The Who's Quadrophenia (whole album)

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The Who's Quadrophenia (whole album)

Post by KidEgo » Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:22 pm

I have an ambitious idea on my mind that might or might not be impossible to do. A whole AMV set to The Who's whole Quadrophenia album. For those that aren't familiar with the story of Quadrophenia:
Wikipedia wrote:The story covers about five days of the life of Jimmy Cooper, a participant in the circa 1964 Mod lifestyle in England, the son of simple working-class folk. "The story is set on a rock!" announced the composer, Pete Townshend, at one live performance, indicating that the opera represents Jimmy's looking back at the events of the previous day or two that led him into the gloomy situation where he finds himself at the end of the story. The narrative is difficult to derive from the lyrics alone, but becomes clearer with the benefit of a short story (also written by Townshend) related from Jimmy's first person perspective, that is included in the album's booklet.

The first half of the opera consists of songs that allude to the frustrations and insecurities that govern Jimmy's life, including brief glimpses of his home life, his job, his psychoanalyst, and his unsuccessful attempts to have a social life. Jimmy feels idle and unsure of himself after a bank holiday weekend he spent at Brighton Beach some time before where he participated in a brawl between the Mod movement he belonged to and a group of "leather clad Rockers". Halfway through the opera he sings "I've Had Enough", finds himself kicked out of his home when his parents find his box of 'blues' (valium) and in a fit of depression, wrecks his prized scooter. Distraught and with nothing better to do, Jimmy takes a large dose of blues and takes a train ride to the coast ("5:15", the time when the train departs.) where he once felt truly alive and accepted.

During his stay near the beach in Brighton, he encounters the former "Ace Face", the leader of a group of Mods, whom he admires greatly. However, "Ace Face" works as a bell boy at a nearby hotel. Ironically this is the very same hotel Ace Face had smashed the windows of two days before. This display of masculine bravado had earned him the admiration of many of his fellow Mods two days before during Jimmy's first stay in Brighton. Jimmy is disgusted to learn that the person he had admired as a Mod had "sold out".

At this point Jimmy is inconsolable. Everybody from his parents to his girlfriend had disappointed him before, but he had never expected the Mod lifestyle to let him down. Drunk and depressed, he steals a small outboard-driven rowboat and takes it out to a barren rock protruding from the sea, where he endures a psychological crash. With his life's worries splayed out in front of him in detail he then faces the fact that his boat has drifted off, he's coming down from his high off pills and gin, and is now stranded on the rock as a storm rages around him. With nothing left to live for, he finds a spiritual redemption in pouring rain ("Love, Reign o'er Me").
What anime would meet this qualification? I only want to use one anime, because using a bunch of different animes for each individual song wouldn't make sense. Also, two of the 17 songs are instrumentals.
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