The Who - Face Dances
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Artist: The WhoBrand: WHO
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-06-03
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
- You Better You Bet
- Don't Let Go the Coat
- Cache Cache
- The Quiet One
- Did You Steal My Money
- How Can You Do It Alone
- Daily Records
- You
- Another Tricky Day
- I Like Nightmares [#][*]
- It's in You [#][*]
- Somebody Saved Me [#][*]
- How Can You Do It Alone [Live][#][*]
- The Quiet One [Live][#][*]
Free Music Notes for Face Dances
Free Music Review: No Ones Getting Fooled Again
Hit: 5 Stars
It's kind of hard to realize sometimes this album came along a decade after one of The Who's classic albums Who's Next. The interesting thing about this album to me is I've often used it as an example of an album that's been issued a lot when a lot of other albums that are truly lost classics remain just that-lost. Now that doesn't exactly change my opinion of this album within it's place in The Who's catalog. It's hard not to hear this album and realize that the last time they hit the studio and the record racks with Who Are You Keith Moon was still alive and still with the band. Well by now he was gone and Kenney Jones,who'd been working with the band live for the past three years or so finally joined them on their first studio outing since Moon's passing. More than a member of the band had passed;an era had too. In the early 80's any pop music form perceived as extravagent in any way,from disco to progressive rock were more or less being frozen out of the mainstream in favor of new wave and other,more sussinct styles of music. Weather or not one chooses to look at The Who as a prog rock or hard rock band is beside the point;this just wasn't really the time for any of that. One thing in their favor was both Pete Townsand and John Enstwistle's abilities at crafting great pop songs and coming up with musical ideas that rocked with a sense of genuine emotion,intelligence and creativity. What's interesting here is that while their are some harder edged guitar rockers here such as "The Quiet One","Don't Let Go The Coat","How Can You Do It Alone" and "You" (Pete has to have something to smash guitars to,right?) actually have just the amount of emotion to make their link to their 70's sound a little easier to take for more "keep it real" 80's underground rockers who were looking to laugh The Who off the planet by this time as a dinasaur band. Pete Townsand provides two excellent pop/rock tunes in "You Better You Bet" and "Another Tricky Day" and other songs such as "Did You Steal My Money","Daily Records" and "Cache Cache",via musical references to people like Todd Rundgren and Hall & Oates such as tight vocal harmonies and stop/start rhythms actually owe something to a kind of modernized version of The Who's R&B roots. For a band that once proudly covered Motown hits in their early years the disco freeze out made anything that smacked of R&B dance music as "unhip",even if rock stars were doing it. Well at least The Who had the balls enough not to forget where they came from on those songs. The bonus tracks feature the likeminded "I Like Nightmares",the more dramatic "It's In You" and the strong,Stonesy rocker "Somebody Saved Me". All these songs were unreleased from these sessions and all written by Pete Townsand. The bonuses round off with hard rock live versions of "How Can You Do It Alone" and "The Quiet One",both edgier and more guitar solo oriented than the studio versions. This is definately not The Who's greatest album but it's certainly a very strong and actually pretty inventive album for something from a re-imagined group lineup making a comeback album in an entirely new decade.
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Digitally remastered Japanese reissue of The Who's 1981 album in a miniaturized LP sleeve with the original pac kaging intact. Limited to the initial pressing only, it also features all five of the bonus tracks included on MCA's U. S. reissue in the '90s! The extra cuts are 'I Like Nightmares', 'It's In You', 'Somebody Saved Me', 'How Can You Do It Alone' (Live) and 'The Quiet One' (Live). 14 tracks total. 1999 reissue of 1997 reissue.Classic Rock Music CDs
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