10 Rock Bands With 2 Masterpiece Music Albums

10. The Who

When the Who were first cutting their teeth in the Mod scene in England, Pete Townshend was always looking for something more than just generic rock and roll. While songs like I Can't Explain and My Generation may have set the world on fire and given way to more savage forms of rock and roll, Pete was looking to make a grand statement about what music meant to people. Music could move you in ways that you had never thought of, and Tommy was the first time where the group took to the theatre.

Framing the album as a rock opera, Townshend envisioned the story of Tommy as a deaf, dumb, and blind kid who finds refuge through music before being pulled back down to Earth by the establishment and remaining in his self imposed bubble for the rest of his life. This may have been groundbreaking for the time, but Townshend aimed even bigger for his next opera Lifehouse, which never fully got off the ground due to the band not understanding the concept and Pete suffering a near-breakdown trying to make it all comprehensible.

For as amazing as Lifehouse would have been, the table scraps for it gave us Who's Next, which gave us some of the purest rock and roll ever committed to tape, from starting a revolution on Baba O'Riley to using music to take on the world with Won't Get Fooled Again. Quadrophenia may have been the last of the epics, but Tommy and Who's Next marked the end of psychedelia and suggested that music was for more than fun. On its best day, it could change the world.