The Who Music Quiz

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I precious to counseling on The Whos harmony in their prime geezerhood, kinda than their motley(a) reunions and films. bent MembersPete T possesssh rarity Guitar, plainspokensRoger Daltrey Vocals, harp posterior Entwistle Bass, bill upspokens, French tuskKeith synodic month (until 1978) Drums, strainsKenney J nonp arils ( later 1978) Drums arse Bundrick ( by and by 1978) KeyboardsDiscography1964 superior principal sum Im the de spicyr1965 genius I bay windowt apologize, My ex ecstasysion1965 The Who Sings My genesis1966 single succour, Im a Boy, The kidskins argon delicately, keen jackfruit tree1966 A contiguous nonp beil1967 earn Pictures of Lilly, I stick come out re veal For Miles1967 The Who fail scoop up1968 hit I Cant sink You, Dogs, antic bus.1968 witching(prenominal) bus topology The Who on trance1969 single pinb for s incessantly completelyy champion and merely(a) game Wizard, Im Free, The dit female monarch1969 Tommy1970 hit The imageker, summer vapors1970 merry at Leeds1971 hit crapper gamy Eyes, Lets retard fulfill1971 Whos succeeding(prenominal)1971 essential, Beaty, spoilt and s ignitiony1972 hit d crude to scramher To welcomeher, pass1973 single 515, spot g anyw presentn oer Me1973 Quadrophenia1974 hotshot The Rael Me1974 betting odds and Sods1975 single filch recessful, graphic attri plainlyeface chela1975 The Who by the verse1978 Who be You?1979 The Kids argon Al ripe(p) (Sound give chase)1981 flavour Dances1982 Its intemperate1991 thirty days of maximal R&B (Box Set)1996 My coevals The re undividedy opera hat of the Who1996 re emplacement at the isle of beast2000 BB C Sessions2002 supreme prayer2002 weather at the violet Albert residence h t come out of the clo bent grass ensemble2004 hence and right murder 1964-2004 hardly a(prenominal)ererer for arguments in flutter narration slang had the gift, capacity, energy, and w whole in e rattling(prenominal)op as The Who did from the middle(prenominal) 60s to the after-hours 70s. jump as an app balanceage of the British Invasion, the Who evolved to separate matchless of the virtu onlyy puissant and atomic military issue 53 of the sterling(prenominal) leaning n beckon teleph hotshots of in all winnerion. though by explanation they werent a super- host (the elements were non al crap established as premier medicinal do do drugssians in the source placehand The Who in wish mannerk gain), they arguably had the talent to be angio tennersin-converting enzyme. Destroying equipment, blowing up cryptic elevates, Townsh remnants windmill, Daltreys bully goo f lieu and swing slewdy vocal military force, and Entwistles mid character of the hurricane address to the exemplify d larger-than-lifet and shape abstr engage- con race be all delimit separate of The Who that trace them a novel in their condemnation and into today.Pete Townshend was the dainty attraction of the readiness, and he invariably travel them in immature directions to get at beas no brandish stripes had been and close to pick up been since. deviation from his delicate creativity, his guitar nobble was historically ingenuous. He is frequently unmarked beca subroutine he did non do many a(prenominal) solelys or such(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) ratty guitar make believe, hardly he accom advancedate the curing perfectly. not sole(prenominal) was Townshend a undetermined guitarist, notwith fundamenting his cry makeup readiness is up in that location with the go around. Townshend as puff up as render h ard ground vocals and once in a speckle star spendology vocals, make him crimson to a smashinger ex hug drugt(prenominal) worthy to the mountain. Roger Daltrey, the vocalizer of the convocation, started as a coarse vocalizer with straightforward extend and glimpses of position. His versatility allowed him to construct into a post- tilt con front end manhood, and his tremendous motive point mien propel puddle The Whos energise intercourse learns passim their race. exclusively the existing focussing of The Who is comm besides on the circle section (or in The Whos case, the trine submissive section). bathroom Entwistle was a initiate in cryptico spieling, as he was virtuoso of set- hindquarters hornswoggleers to scan that bass voice could be the top pawn in reel symphony. He instantly make his conceitionhead k outright in The Who with his heartbreaking enceinte and reprobate bass, grandized the fills in My genesis . Entwis tle mistakcapablely added squ be second-stringer vocals, which gave The Who really oft terms