[2016-12-23] The Who "My Generation (Super Deluxe Edition)" 5CD box set (Brunswick/Polydor)

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Sep 13, 2016 5:22 am

Description
In the half century since its release, The Who’s debut album My Generation has lost none of it’s 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 amongst many more.

The spectacular 79-track, five disc super-deluxe edition of My Generation features unheard songs as well as unreleased demos, unreleased alternate mixes, new remasters and a stereo remix which was created using new overdubs from Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. For this mix Pete used exactly the same guitars and amps as the original album and Roger used same type of microphone.

The edition also features a stunning 80-page colour book with many rare and unseen period photos, candid and insightful new notes from Pete Townshend and period memorabilia.

Of the super deluxe box set Pete Townshend commented “Gathering these demos for this collection has been enjoyable; it’s wonderful for me to have these tapes made fifty-two years ago to listen to. I hope you enjoy them. They have a naiveté and innocence, a simplicity and directness, and an ingenuousness that reveals me as a young man struggling to keep up with the more mature and developed men around me. What an incredible group of strong, talented, young and engaging men they were!”

[tracklisting][CD1: Original album (mono mixes)]
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
7. The Kids Are Alright
8. Please, Please, Please
9. It’s Not True
10. I’m A Man
11. A Legal Matter
12. The Ox

Originally released 1965
Re-mastered 2016

[CD2: Original album (new stereo mixes)]
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
7. The Kids Are Alright
8. Please, Please, Please
9. It’s Not True
10. I’m A Man
11. A Legal Matter
12. The Ox

Previously unreleased on CD or vinyl. Released on iTunes 2014.

Remixed by the band in 2014 – Pete used exactly the same guitars and amps as the original album, Roger used same type of microphone.

Recorded at Pete’s home studio and Yellowfish Studio.

[CD3: Mono mixes – bonus tracks]
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
7. (Love Is Like A) Heatwave
8. Motoring
9. Anytime You Want Me
10. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
11. Instant Party Mixture
12. Circles
13. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (French EP Mix)
14. Out In the Street (Alt guitar break)
15. Out In the Street (Alt early vocal)
16. I Don’t Mind (Full Length)
17. The Good’s Gone (Full Length)
18. My Generation (Alt version)
19. I’m A Man (V2 – Early vocal)
20. Daddy Rolling Stone (alt. take)
21. Lubie (Alt Mix)
22. Shout And Shimmy (Alt mix)
23. Circles (Alt Mix)

Tracks 1–12 originally released 1965-1966. Reissued 2002.
Tracks 13-23 remixed in 2000, previously unreleased
Re-mastered 2016

[CD4: Stereo mixes – bonus tracks]
1. Out In The Street (Alt – Take 1)
2. I Don’t Mind (Full Length Version)
3. The Good’s Gone (Full Length Version)
4. My Generation (Instrumental Version)
5. The Kids Are Alright (Alt – Take 1)
6. I Can’t Explain
7. Bald Headed Woman
8. Daddy Rolling Stone
9. Daddy Rolling Stone (Alt version)
10. Leaving Here
11. Lubie, Come Back Home
12. Shout And Shimmy
13. (Love Is Like A) Heatwave
14. Motoring
15. Anytime You Want Me
16. Instant Party Mixture
17. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
18. Circles (New Mix)
19. Daddy Rolling Stone (Alt Take B – New Mix)
20. Out In The Street (Alt Take 2)
21. I’m A Man (Alt – New Mix)

Tracks 1-17 previously unreleased on CD or vinyl. Released on iTunes 2014.
Tracks 18-21 previously unreleased.
Re-mastered 2016

[CD5: Primal Scoop – The Demos]
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
7. Sunrise (V 1)
8. Much Too Much
9. My Own Love
10. La-La-La Lies
11. The Good’s Gone

Track 1 previously released as 45 rpm flexi-disc with ‘Maximum R&B’ book (re-mastered 2016)
Tracks 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, & 11 previously unreleased demo versions
Tracks 3, 5, & 9 previously unreleased songs – ‘The Girls I Could’ve Had’, ‘As Children We Grew’, ‘My Own Love’
Track 10 previously released on ‘Scoop’ (re-mastered 2016)[/tracklisting]

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Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5097

I'm definitely in on this one. Wow!!

alantig · 20 Sep 2006

Yep. Very curious to see what the five discs entail.

