Updated and redesigned editions of the classic guides to the music of the world s best known acts. Written by experts, each book examines every song in a given artist s recorded repertoire, making it an invaluable guide for collectors and fans alike.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Pretty Skimpy,
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This review is from: The Who: The Complete Guide to Their Music (Complete Guide to the Music of...) (Paperback)
Part of a series, this book seeks to say something about every song released by The Who in as concise a manner as possible, so as to keep the book's length commensurate with the format of the series, I suppose. Charlesworth is quite good at sifting through the complexities of the Who's CD catalogue, which keeps getting upgraded and altered, with overlapping bonus tracks appearing here and there (and sometimes in different mixes), but his judgments about the music itself are both mercurial and banal. BOringly, he affirms all the tracks everyone already affirms, then fails to give the wealth of non-album material that has appeared on CD over the last decade even a cursory listen. "Glittering Girl," "Melancholia," "Water," "I Don't Even Know Myself," and so on are cursorily addressed with a minor shrug of indifference. "Cut My Hair" is astoundingly judged "one of the less memorable songs" on Quadrophenia. And absolutely everything after The Who By Numbers gets coolly dismissed. Someone needs to do for The Who's catalogue what Ian McDonald did for The Beatles' in _Revolution in the Head_.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Depends on WHO you are....,
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This review is from: The Who: The Complete Guide to Their Music (Complete Guide to the Music of...) (Paperback)
Great book for the uninitiated who are listening to the Who album by album for the first time. Skip this one if you're already in the know.
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Inferior to what it once was!,
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In 1981. a great little book was published by Omnibus Press, that book was entitled: "The Who - The Illustrated Discography." The author was Ed Hanel, and his 176 page book was a great read about all Who recorded products {albums, singles, bootlegs, solo efforts, soundtracks, imports, cover versions and just about everything else 'Who' related.} The book, was a joy to read, and contained graphics {promo meterial, and printed advertisements, you could not find anywhere else.}
This 2004, edition of that book, pales in comparision to the earlier and much more entertaining and all-round superior guide through the music of The Who. This book is slightly reduced in physical size, and it is greatly reduced in content. Now, at a skimpy 144 pages, and with so many chapters missing from the 1981 edition, all the greatness from that superior book has been removed from the pages of this one. The fantasic rare images of the band, that were all over the original edition are not present in this. Chapters from the first book concerning live tapes,bootlegs and all the great foreign Lp's and singles, WILL NOT be found in this current in-complete guide to the music of The Who. Chris Charlesworth, now has top-billing as the author over Ed Hanel, and there is little text in this that is any different from Ed's version. This book fills in some details between 1982 and 2004, but without adding anything to what was a much more informative and entertaining guide. This book is about a quarter of the book that it should be....The Who deserve a better guide to their music than this! Two & 1/2 Stars
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IN THE CLOSING WEEKS OF 1964 THINGS LOOKED BLEAK FOR THE WHO. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bonus tracks, magic bus, studio version, album version, acoustic version, track listing, minor hit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Get Fooled, Blue Eyes, Can't Explain, Kids Are, Who's Next, Anyway Anyhow Anywhere, Reign O'er, Better You Bet, Can See For Miles, Kit Lambert, Amazing Journey, Deluxe Edition, Keith Moon, Disc Two, Quick One, Another Tricky Day, New York, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, Years Of Maximum, Shel Talmy, The Spider, Nicky Hopkins, Eel Pie, Glyn Johns New!
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IN THE CLOSING WEEKS OF 1964 THINGS LOOKED BLEAK FOR THE WHO. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bonus tracks, magic bus, studio version, album version, acoustic version, track listing, minor hit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Get Fooled, Blue Eyes, Can't Explain, Kids Are, Who's Next, Anyway Anyhow Anywhere, Reign O'er, Better You Bet, Can See For Miles, Kit Lambert, Amazing Journey, Deluxe Edition, Keith Moon, Disc Two, Quick One, Another Tricky Day, New York, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, Years Of Maximum, Shel Talmy, The Spider, Nicky Hopkins, Eel Pie, Glyn Johns New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Dear Boy by Tony Fletcher in Front Matter, and page 40
- Pete Townshend: A Career Biography by Chris Charlesworth in Front Matter, and page 3
- Two Rooms by E. John on page 41, and page 43
- Love Is by Carolyn Brown on page 11
- Three Steps to Heaven: The Eddie Cochran Story by Bobby Cochran on page 25
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- The Who Concert File (Talking) (Talking S.) by Joe McMichael in Front Matter
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