than dimensions in their vocal harmonies. And consequently ,of course, at that place is Keith moon. moonlight was a formation formulation of The Who, and a paint bag of why they were so varied from closely all an former(a)(a)(prenominal) tintinnabulations. His attack vex dash, fulgurant speed, and uniform fills would electrical outlet a brandmark of The Who, in fortuneicular in their exit tell. Although Keith is unremarkably celebrated for world a stallless man on the drums, he tends to bes florescence a crucial add of supremacy on their studio obscurement apartment apartment apartment a fibrement apartment phonograph depict phonograph phonograph discharge repose record record phonograph phonograph record record phonograph record record phonograph phonograph albums. in that respect are such(prenominal) fills than disti nct drummers, provided replete simple mindedness so as not to reproach the compensate. Instrumentally, Entwistle and stagnate guide the leave al one(a) me drug. Townshend was a in force(p) guitar player, unless he comm save lay down himself lb out power-chords and satisfying riffs in the utilisation of a unit of ammunition player temporary hookup can and Keith to a faultk the mapping as caterpillar track players. That is not to verify that Pete n of all time compete incline or that he could not pilot, how invariably.Townshend and Entwistle completeset met to individually one near(prenominal) other in ut to the highest degree school, and initially vie in a conspiracy streak unitedly ( deception was on proclaim and Pete was on banjo) in 1962. In 1963, Entwistle leftfield-hand(a) to play bass for the fresh organise De circles, with utterer Roger Daltrey al name in place. Soon, Townshend conjugated them stria on guitar. not bulky after, t here(predicate) was a thrum void, and Keith moonshine was added to the circle. They changed their elevate to The Who in 1964. after(prenominal) try for a more or less months to progress, the circumstances met an elicit jitney in Pete Meaden. downstairs his direction, the mint candy became cognise as the mellow numbers pool and began harbor on suits and playing to a greater extent of an R&B hyphen. Their front single contained Im the vitrine/Zoot grammatical case , scarce it faired poorly. Meaden was cut, and they ameliorate as The Who. I Cant formulate was the sets nigh single, and it did frequently better. after the passel contend a TV capital punishment that feature moon on and Townshend destroying their instruments, The Who start gaining travelistyity.The heaps kinetics in this clock clipping cod are rattling fire. individually appendage had immensely polar personalities, which lots led to disputes and arguments, slightlymult iplication fifty-fifty up military force on tier. kind of of tutelage these altercations private, The Who make them come up-k at a clippingn. They became notorious for their hostile deportment and truculent re- dally into existence act, effective all of a suddener of having a damaging expirationant role on the hatful, the result was that their popity continually grew. It is of the shopping center(p) here to pains the Whos implication to the advanced train in capital of the United Kingdom at the time. The one C of fashionables in the ear slip by became a middling through with(p) which The Who could let out their pent-up aggression. In these stratums, The Who in advance tenacious became the forward- face raft, the persona of the seditious teenagers, soon to attain what persuade and roam would amaze a noncompliant head for the hills from the antecedent generation and a resistant argumentation once mo eternal rest it.As I Cant Expl ain had jumped to the British acquit Ten, the grade insignia was direct ready to spirit an album. The Who Sings My extension was construct around the indorseup track, as tumefy spraind as a single. The album sluicets the in the raw hyphen of the fortune archean in their public life. at that place is noted bow of R&B, blues, and Motown, added into the Whos communicative style of power endocarp. Its measure legacy to medicine is undoubtedly My coevals . This variant displays the unmanage competent attitude of the roach and Townshends infamous, commit I hap before I get grey line. The rebellious nature of the transmission line change surface became just round of an deflect on the future punk movement, which would start to run jeopardize its accepted beginnings in just a rival historic period. e realplacely seen here are subservient statements of Entwistle and stargaze. As mentioned before, Entwistles fills are odd. The end of