The Who - Direct Hits
Classic Records 200g Quiex SV-P mono
Mastered by Chris Bellman@ BG Mastering
Viny rip 24-bit/96kHz | FLAC (cue,m3u,Log) | Cover | 1968
~ 370 mb incl. recovery | RS & Enterupload | Genre: rock
Then again, it was probably a pretty strange experience listening to it back in November of 1968 -- the album was a blatant cash-in effort by the cash-strapped label, made all the more urgent by the fact that the group's last three singles, "I Can See for Miles," "Dogs," and "Magic Bus," had not sold nearly as well as expected in England. The first two were on this, the first-ever attempt to collect the Who's hits (augmented by some EP and LP tracks -- the Who not yet having had quite enough hits, even in England, to fill an LP) in one place, and Direct Hits would be notable on that basis alone. But the fact that it's such a damn weird-ass record, no matter when one hears it, makes the album especially worthwhile four decades on.
What kind of a compilation of the Who's hits opens with the John Entwistle-dominated "Bucket T," a cover of a Jan & Dean car song that's dominated not by such Who signature sounds as Pete Townshend's guitar or Roger Daltrey's vocals, but by Entwistle's horn? And then jumps to a pair of Townshend-authored plunges into sexuality as subject matter, "I'm a Boy" and "Pictures of Lily," the former about a boy feminized by his oppressive mother and the latter an ode to masturbation? And then switches gears to Entwistle's loopy ode to hypochondria "Doctor Doctor," driven as much by the composer's loping bass figure as Townshend's crunching guitar, while the singer rattles off a comical list of ailments he believes himself to be suffering from?
Only two of the first four songs have come down to us as defining the Who, but all were very much what this band was about in its first few years, pop/rock musical caricatures of how British teens defined the human condition during the mid-'60s. As a singles compilation, Direct Hits might be considered a joke if the individual songs weren't so good
Track listing:
Side A
Side B
Mastered by Chris Bellman@ BG Mastering
Viny rip 24-bit/96kHz | FLAC (cue,m3u,Log) | Cover | 1968
~ 370 mb incl. recovery | RS & Enterupload | Genre: rock
Personnel:
Roger Daltrey – lead vocals, backing vocals, percussion
Pete Townshend – guitar, lead vocals, keyboards, pennywhistle, banjo, backing vocals
John Entwistle – bass, lead vocals, horns, backing vocals
Keith Moon – drums, lead vocals, backing vocals, percussion
It is a genuinely strange experience listening to Direct Hits some four decades after it was rushed out by Track Records (the Who's U.K. label) to help fill what would become a 19-month gap between The Who Sell Out (November 1967) and Tommy (May 1969).Roger Daltrey – lead vocals, backing vocals, percussion
Pete Townshend – guitar, lead vocals, keyboards, pennywhistle, banjo, backing vocals
John Entwistle – bass, lead vocals, horns, backing vocals
Keith Moon – drums, lead vocals, backing vocals, percussion
Then again, it was probably a pretty strange experience listening to it back in November of 1968 -- the album was a blatant cash-in effort by the cash-strapped label, made all the more urgent by the fact that the group's last three singles, "I Can See for Miles," "Dogs," and "Magic Bus," had not sold nearly as well as expected in England. The first two were on this, the first-ever attempt to collect the Who's hits (augmented by some EP and LP tracks -- the Who not yet having had quite enough hits, even in England, to fill an LP) in one place, and Direct Hits would be notable on that basis alone. But the fact that it's such a damn weird-ass record, no matter when one hears it, makes the album especially worthwhile four decades on.
What kind of a compilation of the Who's hits opens with the John Entwistle-dominated "Bucket T," a cover of a Jan & Dean car song that's dominated not by such Who signature sounds as Pete Townshend's guitar or Roger Daltrey's vocals, but by Entwistle's horn? And then jumps to a pair of Townshend-authored plunges into sexuality as subject matter, "I'm a Boy" and "Pictures of Lily," the former about a boy feminized by his oppressive mother and the latter an ode to masturbation? And then switches gears to Entwistle's loopy ode to hypochondria "Doctor Doctor," driven as much by the composer's loping bass figure as Townshend's crunching guitar, while the singer rattles off a comical list of ailments he believes himself to be suffering from?
Only two of the first four songs have come down to us as defining the Who, but all were very much what this band was about in its first few years, pop/rock musical caricatures of how British teens defined the human condition during the mid-'60s. As a singles compilation, Direct Hits might be considered a joke if the individual songs weren't so good
Track listing:
Side A
- "Bucket T" (Altfield, Christian, Torrence) – 2:08
"I'm a Boy" – 2:36
"Pictures of Lily" (Townshend) – 2:43
"Doctor! Doctor!" – 2:53
"I Can See for Miles" – 3:55
"Substitute – 3:47
Side B
- "Happy Jack" (Townshend) – 2:11
"The Last Time" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) – 2:50
"In the City" - 2:19
"Call Me Lightning" (Townshend) – 2:19
"Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand" (Townshend) – 2:05
"Dogs" – 3:03
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