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Re: Re[3]: Who's Next Masters Missing




> From list-owner-thewho-outgoing@cisco.com Tue Sep 12 20:53:54 1995
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 23:23:33 -0400
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> >
> >Ian sez:
> >>So, let's take a poll here "dudes".  Because it's WBN where this 
> >>diehard sees the band at it's true peak.  A very deceiving album 
> >
> >>I still can't see how Quad to WBN is such a "rapid" downfall.  The gap is 
> >>certainly much greater with WBN and Who Are You, though even that
> >>album still shows timeless qualities (well Sister Disco gives the 
> >>era away).
> >
> >I'll modify my position slightly by saying that I feel WBN isn't so much a 
> >decline as a separate "thread."  On Quad, PT was writing on the individual 
> >in relation to those around him, while WBN was the individual in relation 
> >to himself.  Musically, the two are diametrically opposed, though 
> >magnificent in their own presentation.
> >
> >All in all, these two albums are my two favorite studio albums, but Leeds 
> >still takes first prize.
> >
> >
> >OK,
> >KLW
> >
> >
> Kevin makes a great point in his analysis of the albums styles, but we have
> to remember that Quad is a full-blown concept album.  Not quite a rock
> opera, but a impresionistic bareing of the soul.  WBN is not this, it's a
> collection of songs that are not related to one another, there is no
> unifying theme.  I think that since it doesn't have the same grandious scope
> as Quad, its impact was less than that of its predecessor.  WBN needs to be
> looked upon as not a follow-up to Quad, but as a rock and roll album, for
> that is all it is.  
> 
> Interestingly enough, this did not happen to Who's Next as a follow-up to
> Tommy.  I think that this is because WN was so styalistically different from
> anything else that the band had ever produced before.  I always thought of
> WN as the Who's transition album.  Tommy pretty much ended their early sound
> of the 60's, and WN defined their style for the remainder of the Moon albums
> (the 70's).  Actually, defined is a poor choice of words, a better thing to
> say would be that it served as a foundation from which they built upon.

Correctly put.