The Who - Who's Next (w/ guest Mike Mehalick)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2016

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Editor in Chief for Speak Into My Good Eye (speakimge.com) Mike Mehalick joins Bill and Brian for another installment of Massive Album November as we discuss the Who's Who's Next (1971, Decca). Emerging from the 60s mod scene into their own sound with 1969's Tommy, the Who, especially primary songwriter Pete Townshend, were struggling with the next step in their career. Hoping to continue pushing boundaries, the band began work on the multimedia project Lifehouse but abandoned its grandiose ideas, leaving engineer Glyn Johns with the task of assembling the album that became Who's Next. Mike talks about his father bringing him to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame where the Tommy exhibit captured his imagination. Bill, Brian, and Mike then discuss commercialism, the Who vs. Led Zeppelin, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltry's complementary voices, synthesizers, Borat impersonations, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to the great albums podcast.
0:41.2	I'm Bell.
0:42.0	And I'm Brian.
0:42.9	What we just listened to right there, Brian?
0:44.7	Oh, my God.
0:45.4	We were listening to the best song of all time.
0:49.0	That was Won't Get Fooled again by the Who off their August 14th, 1971, fifth studio album.
0:57.8	Who's next?
0:59.2	Because what we do here every week on the podcast is take a different album of music and talk about
1:04.0	what makes it great. We try and have the kind of conversation around the album that fans have.
1:09.0	Sounds good to me, man. Like, I'm down with that.
1:12.1	We're going to talk about our own relationship with the music and what makes it cool.
1:17.5	And we're going to give a little bit of a band bio, and then we're going to get into a
1:20.7	track-by-track review.
1:22.3	Sounds good.
1:23.3	But we're not going to do it alone, Brian.
1:25.2	You know, I was wondering what this large box marked fragile was doing in the middle of the
1:32.1	floor here.
1:32.8	Oh, fragile.
1:33.8	I thought it was fragili.
1:35.0	Oh, it must be Italian.
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