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What is your favorite Who album?
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zombieDave
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My fave is the "greatest hits" collection, "Meaty, Beaty, Big, and Bouncy". It's got all the best of The Who's British-Invasion singles plus. In other words, it's the anti-"Who's Next".
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I don't know about the anti-Who's Next (whatever that means), but it is a Steve Hoffman master which is a huge plus. And I've never heard the version of I'm a Boy that's on it. The only version I ever heard before purchasing MBBB has Pete singing the first verse IIRC.
Originally Posted by zombieDave /img/forum/go_quote.gif My fave is the "greatest hits" collection, "Meaty, Beaty, Big, and Bouncy". It's got all the best of The Who's British-Invasion singles plus. In other words, it's the anti-"Who's Next". |
I don't know about the anti-Who's Next (whatever that means), but it is a Steve Hoffman master which is a huge plus. And I've never heard the version of I'm a Boy that's on it. The only version I ever heard before purchasing MBBB has Pete singing the first verse IIRC.
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Same here - I much prefer their early singles and "Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy" is really excellent.
Originally Posted by zombieDave /img/forum/go_quote.gif My fave is the "greatest hits" collection, "Meaty, Beaty, Big, and Bouncy". It's got all the best of The Who's British-Invasion singles plus. In other words, it's the anti-"Who's Next". |
Same here - I much prefer their early singles and "Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy" is really excellent.
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Quadrophenia by a wide margin.
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Who's Next was my first album purchase after getting a "real" stereo (i.e., wood speaker cabinets, not a plastic toy-like hi-fi), and it has the album rock staples (my older brother touted it at the time as a really well produced album ... which I listened to endlessly in my childhood room on crappy headphones with one channel shorting out).
Sell Out has the great "product" ads and "Tattoo," a greatly underrated song that had a different meaning before everyone started inking up as an unintentionally conformist fashion statement in recent years ...
... but I have to go with Quadrophenia, from 1973, if only for the combination of age, time and place when I got it (the first Friday after it came out ... no headphones for this one -- I blasted it out loud and proud ... fellow dorm residents were going to hear the Who whether they wanted to or not). Quadrophenia certainly wasn't my story, but I could identify to an extent (and I was young enough to go for the youthful alienation and bombast). It has been said before, but 1973 was a sort of musical end to the 1960s, and Quadrophenia helped encapsulate a part of that decade.
Sell Out has the great "product" ads and "Tattoo," a greatly underrated song that had a different meaning before everyone started inking up as an unintentionally conformist fashion statement in recent years ...
... but I have to go with Quadrophenia, from 1973, if only for the combination of age, time and place when I got it (the first Friday after it came out ... no headphones for this one -- I blasted it out loud and proud ... fellow dorm residents were going to hear the Who whether they wanted to or not). Quadrophenia certainly wasn't my story, but I could identify to an extent (and I was young enough to go for the youthful alienation and bombast). It has been said before, but 1973 was a sort of musical end to the 1960s, and Quadrophenia helped encapsulate a part of that decade.
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Tommy, stands for me,
maybe because I got heavy listening, when my wife was pregnant..
maybe because I got heavy listening, when my wife was pregnant..
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1) Quadrophenia
2) Who Are You
3) Who's Next
2) Who Are You
3) Who's Next
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1. Tommy
2. Live at Leeds (1995 re-issue)
3. Who's Next
4. Quadrophenia
5. the rest
First 4 are all pretty close.
2. Live at Leeds (1995 re-issue)
3. Who's Next
4. Quadrophenia
5. the rest
First 4 are all pretty close.
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Quadrophenia
Who Sell Out
Who's Next
Live at Leeds (expanded) or Live at Isle of Wight
Tommy
other stuff
Who Sell Out
Who's Next
Live at Leeds (expanded) or Live at Isle of Wight
Tommy
other stuff
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Mine favorite are from Euphoria by enrique !
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I have a soft spot for By Numbers, the first Who album I heard. Overall, I would have to go with Thirty Years of Maximum R&B, which is kind of a cheat, but some of my favourite Who tracks did not appear on any of their albums (they are add ons on various re-releases) but were singles only at the time of the aborted Lifehouse project; Join Together, Lets See Action and Relay. They originally came out as singles only.
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