Track Listing 1. Armenia City In The Sky 2. Heinz Baked Beans/More Music (Jingle) 3. Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand/Premier Drums/Radio London (ji 4. Odorono/Radio London (jingle) 5. Tattoo/Radio London (Church Of Your Choice Jingle) 6. Our Love Was 7. I Can See For Miles/Charles Atlas (Jingle) 8. I Can't Reach You 9. Medac 10. Relax 11. Silas Stingy 12. Sunrise 13. Rael 1 14. Rael 2 15. Glittering Girl/Coke 2 (Jingle) (previously unreleased) 16. Melancholia/Bag O' Nails (Jingle) 17. Someone's Coming/John Mason's Cars (Jingle) (rehearsal) 18. Jaguar/John Mason's Cars (Reprise) (J+D2046ingle) (unedited) 19. Early Morning Cold Taxi/Coke 1 (Jingle) 20. Hall Of The Mountain King/Radio One (Jingle) (previously unreleased/Boris mix) 21. Girl's Eyes/Odoron (Final Chorus) (edited from original) 22. Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand (alt. version) 23. Glow Girl/Track Records (jingle)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Universal Music | | Recording Mode: | Mixed |
Album Notes This 1995 reissue of THE WHO SELL OUT includes songs and jingles not available on the original version. The Who: Pete Townshend (vocals, guitar, piano); John Entwistle (vocals, bass); Roger Daltrey (vocals); Keith Moon (drums).Additional personnel: Al Kooper (organ).Producer: Kit Lambert.Reissue producer: Jon Astley.Recorded in 1967 & 1968. Originally released on Track (612002/613002). Released in the U.S. on Decca (4950/74950) in 1968. Includes liner notes by Dave Marsh.Only three albums into its recording career, the Who had already begun to distance itself from its proletarian R&B beginnings. Here, songwriter Pete Townshend follows up on the rock-opera idea he had introduced on A QUICK ONE with the extended, multi-part composition "Rael" and would later expand upon with TOMMY. The band had also begun exploring the form of the concept album. The songs are connected by bits of fake radio commercials and brass fanfares, and there's a little of everything thrown into the mix. All-out rockers like the vengeful "I Can See For Miles" vie for the listener's attention with the romantic declarations of "Our Love Was" and the soft, folky "Maryanne With The Shaky Hand" on this impressively eclectic album.
Editorial Reviews 4.5 stars out of 5 - ...SELL OUT is the most successful concept album ever...To hear these 13 tracks is to be transported to the wistful, alternatingly painful and joyous territory that was the Who's...adolescence. Rolling Stone (10/28/1999)
9 (out of 10) - ...Townshend finally free of shackles....a stream of brittle, spangly pop songs...which are simply otherworldly....Like all truly great albums, SELL OUT isn't overrated. It's simply that you might not be ready for it yet. NME (07/22/1995)
Bloody Essential - ...a masterpiece. A glorious celebration of pop as useless commodity and a commercially corrupted art form....it crosses art-school intelligence with pop flash with neither being cheapened or degraded, and is, as such, a stupendous achievement... Melody Maker (07/22/1995)
4.5 stars out of 5 - ...SELL OUT is the most successful concept album ever...To hear these 13 tracks is to be transported to the wistful, alternatingly painful and joyous territory that was the Who's...adolescence.Melody Maker (7/22/95, p.36) - Bloody Essential - ...a masterpiece. A glorious celebration of pop as useless commodity and a commercially corrupted art form....it crosses art-school intelligence with pop flash with neither being cheapened or degraded, and is, as such, a stupendous achievement...NME (7/22/95, p.49) - 9 (out of 10) - ...Townshend finally free of shackles....a stream of brittle, spangly pop songs...which are simply otherworldly....Like all truly great albums, SELL OUT isn't overrated. It's simply that you might not be ready for it yet. Rolling Stone (10/28/1999)
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