Five Reasons Fans of The Who Might Prefer 'Quadrophenia' to 'Tommy'

It's not a popular opinion. It's not even one I hold, but dammit, I made the argument. Quadrophenia is a fine record. Check out my latest contribution for Consequence of Sound on why fans might prefer the rock opera about a quadrophenic mod boy to Tommy.

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This is Your Teenage Wasteland

I had an interesting little moment yesterday while I was spending some time with The Who on YouTube. After bouncing around from a couple different versions on "Pinball Wizard," inevitably I came back to this one concert performance of "Baba O'Riley" that I've probably watched about 173 times in the past four months. For no apparent reason I got focused in on the opening and I realized that the opening of The Killers song "This is Your Life" is crazy similar, just add in The Killers' vocals instead on The Who's keyboard (I think it's a keyboard. We'll go with that for now). Figured that was worth mentioning. Check it out.

Imagine

I was just weeding through my RSS feeds when I saw on Rolling Stone that today is the 28th anniversary of John Lennon's death. Obviously, this is a yearly occurrence, but for some reason this time around I couldn't help but think that 28 years is really a long time.

Part of my reaction to this though, stems from a documentary I watched a few weeks ago about the 60s. In one section it talked about Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Keith Moon with regards to how young they died. Granted all their deaths were drug-related unlike Lennon and I don't think I'd put him in a talent level on his own with Hendrix, but still I was wondering what would have happened if these folks had even made it to 40. Think about it. Talent-wise, they were so far ahead to begin with, imagine 30, 40 years of tours and albums. Especially with Hendrix, it hardly seems as though he could have gotten any better. What's deeper than basically being one with the guitar? I'm sure we'll never know.

Peace, kids.