Who's Next

Nice work by The Who, very much moved from Masters of Mod to Rock Gods here. 3.5 stars.

Fue un álbum con clásico, pero no era el tipo de música que me gusta escuchar en mi dia a día.

Onhan tää laadukas kuin mikä, mutta eipä ole Who:ta tehty juuri minun makunystyröille. Jää siksi hieman etäiseksi.

Kunnon hittilevy. Ei nouse mitenkään mestarilliseksi, mutta tasavahvaa suorittamista. 3/5.

6/10

This was pretty good. I’m sure they must’ve done better stuff though…?

Suprisingly didnt care much for anything except Baba O'Riley (AMAZING track) and Won't Get Fooled Again, everything inbetween was pretty mediocre

Good, but falls short of the unrealistic expectations set by the opening track, which is not called Teenaged Wasteland but might as well be. The closer "Won't Get Fooled Again" is solid too, which makes this a nice looking sandwich with disappointing insides. I liked "Behnind Blue Eyes" too, but it doesn't fit well with the other songs.

With 'Who's Next' best tracks stacked at the end of the album, it is a steady climb through. Being part rock opera, with a combination of hard rock, prog rock, and art rock, as well as its influential use of synthesizers this album was an interesting listen. Best: Behind Blue Eyes Worst: The Song Is Over Note: Spotify had the 1995 Remastered Issue and I only listened to the original 9 tracks.

Rock

Hee leuk, dat laatste nummer is de intro van Skandal im Sperrbezirk, maar dan een stukje langzamer. Maar verder? Behind blue eyes is later nog vaak gecoverd, okee. Het is allemaal wel goed, maar ook erg gemiddeld.

Je weet dat er aan het eind een klapstuk te wachten staat. Maar man...je moet wel geduld hebben hoor...Ik werk me met het hoofdgerecht in het vooruitzicht door de lauwe voorgerechtjes. 2,5 ster.

Het enige schijtlollige aan deze plaat is wederom de albumcover. Verder staan er prima Who tracks op. Al klinkt alles wel wat gedateerd, als een soort rockende Beatles, met dezelfde holle drums en af en toe een verdwaalde toeter. Maar de hitjes staan als een huis, of in dit geval een stuk beton.

PREFS : Baba O'Riley, Bargain, Behind Blue Eyes, Won't Get Fooled Again MOINS PREF : My Wife

Good album, but sags a little in the middle. “Going Mobile” is, generously, lazy.

Baba OReilly is a banger. This album has some good songs but overall it never really affected me like it does most people. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Some good songs, but I'm not sure what to make of the Who - why pissing?

Hey it’s the Who

Still don't really get what the big deal is with The Who. I didn't before and I still don't too.

Probably my favourite The Who album so far but still only OK.

didn't finish the whole album yet, but it's been a good listen so far. sometimes repetitive/unimaginative, but lots of classics I didn't know were sung by the same people

Nothing I disliked but nothing that particularly stuck with me. It was structurally fine, but didn’t wow me or have much to capture my attention. Faves: n/a

Great The Who songs. I like this album more than other The Who albums, but an entire album is still too much for me

Eh few amazing songs but didn't really love the album as a whole

Have heard many of the songs off of this album in the past but have not listened to it in the past. Am a general who dan not huge on them but do like them. Bobba o Riley is a classic as ever. The bargain was okay no real thoughts either way. Love ain’t for keeping another okay song. My wife is another song that I do not need to listen to again three stinkers in a row.

A little long, not really my favorites

Some great songs on here, but overall I find something unlikeable about the who that I can't get over. Can't put my finger on it...what can seem like rebellion, may just be meaness...

I like it but do I love it? This period of The Who's output always feels like a series of connected big moments in a song, rather than fantastic songs through and through. Which I guess is kind of prog, and there's a lot of prog around the edges here. Which I like, but it makes this neither one thing nor the other, or that's what it does for me. Like not love.

Bestes Who Album. Holt mich mehr ab als die zwei Alben

Feels nostalgic reminds me of the early 2000s because house and CSI used songs from this album. Very easy and enjoyable to listen to.

I liked the idea of the album, I enjoyed a lot some songs, but overall, it was a little bit annoying to reach to the end of this. It's not a bad album, but it's much better to listen to The Who's greatest hits rather than this album.

went through a teenage spell where i believed the hype and thought the who were brilliant, whereas in reality they have about 10 standout tracks and the rest is a bit guff. the bits my older self has lost track with is that roger daltry is such a fucking duanne dibbley and i can't stand the nonces high pitched singing voice. mad that the standout for this band is the rhytmn section. it's competing for the best ever bass and drums combo with their competition coming from; reni and mani the johns - bonham and paul jones (another band where they save it) macca and ringo. many bands have an amazing drummer or amazing bassist, but very few have both together. this albums saving grace is that it has 3 of those previously mentioned good songs.

Who was next? Was it @SHACK?

Pas mauvais, mais je m'attendais à plus. Les deep cuts n'étaient pas aussi bonnes que ce que j'espérais.

Joe Pera makes this album

Interpelle mon côté rock. Écoute agréable.

This album is bookended by two giant teenage anthems, and the listener is stuck between a wasteland and a system that doesn't change no matter how many revolutions you have. Live fast, die young, and don't trust anyone over the age of 30. Oh, and the portable synthesizer debuted in 1971. Don't this cutting-edge technology just sound great?

Da e nåken solide sanga her

Great, shorter than I imagined. Daltrey often doesn’t sing, even though he clearly can.

Baba o reilly is goated but the rest of the album is alright

I love music from the 60s and 70s. And of course, I listened The Who. But I can't remember any of their songs, except My generation and Behind Blue Eyes.

