srsly tho why did they both name a songy character Rael
iirc, Peter Gabriel was a massive Who fan, and named his character Rael as an homage. Also, Townshend's Rael is a place, not a person ("the womb of my religion/to me, the center of the earth").
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 18 February 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
should poll the reissue bonus tracksmelancholia v glow girl
The funny thing is, the Who are generally seen as not being nearly as prolific as their contemporaries, but there's at least another double album from this period lurking among the outtakes and non-LP singles/b-sides.
"Melancholia," though, is a bit of an outlier; it was recorded after Sell Out was released.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 18 February 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
Like Tommy fine but the theme is kinda heavy which seems to weigh down or lessen some of the individual songs whereas here the theme is merely a kind of a framing story, allowing for these interesting little character studies or in places just being ignored altogether.
Halfway through first listen to the PH a capella cover album, the cumulative effect is pretty amazing.
― Dalai Mixture (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 February 2012 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
Rejected James Redd screenname:Sotorono
― Dalai Mixture (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 February 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
cranked Armenia on the way home from the supermarket
― i think you'd be cool to meet. i bet we'd have a lot to talk about (buzza), Sunday, 19 February 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
...there's at least another double album from this period lurking among the outtakes and non-LP singles/b-sides.― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, February 18, 2012 5:57 PM
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, February 18, 2012 5:57 PM
There's a pretty remarkable 40 non-LP A- and B-sides (bolded) in their U.K singles discography:
--1964Zoot Suit / I'm the Face (as The High Numbers)--1965I Can't Explain / Bald Headed WomanAnyway, Anyhow, Anywhere / Daddy Rolling Stone (UK single) / Anytime You Want Me (US single)My Generation / Shout and Shimmy--1966Substitute / Circles (Instant Party)A Legal Matter / Circles (Instant Party)The Kids Are Alright / The OxI'm a Boy / In the CityLa-La-La-Lies / The Good's GoneHappy Jack / I've Been AwayReady Steady Who EP: Disguises / Circles (Alternate Version) / Batman / Bucket T / Barbara Ann--1967Pictures of Lily / Doctor, DoctorThe Last Time / Under My ThumbI Can See for Miles / Someone's Coming--1968Dogs / Call Me LightningMagic Bus / Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--1969Pinball Wizard / Dogs Part 2I'm Free / Tommy, Can You Hear Me?--1970The Seeker / Here For MoreSummertime Blues (Live) / Heaven and HellSee Me, Feel Me / Overture from Tommy--1971Won't Get Fooled Again / I Don't Even Know MyselfLet's See Action / When I Was a BoyBehind Blue Eyes / Going MobileBaba O'Riley / My Wife--1972Join Together / Baby Don't You Do It (Live)The Relay / Wasp Man--19735.15 / WaterLove, Reign o'er Me / Water
A lot of these have been rereleased on the remastered CDs from the '90s, but there's still 7 or 8 that you can only get on some of the old rarities collections, including Entwistle's incredible "When I Was a Boy":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u64J7lTs_MU
That should have been an album cut.
And why haven't they put out a remastered version of Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy? A lot of it might be redundant if you own everything else, but it's a perfect comp, and I don't own a remastered version of "Substitute" for fuck's sake (the version on the 30 Years box is the Live at Leeds version).
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 19 February 2012 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
The Last Time/Under My Thumb?
― Dalai Mixture (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 February 2012 03:49 (twelve years ago) link
Yup:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWf3O8EG75Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIjO2x2Js9g&feature=related
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 19 February 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
"Special Announcement: The Who consider Mick Jagger & Keith Richard have been treated as scapegoats for the drug problem and as a protest against the savage sentences imposed on them at Chichester yesterday. The WHO are issuing today the first of a series of Jagger/Richard songs to keep their work before the public until they are again free to record themselves."
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 19 February 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
no one voting for 'armenia city'? that song is so huge
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Saturday, 18 February 2012 18:39 (Yesterday)
it got my vote!
― sleeve, Sunday, 19 February 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
There's a remastered "Substitute" on the 2004 Then & Now compilation, which also has the better-than-expected 2004 tracks "Real Good Looking Boy" and "Old Red Wine."
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 19 February 2012 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
I was always hoping to stumble across Then & Now in a used bin.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 19 February 2012 04:42 (twelve years ago) link
which also has the better-than-expected 2004 tracks "Real Good Looking Boy" and "Old Red Wine."
Yes. The 2000s Who is better than people realize. Mike Post Theme from Endless Wire is an alltime classic, the best Who or Who-related song since the early 70s.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 19 February 2012 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
I've got a cool legit German Polydor disc that has 25 of those stray tracks on it.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 19 February 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
"Special Announcement: The Who consider Mick Jagger & Keith Richard have been treated as scapegoats for the drug problem and as a protest against the savage sentences imposed on them at Chichester yesterday."
Can't remember where I read it, but Jagger concluded this was nothing more than an attempt to steal their "stronger" material. Those limey rock stars.
