Magazine:
Mojo

No. 147, februari 2006

15 tracks, 43:31

Mojo

"People try to put us d-d-down! Talkin' 'bout my generation!" The insurrection is right there. In Roger Daltrey's stuttering, angry vocals; in Pete Townshend's slashing guitar and electrified background holler; in John Entwistie's overdriven bass; in Keith Moon's epileptic drum filis and sheer aggression. In fact with the opening to couplet to My Generation, their third single, The Who harnessed the anger of a generation scarred by the aftermath of the post-war world and created a new sense of identity.
By the time they arrived at the second verse, they were in even more of an antagonistie mood. "Why don't you f-fade away!" scowled Daltrey, delivering a line packed with explosive expletive inference. While a decade earlier rock'n'roll had driven a wedge between the post-war kids and their parents, The Who set out to actively exploit it - lyrically, sonically, stylistically. In the 30 years that have elapsed since the impact of that single, The Who have continued to issue challenges, some musical, some ideological, some even to each other.
As Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey prepare for to work on a new Who album, MOJO salutes their legacy with this 15- track compilation. Go back and listen to the originals of the tunes covered here and you may also find yourself agreeing with Roger when he says that The Who's music "just gets you in the bollocks!" Indeed, it does just that.

Phil Alexander
Editior-in-Chief, MOJO Magazine
London, England
December 2005

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