THE WHO - WHO BY NUMBERS - RARE PICTURE DISC
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Oct 12, 2008 Sold Date
Oct 5, 2008 Start Date
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THE WHO

'WHO BY NUMBERS'

RARE PICTURE DISC - PVE COVER - NEVER BEEN PLAYED.

  1. "Slip Kid" – 4:32
  2. "However Much I Booze" – 5:03
  3. "Squeeze Box" – 2:42
  4. "Dreaming From the Waist" – 4:09
  5. "Imagine a Man" – 4:04
  6. "Success Story" (Entwistle) – 3:24
  7. "They Are All in Love" – 3:03
  8. "Blue, Red and Grey" – 2:50
  9. "How Many Friends" – 4:07
  10. "In a Hand or a Face" – 3:25
  11. "Squeeze Box" – 3:13
  12. "Behind Blue Eyes (live)" – 4:39
  13. "Dreaming From the Waist" – 4:57

 

 

The Who By Numbers is the seventh album by the English rock band The Who, released in 1975. It was named the tenth best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll.

Without the massive structure and ambition of the band's better known works Tommy and Quadrophenia, Pete Townshend's songwriting stands on its own in the sparse and dark The Who by Numbers. Gone are the synthesizers and the massive layers of overdubs. In their places are descriptions of Townshend's alcoholism, lust, and self-loathing, as well as the dark side of creeping middle-age and the fear of irrelevance. On "They Are All In Love," Townshend laments: "Hey goodbye all you punks, stay young and stay high / Hand me my chequebook while I crawl off to die." These themes extend from the hopeless refrain of "However Much I Booze" (sung by Townshend, as Daltrey thought it too personal to sing), "There ain't no way out", to the disillusioned question, "How many friends have I really got?"

A few tracks stand in contrast, including the playfulness of the top ten hit "Squeeze Box" and "Blue, Red and Grey's" claim that "I like every minute of the day." But John Entwistle's contribution, "Success Story", returns to display nearly as despairing and cynical a view of stardom as the rest of the record. "In a Hand or a Face" revisits both lyrical and musical themes of Who songs dating back to the previous decade and offers an unexpectedly fiery ending to the album.

The cover was drawn by John Entwistle as he was drawing a cartoon history of The Who.

The Who By Numbers peaked at the number 7 position on the UK album chart and number 8 on the Billboard 200 album chart in the United States

 




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