The Who - Endless Wire
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Free Music Review: Give It UP
Hit: 2 Stars
Roger Daltrey sounds terrible. I am a huge The Who fan, but this is it. They were done after Who Are You?. It is time for them to give it up. Only buy for Pete Townshend's writing and playing.Free Music Review: Great songwriting
Hit: 5 Stars
Pete's songwriting is outstanding on this album. "In The Ether" or "Mike Post Theme" are some of the best lyrics I think he's ever written, and I own almost everything he's done (including "Scoop"). Roger sounds like Tom Waits at some points, so if you like Tom...he's got that going for him. He sounds great! The whole album gels together like a Who concept album does and offers reflection and edification. Free Music Review: Well worth it
Hit: 4 Stars
You know what's cool? How they follow the quiet, somber "Man in a Purple Dress" with the roaring "Mike Post Theme". It's kind of like the "Behind Blue Eyes" dynamics, only stretched across multiple songs. It's great. It's classic Who. Too bad Roger Daltry hasn't aged too well: his lion's roar is now a croak ("Into the Ether"; "Two Thousand Years"; "You Stand By Me"). Thankfully, Townshend's as insightful as ever ("Dress"; "Mike Post"; "Black Widow's Eyes"), and even gets away with recycling "Baba o'Riley" on "Fragments", partially because it's a great song. There's also a classic Who rocker, "It's Not Enough", which is probably the best song on the album. Yay power-chord bombast! Or at least when it's power chord bombast from Pete Townshend and Roger Daltry! Then there's the opera. I think it's awesome, even if it won't match the Abbey Road medley. It's the story of an aging rock star suffering a breakdown who discovers three kids of various ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds who form a rock band. The rest you'll have to figure out for yourself by buying the album, because it's definitely worth your money. I will say it covers a broad range of genres: hard rock, piano ballad, folk... it sounds great. A lot of people criticize this simply because Moon or Entwistle are no longer with us, and certainly no longer in the band. And yeah, it's true that they're not really the Who, and technically this is in essence a Pete Townshend solo project. Just a good Pete Townshend solo project. Rough in spots, but worth it. Free Music Review: Depressing
Hit: 2 Stars
People write that: WHO RETURN TO FORM.
Where does that come from. When did The Who ever deviate from form?
These reveiwers are just regurgitating the PR release to sell this CD.
This is The Who's first studio album since 1982. I think it is different and worse than any previous studio album. And bonus live DVD is just depressing.
There are some good songs on ths CD. Some sound like typical The Who songs and others are more like Pete Townshend solo material. There are some interesting twists, like the Tom Waits gravely vocals on In The Ether.
However, there are a number of stark, under produced songs that are simply boring.
The biggest problem is the Endless Wire mini-rock opera. It is a bunch of unrealized song snippets. All of the songs are 1 to 2 minutes long and really aren't fully realized songs. It is not like Tommy or Quadrephenia, where the songs can be enjoyed on their own or as a part of a whole. And it is not like the mini-rock opera, A Quick One While He Is Away, where the story moves and the pieces blend well together.
The DVD of a 2006 concert in Lyons is really depressing. It is a dinosaur reunion concert at its worst. It is only 5 songs and about 25 minutes long. The performance is uninspiring and Roger Daltry's voice is horrible. And except for Mike Post's Theme, it contains the same songs that are on all of The Who's live albums since 1970. I love Baba O'Riley, but there are many better versions on other live albums.
Free Music Review: If you love The Who, htis is a must!
Hit: 5 Stars
'Endless Wire' is the latest The Who recording, after a long drought, and the fact that it may not be quite up to the standard set by the classics, 'The Who Sell Out', 'Who's Next', and the definitive WHO work, 'Tommy', it is still very, very good. This is especially true now that music from 'The Who' seems to have become the soundtrack of our lives, to an even greater extend than even The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. For me, at least 20% of the value of watching the various CSI dramas is their using Who songs as their themes.
The best thing about this album is that it retains the strong character of Who styling, even after the loss of both drummer extraordinare, Keith Moon (many years ago) and basist John Entwistle. So, with only half of the original four, the familiar Who sound still comes through, and through, and through. The repeats here are to emphasize the fact that I know of no other band who so often repeats phrasings and passages over and over again through the years. There are passages on these tunes which showed up first on 'The Who Sell Out' and most familiarly on 'Tommy'. One thing which may disappoint is the 'Mini-Opera' which groups the second half of tunes on the CD. The Who has been doing musical storytelling even before 'Tommy', but none of these efforts are nearly as good. 'Quadraphenia' was really just a collection of very good songs, but with a poor story. These songs seem to have nothing to connect them. But then, it's still Daltry and Townsend, and few rock duos have given us so much for so long. Enjoy it for Who it is!