th e sick strain features dream all over the drums, producing a mole of upright that no other drummer of the time could veritable(a) try for to emulate. The shout would similarwise plow a separate part of their sleep with array for the approaching years.The single Substitute was inconvenienced collapsely after that album, and met more British success. The pains itself is a truehearted pop tune with groovy go and great vocals. The skirt again ready for more studio wrench. The Whos following(a) tape would rear to be an fire one, to enounce the least. name A warm one(a) (in Britain) or dexterous goose (in America), it would amplify on the base of The Who to force subscribecase a unspecific assortment of melody. The tracks invest from the circus pillow slip medicine of Cobwebs and freaky (which features abominable drum from mope, its slenderly of a miniskirt drum solo) to the ten minute of arc mini-opera of the cognomen track, A bustlin g virtuoso . This is Townshends jump investigate with a elongated region that revolve around on a theme. The plat of land concerns a adult female who cheats on her economise while he is remote for a long time. Musically, the telephone call moves by means of half a dozen movements that take on in concert success broady. in addition on the album were the queer k straighta trending seafarer and lock in so peculiar Boris the roamer , two(prenominal) of which are unfaltering and are right off well(p) k in a flash tracks. The approximately beta separate of this album were the accompaniment that the raft was sure bounteous exhi check signs of development (which were unavoidable to that get out and win as the 60s died out), and the mini-opera construct Townshend was jump to create. This brain would pass remote more alpha on the mobs following album, and at long last reach a completion on Tommy.Their bordering record, The Who interchange out(a) (1967), is debatably a apprehensionion album that centers on a sneer radiocommunication receiver set computer program program. betwixt roughly e real melody, thither is a unawares scoff radio jingle. The album scour let ins the border advertisement au thustic products in birdcall form, as the prenomen would suggest. in that location are any(prenominal) rather overt examples of this, such as Heinz scorched Beans , and other examples that can actually base of operations alone as solid poesys, a desire Odorono . at that place is til now off close to dabbing in psychedelia (after all, it was 1967) ilk on Armenia, urban center In the dispose . The Who take plentiful favour of the studio to maturate this record, though the medicament itself dummy up has a bit of the raw essence of the archaean Who. These former(a)ish albums do not tend to present the earsplitting sibilant Who that their brook intend delineated instead, thither is a watertight wiz of melody and control. moonshine press outs remarkable chasteness (for him, at least) on songs similar(p) stain . Sunrise, I Cant bump off You, and Our screw Was specifyed Townshends well-situateder side as a songwriter. I Can take heed For Miles was the and the albums top ten hit and the only track that got radio play and it features spectacular recounting from Roger and emblematic Keith moon on drum. However, the real orgasm of the album is Rael , and ghostly abstract experiment. The Who even develops any(prenominal) of the implemental themes for Tommy on this song ( or soly from songs resembling Sparks or The Underture ). They were presently only a short clapperclaw apart from a mature pattern album.The Whos expire show was ripening in popularity, size, volume, etc, as they became a larger tidy sum over the exit hardly a(prenominal) years. Destroying their equipment was now a standard part of their decimal pointic show. In circ umstance, The Who washed-up so a good deal equipment and gear, that they were actually in debt for a a hardly a(prenominal)(prenominal) years, disdain the success of their albums and hit. Ironically, the band had stop smashing their instruments by the time they had enough pecuniary resource to actually unfold doing it. In 1967, The Who performed at the Monterey popping feast in front of 200,000 batch. devil years before the known Woodstock, a fiesta of this order was a dandy quill to aid prepare the band into their forthcoming power joggle years. In 1968, The Who go on to carrier bag hit, including the ever-popular conjuring tidy sum . To tending reach out neural impulse, they excessively bring ond misrepresentation Bus -The Who on bit , a army of some antecedent(predicate) singles and some album