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Edit lightly
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When in doubt, ask the crowd
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this song doesn't have any meaning. it's just an overture of the entire album, like the one in tommy
except toimmy's overture does contain some plot, (captai walker didn't come home) but it's just basically parts of the songs in the album put into a suite.
listening to album for first time, and plot a little hard to follow, so i am looking up lyrics to see if that will make it easier to follow. really good though, only a quarter through and one of my favorite albums already. also, i looked up quadrophenia in the dictionary. found quadrophenic, and it means sounds from 4 different points. bassically, the sound of four.
I think you found 'quadrophonic.' Around the time the album was being developed, quadrophonic sound systems were being developed, essentially doubling the stereo effect, so instead of 2 different layers of sound coming out of two speakers, they made 4 different layers of sound come out of 4 speakers. Quadrophenia was being designed to make the most of that effect (like the "me, me, me, me" part at the end of "Can you see the real me" was designed to rotate from speaker to speaker, around and around.
I think you found 'quadrophonic.' Around the time the album was being developed, quadrophonic sound systems were being developed, essentially doubling the stereo effect, so instead of 2 different layers of sound coming out of two speakers, they made 4 different layers of sound come out of 4 speakers. Quadrophenia was being designed to make the most of that effect (like the "me, me, me, me" part at the end of "Can you see the real me" was designed to rotate from speaker to speaker, around and around.
Ultimately the technology went belly up, because people only have...
Ultimately the technology went belly up, because people only have two ears and two-speaker stereo was determined to handle everything that a four-speaker system was thought to be able to do.
"quadrophenia" is adapted from "quad" and "schizophrenia", by which they acutally meant multiple personality disorder; schizophrenia and MPD are often confused.
The song is clearly divided in four parts, representing JImmys personalities. Its a prelude to the rest of the album, some parts of other songs are even paraphrased.
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this song doesn't have any meaning. it's just an overture of the entire album, like the one in tommy except toimmy's overture does contain some plot, (captai walker didn't come home) but it's just basically parts of the songs in the album put into a suite.
listening to album for first time, and plot a little hard to follow, so i am looking up lyrics to see if that will make it easier to follow. really good though, only a quarter through and one of my favorite albums already. also, i looked up quadrophenia in the dictionary. found quadrophenic, and it means sounds from 4 different points. bassically, the sound of four.
I think you found 'quadrophonic.' Around the time the album was being developed, quadrophonic sound systems were being developed, essentially doubling the stereo effect, so instead of 2 different layers of sound coming out of two speakers, they made 4 different layers of sound come out of 4 speakers. Quadrophenia was being designed to make the most of that effect (like the "me, me, me, me" part at the end of "Can you see the real me" was designed to rotate from speaker to speaker, around and around.
I think you found 'quadrophonic.' Around the time the album was being developed, quadrophonic sound systems were being developed, essentially doubling the stereo effect, so instead of 2 different layers of sound coming out of two speakers, they made 4 different layers of sound come out of 4 speakers. Quadrophenia was being designed to make the most of that effect (like the "me, me, me, me" part at the end of "Can you see the real me" was designed to rotate from speaker to speaker, around and around.
Ultimately the technology went belly up, because people only have...
Ultimately the technology went belly up, because people only have two ears and two-speaker stereo was determined to handle everything that a four-speaker system was thought to be able to do.
this song is about a guy with four different personalaties.
I know what you mean about the plot being hard to follow. Quadrophenia is more the soundtrack to a story rather than an actual narrative.
Read about it here:
http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Quadrophenia
Very interesting!
"quadrophenia" is adapted from "quad" and "schizophrenia", by which they acutally meant multiple personality disorder; schizophrenia and MPD are often confused.
The song is clearly divided in four parts, representing JImmy
s personalities. Its a prelude to the rest of the album, some parts of other songs are even paraphrased.