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Music : Live at Leeds


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Binding: Audio CD
Brand: WHO
EAN: 0008811121525
Format: Live, Original recording remastered, Extra tracks
Label: Mca
Manufacturer: Mca
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mca
Release Date: February 28, 1995
Sales Rank: 2148
Studio: Mca


Disc 1:
  1. Heaven and Hell - The Who, Entwistle, John
  2. I Can't Explain
  3. Fortune Teller - The Who, Neville, Naomi
  4. Tattoo
  5. Young Man Blues - The Who, Allison, Mose
  6. Substitute
  7. Happy Jack
  8. I'm a Boy
  9. A Quick One, While He's Away
  10. Amazing Journey/Sparks
  11. Summertime Blues - The Who, Cochran, Eddie
  12. Shakin' All Over - The Who, Kidd, Johnny
  13. My Generation
  14. Magic Bus
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Editorial Review:

Album Description:
Japanese-only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) pressing of this classic rock album. SHM-CDs can be played on any audio player and delivers unbelievably high-quality sound. You won't believe it's the same CD! Universal. 2008.

Amazon.com essential recording:
Anyone who owned the vinyl copy of Live at Leeds will barely recognize its digitized namesake. While the 1970 record offered a mere six selections, the 1995 CD reissue is fleshed out with a full 14 tracks. Reveling in the augmented Leeds prompts one to wonder why in the name of 'Heaven and Hell' they didn't put out a double record in the first place. No matter. This Live at Leeds is actually superior to its revered predecessor. The Who are at their Maximum R&B peak here, bringing an almost proto-metal aggression to supercharged covers of 'Young Man Blues,' 'Summertime Blues,' and 'Shakin' All Over' (all from the original record) and treating fans to originals familiar ('I Can't Explain,' 'My Generation,' 'Magic Bus') and less known ('Heaven and Hell,' 'Tattoo,' 'A Quick One'). An improved-upon classic. --Steven Stolder

Amazon.com:
Long considered one of the greatest live albums ever recorded, the Who's Live at Leeds was originally edited and packaged to resemble the haphazard state of early-'70s bootlegs, then expanded and sonically upgraded in the mid-1990s. But this deluxe edition finally restores the blistering February 1970 Leeds University concert to its full running length by adding the band's earliest officially available live rendition of the then-fresh Tommy in its entirety. And while it isn't perfect (the Tommy tracks have been moved from their original slot in the show and resequenced to fit onto disc 2 here), this album now takes its place as the best available document of the Who in their truly ferocious prime, trumping the previously available Isle of Wight show (recorded some six months later) in both performance level and sound quality. It also begs a little revisionist pondering: Are these the true godfathers of punk? Pete Townshend's music and chord structures may have often been jazz-based, but they careen with an energy that seems at once feral and superhuman. Roger Daltrey's vocals snarl with palpable grit, while the rhythm section of John Entwistle and Keith Moon thunders menacingly along like an overheated locomotive. The Tommy heard here is still vital and alive, played by a band whose fervent, in-the-moment abandon is a wonder to behold. --Jerry McCulley



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Headphones
First time I heard this was over FM radio wearing headphones lying in bed, listening. They played the whole thing and they had short interval of somthing weird and then played the next cut, did this for the whole album, it was 1970 somthing.
IF you havent listened to this whole thing with real headphones without distraction, do it, trust me, do it, I would not lie.
Good lesson for guitar players also.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A MUST-HAVE
It's The Who. Live. At Leeds University. Duh. How come you haven't bought it already? Powerful live set from seminal rock four-piece, blah, blah, sizzling energy, innovative songwriting, blah blah....Keith Moon....buy it. Listen to it. Have mind blown.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Who Live At Leeds 1970
Amazing live album is all that i have too say for this. The drums are absoutley amazing Keith Moon is probaly one of the greatest rock drummers of all time his peformance is great here. Pete Townshends guitar is great and everybody in this is really doing great on there instruments.

This may just be one of there greatest peformances of all time it has the energy and they sound just really great here i think all the live versions sound great on here

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Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - awful
Really horrible sound quality, and the band must have been totally wasted...Apparently with so many for sale , others thought the same.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - undeniable power
I'm not a huge fan of The Who but this record is undeniable. The band is on fire and at a creative peak. I actually like the single disc version more than the double (I'm not a fan of the Tommy material, sorry). Everyone needs a copy of this.

If you like high energy R&R like this and MC5, Stooges, Ramones, etc check out Mighty High...In Drug City.




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