― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 06:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 06:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 06:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― happy jack, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 06:41 (eighteen years ago) link
I listen to the radio when not driving my own car. Mostly oldies radio but classic rock is on the presets usually.
― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 06:48 (eighteen years ago) link
"Don't let Colin M see this."
Saw it, wasn't offended, Douglas was absolutely right anyway (Heaven and Hell).
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 08:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Let's get this clear...I am NOT technology (Bimble...), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 08:26 (eighteen years ago) link
It did indeed 'born' the whole Classic Rock idiom.
That's how good it was.
I missed out on the whole "Who" love at the time, and got the 2CD version in a competition. And it's a big marvellous thing. Sure, I love "Who Sellout" more, but that is only to be expected, it's more human and has fragile moments and out and out comedy.
I admire it without necessarily loving it. (I certainly like it well enough)
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 09:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Craig Kenny (Dr X O'Skeleton), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 10:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Ned Raggett
but is a classic album just wish they hadn't sold out to everyone possible...
On a side note is Mark, Ryan?
― BeeOK (boo radley), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 10:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― happy jack, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
My Wife is funny, but not poignant. Heaven and Hell is funny and poignant. Postcard is funny but not that poignant.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't consider "Getting In Tune" bad at all, at the least for the part where Roger sings the "right in on you..." part, and Entwhistle and Moon kick things up a few notches, turning what was a ballad into a heavy rocker.
― James, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
since classic rock radio has no analogue in the U.K. (or does it? not sure), did '70s-era "rock and roll is IMPORTANT" 'Oo get shoved down yr throats?
i ask cuz i know lots of english ex-pats who never heard LZ—or at least were disinclined to check 'em out— until they moved to the US, since punk and new wave was opposed to dinoaur-ism.
― veronica moser (veronica moser), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
and Entwistle wrote a song for the 'Oo called "When I was a boy" that was "serious."
― veronica moser (veronica moser), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
It doesn't
did '70s-era "rock and roll is IMPORTANT" 'Oo get shoved down yr throats?
No reason for it, after punk
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
-- BeeOK
Not sure if this was addressed to me, but if so, Mark is Mark, not Ryan.
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Back to Who's Next, It's patchy and I think it's status as the first classic rock album puts it in a bad light but a lot of it isn't worth recommending. I'd say the essential Who is Live At Leeds, The Who Sell Out and that compliation from 2002. After that the orginal My Generation. I think you had to be there for Tommy and Quadrophenia, they are even more patchy than Who's Next
― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
As for Who's Next it's both classic and dud. Past 1967, Townshend's failures are generally pretty interesting and the sinking of Lifehouse results in a pretty outstanding rock album without all the conceptual blubber of hippie mysticism weighing it down. I'd dump some of the tracks with a couple of the Odds And Sods leftovers (really just "Pure And Easy" and "Naked Eye") though.
Who's Next also marks the point where the studio version of The Who completely separates from the live version of The Who. It's not surprising, Townshend has everything he needs to feed his maniac pursuit to whatever/wherever, but the one thing he can't do is get the live sound down of the 70s-era Who. Too bad, the live versions of "Won't Get...," "Baba...," and "My Wife" on The Kids Are Alright are still U & K and there's a live take of "Bargain" out there that's just amazing.
― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link
I think the biggest reason the Who haven't aged well is because of all the falsetto. It's terrible, and sucks all the masculine power out of every song. A shame, because they're pretty good otherwise.
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 6 September 2012 05:23 (eleven years ago) link
Where does he sing in falsetto?
― timellison, Thursday, 6 September 2012 05:36 (eleven years ago) link
i've always called this album a shit sandwich on golden bread."baba o'rielly" and "won't get fooled" again are amazing. the rest... shit.
