Bands like the Rolling Stones and The Who have certainly done more than their fair share over the past fifteen years or so to render themselves irrelevant for just about everyone save those hung up on nostalgia acts. I try my best, though to remember them as they were, and it's kind of hard not to with songs like this. I can't say enough about this album. It's one of my go to discs. It always, always sounds good.
Posted on 08/24/2007
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First Album I ever owned! Guess this is to blame for getting me hooked. Every song on this album is so strong. Sure set one hell of a high bar for everything that followed. . Over the years I've occasional pondered about what would be my list of all time top 10 albums ever. OK, real dilemma here, if you figure a band shouldn't be represented more than once. Emotionally, I’m real inclined to go with this, “Who’s Next” – but then can make great arguments with myself for any of these too: “Sell Out”, “Tommy”, “Quadrophenia”, and “Who are You”. . Thanks for posting some of my all time favorite band. Here another tasty morsel from the same disc. The first song on side two (for you younger moggers, yes, albums used to have sides and you had to change them every 20 to 30 minutes) which is an amazing four song set ending with "Won't Get Fooled Again" - So here it is
The Who - Who's Next - Gettin' In Tune
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Cool, Dutch. My first exposure to this album was through my uncle. He used to visit at Christmas and would bring me albums to borrow for a few months. One year he brought me this one, I was in tenth grade or so. We're talking original presses here. I cut my classic rock teeth on albums like this one and more from Wings, The Stones, and CSN, CSNY. He, maybe more than anyone else, got me going down this musical road I find myself on today.
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This recording has ever been up on a pedastal for me. While I am not the biggest Who fan in the Whoniverse, I used to hang with a guitarist that was. He introduced me to this music and it has ever stayed right there in the top ten. Not "Tommy" mind you, that ercording always leaves me empty and unfulfilled, but "Who's Next", "Quadrapenia", "Sell Out" are stellar epics in my book. And for whatever reason, Goin' Mobile is my all time fav!!
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The first time I ever saw this cover was actually a parody by the local Philly morning radio show "The Morning Zoo". The album was called "Zoo's Next". Havinfg all the DJ's in the place of Pete and the boys. So imagine my surprise when I eventually saw the original, thinking it a parody of the Morning Zoo's album. I eventually became a Who fan, bordering on obsessive in college, and I think this marks their pinnacle as a band (live and on record). They were un stopable as a live band, but I think this album is their masterpiece of the studio. This is what a rock record should be held up to in terms of quality.
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Fine. Laugh at the funny old men, talk about how studly they were when they were twenty.
Make me remember i'm gonna be fifty-nine in two months.
Bleah.
I was never that much of a Who fan, though i sure can appreciate their stuff...
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my dad bought me this album when i was first getting into music. there isn't a bad song on it.
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I don't actually own a Who album at all, although I enjoy them pretty much every time they're on the radio. Maybe I should pony up and buy this one . . .
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If you get any of them, get this one.
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yeah i know it took me a long time to realize what was going on on that cover....never really looked at it closely when i first owned it.
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solid record all around. live at leeds is the same for me.
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True alla dis and alla dat. Just listen to The Who Sell Out and the Stones' Beggars' Banquet, then try anything the musicians have done since 1980 to hear the near-painful difference in quality.
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This is one of my favorite Who albums and "Love Ain't For Keeping" is my favorite song off that album. I bought this on cassette at a K-Mart when I was about 13 or 14 for $5. It was in heavy rotation all through my teen years and 25 years later, I still have that cassette and it still plays. One of the best bargains I ever bought.