Consensus Who album?

RandallFlagg · October 2020

Not a lot of love for Tommy? It's not my favourite at all either. It sounds under produced to me, like Beatles tracks before George Martin added strings, the production seems to drag the album down.

EricTheWeary · October 2020

This has reminded me to go relisten to Live at Leeds. Unfortunately it'll be a while as it's on the local lockdown shelf of my CD collection.

Redlester · October 2020

ICBM said:

stickyfiddle said:

Yes, but it doesn’t have Won’t Get Fooled Again on it...

Or Baba O’Riley and Behind Blue Eyes.

Or anything from Quadrophenia, which would be my pick for their best album overall, even though it also doesn’t have those.

Live At Leeds has the interminable version of My Generation which spoils it.

Don’t talk wet, man. That version of MG is one of THE definitive rock performances.

No other band gets close to that.

Not to mention packing a whole host of classic guitar tones into 14 mins.

rustneversleeps · October 2020

Simples............Who’s Next.

Philly_Q · October 2020

stickyfiddle said:

Who’s Next
Tommy
Quadrophenia
Live at Leeds

They're all the ones I've got. Not a prolific band at all, when you look back. Who's Next is the one for me.

The film The Kids Are Alright has some absolutely fantastic live performances from the 1970s. Townshend likes to portray himself as the boring steady guy in a band full of lead players, but he was bloody amazing in those days.

RobDavies · October 2020

Has to be Live At Leeds..... there’s a moment in Magic Bus (03:22) where the whole band creates the most incredible sonic boom... gives me the chills it’s so perfect.

My favourite studio album is The Who By Numbers and as soundtracks go, Quadrophenia takes some beating.

Empty Glass is another brilliant Who album that doesn’t feature any of the Who apart from Townshend, if you get my drift.

stickyfiddle · October 2020

Philly_Q said:

stickyfiddle said:

Who’s Next
Tommy
Quadrophenia
Live at Leeds

They're all the ones I've got. Not a prolific band at all, when you look back. Who's Next is the one for me.

The film The Kids Are Alright has some absolutely fantastic live performances from the 1970s. Townshend likes to portray himself as the boring steady guy in a band full of lead players, but he was bloody amazing in those days.

I think they were fairly prolific, they just spread the really best stuff across all their output for a long time

ICBM · October 2020

Redlester said:

That version of MG is one of THE definitive rock performances.

No other band gets close to that.

Not to mention packing a whole host of classic guitar tones into 14 mins.

It marks the point they finally completed the transition from sharp, edgy Mods to overblown self-indulgent Rockers.

They did plenty of good stuff afterwards (I still think Who’s Next and Quadrophenia are the peak) but the Townshend who wrote My Generation said everything that needed to be said in 3 minutes.

Nitefly · October 2020

Wazmeister said:

Definitely the early stuff for me...

Meaty, Beaty Big and Bouncy

This is the correct answer.

axisus · October 2020

I'm no Who fan but I bought Who’s Next expecting to love it. I only really liked Won't get fooled again.

RobDavies · October 2020

axisus said:

I'm no Who fan but I bought Who’s Next expecting to love it. I only really liked Won't get fooled again.

I am a Who fan and I think Who’s Next is a long way from being their best album.

Moe_Zambeek · October 2020

I went off on a Who binge after reading this and hearing Love reign o’er me on Planet Rock (hadn’t heard it before and liked it, reminded me of how good the Who could be in a non Rock way).

It has to be said though...they did some really dubious stuff over the years. I could only listen to about half of Who Are you, for instance...

Jalapeno · October 2020

RandallFlagg said:

Not a lot of love for Tommy? It's not my favourite at all either. It sounds under produced to me, like Beatles tracks before George Martin added strings, the production seems to drag the album down.

Played to death at me in music lessons at school by trendy art school type teachers. Can't stand it.

Whitecat · October 2020

RandallFlagg said:

Not a lot of love for Tommy? It's not my favourite at all either. It sounds under produced to me, like Beatles tracks before George Martin added strings, the production seems to drag the album down.

