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The Who: The Who Sell Out

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Label: Polydor Records
Released: 1967
Time:
 71:42
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists...
Rating: ******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.thewho.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2010.05.16
Price in €: 2,00





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[1] Armenia City in the Sky (Keen/Keene) - 3:48
[2] Heinz Baked Beans) - Entwistle) - 1:00
[3] Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand (Townshend) - 2:28
[4] Odorono (Townshend) - 2:34
[5] Tattoo (Townshend) - 2:51
[6] Our Love Was (Townshend) - 3:23
[7] I Can See for Miles (Townshend) - 4:44
[8] I Can't Reach You (Townshend) - 3:03
[9] Medac (Entwistle) - :57
[10] Relax (Townshend) - 2:41
[11] Silas Stingy (Entwistle) - 3:07
[12] Sunrise (Townshend) - 3:06
[13] Rael 1 (Townshend) - 5:44
[14] Rael 2 (Townshend) - 1:29
[15] Glittering Girl (Townshend) - 3:59
[16] Melancholia (Townshend) - 3:22
[17] Someone's Coming (Entwistle) - 2:40
[18] Jaguar (Townshend) - 3:01
[19] Early Morning Cold Taxi (Daltrey/Langston) - 3:25
[20] Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) - 4:19
[21] Girl's Eyes (Moon) - 3:50
[22] Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand [alternate take] (Townshend) - 3:21
[23] Glow Girl (Townshend) - 2:42

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Roger Daltrey - Harmonica, Vocals
Al Kooper - Organ
Pete Townshend - Guitar, Piano, Keyboards, Vocals
Keith Moon - Drums, Vocals
John Entwistle - Bass, Trumpet, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals

Jon Astley - Reissue Producer, Remixing, Remastering
Kit Lambert - Producer
Chris Charlesworth - Executive Producer
Bill Curbishley - Executive Producer
Robert Rosenberg - Executive Producer
Chris Huston - Engineer
Andy MacPherson - Remixing, Remastering
Dave Marsh - Liner Notes
Roger Law - Cover Design
David King - Cover Design
Richard Evans - Art Direction

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1988 CD MCA Records MCAD31332
1995 CD MCA Records 11268
1995 CS MCA Records 11268
1997 CD Polydor 5277592
1999 CD Polydor POCP9195
2002 CD Universal Distribution UICY-2311
2004 LP Polydor 8357271
2006 LP Classics 613002
2006 LP Classic Records 6130021
2007 CD Universal Distribution 2311
2007 CD Universal Distribution UICP93002
2008 LP Vinyl Lovers 00033509
2008 LP Classic Records 990298

This 1995 reissue of THE WHO SELL OUT includes songs and jingles not available on the original version.

Originally released on Track (612002/613002). Released in the U.S. on Decca (4950/74950) in 1968.

Only three albums into its ...    Full Descriptionrecording career, the Who had already begun to distance itself from its proletarian R&B beginnings. Here, songwriter Pete Townshend follows up on the rock-opera idea he had introduced on A QUICK ONE with the extended, multi-part composition "Rael" and would later expand upon with TOMMY. The band had also begun exploring the form of the concept album. The songs are connected by bits of fake radio commercials and brass fanfares, and there's a little of everything thrown into the mix. All-out rockers like the vengeful "I Can See For Miles" vie for the listener's attention with the romantic declarations of "Our Love Was" and the soft, folky "Maryanne With The Shaky Hand" on this impressively eclectic album.

Recorded in 1967 & 1968.



The Who Sell Out's pirate-radio concept goes south in the album's second half--the Who ran out of time before they could write enough faux commercials--but it still remains in many ways their best and most entertaining album. Pete Townshend and John Entwistle supply song after great song, and along with Keith Moon play them with power and focus. The classic single "I Can See for Miles" is matched on at least a handful of tracks, including the opening psychedelic-pop blast of "Armenia City in the Sky" (written by Townshend pal Speedy Keen), the hilarious social-interaction tales "Odorono" and "Tattoo," and the majestic mini-opus "Rael." This remaster's bonus tracks are occasionally too much of a good thing, but the Tommy rough draft "Glow Girl" is brilliant.

Rickey Wright - Amazon.com



Pete Townshend originally planned The Who Sell Out as a concept album of sorts that would simultaneously mock and pay tribute to pirate radio stations, complete with fake jingles and commercials linking the tracks. For reasons that remain somewhat ill defined, the concept wasn't quite driven to completion, breaking down around the middle of side two (on the original vinyl configuration). Nonetheless, on strictly musical merits, it's a terrific set of songs that ultimately stands as one of the group's greatest achievements. "I Can See for Miles" (a Top Ten hit) is the Who at their most thunderous; tinges of psychedelia add a rush to "Armenia City in the Sky" and "Relax"; "I Can't Reach You" finds Townshend beginning to stretch himself into quasi-spiritual territory; and "Tattoo" and the acoustic "Sunrise" show introspective, vulnerable sides to the singer/songwriter that had previously been hidden. "Rael" was another mini-opera, with musical motifs that reappeared in Tommy. The album is as perfect a balance between melodic mod pop and powerful instrumentation as the Who (or any other group) would achieve; psychedelic pop was never as jubilant, not to say funny (the fake commercials and jingles interspersed between the songs are a hoot). The 1995 CD reissue has over half a dozen interesting outtakes from the time of the sessions, as well as unused commercials, the B-side "Someone's Coming," and an alternate version of "Mary Anne With the Shaky Hand."

Richie Unterberger - All Music Guide
 

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