The Who: Live At Leeds (2 CD Deluxe Edition) 2002

 

English rock band formed in Hammersmith, London in 1964. They were inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. The Who developed from an earlier group, the Detours, and established themselves as part of the pop art and mod movements, featuring auto-destructive art by destroying

guitars and drums on stage. Their first single as the Who, "I Can't Explain" (1965), reached the UK top ten, and was followed by a string of hit singles including "My Generation" (1965), "Substitute" (1966) and "Happy Jack" (1966). In 1967, they performed at the Monterey Pop Festival and released "I Can See for Miles", their only US top-ten single. The group's 1969 concept album Tommy included the single "Pinball Wizard" and was a critical and commercial success.  
                     

Live at Leeds is the first live album by English rock band The Who. It was recorded at the University of

Leeds Refectory on 14 February 1970, and is their only live album that was released while the group were still actively recording and performing with their best-known line-up of Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon.
                    

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, music critic Nik Cohn praised Live at Leeds as

"the definitive hard-rock holocaust" and "the best live rock album ever made". Jonathan Eisen of Circus magazine felt that it flowed better than Tommy and that not since that album had there been one "quite so incredibly heavy, so inspired with the kind of kinetic energy that The Who have managed to harness here.
                   

" Greil Marcus, writing in Rolling Stone, was less enthusiastic and said that, while Townshend's

packaging for the album was "a tour-de-force of the rock and roll imagination", the music was dated and uneventful. He felt that Live at Leeds functioned simply as a document of "the formal commercial end of the first great stage of [The Who's] great career."
                  

In Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau asserted that, although side one was valuable for the live covers and "Substitute", the "uncool-at-any-length" "Magic

Bus" and "My Generation" were not an improvement over their "raw" album versions. In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Bruce Eder felt that the album was seen as a model of excellence for live rock and roll during the 1970s; that it was The Who's best up to that point, and that there was "certainly no better record of how this band was a volcano of violence on-stage, teetering on the edge of chaos but never blowing apart."
                 

In a review of its 1995 CD reissue, Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly asserted that it showed why

The Who were important: "Few bands ever moved a mountain of sound around with this much dexterity and power." Mojo magazine wrote that "the future for rock as it became, in all its pomp and circumstance, began right here." Steven Hyden, writing for PopMatters, said that it was "not only the best live rock 'n' roll album ever, but the best rock album period."
                          

The Who – Live At Leeds
Label: Polydor – 112 618-2
Series: Deluxe Edition
Format: 2 x CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Deluxe Edition
Country: Europe
Released: 2002
Genre: Rock
Style: Classic Rock

DISC 1.

                 

01. Heaven And Hell   5:06
Written-By – John Entwistle
02. I Can't Explain    2:26
03. Fortune Teller   2:34
Written-By – Naomi Neville
04. Tattoo    3:00
05. Young Man Blues   5:14
Written-By – Mose Allison
06. Substitute    2:07
07. Happy Jack    2:13
08. I'm A Boy    2:45
09. A Quick One, While He's Away    8:39
10. Summertime Blues   3:22
Written-By – Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart
11. Shakin' All Over   4:34
Written-By – Fred Heath
12. My Generation    15:24
13. Magic Bus    7:54

MP3 @ 320 Size: 172 MB
Flac  Size: 424 MB

DISC 2.    TOMMY       

                     

       
01. Overture    6:51
02. It's A Boy    0:31
03. 1921    2:25
04. Amazing Journey    3:17
05. Sparks    4:21
06. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)   1:58
Written-By – Sonny Boy Williamson
07. Christmas    3:18
08. The Acid Queen    3:34
09. Pinball Wizard    2:52
10. Do You Think It's Alright?    0:21
11. Fiddle About
Written-By – John Entwistle   1:13
12. Tommy Can You Hear Me?    0:55
13. There's A Doctor    0:22
14. Go To The Mirror    3:24
15. Smash The Mirror!    1:18
16. Miracle Cure    0:12
17. Sally Simpson    4:00
18. I'm Free    2:38
19. Tommy's Holiday Camp   1:00
Written-By – Keith Moon
20. We're Not Gonna Take It    8:47

MP3 @ 320 Size: 126 MB
Flac  Size: 342 MB

NOTES

                      

Bass Guitar, Vocals – John Entwistle
Drums – Keith Moon
Engineer – Andy Macpherson
Guitar, Vocals, Mixed By [Supervision] – Pete Townshend
Liner Notes – Chris Charlesworth
Producer, Remastered By – John Astley
Vocals, Harmonica – Roger Daltrey
Written-By – Pete Townshend (tracks: 1-02, 1-04, 1-06 to 1-09, 1-12 to 2-05, 2-06 to 2-10, 2-12 to 2-18, 2-20)
                         

The WHO albums on Urban Aspirines HERE