PSL: Band Week #6 - The Who: We've Had Enough

[kath]

since no one is talking about it, is fantastic! We may debate the relative merits of Tommy vs Quadrophenia as albums, but as films, I definitely prefer the latter.

agreed




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agreed... but the film version of tommy kinda fit tommy, ya know? surreal and all. i said it before, this one is more real and personal. i think both movies... fit, really

[Matt Wilson]

"When I'm pilled I don't notice him..."

[Six String]

Doctor Jimmy!
I’ll take on everyone!

That rape line has always been hard to listen to.

[toomanyhatz]

I've got the US deluxe, so I have to change discs now!

How many discs?

The original U.S. cd put 1&2 on first disc and 3&4 on number two and they were separate cd covers and not a clamshell.

As LMG (I think) said, there are many different versions! I think they even did deluxe 2-disc editions more than once.

This particular one is from 2011, and is two discs - the break is between "Drowned" and "Bell Boy," then the rest of disc 2 is fleshed out with demos. (I may be misremembering, but I can swear there's a two disc version released in the US many years ago that has the whole album but instead of fleshing it out with demos, does it with a Mod playlist (by other artists).

[LMG]

i was never on trains growin up. so i just transferred it to ridin in cars

Ditto.

In 1978 I was sent to boarding school, and went 'home' to stay with my grandma in Brighton. This was already my favourite album, I remember getting the train from Victoria to Brighton for the first time...

[Matt Wilson]

More angst done as machismo for Roger.

[John aka Josh]

since no one is talking about it, is fantastic! We may debate the relative merits of Tommy vs Quadrophenia as albums, but as films, I definitely prefer the latter.

agreed




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Quadrophenia is much easier on the eye.












Sighs

[John aka Josh]

Doctor Jimmy!
I’ll take on everyone!

That rape line has always been hard to listen to.

Yes.


The only thing I dislike about the album.

[Six String]

I've got the US deluxe, so I have to change discs now!

How many discs?

The original U.S. cd put 1&2 on first disc and 3&4 on number two and they were separate cd covers and not a clamshell.

As LMG (I think) said, there are many different versions! I think they even did deluxe 2-disc editions more than once.

This particular one is from 2011, and is two discs - the break is between "Drowned" and "Bell Boy," then the rest of disc 2 is fleshed out with demos. (I may be misremembering, but I can swear there's a two disc version released in the US many years ago that has the whole album but instead of fleshing it out with demos, does it with a Mod playlist (by other artists).

Inneresting. I assumed the reason they split the album during side three was due to extra tracks. Well that and the Deluxe labe was a dead give away.

[Matt Wilson]

What I can't stand is casual rape in '70s films. Or especially when the director has the woman seem to enjoy it.

[kath]

i was never on trains growin up. so i just transferred it to ridin in cars

Ditto.

In 1978 I was sent to boarding school, and went 'home' to stay with my grandma in Brighton. This was already my favourite album, I remember getting the train from Victoria to Brighton for the first time...

i got kicked outta high school my sophomore year, on my birthday, no less (heh.) got shipped off to live with my beloved uncle in north louisiana. i thought i was just goin for the weekend. (my ma didn't tell me i was goin for a year.) i took ten or so albums with me. one was this one. 1977-78.

[LMG]

I've got the US deluxe, so I have to change discs now!

How many discs?

The original U.S. cd put 1&2 on first disc and 3&4 on number two and they were separate cd covers and not a clamshell.

As LMG (I think) said, there are many different versions! I think they even did deluxe 2-disc editions more than once.

This particular one is from 2011, and is two discs - the break is between "Drowned" and "Bell Boy," then the rest of disc 2 is fleshed out with demos. (I may be misremembering, but I can swear there's a two disc version released in the US many years ago that has the whole album but instead of fleshing it out with demos, does it with a Mod playlist (by other artists).

You are thinking of the movie soundtrack - it has a remixed version of part of the album (they weren't allowed to use the whole thing for copyright), plus newly completed songs from the album (outtakes), and songs used in the movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrophenia_(soundtrack)

[kath]

What I can't stand is casual rape in '70s films. Or especially when the director has the woman seem to enjoy it.

agreed. i won't go off on how many of my friends were raped.

i was lucky.

[Six String]

That keyboard and strings together are pretty cool on the Dr.

He only comes out when I drink my giinnnnn.

[kath]

That keyboard and strings together are pretty cool on the Dr.

He only comesmout when I drink my giinnnnn.

yes indeed. the strings... mannnnn

[LMG]

What I can't stand is casual rape in '70s films. Or especially when the director has the woman seem to enjoy it.

Not to be an apologist, but here I think all the sexual bravado is just that - empty threats from a frustrated teenager wracked by unrequited love/lust.

These are meant to be thoughts of the guy who only comes out when he drinks his gin.

[Matt Wilson]

What I can't stand is casual rape in '70s films. Or especially when the director has the woman seem to enjoy it.

agreed. i won't go off on how many of my friends were raped.

i was lucky.

Or even how many women you talk to today who have been abused in some way by men - sexual or physically.

Hell, there's two rape scenes in Once Upon a Time in America!

[kath]

bouncebouncebounce ooooooooooof

[Matt Wilson]

What I can't stand is casual rape in '70s films. Or especially when the director has the woman seem to enjoy it.

Not to be an apologist, but here I think all the sexual bravado is just that - empty threats from a frustrated teenager wracked by unrequited love/lust.

Of course, don't mean to derail the thread. But the casual way he brings it up in the lyrics is not something you'd see today.

[C]

since no one is talking about it, is fantastic! We may debate the relative merits of Tommy vs Quadrophenia as albums, but as films, I definitely prefer the latter.

agreed




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Quadrophenia is much easier on the eye.












Sighs

I'll drink to that!




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