Tommy, Live at Leeds, Who's Next, and Quadrophenia is the essential collection. That's the bare minimum.

The Who are incredible.. any band that can diversify between My Generation, Who Are You, and Happy Jack.. not to mention Boris the Spider.. belong on thrones. Ive heard their live act was insane, but havent had the pleasure of listening quite yet.

Absolute MUST haves: My Generation, Happy Jack (anyone who can sing along with this and not smile has problems), I Can See for Miles, Magic Bus, Pinball Wizard, Squeeze Box, Behind Blue Eyes, Who Are You, Won't Get Fooled Again, Cobwebs and Strange, I Can't Explain, Boris the Spider, and Baba O'Reily.

EDIT: Unless we do this by albums, how it seems to be usually done, in which case.. im outclassed by those who know more. :P

Yea I usually just go ahead and suggest albums, but song recommendations are good too.

And yea, welcome to our fine Who thread. You really need to get your hands on Live at Leeds, the greatest live rock album ever.

^ Pick up Live at Leeds if you want to hear some live stuff.

I recomend the deluxe version too.

EDIT: To Tusk.

:mad: You beat me to the recomendation, Lunch.

[QUOTE=fwqhgads]^ Pick up Live at Leeds if you want to hear some live stuff.

I recomend the deluxe version too.

EDIT: To Tusk.

:mad: You beat me to the recomendation, Lunch.[/QUOTE]

I love the who deluxe versions, they are always so much better than the original. The deluxe version of Who's Next is pretty good. I would say the deluxe version of Live at Leeds and Who's Next is the best place for any Who fan to start.

I've asked this before, but do you think you could upload/send me the second disc of the Who's Next Deluxe edition? I really want to get my hand on that live material.

I offer e-head in return. And by that I mean I'll upload something for you.

I don't have the deluxe edition of Who's Next. :(

I should have searched more for it.

I second Lunch's motion.

Ive heard Live at Leeds kicked azz from others... since thats the best live Who experience I can get (unless there's a concert DVD like Zep's?), ill be sure to take that advice when I go hunting for music tomorrow.. aka the mall with a lady friend. :rolleyes:

9 CD's on my list already *prays for checking account to survive* Thanks guys.. and hey, three makes a party, just one of you might not have been enough. :p

Hope your bank account holds up for you!

Especially when you have the lady friend coming along...

Oh, and welcome to the forums.

The Isle at Wight DVD is pretty good, similar set list to Live at Leeds. The performance isn't quite the same calibur though. And the Kids Are Alright DVD is a great movie stretching the Who's whole career, at least up until Keith Moon died in 1978.

[QUOTE=Lunch]I've asked this before, but do you think you could upload/send me the second disc of the Who's Next Deluxe edition? I really want to get my hand on that live material.

I offer e-head in return. And by that I mean I'll upload something for you.[/QUOTE]

I'm so sorry, my computer is very slow and can't upload albums. Next year I'll have a faster computer hopefully able to do it, but that is a long way away. You might wanna cheak with some other people in the forums who might have it. I think its worth it.

Thanks buuuuds. Hey.. fwq.. your icon is nearly as awetastic as JonG's. Heh.. I keep wanting to see what happens next; that guy cracks me up, just turns and looks. *laughs* good stuff.

I might think about the Isle of Wight DVD. If its not that much more money, ill probably spend a bit more for the visuals.. cause when it comes to live, I want that concert experience.. depends on how much $ ive already spent, and whether the DVD ends up costing a lot more. Live at Leeds is definately on my list though. A friend just sent me I'm A Boy.. loved it.

"Glad to see you coming over to the light side man." That bastard.. lol.

Yeah I would put my money towards Live at Leeds before the Isle of Wright DVD.

A good Who live clip, short as it may be, is on the Montery Pop Festivle DVD set. They have a really energetic version of My Generation and they smash their instruments at the end. I love watching Keith Moon adjusting his shirt in between drum rolls. Hes too much. All around the Montery Pop Festivle DVD is great. Of course Hendrix's preformance is outstanding, I think its his best visually. I just can't get over Wild Thing. Not just when he burns his guitar but when he drops to the floor and does the backwards summersault while still playing and dosen't miss a note. Amazing. I sometimes wonder if it wasn't for the Who if he would have set his guitar on fire. I know one of the reasons he did it was because he was going on after the Who and didn't want to be upstaged by their instrument smashing so he lit his guitar on fire before he smashed it.

I love Hendrix's show, but as a Who fan first and foremost he definitely stole a lot of Townshend's act. Actually when Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton first saw Hendrix, they told Pete the next time they saw him that this new guitarist was stealing his idea.

Yeah Hendrix defenetly took some of his stage moves from Townsend. I could even spot a few while watching the Isle of Wright DVD. Though Hendrix was innovative in enough ways to borrow a couple ideas from other people with out calling it a sin.

[QUOTE=Lunch]I love Hendrix's show, but as a Who fan first and foremost he definitely stole a lot of Townshend's act. Actually when Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton first saw Hendrix, they told Pete the next time they saw him that this new guitarist was stealing his idea.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, and then when Townshend confronted him at Woodstock Hendrix told him to f off and threatened to kick his arse. Pete's feelings were hurt, reportedly. Because he liked and respected Jimi as a musician.

