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Free Music Review: The Who's Finest Album
Hit: 5 Stars
The Who had many great songs, but its ridiculous to see how many of them are contained on this one album. Although Tommy and Quadrophenia are great albums, Pete Townshend could often get lost trying to create complex rock operas. Here, The Who focus primarily on the songs, and it certainly pays off for them.
Baba ORiley - The albums opener, commonly referred to as "Teenage Wasteland", sets the stage for many of the epic rock songs that are to follow (the instrumental intro here is over a minute long). It also contains one of two great musical bridges of the album.
Bargain - This is pure, hard-rocking Who at their best. One of the Whos greatest tracks.
Love Aint For Keeping - Another great rock track, although this one is shorter and has more of a folk rock sound to it.
My Wife - This album just refuses to let up! John Entwistle shines with this hard-rocking tale about running from his wife.
The Song Is Over - The album finally slows down a bit with this one. Its pleasant, although it does drone in for a bit longer than it probably should (clocking in at 6:14).
Getting In Tune - Another slow rocker, this one is both shorter and better than "The Song Is Over".
Going Mobile - This song is pleasant at best, as it does tend to get a bit repetitive and obnoxious. It is the most pop-influenced track on the album, and also the weakest.
Behind Blue Eyes - Starts out slow, and contains one of the greatest bridges in all of classic rock. No words can describe this song. The Who's greatest achievement on any album.
Wont Get Fooled Again - The album finishes, just as it begins, with an epic rock song. Not quite up to the same level as Baba ORiley and the better parts are those that are purely instrumental, although Daltrey does make a valid effort with his spirited scream.
There are also a number of bonus tracks on the CD version, most of which are very good songs.
Free Music Review: Who-per Dee-dooper!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm not daring enough to give Who's Next anything less than five stars for fear of rabid fans who may kill me, but if I could, this album would only get four-and-a-half from me. "No!!"you say, "It has Baba' O Riley, Behind Blue Eyes and Won't Get Fooled again! This kid's a moron!" Yes, I am aware that Who's Next showcases a trio of fantastically epic and popular songs. But unlike the undisputable classics of rock, say for example, Rubber Soul, Who's Next has little "superb" material beyond the threesome. There are three other songs I enjoy, but they are each flawed in some respect. Bargain is the "raunchy rocker" of the album, though in many cases, very cheesy and overblown as well. Love Ain't For Keeping is a nice little piece, but it could never be a "classic" due to it only being a nice LITTLE piece. I really do like My Wife, in fact, Entwistle has my favorite voice of the Who, but it is slowed by boring chord progressions (good thing there is a synth on this album). Then there are the three middle songs, which range from mediocre to stupid. Song Is Over is far to overthought, and does not compell me an any way. In fact, the latter could be said as well for Going Mobile and Getting In Tune. "Hey" you shout, "This kid sounds like he hates this album! And it has Baba' O Reilly, Behind BLue Eyes, and wOn't Get Fooled Again!!" No, I do not hate this album at all. I love it. But when you give something enough hype, the product tends to let you down in the end. Luckily, there are several "Bonus Tracks" added to the oirignal LP version to spice it up a little. It really helps. Water, Baby Don't You Do It, and Naked Eye are very good tracks. It also boosts the replay value of the CD. So, while WHos NExt is most certainly not the most consistent album of our time, it features, yes Baba O' Reilly, Behind Blue Eyes, and Won't Get fooled Again, as well as some other diamonds in the the rough to give enough satisfaction for the purchase.Free Music Review: One of the best rock albums of all time
Hit: 5 Stars
Ask a Who fan to name his or her favourite song from the band and you will, of course, receive a variety of answers. What is remarkable is how often the nominated track is from this LP. Baba O'Riley, Bargain, Song is Over, Getting' in Tune, Goin' Mobile, Behind Blue Eyes and Fooled Again are all killer songs. The remaining two are pretty good too!
Undeniably, this record makes my list of top twenty albums of all-time. In no particular order are some of the others. There are fewer than twenty - the list is fluid - but the following have been included for years:
Astral Weeks
Abbey Road
Are You Experienced
Dark Side of the Moon
Sticky Fingers
The Band
What's Going On
Blue
Pete Townsend wrote some memorable lyrics for this record.
