• 英国传奇摇滚乐团1973年里程碑双碟,乐坛公认为定义mod文化的经典专辑,滚石杂志给予4颗半星优评
• 2011年全新数字化母带制作发行,由吉他手Pete Townshend担任制作人,加收11首初次曝光的试录作品及之前未收录的歌曲
The Who合唱团吉他手Pete Townshend在1973年回归他在摇滚歌剧概念专辑『Tommy』的创作风格,交出双CD里程碑经典大碟【Quadrophenia】,他表示:「这是我最骄傲的乐团作品。」
此套专辑描述英国mod族(*在压抑的现实中,越是要在时尚与性格上表现自我的族群)青年吉米在成长过程中深受四重人格影响的故事,同时也展现乐团在组团初期的mod 音乐风格(*融合美式爵士乐与节奏蓝调的英式摇滚乐),专辑中所投射的青少年不安与不满情绪,至今依然深获年轻世代的强烈共鸣,而Pete在歌曲创作上也突破70年代摇滚乐坛的视野与格局,乐坛公认为定义mod文化的经典专辑,当初在1973年发行时蝉连英、美流行专辑榜亚军,滚石杂志也给予4颗半星的评价。2011年此张专辑由Pete Townshend担任全新数字母带重制工程与专辑重新发行版的制作人,特别加收11首初次曝光的试录作品或之前未选入专辑中的歌曲。
The Who继Tommy之后的又一张摇滚歌剧专辑,首发于1973年,在商业方面虽不如Tommy那样成功,不过在Billboard排行榜上也排到第二,仅次于Elton John的Goodbye Yellow Brick Road。这部摇滚歌剧在1979年改编成了电影。在乐评界,这张专辑赢得了许多的荣誉,和Tommy一样,这是The Who乐队乃至“摇滚歌剧”的必听之作。
这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第266位。
Quadrophenia is the sixth studio album by English rock band The Who. Released on 19 October 1973 by Track and Polydor in the United Kingdom, and Track and MCA in the United States, it is a double album, and the group's second rock opera. Its story involves social, musical and psychological happenings from an English teenage perspective, set in London and Brighton in 1965.
The name is a variation on the popular usage of the medical diagnostic term schizophrenia as dissociative identity disorder, to reflect the four distinct personalities of Jimmy, the opera's protagonist – each said to represent the personality of one member of The Who. At the same time, the title is a play on the term quadraphonic sound, then a recent invention. Composer Pete Townshend has said: "The whole conception of Quadrophenia was geared to quadraphonic, but in a creative sort of way. I mean I wanted themes to sort of emerge from corners. So you start to get the sense of the fourness being literally speaker for speaker."