The hits are good

Fire, kind of repetitive. I have no idea which album is the actual original one cause there’s so much extra stuff on Apple Music.

Didn’t listen yet

3.5/5 baba and won't get fooled again are bangers

I respect this album, and it does have some good songs, but I found it to be a little boring to listen to. My favourite song was Going Mobile.

I really want to like The Who, but every one of their songs gets stuck in my head for weeks and then I don’t like them so much. The album is great technically, lots of fun, and has three of the bands all time greatest hits. All of the members are obviously very talented. The middle songs drag a bit. My favorites: Bargain, Love Ain’t For Keeping, Behind Blue Eyes

overall pretty good album but like not mindblowing - the songs I knew were good (baba, blue eyes and won't get fooled) and some of the ones I didn't were good surprises (getting in tune and song is over) but overall the instrumentation wasn't anything to rave about (except for the opening and closer) and some melodies were j too bland (bargain) - 3.5

It's alright. I really like some of their early albums, but this feels like its lost some of that charm

Buen álbum, pero no conquistó mi corazón.

There was nothing here that wowed me, but it's a decent album. My favorite was Behind Blue Eyes.

Big fan of The Who, lots of good tracks with epic drum fills, they do however sound very similar at times.

honestamente meh no me volvió loca.... si pudiera darle un puntaje entre 1 y 10 es un 7

Considering all the other albums on this list from 1971, this would probably be in the bottom half. 9 songs and half of them are memorable, overrated album.

Baba O'Reilly kicks off a decent album.

Don't like the who but this was kinda bearable. That being said, I did only listen to the 43 minutes of the original and not the two-hour "deluxe" version it loaded here. Behind Blue Eyes is a genuinely good song. The rest is somewhere between ok and not bad. 3/5.

Certainly not bad, but other than a few high points, not remarkable.

I mean not my style *CSI Miami* vibes kekw

Some songs are better than others The album is considerably long so it is a drawback for me I won’t necessarily listen to this again.

There are some all-time songs on the album. Won't Get Fooled Again is incredible and Baba O'Riley is a favorite for most.

Good background music, quite boring and one paced

I feel like this one gets overrated compared to a lot of other records from The Who. Yeah, it has some of their best songs (arguably some of the best rock songs ever), but many of the deep cuts just feel week to me, particularly on the B side. I wish I could rate this higher, but as an overall album experience I just can't.

3 Pretty ok

Well - an album that contains Baba O’Riley, Won’t Get Fooled Again and Behind Blue Eyes should be a perfect album, no? Alas the rest is a slightly sagging bell bottoms of a 70s Rock Monster that the 1977 movement stood against - its a band bloated - still an excellent band, but departed from its ‘My Generation’ roots and its sense of humor and blistering guitars in favour of arena enormity. Still - it’s a good album - and the aforementioned tracks are up there in the rock and roll canon - but this is The Who at its fading out.

Baba O´riley und wont get fooled again sind Killer, der rest ist eher mittelmaß.

mid

-Who’s Next? -Um, The Who? -Yes. -Wait, Yes? Like “Owner of a Lonely Heart?” The band Yes? -No, not The Band. Not “The Weight.” -I don’t want to wait - I’m impatient - I want to know who. -The Who. -Yes, that’s what I’m asking you - Who? Who’s next? Were The Who asking “Who’s Next” to rip off and ape their style? “Who’s Next” has a noticeably different style from “My Generation” and “The Who Sells Out.” This 1971 album feels like a marked shift towards 70s classic and southern rock with a sprinkle of progressive rock and probably something else too. It may not have been very original, but I think the change suited them. I do really like “Baba O’Riley” and “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” though. I think a lot of my fondness for “Baba O’Riley” comes from Pearl Jam covers, but The Who original is pretty great too.

Visoka trojka

Ovaj album ima prostora za četvorku, na prvo slušanje i nije baš. Nije mi u tom nekom zanimljivom điru kao što je bio The Who Sell Out, iako nisu ni slični albumi. Totalno drugačiji đir, ali opet. Jest da sam igrao aram, nabrzaka da questove riješim, pa mi je ovo više bila pozadinska glazba, mislim da od svega su mi ostale u glavi klasici kao što su Baba O'Riley, Behind Blue Eyes, Won't Get Fooled Again i ovaj puta se u tom uplela i pjesma The Song is Over. Priznajem, ovo sam preslušao u cijelosti, ali sam priželjkivao šta ide poslije ovog albuma, a to su 3 albuma koja izlaze danas (22.04.) - novi Fontaines, Pusha T i Gizzardi Lizardi Wizardi. Kažem, 3.5. je sada, a vjerujem kad im budem išao diskografiju slušat da postoji mogućnost i da do 4 dođe, ali ne mora značiti. Jesam pitao već ovo pitanje: "Zašto nema pola-pola kao što je nekada u Maskama bilo sendviča pa su zabran'li?"

Možda je do mooda

Never got The Who. While the first and last tracks are pretty iconic it still doesn’t do much for me. Even when they are pioneering weird synths, screaming vocals, blistering guitars, honky tonking pianos - it just hits me as middle of the road dad rock. And I normally like middle of the road dad rock! But this just bores me.

Way better than I was expecting. I consider "My Generation" to be one of the worst songs ever. Thankfully this sounded nothing like My Generation. For a short album though, this really starts to drag towards the end. At least "Won't Fooled Again" picks up the tempo before it's over.

Other than the first and last song, it's not very interesting.

Lots of piano!

The Who?!