From Goin' Mobile:
I don't care about pollution
I'm an air-conditioned gypsy
That's my solution
Watch the police and the taxman miss me!
I'm mobile!
From Bargain:
I'd pay any price just to win you
Surrender my good life for bad
To find you I'm gonna drown an unsung man.
From Getting' in Tune
I'm singing this note 'cause it fits in well
With the chords I'm playing
I can't pretend there's any meaning
Hidden in the things I'm saying.
Although Next is a rock and roll album this is not just A rock and roll album. By 1971 The Who had been innovative and experimental for a few years. This record continued the trend. Townsend plays his familiar electric guitar with a flourish. He also plays some introspective acoustic. There is the violin solo on Baba O'Riley. The synthesizer is used to good effect on several songs. The overall sound is spectacular. Even now, 36 years later, this remarkable recording sounds as fresh as it did when it was released. It demands five stars.
Free Music Review: Needed in All Collections
Hit: 5 Stars
Although overplayed by FM radio's classic rock stations 'round the good old US of A, Who's Next will never die because it'll never get old. These songs really don't date. As often as I've heard "Baba O'Riley," whenever I hear that synth intro, something inside me still jumps. The immaculately acoustic "Love Ain't For Keepin'" is one of the freshest sounding songs in the entire rock canon. "Goin' Mobile," also absolute acoustic, is hopeful, quirky, and no matter to how many listens I treat myself, I can always hear something in the solo section that escaped me during the last listen.
All of the songs from Who's Next, with the sole exception of John Entwistle's comedic/paranoiac "My Wife," are taken from Lifehouse, the aborted film idea with which Pete Townshend was hoping to follow Tommy, considered the first "rock opera" (it's difficult to even type that term without stifling a grin). Never one to think small, Townshend wrote incredible songs for what was to be the ultimate rock 'n' roll experience. Lifehouse turned out to be so big, however, it disappeared up its own scope and best intentions. The songs remain, though, and in a sense, they were bound to be successful whether the Lifehouse idea was realized or not. They jump off the "grooves" and cannot be ignored unless one has ears of cotton.
If one wants to find out about Lifehouse, the packaging to Who's Next contains a revealing essay by Pete Townshend. Thus, one can put songs like "Behind Blue Eyes," "The Song is Over," and "Won't Get Fooled Again" into their intended contexts and perhaps gain a new appreciation of them.
With or without the background knowledge, however, Who's Next is one of those works that becomes one's own, independent of the artist's motives and/or intentions. It's a beautiful, stunning, moving, and just plain fine collection of songs by one of the finest bands in the history of modern music.
Free Music Review: One of the 1970s Best Albums - An Essential Addition To Any Collection Of 1970s Music
Hit: 5 Stars
The owner of a local CD store recently told me that the current 15 - 25 year old demographic is buying more 1970s music than the music of any other era, including contemporary bands. In fact, he said, 1970s bands like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd outsell all of today's bands combined! Interesting statistic, if it's true.
If the younger guys have this interest in 1970s music, then perhaps those of who were around in the 1970s should put them on to some of that decade's better music.
Here's one contribution from me. The Who's Who's Next is one of the 10 best albums of the 1970s. As such, it should be considered one of the essential albums in any collection of 1970s music.
It's just an excellent album throughout.
This version of the album is worth having for the extra tracks. Pete Townshend originally intended Who's Next to be a double album (2 vinyl LPs, for those you who weren't around in the 1970s) and had intended to include these songs that are extra tracks on this CD as part of the original album release. That didn't happen and Who's Next was released as a single LP. But these extra tracks are still worth having and the price of this CD is not much higher than the version without the bonus tracks.
For those of you who haven't heard this album, you may be familiar with one track. The CSI TV series franchise has taken tunes by The Who as the theme music for its shows. The song 'Who Are You', for example, is the theme for the CSI show based in Las Vegas. CSI: NY uses a song from this album, 'Baba O'Riley', as it theme music.
You know you're getting old when the music you listened to in high school becomes elevator music and the theme music for TV shows. What a depressing thought!
Bottom line: Great album. One of the 1970s best albums. If you're collecting 1970s music, this is an essential album for your collection.