Really? Waiting For My Man, Sunday Morning, Femme Fatale, There She Goes Again all pretty standard pop fare. Then ya've got the more artsy drone stuff like Heroin and Venus In Furs but they're not exactly unaccessable. European Son gets a bit much right at the end of the record but as album it works like. Great record.
The Black Angel's Death Song.
Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it is shite. It just means you don't like it.
Whilst it has it's moments, notably it's opening and closing tracks, Who's Next is not a good enough record to be considered a 'classic' in my opinion.
Most overrated band in the history of music for me. Other than creep I can't stand every song I have ever heard them do. I used to work on music festivals and there's nothing more depressing than watching an entire crowd of people mumble and sway to them. The people on the fairground attractions in the background are having more fun.
I don't really understand what's to get to be honest? Yeah there's some quirky moments with the voiceovers, On The Run and the alarms gannin' off, but aside from that it's just a collection of songs really with a bit of segueing here and there. I can understand Great Gig In The Sky not being everyone's cuppa tea but it's not as if it's hard to figure out as musically it's a lovely piece. Breathe, Time, Money, Us And Them, Brain Damage, Eclipse - they're pretty standard as songs go to be honest. I just think it's a great album put together amazingly well.
I could probably find you at least twenty other Wikipedia entries saying the same thing. I think it's overrated because three of the Who's very best songs just so happen to be on there.
You don't need LSD to 'get' Dark Side Of The Moon, it's one of the the most open albums ever without any hidden meanings or messages at all. It's about growing old, trying to keep your sanity through life,and ultimately death.
Behind Blue Eyes obviously.
until you hear Blue Eyes and think "ah, now this is a good song at last." The rest is very forgettable. It's probably a consequence of the album ultimately being a failed project of Townsends. He was trying to get from one point to the other and came up with some very middling arrangements, and that's what you end up with for the majority of Who's Next. A cobbled together record bookended with moments of excellence. At the end of the day The Who always did songs better than they did LPs.Aye.
