-- Who - Tommy (Hybr) (Dlx) | (Audio CD) MSRP $ 29.98 Amazon Price $ 26.99 Savings $ 2.99 | |  Release Date: 28 October, 2003, Geffen Records
TRACK LISTING - Overture
- It`s a Boy
- 1921
- Amazing Journey
- Sparks
- Eyesight to the Blind (The Hawker)
- Christmas
- Cousin Kevin
- Acid Queen
- Underture
- Do You Think It`s Alright?
- Fiddle About
- Pinball Wizard
- There`s a Doctor
- Go to the Mirror
- Tommy, Can You Hear Me?
- Smash the Mirror
- Sensation
- Miracle Cure
- Sally Simpson
- I`m Free
- Welcome
- Tommy`s Holiday Camp
- We`re Not Gonna Take It
- See Me, Feel Me/Listening to You
- I Was
- Christmas [Outtake 3]
- Cousin Kevin Model Child
- Young Man Blues [Version 1]
- Tommy, Can You Hear Me? [Alternate Version]
- Trying to Get Through
- Sally Simpson [Outtakes] [Outtake]
- Miss Simpson
- Welcome [Take 2]
- Tommy`s Holiday Camp [Band`s Version]
- We`re Not Gonna Take It [Alternate Version]
- Dogs, Pt. 2
- It`s a Boy [Stereo Only Demo]
- Amazing Journey [Stereo Only Demo]
- Christmas [Stereo Only Demo]
- Do You Think It`s Alright? [Stereo Only Demo]
- Pinball Wizard [Stereo Only Demo]
Usually ships in 24 hours | | | This is a great CD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | | The New Mix of a classic. Tommy Deluxe has 42 songs on two CD`s over two hours of Music. A must for any who fan | | | | A must-buy for Who fans with SACD players! | | If you`ve only got a standard CD player and have the _original_ CD release of Tommy (not the mid `90`s remaster), you may want to hold off on this purchase. The stereo track hasn`t been remixed at all, and the bonus disc, while novel, isn`t anything you`ll be listening to over and over. If you`re used to the 1990`s remaster, you`ll notice some differences, though. Which version you like better will pretty much be personal preference, as both have their merits. However, the 5.1 SACD layer was remastered by Pete Townshend himself. It extends at least one track slightly, brings out instruments and effects that weren`t really audible before, and adds some nice, largely pretty subtle, surround effects. It really is almost like hearing the album "for the first time again," as the cliche goes! The first thing I did when I bought my SACD player was to throw this disc on and sit quietly listening to the album, beginning to end. It would have been nice to have the stereo CD audio layer contained a stereo-downmixed version of this surround remix, since it changes much more than just speaker placement of the music, but it`s also nice that the CD contains the original version for historical purposes, along with the new, redone 5.1 version. | | | | The Who`s rock opera in deluxe style 35 years later | | The Who`s fourth studio album Tommy was released in May of 1969. This album was the make or break for the group because if Tommy had failed, The Who would have probably disbanded. Guitarist Pete Townshend came up with a rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind kid named Tommy whom becomes those aforementioned things after witnessing an event as a child that traumatized him(his father killing his step-father whom he considered his father). Alot of classics appear on this album like the Overture, Pinball Wizard, Amazing Journey, the Underture(best instrumental on here), Go to the Mirror, I`m Free, Cousin Kevin(one of bassist John Entwistle`s greatest compositions), Fiddle About(about the perverted Uncle Ernie), Tommy`s Holiday Camp(another excellent ditty written by drummer Keith Moon whom did an excellent rendition in the film version of Tommy in 1975) and the finale We`re Not Gonna Take It among many other classics. The 1996 remaster used different masters for the remixed reissue. However, this version uses the very original tapes that were found in Universal`s vault after being said that the original tapes were destroyed by Kit Lambert in a fire. As a result of the discovery of the original tapes, the sound quality is amazing on here. I have yet to hear the surround mix but I know it will be great. Disc two has great outtakes and demos like I Was, The Who trying to record Sally Simpson with hilarious results and instrumental versions of Tommy Can You Hear Me and Tommy`s Holiday Camp among many other rarities. Highly recommended. | | |
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