has a 5.1 surround sound system, so I HAD to get this DVD. It is awesome.
Rating:  - Do You Think It's All Right?
That was the question that the Who asked as they hit a dry spell going into 1969. It was answered by Pete Townshend in the form of "Tommy", the embodiment of Gospel and Rock Opera. Tommy the main character and central theme throughout the album has a breakthrough as only a deaf, dumb and blind boy can, through pinball. It's his eyes, ears and voice through which he makes contact with the rest of the world. Truly inspiring, it's the platform on which he attains stardom. The rest is history.
Rating: - The blueprint
In their late '60's - early '70's heyday, the Who were an incredible, transcendent band. However, I can't help but feel that studio recordings failed to do justice to their intense, dynamic, and energetic sound (until "Who's Next," that is). In an old edition of the Rolling Stone Record Guide, John Swenson hit the nail on the head: "The early Who albums present one of the most interesting problems posed in rock & roll history. The band was considered at the time to be much better in live performance than on record..." After listening to live renditions of "Tommy" (especially the great "Live at Leeds" deluxe edition), I can't agree more.
First of all, the studio "Tommy" feels padded, perhaps to extend it to double-record length. There are a few forgettable songs (the sequence from "Sensation" to "Tommy's Holiday Camp" comes to mind), a couple of head-scratchers (how does Sonny Boy Williamson's "Eyesight to the Blind" fit in?), and some songs (particularly "Underture") seem over-extended. Second, the production, on the whole, is too tidy and rather flat: we get little of Townshend's roaring electric guitar, and the band, in general, sounds too careful - like they're trying not to color outside the lines. However, all of these flaws go out the window in the live performances from 1969/70. The band trimmed some of the fat (cutting several numbers and shortening others), and, more important, they summoned up a monumental energy and collective spirit that made "Tommy" an overwhelming ... Read More
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