Artist: THE WHO
Album: WHOs NEXT HQ VINYL REISSUE (LP)

Year: 1971/ 2015
EAN/UPS: 00602537156146
Media type: LP

To kick start 2015, March 23rd sees all of the band’s 11 studio albums released on vinyl alongside a double vinyl version of their ultimate hits package The Who Hits 50;

My Generation (1965), A Quick One (1966), The Who Sell Out (1967), Tommy (double) (1969), Who's Next (1971), Quadrophenia (double) (1973), The Who By Numbers (1975), Who Are You (1978), Face Dances (1981), It's Hard (1982), Endless Wire (double) (2006) and The Who Hits 50 (double) (2014).


Who's Next is the fifth album by the English rock band The Who. It was released on 31 July 1971 in the United States and 25 August 1971 in the United Kingdom. The album has origins in a rock opera conceived by Pete Townshend called Lifehouse. The ambitious, complex project did not come to fruition at the time and instead, many of the songs written for the project were compiled onto Who's Next as a collection of unrelated songs.

Who's Next has been named one of the best albums of all time by VH1 (#13) and Rolling Stone (#28). Upon its release it was named the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll. It was also ranked #3 in Guitar World's Greatest Classic Rock Albums list. Many of its nine tracks are perennial favourites on classic rock radio, especially "Baba O'Riley", "Bargain", "Behind Blue Eyes", and the closing track "Won't Get Fooled Again". The album appeared at number 15 on Pitchfork's top 100 albums of the 1970s. The album is also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2006, the album was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best albums of all time.

All songs written by Pete Townshend, except as noted.

SIDE A:

"Baba O'Riley" – 5:11
"Bargain" – 5:33
"Love Ain't for Keeping" – 2:12
"My Wife" (Entwistle) – 3:41
"The Song Is Over" – 6:16

SIDE B:

"Getting in Tune" – 4:50
"Going Mobile" – 3:42
"Behind Blue Eyes" – 3:42
"Won't Get Fooled Again" – 8:31