Track Listing

1. Baba O'Riley
2. Bargain
3. Love Ain't for Keeping
4. My Wife
5. Song Is Over
6. Getting in Tune
7. Going Mobile
8. Behind Blue Eyes
9. Won't Get Fooled Again

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3690 in Music
• Released on: 1990-01-01
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

This Canadian disc uses the master tapes on CD
Although the Deluxe Edition hypes that the original version uses the original master tapes for the first time, this is not true. In 1984, Steve Hoffman remastered this disc in the 1980s (a copy of the digital master he made from the original master tape was used on this Canadian budget import version available at hmv.com, absound.ca, cdplus.com and other Canadian music stores). The master tape was found in a file cabinet in The Mastering Lab in LA back in the 1980s and used it for the CD. The Hoffman CD has an EQ that favors the vocals. For his CD, Hoffman essentially played the tapes back "straight", without fading the hiss out between tracks. [side note: the Canadian version has the hiss "blacked" between some tracks. The original US and Japanese pressings don't.]

An Essential Album In Any 1970s Music Collection
The owner of a local CD store recently told me that the current 15 - 25 year old demographic is buying more 1970s music than the music of any other era, including contemporary bands. In fact, he said, 1970s bands like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd outsell all of today's bands combined! Interesting statistic, if it's true.

If the younger guys have this interest in 1970s music, then perhaps those of who were around in the 1970s should put them on to some of that decade's better music.

Here's one contribution from me. The Who's Who's Next is one of the 10 best albums of the 1970s. As such, it should be considered one of the essential albums in any collection of 1970s music.

It's just an excellent album throughout.

For those of you who haven't heard the album, you may be familiar with one track. The CSI TV series franchise has taken tunes by The Who as the theme music for its shows. The song 'Who Are You', for example is the theme for the CSI show based in Las Vegas. CSI: NY uses a song from this album 'Baba O'Riley' as it theme music.

You know you're getting old when the music you listened to in high school becomes elevator music and the theme music for TV shows. What a depressing thought!

Bottom line: Great album. One of the 1970s best albums. If you're collecting 1970s music, this is an essential album for your collection.

Who's Next is the Who's best album
The energy on all these tracks is superb - Keith Moon plays non stop flat out - just brilliant. Recording is very good. Is it preferable to the DeLuxe version ? Well the Deluxe version is a slightly richer sound - a bit more bass, but the original Canadian MCA remaster is very good also.
I only bought the deluxe cd for the original album anyway, and this one to compare the remastering. The advantage of having 2 is that you can have one in the house and one in the car. What could be better!