Pete should of cracked a guitar over his head. :smash:

And speaking of head, I may take you up on some of that e head, Lunch. If I can figure out what I can do for you....

....your just lucky I live 3000 miles away from you. Because if not, the "e" part wouldn't even figure, lol.

Oh, and on another note, your little thread here seems to be thriving. I would dare to say that since MX is the 35th or 36th largest message board in the world and certainly one of the biggest devoted to music and musicians, this thread may be one of the biggest and certainly one of the best Who threads around. I don't even think that Who board link you supplied awhile back has this kind of action and quality. So good going, man. This thing started a couple of weeks after I first got here and it's really sometihng I look forward to. And the fact that we aren't fanboys in here is really refreshing. With a band as flawed as The Who you really can't afford to be a fanboy, I don't think. And I still think it's those flaws, the imperfections of this band, that is one of the things that makes them so special.

I enjoy discussing the music and songs of this band. The focus for me when it comes to The Who has always been the spirit of the band, the words and music of Townshend, and his band that brought it all together. It really is hard to describe. And I guess that's why this band is so great.

Anyway, I'm happy to be here amongst all you Who Heads and yes, welcome to all the more recent members of this thread and newcomers alike. At gamefaqs.com where I post on rare occasion and steal thread topics for my alt account here, they have a little Who Board titled "Tommy's Interactive Experiance". Or some crap like that. It's pathetic. It's been there forever, 77 posts total in over 6 months, 50 of those are spam, and yet some are sincere, lol. I've often thought of leaving a link for the faithful, but imagine what that might get us? Well, probably not too much, since I think a total of 5 people post there. Better to leave well enough alone.

Long Live Rock, and all that good stuff. See 'ya....

I'll drink to that.


Hendrix was such an amazing and innovative guitarist, he really didn't need to smash/burn his guitar. People were already blown away by his performance, and he shows weren't really based on anger and aggression the way the Who's were at the time of the auto-destruction.

I had heard that the guitar that Hendrix burnt was actually one of Townsends. He stole it from right under Townsend's big nose!

Mmmm... im really enjoying Live at Leeds, I got the deluxe edition.. and it was worth it; even if just for incredible Moon-age.

[QUOTE=Tusk]Mmmm... im really enjoying Live at Leeds, I got the deluxe edition.. and it was worth it; even if just for incredible Moon-age.[/QUOTE]
Sweet.

Did you buy any other albums?

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Wild Thing at Monterey is amazing.

I like the new thread name.

I just bought my second copy of Live At Leeds deluxe editon today. Hopefully I won't ever need to buy another one, but it'll probably end up all scratched up and unplayable like the last one did eventually. I felt like such a badass driving around today pumping Live At Leeds.

[QUOTE=fwqhgads]Sweet.

Did you buy any other albums?[/QUOTE]

Picked up a few other albums because of recommendations from earlier in the CR thread.

Abbey Road and Rubber Soul by the fab four. *tries in vain to impersonate a Liverpool accent*

Truth by Jeff Beck

aaand a big pack of blanks. I held back big time, was proud of myself.

[QUOTE=Tusk]Mmmm... im really enjoying Live at Leeds, I got the deluxe edition.. and it was worth it; even if just for incredible Moon-age.[/QUOTE]

Everything is incredible on that album, but Moon shines maybe the most. His energy and stamina are unbelievable.

Entwistle is right up there with him though. Heaven and Hell is such a great launching pad for their drum and bass fill combination.

[QUOTE=Tusk]Picked up a few other albums because of recommendations from earlier in the CR thread.

Abbey Road and Rubber Soul by the fab four. *tries in vain to impersonate a Liverpool accent*

Truth by Jeff Beck

aaand a big pack of blanks. I held back big time, was proud of myself.[/QUOTE]

Awesome. Live At Leeds Deluxe Edition, Abbey Road, and Rubber Soul are in my top 5 albums ever list. And Truth is great too. Beck's playing is fantastic, and personally I don't really mind Stewart's voice but some do.

\:D/

A thread name change!

(with a lyric that townsend now regrets writing.)

Yea, but it's one of the most important statements ever made in rock 'n roll. Actually, probably the most important song lyric to really exemplify what rock is all about.

I was just about to mention that I really dig the thread title change.

Ya'll can thank JXD for the new name. He brought it up in the Ask The Mods thread. His love for all things relating to the Who knows no bounds.

Yea I saw that. I didn't comment though cause I didn't have any input.

Wow guys... I had always considered Moon to be one of the absolute greats in drumming.. but felt that he lacked raw power, especially compared to a guy like Bonham. That may be a blasphemic statement on its own, and it certainly feels that way now. Bonham is still (and may well forever be) my favorite musician period, but Moon has captured a much larger amount of my heart with Live at Leeds.

Just goes to show how perception can change of a band based on live material. I always loved Cobwebs and Strange, and his wild fills in their studio stuff.. but wow. Very nice. The whole rhythm teamwork between Moon and Entwistle is as good as it gets on this album.

And yea, about THE musical statement of the 60s. I thought that as he aged, Townsend modified what he meant to not really say old aged, but old as in a state of mind. You can be 70 years old but still have fun.. im with him there. Hope I die before I get old.