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Summary: classic who of the 70's
Comment: this is a great who cd. it has some of the best songs in rock music ever. this was always considered a great album. its legendary, every track is good. its the who at their best.
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Summary: Who's Next: A Classic
Comment: There are few more perfect albums in Rock's history than WHO'S NEXT by the Who. Oddly enough, it's basically the result of the band trying to pick up the pieces of a failed project. Pete Townshend in an effort to top the ever popular Rock Opera TOMMY, conceived a multi-media blitz called LIFEHOUSE that grew ever more complicated until it finally blew up in his face.
Townshend ended up with a collection of perfectly realized songs that summed up the post-Woodstock feel of the youth better than any of his peers. Flawlessly produced by Glyn Johns, it contains some of the best music that the Who would ever make, and would provide numerous staples for their live show such as BABA O'REILLY, BEHIND BLUE EYES, BARGAIN and THIS SONG IS OVER. The album, thanks to the use of a repeating synthesizer line (one of the first uses by a rock band), creates almost a suite on disillusionment of counter-culture youth. All four members of the band contribute fine performances, from Daltrey's powerful vocals, check out his great scream at the crescendo of WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN, to Keith Moon's powerfully cascading drums. Entwhistle delivers his usual strong basslines and horn support, as well as his song MY WIFE, which acts as comic relief. Townshend besides writing the great songs, kicks in with some great vocals and his trademark guitar detonations.
One problem I have with the remastered version is that it adds extra songs that take away from the magic of the initial release. Though these songs in themselves are pretty good, they dilute the impact of the original nine songs. It's like ordering a pizza at the end of a perfect meal. It's a minor quibble though, as the beauty of technology is that you can either program the CD to include just the first nine if you desire of you could just shut the thing down after WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN echoes into the distance.
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Summary: Who's best
Comment: Even though Tommy is their 'moment' for many for being a great concept album, and undoubtedly the greatest rock opera there ever was. This was The Who at their hard rocking best. These are the tracks that to me defined them as a power rock band (one of the best live bands in rock).
Never before had Townsend's songwriting hit home so hard and so consistently. This record was hugely influential in getting me into rock music (I wore out the vinyl version of this album). The expanded CD version has some interesting outtakes and oddities, but the original album still has the magic to make your hair stand. Superb.
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Summary: Typical '70s junk.
Comment: My mom made me leave the house for the first time in years or I would be grounded from World Of Warcraft for a week! Ugh! So I was taking a walk around this old junkyard and was rummaging though a pile of trash and found this album on cassette. I was excited- a new album to listen to! I put it in my Walkman from 1993 and hoped for an awesome album (hopefully as good as "St.Anger"). What a disappointment! I hated this album! Here's why:
1.) All songs sound the same
2.) Do they even have a bassist? I sure as heck can't hear the bass.
3.) The guitarist was awful
4.) The drumming was so simple, all in 4/4
5.) The vocals were horrid! He sounded like a dying cat
6.) The songs were generic and uncreative
Also, they were never on MTV or BET! So that's an automatic fail. Listen to some real music like Bon Jovi, people.
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Summary: The Greatest album by the Greatest Rock Band
Comment: I will be short on this. I am old enough to have seen The Who five times live, with the original greats and at their peak. Mostly at the Fillmore East in NYC. As much as I loved them as the best live performers I have ever experienced, I appreciate their genius more now. No Fireworks, makeup, no stage props, just the explosion of their energy and talent.
They put the B in Band, as they were truly the sum of their totally unique, individual parts.
Who's Next is simply the Greatest Rock Album ever made by the Greatest Rock Group ever assembled. Listen to every part of this, Moons incredible bass, Entwhistle's Bass, Daltry's singing and song interpretations and the guitar, arrangements, songwriting and lyrics by their creative force, Pete Townshend. Of course Baba O'Reilly and "Won't Get Fooled Again are not songs anymore, they have become ANTHEMS !! Check out the reaction of the cops and firefighters at the concert for 9/11 in New York, when the Who are playing. I am an ex New Yorker and it really brought me to tears, I knew what they were feeling as "Anthems", The Who were playing let them release their energy in some magical moments. Nothing to do with Who's Next, but Ringo's son Zack, the current drummer for The Who is fantastic.
Each of the musicians changed the way their instrument can be played. I can't really say that Moon and Entwhistle was a rhythm section, for sometimes Townshend was the rhythm section, with those power chords of his and their might be a lead Bass or even lead Drums in the song.
There is nothing even close to a weak part of this masterpiece.
The best from the best.
Jon
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