The Who has launched boxed units commemorating most of the albums from the band’s storied discography, however by no means the coveted one that may have fun the discharge that some followers take into account the crown jewel of the catalog, “Who’s Next.” That adjustments Sept. 15 with “Who’s Next/Life House Super Deluxe Edition,” a 10-CD/1-Blu-Ray set that may embody 155 tracks, 89 of them beforehand unreleased, plus spatial audio and encompass mixes.
The expansive set will hark again to the legendary origins of “Who’s Next,” the band’s follow-up to “Tommy,” as what was initially designed by Pete Townshend as an idea album in its personal proper, “Life House,” earlier than it shifted gears to change into a extra conventional, non-narrative rock album.
Two of the discs are titled “Pete Townshend’s Life House Demos 1970-1971.” Other CDs within the set embody a disc of outtakes from the Record Plant classes in 1971, two discs of alternate mixes, and full dwell concert events from the period that befell at London’s Young Vic and San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium.
The cherry on high for followers of the mixes or remixes that Steven Wilson has achieved for traditional rock bands like Yes, Jethro Tull and Roxy Music is a Blu-Ray that incorporates new Atmos and 5.1 mixes that Wilson has achieved for “Who’s Next” in 24-bit format. With the pattern more and more being to go away spatial and encompass mixes off boxed units and solely make them accessible in streaming format, audiophile followers of bodily media will welcome this exception to the latest rule.
All these discs will come packaged with a 100-page hardback guide containing an introduction by Townshend and essays by Who specialists Andy Neil and Matt Kent. A second hardback guide, the 170-page “Life House – The Graphic Novel,” is a newly commissioned piece that tells the story behind the challenge in comedian kind. Other bodily extras embody two duplicate gig posters, two duplicate live performance packages, a button set and a coloration photograph with duplicate autographs.
The value for the entire monolith, because it had been, is $299.98 on the band’s web site.
For these not prepared or capable of spring for fairly that substantial a brick, different CD and vinyl editions that provide highlights or breakouts from the set may even be accessible.
A two-CD version will embody the newly remastered “Who’s Next” album adopted by a disc of highlights culled from the boxed set’s bonus materials.
Two multi-LP vinyl packages will come out concurrent with the opposite releases. A four-LP set will characteristic the remastered unique album packaged along with the San Francisco Civic present unfold throughout three discs. A 3-LP set, in the meantime, could have the remastered album paired with two discs of Townshend’s “Life House” demos, or “acetates,” as they’re labeled for this bundle.
And for anybody who simply needs the remastered “Who’s Next” as a single LP, that’s being promised in 5 totally different editions: 180-gram black vinyl, coke-bottle-colored vinyl for indie shops, sea blue vinyl as a unique unnamed retail-exclusive variant, an image disc (direct-to-consumer solely), and a half-speed grasp version.
A press launch recaps Townshend’s unique idea for “Life House” as “a unprecedented imaginative and prescient of a world beset by climatic disaster and air pollution, resulting in a curbing of non-public freedom that will likely be all too acquainted to the pandemic era. Decades forward of his time, he particulars how the inhabitants is then seduced and sedated by entry to an leisure ‘Grid,’ piped into each residence by way of using digital actuality expertise fits.”
Townshend describes “Life House” in his introduction within the included guide as “a portentous polemic in regards to the coming of a nation overwhelmed down by local weather points and air pollution” which permits “an opportunist and autocratic authorities (to) implement a nationwide lock-down during which each individual is connected to an leisure grid.” Townshend additional writes within the essay that “some great music got here from the challenge, and the thought has at all times held me in thrall, partly as a result of so most of the strands of the fiction appear to be coming true.”