― BringTheAuBonPain, Thursday, 6 September 2012 05:49 (eleven years ago) link
This album really isn't very good, is it? Case in point: The Song Is Over is like Yes if Yes were shit
― imago, Friday, 9 August 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
the song is over is nothing like yes
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Friday, 9 August 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
Even Baba O'Reilly commits the sin of ending just as it's getting interesting again
― imago, Friday, 9 August 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
ok if you think the intro and the outro are the best parts of baba o'riley then this album is just not for you
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Friday, 9 August 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
The last minute of BOR heads in a cool new direction and you're like woo prog o'clock and then it just ENDS
― imago, Friday, 9 August 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
'Won't Get Fooled Again' conveniently describes my feelings every time I deign give this album another chance.
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 August 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
"it's like they realized they wrote a perfect song, panicked, then added a violin solo."
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Friday, 9 August 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
Won't Get Fooled Again still has 3 minutes left, but I can't imagine what it has left to give
― imago, Friday, 9 August 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
Turned out to be 'aimless noodling', as expected. Oh wait what's this? Do I smell false ending? No, I smell 'we've heard of Terry Riley* and all our best stuff is basically him'
*John Cage? Whatever
Oh hey, it was a false ending! Way to goooo
― imago, Friday, 9 August 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
all our best stuff
it's ok to admit that a band is just not for you, then move on. like idk what you're going for here, but the best thing about a band that has Keith Moon in it isn't their brief detours into minimalism.
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Friday, 9 August 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
Rong.
― pomenitul, Friday, 9 August 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
Yeah the other great thing is the playing I guess, but the songwriting is just not for me, sure. I'm sure they ripped it up live
― imago, Friday, 9 August 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Friday, August 9, 2019 10:45 AM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
joe otm
― budo jeru, Friday, 9 August 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
townshend needed the courage of his convictions: sack daltrey and replace all his singing with violin solos and minimalist sequencer patterns
― mark s, Friday, 9 August 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
imago has successfully identified the fact that The Who, the band that would routinely blow up their enormous amps with bombs and fireworks, were not as committed to minimalism as Terry Riley and John Cage
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Friday, 9 August 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
nor as committed to prog as Yes
― imago, Friday, 9 August 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
in other news, despite using electronic amplification to reproduce & distort sound and creating pieces founded on mantra-like repetition, when all is said and done The Ramones simply do a sorry job of engaging with the works of Alvin Lucier.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Friday, 9 August 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
well, no the who weren't a prog rock band.
xp
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Friday, 9 August 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
It's remarkable how thoroughly the Who's arena rock era, like the Stones own early '70s', completely steamrolled the band's iconic '60s era.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 August 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
... and Yes are shit.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Friday, 9 August 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
completely steamrolled the band's iconic '60s era.
Steamrolled it by amplification but not by energy. Keith Moon was actually reined in on Who's Next and asserts himself as a nut again on Quad.
― timellison, Friday, 9 August 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
The Unterberger book is well-written, and unties the knots of this period of The Who's history about as well as you could hope, but the basic problem is that Townshend never really decided what Lifehouse was. So if you're looking to have that explained lucidly, you may be let down. The making of Quadrophenia is very detailed, and less confused, as well.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 05:22 (three years ago) link
Unterberger says that three songs were newly recorded in ‘78/‘79 with Kenney Jones for the Quadrophenia soundtrack album: “Joker James,” “Get Out And Stay Out,” and “Four Faces.” That last one, though, was recorded (for the most part) in 1973 and has Keith on drums. I emailed Unterberger about this, and he said that documentation (wasn’t more specific than that) says it’s Jones on “Four Faces.” But it’s pretty obvious just by listening that it’s Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGF2N00K-Ws
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
https://images2.imgbox.com/10/cb/Axn9cRNZ_o.jpg
― conrad, Friday, 12 January 2024 00:23 (three months ago) link
gives a new meaning to the album title tbh
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Friday, 12 January 2024 00:57 (three months ago) link
or it's almost like the name of the album is asking "who (of the members of the band that recorded me)'s next (to die? after all, two of the original four have already passed away)" - and then roger daltrey (the singer) says "it's probably me, I'm probably next." ba dum tish!
― conrad, Friday, 12 January 2024 05:34 (three months ago) link