Artist: THE WHO
Album: FACE DANCES REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1981/ 1997
Media type: CD

Face Dances is the ninth album by the English rock band The Who. It was originally released in 1981 in the US on Warner Bros. Records and on Polydor Records in the UK. It was the first full new album The Who made with drummer Kenney Jones as a replacement for Keith Moon.

Although some jeered at the album, Roger Daltrey went on record saying he liked this album in a 1994 interview. Some critics, notably in the Boston Globe in a review in April 1981, said it was The Who's best album since 1973's Quadrophenia. The album peaked at number 4[citation needed] on the Billboard album charts and number 2 on the British album charts.

The album cover features paintings of the members by many British painters, who were commissioned by Peter Blake, who had previously designed the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Artists include Tom Phillips, Richard Hamilton, Allen Jones, David Hockney, Clive Barker, R. B. Kitaj, Howard Hodgkin, Patrick Caulfield, and Peter Blake himself.

In 1997, the album was re-released by MCA Records with three outtakes as well as two live tracks.

All songs written by Pete Townshend unless specified otherwise.

TRACKLIST:

1."You Better You Bet" – 5:36
2."Don't Let Go the Coat" – 3:44
3."Cache Cache" – 3:57
4."The Quiet One" (John Entwistle) – 3:10
5."Did You Steal My Money" – 4:11
Side two
6."How Can You Do It Alone" – 5:26
7."Daily Records" – 3:27
8."You" (John Entwistle) – 4:31
9."Another Tricky Day" – 4:55

1997 reissue bonus tracks:

10."I Like Nightmares" – 3:09
11."It's in You" – 4:59
12."Somebody Saved Me" – 5:31
13."How Can You Do It Alone" (Live, 8 December 1979, at Chicago International Amphitheater) – 5:24
14."The Quiet One" (Live, 13 October 1982, at Shea Stadium) – 4:28

LINE-UP:

Roger Daltrey – vocals, harmonica
John Entwistle – bass guitar, vocals, lead vocals for "The Quiet One"
Pete Townshend – guitars, keyboards, vocals
Kenney Jones – drums

Additional musicians:
John "Rabbit" Bundrick – keyboards, synthesizer, backing vocals