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The Rock/Love Reign O'er Me

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Some Art from well...between the penultimate and final scene from Quadrophenia by The Who. The Album ending, not the shitty movie version.

The album follows a young mod, Jimmy, who is down on his luck. Throughout the course of the album, Jimmy develops multiple personality disorder with four different personalities (Not schizophrenic, but rather Quadrophenic.) The personalities are as follows:
- A helpless dancer; a tough guy
- A romantic
- A bloody lunatic
- A beggar; A hypocrite

Jimmy feels a deep spiritual connection to the water. And after he is kicked out of his home and makes some discoveries he'd rather not make, he finds himself drawn towards the beach. He takes a boat out to a lone rock in the middle of the sea, and as he comes down from his high, a storm rolls in and he finds his boat has drifted away. In "Love Reign O'er Me" it is up to the listener's interpretation. Does Jimmy find spiritual wholeness and find himself? Or does he succumb and let himself be drowned in the sea?

This is a depiction of the scene between Jimmy leaving the rock (The Rock), and the storm rolling in (Love Reign O'er Me).

So what does this mean? This is all about when your heart feels one thing and your head thinks another. It's about those times when you don't know who you are or what you want anymore - but you know who you want to become when it's all over. Some times it just feels like it would be easier to end it all. But does that make it right? For each trial and tribulation we face in life there comes a consequence. When the trial is all over do you come out a better person, or do you come out more fucked up than you were before? Some times it feels like you might not come back out at all.

When we are at our most desperate times - when we feel we are drowning, love rains down from an unknown source. For the religious among us, that source may be God; however I prefer to believe that it comes more from within. It's not quite karmic retribution, perhaps it's something closer to karmic forgiveness; it's through our greatest suffering that we learn to forgive ourselves for sins past.

Well at least that's my take on it, and I'm not going to let Pete Townshend tell me that I'm wrong, because that's what it means to me, dammit.

P.S. Quadrophenia is the greatest and perhaps the most meaningful album on the face of the planet. If you have not listened to it, listen to it. If you have, listen to it again.

Trivial Update: Saw The Who perform "Quadrophenia And More" at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh PA 11/11/12. Absolutely breath-taking performance
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StyloNoir's avatar
This is really cool; I love the surreal element in your style.