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Quad as Punk



>If it's the first punk album (as opposed to my Generation), or at least
retrospective punk album<

"Retrospective punk" is a contradiction in terms.  The punks' whole purpose,
to paraphrase Townshend, was to "lay waste" to pop and start over.  Hardly a
position from which one could be retrospective.

I have to disagree about QUAD being a punk album.

1.  It is not produced like a punk album (far too "technocratic")
2.  It IS retrospective, no doubt about it.  The Punk Movement was not about
looking back.  MY GENERATION may have been a punk album, but really, to have
a career, to become a part of the Establishment, means you're no longer punk!

QUAD is the Pete using the Who to tell a story (like TOMMY and LIFEHOUSE);
with his use of repeated musical themese and literary themes and allusion
(water as redemption), Pete is attempting to tell a story with "deep
universal significance."  And I think he was very successful and it was a
part of the Who's pinnacle (TOMMY-LEEDS-WHO'S NEXT-QUAD).

Jim