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The Who: My Generation

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Label: MCA Records
Released: 1965.12.04
Time:
 35:50
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Shel Talmy
Rating: ********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.thewho.com
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Purchase date: 2010.05.16
Price in €: 2,00





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[1] Out in the Street (Townshend) - 2:31
[2] I Don't Mind (Brown/Shelley) - 2:36
[3] The Good's Gone (Townshend) - 4:02
[4] La La-La Lies (Townshend) - 2:17
[5] Much Too Much (DiNizio/Townshend) - 2:47
[6] My Generation (Townshend) - 3:18
[7] The Kids Are Alright (Townshend) - 2:46
[8] Please, Please, Please (Brown/Terry) - 2:45
[9] It's Not True (Townshend) - 2:31
[10] The Ox (Entwistle/Hopkins/Moon/Townshend) - 3:50
[11] A Legal Matter (Townshend) - 2:48
[12] Instant Party [Circles] (Townshend) - 3:12

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Roger Daltrey - Harmonica, Vocals, Liner Notes
Pete Townshend - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Liner Notes
Nicky Hopkins - Keyboards, Liner Notes
Keith Moon - Drums, Vocals, Liner Notes
John Entwistle - Bass, Keyboards, Vocals, Liner Notes

Jimmy Page - Guitar
Perry Ford - Piano
Nicky Hopkins - Piano
The Ivy League - Background Vocals

Shel Talmy - Producer, Remixing
Steve Katz - Remixing
Mike Shaw - Liner Notes
David Wedgbury - Photography
Colin Jones - Photography

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1988 CD MCA Records MCAD-31330
1988 CD MCA Records MCAD37303
2004 CD MCA Records 9820673
2005 CD Sony Music Distribution 31330
2004 CD UM UICY-9448

Recordes at IBC Studios, London, England (11/??/1964-01/13/1966); Pye Studios, London, England (11/??/1964-01/13/1966).



An explosive debut, and the hardest mod pop recorded by anyone. At the time of its release, it also had the most ferociously powerful guitars and drums yet captured on a rock record. Pete Townshend's exhilarating chord crunches and guitar distortions threaten to leap off the grooves on "My Generation" and "Out in the Street"; Keith Moon attacks the drums with a lightning, ruthless finesse throughout. Some "Maximum R&B" influence lingered in the two James Brown covers, but much of Townshend's original material fused Beatlesque  hooks and power chords with anthemic mod lyrics, with "The Good's Gone," "Much Too Much," "La La La Lies," and especially "The Kids Are Alright" being highlights. "A Legal Matter" hinted at more ambitious lyrical concerns, and "The Ox" was instrumental mayhem that pushed the envelope of 1965 amplification with its guitar feedback and nonstop crashing drum rolls. While the execution was sometimes crude, and the songwriting not as sophisticated as it would shortly become, the Who  never surpassed the pure energy level of this record.

Richie Unterberger - All Music Guide



A glowering cover photo, on-the-run sound quality, and music to match. That's My Generation, and while it's hardly as consistent as The Who Sell Out, it's just as much fun to play. With the band steamrolling the title anthem, "The Kids Are Alright," "A Legal Matter," and a couple of James Brown covers, you can bet it was for them, too. Rock & roll for the hottest day of summer.

Rickey Wright - Amazon.com



My Generation, The Who's first album, has little of the roaring, raging quartet heard on Who's Next, Live at Leeds and Quadrophenia. But the Mod-fueled, American R&B-inspired sense of ambitious pop that powers A Quick One, Sell Out and even Tommy isn't so hard to find here. This reissue not only expands the original with a bonus-disc treasure trove of 17 outtakes and rarities (including the Pete Townshend-penned, previously unissued "Instant Party Mixture"), but has been remixed from the original 1964-6 session tapes by producer Shel Talmy and released in true stereo for the first time. Anchored by early Who/Townshend anthems "My Generation" (also included in an instrumental version), "I Can't Explain" and "The Kids Are Alright", disc one's original LP set veers somewhat schizophrenically from Townshend's nascent power-guitar thrashing on the anthems and Roger Daltrey's ill-advised James Brown and Bo Diddley impressions on "Please, Please, Please" and "I'm a Man", respectively, to the surf-inspired John Entwistle-Keith Moon instrumental showcase, "The Ox". Not surprisingly, it's the Townshend originals (like "It's Not True", "Legal Matter" and the proto-psychedelic "Circles") that point to what the band would become in a few short years. The bonus material on disc two leans equally heavily on covers, but also contains its share of signposts to the future Who, including a rare, alternate version of "Anyhow, Anyway, Anywhere". Also included is a new booklet with many rare photos and a history of the album's recording by Andy Neill (coauthor of Anyway Anyhow Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of the Who 1958-1978).

Jerry McCulley - Amazon.co.uk
 

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