Who's next

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Who's next
The Who studio album

Publication
(s)

  • July 31, 1971
  • November 14, 1995 (CD)
  • September 5, 2002 (Remastered)
  • April 1, 2003 (Deluxe Edition)
Label (s) Track record , Polydor

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Rock , hard rock

Title (number)

  • 9 (LP and original CD)
  • 16 (Remastered CD)
  • 29 (Deluxe CD)

running time

  • 43:27 (LP and original CD)
  • 77:40 (Remastered CD)
occupation

production

The Who , Jon Astley , Glyn Johns , Kit Lambert

Studio (s)

March – May 1971, Olympic Studios , London

chronology
Live at Leeds
(1970)
Who's next Quadrophenia
(1973)

Who's Next is the fifth studio album by the British rock band The Who . It was produced by the band in association with Glyn Johns and released by Track Record / Polydor in July 1971. It was recorded at Olympic Studios in London ; the title Won't Get Fooled Again was written in Mick Jagger's Stargroves estate . Originally the album was planned as a double album called Lifehouse . The remaining pieces of the album were partly released on the album Odds & Sods and on solo albums by Pete Townshend .

Who's Next is one of the most famous and popular albums of Who With Baba O'Riley, Behind Blue Eyes and Won't Get Fooled Again it contains three of the band's classics. On Who's Next , Pete Townshend experimented with the then new synthesizers (including the ARP and VCS-3 synthesizers ). After Emerson, Lake and Palmer, The Who are among the first bands to use synthesizers in rock music .

The name Who's Next is an ambiguity that cannot be transferred into German: on the one hand “Das / Die next von (The) Who”, on the other hand “Who is the next (?)”; this apparently refers to the cover photo: the four band members have just urinated on a concrete block.

Track list

Original album

Page 1:

  1. Baba O'Riley (Pete Townshend)
  2. Bargain (Pete Townshend)
  3. Love Ain't for Keeping (Pete Townshend)
  4. My Wife (John Entwistle)
  5. The Song Is Over (Pete Townshend)

Page 2:

  1. Getting in Tune (Pete Townshend)
  2. Going Mobile (Pete Townshend)
  3. Behind Blue Eyes (Pete Townshend)
  4. Won't Get Fooled Again (Pete Townshend)

Extended CD

In 1995 a digitally revised version of the album was released, which contains some bonus tracks, including another version of the song Behind Blue Eyes originally intended .

  1. Pure and Easy (Pete Townshend)
  2. Baby, Don't You Do It (Holland / Dozier / Holland)
  3. Naked Eye (Pete Townshend)
  4. Water (Pete Townshend)
  5. Too Much of Anything (Pete Townshend)
  6. I Don't Even Know Myself (Pete Townshend)
  7. Behind Blue Eyes (Original Version) (Pete Townshend)

Deluxe version

In 2003 a “deluxe version” of the album was released as a double CD. The first CD contains the nine tracks from the original album, followed by six recordings from the “New York Plant Session” from March 1971.

  1. Baba O'Riley - 5:01
  2. Bargain - 5:33
  3. Love Ain't for Keeping - 2:10
  4. My Wife - 3:35
  5. The Song Is Over - 6:17
  6. Getting in Tune - 4:49
  7. Going Mobile - 3:43
  8. Behind Blue Eyes - 3:42
  9. Won't Get Fooled Again - 8:35
  10. Baby Don't You Do It - 8:21
    • Same version as on the 1995 CD, but longer
  11. Getting in Tune - 6:36
    • Previously unreleased alternative version of the piece
  12. Pure and Easy - 4:33
    • Same version as on the 1995 CD, but mixed differently
  13. Love Ain't for Keeping - 4:06
    • Electronic version, previously on the 1998 CD version Odds & Sods published
  14. Behind Blue Eyes - 3:30
    • Alternative version with Al Kooper (organ), already published on 1995 CD
  15. Won't Get Fooled Again - 8:48 am
    • Version of the New York Sessions

The second CD contains live recordings from the Young Vic Theater on April 26, 1971.

  1. Love ain't for keeping
  2. Pure and Easy
  3. Young Man Blues
  4. Time is passing
  5. Behind blues eyes
  6. I don't even know myself
  7. Too Much of Anything
  8. Getting in Tune
  9. Bargain
  10. Water
  11. My generation
  12. (I'm a) Road Runner
  13. Naked eye
  14. Won't Get Fooled Again

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