{"id":115835,"date":"2021-07-25T15:56:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T19:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=115835"},"modified":"2021-07-25T15:56:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T19:56:44","slug":"remembering-thunderfingers-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=115835","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Thunderfingers – Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been listening to a bit of classic Who lately.\u00a0 One of the albums I\u2019ve listened to was their 1973 release Quadrophenia<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Yeah, you guessed it:\u00a0 what follows is another musical \u201cwalkabout\u201d.\u00a0 You have been warned.\u00a0 (smile)<\/p>\n

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IMO Quadrophenia<\/em> is generally the \u201cforgotten\u201d studio album from The Who\u2019s peak decade (1969-1978).\u00a0 The other albums from that time frame (Tommy<\/em>, Who\u2019s Next<\/em>, By Numbers<\/em>, and Who Are You<\/em>) all had at least one memorable single that got plenty of airplay.\u00a0 Quadrophenia<\/em> unfortunately really didn\u2019t.\u00a0 And in any case, any follow-up to the marvelous 1-2 combination of Tommy<\/em> and Who\u2019s Next <\/em>was going to be tough.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a pity.\u00a0 It allows people to forget that Quadrophenia<\/em> was actually The Who\u2019s highest-charting US album (#2 Billboard, having been denied #1 by Elton John\u2019s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road<\/em>), and was a huge sales and critical success.\u00a0 And it allows people to forget that it contained some of their best \u2013 though today, lesser-known \u2013 tunes.<\/p>\n

It also contains more of the late John Entwistle\u2019s best bass guitar work.\u00a0 Frankly, I was guilty of having forgotten Quadrophenia<\/em> when I wrote my original \u201cRemembering Thunderfingers\u201d article a couple of years ago<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 If I hadn\u2019t forgotten it, one or two of these tunes would have almost certainly been included.<\/p>\n

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Here are four absolutely excellent tunes from the album.\u00a0 The first two in particular highlight Entwistle at his thunderous best (though his work is IMO wonderful on all of them).\u00a0 The first is even more exceptional because Entwistle recorded the bass track for that tune in a single take \u2013 reportedly his first – as (presumably) a “throwaway” while simply messing around in the studio and didn\u2019t really expect it to be used.\u00a0 The rest of the band liked it so much that it was used, as-is, on the album.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the last two highlight Daltry at perhaps his vocal best.\u00a0 The last track has been called one of – if not THE – finest studio vocal from Daltry\u2019s Who career.<\/p>\n

Here ya go.\u00a0 Enjoy.<\/p>\n

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