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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Baba O'Riley | |||
| 2. Bargain | |||
| 3. Love Ain't For Keeping | |||
| 4. My Wife | |||
| 5. The Song Is Over | |||
| 6. Getting In Tune | |||
| 7. Going Mobile | |||
| 8. Behind Blue Eyes | |||
| 9. Won't Get Fooled Again | |||
| 10. Baby Don't You Do It (Bonus Track) | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Love Ain't For Keeping (Live At The Young Vic) | |||
| 2. Pure And Easy (Live At The Young Vic) | |||
| 3. Young Man Blues (Live At The Young Vic) | |||
| 4. Time Is Passing (Live At The Young Vic) | |||
| 5. Behind Blue Eyes (Live At The Young Vic) | |||
| 6. I Don't Even Know Myself (Live At The Young Vic) | |||
| 7. Too Much (Live At The Young Vic) | |||
| 8. Of Anything (Live At The Young Vic) | |||
| 9. Getting In Tune (Live At The Young Vic) | |||
| 10. Bargain (Live At The Young Vic) | |||
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The success of Who's Next and its slate of classic-rock tracks has often obscured its true roots--Lifehouse, the unwieldy multi-media project that Pete Townshend originally concocted as the follow-up to Tommy. Variously informed by apocalyptic visions, sci-fi notions of interconnectivity that neatly presaged the Internet and, of course, an unwavering conviction that rock & roll would save the world, the core tracks of the sprawling Lifehouse were recorded, cut, re-recorded and finally boiled down into a collection that seems to represent as much alienation ("Behind Blue Eyes") and overweening cynicism ("Won't Get Fooled Again") as it does liberation and unity. Aside from Townshend's own self-released, multi-disc meditation on the project, this expanded new edition is the most rewarding attempt to place Lifehouse and the over-exposed classic it spawned in their proper context.
Six tracks from the album's original but abandoned New York sessions flesh out the familiar material, with previously unreleased outtakes of "Getting in Tune" and a revealing, early arrangement of "Won't Get Fooled Again" warranting special note. The second disc documents one of Lifehouse's most quixotic elements with the first-time release of one of the series of concerts staged at London's Young Vic theatre during the project's gestation--events during which band and audience would somehow mystically become one. Core tracks from the project are interspersed with typical hard-rocking Who fare of the time, resulting in a show whose focus and dynamics belied something very different from the arena-rock clichés that would eventually overwhelm them. --Jerry McCulley
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Believe it or not, this landmark album has *never been reissued from the original master tapes 'til now!* But that's only the beginning disc one adds six bonus tracks, three of which have never been available. Then disc two captures a largely unreleased April 26, 1971 gig at London's Old Vic Theatre at which most of Pete Townshend's Lifehouse project-the genesis for Who's Next -was unveiled to the public for the first time, warts and all.
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29 of 32 people found the following review helpful
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Although the Deluxe Edition hypes that the original version uses the original master tapes for the first time, this is not true. In 1984, Steve Hoffman remastered this disc in the 1980s (a copy of the digital master he made from the original master tape was used on this Canadian budget import version available at hmv.com, absound.ca, cdplus.com and other Canadian music stores). The master tape was found in a file cabinet in The Mastering Lab in LA back in the 1980s and used it for the CD. The Hoffman CD has an EQ that favors the vocals. For his CD, Hoffman essentially played the tapes back "straight", without fading the hiss out between tracks. [side note: the Canadian version has the hiss "blacked" between some tracks. The original US and Japanese pressings don't.]
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By Allan Tong
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Format:Audio CD
As a collector of the Deluxe Editions of many bands, I have heard both good and mediocre sets. The mediocre ones suffer from thin extras. WHO'S NEXT however is perfect.
Disc one presents the classic album is high fidelity and a generous bunch of outtakes. Disc two is a great surprise: The Old Vic show where the band honed the songs to, well, perfection. This set is bursting with great music, in quality and quantity.
If you buy only 1 Who CD, this is it.
Disc one presents the classic album is high fidelity and a generous bunch of outtakes. Disc two is a great surprise: The Old Vic show where the band honed the songs to, well, perfection. This set is bursting with great music, in quality and quantity.
If you buy only 1 Who CD, this is it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By CL
Format:Audio CD
Shm-Sacd version is richer and deeper sounding than the regular CD but requires above average sound system to hear the difference and make it worth the money.
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Published on Feb 8 2007 by Rob Strother
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