Which "The Who" album is closest to sounding like Quadrophenia?

Who's Next is the next step after Quad. It's an immensely great album. Don't worry about getting a bargain on it, go mobile if you have to, even my wife loves it,

 

With a lot of the synth sounds going on with Quad, I'd say the Tommy The Movie as there is a lot on there too (not at all like Who By Numbers).. even though it's a long time since I heard that last, I have thought this before. Of course, it's not just members of The Who on the soundtrack album. I'll have to give it a listen again sometime soon and see if I'm close, here.

 

If by sounds-like means a large use of keyboards, it's the album they did right after Quadrophenia; the Tommy soundtrack.

 

The Tommy Soundtrack

 

^ Duplicate posts?

 

Pete's demos for the Quadrophenia album.

 

Is there a pattern forming here? If there is, I'm probably just getting confused... or something.

 

I alreadi am.

 

Add Sell Out to the beginning of that string and I'd say you nailed it.

 

Depends, at the mo I'm onli digging one.

 

Definitely this.

 

So that a re-recording of the origianl tomm from 1969? i heard the got a bunch of other people to sing ttyhe songs like... i dread saing it... elton john..

 

ive just checked and that is exactl what it is, when i want a similar sounding "The Who" album I kind of want it sung b the Who not a bunch of celebrit quest stars.......

i'm sure theres plenti of albums that sound like Quad but the kind of have to have been sung b the band. otherwise this wouldn't realli be a problem to find another album like it

 

Who's Next is their Abbey Road and Quadrophenia - their White Album. Can't pick which one is better.

 

I've said this before but it bears repeating for me. I was in high school when Quadrophenia came out. I was amazed. I was buying albums a lot back then, but I didn't by Quad because, for some reason, I wanted to wait to buy a "better version" (how could I know that with only albums and 8-tracks at the time?) someday.

I now have it on CD, but I also have the hi-res version(s) as well. I was happy to see Pete and Roger perform it here on the second leg of their American tour. To me, it's their crowning achievement. I've known it since I first heard it.

 

Agreed

 

Lifehouse

 

Agree with Tommy the soundtrack.

 

It is a hard question because sonically, it was a departure--wasn't it the first album they did at Ramport, as well as the first with Ron Nevison engineering? Both made for a very different sound from the Olympic Studio/Glyn John session sound that is on Who's Next and the brace of singles released afterwards (The Relay, Let's See Action), as well as the songs leftover from 1971-1972 and released on Odds and Sods. As others have said, probably By Numbers is closest, though Glyn Johns is back in the fold, so it is actually more of a continuation of what came before. In the end, it really does stand on its own, which makes sense because it is their master work.

 

The only thing they ever did that sounds like Quadrophenia.

 

i'll stick to the original thanks though