So we all agree that this was their masterpiece, right?

So we all agree that this was their masterpiece, right?

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has literally nothing on quad

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Tommy is peak Who

Apparently this is their best.
I seriously haven't listened to a full who album and I literally saw them like 10 years ago.

as much as they are dad rock, it's either Who's Next or Quadrophenia. I wish it wasn't but it is. The songs are too good

There is not one single bad or pointless or unnecessary song on The Who Sell Out. The same cannot be said for any of the albums you mentioned.
My vote for their second best album.

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>COKE AFTER COKE AFTER COKE AFTER COCA COLA
fuck these hacks

I like Sell Out and the whole concept behind it, but I always though A Quick One/Happy Jack was slightly better.

>Any love for The Who By Numbers, anybody?

Who by numbers is a masterpiece, and the last god tier who album

>and the last god tier who album
The last Mod one, too.

Yes, indeed.

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As already posted, Quadrophenia is their best, and my favorite. Pete perfected the rock opera format with it. However Sell Out is also great, and probably my second favorite. It really captures the pirate radio broadcast feel they were going for and it’s always fun to hear the foundation of Tommy in Rael. Although having listened to the extended edition I wish some of the songs on that, Melanchlia in particular, had made the cut for Sell Out.

Melancholia*

>one of the biggest bands in the world at the time
>this is best slag they could come up with for the album art
yike

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That was a 10/10 in late 60s England.

The Who were not one of the biggest bands in the world at the time. They were moderately popular in England but still hadn’t had a huge hit in the US. They also were hemorrhaging money because their live shows - which consisted of most of their work - ended in the destruction or damaging of instruments and equipment. The Who did not become solvent until the success of Tommy two years later.

Ah, that explains the 5/10 slag then.

Kinda crazy how many british groups from the 60s just fell apart and had no money (Yardbirds, Small Faces, etc). Kinda shows how little the music industry paid back then

Yeah. Unless you were the Beatles or the Stones you probably didn’t make a shit load of money. This is probably more to do with inflation but on one of the Live at Leeds versions you can hear Pete talk about getting “thousands of pounds per night” from their Tommy concerts. It sounds like such a small amount compared to what big artists get from concerts today but that was huge for them at the time and was finally allowing them to really become the rich rock stars that we think of them as being.

Even the Stones did not make a ton of money, though they changed the way bands toured with their American tours in 69 and 72. Then they started making money.

True. I guess it was just the Beatles then, and they didn’t even tour after like ‘66.

>even the stones didn't make a ton of money

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Oh, I'll break them down, no mercy shown,
Heaven knows, it's got to be this time,
Watching her, these things she said,
The times she cried,
Too frail to wake this time.

Oh I'll break them down, no mercy shown
Heaven knows, it's got to be this time,
Avenues all lined with trees,
Picture me and then you start watching,
Watching forever, forever,
Watching love grow, forever,
Letting me know, forever.

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They made more than other bands, but they were nearly bankrupt by 69. They barely financed their 69 tour.