The Who – Who’s Next : Life House (Super Deluxe) (Remastered 2022) (1971/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Who – Who’s Next : Life House (Super Deluxe) (Remastered 2022) (1971/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 09:48:35 minutes | 12,72 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Featuring 155 tracks, of which 89 are previously unreleased and 57 feature fresh remixes, the set will delight longtime Who fans with its long-sought, complete picture of Townshend’s incredibly prescient songwriting, while captivating a new audience with his visionary description of a future that has, in many ways, come true. It features all of his songs, in their many stages of development, from the abandoned, audacious Life House project, started in 1970 as a follow-up to The Who’s epic Tommy, and from the undisputed rock classic of 1971 that it evolved into, Who’s Next.

Across the course of ten-CD and multiple vinyl sets, Who’s Next | Life House sets out Townshend’s extraordinary vision of a world beset by climatic catastrophe and pollution, leading to a curtailing of personal freedom that will be all too familiar to the pandemic generation. Decades ahead of his time, he details how the population is then seduced and sedated by access to an entertainment “Grid,” piped into every home via the use of virtual reality experience suits.

In his introduction to the new editions, Townshend describes Life House as “a portentous polemic about the coming of a nation beaten down by climate issues and pollution.” He then explains how “an opportunist and autocratic government enforce a national lock-down in which every person is hooked up to an entertainment grid.” Music itself then becomes an inconvenient diversion, “a very real distraction to the subjugation of the population in suits,” with fascinating consequences. Songs that depicted a dystopian world in which faceless corporations control our lives may have been fiction at the time, but they have come to be more like documentary.

The unfulfilled project, which Townshend conceived as one part film script and one part blueprint for a live musical experiment, brought him to the edge of a breakdown. But, as he writes, “some wonderful music came from the project, and the idea has always held me in thrall, partly because so many of the strands of the fiction seem to be coming true.”

Listeners will hear, for the first time, how that concept folded into Who’s Next, widely regarded as not only one of the greatest albums in the band’s astonishing catalogue, but a seminal moment in music history. Here, The Who’s instinctive, scintillating cohesion reached new peaks, Townshend’s brilliant creativity as one of rock’s great auteurs brought thrillingly to life by Roger Daltrey’s unsurpassed vocal performances, John Entwistle’s visceral, fluid basslines and Keith Moon’s fiery potency on the drums.

The Super Deluxe edition of Who’s Next | Life House will contain 10 CDs, all remastered from the original tapes by longtime Who engineer Jon Astley, plus a Blu-ray Audio disc with newly-created Atmos and 5.1 surround mixes of Who’s Next and 14 bonus tracks by in-demand artist and producer Steven Wilson.

Highlights of the 155-track format include Townshend’s demos for Life House; The Who’s 1971 session recordings at the Record Plant in New York; sessions at Olympic Studios in southwest London from 1970-1972; and, for the first time, two newly mixed and complete 1971 concerts from London’s Young Vic Theatre and San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium. Timeless highlights of those sessions and performances include ‘Baba O’Riley’, ‘Behind Blue Eyes’ and ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’, on which Daltrey created the most awe-inspiring scream ever heard. Those classics continue to illuminate Who concerts to this day.

Tracklist:
CD1
1. Baba O’Riley (Remastered 2022) (5:04)
2. Bargain (Remastered 2022) (5:35)
3. Love Ain’t For Keeping (Remastered 2022) (2:12)
4. My Wife (Remastered 2022) (3:36)
5. The Song Is Over (Remastered 2022) (6:25)
6. Getting In Tune (Remastered 2022) (4:51)
7. Going Mobile (Remastered 2022) (3:46)
8. Behind Blue Eyes (Remastered 2022) (3:42)
9. Won’t Get Fooled Again (Remastered 2022) (8:34)

CD2
1. Teenage Wasteland (Lifehouse Chronicles / Remastered 2022) (6:48)
2. Too Much (Lifehouse Chronicles / Demo / Remastered 2022) (5:38)
3. Going Mobile (Lifehouse Chronicles / Demo / Remastered 2022) (4:16)
4. There’s A Fortune In Those Hills (Demo / Remastered 2022) (4:10)
5. Love Ain’t For Keeping (Lifehouse Chronicles / Demo / Remastered 2022) (1:33)
6. Bargain (Lifehouse Chronicles / Demo / Remastered 2022) (4:32)
7. Greyhound Girl (Lifehouse Chronicles / Demo / Remastered 2022) (3:10)
8. Mary (Alternative Mix / Remastered 2022) (4:19)
9. Behind Blue Eyes (Lifehouse Chronicles / Demo / Remastered 2022) (3:29)
10. Time Is Passing (Lifehouse Chronicles / Demo / Remastered 2022) (3:29)
11. Finally Over (Demo / Remastered 2022) (6:10)
12. Baba O’Riley (Original Demo / Remastered 2022) (13:15)

CD3
1. Pure And Easy (Lifehouse Chronicles / Home Studio Mix / Remastered 2022) (8:40)
2. Getting In Tune (Lifehouse Chronicles / Alternative Mix / Remastered 2022) (3:57)
3. Nothing Is Everything (Let’s See Action) (Lifehouse Chronicles / Demo / Remastered 2022) (6:24)
4. Won’t Get Fooled Again (Lifehouse Chronicles / Demo / Remastered 2022) (8:34)
5. Baba O’Riley (Lifehouse Chronicles / Demo / Remastered 2022) (7:49)
6. The Song Is Over (Lifehouse Chronicles / 2021 Remix / Remastered 2022) (5:44)
7. Pure And Easy (Olympic Studio Mix / Demo / Remastered 2022) (5:32)
8. Mary (Lifehouse Chronicles / Original Mix / Demo / Remastered 2022) (4:24)
9. Baba O’Riley (First Editing Demo / Remastered 2022) (7:53)
10. The Song Is Over (Lifehouse Chronicles / Original Demo / Remastered 2022) (5:40)

