Who - My Generation (Dlx) (Dig)
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Artist: WhoEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Out In The Street
- I Don't Mind
- The Good's Gone
- La-La-La Lies
- Much Too Much
- My Generation
- The Kids Are Alright
- Please, Please, Please
- It's Not True
- I'm A Man
- A Legal Matter
- The Ox
- Circles
- I Can't Explain
- Bald Headed Woman
- Daddy Rolling Stone
- Leaving Here (Alternate)
- Lubie (Come Back Home)
- Shout And Shimmy
- (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave
- Motoring
- Anyitme You Want Me
- Anyhow, Anywhere, Anyway (Alternate)
- Instant Party Mixture
- I Don't Mind (Full Length Version)
- The Good's Gone (Full Length Version)
- My Generation (Instrumental Version)
- Anytime You Want Me (A Cappella Version)
- A Legal Matter
- My Generation
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Free Music Review: Well worth the wait
Hit: 5 Stars
I was so excited back when the news broke that Shel Talmy (The Who's original producer) had finally decided to remaster the MG tapes he'd been sitting on for decades, and eagerly bought this two-disc set like a week and a half after it was released. While MG isn't one of my favorite Who albums, I do think it's a very good album (particularly for a debut album, and even more so considering what most albums in 1965 were like), and the deluxe set makes a good thing even better. This is such an improvement, in both sound and length, over the first-generation CD that was nothing more than the unremixed American version of their debut album, retitled "The Who Sings 'My Generation.'" From listening to the first disc, it's obvious that the original British version was the superior one, though at least, in comparison to how Capitol Records retitled and severely rearranged (i.e., misrepresented) The Beatles' albums for the American market, there was minimal tweaking done. The cover shot used is also the one from the original British album, which I think is far superior to the one on the American cover. I love the use of perspective in the photo, and how much more light and colorful it seems, not as dark and crowded.
There are so many wonderful tracks among the original album songs, such as "Out in the Street," "Circles," the instrumental "The Ox," "The Kids Are Alright," and "It's Not True." I think my favorite of the original album tracks is "I'm a Man." Roger might not have had the greatest range at this time, but the voice he was working with was so well-suited to singing these R&B covers, a really gruff raunchy unpolished sound. It's hard to believe "I'm a Man" was left off of the American edition because of the line "When I get you in bed, darling, gonna make love all the time." It sounds so innocuous today, not graphic or R-rated at all! On the first disc, I also love the rarity "Bald-Headed Woman." It isn't really a deep or great song, but it just has that raunchy rough gruff sound that makes this entire album such a delight. The songs on the second disc, by and large, seem more geared towards hardcore fans than new or casual fans, since some of them are alternate versions and instrumental versions instead of entirely new songs, but they're just as much of a delight to discover. Among my favorites are the long-unreleased French EP mix of "Anyhow, Anywhere, Anyway," "Instant Party," and "Motoring." (I've always found it kind of amusing that the second disc is pink, which seems a rather un-Wholike color!) The majority of the bonus tracks hadn't been released anywhere. There are also wonderful liner notes and great pictures. The boys look so young!
Overall, while this isn't a must-have for a new fan, it is highly recommended for any fans of longer standing who haven't gotten around to buying it yet. There are so many treasures to be discovered on this set, and the music has never sounded better. After they were proven so wrong about the supposed awful sound on the remastered LAL, I didn't believe anything the audiomaniacs ranted about how the sound on the remastered MG was going to be so awful and that the "right" versions of songs weren't being chosen. People who don't obsess over perfect sound quality and getting obscure releases just to get it, like the Belgian green vinyl version from 1980 from a certain record label, think it sounds just fine, and haven't thrown tantrums because the sound might not be the most perfect it could have been. Seriously, who even cares so much about that when normal people can't even detect these minute differences in sound quality and know that sound does change when something is remastered from tapes that were recorded using a much different recording process decades ago?
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The roaring, raging quartet heard on Who's Next, Live at Leeds, and Quadrophenia is scarcely discernable on much of this, their first album. But the Mod-fueled, American R&B-inspired sense of ambitious pop that powers A Quick One, Sell Out, and even Tommy isn't so hard to find here. This reissue not only expands the original with a bonus-disc treasure trove of 17 outtakes and rarities (including the Pete Townshend-penned, previously unissued "Instant Party Mixture"), but has been remixed from the original 1964-'66 session tapes by producer Shel Talmy and released in true stereo for the first time. Anchored by early Who/Townshend anthems "My Generation" (also included in an instrumental version), "I Can't Explain," and "The Kids Are Alright," disc one's original LP set veers somewhat schizophrenically from Townshend's nascent power-guitar thrashing on the anthems and Roger Daltrey's ill-advised James Brown and Bo Diddley impressions on "Please, Please, Please" and "I'm a Man," respectively, to the surf-inspired John Entwistle-Keith Moon instrumental showcase, "The Ox." Not surprisingly, it's the Townshend originals (like "It's Not True," "Legal Matter," and the proto-psychedelic "Circles") that point to what the band would become in a few short years. The bonus material on disc two leans equally heavily on covers, but also contains its share of signposts to the future Who, including a rare, alternate version of "Anyhow, Anyway, Anywhere." Also included is a new booklet with many rare photos and a history of the album's recording by Andy Neill (coauthor of Anyway Anyhow Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of the Who 1958-1978). --Jerry McCulleyIt's kind of odd that the Who's first album would be the last to be reissued in deluxe fashion, but, given the prominent role the late John Entwistle plays on it (his instrumental 'The Ox' was and is a sonic marvel), it's kind of fitting, too. But the real reason it took so long for the Who camp to release this is that they added so much to it! Disc one presents the original album mixed in stereo for the first time by original producer Shel Talmy, plus single sides like 'Bald Headed Woman' and Daddy Rolling Stone.' Disc Two is a collector's dream, with more loads of first-time stereo-in fact, 28 out of the 30 tracks here are in stereo! Previously unreleased, full-length versions of 'The Good's Gone' and 'I Don't Mind,' an unreleased instrumental version of 'My Generation' and an unspeakably rare, French EP-only alternate version of 'Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere' the highlights. Three sets of liner notes analyze
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