The Who - Lifehouse [Unreleased Rock Opera] Side 2 of 4

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Side 1 (Ray's Story) http://youtu.be/hxp7R31yl8M Side 2 (Mary/Jumbo's Story) 00:00 Bargain 05:30 Too Much of Anything 09:54 Greyhound Girl 12:54 Mary 17:09 Behind Blue Eyes Side 3 (Bobby's Story) http://youtu.be/7pb0ZOsnj1I Side 4 (The Lifehouse Concert) http://youtu.be/Uf7ijdbKFsg From http://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.ca/2012/09/the-who-lifehouse-soniclovenoize.html: By 1970, The Who were undoubtedly the top rock band in the world. After having released one of the first rock concept albums with The Who Sell Out in 1967, the first rock opera with Tommy and their messianic performance at Woodstock in 1969, and possibly one of the greatest live albums of all time with Live At Leeds in 1970, Pete Townshend had no choice but to up his own epic ante with the band's next release. His follow-up to a concept album and rock opera could only be a third conceptual, semi-operatic piece, but which also included a film tie-in and actual audience participation with the band's performance that would steer the direction and plotline of the album itself. As opposed to The Who's previous rock opera, each song would also be able to stand on its own without the need for musical interludes to propel the storyline and explain the previous song; each song would be self-sufficient. That album was to be called Lifehouse. Unfortunately, the Lifehouse's plot-line was so convoluted and unexplainable, its execution so elaborate and unfeasible, not even his Townshend's bandmates could comprehend it and the project was eventually scrapped. Instead, the best of the album's surviving songs became Who's Next in 1971. This is a reconstruction of what that double concept album/soundtrack called Lifehouse would have sounded like if it had been finished in 1971 as originally intended by The Who. The Story: In the album, pollution is so bad that the populace are forced to wear Lifesuits, suits that could simulate all experiences in a way that no one would have to leave home. The suits are plugged into a huge mainframe called the Grid, similar to today's Internet, but which also contains tubes for sleeping gas, food, and entertainment; supposedly, someone could live out tens of thousands of lifetimes in a very short period within the Grid. The Grid is controlled by a man named Jumbo. The story begins when a farming family in Scotland hear of a huge rock concert called Lifehouse occurring in London, a sort of post-apocalyptic Woodstock. Their daughter, Mary, runs away to join the concert. They don't wear Lifesuits because they are supposedly out of the pollution's range and they farm the crops that the government buys to feed the Lifesuiters. Bobby is the creator of Lifehouse. (Bobby was also the tentative name of the project for a time.) He is a hacker who broadcasts pirate radio signals advertising his concert, where the participants personal data are taken from them and converted into music, quite literally "finding your song". At the climax of the album, the authorities have surrounded the Lifehouse; then the perfect note rings forth through the combination of everybody's songs, they storm the place to find everybody has disappeared through a sort of musical Nirvana, and the people observing the concert through their Lifesuits have vanished as well.