Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Quadrophenia Analysis
This blog is dedicated to what may well be rock's greatest masterpiece, The Who's album Quadrophenia. In it, I will attempt to thoroughly discuss and examine each song on that horribly underrated album, as well as provide lyrics and trivia on each song. I will also discuss my own personal opinions and interpretations on what the album and its story means to me, and you are welcome to join in the discussion by posting comments. A big thank you goes out to the excellently well crafted website "Quadrophenia.net," which was a helpful and unique source in providing you much of this information. I also would like to thank "thewallanalysis.com," which gave me the basic idea for this site. You can expect a new post on each song every day or every week, depending on how much time I have on my hands. For now, there's obviously nothing up yet, so I will leave you with these words - "CAN YOU SEE THE REAL ME?"
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I really hope that this project has not been abandoned already. It's a crying shame that there aren't more followers.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably my personal favorite concept for an album ever - and in my own opinion not a single band in the world could ever hope to perform with the same level of energy and enthusiasm as The Who, all while coming from an emotionally sincere standpoint. No band could ever hope to sound so powerful and yet so vulnerable at the same time.
Seeing thewallanalysis.com made me hope that there might be a similar effort for Quadrophenia. "The Wall" captured the themes of isolation as it had intended. However, I feel that as great as The Wall is at capturing that feeling - it gets to be a bit to broody to be able to see Mr.Floyd Pinkerton as a plausible human being in real life. Jimmy on the other hand seems to be a bit more reflective than Mr. Pinkerton. The sense of internal conflict you get from Jimmy seems astoundingly realistic - all the different viewpoints he grabs on to - all the conflicts that arise within him as a result of being able to find one viewpoint to latch onto...I do the same thing during my times of desperation. I feel like I can say I have lived every song on this album (internally) to some extent. That's the sense of realism I get from it. It's so powerful and so sincere, that I don't understand how this album isn't as recognizable as it's peers like "Tommy" and "The Wall".
So, I wish you the best of luck and look forward to seeing the results of your endeavors if you choose not to abandon this project.