2024 the best the who albums review
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Who's Next, their fifth studio album released in 1971, is often ranked as one of the best albums of all time. Certified triple-platinum, it features the classic tracks, "Won't Get Fooled Again," "Baba O'Riley" and "Behind Blue Eyes." Remastered on 180g black vinyl.
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Language : English
Product Dimensions : 12 x 12.6 x 1 inches; 8 ounces
Manufacturer : Geffen
Item model number : 3715614
Original Release Date : 2015
Date First Available : January 5, 2013
Label : Geffen
ASIN : B00AY0JCNW
Country of Origin : USA
Number of discs : 1
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: THE MUST HAVE RECORD FOR EVERY ROCK FAN
Review: Start to finish âWhoâs Nextâ is one of the all time great rock records and I never grow tired of it. The sound quality is excellent, the songs are killer, and the band has never sounded better. But it now!
Reviewer: John H.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Awesome
Review: Awesome
Reviewer: Brian J Hay
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pure Magic on Stage
Review: It's one of the greatest achievements in the history of rock. Still, more than enough has been said about the original album so I'm going to leave it alone. The real gem here is the Young Vic set. This one proves beyond any doubt that Live at Leeds was no fluke. It's also a completely different kind of set. The extended jamming that characterized the Leeds performance is largely absent here. Most of the material presented was new (eleven of fourteen tracks in fact) and still being shaped. About the only exceptions are "I Don't Even Know Myself", "Water", and "Naked Eye". Ironically, none of those songs made it to the original finished album even though they'd been part of the band's live set for over a year. The only new song that made the cut that's presented in it's finished form is "Behind Blue Eyes".What comes out is a brilliant set, one that still sounds fresh even though it was recorded more than thirty years ago. The only thing better than the material is the band's performance. These men had played together a couple hundred nights a year for several years at this point and it shows. What's going on between them is virtually telepathy. Listen to the interplay between Moon and Townshend during the instrumental finish of "My Generation"; they echo each other completely. This is also the best live version of "My Generation" on record. It matches the Leeds set for power but is short, tight and concise. In short, it rocks! Then there's the rarities. Many of these songs have only rarely been played live. It's a shame because the material is great. "Pure and Easy" is one of Townshend's finest songs. That one still captivates new listeners. The set opens with a brilliant (and raw) rendition of "Love Ain't for Keeping". "Time is Passing" is a neglected jewel. This version is also completely drum driven. Mad magnificent Moonie may have kept everyone around him on the verge of group heart failure but he was an absolute genius on his instrument. Keith cued all the changes the way drummers are supposed to but he also did something no drummer has done, before or since; he played the vocal line on his kit. His work here will have listeners alternately shaking their heads and laughing. It shouldn't make any sense. Instead, it makes nothing but sense. It's no wonder it took almost twenty years to find anyone who could even begin to fill his seat. The energy in this set is astonishing. Daltrey is right in his prime, and is fabulous. He does sing himself hoarse though. That shows when he croaks his way through the last bits of "Too Much of Anything". Ribbit. That's not a criticism though. It just shows how much fire thes guys played with. The sound is great. Entwistle's bass lines are dominant in a way that he never could be in the studio. On recordings he had to leave room for overdubs. On stage he had to fill those spaces. The more you listen the more you see that he was the glue that held all this together. Without him Townshend and Moon couldn't have run amok the way they used to. You can hear them too, including all of Moon's screeches before his drum flurries. Like I said, this this thing should have anyone listening, shaking their head, laughing and just dropping their jaw in amazement.The Who were an astounding band and pure magic on stage. This set goes a long way toward showing why.
Reviewer: Rocky Raccoon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Best? You Better, You Bet!
