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24th Feb '13 11:17:13 AM Schroeder1174

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24th Feb '13 11:15:00 AM Schroeder1174

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7th Feb '13 9:55:10 PM mlsmithca

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Correcting spelling and grammar and scaling back the wall of text nature of the entry for The Who - this level of detail can be a chore to read.

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* Arguably done a few times with The Who. While never known for particularly happy songs, the early years of the band were the typical R&B/Rock songs about girls or The Man that you had out of The Beatles or The Stones. Then came A Quick One While He's Away that is about a woman having an affair while her lover is gone, and ultimately being forgiven for it. A few years later came Tommmy, a full on rock opera that has a young boy go deaf, dumb, and blind after the shock of seeing his previously thought to be dead in the war father returns and kills his wife's lover. It goes downhill from there. Tommy is abused and sexually molested by an uncle and a cousin, taken to a prostitute who pumps him full of hallucinogenic drugs and has sex with him, and has a cult built around him that eventually turns on him. It is not a happy story, at all. The next rock opera entitled Quadrophenia, is a story about a speed addicted, sanity slipping mod named Jimmy. Attempted suicide, fights with police, fallen idols, dangerous obsession over girls, and mental illness are just a few things touched in the album. It was followed up by the darkest album the band ever made, The Who By Numbers, which isn't a rock opera and has an over all theme of "Pete Townshend really fuck hates him self". There are two remotely happy songs on the album. One is a very in cheek sex song, and the other, in the context of the songs around it, becomes so depressingly melancholy despite the upbeat tone and lyrics. It has long been regarded as "Pete Townshend's suicide note". It's pretty dark and bleak. All the darkness in Tommy and Quadrophenia, but directed inward at Pete.

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* Done a few times with Music/TheWho. While never known for particularly happy songs, the early years of the band were the typical R&B/Rock songs about girls or The Man that you had out of the Beatles or the Stones. Then came "A Quick One While He's Away", about a woman having an affair while her lover is gone, and ultimately being forgiven for it. A few years later came ''Tommy'', a full on rock opera that has a young boy go deaf, dumb, and blind after the shock of seeing his missing presumed dead father return and kills his wife's lover. It goes downhill from there. The next rock opera, ''Quadrophenia'', is a story about a speed addicted, sanity slipping mod named Jimmy. Attempted suicide, fights with police, fallen idols, dangerous obsession over girls, and mental illness are just a few things touched on in the album. It was followed up by the darkest album the band ever made, ''The Who By Numbers''. It has long been regarded as "Pete Townshend's suicide note". All the darkness in ''Tommy'' and ''Quadrophenia'', but directed inward at Pete.

28th Jan '13 2:33:08 PM AnthonyMercer

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that's a different trope

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28th Jan '13 2:32:49 PM AnthonyMercer

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that's a different trope

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15th Jan '13 3:20:00 PM PhillyDom

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