| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Jimmy Page, Nicky Hopkins | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | DDD |
Album Notes
This is a Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players.
The Who: Roger Daltrey (vocals); Pete Townshend (guitar, background vocals); John Entwistle (bass, background vocals); Keith Moon (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Jimmy Page (guitar); Perry Ford, Nicky Hopkins (piano); The Ivy League (background vocals).
Recorded at IBC Studios and Pye Studios, London, England. Originally released on Decca (4664). Includes liner notes by Mike Shaw, Shel Talmy and Andy Neill.
Having dealt with an inferior version of MY GENERATION on the market for many years, Who fans rejoiced upon hearing that early manager Shel Talmy (who owned the masters) and the surviving members of the Who reconciled. The result is that a properly remastered version of the band's landmark debut is finally available. This Deluxe Edition also holds a bonus disc packed with plenty of extras including covers of tunes by Paul Revere and The Raiders ("Lubie [Come Back Home]"), Martha & The Vandellas ("Heat Wave"), and Eddie Holland ("Leaving Here").
At the time, many British groups created a musical identity that drew heavily on the sounds of American R&B. So along with landmark recordings like "My Generation" and "The Kids Are Alright" you'll find the rollicking "La-La-La Lies" and thundering shuffle "Out In The Street." The band also pays tribute to James Brown ("Please, Please, Please") and Bo Diddley ("I'm A Man"). Worthy of note is John Entwistle's surf-flavored instrumental "The Ox" and Pete Townshend's proto-psychedelic nugget "Circles". Throw in stellar liner notes by Who chronicler Andy Neill and crystal-clear sound and you have a true classic finally getting its due.
Editorial Reviews
Included in Q Magazine's The 50 Best Albums of 2002.
Q (12/01/2002)
4 stars out of 5 - ...a distinctive and exciting record in its time, and remains so in this reissued version...
Uncut (10/01/2002)
4 stars out of 5 - ...Finds the original dozen cuts joined by 18 more, including the group's first 45's....Now we can understand how, in 1965, The Who were suddenly ranked behind the Beatles and the Stones...
Q (09/01/2002)
4 stars out of 5 - ...The Deluxe addition adds more black lighting to the original - torched-Motown covers; more JB; the brisk sass of 'Daddy Rolling Stone' an Otis Blackwell bullet rescued from a '65 B side - and doubles as a thundering monument to the late John Entwistle...
Rolling Stone (09/19/2002)
Ranked #8 in Mojo's Best Reissues of 2002
Mojo (01/01/2003)
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