The Who – My Generation (Deluxe Edition) (1965/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Who – My Generation (Deluxe Edition) (1965/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:31:39 minutes | 1,88 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Geffen Records

The legendary debut album by one of rock’s greatest bands is finally remixed, expanded and seriously updated. Released as The Who Sings My Generation in the U.S. with one track change months after being issued in the U.K. as simply My Generation, this classic album has never been previously released in real stereo anywhere and has never been remastered from the original masters. With the release of this special 2 CD Deluxe Edition, these problems are resolved, and the package has now been expanded from its original twelve tracks to 30. There are 6 previously unreleased tracks, and the album’s minimal graphics have been expanded exponentially and include three sets of liner notes.

Following on the heels of an album where he repudiated his past with his greatest backing band, Blood on the Tracks finds Bob Dylan, in a way, retreating to the past, recording a largely quiet, acoustic-based album. But this is hardly nostalgia — this is the sound of an artist returning to his strengths, what feels most familiar, as he accepts a traumatic situation, namely the breakdown of his marriage. This is an album alternately bitter, sorrowful, regretful, and peaceful, easily the closest he ever came to wearing his emotions on his sleeve. That’s not to say that it’s an explicitly confessional record, since many songs are riddles or allegories, yet the warmth of the music makes it feel that way. The original version of the album was even quieter — first takes of “Idiot Wind” and “Tangled Up in Blue,” available on The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3, are hushed and quiet (excised verses are quoted in the liner notes, but not heard on the record) — but Blood on the Tracks remains an intimate, revealing affair since these harsher takes let his anger surface the way his sadness does elsewhere. As such, it’s an affecting, unbearably poignant record, not because it’s a glimpse into his soul, but because the songs are remarkably clear-eyed and sentimental, lovely and melancholy at once. And, in a way, it’s best that he was backed with studio musicians here, since the professional, understated backing lets the songs and emotion stand at the forefront. Dylan made albums more influential than this, but he never made one better.

Tracklist:
01. The Who – Out In The Street (Stereo Version) (02:30)
02. The Who – I Don’t Mind (Stereo Version) (02:36)
03. The Who – The Good’s Gone (Stereo Version) (04:05)
04. The Who – La-La-La Lies (Stereo Version) (02:15)
05. The Who – Much Too Much (Stereo Version) (02:43)
06. The Who – My Generation (Stereo Version) (03:18)
07. The Who – The Kids Are Alright (Stereo Version) (03:05)
08. The Who – Please, Please, Please (Stereo Version) (02:43)
09. The Who – It’s Not True (Stereo Version) (02:30)
10. The Who – I’m A Man (Stereo Version) (03:20)
11. The Who – A Legal Matter (Stereo Version) (02:49)
12. The Who – The Ox (Stereo Version) (03:56)
13. The Who – I Can’t Explain (Stereo Version) (02:05)
14. The Who – Bald Headed Woman (Stereo Version) (02:34)
15. The Who – Anyway Anyhow Anywhere (Alternate Stereo Version) (02:43)
16. The Who – Daddy Rolling Stone (Stereo Version) (02:59)
17. The Who – Anytime You Want Me (Stereo Version) (02:37)
18. The Who – Shout And Shimmy (Stereo Version) (03:19)
19. The Who – Circles (Stereo Version) (03:13)
20. The Who – Instant Party Mixture (Stereo Version) (03:29)
21. The Who – Leaving Here (Alternate Stereo Version) (02:49)
22. The Who – Lubie (Come Back Home) (Stereo Version) (03:42)
23. The Who – (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave (Stereo Version) (02:41)
24. The Who – Motoring (Stereo Version) (02:47)
25. The Who – Daddy Rolling Stone (Alternate Stereo Version) (03:06)
26. The Who – The Kids Are Alright (Alternate Stereo Version) (03:07)
27. The Who – My Generation (Instrumental Stereo Version) (03:38)
28. The Who – Out In The Street (Instrumental Stereo Version) (02:33)
29. The Who – I Don’t Mind (Full Length Stereo Version) (03:45)
30. The Who – The Good’s Gone (Full Length Stereo Version) (04:27)

Personnel:
The Who
Roger Daltrey – lead vocals, harmonica
John Entwistle – bass guitar, backing vocals
Keith Moon – drums, percussion, backing vocals on “Instant Party Mixture”
Pete Townshend – six and twelve-string acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals on “A Legal Matter”

Additional musicians:
Perry Ford – piano on “I Can’t Explain”
Nicky Hopkins – piano (except on “I Can’t Explain”)
The Ivy League – backing vocals on “I Can’t Explain” and “Bald Headed Woman”
Jimmy Page – lead guitar on “Bald Headed Woman”, rhythm guitar on “I Can’t Explain”

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