The synthy bits are absolutely divine, but the boys maintain their penchant for length: Forty-five minutes is a bit long for what's here. Maybe you had to be there. Maybe I'm a tad harsh on The Who generally. So far, this is the album of theirs I'm most likely to revisit. Subliminal effect of the monolith, I'm sure.

Too long Behind blue eyes

I can’t say that this was my favorite album, or anywhere close to it. All things considered, it was a decent listen. Nothing particularly impressed me, but nothing made me want to skip a song, which is a good sign. The vocal delivery, instrumental, and arrangement all were just okay to me, nothing more. As I said, nothing particularly impressed me, even though I still think this is a decent album and worth giving a shot.

Buena onda, clásicos y todo pero en un punto me aburrió.

Not bad at all. First real listen an album by The Who. Lots of energy and charged tracks. I can see why 8 out of these 9 songs were supposed to be in a rock opera. Favourite track - baba o riley

It was ok i guess

I like the Who. I like a lot of their songs. But when I rank them on my list of greatest bands from that era they're not only pretty far down the list, they're leagues below Zep, Floyd, Stones, Beatles, etc in my book.

The Who's fifth album was immediately successful and is seen by many critics as the band's best album. The Who experimented with a synthesizer on this album to create a lot of interesting effects and it turned out really well. That combined with their great hooks in each song, easily made this an amazing rock album from the 70's.

Some classics in this album, but even the song I knew weren't that great in it entirety. Overall not that bad

This throws back to my very first album of this list: I didn’t like this album as much as my generation. Baba o Reilly is still great though

3.6 - I appreciate the songcraft but still, I’m not a huge fan of The Who. It’s good manly classic rock but maybe too steeped in the canon for me to find exciting.

It's a good album but nothing that stands out.

Pretty good album. "Behind Blue Eyes" is the best track, and I learned that "Teenage Wasteland" is actually NOT the song title -- rather, it's "Baba O'Riley." The Who aren't very high on my list, but I'd listen to this album again. 3 stars.

The Who is the most maddening band on this list. Their hits are undeniably great, but the deeper cuts on every album I've ever heard of theirs are aggressively awful. The Song is Over and Going Mobile make me want to dive headfirst into a pool full of broken glass. At least this wasn't another mediocre rock opera. Best track: Baba O'Riley

The best opening track of all time? Struggling to think of a better one. Its easy to love Baba O'Riley and Won't get fooled again but is this really the rock n roll masterpiece it is often heralded as or just a couple of great singles and a load of filler? Behind Blue eyes was a surprise. a heart wrenching ballad and not what i expected from them. A lot of the other tracks are decent rock n roll tunes of the time without being remarkable. Very enjoyable listen with great moments. Still waiting for Pete Townsend's book he did all research for though... 3/5

Känns som att skaparen av Baywatch theme-sång sneglat lite väl mycket på titelspåret Baba O’Riley. Helt ok i en för mig ointressant genre

Kändes till två låtar som har varit intromusil till jag tror två olika CSI serier. Helt ok

Good, heard most of songs previously, but when it dove into remakes and extended versions I bailed.

Nice classic

The Song is over and behind blue eyes are my favs, stout album overall.

kinda boring ):

I've often wondered who had the bright idea about the album cover. How did Entwhistle get his todger away so much quicker than the other 3? What is Daltrey looking at? Why is Moon staring at Daltrey whilst still buttoning up himself? Did Townshend drip on his flairs?

Classic rock at its best - some ho-hum tracks stall a bit of the forward momentum, but the synth tracks on this LP absolutely kill.

Good.

Нормально

Listened before. Good album I just don’t like The Who

Довольно необычное для рока того времени использование синтезаторов, в принципе песни ославляют приподнятое ощущение, но сейчас это не так кореллирует с моим вайбом

Tof album.

Openingstrack is geweldig. En zo staan er nog een paar classic Who-nummers op deze plaat. Maar toch is het nooit helemaal mijn ding geworden. Een solide 3 sterren.

Heb niet alles kunnen luisteren, maar ga dat nog wel doen. Beetje jesus christ superstar hier en daar.

Baba O’Reilly is the pinnacle of the album.

Baba o Riley is great but I don't find the rest of the album particularly inspiring.

no está tan mal pero tampoco acaba de estar bien

44. O giz ainda mantém o teu corpo pelo chão. Ponho os óculos de sol, mas o sol já se foi. Faz frio no beco. O culpado sou eu. MotA: Won't Get Fooled Again "Out her on the fields I farm for my meals"

Never been a big fan of The Who, and Who's Next is definitely not my favorite of theirs. There are some good tracks on this one, but if I'm going to listen to The Who, it's gonna be Tommy or Quadrophenia. Highlights: 1, 5, and 8.

I can see why this is considered in the top 1001, but I don’t think I’ll revisit. I did like Behind Blue Eyes.

Great album! Never thought I would like The Who so much!

Solid classic rock album

Good album, lots of interesting bits throughout sonically speaking. Fun to listen to. Definitely an influential classic that has help perpetuate the rock scene.

Wont Get Fooled Again is a stone cold classic, and theres a few great songs on this. Overall I find The Who a bit ‘rock by numbers’ though.

Cool songs.

This is an ok album. Not much of it thrills me. "Baba O'Riley" is a all time classic track but not really anything special to me. "The Song Is Over" is a painfully long song. Probably long for the sake of irony but still so long. "Behind Blue Eyes" is also a classic track that I enjoy thoroughly. And "Won't Get Fooled Again" is an amazing song that is just a little too long. All in all a pretty good album but not something too special to me.