CD4
1. Baby Don’t You Do It (New York Record Plant Sessions / 1971 / Take 2 / Unedited / Remastered 2022) (8:55)
2. Won’t Get Fooled Again (New York Record Plant Sessions / 1971 / Take 13 / Remastered 2022) (9:13)
3. Behind Blue Eyes (New York Record Plant Sessions / 1971 / Version 1 / Take 15 / Remastered 2022) (4:23)
4. Love Ain’t For Keeping (New York Record Plant Sessions / 1971 / Take 14 / Remastered 2022) (4:51)
5. The Note (aka Pure And Easy) (New York Record Plant Sessions / 1971 / Take 21 / Remastered 2022) (5:21)
6. I’m In Tune (aka Getting In Tune) (New York Record Plant Sessions / 1971 / Take 6 / Remastered 2022) (7:28)
7. Behind Blue Eyes (New York Record Plant Sessions / 1971 / Version 2 / Take 10 / Remastered 2022) (4:04)

CD5
1. Pure And Easy (New Unedited Remix) (5:32)
2. I Don’t Even Know Myself (Original Mix With Count In) (5:00)
3. Time Is Passing (Original Mix / Stereo) (3:37)
4. Too Much Of Anything (Original Mix With Count In And Original Vocal) (4:34)
5. Naked Eye (Remake Version) (6:00)
6. Bargain (Early Mix With Single-Tracked Vocal) (5:39)
7. Love Ain’t For Keeping (Unedited Remix) (2:17)
8. My Wife (Unedited Remix) (4:28)
9. Getting In Tune (Warm-Up Jam / Take 1) (6:59)
10. Going Mobile (Early Alternate Mix) (3:55)
11. The Song Is Over (Basic Track) (6:16)
12. When I Was A Boy (Remix) (3:37)
13. Let’s See Action (Unedited Original Mix) (5:36)
14. Relay (Unedited Remix With Alternate Vocal) (5:11)
15. Put The Money Down (Remix With Alternate Vocal) (4:46)
16. Join Together (Unedited Remix) (6:05)

CD6
1. The Seeker (Original Single A-Side Mix) (3:13)
2. Here For More (Original Single B-Side Mix) (2:27)
3. Heaven And Hell (Stereo Remix) (3:35)
4. Water (Unedited Remix / Twickenham Sessions / 1970) (7:16)
5. I Don’t Even Know Myself (Unedited Remix / Twickenham Sessions / 1970) (5:40)
6. Naked Eye (Unedited Remix / Twickenham Sessions / 1970) (6:44)
7. Postcard (Original Mix / Twickenham Sessions / 1970) (3:27)
8. Now I’m A Farmer (New Remix / Twickenham Sessions / 1970) (4:11)
9. The Seeker (Unedited Version / Full-Length Remix) (4:12)
10. Water (Re-Make / Take 8) (5:13)
11. I Don’t Even Know Myself (Re-Make / Take 16) (4:41)
12. Let’s See Action (Original Single A-Side Mix) (3:59)
13. When I Was A Boy (Original Single B-Side Mix) (3:32)
14. Join Together (Original Single A-Side Mix) (4:22)
15. Relay (Original Single A-Side Mix) (3:55)
16. Waspman (Original Single B-Side Mix) (3:08)
17. Long Live Rock (Original Olympic Mix) (3:59)

CD7
1. Love Ain’t For Keeping (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (3:09)
2. Pure And Easy (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (6:33)
3. Young Man Blues (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (4:45)
4. Time Is Passing (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (4:01)
5. Behind Blue Eyes (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (5:35)
6. I Don’t Even Know Myself (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (6:05)
7. Too Much Of Anything (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (4:18)
8. Getting In Tune (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (7:12)
9. Bargain (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (5:49)

CD8
1. Pinball Wizard (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (2:55)
2. See Me, Feel Me (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (6:50)
3. Baby Don’t You Do It (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (6:17)
4. Water (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (8:24)
5. My Generation (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (3:00)
6. (I’m A) Road Runner (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (3:16)
7. Naked Eye (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (6:30)
8. Bony Moronie (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (3:34)
9. Won’t Get Fooled Again (Live At Young Vic Theatre, London, UK / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (8:53)

CD9
1. Introduction (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (1:04)
2. I Can’t Explain (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (2:22)
3. Substitute (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (2:40)
4. Summertime Blues (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (4:18)
5. My Wife (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (7:22)
6. Baba O’Riley (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (6:43)
7. Behind Blue Eyes (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (4:05)
8. Bargain (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (7:56)
9. Won’t Get Fooled Again (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (11:07)
10. Baby Don’t You Do It (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (9:19)
11. Magic Bus (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (17:07)

CD10
1. Introduction To Tommy (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (2:10)
2. Overture (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (6:28)
3. Amazing Journey (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (6:31)
4. Sparks (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (5:24)
5. Pinball Wizard (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (3:08)
6. See Me, Feel Me (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (7:40)
7. My Generation (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (8:58)
8. Naked Eye (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (7:09)
9. Going Down (Live At The The Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA / 1971 / Remastered 2022) (4:31)

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