The Who - My Generation

Super Deluxe 3LP Edition: Original mono album, bonus tracks, demos

Gatefold jacket with period photos and memorabilia

The Who got bigger, brainier, better and generally tougher as they grew, writes UltimateClassicRock.com But they were never as fiercely raw as they were on their first album, My Generation.

In the half century since its release, My Generation has lost none of its raw visceral power and still stands as the ultimate musical declaration of teenage rebellion. The title track alone has been covered innumerable times by the likes of Oasis, Green Day, Patti Smith, Billy Joel, Alice Cooper and Iron Maiden and many more.

The album, which came out in late 1965 in the U.K. and in April of the following year in the U.S., contained the iconic, stuttering title track, as well as the singles "A Legal Matter," "The Kids Are Alright" (b/w fan favorite "The Ox") and "La-La-La-Lies."

Now to mark the anniversary, we have the three LP version. It contains a disc of mono mixes, another containing mono bonus tracks and a third with 11 Pete Townshend Demos made prior to the album's original release.

Packaged in a stunning gatefold sleeve with period photos and memorabilia.

 

Disc One: Original LP – Mono mixes

Side 1:

1. Out In The Street

2. I Don’t Mind

3. The Good’s Gone

4. La-La-La Lies

5. Much Too Much

6. My Generation

Side 2:

1. The Kids Are Alright

2. Please Please Please

3. It’s Not True

4. I’m A Man

5. A Legal Matter

6. The Ox

Disc Two: Mono Bonus Tracks

Side 1:

1. I Can’t Explain

2. Bald Headed Woman

3. Daddy Rolling Stone

4. Leaving Here

5. Lubie (Come Back Home)

6. Shout And Shimmy

Side 2:

1. (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave

2. Motoring

3. Anytime You Want Me

4. Anyway Anyhow Anywhere

5. Instant Party Mixture

6. Circles

Disc Three: Primal Scoop – Pete Townshend's Demos

Side 1:

1. My Generation (V 3)

2. My Generation (V 2 – fragment)

3. The Girls I Could’ve Had

4. It’s Not True

5. As Children We Grew

6. Legal Matter

Side 2:

1. Sunrise (V 1)

2. Much Too Much

3. My Own Love

4. La-La-La- Lies

5. The Good’s Gone

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