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jason-cobb
A great live album, for sure. But it gets a little too heavy for me in places. Young Man Blues borders on Led Zep territory - never a good place to be. The band is tight as fuck. When they turn their hand to being The Who, and not some bluesy wet dream of who The Who wanted to be, then it's bloody great. I Can't Explain, Substitute and I'm a Boy all have amazing energy.
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boombox-generation
I really don't get why The Who are so lauded. They seem more a bunch of people who all over-play, more than a band. With one or two exceptions (Can't Explain, mainly), the songs are pretty ordinary, too. Maybe you had to be there, but this just highlighted the showing-off, and masked any decent writing that may be there. And that is a TERRIBLE version of Fortune Teller, usually a great song.
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