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  1. it wasn't really shelved....it dug itself into Pete's brain during the 70s and made a huge hole......then filled 20 years later. So many songs connect to the story, its ridiculous. Thats why Pete after the Who ended said he hated it.....because of the realization of everything coming back to that story, not to mention some of the lies on liner notes....
  2. Originally posted by stj0691:[..]

    A rush of Blood better than Viva? Dude...I know Clocks and In My Place and God Put a Smile are great songs, but Viva is better IMO. Plus the song itself was their first #1, and the album is the largest selling digital download ever.


    to each their own (but not when you're arguing with me )
  5. Using sales figures as a reason to love a particular record seems a little silly. By that rationale, Elton John's nauseating "Candle In The Wind" for Princess Diana is far and away the greatest song ever recorded. Which it ain't. Quite the opposite...
  6. Originally posted by thejonner:Using sales figures as a reason to love a particular record seems a little silly. By that rationale, Elton John's nauseating "Candle In The Wind" for Princess Diana is far and away the greatest song ever recorded. Which it ain't. Quite the opposite...


    But you don't buy something if you don't like it, unless you just wanna own it. But I agree with you though.
  7. I'm gonna say this and probably get shot.......Sgt Peppers wasn't the best of the 60s. It could be, but IMO I'm not sure. The Beatles never actually toured around any of the material......any thoughts?
  8. Originally posted by stj0691:I'm gonna say this and probably get shot.......Sgt Peppers wasn't the best of the 60s. It could be, but IMO I'm not sure. The Beatles never actually toured around any of the material......any thoughts?


    As an immense Beatles fan I don't believe that Sgt. Pepper's is their best album, and that's okay. Their albums strike me as the work of an auteur with various phases and changes.

    Besides, at the creative speed they were going, especially starting around Help! and Rubber Soul, they could have never pulled off playing songs from Revolver or Sgt. Pepper's in a million years. Live technology wasn't up to snuff at that point. In fact, during their last tours in '66, they never performed any songs from the Revolver era, which was all of '66 (except Paperback Writer which they could perform).

    Also, with how shoddily the audiences treated them combined with their own growing contempt for live performance due to poor musicianship and empty, loud screaming, they couldn't take it anymore.

    So they did what no band that big should do, they ditched playing live and became a studio band. We were all the better for it, though.
  9. Originally posted by ReclinerMan:[..]

    As an immense Beatles fan I don't believe that Sgt. Pepper's is their best album, and that's okay. Their albums strike me as the work of an auteur with various phases and changes.

    Besides, at the creative speed they were going, especially starting around Help! and Rubber Soul, they could have never pulled off playing songs from Revolver or Sgt. Pepper's in a million years. Live technology wasn't up to snuff at that point. In fact, during their last tours in '66, they never performed any songs from the Revolver era, which was all of '66 (except Paperback Writer which they could perform).

    Also, with how shoddily the audiences treated them combined with their own growing contempt for live performance due to poor musicianship and empty, loud screaming, they couldn't take it anymore.

    So they did what no band that big should do, they ditched playing live and became a studio band. We were all the better for it, though.


    true... I think The Who Sell Out might be record of the 60s.


  10. I see a certain similarity between The Who and U2. U2 deals with the spiritual side of humanity, whereas The Who explore humanity itself, but both deal with their exploration of humanity with arms wide open.
  11. Originally posted by ReclinerMan:[..]

    I see a certain similarity between The Who and U2. U2 deals with the spiritual side of humanity, whereas The Who explore humanity itself, but both deal with their exploration of humanity with arms wide open.


    yup...except with the Who it's usually with a shot or a bottle of Sam Adams lol
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