Thirty Years of Maximum R&B [Box] by Who The CD, Jul-1994

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:	Jon Astley, John Astley, Chris Charlesworth
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 GIFT SET includes the 30 YEARS OF MAXIMUM R&B box set, the 30 YEARS OF MAXIMUM R&B LIVE video, and a tee-shirt. 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
6 - Good - ...This then should stand as The Who's flawed memorial: enthralling, madly ambitious, hampered by limping last chapters... NME Ranked #4 in NME's list of the 10 best compilation albums of 1994. NME 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 (19940801) ...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 (19940708) 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... In Very Good Condition 4 CD Box Set Will Ship Worldwide Rolling Stone (19940908)

Thirty Years of Maximum R&B [Box] by Who The CD, Jul-1994

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