It's a classic, but not every song is a winner. Lots of hits and then misses. I was interested to learn that going mobile wasn't a newer song - I thought they made it in the 90s about getting an RV. The album also lacks cohesion in a lot of ways. If these songs hit the radio, I'll listen, but I never pick up this album and am excited to play it. Definitely second fiddle to the beatles, stones, and led zeps of the era. I give it 7/10.

Easy listening enough but not much that triggered any spike in emotion. I didn't think Baba O Riley was by The Who, sounds like a 1980's American anthem.

Nice listening experience

Wieder was gelernt, dann ist das wohl nicht von Limo Bizkit! The Who hab ich bisher immer vernachlässigt. Ich mag andere aus der Zeit lieber aber trotzdem, sehr gut gealtert!

Ich wusste nicht, dass "Behind Blue Eyes" von the Who ist. Bin mir nicht sicher welche Version ich besser finde aber darum geht's ja nicht.

Love their songs

Big classic rock! Bigger Who sound, now with (new!) synths. Whoever was controlling those synths had a real nice sense of touch and tone. They fit right in naturally. I enjoyed this one. The anthems, the stripped down jams, the love songs. Going Mobile is cheesy and from what I can tell, a song about RVs. When John Entwhistle died awhile ago I remember a critic praising his basslines - because Pete Townsend didn't solo much, and stuck to big rhythmic strumming, this left space for ol Entwhistle to go wild on the bass. He's all over the fretboard, way high up on the neck. Great sense of touch and tone. Combine that with Keith Moon's mayhem, and no sense of touch and tone, and the Who's rhythm section really cooks. Big classic rock. Big songs. I'm going B+

Baba Orielly is magic—proto LCD sound system. All the songs with synth seem to shine a bit brighter on this one. There are definitely a few clunkers on this one, mostly due to lame lyrics. Like, does “gettin’ into the straight and narrow” in the chorus elicit the spirit of ecstasy that inspires a rocking crescendo? Heck no. I don’t give a fuck if he’s “mobile.” Lots of the songs are mediocrity over Keith Moon’s killer drums. There are 3 hits on this album, Baba, Blue Eyes and Fooled, all great songs, deserving of 6’s. But the rest is twos and threes. 3.

The Who are so goddamn hit or miss. Some massive bangers, some fucking ginormous duds. I think it's pretty telling when you look at the playcount of the songs on Spotify. Tracks 2 through 7 each have like 3 million plays. Then there are the 3 good tracks that have hundreds of millions of plays. TBH all I can think about when The Who comes on is the intro to CSI. Behind Blue Eyes and Baba O'Riley are jams for sure.

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Baba slaps

7

Paso de Who

Pretty solid; wont become part of the regular rotation but a good album

Voll ok. Zu rockig für mich. Wusste nicht dass behind blut eyes von the who ist.

Classic hard-rock with a groove 'n swing. Gotta get back to it eventually.

Semibängeri Helt jees, The Who e ju nog klassiker men det här albumet hade endast några bängerin, resten var ganska tråkiga

3/5

some real standout songs on this album. high 3

Not the best who

Good ol boomer rock. Best tracks are behind blue eyes, baba o Riley, and won’t get fooled again

Wrote this review late. This album was prettt standard, definitely not bad but it didn't really stand out. The first track is a masterpiece though.

A good groove, doesn't seem like the type of music you'd smash a guitar to now a days

some classics

This album is 2.5 hours long. It's good, but at the end of the day, just too much Who.

Great live recording in the deluxe version. All the hits.

Ey, it's that one song. That's all I remember.

Behind blue eyes, phenominal.

Classic, and a great first entry. Baba O'Riley Going Mobile Won't Get Fooled Again *favorite songs

side B

Baba O'Riley - 4 Bargain - 4 Love Ain't For Keeping - 2.5 My Wife - 3 The Song is Over - 3.5 Getting in Tune - 3 Going Mobile - 3 Behind Blue Eyes - 3.75 Won't Get Fooled Again - 2.5 Not a bad album just not for me. Last song is too long and has crazy outro. First two songs are great though.

czaje vibe ale nie siedzi mi jakos bardzo

Really glad I finally listened to them properly. Rockier than expected.

3.5

1971: Key Songs: Baba O'Riley, Behind Blue Eyes

A generous 3. Really fallen out of love with this album. It sounds very meat and potatoes at times.

A couple of good tracks and I like the Who but a lot of filler.

Not my kinda band

This has 3 classic songs that are all solid but between them are very lame songs that feel like they were made by an entirely different band. I just struggle to enjoy the vocals and lyrics on this entire effort, some great synth work and instrumentation.

Epic album cover. I liked "Bargain" and "Won't Get Fooled Again" ok, but the rest was mostly boring radio rock. They certainly put much effort into the production and they're good at their respective instruments, but most of the songs didn't pique my interest at all. The 60s The Who stuff that I know is much cooler. 2/5 - below average

Трохи нуднувате,не для мене,4/12

Crazy how many of these i recognize. I dont really like them

Probably their best album, but unfortunately the who suck.

i really don’t like this band man. they are peak mediocrity. ‘the song is over’ was good. this is at least better than whatever tommy was. i had to keep switching between the normal version and the deluxe trying to figure out which has a shorter original set list so i can get this done with. so glad it’s over. —- POEM —- i dip my fingers in the cold blue black wisp them along the corpse of a tree i write to patch up your collateral in me to shade my burnt skin from your sin the poem is over before i get to heal

Such a big sound. So popular in the 70's. Was never my thing.

I did not enjoy this album, or the who for the fact

I will not be wasting my time listening to yet another Who album.

Never really been a fan of The Who/ Daltrey, only my generation, even then I prefer The Oasis generation, so….

