Description
The Who has one of the greatest rock legacies in music history, they’re one of the all-time great live bands, have sold over 100 million records world including 9 US & 10 UK top ten albums and 14 UK top ten singles in a career spanning six decades.

Now Fifty-five years after they made their first recordings, The Who is back with their first new album in thirteen years entitled WHO due for release on 22nd November 2019 and is preceded by BALL AND CHAIN.

The eleven-track album was mostly recorded in London and Los Angeles during Spring and Summer 2019 and was co-produced by Pete Townshend & D. Sardy (who has worked with Noel Gallagher, Oasis, LCD Soundsystem, Gorillaz) with vocal production by Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Roger Daltrey, Wilko Johnson).

Singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend are joined on the album by long-time Who drummer Zak Starkey, bassist Pino Palladino along with contributions from Simon Townshend, Benmont Tench, Carla Azar, Joey Waronker and Gordon Giltrap.

The Deluxe Edition features three bonus tracks.

Tracklist
1. All This Music Must Fade
2. Ball And Chain
3. I Don’t Wanna Get Wise
4. Detour
5. Beads On One String
6. Hero Ground Zero
7. Street Song
8. I'll Be Back
9. Break The Newse
10. Rockin' In Rage
11. She Rocked My World
Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks:
12. This Gun Will Misfire
13. Got Nothing To Prove
14. Danny And My Ponies

CD Standard Edition (Domestic)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N7S9J4J/?tag=imwan-20

CD Deluxe Edition (Import)
US - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XVFMQJ7/?tag=imwan-20
UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07XVFMQJ7/?tag=imwan-21

Vinyl Standard Edition (Domestic)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XLGMFJD/?tag=imwan-20

From Billboard online:

The Who Mulls Next Album, Revisits Classics

February 11, 2008, 11:45 AM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

The Who has begun mulling its next studio album, on the heels of 2006's "Endless Wire," its first new disc in 24 years. According to a post on TheWho.com from Pete Townshend, the band is considering working with producer T-Bone Burnett.

"I am hoping to come up with some songs for a more conventional Who record," Townshend wrote, adding that Burnett "is an old friend of mine."

2008 will also likely bring live shows in Japan in the fall, to coincide with the release there of the recent Who documentary "Amazing Journey." In addition, Townshend and vocalist Roger Daltrey are discussing "revisiting 'Quadrophenia' the way we did it in the '90s," the guitarist says.

Beforehand, the Who may play "some shows in the festival season this summer," Townshend says. "I would want to do that purely for fun, and I don't want to turn it into a big tour. I need to stay focused on my writing."

what?

no "who's next" reissue.

astounding.

renny

Come on Renny, I only know of 3 different USA cd versions of Who's Next. That's nothing compared to say.... The Doors or The Airplane!

Or the Eagles barfing up a "deluxe edition" of an album a mere three weeks after its initial release.

After "Endless Wire" maybe they shouldn't bother.

After "Endless Agony", retiring would be a good choice! I'd really have to think hard as to whether EW is the worst album by a "supergroup" in history. (hmmm maybe the makings of a new thread...)

Endless Wire was The Who's "Ishtar". What a piece of crap. And, I even revisited it this fall to no avail. It sounded worse than a bunch of alley cats rummaging through a Jack In The Box dumpster and feeling the after effects (alright, maybe not that painful). But, a real rock album from The Who as a 5 piece (or 6 with Simon) would be a possibility. Hell, the 2 songs on Then And Now were really good so, in that vein, yes I'd love a new Who album.
If it's another Endless Wire, well, I'd rather listen to Taco's "Puttin' On The Ritz" for 3 straight days then experience that album again.

I really, really, wanted to like "Endless Wire", especially arriving as it did at Best Buy with a couple of bonus discs, but...I got it out again back in December, after it had gathered dust for a year, thinking that perhaps if I listened to it free of all the initial high expectations that I had for it, I might be able to appreciate something about it on its own mertis...only to rediscover why I hadn't felt any urge to play it for so long.

Pete must have jibber-jabbered on in interviews for five years about the songs he was writing for an upcoming Who studio album, and I also thought the two songs on "Then And Now" were quite good, only building my anticipation...and what turned out to be the most shocking thing about "Endless Wire" was just how slapdash it sounded. I'm not sure how seriously to take all of his ramblings about possible upcoming projects anymore...

Sometimes anticipation and/or high expectations for an album tends to kill that album for me when it fails to meet the mark. I need to pull out "The Rising" and give it a fresh spin one of these days for the first time in a few years--that album was so overhyped prior to release as being an instant classic, as being Springsteen's first new studio album/batch of songs in seven years, as the first E Street Band album in eighteen years, as being a 21st century "Born To Run", as making St. Springsteen a Nobel Peace Prize shoo-in--how could it have wound up being anything else but a letdown? When I first heard about the impending release of "Magic" this past fall, I was determined to ignore it, but when I finally got over my damn self and gave it a listen with an open mind, it was fairly obvious from the first go-round in the CD player that it was a much better album...

I still think that Townshend has the capacity to create some great music, but frankly it's been a few years since he actually has, and I'm not interested in registering with the website in order to read his full-legnth ramblings.

What I really want to know is what would really happen if I ever had a chance to lock Pete Townshend and Renny into a room together for a bit? Since Townshend once wrote a book Called Horse's Neck (or something similar to it), I am going to use a smilie to describe what I think would happen should this event occur. Here's what I think would happen: Which one is Renny and which one is the horse?

New Who = a shot at redemption.

AMW stole my thoughts about the last 2 Springsteen albums. The Rising was ho-hum, Magic was as billed.

This may well be The Who's next album project...

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No artist who ever lived confounds me as much as Pete Townshend can.

I hope Oral B will be sponsoring the next tour. It's great stuff.

I guess "Floss" is better than "Dentures".

Pete is getting old like the rest of us. He cares about our oral hygiene.................

The man is DERANGED.

This sounds as promising as a chamber music album by Venom. (Wait, I'd buy that). Anyway, "Floss"? I read this in the newspaper the other day and just sighed. I still go back to when Towsnhend disbanded The Who in late 1982, saying he felt they were a shadow of what they once were and that he was just pretending.
Yet, he has no problem now harming the band's name by still calling whatever this is The Who. Bizarre.
This is one band I thought would truly go out with dignity instead of a tube of Aquafresh (and Preperation H).

Long live THE TWO.

Fixed.

"I can floss for hours and hours / I can floss for hours and hours / I can floss for hours and hours..." fade