Review: Why is The Who's 'Who's Next' one of the most perennially played CD selections on FM radio? Surely it has retained the richness of sound that hasn't dated the music for over thirty years. With intricate music, spare, yet memorable lyrics, and powerful vocals and guitars, it has all the elements of a worthy classic rock album. 'Who's Next' may or may not be a concept album, but it doesn't really meander ever really. It seems to make a post-sixties statement about the meaning of power and what's essential in life itself. They always challenged the ordinary, so it's no surprise that they deflate the sixties as well. Even the shimmering synthesizers overthrow the sixties decade with its rich, rippling sound. It never seems at all self-consious, either, probably because their delivery is so confident.The anthems are powerful. "Baba O Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again," the albums opening and closing songs, respectively, are raw with Roger Daltry's primal vocals, accompanied by skillful guitars and mesmerizing synthesizers. All of the songs are uniquely intricate. "Baba," contains a very able and frenzied violin/fiddle delivery that gives the song considerable depth. "Going Mobile" is environmentally friendly (with the memorable "hippie gypsy" line) in a way that is seldom dated from this period. Accompanied by intricate guitar, it has the fluidness to be a folk-rock classic.If the eloquence of word and sound weren't enough already, then "The Song Is Over" has to be simply one of the most exquisite rock songs ever created. Up there with The Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset," "The Song Is Over" is haunting lyrically and transcending for Daltry's echoing vocals and the shimmering interplay of piano, synthesizer, and Keith Moon's able drumming.The allegedly lesser songs are great, too. "Bargain" is a hefty piece of hard rock that delivers eloquent and spare statements about the essence of love. "Getting in Tune" is lesser than most of the rest, but what a song! It is an anthem that gives heft to the remainder of the anthems, but contains great one liners about saying something as a rock band. (Notably, they swagger in confidence more than, say, the Moody Blues' "Singer in a Rock and Roll Band".) Then, Entwistle's "My Wife" seems autobiographical and weighty with its theme of jealousy written convincingly like a first-person short story. Pete Townsend, the helmsman, though is certainly more able with his own rendering of a first-person short story, "Behind Blue Eyes". It is pungent enough and sung with vengeance by Daltry. It is substantial, but it could be parordied, somewhat. (An outlaw who begs for a blanket?) The only other song is "Love Aint' for Keeping". It isn't significant, except that its modestness helps frame the rest of the album. It also prevents too much overdrive.'Who's Next' deserves to be a major rock classic because the lyrics, delivery, and skillful musicianship are stunning and almost matchless after thirty-five years. The best moments from the CD still raise hairs on the back of the neck. It has to be one of the ten best rock albums of all time.
Reviewer: Chris Taylor
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best Album of All Time
Review: This was the very first record I ever got as a young teenager. And ALL those years later, I'd be hard pressed to name another album that is head-and-shoulders better than this one. "Behind Blue Eyes" may be the prettiest sad song ever.
Reviewer: Derek McCumber
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: 2 disc set: warts and all
Review: This is the second 2-disc collector's set I've bought by The Who where I thought that the one-disc version (released in 1995) was the better version. Whereas the 1995 disc is arranged to sound like a seamless double-album, with B-sides and unreleased tracks that were often as good as much of the material on the original album, this one includes alternate, mostly inferior versions of album tracks and a live CD that is about half awesome and half extremely rough, unfinished sounding versions of songs. Although this material is VERY interesting, as it lets you into a bit of the song-writing process, it doesn't make for a bunch of repeat listens. The live show is often somewhat sloppy (at least by The Who's standards) if you don't know that the show was meant to be part of the song-writing process - gauging audience reaction and fine-tuning the songs afterwards. For most of the tracks, this isn't the fine-tuned band you hear on Live at Leeds or Live at Hull, which is a bit of a disappointment to me. The live versions of Pure and Easy, Getting in Tune, and Naked Eye are pretty incredible, though.The original album itself sounds SLIGHTLY crisper to me in this version than the 1995 edition (particularly the drums), but not enough that I feel it warrants double-dipping.NOTE: THERE WILL BE A NEW EDITION RELEASED IN 2022. I'd save my money if I was you.
Reviewer: ANDERSON P.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Um super clássico em sonoridade impecável.
Reviewer: Linda Mitrow
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This final, LP is totally awesome. I would recommend it.
Reviewer: Nic Perrins
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Worth the money for Behind Blue Eyes all on it's own. Absolutely superb. What a songwriter Pete Townsend is.
Reviewer: Gilles Letourneau
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Une excellente édition DELUXE vynile de cette pierre angulaire du rock qu'est cet album des WHO, l'un des plus grands groupes ayant jamais existés et à la réputation non usurpée d'avoir été la meilleure formation scénique au monde au sein duquel officiait ( et officie toujours ) le génial PETE TOWNSHEND, grand théoricien de cette musique. A posséder absolument dans sa discothèque, fut-ce en vynile ou CD.
Reviewer: Malboo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Here a remastered 2-CD set of a classic Who album from 1971. All tracks are very strong ones, not a bad track! On CD one are also six bonus tracks. CD two contains a live recording from The Young Vic theatre in London. A good live recording with a mix of tracks from the album (Whoâs Next) and some other. Maybe the best Who album (or maybe one of the best rock albums ever made?). The remastring is very good too. A must for a Who fanâ¦