WHO MY GENERATION LP BRUNSWICK MONO LAT 8616 1965 MOD

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THE WHO

MY GENERATION 1st PRESS LP

1965 BRUNSWICK LAT.8616 MONO

SLEEVE....the front laminated robert stace sleeve is in excellent + condition

VINYL.....condition is excellent +++ /as near mint mint with black mirror like surfaces

LABELS.....both labels are in excellent++ condition

MATRIX NUMBERS..... MG-10256-1B  MG-10257-1B

My Generation is the debut album by the English rock band The Who, released in the UK in December 1965. It was released in the US in April 1966 as The Who Sings My Generation with a different cover and a slightly different track listing.

The album was made immediately after The Who got their first singles on the charts and according to the booklet in the Deluxe Edition, it was later dismissed by the band as something of a rush job that did not accurately represent their stage performance of the time. On the other hand, critics often rated it as one of the best rock albums of all time in the 1970s and 1980s when such list-making was common. In 2003, the album was ranked number 236 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2004, the song My Generation was #11 in Rolling Stones Magazine's List of the 500 greatest songs of all time. In 2006, it was ranked #49 in NME's list of the 100 Greatest British Albums.

 History

The album was made during The Who's early "Maximum R&B" period and features several covers of popular R&B tunes, in addition to the R&B leanings of the tracks written by the band's guitarist Pete Townshend.

According to the booklet in the Deluxe Edition, "I'm a Man" was eliminated from the U.S. release due to its sexual content. The U.S. release also excised a brief solo laden with manic drum rolls and guitar feedback before the final verse of "The Kids Are Alright", hiding some of the group's sonic pop-art leanings.

Many of the songs on the album saw release as singles. Aside from "My Generation", which preceded the album's release and reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart, "A Legal Matter", "La-La-La Lies", and "The Kids Are Alright" were also released as domestic singles, though none were as commercially successful as "My Generation". "The Kids Are Alright" was a top 10 single in Sweden, peaking at #8.

"My Generation" and "The Kids Are Alright" in particular remain two of the group's most-covered songs; while "My Generation" is a raw, aggressive number that presaged the heavy metal and punk rock movements. "The Kids Are Alright" is a more sophisticated pop number, with chiming guitars, three-part harmonies, and a lilting vocal melody, though still retaining the driving rhythm of other Who songs of the period. Along with other early Who numbers like "I Can't Explain" and "So Sad About Us", it is considered an important forerunner of the "power pop" movement.[2] "Circles" was notably covered by contemporaries of the group, British freakbeat outfit Les Fleur de Lys. The cover version has found some notice after its inclusion on Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond, 1964-1969.

The U.S. release also substituted a portrait of the band with Big Ben in the background for the original UK cover depicting the band standing beside some oil drums and looking upward to the camera, with splashes of color added by the red and blue stencilled letters of the title and a jacket patterned after the Union Flag thrown over John Entwistle's shoulders.

The Deluxe edition remaster, while sounding clearer in stereo, omits many overdubs that are prominent in the original mono mixes. Notably, the lead guitar parts in "A Legal Matter" and "My Generation" (though both songs in their mono mixes close disc 2) and the double tracked vocals in "The Good's Gone", "Much Too Much", "La-La-La Lies" and "The Kids Are Alright".

 Track listing

All songs composed by Pete Townshend except where noted.

My Generation: UK release

1. "Out in the Street" - 2:31
2. "I Don't Mind" - 2:36 (James Brown)
3. "The Good's Gone" - 4:02
4. "La-La-La-Lies" - 2:17
5. "Much Too Much" - 2:47
6. "My Generation" - 3:18

1. "The Kids Are Alright" - 3:04
2. "Please, Please, Please" - 2:45 (Brown/John Terry)
3. "It's Not True" - 2:31
4. "I'm a Man" (McDaniel)
5. "A Legal Matter" - 2:48
6. "The Ox" - 3:50 (Townshend/Moon/Entwistle/Hopkins)

 The Who Sings My Generation: U.S. release

1. "Out in the Street" – 2:31
2. "I Don't Mind" (Brown) – 2:36
3. "The Good's Gone" – 4:02
4. "La-La-La-Lies" – 2:17
5. "Much Too Much" – 2:47
6. "My Generation" – 3:18
7. "The Kids Are Alright" – 2:46
8. "Please, Please, Please" (Brown/Terry) – 2:45
9. "It's Not True" – 2:31
10. "The Ox" (Townshend/Moon/Entwistle/Hopkins) – 3:50
11. "A Legal Matter" – 2:48
12. "Circles" – 3:12 (does not appear on original U.S. release)

My Generation (Deluxe Edition)

1. "Out in the Street"
2. "I Don't Mind"
3. "The Good's Gone" [lacks double-tracked vocals]
4. "La-La-La Lies" [lacks double-tracked vocals]
5. "Much Too Much" [lacks double-tracked vocals]
6. "My Generation" [lacks lead guitar, but is available on disc 2 in its original mono format]
7. "The Kids Are Alright" [lacks double-tracked vocals]
8. "Please, Please, Please"
9. "It's Not True"
10. "I'm a Man"
11. "A Legal Matter" [lacks lead guitar, but is available on disc 2 in its original mono format]
12. "The Ox"
13. "Circles (Instant Party)" [lacks Entwistle's French horn and double tracked vocals]
14. "I Can't Explain" (bonus track) [lacks tambourine]
15. "Bald Headed Woman" (bonus track)
16. "Daddy Rolling Stone" (bonus track) [alternate version to that found on Thirty Years of Maximum R&B]

The second disc contains additional bonus tracks.

1. "Leaving Here"
2. "Lubie (Come Back Home)"
3. "Shout and Shimmy"
4. "(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave"
5. "Motoring"
6. "Anytime You Want Me"
7. "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" (alternate take)
8. "Instant Party Mixture"
9. "I Don't Mind" (full length version)
10. "The Good's Gone" (full length version)
11. "My Generation" (instrumental version)
12. "Anytime You Want Me" (a cappella version)
13. "A Legal Matter" (monaural version with guitar overdub)
14. "My Generation" (monaural version with guitar overdub)

 Personnel

• John Entwistle – bass guitar, Vocals
• Roger Daltrey – lead vocals, harmonica
• Keith Moon – drums, percussion, background vocals on "Instant Party Mixture"
• Pete Townshend – 6 and 12 string acoustic and electric guitars, vocals, lead vocals on "A Legal Matter"
• Nicky Hopkins – piano (except on "I Can't Explain")
• The Ivy League - background vocals on "I Can't Explain" and "Bald Headed Woman"
• Perry Ford – piano on "I Can't Explain"
• Jimmy Page – guitar on "Bald Headed Woman"

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