Artist: THE WHO
Album: ODDS AND SODS REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1974/ 1998
Media type: CD

Odds & Sods is an album that consists of studio outtakes and rarities by British rock band The Who released by Track Records in the United Kingdom and Track/MCA in the United States in 1974.

In the autumn of 1973, while Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, and Keith Moon were preparing for the Tommy film, John Entwistle was put in charge of compiling an album to counter the rampant bootlegging that occurred at The Who's concerts. "I tried to arrange it like a parallel sort of Who career - what singles we might have released and what album tracks we might have released," Entwistle explained. He and the producer of his solo albums, John Alcock, compiled Odds & Sods from various tapes. Two LPs of material were collected, but only one was released. "It could have been a double album, there was that much material," Entwistle said at the time of the album's release. The material from the second unreleased LP was later included on the 1998 remastered CD version. Townshend wrote liner notes for the album which included frank opinions of the quality of the songs. The notes were omitted from some copies of the original LP but included on the reissued CD. The album reached number ten in the UK charts and number eight in the US.

TRACKLIST:

1."I'm the Face" (Meaden) (performed by The High Numbers) – 2:27
2."Leaving Here" (Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Eddie Holland) – 2:12
3."Baby Don't You Do It" (Dozier, B. Holland, E. Holland) – 2:27
4."Summertime Blues" (Jerry Capehart, Eddie Cochran) – 3:13 (studio version, recorded June 28, 1967 at CBS Studios, London)
5."Under My Thumb" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 2:44
6."Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand" – 3:21
7."My Way" (Jerry Capehart, Cochran) – 2:26
8."Faith in Something Bigger" – 2:59
9."Glow Girl" – 2:24
10."Little Billy" – 2:17
11."Young Man Blues" (Mose Allison) (Alternate version) – 2:44
12."Cousin Kevin Model Child" (Entwistle) – 1:24
13."Love Ain't for Keeping" – 4:03
14."Time Is Passing" – 3:29
15."Pure and Easy" – 5:21
16."Too Much of Anything" – 4:21
17."Long Live Rock" – 3:56
18."Put the Money Down" – 4:29
19."We Close Tonight" – 2:56
20."Postcard" (Entwistle) – 3:30
21."Now I'm a Farmer" – 4:06
22."Water" – 4:39
23."Naked Eye" – 5:26

LINE-UP:

Roger Daltrey – vocals, harmonica
John Entwistle – bass guitar, brass, vocals
Keith Moon – drums, vocals
Pete Townshend – guitar, piano, bass guitar, synthesizer, vocals

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Leslie West - Lead Guitar on "Love Ain't For Keeping"