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They are very good and important to rock history. However they don't appeal to me that much. Oh and Zeppelin is better.
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They really rick ...

Rock even ...

Tommy's my favourite album ... The Seeker, Pictures Of Lily, Pinball Wizard, Sparks and I Can See For Miles are probably my Top 5 songs ...
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The Who are rubbish.  Overrated twaddle!
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Points: 476 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2005 at 08:57
The Who are fantastic

Roger Daltrey - Great, soulful singer
Peter Townshend - Amazing guitarist
Keith Moon - Mad & hilarious drummer
John Entwistle - Quite the uberbassist!

Who's Next & Tommy....Masterpieces
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Points: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2005 at 01:43

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Quadrophenia is a great album, but for me Who's Next is their best. Baba O'Reilly, Bargain, Behind Blue Eyes and Won't Get Fooled Again all on one album. What more can you say?

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tommy and quadrophenia are my only 2 who albums. actually forgot i had them, think its time to refresh. good music
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I love The Who, Live at Leeds is one of the best live albums ever.
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Never listened to the Who,except at the Live 8...

I know,boo,shame on me,but that's the fact...
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Oh wow.  Even before I get here, someone has my icon. 

Well, let's just say Quadrophenia is my favorite album and leave it at that.

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I liek the remastered cd of The Who Sell Out.  It's so freakin' funny!
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Quadrophenia is a great album, but for me Who's Next is their best. Baba O'Reilly, Bargain, Behind Blue Eyes and Won't Get Fooled Again all on one album. What more can you say?
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Points: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2005 at 11:43

Originally posted by Eetu Pellonpää Eetu Pellonpää wrote:

I like their material from 65-70, mostly lives, radio and tv performances caught their spontaneousness and agression. I have heard their recent live sets are also good, live8 I saw and liked.

If you ask me, I can't really call them The Who nowadays. To me The Who ended the day Entwistle died (in July 2002). Keith Moon's death effected their image (ironically, Keith's ex-wife married their next drummer, who was in the Small Faces), but they still had a few albums in them. Now it really is Townshend, Daltrey, and Friends performs the songs of the Who. Not saying it is bad, Pete and Roger have become better musicians over the years, but they don't have that aggression that they did in the Tommy days. Live8 was also great for them, as was Live Aid.
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Points: 4828 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2005 at 06:04
I like their material from 65-70, mostly lives, radio and tv performances caught their spontaneousness and agression. I have heard their recent live sets are also good, live8 I saw and liked.
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Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by felona felona wrote:

what's happened to your avvie, cygnus? All I can see is an  empty space  ... any  symbolic meaning there  .........? 

I think it is remnicient of the emptiness and loneliness of Jimmy from Quadrophenia.

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Originally posted by Syntharachnid Syntharachnid wrote:

Yay!  I got here before Cygnus!!!

Lucky You!
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Points: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2005 at 04:42

Originally posted by felona felona wrote:

what's happened to your avvie, cygnus? All I can see is an  empty space  ... any  symbolic meaning there  .........? 

I think it is remnicient of the emptiness and loneliness of Jimmy from Quadrophenia.
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what's happened to your avvie, cygnus? All I can see is an  empty space  ... any  symbolic meaning there  .........? 
I was never really sure what I was waiting for. When the moment came I was looking away ......
The Church "After Everything Now This"
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Points: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2005 at 04:31
Ahem... take a look to the left and you'll see that The Who are one of my favorite groups. And Quadrophenia is my favorite album... ever.
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Points: 442 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2005 at 21:43
Great Band.  My  favorite's are "Who's Next", "Quadrophenia", and "Tommy".  One of the best hard rock bands I've heard (with some definite progressive influences).  My favorite song of theirs is "The Song is Over", and "Behind Blue Eyes".
If you don't stand up
You don't stand a chance!
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Points: 521 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2005 at 21:42
I am very fond of  The Who ... Quadrophenia is a rock opera classic with some prog elements for sure .... ... but probably more all-out rock than Prog?
I was never really sure what I was waiting for. When the moment came I was looking away ......
The Church "After Everything Now This"
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