Artist: THE WHO
Album: THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1979/ 2001
EAN/UPS: 0731454369428
Media type: CD

Out for the first time on CD with all the original artwork, plus 20-bit remastering. A lot of tracks (e.g. Long Live Rock ) available here and nowhere else!

Having been involved in one of the most painfully overwrought rock films ever produced (Ken Russell's Tommy), it was only just that the Who should also be the subject of one of the best rockumentaries ever--Jeff Stein's The Kids Are Alright. Inveterate Who fan Stein largely eschewed interviews and critical overinterpretation, instead wisely focusing on the band's musical performances as captured on TV appearances and in concert. That sensibility makes this soundtrack a rare showcase of the Who at their performing peak, gathering many previously unreleased live performances ("My Wife," "Young Man Blues," a medley of "Join Together/Roadrunner/My Generation Blues") some key outtakes (the anthem "Long Live Rock"), and especially some great TV turns that could occasionally be literally explosive, à la their incomparable Smother Brothers appearance. Stein's only staged performances, "Baba O'Riley" and the cynically anthemic "Won't Get Fooled Again," turned out to be as historic as they were electric. Filmed just months before Keith Moon's untimely 1978 death, the performances stand as his final public performance. This is the Who at their best; it seldom gets any better.

TRACKLIST CD:

1. My Generation
2. I Can't Explain
3. Happy Jack
4. I Can See For Miles
5. Magic Bus
6. Long Live Rock
7. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
8. Young Man (Blues)
9. My Wife
10. Baba O'Riley
11. A Quick One
12. Tommy Can You Hear Me?
13. Sparks
14. Pinball Wizard
15. See Me, Feel Me
16. Medley: Join Together
17. Won't Get Fooled Again