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  purchase of the Who- Then and Now album
Review created: 05/06/08
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i bought this item following a recent TV documentary of the who`s rise to fame. I
realised that my CD collection did not include anything by the Who, a situation I had to put right, and i was not disapointed it`s a great album from a group who deserve a place in everybodies collection.


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  Wow.......
Review created: 14/05/08
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This Album has bags of energy from start to finish with some fantastic tracks as we wont get fooled again, cant explain and my generation.

I didnt realize how good the who was until this album.

If you like good old fashioned rock music you cannot go wrong.


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  The Who - Then & Now 2004
Review created: 11/03/08
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Inside outside leave me alone - inside outside nowhere is home - inside outside where have I been? - out of my brain on the five fifteen! (from 5:15).
What a brilliant compilation album this is! but, like a lot of compilations/best ofs and greatest hits albums, the track listing is not to my 100% liking. I suppose you cannot please everyone.
Where is JOIN TOGETHER. This track should have been included along with BABA O'RILEY (which was included on the 2007 version).
What is included are legendary tracks such as SUBSTITUTE, PINBALL WIZARD, 5:15 and the full length WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN.
The two new recordings at the end, REAL GOOD LOOKING BOY and OLD RED WINE are brilliant and would grace any Who compilation album. Pity these two tracks were not recorded twenty years earlier.
On the 2007 version, as I stated, BABA O'RILEY was included in place of SUMMERTIME BLUES, which was an improvement (and should have been on the 2004 version in the first place), but sadly, OLD RED WINE was replaced by the inferior track IT'S NOT ENOUGH.
If they ever release another updated version of this album, I hope they include JOIN TOGETHER, BABA O'RILEY and re-include OLD RED WINE. I would also like the full-length version of WHO ARE YOU, instead of the single version. This would mean omitting I'M A BOY, SEE ME, FEEL ME and LOVE REIGN O'ER ME, but you cannot include them all on an 80 minute CD.
This to me would be the perfect THEN & NOW album, but it's one of The Who's greatest compilations anyway and well worth the purchase. I give it full marks!


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  ded good!
Review created: 10/12/06
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

love it all its ace!ded ded ded ded good.the who are fab!and it came quick woooop!if u need it fast then get this!


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  The Who - Then and now
Review created: 06/10/06
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I havn't listened to the who properly since being at school (a long time ago). It was one of those nostalgia cd's for me. It certainly fit the bill. It has great sounds from when they started until the 80's. Classic songs that I cant stop listening to. However I find myself with a problem! The Who are now in my head and I need more of their albums to cure my fix!!


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  The Who, past and present
Review created: 07/05/06(updated 07/05/06)
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2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This has to be my favourite Who album ever, probably my favourite album ever, full stop. It contains a very good selection from their songs, right through from I Can't Explain, the first Townshend composition to hit the world, right through Tommy and Quadrophenia, their two Rock Operas, to Old Red Wine and Real Good Looking Boy, two brand new releases on this album.

As well as a good selection of old and new, it also contains a good selection of the sublime and the rediculous, with I'm a Boy and Happy Jack sharing the CD with Love Reign Over Me, Who Are You? and My Generation.

As well as peices by Townshend, there are some wonderful covers, Summertime Blues and Real Good Looking Boy (as far as I am aware). The Who started off as a cover band and they have always done a very good job of it.

One thing that is missing though is anything by John Entwistle. It is a compilation of Who songs entirely devoid of My Wife, Boris the Spider, Cousin Kevin or any of his other gems. How you can have a compilation which is supposed to encapsulate the band without any of his works is a mystery to me.

If you're a newcomer to The Who, or wanting to explore them for the first time, I would say this is the best album to choose. It has something for everyone, and, even if you've heard one song and hated it, you're still likely to find something you like in their repertoire, and it's probably on here. For the long time Who fan though, it comes as a bit of an annoyance, they're not new recordings of classic songs, they're the old recordings but with two new songs. But Old Red Wine and Real Good Looking Boy are undoubtedly worth buying the other tracks all over again, they are pure magic.

I love this album, if you've never heard of The Who and are looking for something new to listen to (where have you been) and also, it's a great choice. If you love The Who as much as I do, you will love Real Good Looking Boy and Old Red Wine, and not having to change the CD to play the old favourites together will probably come as a slight relief too.


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