The best WHO, eventually
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Topic: The best WHO, eventually
Posted By: Quinino
Subject: The best WHO, eventually
Date Posted: July 20 2019 at 15:43
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My beloved QUADROPHENIA gets not https://www.clashmusic.com/features/quadrophenia-a-way-of-life-for-30-years" rel="nofollow - ONE but https://www.popmatters.com/151735-the-past-is-calling-reconsidering-the-whos-quadrophenia-2495914029.html" rel="nofollow - TWO retrospective (and encomiastic) long reviews |
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: July 22 2019 at 07:51
| Quite enjoyable read. Thanks a lot. |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: July 22 2019 at 12:24
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Exceptional reads. Quadrophenia is a classic, and remains to this day one of the finest albums ever put to vinyl. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: September 05 2019 at 05:26
Or CD. My Japanese copy is exceptional.
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lazland wrote:Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: September 13 2019 at 08:06
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With Quadrophenia The Who earned a lifetime pass to release all the crappy music they want. (Definitely in my Top Ten all time.)
And there's a new album on the way!!! |
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: September 13 2019 at 08:15
Indeed. Fortunately, I actually love the next three studio releases that followed.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 13 2019 at 11:19
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Very good album but not my favorite one...still prefer Tommy over Quad....but if I could own only one would be Who's Next.... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: September 13 2019 at 13:20
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Who's Next and Quadrophenia are both absolute classics. ------------- 
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: September 13 2019 at 14:28
+1
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Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: September 13 2019 at 14:50
+2 Both classics and both show The Who at their creative best. ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 14 2019 at 00:20
| The first album I ever owned was The Who by Numbers and I'm still very fond of it. I think its the best collection of Who songs and doesn't have any weak moments for me. Who's Next is very up and down although the 'Ups' are very high up indeed. Quadrophenia - ye I like it and great to hear the synths. It's certainly their most 'progged up' album! |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 14 2019 at 01:23
Yikes, two of those three are amongst their weaker ones (only WAY is counterbalancing  )
 well maybe not!!  And they haven't abused too much of that right, which is a good thing
Absolutely  Tops: Quadro & Next One Step Down: Tommy (honestly I've grown sick of it from having heard it way too many times), Leeds (their essence) and Who Are You (the album I started with, but still quite brilliant despite a flailing Loon) a few steps down: the rest... except Their worst: Face Dances
Care to tell us which pressing or reissue, please?? I'm still looking for the ultimate version of that album (hopefully it's a cardboard Mini-Lp thing too)
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 14 2019 at 06:51
ditto.. but my desert island studio Who album would be Sell Out... which was IMHO the best studio album by far they ever did. The perfect blend of everything that made them great (minus the live aspect of course which Live at Leeds captured) along with being Moon's finest moments in the studio before Johns put the shackles on him creativity.. crazy genius he was.... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: September 17 2019 at 10:15
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Who's Next, their most listenable album. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: AZF
Date Posted: September 17 2019 at 13:44
Thank you! It wasn't just me! The Who Sell Out is a fantastic album. And cat among the pigeons, was it the last time The Who were out and out fun? Before Pete Townshend got all self doubting and "looking for spiritual answers". We got some great music and good albums after he did this. But for me they just couldn't match the enjoyment of ...Sell Out. Too bad the UK rejected this album as it didn't chart as high as I'd thought it would. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: September 17 2019 at 19:00
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The holy trinity: Tommy, Leeds, Who's Next. ------------- |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: March 02 2020 at 15:05
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The lyrics and their delivery just floored so many of us - those universal themes that every teen has seen.....Jimmy was us, man - "I'm One". And those frantic drums, rumble bass, Pete riffs and catchy leitmotifs still ring in my head 40 years after first hearing it. I haven't put it on in a good 10 years because of how intimate of an experience it is to play it thru. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |