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Love this album. The first 3 Black Sabbath albums were on such an amazing level.
BTW, got a surprise last week : I learned that Michael Brandon (of Dempsey and Makepeace fame) was going to play the General. So, I'll have a chance at seeing him on stage.
Already loving The Who after tuning into their first album. This is just one cut in particular I enjoyed a lot. I owe @Birdleson thanks for his enthusiasm and recommendations to me about the band. I decided to just go through the albums in chronological order for the full exploration.
My favorite track off The Who's second album, A Quick One. I preferred the debut album overall, but still had some fun with this interesting song collection. Much of it reminded me of early Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett!
Interesting. I normally just listen to studio albums, but I'll have to check that one out too. I got to fit in The Who Sells Out tonight as well, which was definitely a step above A Quick One! One track I liked a lot:
Some other strong ones included I Can See For Miles (Of course. It's the most popular one off this album, but for good reason; it's awesome), Our Love Was, Armenia in the Sky, and Melancholia. One thing that stands out to me that I love about The Who is their sense of humor - one great example being a couple lyrics in Tattoo, and also the commercial gag. Pretty excited to dive into the next few albums, which are regarded as the band's greatest (Tommy, Who's Next, Quadrophenia, The Who By Numbers...).
Sounds good; I’ll definitely incorporate those. I’ll be sure to listen to Live at Leeds after Tommy. That’s awesome that they’re playing near you; I hope you can catch them! Pretty exciting that they have a new album out later this year. Hopefully it’ll be a success!
Tommy. I was pretty blown away by this album. Underture, the above song, is the longest track - an instrumental tune that I particularly loved (has to be my favorite of the album). Some of my other favorite tracks include Pinball Wizard, We're Not Gonna Take It, Sally Simpson, I'm Free, Amazing Journey, Cousin Kevin, Christmas, and Welcome. Really though, this is an album that is best listened altogether! It's exactly what a concept album should be - a meaningful story told by excellent music. I was totally engaged with the story the whole time while listening to the music too, which was very emotional and intriguing to me.
There were plenty of tracks I enjoyed from the first 3 albums, but without question Tommy is on another level as an album and display of musicianship for The Who. I'm extremely excited to see what else lies ahead, because this album was a big win all around.
Got to love Tommy. It's definitely one of The Who's most essential albums.
I'm very much a Who fan myself, and I can only agree with @Birdleson's post above about the importance of Live at Leeds. Besides being a link between two of their most important albums, it's also a fantastic live album. A must listen. Strangely enough I don't own a copy of the album…
From The Who's discography, I personally really dig their early works a lot (The Who Sell Out has always been a favourite). The 70's contained some of their most recognisable work though, with Who's Next probably the standout album of that period. Quadrophenia is probably my favourite of the 70's albums.
The Who by Numbers is definitely a very good album as well. It's never been a personal favourite, but it's very much an album to be mentioned. I think I read somewhere that The Who by Numbers is Roger Daltrey's favourite of their albums.
The Who just released this on Youtube, by the way; Won’t Get Fooled Again, from Shepperton Studios, 1978. As written in the video description: "Sadly this was to be the very last performance ever by Keith Moon."