The Who - Overture

From the album "Tommy".
Written by Pete Townshend.

Captain Walker
Didn't come home
His unborn child,
Will never know him
Believe him missing
With a number of men
Don't expect
To see him again.

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[MangoPudding21]

I am 15 and I just discovered this 2 days ago. I must have listened the whole thing about 16 times now. So incredible I can't believe this exists. Why don't they make music like this anymore?

Pretentious? this coming from critics who sit in a room, don't write music, and tell people what to like and not like framing it as if their opinion was fact? Nonsense: best album I've ever heard

[oberfour1]

Imagine how the guys in the band felt when the finished product all came together.

I bet scared the hell out of them it was so good.

No other band posessed magic like this.

[jimstoldt95]

i'm 16 and i grew up on this shit. one of the first albums i heard! i'm lucky to be raised with the music of the older generation, yet unlucky to not have been born then. however the music still lives on!

[HeartoftheDragonColo]

@HeartoftheDragonColo I meant to add groundbreaking and recognized as such.

[HeartoftheDragonColo]

@Logg66 The Wall is great, but Tommy established the Rock Opera genre, along with Jesus Christ Superstar. Everything else followed their example.

[HeartoftheDragonColo]

@MangoPudding21 I am very jealous of you, Mango. I discovered it when I was about your age, when Tommy was new. That was over 40 years ago and it is still fresh to me. Also check out the songs from Who's Next (Behind Blue Eyes, Getting In Tune, Baba O'Riley & all the rest). The Who was a powerful creative force in music in their time, and still today. Critics are idiots, generally speaking, but at the time it was groundbreaking.

[lastrada52]

Freaking Keith Moon could not be touched during this period. Not the greatest drummer who ever played but damn...the most consistently creative aggressive basher I ever heard. A drummer unto himself. Who inspired him? Probably thunder itself. RIP Keith.

[lastrada52]

@freak49 - I couldn't have said it better. Absolutely.

[jhoch5]

two hundred years from now there will be entire classes devoted to the study of Pete Townshend's compositions

[kiwikat]

I put Quadrophenia above Tommy and The Wall. However I absolutely love all three. Can't listen to them enough!

[Logg66]

In the world of Rock Shows/ operas that tell a story.. I'm split but for the sake that I'm here.. a TIE between this and The Wall by Pink Floyd. def listen to the wall if you gotta chance.

Pax vobiscum

[ondelamb]

My favorite album of all time. A few years ago I brought this CD with me to an electronics store to test out a new CD player I wanted to buy. I cranked up the volume on he overture and everybody in the store just stopped talking and came over to find out who it was. That was amazing!