Certainly a sound of its time.

cidden the who

Mid

Great in places but otherwise only okay . Not sure what all the fuss is about.

2.5

yaaaaaawn

idk how to explain it the songs aren’t bad but they just don’t do it for me

Secara keseluruhan, ga masuk. Tetapi tetap beri apresiasi ke Baba O'Reilly yang sangat enjoyable dan adventurous. Cuman ya, one hit wonder di album ini. Mungkin harus dengerin album lain.

Sorry, I just can’t stand hearing anymore of those singles, and the rest of the album doesn’t do it for me either.

6/10 - For some reason, I could just _not_ get into this album. May be a consequence of going through this exercise at work. Fav Tracks: Baba O'Riley, The Song Is Over, Behind Blue Eyes Heard before? ---–- ✅ Saved a Song? ----- ✅ Saved Album? --–-- ❌ Will Listen Again? -- ❌

One of the best starting album songs of all time. Nostalgia back to the days as a wee lad where I would binge CSI las vegas on school breaks... man does time fly... Album is a 2/5 meh for me in the most respectful way.

Based on Baba O'Riley and Won't Get Fooled Again, I assumed this would sound more futuristic than it does. The rest, except for Behind Blue Eyes, is just really unremarkable.

Idk if I like the singer

Fine

No esta mal, pero no es mi estilo.

A couple of bangers but at 2.5hrs a real slog 2 stars

They aren’t the worst dudes playing rock music, but it’s not impressive or particularly interesting? I say that like I finished the album lmao.

#56/1001 🇬🇧 My 2nd Who record in 3. Starts off with the brilliant Baba O'Reilly but goes downhill, by the time you reach My Wife i'm a bit bored. Things pick up towards the end of side 2 with the other 2 singles really shining out here. The overall theme of the record seems to be a chauvanistic tale of a man who gets a "bargain" wife, then goes out on a 3 day bender, his wife leaves him and now he's remorseful for her dumping him. Best tracks: Baba O Reilly, Won't Get Fooled Again.

Nicht wirklich ein Album für mich

+Intro, -Mid, +Outro

I wasn’t sure I would like this but then I was enjoying some of it- some of the instrumental arrangements were cool and unusual, and the vocals were great. And then Behind Blue Eyes came on and it’s just the absolute worst, self involved dreck. Bleh.

Beginning and end of this album can’t save it for me. At its core it is bland at best if not a bit grating. If this list has taught me anything that I didn’t know about my taste at this point it’s that I find most classic rock criminally uninteresting.

Opening and closing tracks are all-timers, everything else is pretty meh

65

For about 20 years of my life I would have given this 5/5 no problem. Listening to it now, there is simply too much going on. It is jarring to me even though it is very familiar. If I didn't have memories of liking this album, I would give it 1/5. I'll give it 2/5 for the history.

Själlöst 😬

Run of the mill classic rock. Some of it is pretty good when I'm in the mood, but mostly I just don't know what is supposed to be particularly good...besides Baba O Riley.

Very classic, not for me tho. baba o reily is still amazing.

I was appreciating the raw unashamed use of synths - so much music from this time uses them to substitute for an orchestra or something. But ultimately it feels a little bit too much like old white guy rock to me. They seem to have lost that soul feel from the early record. I recognise that my aversion to this style is partly because this band (and maybe one or two like them) made it feel mainstream and unremarkable, but I struggle to listen to it with fresh ears

I know this is filled with well known, iconic songs, but it’s just not my jam. However, I do like: Behind Blue Eyes.

The Who are the least interesting of these legendary British rock bands and they’ve aged the worst. There’s nothing technically wrong here but good god man, shut up!

Nothing really stood out to me, but it was ok. Stand Outs: Baba ‘O Riley, Behind Blue Eyes Rating: 2.4

Crazy like fiddle genre swap in the end of the first song. Some really cool synth bits, interesting harmonic spots and some catchy melodies. But other wise this sounds like proto-prog/dad rock. Corny lyrics a lot of the time (the opening of getting in tune made me laugh) and just generally the sort of classic rock and roll that I’m not a huge fan of. But objectively it’s a tight and high energy album that does go to a lot of different places. Just not my thing.

Boring Dad Rock, nothing interesting to be found here, historically important record for sure but I don't like this style of Rock.

Dad album

The Who, die ersten Mods keine Rocker keine Punks..Pete Townshend, das Cover! ich bin gespannt. und enttäuscht hat schon seine gründe...britpop halt...c

Arena rock, prog rock, soft rock, anything but the progenitors of punk rock, even tho that's how we brand The Who. Is it merely b/c they smashed up their instruments and played loudly that they assume that title? I see punk in The Kinks and The VU, not this wasteland of generic vocals and canned guitar licks. This is one of those records that sounds good but does not, in the end, feel good: too many cliched crescendos, too many moments when the music drops out and Daltrey sings his small heart out. Lyrically, it's awash w/ inane mush and mawkish monuments: 'I'll sing my song to the free, to the free.' Keith Moon was the only genius of the group, but he doesn't have much space to explore. Honestly, they smack of The Eagles.