I voted for I Can't Reach You, a song that has a lot of personal meaning for me. Love this whole thing (and the bonus tracks) to bits, tho
― Trip Maker, Sunday, 19 February 2012 05:22 (twelve years ago) link
If that's Rarities, Vol. 1 & 2, I've got it; I even had the double vinyl back in the early '80s. I listened the hell out of those records, and the two Missing collections from a few years later.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 19 February 2012 05:55 (twelve years ago) link
According to Dave Marsh in Before I Get Old, Jagger's response was, "Peter, you're a gentleman." Perfect.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 19 February 2012 06:19 (twelve years ago) link
My vote went to "I Can See For Miles." Granted, a predictable choice (I came close to voting for "Heinz Baked Beans" -- none of the Who's peers dared put anything as defiantly comedic on a record). But it perfectly encapsulates one the Who's engagingly myriad contradictions: it was a perfect encapsulation of their live sound, but was rarely played live. And it's as soaring as it is biting. Also, Daltrey never sneered better.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 19 February 2012 07:35 (twelve years ago) link
That's it. Found it for $5 at a Half-Price Books a couple years ago. Had never heard of it before, but it's easily one of the best official Who comps ever.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 19 February 2012 07:41 (twelve years ago) link
Felt lucky and privileged to see them play both Tattoo and I Can See For Miles at the LA stop on the 1982 tour.
Voted I Can't Reach You. Always wanted to record a Spacemen 3-styles take on Armenia
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, 19 February 2012 08:20 (twelve years ago) link
If we included extras I'd go for Melancholia, possibly my favourite Who song. That leaves an impossible choice. I Can See for Miles is extraordinary sonic bombast, I Can't Reach You pop genius, Sunrise just beautiful. Even the ads have wit, charm and style.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 19 February 2012 11:34 (twelve years ago) link
Has to be "Miles". "Tattoo" is my next favourite.
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 February 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
Jagger's response was, "Peter, you're a gentleman." Perfect.Oh maybe it was keef.
― Trip Maker, Sunday, 19 February 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
Just listened to this on the new Japanese remaster of Who's Missing. What a tremendous song. If Townshend wasn't so insistent that every Who album be A MAJOR STATEMENT, they could've put out a killer 1972 record with the Lifehouse leftovers and b-sides like this.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 23 February 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
really tempted to vote for 'i can see for miles' because it's the only who anthem that never sounds even a little bit tired or overplayed to me even after a hundred listens, whereas i'd be completely happy to hop into that alternate universe posited upthread where the who turn into the non-twee kinks and 'baba o'riley' and 'won't get fooled again' and 'who are you' never get to exist. but i'll probably vote for 'mary anne' because it has the best title of any who song.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
xpost there is an album called "The Ox", it contains all the Entwistle songs up to that point.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 06:56 (twelve years ago) link
whereas i'd be completely happy to hop into that alternate universe posited upthread where the who turn into the non-twee kinks and 'baba o'riley' and 'won't get fooled again' and 'who are you' never get to exist.
^i dont wanna live in this alternate universe
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
Going through the "Quadrophenia" deluxe edition notes, it seemed there was an idea to have the 'story' songs alongside some 'pop music' stuff, but they couldn't work out how to knit them together without them appearing disjointed.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
This is one of those v minor nuisances one should never even voice, but it's bothered me since the day I bought the CD that the spine saysTHE WH0 SELL OUTwith a zero in their name like it's a copy of Mechanical Animals.
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I noticed that.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
I Can't Reach You. It always stuns me - I just stop and listen intently whenever I hear it. So, so lovely. But I admit I could have easily voted for I Can See For Miles or Armenia City In The Sky.
― Foster The Hoople (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Friday, 24 February 2012 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
I must confess, I haven't listened to this album for quite some time, but looking at the tracklisting now I could pick out a few tracks that would definitely go on a personal Who best-of. I did go for 'Odorono', but it could have been several tracks. I do prefer the version of 'Tattoo' on Live At Leeds though.
― Turrican, Friday, 24 February 2012 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
armenia
― da croupier, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
tattoo
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
I Can't Reach You
― fatmamakick, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
― some dude, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
tatto
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 6 July 2012 07:23 (eleven years ago) link
fuck, tattoo
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 6 July 2012 07:24 (eleven years ago) link
And yet, there's one song that'll probably win by miles..
― Mark G, Friday, 6 July 2012 08:27 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 7 July 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Actually somewhat shocked that "Sunrise" didn't get any votes.
― Chuck? Chuck? It's me, your cousin, Marvin D (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 7 July 2012 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
must have been a lot of lurkers, huh? don't remember ICSFM getting lots of shout outs in the thread...
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 7 July 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
One of the rare albums I always listen to as an album, never in tracks. The sheer sound of this album, and of Piper at the Gates of Dawn, are the peak of a certain kind of big but crisp psychedelic production aesthetic that I can't describe without lapsing into metaphors from old soft drink commercials.
― Vic Perry, Saturday, 7 July 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
don't remember ICSFM getting lots of shout outs in the thread
obvious truths don't need shoutouts
― j., Saturday, 7 July 2012 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
alright then!
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 7 July 2012 04:52 (eleven years ago) link
"Relax" is full of good life advice.
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
And yet, there's one song that'll probably win by miles..― Mark G, Friday, 6 July 2012 08:27 (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Mark G, Friday, 6 July 2012 08:27 (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That'll be five pounds, thanks.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 09:02 (eleven years ago) link
Heinz Baked Beans 1
nutter...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 09:03 (eleven years ago) link
Nothing for Sunrise. Wish I'd voted for it now
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link