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5097

I'm really hoping that this will have some substantial outtakes and/or alternate mixes from the band in addition to the deluxe 2 CD version that came out several years ago.

The Tommy and Quadrophenia boxes were most disappointing to me as there were no outtakes, alternate takes or alternate mixes. Instead, we got discs of Pete's demos and that's fine as long as some band stuff was included. It wasn't. These were not Pete Townshend albums.

tideshea · **Joined:** 27 Mar 2014 **Posts:** 225

Looks like the must-have Christmas box set season has begun!

Stumpy Joe · **Joined:** 29 Apr 2014 **Posts:** 1538

Sweet! Although put me on the list of those who would like to have some of Pete's demos included witth this set--the "My Generation" demo showed up on a flexi-disc over thirty years ago, and nowhere else since.

By some accounts, the stereo remixes from 2002 were apparently impoved upon in a set of 2014 stereo remixes, although I'm sure mono purists would disagree.

There was a 2-disc Japanese set in 2008 that collected nearly every existing Talmy track in stereo and mono (collecting "every" Who mix variation is probably impossible), but I think that there was only actually one previously unreleased track (I want to say it was an alternate take of "Circles"). It did not contain the alternate French EP version of "Anyway, Anyhowm, Anywhere" in mono (only stereo), which has still never appeared on CD.

Although they arguably don't belong here, as they were recorded pre-Talmy and as the High Numbers, I'd still like to see "Zoot Suit" and "I'm The Face" bundled in with this material as well. (And "Here 'Tis"). And I don't believe that the March 1965 acetate heard on the 1998 "Odds And Sods" reissue (a session reportedly produced by Talmy) have ever been included among tthe rest of the Talmy material.

What else--rough sounding recordings of their set at the Richmond Jazz/Blues festival have been bootlegged for years. There's got to be some other live stuff out there somewhere--some amazing performance footage I'd never seen before showed up on the "Quadrophenia" Criterion Collection bonus DVD. They recorded a lot of great BBC stuff in 1965; not sure if there is anything still unreleased.

At least one list of the existing Talmy outtakes has been published online (at http://www.thewho.info/MyGeneration4.htm) but I also seem to recall Talmy saying that the outtakes weren't as intriguing as one might assume--the band approached recording in workmanlike fashion and knocked out these songs fairly efficiently.

Spoiler: show

Finally, and since this is likely my last visit to this thread, let me take the opportunity to tell Renny to go and fuck himself BEFORE he hijacks the discussion. We already know--you hate Pete Townshend and you hate the Who, and you've been bitching about these reissues for over a decade now. Your schtick has gotten incredibly fucking tired.

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Sep 13, 2016 10:50 pm

The Amazon UK pre-order link is now live:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01M12CROM/?tag=imwan-21

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Sep 13, 2016 10:58 pm

... and Andrew, wash your mouth out with Medac.

Jason Czeskleba · **Joined:** 03 Jan 2007 **Posts:** 1645

Stumpy Joe wrote:

Sweet! Although put me on the list of those who would like to have some of Pete's demos included witth this set--the "My Generation" demo showed up on a flexi-disc over thirty years ago, and nowhere else since.

Apparently it will have demos. Luke over at Hoffman has heard from inside sources (Astley I believe, though he didn't say specifically) that it's going to be:
- original mono mix
- 2014 stereo remix
- associated singles/etc
- Pete demos

No live stuff. The popular guess is that one of the discs will be vinyl, because it seems unlikely the above could be stretched out over five discs. I'm hoping the "etc" includes the seven instrumental tracks that have been bootlegged.

