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| Track Listing | The Who's Tommy remastered for SACD £14.99 | |
| The incredible sound quality that this clasic album has is alone more than sufficient to excite Who fans but the added bonus of an extra CD makes this package extra special. CD two includes tracks that have never been available - before, highlights includes Dogs (part 2)the B side of the Pinball Wizard single and a Townshend sung track Trying to get Through . The banter between the band show how well the band got on in the studio at the time of the recording. In addition there are five stereo only out takes . Given the importance of this album to Polydor and its importance to the SACD format this album will be launched at a reception in Ronnie Scotts on Thursday January 13th. The historic significance of the venue is that Tommy was first performed at this venue when originally released and this is the "spin" for the event plus we sHamelessly steal the Sony line on the Dylan releases Disc 2 - out takes and demos Tracklisting Side : 1 1. Overture Original Album Version 2.It's A Boy Original Album Version 3. 1921 Original Album Version 4. Amazing Journey Original Album Version 5. Sparks Original Album Version 6. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker) Original Album Version 7. Christmas Original Album Version 8. Cousin Kevin Original Album Version 9. The Acid Queen Original Album Version 10. Underture Original Album Version 11. Do You Think It's Alright Original Album Version 12. Fiddle About Original Album Version 13. Pinball Wizard Original Album Version 14. There's A Doctor Original Album Vertsion 15. Go To The Mirror! Original Album Version 16. Tommy Can You Hear Me? Original Album Version 17. Smash The Mirror Original Album Version 18. Sensation Original Album Version 19. Miracle Cure Original Album Version 20. Sally Simpson Original Album Version 21. I'm Free Original Studio Version 22. Welcome Original Album Version 23. Tommy's Holiday Camp Original Album Version 24. We're Not Gonna Take It Original Album Edit 25. Listening To You / See Me, Feel Me Original Album Edit Side : 2 1.I Was 2. Christmas (Out Take 3) 3. Cousin Kevin Model Child 4.Young Man Blues (Version 1) 5. Tommy Can You Hear Me? (alternate version) 6. Trying To Get Through 7. Sally Simpson (out takes) 8. Miss Simpson 9. Welcome (Take 2) 10. Tommy's Holiday Camp (band's version) 11. We're Not Gonna Take It (Alternate version) 12. Dogs 13. It's A Boy stereo only version 14. Amazing Journey stereo only version 15. Christmas stereo only version 16. Do You Think It's Alright stereo only version 17. Pinball Wizard stereo only version |
Pete Townshend has remixed The Who's Tommy album for SACD and 5.1 Surround Sound. "Tommy can you hear me?" will be heard like never before with the hybrid SACD (Super Audio CD) release on October 28, 2003 of the double-disc TOMMY - DELUXE EDITION (MCA/UMe). One of the pre-eminent rock albums in history, TOMMY - DELUXE EDITION marks the most significant album to be first issued on a hybrid SACD, a disc which offers three formats: SACD 5.1 Surround Sound, SACD Stereo and CD Stereo. Only a hybrid SACD can be played in CD players as well as SACD-capable players. Says The Who's Pete Townshend, who digitally remixed the album from the original master tapes: "To be able to listen to TOMMY in what is master quality audio, just as Roger, John, Keith and I did in the studio so many years ago, is a special experience -- and completely new for fans of The Who and the album. This is what TOMMY was meant to sound like and I couldn't be happier that the public will finally hear it the way it was intended." Disc 1 features the complete original album in 5.1 Surround Sound, SACD Stereo and CD Stereo (all remastered by Jon Astley, Townshend's catalog reissue collaborator). Disc 2 brings together 12 rare or previously unreleased outtakes (such as "I Was" and "Miss Simpson") and alternate versions (such as for "Tommy Can You Hear Me?," "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "Christmas") in SACD 5.1, SACD and CD Stereo, plus four never-before-released demos ("It's A Boy," "Amazing Journey," "Christmas" and "Do You Think It's Alright?") in SACD and CD Stereo. The package also features liner notes and copies of some of Townshend's original handwritten and typed lyrics. The first "rock opera," TOMMY tells of a "deaf, dumb, and blind kid" who witnessed traumatic events in his adolescence. Released in 1969, the album was hailed by both rock critics and the mainstream press. Life magazine wrote that "for sheer power, invention, and brilliance of performance, TOMMY outstrips anything that has ever come out of a recording studio." TOMMY includes such classics as "I'm Free," "Sensation," "We're Not Gonna Take It," "Pinball Wizard," "The Acid Queen," "Eyesight To The Blind," "See Me Feel Me/Listening To You" and the 10-minute instrumental "Underture." Its success, bolstered by tours of Europe and the U.S. and the movie WOODSTOCK, turned The Who into superstars. TOMMY also introduced a new audience to rock music as the band played some of the world's most celebrated opera houses and luminaries such as Leonard Bernstein praised the work. TOMMY has since been performed as a play, a 1975 film starring Roger Daltrey and a 1993 Broadway musical which earned five Tony Awards (the West End version was nominated for eight prestigious Olivier Awards). |
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