A nightmare blunt rotation. Pete Townsend got busted for buying CP images online. Roger Daltrey mouths off shallowly-formed right wing talking points in current media interviews. And Keith Moon was a toxic and highly destructive mess who's drumming, about which the best thing one can say, 'is powerful'. I listened to this a lot in High School and College. Long before I slipped off into a still-churning love for pulsing electronics, arpeggiated synths, and hypnotic repetition, I was blown away by the Who's proggy instrumentation on Baba O'Rielly and Won't Get Fooled Again, with not only the synthesizers locking Keith Moon and goons into a groove (yet still with tempo changes!) but also violin. At the same time, I wasn't a total stranger to ideas like this: Rush was one of my favorite bands, and Geddy Lee is underrated for his synth work aside from his bass playing. However, while Rush was already sonically traveling the galaxy, time, and the depths of the mind, it was exciting and refreshing to hear something so down to earth as meat-and-potatoes anthemic radio rock given such an elite treatment. If one cares deeply about dance music crossover hits, and synthetic pop, then in many ways, the Who deserves credit for executing these ideas well before England moved into the New Wave and New Romantic territories of the late 70's and early 80's. My praise for this album pretty much ends there. As Who's Next is a harbinger of modern synthetic pop, it also nails down the shallowness necessary for getting shiny slop on the radio. A new listening this many years later shows me an album of a few standout tracks of fun and attention-grabbing songwriting. The best of these songs fall apart on repeated listen, with uninsightful lyrics that almost seem dumbed down to match a recording industry view of what would fly well as a counterpoint to the puffed up mysticism of Led Zeppelin, the queerness of Bowie, the effeminate and American "Black Culture"-worshiping (via the Stones' fascinated and plundering funhouse mirror of African American music) hypersexuality of the Stones, and the politeness in the heaving dominance of the Beatles machine. The Who clearly borrowed heavily from the can't care-won't care attitudes of the rising Glam movements that were exciting teenagers at the time, while flexing their meaty homophobic biceps (footnote: to Pete Townsend's credit there's an interesting story in the 80s about him attempting to come out as a gay ally, but then getting mistaken for actually coming out to the media, following the release of a very gay song, "Rough Boys" and choosing to backpedal himself into safe "I'm probably bisexual" territory.) to toss out any of the dandy-ism that made Glam a more complete culture (rather than a simple attitude). Then, reaching for synthesizers to add in a touch of futurism. The Who is NEXT, after all. The Who's meathead attitude, willfully dumb lyrics (more on this later), macho rebellion, and carnival trickery embrace of violins and synths come across as a pandering "unite all of England under one recording industry! A "Who's Next" in every home! That will be £1 please." It should be no surprise that Limp Bizkit covered "Behind Blue Eyes", to decent success and a music video. The Who strutted so that Rap Rock could mosh. (And I don't intend to diss Rap Rock or Nu Metal as monoliths here; just taking aim at the most meatheaded "Break Shit" aspects of it.) Regarding lyrics, "Behind Blue Eyes" is an absurdly spot on anthem for white self-victimization. And why does this song remind me of some of the worst toxic people I've ever met? Rich, famous white guy Roger Daltrey is 'misunderstood' and hated. His feelings are hurt and no one helps him and it's actually your fault that he wants to punch things when he gets angry. (I held that this song was cringe well before I learned of Daltrey's vapid and outspoken right wing politics. Go figure--there's a through-line marking the asshole from the 70's to an asshole today.) Despite the great alliterative title and the song working as captivating to put you in Daltrey's head, seeing through his blue eyes, the modern effect of whining through a white guy's blue eyes. (Footnote: For a much more nuanced, introspective, and intelligent-yet-critical, and Christian(!) perspective on cancel culture from a UK white guy who has actually gone through some shit and refuses to paint himself a victim in his incredibly sad songs, read the writings of Nick Cave.) Also, Pete Townsend got busted for buying CP images online.

This kind of rock is just not for me.

The who is very much pete Townshend and others. Daltreys voice is present but very irritating at times. Yet the riffs on baba Oreilly and won't get fooled again are instructive and they certainly make the listener sit up and take notice for a time. The rest of the album is plodding. Not certain that this band can ever be called great.

Pro tip: don't start an obscenely long self indulgent two and a half hour multi disc album with your best track. It's allllllll downhill from there. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Eh

Boring dad rock from good musicians.

2.9 — it is easy to listen to but not notable enough for 3

going moblie makes me giggle 🥇the song isn't over 🥈my wife 🥉behind blue

My favourite song from this album was definitely "Getting in Tune" because I enjoyed the variety of the vocals. I also liked "Behind Blue Eyes" (especially the alternate studio version) and "Love Ain't for Keeping" which was a nice short song.

Who? Who? What are you, a fucking owl? Eh, I really wanted to like it. I didn't. That's the review.

I am 100% not the target audience for this album.

I liked this one! I skipped the ones I already knew I really liked ‘The Song Is Over’, never heard that one before. It took me to the deluxe version and I didn’t listen to the repeats and live versions which I think is fair.

This is a classic. Unfortunately I don't really get it. The first song and the last one are great, but the other ones are mostly fillers.

My face when “The Song Is Over” still isn’t over after 6 minutes: [a picture of a my face when “The Song Is Over” still isn’t over after 6 minutes] Also shouldn’t this be called Whom is Next by The Whom?

Always thought they were overrated. My opinion has not changed.

The Who are just so corny and cringe I cannot take them seriously.

Behind Blue Eyes is pretty iconic and the I appreciate Won't Get Fooled Again, but this is not an album for me.Just kind of boring generic rock. 2/5 stars.

Already knew the album, really not my taste. I find it overproduced, the singing very bland, the keyboards cheesy, the guitar technically impressive but boring... Overall I quite prefer their beat period. Won't Get Fooled Again is ok tho.

Baba O’Reilly aside this is proof that you can rehash the same chord progressions over and over and make a record that your lambretta riding uncle will play on repeat to relive his glory days of going to Brighton desperately trying to revive a long since dead scene. Very tedious record.

