The Who Album-By-Album (& Single-By-Single) Thread

When the boxset came out in 1994, there was a discography in the back. And that lit the fire under me. I have every release and more on that list.

In fact, when the VCR release of 40 yrs Maximum rhythms and blues came out. I played it for 2 yrs straight during diner with the family.

 

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i meant 30 yrs........

 

Keep on movin!!!!!

 

Rest assured I've had a pint in my day.
You do realize that it's possible to criticize a band's work and still love them?

 

You're far from alone there. Roger hates the track, and even Pete seems a little embarrassed by it. I adore it. It might start out as a routine music-hall vamp, but things pick up melodically about half a minute in ("Now we're both together ..."), and that chorused "Yes it's you, little darling" at the end of the song is one of the most transcendently beautiful moments in their catalogue. There's a depth of aching emotion there that the words don't communicate on the printed page.

Yeah, they'd lost touch with their audience. Nobody wanted this kind of thing in 1968, and Pete was savvy enough to change with the times, though it took this single's failure to scare him into doing it. From here on there wouldn't be much trace of the group that sang, "cello, cello, cello" in 1966 — ambitiously themed stuff like "Rael" was the blueprint for the future — and the music changed too, to the point where John Mendelsohn would write of their "Just Another Boring Metal Band Tour of 1969." But the brilliant songs still continued, if a little more intermittently, and their output from 1965 through 1968 is a legacy almost no one could match.

 

Well put. Complete agreement with you.

 

Sure do, I was just trying to light a fire to get the thread moving

 

Always loved "Dogs"! One of my all-time favorite Who moments is when that second verse kicks in with "we go to the dog track on Saturday night". Man, that's fun stuff!

Also think it would've been a great title track for a US collection of non-LP tracks in the '70s, like a companion to Meaty Beaty.

Anyone know if they ever played it live? Any decent cover versions?

 

Just got two new Who Cds in the mail today and just had to share--while blasting the hood.

Who's Missing ~ Japan for US

It's Hard ~ WG Target

 

My JPN CD Rarities volume 1 and 2 arrived yesterday, fantastic stuff. Hadn't heard Dogs in a few years, absolutely love that track, a real lost classic in their catalogue.

 

"The Who"- picture of the day

 

After all this talk, I HAD to play Dogs on my radio show... Sounded fantastic.

 

Count me in as a fan of "Dogs" as well. When I lived in Montgomery, Alabama in the mid 70's I picked up a Who compilation lp <pictured below> that had this song and a few others I hadn't ever heard before.
As an aside, I just noticed that my "Two's Missing" cd does not denote that the version there is mono, I thought the only place on cd to get it in stereo was the boxed set? Maybe I'm confused...

 

Mad for Dogs...the only place it has been released in stereo is on the box set, and it's a beautiful remix but for the fact that Moon's magnificent drums are mixed tragically low.

 

"The Who"- picture of the day

 

"The Who"- bonus picture of the day

 

Isn't it in stereo on Two's Missing?

Evan

 

Nope...

 

Dog is a horrible song. But, there is a certain charm to it, putting it in context of the era in which it was released. Fortunately Townshend found his way shortly thereafter.

 

You may not like it, but it is not a horrible song. Some of us clearly think otherwise. Charming would be more correct.

What about Dongs Part 2 arf arf

 

It has been stated by Pete (jokingly) that the windmill style of guitar playing was influenced by bowling.

Has it ever been explained (beyond the theatrical theory) as to why Pete leaps, jumps and flies into the air.

We know that Pete composed many a song on those long airplane trips, incorporating the flying theme into many lyrics. The stage act in my mind must have been influenced by this as well.

Before you dismiss the photographs we have all seen as trick or special camera angle photography. Note that often we see Keith Moon looking way up to catch a glimpse of Pete in the air.

The man really can fly!! At least that's what I thought when I was 16 yrs old

"The Who"- picture of the day

 

reb,
Pete also once claimed that he nicked the windmill style of playing off of Keith Richards while viewing a very early Rolling Stones gig. It went somewhere along the lines that he saw Keith doing a kind of warmup exercise and that the image stuck with him.
BTW, the photo above is fantastic. I love it.

 

Thanks, here is another one:


"The Who"- flying "freestyle" Pete bonus pic of the day!!

 

Great photos Reb! All 3 (including your avatar - that Gibson Les Paul Deluxe gold top has seconds to live!) are from the Philly Spectrum, the last night of the 1975 U.S. tour. I can only imagine how great a show this was. I first saw these photos in Richard Barnes excellent Maximum R&B book back in the early eighties. The best Who book up until that point. Keep them coming!