The monitor lists for the totally different editions:
WHO’S NEXT / LIFE HOUSE SDE – 10-CD/BLU RAY
Disc One: Who’s Next (Remastered)
Disc Two: Pete Townshend’s Life House Demos 1970 – 1971 – Part 1
Disc Three: Pete Townshend’s Life House Demos 1970 – 1971 – Part 2
Disc Four: Record Plant, New York Sessions, March 1971
Disc Five: OIympic Sound Studios, London Sessions 1970 – 1972
Disc Six: Singles & Sessions 1970 – 1972
Disc Seven: Live on the Young Vic, London 1971 – Part 1
Disc Eight: Live on the Young Vic, London 1971 – Part 2
Disc Nine: Live on the Civic Auditorium, San Francisco 1971 – Part 1
Disc Ten: Live on the Civic Auditorium, San Francisco 1971 – Part 2
BLU RAY: Who’s Next & 14 Bonus Tracks: Steven Wilson Mixes Atmos / 5.1 Mix / Stereo
CD ONE: WHO’S NEXT (Remastered)
Baba O’Riley
Bargain
Love Ain’t For Keeping
My Wife
The Song Is Over
Getting In Tune
Going Mobile
Behind Blue Eyes
Won’t Get Fooled Again
CD TWO: PETE TOWNSHEND’S LIFE HOUSE DEMOS 1970 – 1971 – PART 1
Teenage Wasteland (Demo)*
Too Much (Demo) *
Going Mobile (Demo)*
There’s A Fortune in Those Hills (Demo)*
Love Ain’t For Keeping (Demo)*
Bargain (Demo)*
Greyhound Girl (Demo)*
Mary (Alternate Mix) (Demo)**
Behind Blue Eyes (Demo)*
Time Is Passing (Demo)*
Finally, Over (Demo)**
Baba O’Riley (Original Demo)**
CD THREE: PETE TOWNSHEND’S LIFE HOUSE DEMOS 1970 – 1971 – PART 2
Pure And Easy (Home Studio Mix) (Demo)*
Getting In Tune (Alternate Mix) (Demo)**
Nothing Is Everything (Let’s See Action) (Demo)*
Won’t Get Fooled Again (Demo)*
Baba O’Riley (Demo)*
Song Is Over (2021 Remix) (Demo)**
Pure And Easy (Olympic Studios Mix) (Demo)**
Mary (Original Mix) (Demo)*
Baba O’Riley (First Editing Demo)**
Song Is Over (Original Demo)*
CD FOUR: RECORD PLANT, NYC SESSIONS MARCH 1971
Don’t Do It (aka Baby Don’t You Do It) [Take 2, Unedited, March 16, 1971]**
Won’t Get Fooled Again [Take 13, March 16, 1971]*
Behind Blue Eyes (Version 1) [Take 15, March 16, 1971]**
Love Ain’t For Keeping [Take 14, March 17, 1971]*
The Note (aka Pure and Easy) [Take 21, March 17, 1971]*
I’m In Tune (aka Getting in Tune) [Take 6, March 18, 1971*
Behind Blue Eyes (Version 2) [Take 10, March 18, 1971}*
CD FIVE: OLYMPIC SOUND STUDIOS, LONDON SESSIONS 1970-72
Pure And Easy*
I Don’t Know Myself [B-side with Unreleased Count-in]
Time Is Passing [Stereo Mix]**
Too Much of Anything [Original 1971 Vocal]**
Naked Eye [1971 Remake]**
Bargain (Early Mix)**
Love Ain’t For Keeping (Unedited Mix)**
My Wife (Unedited Mix)**
Getting In Tune (Take 1 with Jam)**
Going Mobile (Alternate Mix)**
Song Is Over (Backing Track) [with Nicky Hopkins]**
When I Was a Boy**
Let’s See Action (Unedited Mix)**
Relay (Unedited Mix) [Alternate Vocal]**
Put The Money Down [Remix with Original Vocal]*
Join Together [Unedited Remix]**
CD SIX: SINGLES & SESSIONS 1970-72
The Seeker (Original Single Mix)
Here For More [Original Single Mix]
Heaven And Hell [New Stereo Mix]**
Water [Eel Pie Sound Studio – New Unedited Mix]**
I Don’t Know Myself [Eel Pie Sound Studio – New Unedited Mix]**
Naked Eye [Eel Pie Sound Studio – New Unedited Mix]**
Postcard [Eel Pie Sound Studio – Original 1970 Mix]**
Now I’m A Farmer [Eel Pie Sound Studio – New Remix]**
The Seeker (Unedited Version)**
Water (IBC Version)**
I Don’t Know Myself (IBC Version)**
Let’s See Action (Original Single Mix)
When I Was a Boy (Original Single Mix)
Join Together (Original Single Mix)
Relay (Original Single Mix)
Waspman (Original Single Mix)
Long Live Rock (Original Olympic Mix)
CD SEVEN: LIVE AT THE YOUNG VIC, LONDON – APRIL 26, 1971
