the Who: Who's next

glasshouse
glasshouse Posts: 1,762
edited February 2008 in Other Music
any lovers/haters?
Athens, Greece: 2006/09/30

"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
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  • glasshouse
    glasshouse Posts: 1,762
    ok, i'm starting to like this :cool:
    Athens, Greece: 2006/09/30

    "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Love it.
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  • Red Lukin
    Red Lukin Canada Posts: 2,994
    Yea if you don't like Who's Next I'm guessing The Who isn't for you. I have the Deluxe edition as well, and I love it.

    3 words: Young Man Blues ; )
  • pirlo21
    pirlo21 Posts: 534
    I know what you mean about Tommy & Quadrophenia, apart from a handfull of tracks I really haven't been able to get into them as albums.
    Never really liked The Who's early, slightly poppy/Beatlesque side.
    But, Who's Next!! Now there's an album I do love. Right up in my top ten of all time. Love it.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I used to love The Who between the ages of ten and twelve, but then I moved onto Hendrix and didn't really look back. However, Who's Next is a fine album. I think it's a pity Quadrophenia wasn't aborted at the time, like Lifehouse. Townshend might have distilled the best material from it, as he did with the Lifehouse material on Who's Next, and saved us the filler.
  • DriftingByTheStorm
    DriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    glasshouse wrote:
    ok, i'm starting to like this :cool:

    Maybe try Meaty Beaty, Big And Bouncy?

    Glad your gettin in to Who's Next

    Like the beatles, the "peak" is not my favorite.
    Dig the early stuff too.
    :D

    You should at least pick up and give The Who Sell Out and A Quick One a quick listen. I highly recommend just ditching Whos Next for a while and sinking in to those two.

    Also, Odds & Sods is essential, and Who Are You is a good later album with some quirky disco era goodness. (no disco though! i said disco-ERA. lol) ...

    oh and THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT!
    WATCH IT!

    :D


    oh.
    and when your ready for a little more.
    Go track down a copy of ROUGH MiX!
    (and Scoop, if your realy adventureous. lol)
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  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    " I don't really know myself" version at the Isle of wright is the superior version, other than than its a great record
  • Bangers_n_mash
    Bangers_n_mash Posts: 1,241
    Got my first Who album over Christmas. Yep, you guessed, it was Who's Next. Amazing album, Behind Blues Eyes in particular knocked me down cos I hadn't heard it before!
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  • reversedarwinism
    reversedarwinism Posts: 1,151
    I've listened to a friend's cousin's who albums. They don't do anything for me. A little too cheesy, IMO. My mom was always my biggest provider of music and musical tastes growing up. She had some Who albums, I could never get into it back then either. I just really don't hear what is so great about them.
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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    I love Quadrophenia up and down. Great album.

    The only other Who album I have is "Who's Better, Who's Best", an old greatest hits collection I don't think they even sell anymore.

    In getting into them, I would suggest a greatest hits album then go from there.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    fada wrote:
    " I don't really know myself" version at the Isle of wright is the superior version, other than than its a great record


    That wasn't on the original album. It was the B-side of the truncated Won't Get Fooled Again single, in 1971.
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,842
    come people QUADROPHENIA & TOMMY these two alone should be the starting point these are TOWNSENDS best work ,IMO at least ....
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • cc10106
    cc10106 Posts: 385
    first 4 tracks are killer
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,410
    Listen to Quadrophenia a BUNCH of times. You'll be singing along, before long. The Real Me, 5:15, Love Reign O'er Me, I'm One? They ALL kick ass! One of my all time favorite albums :D!
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • clarefromscotland
    clarefromscotland Posts: 154
    I was massively into the Who as a kid and saw them 9 or 10 times live in the UK. Mid-period albums like Who's Next and the original Quadrophenia album are their best work imho. Avoid the later releases (Face Dances onwards) like the plague, but the early stuff (pre-Tommy) is fun, if very different.

    Zeppelin mean more to me now out of bands of that era, but the best of The Who is great stuff. I'd have thought most PJ fans would have loved Who's Next....?
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  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    cc10106 wrote:
    first 4 tracks are killer
    along with the last three
    hell, all 9 tracks are classics!!!Their best work.
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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    Quadrophenia is awesome, Who's Next is awesome, The Who By Numbers is awesome, Tommy is awesome.... need i say more?
  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    that album saved my life, once.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • pjforever
    pjforever Posts: 14
    if you want to hear tommy like you've never heard it before, pick up the double disc "join together". it's from the 1987 / 1988 tour and the first disc is a shortened, but incredible updated version of "tommy". truct me, you won't be dissapointed.
    look into the eyes of the fallen.....you got to know there's another..another..another..another..way.
  • glasshouse
    glasshouse Posts: 1,762
    love
    Athens, Greece: 2006/09/30

    "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick

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