The Who: Tommy (Super Deluxe Edition)

[Bean Bag]

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     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.  





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.

[Outtasight!]

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.

[Jay]

 

[JK]

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!

[Bean Bag]

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.   

[Bean Bag]

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!

Underture was my favorite too.

[Jay]

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