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Poll Question: Weakest track(s) on the album Who's Next?
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22 [30.99%]
3 [4.23%]
4 [5.63%]
11 [15.49%]
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    Posted: February 05 2018 at 01:07
The Dark Elf and I agree.   Not a weak track in sight.  My Wife is winning/losing the poll yet My Wife holds a special place in my heart.  Anyone with a sense of humor and a friend running from an insane crazy woman feels sympathy for John Entwistle and can appreciate My Wife.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 04 2018 at 21:27
I don't believe there's a weak song on the album. Some are just so incredibly epic, the others get lost. One of the greatest rock albums ever made.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 04 2018 at 18:25
Originally posted by dr prog dr prog wrote:

First and last songs are just standard riff tracks. Bit boring.

I must like standard riff tracks like those then. I'm also a sucker for Jumping Jack Flash, Satisfaction and Honky Tonk Woman, which are also standard riff tracks.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 04 2018 at 18:19
Originally posted by lostrom lostrom wrote:

By accident, My Wife got 2 extra votes from me.

Plus one vote from me which meant to go to Going Mobile. Not a bad song actually which doesn't deserve to be the worst track. The opening chords of Going Mobile reminds me too much of The Kinks.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 04 2018 at 02:33
My Wife.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2018 at 23:03
Originally posted by dr prog dr prog wrote:

First and last songs are just standard riff tracks. Bit boring.
I quess they´re going that for being in those Police TV series, also I think they´re playing a lot in the radio channels still today. To me they are still great tracks, because I watch tv and listen radio very little. Of course heard them quite much all those many Who live albums, but anyway I am not still bored to them.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2018 at 17:48
Originally posted by dr prog dr prog wrote:

First and last songs are just standard riff tracks. Bit boring.

LOL  that is like saying 6ft blonds with large mammary glands  f**k me eyes and strong oral fixastions are standard off the shelve women.. and a bit boring.... 

hah different strokes for different folks I suppose
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2018 at 17:22
Going mobile is the only one I enjoy a fair bit 
All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2018 at 17:22
First and last songs are just standard riff tracks. Bit boring.
All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2018 at 12:15
What! Love Ain´t For Keeping got 18 votes! One of my favourite Who songs! No, I don´t vote this, this is just ridicilous. Next somebody makes "Weakest tracks of Foxtrot"-poll!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2018 at 07:55
Can't say there's a weak track on WN, but I do wish they'd have found room for Naked Eye on the album.  Ever since first hearing it on the Odds and Sods LP, you just knew it was that songs' proper home.   
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 05 2017 at 19:31
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2017 at 16:38
My favourite Who album - and I don't feel the need to skip a single track - as it just flows through from start to finish with lovely changes in mood and tempo. On their own I know a few songs wouldn't hold up as well - but on the album... no real issues.

I know, like the magician asking you to pick a card, we are expected to choose My Wife - but it is such an innocent, cheery little number, it would be churlish to pick on it! Love that horn riff when it kicks in anyway! Bah-Bah! When music raises a little smile, it's doing something right. If I had to choose, it would reluctantly be Love Ain't for Keeping - maybe just because it flows over me slightly more than others,

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2017 at 04:18
Trick question. None, it's one of rock's rarities. A perfect album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 25 2017 at 06:29
My Wife. It's "ok", just doesn't really do anything for me. I guess "meh" best describes it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2017 at 14:04
There's some great extra tracks on the CD versions (which being a luddite, I only came across relatively recently); some of the Lifehouse / 'Record plant' sessions with Leslie West from Mountain are just thunderous- their version of the old Marvin Gaye song 'Baby don't you do it', 'Naked Eye' & 'Water' are fantastic!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2017 at 17:05
I used to think that My Wife was out of place on the album - its production seems murkier as if the vocals are underwater......it lacked that significant something that made the rest of WN so memorable.  With the release of the song on of live bonus tracks and bootlegs, it seems that My Wife came alive live.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 29 2017 at 07:45
By accident, My Wife got 2 extra votes from me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2017 at 15:13
One of the greatest classic rock lps of all time.. end of..
I quite like 'my wife' but it IS the weakest song on the lp, HOWEVER it does have one of the things the OX was known for (apart from his thunderous Bass sound), namely excellent Brass arrangements! they sound so British Television circa 1972 which is how its supposed to sound.

Not a 'weak song' but my personal least favourite is 'Behind blue eyes'.. cant really say why, and I never skip it.

I love this lp, its a roller coaster of light and shade, loud and quiet. The Who were just like old british cars and bikes; when it was going well, it just roared along and yeah oil dripped out and bits fell off but you just topped it up, stuck the bits back on and roared off again!

'Rock is dead! Long live Rock'!!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2017 at 18:43

Love Ain't for Keeping, bland moment of an otherwise great record            

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