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Product Details

  • Audio CD (October 28, 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Extra tracks, Hybrid SACD - DSD, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Geffen Records
  • ASIN: B0000DJZAH
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  DVD Audio  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (278 customer reviews)
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Disc: 1
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
10. Underture
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Disc: 2
1. I Was
2. Christmas [Outtake 3]
3. Cousin Kevin Model Child
4. Young Man Blues [Version 1]
5. Tommy, Can You Hear Me? [Alternate Version]
6. Trying to Get Through
7. Sally Simpson [Outtake]
8. Miss Simpson
9. Welcome [Take 2]
10. Tommy's Holiday Camp [Band's Version]
See all 17 tracks on this disc
On this CD:
  1. Tommy, a rock opera Overture
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  2. Tommy, a rock opera It's a Boy
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  3. Tommy, a rock opera 1921
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  4. Tommy, a rock opera Amazing Journey
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  5. Tommy, a rock opera Sparks
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  6. Tommy, a rock opera Eyesight to the Blind (The Hawker)
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  7. Tommy, a rock opera Christmas
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  8. Tommy, a rock opera Cousin Kevin
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  9. Tommy, a rock opera The Acid Queen
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  10. Tommy, a rock opera Underture
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  11. Tommy, a rock opera Do You Think It's Alright?
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  12. Tommy, a rock opera Fiddle About
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  13. Tommy, a rock opera Pinball Wizard
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  14. Tommy, a rock opera There's a Doctor
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  15. Tommy, a rock opera Go to the Mirror!
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  16. Tommy, a rock opera Tommy Can You Hear Me?
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  17. Tommy, a rock opera Smash the Mirror
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  18. Tommy, a rock opera Sensation
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  19. Tommy, a rock opera Miracle Cure
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  20. Tommy, a rock opera Sally Simpson
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  21. Tommy, a rock opera I'm Free
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  22. Tommy, a rock opera Welcome
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  23. Tommy, a rock opera Tommy's Holiday Camp
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  24. Tommy, a rock opera We're Not Gonna Take It
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  25. Tommy, a rock opera See Me Feel Me / Listening to You
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  26. Tommy, a rock opera Out-Takes and Demos: I Was
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  27. Tommy, a rock opera Out-Takes and Demos: Christmas (Out-Take 3)
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  28. Tommy, a rock opera Out-Takes and Demos: Cousin Kevin Model Child
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  29. Tommy, a rock opera Out-Takes and Demos: Young Man Blues (Version 1)
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  30. Tommy, a rock opera Out-Takes and Demos: Tommy Can You Hear Me? (Alt. Version)
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  31. Tommy, a rock opera Out-Takes and Demos: Trying to Get Through
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  32. Tommy, a rock opera Out-Takes and Demos: Sally Simpson (Out-Takes)
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  33. Tommy, a rock opera Out-Takes and Demos: Miss Simpson
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  34. Tommy, a rock opera Out-Takes and Demos: Welcome (Take 2)
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  35. Tommy, a rock opera Out-Takes and Demos: Tommy's Holiday Camp (Band's Version)
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  36. Tommy, a rock opera Out-Takes and Demos: We're Not Gonna Take It (Alt. Version)
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  37. Tommy, a rock opera Out-Takes and Demos: Dogs - Part 2
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  38. Tommy, a rock opera Stereo Only Demos: It's a Boy
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  39. Tommy, a rock opera Stereo Only Demos: Amazing Journey
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  40. Tommy, a rock opera Stereo Only Demos: Christmas
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  41. Tommy, a rock opera Stereo Only Demos: Do You Think It's Alright?
    Composed by Pete Townshend

  42. Tommy, a rock opera Stereo Only Demos: Pinball Wizard
    Composed by Pete Townshend

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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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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. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.
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150 of 159 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THE Rock Opera. Seminal Storytelling Album, August 7, 2004
By B. Marold "Bruce W. Marold" (Bethlehem, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tommy (Audio CD)
Pete Townshend possibly feels a lot like David O. Selznick, the producer of the movie `Gone With The Wind' in fearing that he will only be remembered in his obituary by his creating that one work, as Townshend, like Selznick, seems to have been spending his time after completing their most important work in trying to top it.

To my mind, Townshend should have no regrets about not topping `Tommy', as it is easily one of the two or three most important albums and works in the entire Rock canon, similar in importance and possibly superior in quality to `Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' and `Blond on Blond', to name just two others high in the ranks of great Rock albums.

One thing which surprises me about writing on `Tommy' is how little deep analysis has been essayed about the story behind the songs. In a nutshell, the story is this:

Tommy Walker is born while his father is off on some journey (`It's a boy') from which he becomes several years late in returning. Tommy's mother takes up with a lover, father returns, mother and lover kill father with Tommy as a witness, and mother and lover tell Tommy he saw and heard nothing (`You didn't hear it'). Tommy becomes functionally blind, deaf, and dumb to all outside appearances, however, it is evident that within his own head, he can see and hear everything (`There's a doctor I've found'). He is tormented by various malicious relatives (`Cousin Kevin' and `Fiddle About') and `treated' by various attempts, including hallucinogens (`Acid Queen'). As he grows up, the only outside experience to which he responds is a pinball machine, at which he becomes expert (`Pinball Wizard'). Tommy is finally cured by watching his image in a mirror smashed by, I believe, his mother's lover (`Smash the Mirror'). Being released from his isolation for Tommy is like being released from a practically lifelong mystical experience heightened by pinball. The charisma with which Tommy is imbued by this experience leads him to become a `New Messiah' (`Sally Simpson') creating a movement which expands beyond local resources (`Welcome') and becomes institutionalized into a ritual modeled after playing pinball while deaf dumb and blind (`Tommy's holiday camp'). The story ends with a revolt of Tommy's disciples against his new religion (`We're not gonna take it').

