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Track Listing
DISC 1: THE ORIGINAL ALBUM (SACD 5.1 & STEREO/COMPATIBLE CD STEREO):
1. Overture
2. It's a Boy
3. 1921
4. Amazing Journey
5. Sparks
6. Eyesight to the Blind (The Hawker)
7. Christmas
8. Cousin Kevin
9. Acid Queen, The
10. Underture
11. Do You Think It's Alright
12. Fiddle About
13. Pinball Wizard
14. There's a Doctor
15. Go to the Mirror Boy
16. Tommy Can You Hear Me?
17. Smash the Mirror
18. Sensation
19. Miracle Cure
20. Sally Simpson
21. I'm Free
22. Welcome
23. Tommy's Holiday Camp
24. We're Not Gonna Take It
25. See Me Feel Me / Listening To You
DISC 2: OUT-TAKES & DEMOS (SACD 5.1 & STEREO/COMPATIBLE CD STEREO):
1. I Was
2. Christmas - (take 3)
3. Cousin Kevin Model Child
4. Young Man Blues - (verison 1)
5. Tommy Can You Hear Me? - (alternate take)
6. Trying to Get Through
7. Sally Simpson - (out-takes)
8. Miss Simpson
9. Welcome - (take 2)
10. Tommy's Holiday Camp - (Band's version)
11. We're Not Gonna Take It - (alternate take)
12. Dogs - (part 2)
13. It's a Boy
14. Amazing Journey
15. Christmas
16. Do You Think It's Alright
17. Pinball Wizard
| Details | | Producer: | Kit Lambert | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Multi | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
The Who: Pete Townshend (vocals, guitar, keyboards); John Entwistle (vocals, trumpet, French horn, Flugelhorn, bass); Keith Moon (vocals, drums, tympani, gong, tambourine); Roger Daltrey (vocals).
Recorded at IBC Studio, London, England.
Originally released as a 2-LP set on Decca (7205).
Includes liner notes by Matt Kent.
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
The definitive rock opera, TOMMY liberated the Who from a "singles band" stigma, marking them as a substantial artistic force. Composer Pete Townshend had flirted with the conceptual format on two previous releases, but here his vision is spread over two ambitious records that play to the Who's main strengths. Anthems such as the raucous "Pinball Wizard" and the surprisingly serene "I'm Free" emphasize the kinetic power of the band, while Townshend's cast of characters (the perverted Uncle Ernie, the inscrutable Tommy) reveals a wild and unconventional imagination. Townshend even incorporates Sonny Boy Williamson's "Eyesight to the Blind" as part of his fable about the "deaf, dumb, and blind kid," making a successful reference to the past in what is an undeniably groundbreaking and forward-looking achievement.
Industry Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - ...Almost thirty-five years later, this classic-rock touchstone still has the power to enthrall...
Rolling Stone (01/22/2004)
Ranked #96 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time - ...Driven by the hellbent drumming of Keith Moon, the Who surge and shine...
Rolling Stone (12/11/2003)
3 stars out of 5 - TOMMY remains fascinating....TOMMY's also an undoubted milestone in rock's growing self-confidence and maturity...
Uncut (03/01/2004)
4 stars out of 5 - These are fabulous songs, brimming with Townshend's middle-class anger.
Q (03/01/2004)
[A]ny new chance to hear late drummer Keith Moon, a tidal wave of garage-rock fury, is a gift.
Spin (02/01/2004)
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