Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Keith Moon

The Who - Who's Next

It's not often a classic pops up in the dollar bin. The last surprise that was this big was Tattoo You by the Stones, and that album was in amazing shape including the insert. Part of me wasn't to concerned so long as the big songs were playable. Besides I have the 2003 deluxe edition and that is almost two and a half hours of stuff - much of it I've maybe heard once while it played in the background. Yeah, sad. Anyway here was the 1980 MCA re-issue (at first this confused me as I thought this was an old record - I mean it is old, but older than the date suggested), and someone must have been having a bad day and dragged the needle across the first side. I could feel it with my finger nail so I figured best case was a repeating pop for a few songs. Thankfully "Baba O'Riley" was fairly clean, and frankly on the first side that's all that mattered to me. The songs still sound pretty fresh and while still being very much of their time. When I think of some o...