I see why this is considered to be a good album, but it doesn't do it for me. Sounds like they're trying to be a Hillbilly Elegy version of Pink Floyd, with a side of Tractor Blues. Again, I can appreciate that it is meant to be an exceptionally well made album but there were times when listening to the music was excruciating, especially that godawful 'getting in tune' song, it sounds like a dying dog squealing. Now and then a beautifully made song emerges (Baba O'Reilly and Bargain are the only reason this album didn't get a 1 star) but it is soon replaced by whining and inconvincing attempts at sounding edgy or profound. I will of course give The Who another attempt with their other works but Who's Next is unfortunately a flop for me.

This is a classic. Unfortunately I don't really get it. The first song and the last one are great, but the other ones are mostly fillers.

Enjoyed the hits and the classics but then got very repetitive. I'll jusy stick to the hits

The band that invented the modern teenager, and then abandoned them in pursuit of their own benefit.

Ja, ganz gut.

This was a hard listen for me for some reason, i just don’t mess with most of the songs on here especially the starting few. A 2 is probably harsh but my enjoyment level was that low. Favorite track: Getting in tune

A couple good songs but so very overrated

Big , bold, operatic rock. Much like the live album I listened to on this list, I loved the drumming but at times felt it was a bit muddied in the mix and took a backseat to the (admittedly great) guitar tones. First three tracks are great but then it sort of fell off the cliff until Behind Blue Eyes. The Who have never really appealed; maybe I'm not getting their sense of humour or playfulness but the high-pitched synths and daft lyrics ("I'm an air-conditioned gypsy") turn me off.

Maybe they are the originals of this genre, but it sounds extremely generic.

The who The where The when

Keine Ahnung, was ich davon halten soll. Insgesamt wirkt es für mich wie ein durchschnittliches Album seiner Zeit, solide, aber nicht ausserordentlich besonders. Herausstechend sind für mich der Opener Baba O’Riley und Behind Blue Eyes. Letzteres gefällt mir in einer Coverversion sogar besser als im Original. Abgesehen davon bleibt der Rest für mich eher unscheinbar.

Haven’t really listened to the who that much, although baba O’Riley gets a few plays being the UFC pay per view kickoff song 😂

A little boring in my opinion, but it definitely wasn't bad.

This album was set for my A-level music as 'set music'. I enjoyed it at the time but it sounds amateur now.

Many classics but Not my Genre.

Good start, couple goodies in there, but wasn’t in the mood

🤷‍♂️

I'm not

I never really got the hype with The Who. A very talented rhythm section let down by Ultimate Shouty Dad Lads in Daltry and Townshend. Won't Get Fooled Again is iconic which earns a second star, but a whole album of this stuff really drags for me.

Bit of a boring album, but have heard worse

Too long. Baba O'Riley stands out. 2.5 really

De e ju den med den där du vet när det bara "blippibluppiblablibleblappi" i typ en timme bror ju If this album was a MtG deck it would be generic midrange Wow this album really only had the first song huh? Music was better back in the day btw People who like ballads should be lobotomized Alright yeehow beep beep was kinda based tho Damn, when Limp Bizkit clears you you should know you're cooked Alright slight recovery made Heheheh tfw im a cool rockstar and have le epic sex amirite?

Jag har ingen relation till The Who sedan tidigare. Mitt intryck är att det är ett ojämnt album. På minussidan Behind Blue Eyes. Jag har rätt svårt för musikalnumren såsom The Song is Over. Jag har ännu svårare för metatexter som i Getting in Tune; det är bättre att inte sjunga alls än att sjunga om att sjunga. På plussidan: Baba O'Riley, Won't Get Fooles Again, Going Mobile. I sina bästa stunder härligt skramligt röj. Men de stunderna infinner sig inte särskilt ofta. Ok, men inget album jag kommer återvända till.

I enjoyed the sound of the first song. It was interesting hearing a historical rock and roll group.

Meh

Nyeh,

the audacity of them to release a 9 hour deluxe edition is appalling

I can imagine these songs would be good live. Via headphones, though, the album is so boring.

I’m on board with ‘Baba O’Riley,’ but I don’t think I’m a full-on The Who fan beyond that.

I think I get it, it just doesn't hugely appeal to me. Some of it is great, but it's just a bit proggy and 70's for me?

Não gostei muito... Não sabia que a música do CSI Miami era tão antiga!

I’ve had at least two albums from The Who and that’ll do me thanks, don’t need to hear another. I’ll give it 2 to be nice.

-idk. i know this is an iconic album by an iconic band but it just didn’t do all that much for me… i found it to be a bit bland, very much what i’ve come to expect from the 70s rock sound but not exceptional -maybe im being too harsh and ik i’d probably enjoy it more with a second listen but as of now it didn’t stand out. first song is pretty good though -Favorites are Baba O’Riley and My Wife

The who cares again? Ich biz meh wie letzt mal, aber care au noni zu fest, wills mer biz zu oldschool rockig isch. Und viel bliibe isch mer au ned. Also who’s next? Richtigi Frag! Los es nüm gross darum wider nur zwei whowho’s

Who? I guess the singles are okay and if you like The Who you'll probably like this but it's not for me

I don't like this band

Every time I hear the start of Baba O'Riley, I think it's going to build into one of the greatest ever rock songs. But it never does.

Favoriten The Song is over Behind Blue eyes To much of anything Baba o‘riley Love aint for keeping

I'm still in the same position as before, where The Who just don't leave a huge impression on me despite them being a generally good band, like this album is good and it's iconic songs are really catchy but I don't feel anything for most of the songs (except Bargain, I like that one). Maybe I'm tired or something but The Who's style of hard rock keeps leaving me cold, the organ is a good touch tho.

