Re: Quad vs Tommy

[Lev Polinsky <polinsky@husc.harvard.edu>]

On Tue, 21 May 1996 Litgo@aol.com wrote:
> When I first started listening to Quadrophenia, probably 1982 or 83, it was
> on album, of course, and being the radio-based music fan (and early
> teen-ager) I was, primarily listened to side 3 and somewhat side 1 for Real
> me. A couple of years later though, thoroughly tired of hearing Pinball
> Wizard and WGFA, I started to listen intently to the entire thing. This was
> probably about the time I got on CD (and probably started drinking, too). Not
> that the two go hand-in-hand, but QUAD began to mean something to me, more
> than the couple of radio songs on it. 
> 
> It has been effectively stated before what QUAD music does, so I'll stop
> here.
> 
> Litgo
I wanted to add a couple of things to this, since I'm partly in the 
WGFA/PW stage, and partly not, and I find it fairly interesting what 
parts of the Who's catalogue most people started out enjoying.  For me, 
it probably began with the Greatest Hits album, especially WGFA and 
5:15.  At first listen, I didn't really like Tommy (growin' on me), MG 
(does anyone actually _LIKE_ this, rather than find it interesting?), 
AQ1, WSO, Quad, or WBN at the start; though liking WBN came quickly, WSO 
struck me rather suddenly one day, and I now consider it a work of pure 
genius; Quad I'm still struggling with; on the other hand, I've grown 
less and less fond of Who's Next with time; I often skip half the songs 
on the album.

P.S.  I've never really loved PW, though.

--LP.