Reviews (page 13 of 13)
Of all the great Who albums this is not the best.
Decent mid 60 British rock album. Not as good and progressive as their later albums.
Classic rock sound, but lacked the humour of Sells Out and the songwriting depth of Who’s Next. My Generation does a great job normalizing stuttering though.
Рок музыка это не моё.
I accidentally listened to like a mega duleux version which really dragged on which might be influencing my rating.
Is it just me or does The Who get by mostly on it's energy? Or maybe theatricality? I mean, they're entertaining as hell and there are some real good songs here. But when they start going after James Brown and Diddley, it's like... I don't know. None of that stuff works for me. I'm also pretty sure I got suckered into listening to a deluxe super long edition of this album, which doesn't help.
The who?
2/5 Fav tune: The Kids Are Alright Walmart beatles
Lite slamrigt, blev less mot slutet. En helgfrukost.
Starts off strong, then kinda sputters out. I like the guitar tone and catchy vocal callbacks. Solid album overall for it's time, but probably don't care to listen again.
This was okay, not my favorite output from The Who.
Non content de proposer un album tout ce qu'il y a de plus chiant, The Who se permet en plus de faire durer cet album sur une vingtaine de son. Absolument infernal.
I give it a 5/10 My generation and the kids are alright are the classic songs on the album. I did discover the Ox from listening, which is a boss song. Unfortunately. La la lies, legal matter, and most of the other songs all suck. I wouldn't recommend.
Not overly impressed. Lacks the spark, swagger and song-writing skills of their contemporaries. The Who are the 'Iconic Band' that I never got.
I always thought The Who were supposed to be some kind of hard rock rebels... aside from the title track this sounded like a knock-off early Beatles act. Some of the cover songs were slightly embarassing, too. Best track: My Generation
The best thing about this album is its 36 minute run-time. I like The Who, just don't love this album. There are slight hints if what they will become ("My Generation"), but a lot of bland pseudo-R&B.
Just not the biggest The Who fan.
The two obvious hits are great. Rest is very meh. Nowhere near Tommy, Who's Next, or Quadrophenia. 5/10
Had its moments. Mostly odd white boy blues.
I'm quite unimpressed. La-La-La-Lies is quite good and the titular song is by far the best one but... it's so very generic and I feel like the mastering here is quite subpar. With my new IEMs My Generation sounded quite like a mess, which I wasn't able to hear before.
Now THIS is Boomer music. Overrated band IMO. Tommy was good tho.
I owe this a relisten
12/24 A lot like “With The Beatles”, but worse. Some jazzy, R&B-ish tunes on the second half, meh. Standout Tracks: The Good’s Gone, La-La-La-Lies, A Legal Matter
I didn't like it at all , i think its not my type
The Who are not a band for me - there seem to be many more superior groups from that era, and yet they continue to get huge volumes of airplay for reasons I cannot fathom I dont need any more Who albums in this list
Imagine doing this at the same time as the Beatles and Beach Boys, just embarrassing
this type of rock not for me
Not for me
yeah i dont have the energy to listen to this rn...
The title track is good but the rest are awful
someone on here wrote "these guys just reheated the beatles’s nachos and thought they did smt".
This is not my favorite version of the The Who (Quadrophenia is my favorite version). A couple of good songs and then, at least in the version I listened to on Apple Music, a whole bunch of covers of good originals that The Who made actively worse with their attempt -- If I could give this a 1.5 I would.
Wikipedia led me to believe I would enjoy this - I was misled.
Not surprised Keith Moon had a problem with drink, I would’ve as well if I were made to listen to Roger Daltrey every night. Best song on the record is The Ox, because Roger Daltrey isn’t on it. -TomB
Some Beatles esque harmony. But patchy
Awful band angry after listening to this
This album actively made me like the one good song from it less.
shi so bad i couldn't make it past the first 4 songs if british food had a sound it would be this (below mid)
I’m sure this hit hard at the time but does nothing for me now and felt endless. Not sure why Kinks same era same sound don’t evoke the same reaction
Nice
Getting European white man with loud guitar fatigue
Wait there's more than one track on this album?
