My Generation - 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Set
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The Who
My Generation - 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Set
[ Universal Music / 5 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 2 December 2016
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The front cover of The Who's debut album, My Generation, contains an image that defines the era almost as much as the music inside. Draped around John Entwistle's shoulders is a jacket fashioned out of a Union Flag. Nowadays, you can find this emblem on coffee mugs, bed pillows, T-shirts and every other item of clothing imaginable. In December 1965, though, when My Generation first appeared, such was the Union Jack's reputation, several Savile Row tailors refused The Who's request to turn it into a jacket. "They thought they'd go to jail," claimed Roger Daltrey.
The Who's surly demeanour and brazen appropriation of the symbol of state is the best advert possible for My Generation. It's an album that sounds like it looks: terse, confrontational and full of youthful angst and energy. Unsurprisingly, making the album was a process riven with conflict.
My Generation was the product of a battle of wills: between bold new ideas and pop music tradition. By the time it arrived, The Who's Union Jack was as metaphorically tattered and bloodied as if it been through two world wars.
The album was produced by Shel Talmy and first issued in the UK by Brunswick Records in December 1965, and in the US, under the title 'The Who Sings My Generation', in April 1966. The UK release featured an iconic front sleeve, taken at Surrey Docks in south east London by Decca Records' photographer David Wedgbury, featuring an aerial view of the four members of The Who gazing skywards, a pose that other bands copied in almost perfect pastiches years later. In the US, American Decca attempted to jump on the British Invasion bandwagon by using a different yet similarly iconic Wedgbury shot featuring The Who with London's most famous clock tower, Big Ben, in the background.
•5 CDs housed in casebound book within a 12"x12" rigid slipcase
•Stunning 80-page colour book with many rare and unseen period photos and memorabilia
•Candid and insightful new notes from Pete Townshend illustrating the genesis of the demos and creative process
•New essay by acclaimed music writer Mark Blake with additional track annotation by Who biographer Andy Neill
•Six replica inserts - (Flyer for The Who's Tuesday night residency at the Marquee Club 1965 / Membership card to the Scene Club in Ham Yard / Calling card for The Who's management New Action Ltd. with a photo of the group / Admission card to recording of Ready Steady Go! at Redifusion TV Studios / 20" x 30" poster from 1966 gig / 20" x 30" poster of a gig at the Goldhawk Social Club)
Limited Edition.
Tracks:
1. Out In The Street (Mono Version)
2. I Don't Mind (Mono Version)
3. The Good's Gone (Mono Version)
4. La-La-La-Lies (Mono Version)
5. Much Too Much (Mono Version)
6. My Generation (Original Mono Version)
7. The Kids Are Alright (Original Full Mono Version)
8. Please Please Please (Mono Version)
9. It's Not True (Mono Version)
10. I'm A Man
11. A Legal Matter (Mono Version)
12. The Ox (Mono Version)
13. Out In The Street (2014 Stereo Mix)
14. I Don't Mind (2014 Stereo Mix)
15. The Good's Gone (2014 Stereo Mix)
16. La-La-La Lies (2014 Stereo Mix)
17. Much Too Much (2014 Stereo Mix)
18. My Generation (2014 Stereo Mix)
19. The Kids Are Alright (2014 Stereo Mix)
20. Please, Please, Please (2014 Stereo Mix)
21. It's Not True (2014 Stereo Mix)
22. I'm A Man (2014 Stereo Mix)
23. A Legal Matter (2014 Stereo Mix)
24. The Ox (2014 Stereo Mix)
25. I Can't Explain (Mono Version)
26. Bald Headed Woman (Mono Version)
27. Daddy Rolling Stone (Mono Version)
28. Leaving Here (Mono Version)
29. Lubie (Come Back Home) (Mono Version)
30. Shout And Shimmy (Mono Version)
31. (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave (Mono Version)
32. Motoring (Mono Version)
33. Anytime You Want Me (Mono Version)
34. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (Mono Version)
35. Instant Party Mixture (Mono Version)
36. Circles (Mono Version)
37. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (French EP Version)
38. Out In The Street (Alternative Guitar Break Version / 2000 Remix)
39. Out In The Street (Alternative Early Vocal Version / 2000 Remix)
40. I Don't Mind (Full Length Version / 2000 Remix)
41. The Good's Gone (Full Length Version / 2000 Remix)
42. My Generation (Alternative Version / 2000 Remix)
43. I'm A Man (Version Two / Early Vocal Version/ 2000 Remix)
44. Daddy Rolling Stone (Alternative Take / 2000 Remix)
45. Lubie (Come Back Home) (Alternative Mix / 2000 Remix)
46. Shout And Shimmy (Alternative Mix / 2000 Remix)
47. Circles (Alternative Mix / 2000 Remix)
48. Out In The Street (Alternate Take 1)
49. I Don't Mind (Full Length Version)
50. The Good's Gone (Full Length Version)
51. My Generation (Instrumental Version)
52. The Kids Are Alright (Alternate Take 1)
53. I Can't Explain
54. Bald Headed Woman
55. Daddy Rolling Stone
56. Daddy Rolling Stone (Alternate Version)
57. Leaving Here
58. Lubie (Come Back Home)
59. Shout And Shimmy
60. (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave
61. Motoring
62. Anytime You Want Me
63. Instant Party Mixture
64. Anyway Anyhow Anywhere
65. Circles (New Mix)
66. Daddy Rolling Stone (Alternate Take B. / New Mix)
67. Out In The Street (Alternate Take 2 / New Mix)
68. I'm A Man (Alternate Version / New Mix)
69. My Generation (Version 3 Demo / 2016 Mix)
70. My Generation (Version 2 Demo / Fragment / 2016 Mix)
71. The Girls I Could've Had (Demo / 2016 Mix)
72. It's Not True (Demo / 2016 Mix)
73. As Children We Grew (Demo / 2016 Mix)
74. A Legal Matter (Demo / 2016 Mix)
75. Sunrise (Version 1 Demo / 2016 Mix)
76. Much Too Much (Demo / 2016 Mix)
77. My Own Love (Demo / 2016 Mix)
78. La-La-La- Lies (Demo / 2016 Mix)
79. The Good's Gone (Demo / 2016 Mix)