Hmmmm... Lot of people looking at this through their nostalgic glasses, and that's ok, but I never got into the Who. I'm fifty one years old, so I've had plenty of chances. Baba O'Riley was good, instantly recognisable. Bargain was middling rock. By the time we get to the second hand country rock of Love Ain't for Keeping, I'm bored. Luckily things pick up again for My Wife, but those lyrics... Anyway, not much of not here. I can't look at this through Vaseline covered lenses of nostalgia. I would never listen to this again on purpose. Still not as bad as Morrissey. Two stars.

Long.

america non je sais pas j'ai écouté ça en pliant un classique sur ahri et la musique ne m'a rien procuré de spécial

One star for each of the two good songs. The rest of the album is pretty average.

Not in the mood for this today. Some random dude played a the Who for me on a ride from Pullman to Spokane all 90 minutes, I wasn’t a fan then and I doubt listening to it today will change that.

If I'm honest, this is background music and not very much fun to intentionally listen to. Kind of like a bad reality Netflix show.

Mochte ich nicht

Average

Baba O'Riley, Behind Blue Eyes and Won't Get Fooled Again are classics... the rest of the album is pretty shit (especially bargain). There's a cheesy vibe that just doesn't work for me. The punk edge of my generation is long gone. That was my opinion when I bought this album at 15 and it's still my opinion now.

This was very boring. Not my kind of music at all

Depressing

I’ve never really got on with The Who. As a band they have always felt they’ve tried to cover a few rock subgenres at once, but as a result they never feel like they’re committing to a sound. They’re not heavy or bluesy enough, nor are they psych or art rock enough. They’re have some decent hits like Baba O’Reilly which opens this album, but as a whole they’ve never really clicked into place. This album reflects my feelings of the band, it was alright but didn’t really feel like it was worth a listen.

Better than their k lol ast album we got. But turns out I’m not a huge fan of them

2 good songs A limp bizkit cover The rest filler

Some good songs on there, but these guys really need to learn how to edit and cut songs down.

Fine - pretty uninspiring to me

2.5, rounded down

Background music.

Album is way too long.2 + hours? After a while, I found it boring and I really only like a few of the songs.

So this is psychedelic rock behind blue eyes is a classic. Is this the original? Idk

CSI

In the words of Jay-Z, "Grand opening, grand closing.... forgettable middle"

Every song that isn't something I've already heard a billion times is boring as fuck.

the who have always seemed like a band you're supposed to like when you're a rock musician & especially when you're a drummer- nobody tell my dad but i'm just not that into it. i can appreciate their individual skill but outside of the bookends there isn't much on here for me. what happened to writing garage rock adjacent bangers Mr. The Who? i don't think it's a coincidence that the Hits album came sandwiched between rock operas right after they told everybody they sold out i'm just going to enjoy that sick violin solo & be grateful it isn't Tommy instead

Don’t really care for any of this.

The creator must really like The Who

Couple of good songs, lots of filler

Best song by far is "The Song Is Over", Underrated banger, normally can't stand his voice, but in this song it was decent. Wow I can't stand "Getting In Tune"

Zzzzzz.

All i can say is i think townsend was right, this album wouldve been better as a rock operatic. Behind blue eyes is the only song that I found really good. Although there were sections that I enjoyed throughout the rest of the album, I couldn't see myself coming back to any of the other songs anytime soon. The main reason being that I didn't love the lyrics or vocals in many sections. Therefore this is not my favourite album, but I can see why it is enjoyable for others.

Was this supposed to be great?

Usch vilken hemsk gubbrock. Alltid hatat Behind blue eyes. Nästan en etta.

While I can respect their talent and prowess at the top of the classic rock genre, I've just never really liked the Who. I just don't like Roger Daltrey's voice. That being said I found 2 or 3 songs on this (outside of the big hits) that I didn't mind.

The who har kun været én sang for mig - My generation. Det var med dét udgangspunktet jeg startede albumet. kuldegysninger da introen til... Journey?? gik igang? Jeg skippere normalt ikke, men behind blue Eyes fik en spille tid på højest 2 sekunder... det lykkedes ikke at finde original udgivelsen kun delux extend skrald.

Årets største skuffelse? Jeg er aldrig kommet længere end My Generation med The Who. Hvorfor ved jeg faktisk ikke. Men noget af svaret fik jeg måske i dag. Hold nu op hvor ligger lyden på Who’s Next langt fra My Generation. Hvor debutten er rå og skramlet i produktionen, så er dette udspil så overproduceret at det gør helt ondt. Lyden er pustet op på en måde der giver mig kvalme. Limp Bizkits autotunede cover af Behind Blue Eyes lyder mere afpillet og ægte end originalen. Og er langt bedre!

Know a couple of the popular songs (Baba O'Riley and Won't get fooled again" but never have warmed to The Who, for whatever reason I just find them boring. Going Mobile is absolutely terrible. Most the of rest album is instantly forgettable. I am been super generous with a 2 as I guess there will be worse records, hopefully not much worse though.

I have heard a few Who albums and was actually blown away by how much I liked them. This album doesn’t cut it for me. I found myself wondering when the current song would be over. There isn’t anything groundbreaking on this album. Nothing intriguing either. I will say, I just recently noticed that they peed on that monolith and it wasn’t just shadows. Hilarious. Choice cut: Behind Blue Eyes

Why isnt it called teenage wasteland? 4/10

I liked this more than our other who albums but that’s bolstered mostly just by baba o Riley and behind blue eyes. The other stuff is just ok. Their other songs have a really early queen sound and sometimes kinda mixed with CCR. It’s interesting.