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http://www.amazon.com/Tommy-Super-Deluxe-Edition-The/dp/B00DWVOPHI/ref=pd_sim_m_4

Personally, I may have burned myself out on Tommy when I was in high school, but I saw this set on Amazon.  If this is old news/been posted I apologize.

But I really like the packaging.  Looks to be 12x12.  Hardcover box.  Big book.  4 discs.  Poster.  I love it!!  Also there looks to be a Blu-Ray with hi-rez 5.1 mix.  Disc 1 say it's mastered in HD... but I think it's still a CD?

Either way the price is $140  :o   Even though there's a blu-ray... it's only four discs!  As I feared in the MiC price discussions, this appears to be the trend.  Premium prices, and then some.  By comparison and all things considered -- we look to have gotten off relatively easy with the MiC box.   :lol

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The Super Deluxe box also features a 5.1 mix featuring the complete album remixed in surround sound on new Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray format.

The hardback 80-page full-colour book features rare period photos, memorabilia, a 20,000-word essay by legendary Who aficionado Richard Barnes and a rare facsimile Tommy poster housed in a hard-back deluxe slip-case.

(Disc 1) The original album digitally re-matsered in HD.
(Disc 2) The demos and out-takes. Features 25 tracks (20 previously-unreleased) from Pete Townshend's archive. Tracks 1-23 - Pete Townshend original demos.
All previously unreleased except 2, 11 and 12 - released in 2003.
Track 24 - The Who studio demo/out-take.
Track 25 - The Who studio recording. (NOTE: This version was previously only available on 'The House That Track Built' vinyl sampler).
(Disc 3) The 5.1 album mix - Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray.
(Disc 4) The live 'bootleg' album - Features 21 previously-unreleased tracks from various live shows from 1969.

I've bought Tommy six times. The only album i've bought more editions of is pet sounds. This looks good but I'm unsure if I'll splash any more cash on that album.

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I've never liked Tommy. All at once it struck me why----it's too long and there's too much "filler". So, how about whittling it down to single LP format (no more than 22 minutes a side)?

This gave me:

Side One:
1. Overture
2. Amazing Journey
3. Sparks
4. The Hawker
5. Cousin Kevin
6. The Acid Queen
Side Two:
1. Pinball Wizard
2. Go To The Mirror
3. Tommy Can You Hear Me
4. Smash The Mirror
5. Sensation
6. I'm Free
7. We're Not Gonna Take It

...and a very satisfying listen it is too.

This did mean leaving out my favourite track, the long dark instrumental "Underture". However, as my slimmed-down Tommy is for a single LP, when burned to CD there will be plenty of room----as happens with all single LPs when transferred to the CD format----for at least one bonus track!

I was really into Tommy and The Wall as a kid.  But have little patience for rock operas now.  They're too contrived for me.  A relic of the 70s (or late 60s)

But... I do want an album to have a concept -- and to be a unified presentation, if that's not a contradiction.   :lol

Underture was my favorite too.

I always thought Rael would have been interesting in a full length rock opera/concept album.