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ALBUM OF THE WEEK # 50 THE WHO - WHO'S NEXT (1971) NUMBER 8 FROM CRR

This week's album is a true classic.  Who's Next by The Who, one of the greatest rock bands ever, really doesn't need a lot of commentary on my part.  Basically, the original album had 9 songs.  Four of those were massive (Baba O'Riley, Bargain, Behind Blue Eyes and Won't Get Fooled Again) and the other five are exceptional album cuts.  That's it, I can't add anything to that, so I won't try.  Enjoy the album.

 

By the way, the artwork is iconic, and you can get yourself a brand new, remastered copy with 7 bonus tracks for about 12 dollars (that is if you actually don't own it for some strange reason).

 

Favorite Track: Won't Get Fooled Again

 

Favorite Album Cut: Love Ain't For Keeping

 

Most Likely To Skip: N/A

 

Side One:

 

1. Baba O'Riley

2. Bargain

3. Love Ain't For Keeping

4. My Wife

5. The Song Is Over

 

Side Two:

 

6. Getting In Tune

7. Going Mobile

8. Behind Blue Eyes

9. Won't Get Fooled Again

 

             ***Click album cover to listen***

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I just realized why CRR went down.  Its because they ranked this album 8.  Members left in droves after that mistake.  Thankfully this site rectified that...  oh wait!  Were all mostly from CRR...  and we didnt see it as #1 in our poll either!!!  oh well, you all got it wrong.  Now if we can hide this fact from new members then we'll be fine...  This is and should always be #1

 

My favorite all time track is Baba O'Riley followed closely by tracks 2 through 9.

 

Just a note for RJ:  In 96, I went to see the KISS reunion show, Won't get fooled again was playing when they came on stage.  I found it rather rude of them to not wait until the song had finished to take the stage.  Good thing there was a group of ladies in the front row willing to display their, well you know...  Made me feel better about the the auspicious start.... Just sayin'

I love ladies that display.  And I agree, wait 'til the song is over.  And speaking of Kiss and Won't Get Fooled Again, did you ever see them in the mid 80's when they actually covered the song?  I thought they did a very decent and respectful version.  And if memory serves me right, Paul, Gene and Eric Carr  traded off lead vocals.  And have you seen the current show?  I kind of like the way they spice up Lick It Up with a teaser of WGFA in it.  I've never cared for LIU (the song), so it makes it much more tolerable for me.  I'd love to have heard a proper studio cover version when Paul could still sing.

 

And let me be the first to say, in a thread dedicated to The Who, that Kiss rules!

I agree, that this is one of the best albums ever released, well it's probably in top-25, but it's not even the Who's best album imo. I think TOMMY is their best album. "Who's next" sounds like what it is: Some songs from LIFEHOUSE, but not all of it, and I'm SURE, that if LIFEHOUSE was finished in 1971, kind of like Townshend intended it to (it WAS some cray genius-stuff he was preparing!!??) it would had been maybe the best (double)album ever released. One of my favorite Who-songs from that project is not on the original WN-album, "Pure and Easy", and yeah well, you probably know the rest of the songs, that's missing. But I DO love the album, even though I'm nearly every time I hear the album, thinking what COULD had been.   

I'm going to check, but isn't there a bunch of Lifehouse stuff on a certain CD version of Who's Next? I have it and it's too friggin'g hot to run downstairs, look and then run back upstairs....and then just noticed Rjhog mentioned the 7 extra tracks and I believe that be them.

 

 

AND WHY RUIN A PERFECTLY GREAT POST BY MENTIONING KISS???????????????????????????????

Well, yes there is, kind of, but...... imo the best version of "Pure & Easy", is the one from "Odds and Sods" and NOT the one they put on a re-release of "Who's next", and even though "Naked eye" appears, "Join Together", "Long live Rock" and a few others are missing, and as far as I can remember,even a few tracks from "Who are You" are from the LIFEHOUSE-project. My point is also, that I think a finnished (I can't spell that, it's early morning around here) double-album from 1971 would had been maybe the best album ever.Just like if George Martin had decided differently, and had put "Strawberry Fields" and "Penny Lane" on "Sgt. Pepper", would had made that album the best Beatles-album, and maybe the best album ever!!??

...better than Kiss' Crazy Nights??????

 

...and yet it continues
Sigh! 

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