Love Ain’t for Keeping*
Pure And Easy*
Young Man Blues*
Time Is Passing*
Behind Blue Eyes*
I Don’t Even Know Myself*
Too Much of Anything*
Getting In Tune*
Bargain*
CD EIGHT: LIVE AT THE YOUNG VIC, LONDON – APRIL 26, 1971
Pinball Wizard**
See Me, Feel Me**
Baby Don’t You Do It*
Water*
My Generation*
(I’m A) Road Runner*
Naked Eye*
Bony Moronie*
Won’t Get Fooled Again*
CD NINE: LIVE AT THE CIVIC AUDITORIUM, SAN FRANCISCO – DECEMBER 12, 1971
Introduction**
I Can’t Explain*
Substitute*
Summertime Blues**
My Wife*
Baba O’Riley**
Behind Blue Eyes*
Bargain*
Won’t Get Fooled Again**
Baby Don’t You Do It*
Magic Bus**
CD TEN: LIVE AT THE CIVIC AUDITORIUM, SAN FRANCISCO – DECEMBER 12, 1971
Introduction To Tommy**
Overture**
Amazing Journey**
Sparks**
Pinball Wizard**
See Me Feel Me**
My Generation**
Naked Eye*
Going Down*
BLU-RAY AUDIO:
Steven Wilson Atmos Mix (48kHz 24-bit)**
Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix (48kHz 24-bit)**
Steven Wilson Stereo Mix (96kHz 24-bit)*
Original 1971 Stereo Mix (96kHz 24-bit)
Baba O’Riley
Bargain
Love Ain’t For Keeping
My Wife
The Song Is Over
Getting In Tune
Going Mobile
Behind Blue Eyes
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Bonus Tracks: Steven Wilson Atmos Mix (48kHz 24-bit) & Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix (48kHz 24-bit)
The Seeker (Unedited Version)**
Here For More*
Now I’m A Farmer**
I Don’t Know Myself (Eel Pie Sound Version)**
Water (IBC Version)**
Naked Eye (Olympic Sound Version)**
Pure And Easy**
Too Much of Anything**
Let’s See Action**
When I Was a Boy**
Join Together (Unedited Version)**
Put The Money Down**
Relay (Unedited Version)**
Long Live Rock**
* Previously launched with new remix
** Previously unreleased tracks
WHO’S NEXT / LIFE HOUSE 2-CD
CD ONE: WHO’S NEXT (Remastered)
1. Baba O’Riley
2. Bargain
3. Love Ain’t For Keeping
4. My Wife
5. The Song Is Over
6. Getting In Tune
7. Going Mobile
8. Behind Blue Eyes
9. Won’t Get Fooled Again
CD TWO: Bonus Tracks
1. Behind Blue Eyes (Record Plant, NYC Sessions – Version 1) [Take 15, March 16, 1971]**
2. Getting In Tune (Alternate Mix) (Life House Demo)**
3. Mary (Alternate Mix) (Life House Demo)**
4. Love Ain’t For Keeping (Record Plant, NYC Sessions) [Take 14, March 17, 1971]*
5. Pure And Easy (Olympic Studios Mix) (Life House Demo)**
6. I Don’t Know Myself [Eel Pie Sound Studio – New Unedited Mix]**
7. Too Much of Anything [Original 1971 Vocal]**
8. Time Is Passing (Live on the Young Vic, London – April 26, 1971)*
9. Bargain (Live on the Young Vic, London – April 26, 1971)*
10. My Wife (Live on the Civic Auditorium, San Francisco – December 12, 1971)*
11. Baba O’Riley (Live on the Civic Auditorium, San Francisco – December 12, 1971)**
12. Won’t Get Fooled Again (Live on the Civic Auditorium, San Francisco – December 12, 1971)**
* Previously launched with new remix
** Previously unreleased
WHO’S NEXT / SAN FRANCISCO 1971 4-LP
LP ONE: Who’s Next (Remastered)
LP TWO: Live on the Civic Auditorium, San Francisco – December 12, 1971
LP THREE: Live on the Civic Auditorium, San Francisco – December 12, 1971
LP FOUR: Live on the Civic Auditorium, San Francisco – December 12, 1971
Limited version 4-LP set containing the remastered model of Who’s Next and a vinyl model of the acclaimed first-ever full launch of the San Francisco 1971 present with all tracks being newly remixed. Pressed on 180gm black vinyl and housed in a 12 x 12 field. Each album is available in gatefold jackets with printed sleeves and incorporates notes from Andy Neil.
