Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. I'm the Face
2. Here 'Tis - (previously unreleased, High Numbers demo)
3. Zoot Suit
4. Leaving Here
5. I Can't Explain
6. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
7. Daddy Rolling Stone
8. My Generation
9. Kids Are Alright, The
10. Ox, The
11. Legal Matter, A
12. Substitute
13. I'm a Boy
14. Disguises
15. Happy Jack
16. Boris the Spider
17. So Sad About Us
18. Quick One While He's Away, A
19. Pictures of Lily
20. Early Morning Cold Taxi - (previously unreleased, studio outtake)
21. Last Time, The
22. I Can't Reach You
23. Girl's Eyes - (previously unreleased, studio outtake)
24. Call Me Lightning
DISC 2:
1. I Can See For Miles
2. Mary-Anne With the Shaky Hands
3. Armenia City in the Sky
4. Tattoo
5. Our Love Was, Is
6. Rael I
7. Rael II - (previously unreleased, studio outtake)
8. Sunrise
9. Jaguar - (previously unreleased, studio outtake)
10. Melancholia - (previously unreleased, studio outtake)
11. Fortune Teller - (previously unreleased, studio outtake)
12. Magic Bus
13. Little Billy
14. Dogs
15. Overture
16. Acid Queen
17. Underture
18. Pinball Wizard
19. I'm Free
20. See Me, Feel Me - (previously unreleased)
21. Heaven and Hell
22. Young Man Blues
23. Summertime Blues
DISC 3:
1. Shakin' All Over
2. Baba O'Riley
3. Bargain
4. Song Is Over, The
5. Pure and Easy
6. Behind Blue Eyes
7. Won't Get Fooled Again
8. Seeker, The
9. Bony Moronie
10. Let's See Action
11. Join Together
12. Relay
13. Real Me, The - (previously unreleased, 1979 studio version)
14. 5:15
15. Bellboy
16. Love Reign O'er Me
DISC 4:
1. Long Live Rock
2. Life With the Moons #1
3. Naked Eye - (previously unreleased)
4. University Challenge
5. Slip Kid
6. Poetry Cornered
7. Dreaming From the Waist - (previously unreleased)
8. Blue Red and Grey
9. Life With the Moons #2
10. Squeeze Box
11. My Wife - (previously unreleased)
12. Who Are You
13. Music Must Change, The
14. Sister Disco
15. Guitar and Pen
16. You Better You Bet
17. Eminence Front
18. Twist and Shout - (previously unreleased)
19. I'm a Man - (previously unreleased)
20. Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
| Details | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
THE GIFT SET includes the 30 YEARS OF MAXIMUM R&B box set, the 30 YEARS OF MAXIMUM R&B LIVE video, and a tee-shirt.
The compilers of MAXIMUM R&B deserve credit for squeezing the collected works of the Who onto these four CDs. The Who's transition from singles band to something more ambitious is well chronicled on disc one. It contains early singles like "Zoot Suit" and "I'm the Face," classics like "My Generation" and "I Can't Explain," near-classics like "I'm a Boy" and early rarities like their take on the Stones' "The Last Time." The second disc charts the band's transition toward conceptual rock and opera, beginning with a selection from THE WHO SELL OUT and moving into their seminal rock opera "TOMMY." The band is also captured at their blistering best in cuts from legendary LIVE AT LEEDS.
Disc three covers the early '70s, when the band was at a creative peak, turning out state-of-the-art rock with QUADROPHENIA and WHO'S NEXT. Songs like "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again" still explode like Thor's hammer. The final disc has a little of everything, rare live versions, radio-only oddities, and the best of their late-'70s and early-'80s output. The later works demonstrate that the Who continued make great music even in the twilight of their career.
Editorial Reviews
Ranked #4 in NME's list of the 10 best compilation albums of 1994.
NME (12/24/1994)
5 Stars - Classic - ...Townsend's songwriting shines throughout....[he] elevates the the rite of rock & roll passage into a spiritual quest for freedom, self-knowledge and eventually salvation....rock was never more live--or better...
Rolling Stone (09/08/1994)
5 Stars - Indispensable - ...In the final analysis, the music does its own fighting....No swanning about. No flouncing. 30 YEARS OF MAXIMUM R&B is the best box set ever...
Q (08/01/1994)
6 - Good - ...This then should stand as The Who's flawed memorial: enthralling, madly ambitious, hampered by limping last chapters...
NME (07/02/1994)
...the strong arm with which Townshend once sweetly mixed mod sentiments with Beach Boy harmonies...still deliver a jolt of maximum pleasure... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (07/08/1994)
5 Stars - Indispensable - ...In the final analysis, the music does its own fighting....No swanning about. No flouncing. 30 YEARS OF MAXIMUM R&B is the best box set ever...
Q (08/01/1994)
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