My very first exposure to anything The Who was the Tommy movie... idly watched what was probably a heavily-edited-for-TV version on a Sunday afternoon or something during a lazy summer. So for a while as a very young person I thought that Elton John was the guy behind 'Pinball Wizard'. I liked it.

RandallFlagg · October 2020

Whitecat said:

RandallFlagg said:

Not a lot of love for Tommy? It's not my favourite at all either. It sounds under produced to me, like Beatles tracks before George Martin added strings, the production seems to drag the album down.

My very first exposure to anything The Who was the Tommy movie... idly watched what was probably a heavily-edited-for-TV version on a Sunday afternoon or something during a lazy summer. So for a while as a very young person I thought that Elton John was the guy behind 'Pinball Wizard'. I liked it.

The re-recorded versions of the Tommy songs for the 1975 movie are not as good as the original 1969 album versions, even though the production of the 1969 album is lacking, all my opinion of course.

ronnyb · October 2020

ronnyb said:

The soundtrack to ‘McVicar’ is worth a listen too. I think it’s a Who album in all but name.

Must correct that. A bit of googling reveals that Daltrey sang all the tracks but none of the material was written by who members. They did play on some of the tracks though.

pintspiller · October 2020

RandallFlagg said:

Whitecat said:

RandallFlagg said:

Not a lot of love for Tommy? It's not my favourite at all either. It sounds under produced to me, like Beatles tracks before George Martin added strings, the production seems to drag the album down.

My very first exposure to anything The Who was the Tommy movie... idly watched what was probably a heavily-edited-for-TV version on a Sunday afternoon or something during a lazy summer. So for a while as a very young person I thought that Elton John was the guy behind 'Pinball Wizard'. I liked it.

The re-recorded versions of the Tommy songs for the 1975 movie are not as good as the original 1969 album versions, even though the production of the 1969 album is lacking, all my opinion of course.

Kit Lambert was a bit tight with the dough to have had it recorded ina decent studio. Moonie and The Ox play their parts rather straight (certainly compared to how they did them live) as the band was in so much debt and were likely to have been dropped from most of their contracts if the album failed to sell.

RandallFlagg · October 2020

pintspiller said:

RandallFlagg said:

Whitecat said:

RandallFlagg said:

Not a lot of love for Tommy? It's not my favourite at all either. It sounds under produced to me, like Beatles tracks before George Martin added strings, the production seems to drag the album down.

My very first exposure to anything The Who was the Tommy movie... idly watched what was probably a heavily-edited-for-TV version on a Sunday afternoon or something during a lazy summer. So for a while as a very young person I thought that Elton John was the guy behind 'Pinball Wizard'. I liked it.

The re-recorded versions of the Tommy songs for the 1975 movie are not as good as the original 1969 album versions, even though the production of the 1969 album is lacking, all my opinion of course.

Kit Lambert was a bit tight with the dough to have had it recorded ina decent studio. Moonie and The Ox play their parts rather straight (certainly compared to how they did them live) as the band was in so much debt and were likely to have been dropped from most of their contracts if the album failed to sell.

Yeah, you're right, I know The Who did get into a bit of bother financially. It's a shame as with a proper production, and producer, Tommy could have been improved with addition of more carefully constructed overdubs, strings and some other backing. It would have costs a fortune though. I remember George Martin explaining how he got a full 30 piece orchestra in for the Abbey Road overdubs on Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, The End, Something and Here Comes The Sun and set them up in Studio 1 of Abbey Road with CCTV link to the control room. It must have cost a packet at Musicians Union rates for them boys.

Nitefly · October 2020

Instructive to see Roger Daltrey on Gogglebox last night, extolling the virtues of mixing still and sparkling water 50/50 - apparently too much fizz makes him fart.

Rock'n'roll, baby!

guitartango · October 2020

For me The Who Sell out is a brilliant concept album, each song interweaves with a Radio Jingle.
Heinz Baked beans, Rotosound strings etc.

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