Detailed item info | Track listing | DISC 1:
1. Pete Townshend Dialogue
2. I'm the Face
3. Here 'Tis - (previously unreleased)
4. Zoot Suit
5. Leaving Here
6. I Can't Explain
7. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
8. Daddy Rolling Stone
9. My Generation
10. Kids Are Alright, The
11. Ox, The
12. Legal Matter, A
13. Pete Dialogue
14. Substitute
15. I'm a Boy
16. Disguises
17. Happy Jack Jingle - (previously unreleased)
18. Happy Jack
19. Boris the Spider
20. So Sad About Us
21. Quick One While He's Away, A - (previously unreleased, Original Version)
22. Pictures of Lily
23. Early Morning Cold Taxi - (previously unreleased)
24. Coke 2 - (previously unreleased)
25. Last Time,, The (This Could Be)
26. I Can't Reach You
27. Girl's Eyes - (previously unreleased)
28. Bag O'Nails - (previously unreleased)
29. Call Me Lightning
DISC 2:
1. Rotosound Strings
2. I Can See For Miles
3. Mary Anne With the Shaky Hand
4. Armenia City in the Sky
5. Tattoo
6. Our Love Was
7. Rael 1
8. Rael 2 - (previously unreleased)
9. Track Records / Premier Drums
10. Sunrise
11. Russell Harty Dialogue - (previously unreleased)
12. Jaguar - (previously unreleased)
13. Melancholia - (previously unreleased)
14. Fortune Teller - (previously unreleased)
15. Magic Bus
16. Little Billy
17. Dogs
18. Overture
19. Acid Queen
20. Abbie Hoffman Incident - (previously unreleased)
21. Underture
22. Pinball Wizard
23. I'm Free
24. See Me, Feel Me
25. Heaven and Hell
26. Pete Townshend Dialogue - (previously unreleased)
27. Young Man Blues
28. Summertime Blues
DISC 3:
1. Shakin' All Over
2. Baba O'Riley
3. Bargain
4. Pure and Easy
5. Song Is Over
6. Studio Dialogue - (previously unreleased)
7. Behind Blue Eyes
8. Won't Get Fooled Again
9. Seeker, The
10. Bony Moronie
11. Let's See Action
12. Join Together
13. Relay
14. Real Me, The - (previously unreleased)
15. 5:15
16. Bellboy
17. Love Reign O'er Me
DISC 4:
1. Long Live Rock
2. Life With the Moons - (previously unreleased)
3. Naked Eye - (previously unreleased)
4. University Challenge - (previously unreleased)
5. Slip Kid
6. Poetry Cornered - (previously unreleased)
7. Dreaming From the Waist - (previously unreleased)
8. Blue Red and Grey
9. Life With the Moons 2 - (previously unreleased)
10. Squeeze Box
11. My Wife - (previously unreleased)
12. Who Are You - (Single Version)
13. Music Must Change, The
14. Sister Disco
15. Guitar and Pen
16. You Better You Bet
17. Eminence Front
18. Twist and Shout
19. I'm a Man - (previously unreleased)
20. Pete Dialogue - (previously unreleased)
21. Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
| | Details | | Producer: | Chris Charlesworth, John Astley | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording type: | Mixed | | Recording mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | The Who: Pete Townshend (vocals, guitar); Roger Daltrey (vocals); John Entwistle (bass); Keith Moon, Kenney Jones (drums).
Recorded between 1964 & 1991. Includes 64-page booklet.
The compilers of MAXIMUM R&B deserve credit for squeezing the collected works of the Who onto these four CDs. The Who's transition from singles band to something more ambitious is well chronicled on disc one. It contains early singles like "Zoot Suit" and "I'm the Face," classics like "My Generation" and "I Can't Explain," near-classics like "I'm a Boy" and early rarities like their take on the Stones' "The Last Time." The second disc charts the band's transition toward conceptual rock and opera, beginning with a selection from THE WHO SELL OUT and moving into their seminal rock opera "TOMMY." The band is also captured at their blistering best in cuts from legendary LIVE AT LEEDS.
Disc three covers the early '70s, when the band was at a creative peak, turning out state-of-the-art rock with QUADROPHENIA and WHO'S NEXT. Songs like "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again" still explode like Thor's hammer. The final disc has a little of everything, rare live versions, radio-only oddities, and the best of their late-'70s and early-'80s output. The later works demonstrate that the Who continued make great music even in the twilight of their career.
| | Editorial reviews | Ranked #4 in NME's list of the 10 best compilation albums of 1994.
NME (12/24/1994)
5 Stars - Classic - ...Townsend's songwriting shines throughout....[he] elevates the the rite of rock & roll passage into a spiritual quest for freedom, self-knowledge and eventually salvation....rock was never more live--or better...
Rolling Stone (09/08/1994)
5 Stars - Indispensable - ...In the final analysis, the music does its own fighting....No swanning about. No flouncing. 30 YEARS OF MAXIMUM R&B is the best box set ever...
Q (08/01/1994)
6 - Good - ...This then should stand as The Who's flawed memorial: enthralling, madly ambitious, hampered by limping last chapters...
NME (07/02/1994)
...the strong arm with which Townshend once sweetly mixed mod sentiments with Beach Boy harmonies...still deliver a jolt of maximum pleasure... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (07/08/1994)
5 Stars - Indispensable - ...In the final analysis, the music does its own fighting....No swanning about. No flouncing. 30 YEARS OF MAXIMUM R&B is the best box set ever...
Q (08/01/1994)
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