The theme of being oppressed runs throughout practically all of Townshend's work, although in `Tommy', it takes a back seat to mysticism. The people who dote on the philosophical background of `The Matrix' should sink their teeth into the `Tommy' story and ruminate on that a while. The major musical theme of the work seems to be Townsend's search for a magical chord. And, anyone who, like myself, has seen `Tommy' performed live by the original Who will have no trouble believing Townsend has found his chord as he hits that first great whirlwind chord in `Pinball Wizard'. Talk about a rush! In general, a lot of the music echoes earlier Who works. Townshend seems to constantly cut and paste phrasings from one work to another and I have no problem with this except in the most tedious of the three instrumental pieces (`Underture') in the album.

Some writers have said that 'Tommy' is more like an Oratorio or a Song Cycle than it is an Opera, but I disagree. Neither of these other two genres requires a plot, and an Opera does, and Tommy has a plot. I prefer to think of it as a selection of arias and instrumental passages from which some bridging dialogue has been left out. My biggest problem with this plot is that the actual event that triggers Tommy's autism is only hinted at in the most vague of terms. It is easy to believe that it was a murder, but the lyrics of `You Didn't Hear It' never come even close to saying exactly what the event was. On the other side of the coin, the great majority of the songs on the album `Tommy' directly support carrying the story forward. Practically the only exception is the Sonny Boy Williamson classic `Eyesight to the Blind'. It is probably symptomatic that only `Pinball Wizard', `I'm Free', and `Sensation' out of the 24 cuts in `Tommy' really work for the Who outside the context of the whole work. That's why I'm especially happy to have seen The Who perform virtually the whole album live, four days after it was initially released. It is also interesting to see that the two cuts describing episodes of sadism were written by Entwistle and not Townshend.

This CD contains exactly what was on my original vinyl two record album bought in 1969, suitably enhanced with modern electronics. My greatest respect for Townshend is for creating a classic musical form, the Opera, using an entirely ROCK instrument, with the slightest classical leavening from John Entwistle's French horn on a few early numbers. So many `rock' versions of traditional forms simply overlay rock performances on classical arrangements or make classical arrangements of rock melodies. Aside from `Quadrophenia', the only other work which succeeds at doing this is Spooky Tooth/Pierre Henry work `Ceremony An Electronic Mass'.

Listening to this album and every other early Who album reminds one just how much their performances were a collaborative effort between the original four, and how much we miss Keith Moon and John Entwistle today. We can only say that with `Tommy' and numerous other works and recorded performances, the memory of The Who will live forever.

Seminal work in the history of Rock.
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43 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Reason alone to buy a SACD capable player, November 16, 2003
By Chris H. Townsend "Music lover" (Madison, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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Just get it. I have been enjoying DVD-Audio for the last year yet there were many titles I wanted in the SACD catalog so I recently purchased the Pioneer DV-563AS, a DVD player that will play back both DVD-Audio and SACD yet costs under 200.00. The Deluxe edition of Tommy simply sounds fantastic when playing the SACD 5.1 mix, the difference between it and the regular layer using a normal CD player is quite significant. Although I will admit to being prejudiced as Tommy is one of my all time favotite albums, this new version is simply superb, I am such a believer in the new high bit rate/sampling rate and 5.1 formats. It is amazing how good a near 35 year old recording can sound. Even if you don't have an SACD player this disc is very much worth getting, the stereo mix is excellent, you get a bonus disc with 17 additional tracks and the packaging is excellent, very high quality.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Review From Someone With SACD Player..., December 30, 2003
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okay... i normally don't review too many albums on amazon, but was i amazed to read all these reviews from people who chat about the album but then go on to say "but i haven't heard it on SACD yet." so i thought someone might benefit from reading about the surround mix in SACD...

well, it is simply amazing, especially for having been mixed by the near-deaf townsend (surely its a joke!).

the most amazing thing about the 5.1 surround mix is how present and powerful keith moon's drumming is. i have always pointed to "quadrophenia" as the shining example of his frenetic hammering of the drums. but now i can more fully appreciate his drumming on "tommy." the drums sound amazing on this SACD surround mix. no other words can describe it.

one of the reasons for the drums being more powerful is the ability to follow keith's "live in the studio" drumming more closely. you see, all the "accentuating" drum parts (tympani, gongs, cymbal splashes) are all separated from keith's drums in the mix... it wasn't as clear in the stereo mix which drums keith is playing, and which drums are over-dubbed elements.... but here, they are coming at you from different sides of the room. this makes for some amazing parts, particularly during "sparks" and "overture", where keiths keeps pounding out a rhythm, then the tympani drums build up to a crescendo.

also, pete and roger's vocals are sometimes separated in the mix. pete's first words on the alubm came as a shock. he sings, "captain walker didn't come home. his unborn child will never know him." and he's coming from the rear right speaker (mostly) and roger and all come in later, together chanting "a son, a son, a son" from the front speakers. its pretty powerful stuff from the get-go.

i could go on and on. but the most amazing thing truly is the fidelity... i hear things i've never heard before, and i thought i was prety intimately familiar with the album. subtle touches now are given such depth and prominence... and the separation that is achieved with surround sound allows the listener to follow a particular part or a particular instrument...
you can hear pete breathe in before singing... you can hear the sound of his pick against the acoustic guitar. you can hear a few of keith's dud hits on the snare (thought they are few, and always charming to hear).

another reviewer said, "reason alone to buy a SACD player."
i agree.

thanks for reading.

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