Suggest: Quadrophenia, The Who

Quadrophenia is the sixth studio album by the English rock band The Who, released in 1973 and is a double album, the group’s second rock opera. Its story involves social, musical and psychological happenings from an English teenage perspective, set in London and Brighton in 1964-1965. The name is a variation on the popular usage of the medical term schizophrenia, as a dissociative identity disorder to reflect the four distinct personalities of Jimmy, the opera’s protagonist — each said to represent the personality of one member of The Who.

I mean, check out the album art, at least. See the four mirrors? The four band members faces? Concepts like this are absolutely brilliant but are also completely obsolete. They just don’t make music like they used to...

Townshend noted in 2009 that, rather than Jimmy’s personalities representing a Who member, he chose the personalities of each member to illustrate each of Jimmy’s four personalities, or “personality extremes” or mood swings;

• A tough guy, a helpless dancer, (“Helpless Dancer” — Roger Daltrey)
• A romantic, is it me for a moment? (“Is it Me?” — John Entwistle)
• A bloody lunatic, I’ll even carry your bags. (“Bell Boy” — Keith Moon)
• A beggar, a hypocrite. (“Love Reign O’er Me” — Pete Townshend)