LP ONE: WHO’S NEXT (Remastered)
SIDE A:
1. Baba O’Riley
2. Bargain
3. Love Ain’t For Keeping
4. My Wife
5. The Song Is Over
SIDE B:
1. Getting In Tune
2. Going Mobile
3. Behind Blue Eyes
4. Won’t Get Fooled Again
LP TWO: LIVE AT THE CIVIC AUDITORIUM, SAN FRANCISCO – DECEMBER 12, 1971
SIDE C:
1. Introduction**
2. I Can’t Explain*
3. Substitute*
4. Summertime Blues**
5. My Wife*
6. Baba O’Riley**
SIDE D:
1. Behind Blue Eyes*
2. Bargain*
3. Won’t Get Fooled Again**
LP THREE: LIVE AT THE CIVIC AUDITORIUM, SAN FRANCISCO – DECEMBER 12, 1971
SIDE E:
1. Baby Don’t You Do It*
2. Magic Bus**
SIDE F:
1. Introduction To Tommy**
2. Overture**
3. Amazing Journey**
4. Sparks**
LP FOUR: LIVE AT THE CIVIC AUDITORIUM, SAN FRANCISCO – DECEMBER 12, 1971
SIDE G:
1. Pinball Wizard**
2. See Me Feel Me**
3. My Generation**
SIDE H:
1. Naked Eye*
2. Going Down*
* Previously launched with new remix
** Previously unreleased
WHO’S NEXT / PETE TOWNSHEND’S LIFE HOUSE ACETATES – VINYL REPLICA 3-LP
LP ONE: Who’s Next
LP TWO: Pete Townshend’s Life House Demos 1970-1971
LP THREE: Pete Townshend’s Life House Demos 1970-1971
3-LP deluxe remastered version containing the unique album plus vinyl replicas of Pete Townshend’s unique Life House acetates, housed in a gatefold jacket holding 3 x 180gm vinyl with printed sleeves containing Andy Neil’s detailed notes on the demos.
LP ONE: WHO’S NEXT (Remastered)
SIDE A:
1. Baba O’Riley
2. Bargain
3. Love Ain’t For Keeping
4. My Wife
5. The Song Is Over
SIDE B:
1. Getting In Tune
2. Going Mobile
3. Behind Blue Eyes
4. Won’t Get Fooled Again
LP TWO: PETE TOWNSHEND’S LIFE HOUSE ACETATES – VINYL REPLICA
SIDE C:
1. Pure And Easy (Home Studio Mix) (Demo)*
2. Behind Blue Eyes (Demo)*
3. Love Ain’t For Keeping (Demo)*
4. Mary (Original Mix) (Demo)*
SIDE D:
1. Getting In Tune (Alternate Mix) (Demo)**
2. Going Mobile (Demo)*
3. Too Much (Demo)*
4. Time Is Passing (Demo)*
LP THREE: PETE TOWNSHEND’S LIFE HOUSE ACETATES – VINYL REPLICA
SIDE E:
1. Won’t Get Fooled Again (Demo)*
2. Song Is Over (Original Demo)*
SIDE F:
1. Baba O’Riley (Original Demo)**
* Previously launched with new remix
** Previously unreleased
Additional bodily codecs embody:
WHO’S NEXT – REMASTERED ORIGINAL ALBUM – 1LP 180-GRAM BLACK
WHO’S NEXT – REMASTERED ORIGINAL ALBUM – 1LP COKE BOTTLE VINYL (Independent shops unique)
WHO’S NEXT – REMASTERED ORIGINAL ALBUM – 1LP TRANSPARENT SEA BLUE VINYL (Retail unique)
WHO’S NEXT – REMASTERED ORIGINAL ALBUM – 1LP PICTURE DISC (D2C Exclusive)
WHO’S NEXT – REMASTERED ORIGINAL ALBUM – 1LP HALF-SPEED MASTER
WHO’S NEXT 1-CD – REMASTERED ORIGINAL ALBUM
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