"my generation" sticks out like a sore thumb here, amidst a ton of faux beatles tinkling and generic rock noise
59. forgettable
sure needed to hear this one
man fuck this sloppy sounding hippie dippy bullshit. I listened to like two of these classic who songs growing up, and the nostalgia was kinda nice but the rest of it is sloppy garbage.
not a fan tbh it all just seemed repetitive
I haven’t listened yet but I will
mä en jaksa näitä äijiä enää omg 60luku menkää jo pois. en tykkäää soriiiii
* mono only - not good
Far too degenerate for my taste. Best song turns out to be a James Brown cover so I am deducting a point
I apologize if anyone here likes The Who, but I have nothing nice to say. The Who is so uncool; they're one of my "die the sweet death of the passage of time" bands
I still find The Who pretty grating. More energy on The Ox instrumental than the rest of the album combined. Found most of this pretty generic 60s stuff. A Legal Matter is nails on a chalkboard bad
No
i'm so disappointed because i love the title track but the rest of this was all blues like bro what i just want to REBEL against my parents and old people
umm is this beatles adjacent?
not a fan
1. Street - 1 2. Mind - 1.5 3. Gone - 1 4. Lies - 1 5. Much - 1 6. Generation - 1.5 7. Kids - 1 8. Please. - 1.5 9. True - 1 10. Man - 1.5 11. Legal - 1 12. Ox -1.5
Jaren 60 rock op zijn top. Lieve liedjes en rock songs.
Really surprised that this is now my second The Who album I've listened to during this 1001 project so far, and I totally hated it. I don't think The Who are for me besides their few best-known tracks. Felt like I was waiting for it to be over the entire time, unfortunately. There were a few tracks that were extremely, piercingly gritty - to the point I had to turn the treble down in my car - which is really saying something.
I understand their impact, I just happen to think they blow.
Back when sounding like the Beatles was the peak of musical innovation
The who?
No, not even a little bit
Nothing clicked for me on this album. The very last track had some interesting drumming, but that's about it.
Boring
Again, I appreciate but nah. The ones I do like I actually like though so that’s something. Fav tracks: The Kids Are Alright Much Too Much I like but the stutters get annoying tbh: My Generation wtf: I’m a Man
Don't want to listen to this Just boring boomer music
From listening to Who's Next and now My Generation through this site, I've discovered that I like the image of the Who as a classic rock band more than their actual music, which I suppose is true for a lot of the bands from this time period. There are two songs on this album that feature a very noticeable Beatles influence, and I wouldn't be surprised if the remaining tracks wear their influences on their sleeves, either. So, why the one-star? There's something off-putting about this album that I have a hard time explaining. It's by all means listenable, though I felt a great reluctance to sit through this one and didn't want to give it a relisten. The only part that I remembered was the "talking about my generation" bit, and that's like five seconds in a full thirty five minutes of music. It's interesting that psychedelic rock is listed as a genre on this album when I didn't notice any psychedelic influence whatsoever. Maybe it's an error.
This album was not at all what I expected when I saw The Who as I was expecting something closer to the sounds from the Who’s Next album. This felt like I listened to an hour long album of cultural appropriation. Knowing what their later sound is, this was a ROUGH listen. I just could not enjoy the songs as it either felt sounded like someone else’s song (or literally was another song, I’m talking about you Shout and Shiver…). Would not listen to again. Anytime you want me and (maybe) my generation are the only two I kind of enjoyed.
This album sucked. I'm a big fan of a lot of the later Who music, but I'd never really listened to the earlier stuff, and now I realize that I wasn't missing much. My Generation is a solid jam, but it feels like the rest of the songs were just thrown together as filler so they could release an LP. A couple songs were so bad, I was tempted to skip through them, but I forced myself to give them a chance and I'm glad I did - only so I never have to hear them again. I give it one star, and partly just on the knowledge that it would get better for these lads.
Too Beatles lite without a Beatles punch.
