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Title: Oblique, but still powerful
Review: "Quadrophenia" is so orchestral in parts that it nearly drowns out the power of The Who. It is obvious that by this point in his career, songwriter Pete Townshend had reached a sort of creative overdrive (which he would gear down considerably on the band's next album, "The Who by Numbers"). Nevertheless, there are a lot of tremendous performances on this record. It climaxes with "Love Reign o'er Me," one of the finest ever vocal performances by lead singer Roger Daltrey. Not as good as "Tommy," but still very much worth owning.
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