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stone66
It's not surprising that many find Who's Next to be their strongest album, given that it was cherry picked from a larger collection of songs that was to have been a double album rock opera (Lifehouse).
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hopkins
Who's Next might be their best album but it's like comparing diamonds to diamonds.
Depending on the angle and light one will shine brighter at times.
Tommy takes some commitment and time and for me it's living breathing powerfully unique; at the time the perfect culmination of all of Pete's bristling wit, deepest soul and guitar prowess.
There is nothing that really sounds like that one,before or after, it's it's own stylistic thing. The blues cover in the midst of it all is astonishingly perfect.
This is the almost the last of Roger's really pure voice.
Keith Moon is his own full orchestra and that's just the cymbals. ta boom.
I've seen them very many times before and after Tommy;
Several complete performances, one at the Metropolitan Opera House. All of them brutal, and perfect and in many ways quite beautiful to me.
To think Pete wrote AND produced this labor of love is astonishing.
Sure when I Can See For Miles or anything from The Who Sell Out then that one seems like their best album. ;-)
It's a real good album. A real step out. Moon and Ox here are stunning.
A great album. groundbreaking in it's vision and execution; I don't say it's the 'best' this or 'that' particularly;
I was a teenager when this was released so it has it's own special big place in my life and my own state of mind at the time,
trying to better understand iconography and stars, cults, leaders, abused children, they cycles of cultural rises and falls,
dictators, resistance, sensory amazement, violence, lost tribes of young seekers, teenage wasteland before he said teenage wasteland later on...
...handicapped children, sexual abuse, illusion, idealism and so on...
Then again The Kinks put out several and very many concept albums that are fluid, have an equally great
or more interesting narrative. just as good singing, but they are very different bands. Writing wise Ray stands there with Pete.
Lola Vs. Powerman & The Money Go Round is an album I like every bit as much as Tommy. So are several of Ray's things.
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stone66
It's not surprising that many find Who's Next to be their strongest album, given that it was cherry picked from a larger collection of songs that was to have been a double album rock opera (Lifehouse).
And that is exactly what The Stones should have been doing with Exile. Picking the real goodies and kicking off the clunkers. The result would have been equally as great as Who´s Next, maybe greater depending on which band you like the most.
Yesterday I listened to Face Dances, a real treat and one of The Who´s best, maybe even a tad better than It´s Hard, which is marvelous.
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marcovandereijk
I have a sweet spot for Face Dances too. Probably has to do with my age at the time
it came out (about the same time as Tattoo You, so I must have been about 13 years old).
Still I can really enjoy many of the songs on Face Dances. No way comparable to Dirty Work.
I would rather compare it with whatever Genesis album from the 80s. It's basically a lot
of pop-music, with prominent keyboards and not that many guitars. That makes it very
different from Dirty Work.
But the song writing on Face Dances is enjoyable, it could just use some salt and pepper.
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stone66
It's not surprising that many find Who's Next to be their strongest album, given that it was cherry picked from a larger collection of songs that was to have been a double album rock opera (Lifehouse).
And that is exactly what The Stones should have been doing with Exile. Picking the real goodies and kicking off the clunkers. The result would have been equally as great as Who´s Next, maybe greater depending on which band you like the most.
Yesterday I listened to Face Dances, a real treat and one of The Who´s best, maybe even a tad better than It´s Hard, which is marvelous.
Those are The Who's Dirty Works!
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stone66
It's not surprising that many find Who's Next to be their strongest album, given that it was cherry picked from a larger collection of songs that was to have been a double album rock opera (Lifehouse).
And that is exactly what The Stones should have been doing with Exile. Picking the real goodies and kicking off the clunkers. The result would have been equally as great as Who´s Next, maybe greater depending on which band you like the most.
Yesterday I listened to Face Dances, a real treat and one of The Who´s best, maybe even a tad better than It´s Hard, which is marvelous.
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runaway
"The Who Concert in 1969 in Amsterdam", boot sounds pretty good to me but my favourite album is: The Who Sell Out double vinyl.
Amsterdam was the first city chosen by The Who to play the full Rock Opera "Tommy", in 1969.
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runaway
"The Who Concert in 1969 in Amsterdam", boot sounds pretty good to me but my favourite album is: The Who Sell Out double vinyl.
Amsterdam was the first city chosen by The Who to play the full Rock Opera "Tommy", in 1969.
Amsterdam 69 is quite possibly the best gig The Who ever performed. They were mean and angry and it shows with a really aggressive set.