THE WHO — Who Are You

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Album · 1978

Filed under Hard Rock
By THE WHO

Tracklist

1. New Song (4:12
2. Had Enough (4:30)
3. 905 (4:02)
4. Sister Disco (4:21)
5. Music Must Change (4:37)
6. Trick Of The Light (4:06)
7. Guitar And Pen (5:58)
8. Love Is Coming Down (4:06)
9. Who Are You (6:21)

Total Time 42:13

Line-up/Musicians

- Roger Daltrey / lead vocals, percussion
- Pete Townshend / guitars, backing vocals, piano, synthesizer, lead vocals
- John Entwistle / bass guitar, backing vocals, synthesizer, brass, lead vocals
- Keith Moon / drums, percussion

- Rod Argent / synthesizer, keyboards (track 2, 7, 9)
- Andy Fairweather-Low / backing vocals (track 1, 7, 8, 9)
- Billy Nicholls / backing vocals (track 1, 2)
- Michael Nicholls / backing vocals (track 2)

About this release

Released by Polydor, MCA.

Reissued and remixed (by Jon Astley) in 1996 with the following bonus tracks:

10. No Road Romance (5:05)
11. Empty Glass (6:23)
12. Guitar And Pen (Olympic '78 Mix) (6:02)
13. Love Is Coming Down (Work-In-Progress Mix) (4:05)
14. Who Are You (Lost Verse Mix) (6:22)

Reissued in 2011 with the original mix with the following bonus tracks:

10. No Road Romance (5:05)
11. Empty Glass (6:23)
12. Guitar And Pen (Olympic '78 Mix) (6:02)
13. Love Is Coming Down (Work-In-Progress Mix) (4:05)
14. Who Are You (Lost Verse Mix) (6:22)

Thanks to Lynx33 for the addition

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Warthur
Supposedly, Who Are You was Pete Townshend's stab at fusing art rock and punk. It didn't really work; the opening track, New Song, is symptomatic of this, consisting of a proggy bit here, a punk-lite bit there, the two flavours never really merging to form a cohesive new sound. It might be a ballsy move to kick off an album with a song about rehashing "the same old song with two new lines", but it's also embarrassing if it turns out you're actually doing that - and not hitting the standards of the old song in question either.

The best track on the album is probably Who Are You, which is most famous these days for being the soundtrack for a cop show. It really does sound like cop show soundtrack material too. If you want hard-edged art rock with raw punkish energy lurking under the surface from The Who, you'll find it on Quadrophenia, not here.

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