The Who are overrated. Skip and go straight to Small Faces
Not for me. 1/5
I think they would have been great live. With headset behind your desk at work :(
I turned it off halfway into the first song. Besides, and perhaps notwithstanding my generation, I didn't feel like listening to this.
boring beatles
It's as good as the first time I heard it. If you're at a party and The Who is on and you see someone really into it, stay away. That person is probably boring too. This album thinks it's better than it actually is. Sadly, it's the best album The Who has to offer.
I didn’t enjoy this album. Even the much touted “my generation” was a bit tired. Also the stuttering was a bit much…
Maybe I would have appreciated this more if I didn't get a string of 70s British rock bands but this one sailed by pretty much unnoticed.
Nope
Not my cup of tea
Guitarist pedo pete is not only a pedo, but those who can separate the art and the artist are in for a massively overrated, unimpressive and boring album. disclaimer: I'm very biased against pedophiles and didn't give this a fair shot.
The songs have that silly "old song" vibe. The drums sound like they're badly in need of a tuning. The intro to "Much Too Much" is hilarious.
Well boys, we were due for a stinker after many wonderful pieces of music. *My Generation* is retroactively plastered as a piece of musical art by critics, noting how the harder sound uncommon at the time would be a precursor to genres like punk and heavy metal. Whenever it was released however it did not do well, which I can totally see why. *My Generation* features many antiquated practices very common for the time it was released, including long, unimpressive instrumental sections of songs that ruin the song’s flow and relying way too heavily on harmonization to cover up bad singing. The hard sound that critics rave about is present in only one song on the entire album, *The Ox*, which is very fitting name considering it does most of the heavy work here. It’s not even a song fitting for the album, it’s an instrumental piece The Who tacked on at the end of recording because it sounded good. Overall, *My Generation* does not bring many new concepts to the table and shows why some common practices for bands of the 60s needed to be shown the door.
fuck the who
Nope. Bit dated
Short Version: That’s not my music!
I went on a nice evening walk, just put in new contacts, admiring the brickwork and leaves, with this album playing in the background. Easiest time for any piece of music to be “special”. This one wasnt. Lamo from the 60s zzz.
I'm thinking that I don't like The Who, as it feels, just like the Rolling Stones, they're trying to appeal to more American-like musical styles all the time, rather than developing their own ideas, and it just gets annoying. I mean, I really can't stand the singing here, with all the repeating and stuttering here, and I only like it when it feels as though it isn't so self-indulgent. Plus, for thirty something minutes, this drags. The final track trying to be some mega-wild instrumental comes off as more self indulgent than something cool, and again, this just annoys me. Actually, this album really annoys me. All the music here is just exactly the type of music I dislike from the mid-60s-era. I mean, Rubber Soul came out this year, and in comparison, this is a real drag, man. I was going to go with a two, but writing this review made me realize how little there is I like here. A couple okay tracks don't make up for songs that actively make me angry.
nothing really stood out 😭 i didn't know the who started in '65. i thought it was like '75 earliest, i thought of them like nirvana. i like rock but i kept thinking beatles. bruh they're from london ☠️
Hated it. Couldn’t even make it through the whole thing.
I did not like it whatsoever
Bröö tästä muista paskaakaan niin paskaa musiikkia taas kuunneltana.. Mitä vittua nyt... YLLÄPITO SAATANA..
General Zod, aka Pete Townsend will never do anything that surprises me. The talentless ass continues to ignite frustration whenever I'm forced to listed to his band The Who. I'd gladly put Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli in the ring with Pete Townsend and root for Pharma Bro to win provided it means kicking the shit outta PT. Is it ironic that PT sings about the kids being alright when we all know this is not the case when he's around them. One star fucktard.
3/10 Beatles çakması gibiydi..
Boring as all hell
Oh boy. the who. My least favorite classic rock band. If I hear "my" in reference to a female figure out of their mouth one more times, I will let them know how I feel about "their generation."
Big single (my generation). Don’t care for the rest.
Eine Party Gang, die vom Style und der Attitüde lebt. Verwechseln Schreien mit Soul.
mediocre white band
Ich möchte das nie wieder hören müssen.
It’s…. Sure.