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The Who - The Kids Are Alright Audio CD

A fair review of the The Who "The Kids Are Alright" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all The Who reviews here, or go back to the The Who tabs.

The Who Band: The Who
Title: The Kids Are Alright
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Release Date: 2001-04-17
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: My Generation 2: I Can't Explain 3: Happy Jack 4: I Can See for Miles 5: Magic Bus 6: Long Live Rock 7: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere 8: Young Man Blues 9: My Wife 10: Baba O'Riley [Live at Shepperton Film Studios] 11: Quick One, While He's Away 12: Tommy, Can You Hear Me? [Standard Version] 13: Sparks [Live at Woodstock] 14: Pinball Wizard [Live at Woodstock] 15: See Me, Feel Me [Live at Woodstock] 16: Join Together/Roadrunner/My Generation Blues [Live at Silver Dome, Pon] 17: Won't Get Fooled Again [Live at Shepperton Film Studios]

Excellent DVD
The Musician ship is just unbeleivable & Unmatchable by anybody!Any band can watch this & See How a band Functions on Bad days&Good days & Just How 4 Different Talented People Can Ultamately Create Sonmething Totaly Unorthodox!!!. I Did not really know who THE WHO We're before I Saw This & Instantly they became one of my top 5 bands.


Great Music, Horrible Remaster
The original LP tapes were used because the person who remastered it was too lazy to find the best quality sources for each track like they did with the DVD. The reason this CD sounds so poor is because it was poorly remastered. So what they did was to use an old LP master, and they bathed it in so much hiss reduction, everything sounds like it's underwater! This might be one of the worst sounding CD's I've ever heard and it's NOT because of the nature of the original recordings. It's because of a poor remastering job!.


The Who - down and dirty, messy, and brilliant
The records would come out of the top of the record sleeve rather than the right side, and it was great to look at. This was the first album I ever bought with my own money when I was a kid.

Although CDs will never be as much fun to look at and play with than LPs used to be, it was great to hear this CD again after all these years. There's a rawness in these performances that reminds you just how dangerous the music of The Who once was (and, in many ways, still is).

Highlights include "My Generation" from the SMOTHERS BROTHERS TV show, live versions of "Young Man Blues" and Entwistle's "My Wife," the rollicking version of "A Quick One" from The Rolling Stones' ROCK & ROLL CIRCUS (for a long time, this album and movie was the only place you could see and hear this performance), and the Shepperton Film Studios live performances of "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again. "

There's a really messy version of "Join Together" that doesn't sound at all like the studio version of the song - and yet, I remembered everything about it the minute I heard it again after all these years.

One complaint: I will never believe that this album's version of "I Can See for Miles" was recorded live for the SMOTHERS BROTHERS TV show. There's nothing about it that sounds different from the version recorded by The Who in the studio - unlike "My Generation," which sounds very unique and benefits from a great John Entwistle bass solo. But I think the liner notes are lying to us by saying that this version of "I Can See for Miles" was actually recorded for the SMOTHERS BROTHERS TV show. If Pete Townshend can clarify this for me, I'd be grateful.

Otherwise, a "smashing" good album (yes, you can hear them destroy their instruments). Buy the movie, too, and you can "see" them destroy them too.


An Inconsisten But Solid Sampling Of The Who In Concert.
The performances are somewhat flat at times, and the sound quality is ocassionally dull. This soundtrack to The Who's 1978 biopic / concert movie is not quite up to snuff with relases like "Live At The Leeds", "Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970", the performance at The Old Vic on the deluxe edition of "Who's Next" or even the 2000 Royal Albert Hall Show.

That being said, this is generally a good sampling The Who in concert. You get the hits ("My Generation", "Pinball Wizard" and a sizzlling "Won't Get Fooled Again") as well as some rarities ("A Quick One, While He's Away"). For the most part, the songs are good, though the studio recording "Long Live Rock", while a great tune, seems a bit out of place.

Overall, this isn't exactly a must have (though the movie most definitely is), but it's anice addition to your collection.


The Who - 'The Kids Are Alright' (MCA)
This was BEFORE my concert-going days had begun. I remember catching this when it first hit the movie theaters in 1978. After seeing the major motion picture release of 'The Kids Are Alright,I knew I had to start attending live shows as soon as I could. This CD serves the purpose of having the flick's most vital music at your fingertips. Total of prime 17 Who classics,with a duration of 70 minutes. Tunes that you'll likely find yourself replaying over and over (like I did) would probably be "I Can't Explain",the semi-mystical "I Can See For Miles","Young Man Blues",bassist John Entwistle's penned "My Wife","A Quick One" and of course those two UNFORGETABLE live snippets of "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again". What more can I say? Would make a great gift for a Who fan.


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