Artist: THE WHO
Album: WHOs NEXT DELUXE EDIT. (2CD)

Release date: 1971/ 2010
EAN/UPS: 600753271278
Media type: CD

Recorded between 1968 & 1971. Includes liner notes by Pete Townshend, John Atkins, and Chris Charlesworth.Though Pete Townshend was originally unhappy with WHO'S NEXT, it was quickly welcomed by critics and fans, becoming one of the most celebrated titles in their enduring catalog. His frustrations boiled down to the album being a compromised version of a larger work he'd envisioned, LIFEHOUSE, which proved too unwieldy to be realized.

Expanded to a two-disc set with essays by both Townshend and John Atkins, the original nine-song album is expanded with six additional studio tracks.These include earlier versions of the album's songs and a cover of Holland-Dozier-Holland's "Baby Don't You Do It." Recorded in New York during the spring of 1971 in the midst of a fraying relationship with producer Kit Lambert, the early cuts clearly don't have the sonic breadth and wallop of what the Who achieved back in England later in the year, but are fascinating nonetheless. The second disc was recorded live before an invited audience, and was originally part of the album's grand plan. Mixing new material with covers ("Road Runner;" Mose Allison's "Young Man Blues") and original tunes from their past (the anthem "My Generation"), the band plays with a palpable urgency and fire. This was the Who at the peak of its powers, a status the group would retain as a live act through the '70s.

DISC 1:
1. Baba O'Riley
2. Bargain
3. Love Ain't for Keeping
4. My Wife
5. The Song is Over
6. Getting in Tune
7. Going Mobile
8. Behind Blue Eyes
9. Won't Get Fooled Again
10. Baby Don't You Do It
11. Getting in Tune - (previously unreleased)
12. Pure and Easy
13. Love Ain't for Keeping
14. Behind Blue Eyes
15. Won't Get Fooled Again - (previously unreleased)

DISC 2:
1. Love Ain't for Keeping - (previously unreleased)
2. Pure and Easy - (previously unreleased)
3. Young Man Blues - (previously unreleased)
4. Time is Passing - (previously unreleased)
5. Behind Blue Eyes - (previously unreleased)
6. I Don't Even Know Myself - (previously unreleased)
7. Too Much of Anything - (previously unreleased)
8. Getting in Tune - (previously unreleased)
9. Bargain - (previously unreleased)
10. Water
11. My Generation - (previously unreleased)
12. (I'm A) Road Runner - (previously unreleased)
13. Naked Eye
14. Won't Get Fooled Again - (previously unreleased)

LINE-UP:

Roger Daltrey (vocals);
Pete Townshend (guitar, piano, organ, ARP synthesizer, background vocals);
John Entwistle (horns, piano, bass, background vocals);
Keith Moon (drums, percussion).

Additional personnel:
Leslie West (guitar);
Nicky Hopkins (piano)