The Who By Numbers vs Who Are You
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Topic: The Who By Numbers vs Who Are You
Posted By: Svetonio
Subject: The Who By Numbers vs Who Are You
Date Posted: November 06 2010 at 10:10
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I think this is a very best The Who studio track, one of few what they never played live --- ---- my fav one from Who Are You
Voted By Numbers
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: November 06 2010 at 10:14
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The Who by numbers was a good album i like it, Who are you is the first bad who album i think, its okay i gues, but not on the same level as the other older albums, it was the last album with keith moon and it shows. ------------- 
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Posted By: Todd
Date Posted: November 06 2010 at 10:29
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By Numbers is actually my favorite album of theirs. Much more personal than anything that came before it, and their equal musically IMO. ------------- "I have seen the broken sky turn blue." http://gnosis2000.net/ratertodd.shtml" rel="nofollow - My Gnosis Ratings |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: November 06 2010 at 11:05
What he said. You could make an argument that the music on Who Are You is probably a lot more proggy (the arrangements feature strings, brass, synths and much more background detail than the normal Who fare) but as you state, the personal candour contained in Townshend's wonderful songs on By Numbers clinches the deal for me. ------------- 
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Todd wrote:Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: November 06 2010 at 11:14
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Haven't heard either actually, only own the two rock operas and Who's Next. Got to get a copy of By the Numbers some day. ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: November 06 2010 at 11:30
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What amazing slow rock track, what amazing Nicky Hopkins' piano work! |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: November 08 2010 at 19:50
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By Numbers has long been my favorite Who record.....it's Townshend's first step into "old fartdom". It was actually my first experience with the Who.....I borrowed it from the library when I was just a wee lad and fell in love with Slip Kid but really couldn't understand the rest....Townshend's tales of aging didn't really stick in my teen head. After totally absorbing the rest of their albums, it's to By Numbers that I return.
For casual Who fans, the expanded Odds and Sods and By Numbers are a real treat. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: November 08 2010 at 19:59
| Easy poll for me, Who Are You is one of my all-time fave albums while By Numbers is simply another decent rock album for me. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 08 2010 at 20:52
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What? Not particularly impressed by either of those. My opinion isn't probably important because I am not a Who fan. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: November 08 2010 at 22:32
By Numbers - their best ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: November 09 2010 at 05:31
| However Much I Booze from that legendary Houston 1975 gig |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: November 10 2010 at 08:48
I'm a little surprised by the results so far.....
Numbers is almost a bottom of the crawer thing with tracks datin,g from 69 or 60... generally leftovrers that didn't find space on other albums..... only two good songs on it and Slip Kids and Squeez Box are atrocious tracks that announces You Bette You Bet
 Who Are You is their last good album (sometimes fantastic), but Moon's drumming is definitely sliding downhill ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: November 10 2010 at 09:11
I'm not a massive Who fan so maybe By Numbers is the Who album for people who don't like the Who? For me it dispenses with the sort of grand sweeping gestures of the so-called classic Who albums like say Who's Next, Tommy and Quadrophenia (which are good but Townshend clearly overreaches himself as a composer and librettist on the latter two IMO) I can see how hard-line Who buffs would hate things like Blue, Red and Gray - Squeezebox - They're All In Love as they represent a side of Townshend that he has hitherto only given rein to on his solo outings. None of the very personal songs on By Numbers carry the bombast of teenage rebellion or the boyish blasphemies of disaffected youth etc as by that stage Pete appears to have acknowledged the ageing process and the effect such would have on his world-view. So I guess it represents one of Rock's first rites of passage into middle age? (he was now singing: Hope I get old before I die  )-------------
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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: November 10 2010 at 23:32
From Houston 1975---
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: November 11 2010 at 04:31
i always figured they would, although Moon The Loon obliged.... ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
)Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: November 11 2010 at 05:46
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Actually, Daltrey wrotte the lyrics for My Generation the song, not Townshend.
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: November 11 2010 at 08:28
That's interesting, I had no idea they were Daltrey's words  -------------
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Posted By: rod65
Date Posted: November 12 2010 at 12:35
| Though I am not a huge fan of either album, I chose By Numbers. Who Are You, though it has some excellent moments, is the first Who album that actually managed to bore me in places. Personally, I think the best Who studio album since Quadrophenia is Endless Wire, and I am really hoping that this is not the end of the wire for them. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: November 18 2010 at 06:41
Yes, that's true. Also interesting moment to me, from that debut LP, is The Ox, an instrumental track composed by John Entwistle, what sounds pretty proggy, IMO --
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 14:45
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Am I the only one who likes this?
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Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: December 16 2010 at 05:35
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