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5097

So once again, we get a big box from The Who with no alternate takes or mixes (maybe there aren't any), but a disc of Pete demos. The demos are nice to have, but as I stated above, these are not Pete Townshend albums. They are Who albums and having some previously unheard music from the band would be more than nice.

Jason Czeskleba · **Joined:** 03 Jan 2007 **Posts:** 1645

Larry wrote:

So once again, we get a big box from The Who with no alternate takes or mixes (maybe there aren't any), but a disc of Pete demos. The demos are nice to have, but as I stated above, these are not Pete Townshend albums. They are Who albums and having some previously unheard music from the band would be more than nice.

There is very little in the way of alternate takes for this period, and the description Luke was given is vague enough that "etc" might encompass some of those. Again, it's hard to imagine the need for a five-disc set otherwise, since stereo and mono versions of all the released songs fit easily onto two CDs. I do wish they were including some live stuff, though. But this isn't going as egregious as the Quadrophenia Super Deluxe, where Pete's demos took up space that should have rightly been assigned to outtakes and live material.

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5097

I pretty much figured that there's not much else from 1965, but surely there is from 1969 and from 1973 for the Tommy and Quadrophenia boxes. In fact, the deluxe 2CD Tommy does a much better job of this than the box. It DOES have band outtakes.

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Sep 29, 2016 10:39 pm

The British pre-order price has dropped by over £34, and is now £75.12:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01M12CROM/?tag=imwan-21

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Oct 12, 2016 11:08 pm

Okay, guys, the first post up top has been updated with information directly from Universal. Full tracklist, packshot, domestic pre-order link, everything. It's going to be a full five CDs' worth of material with no vinyl included in the package.

(Adrian had brought us a tracklist from the Amazon UK page a little while ago, but it was incomplete so I've removed that post to avoid any confusion about what the Super Deluxe Edition contains.)

Beatle Pete · **Joined:** 31 Jul 2006 **Posts:** 40

The UK is now down to £62.56. At that price, I can wait an extra week (or 2) for it to be delivered.

ranasakawa · 26 Jan 2007

Linda wrote:

Okay, guys, the first post up top has been updated with information directly from Universal. Full tracklist, packshot, domestic pre-order link, everything. It's going to be a full five CDs' worth of material with no vinyl included in the package.

(Adrian had brought us a tracklist from the Amazon UK page a little while ago, but it was incomplete so I've removed that post to avoid any confusion about what the Super Deluxe Edition contains.)

That's cool, I respect that

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2016 5:28 am

One of the previously unreleased songs:

jackeboy · **Joined:** 24 Dec 2008 **Posts:** 72

seems like most of this is already released.

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5097

jackeboy wrote:

seems like most of this is already released.

'Tis, but I'll be getting this anyway.

Willy Wilson · **Joined:** 22 Jan 2007 **Posts:** 939

I have most of the recordings outside of Pete's demos, but the thing that kind of scares me is that the overdubs that Pete and Roger did were made some 50 years after that fact, it's kind of sacrilegious Not sure I want to hear 70 year old Roger doing vocals over 20 year old Roger's original vocals.

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5097

Willy Wilson wrote:

I have most of the recordings outside of Pete's demos, but the thing that kind of scares me is that the overdubs that Pete and Roger did were made some 50 years after that fact, it's kind of sacrilegious Not sure I want to hear 70 year old Roger doing vocals over 20 year old Roger's original vocals.

Did I miss where it was stated that Roger of now would be overdubbing his vocal? That sure would suck big time. Where is this stated?

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5097

Never mind. I just read the Rolling Stone article which briefly mentions the overdubs.

[2016-12-23] The Who "My Generation (Super Deluxe Edition)" 5CD box set (Brunswick/Polydor)

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