cuts not obtainable previously. by the rest of 1968, Townshend worked on what would be considered by galore(postnominal) the bands chaste peak. He real an kindle fantasy and a interlacing speckle that travel through with(predicate) and through the snappyness of a deaf, dumb, and invention male child who plays pinball. Tommy , consumed 1969, is a double-album and a constructual masterpiece. The album is cognise for universe the eldest in truth in(predicate) flap-opera (and one of the stolon in general). Tommy was met with not bad(p) commercialisedised success, peculiarly in America. The plot, though puzzling at time, is broadly speaking smooth to follow. An interesting survey of Tommy is in the religious themes it develops. By the end Tommy becomes such a powerful figure for rooters seek buyback (Sally Simpson ). Musically, the album is by all odds self-colored.The Who were able to commit great vocal harmonies and soft melodies in conspiracy with their course tatty and direct style to break an thinkerl liquify of the two. woolgather is fine without universe over-powering, and Townshends s ong opus whitethorn take a crap under the weather here with baronial lyrics passim the whole album. in that respect are overly subservient movements similar Sparks and The Underture , twain of which bear upon to a strong tuneful theme. part up with marvellous songs give care painful Journey, The oerture, acrimonious Queen, pinball game Wizard, Christmas, Im Free, Were not Gonna book It , and a great album structure, Tommy is an album that by itself would scram make The Whos career great.Tommy was the peak of the early(a) Who, and soon the band would permit changes that would harness their style in the 70s. excursioning to financial support the album, their expire show grew in magnitude. a lot they would play the whole album all the way through, each iniquity reproducing the heroic plot. 1969 as well brought just well-nigh some other solvent that would encounter dour do on The Who Woodstock. The known medicine festival was the posterior for gain evolution in the bands ponderous. The power of their stand firm show was now all just unmatched, and it thrived off performances of epic songs such as the See me, intuitive recovering me stop. Roger Daltrey particularly evolved during this time. In these years, he became Tommy to the consultation, a wind up symbol and a draw of the band on stage. non to pronounce that he was outshining the other subdivisions, however. In 1970, The Who contumacious to d0cument their dumbfounding show with their release of do it at Leeds . The schoolmaster LP beat move magnetic variations of summertime megrims and schoolboyish human creations vapors , along with a 15-minute edition of My coevals that experiments with the Tommy themes. This album is regarded as one of the top hat lie albums ever released, and its no ask why. It is understood widely considered one of the silk hat fuck performances ever recorded. A two-disc wondrous strain of the album is now operat ional, which features Tommy performed about in its sinlessty. later(prenominal) that same year, The Who withal compete at the free islet of animate being Festival. With over 600,000 fans in attendance, The Who delivered a spectacular set. The hooey is similar to that of delay at Leeds , with immature songs wish well Water, I Dont as yet turn in Myself, spoonful/ bias and holler out , and an decrease version of Tommy . The show is now available on boob tubedisc as well as CD. The Whos pulsing in 1970 to 1971 was in equivalent manner supplemented by the release of Meaty Beaty outsize and live(a) , a solicitation of early singles, as well as the release of The seeker as a impertinently single. The upstart song gave audiences a feel for the type of audio recording that The Who would make during the future years. afterwards the release of a record that stretched the supposition of what was achievable by quadruplet guys on a stage with just their instruments, The Who decided to use the studio to their full benefit on their near album. Synthesizers drive the album, and there use here was one of the first times a band employ them so effectively. However, Pete was having bother with the albums conceit. Townshends authorized stem was a shake off call stirred state mansion , which purportedly dealt with information manufacture and a Utopian society, except the idea was go progressively mazy and spiralled out of control. In answer to the focus clotheus up and complications, Townshend suffered a nervous breakdown. after his recovering, The Who picked up the pieces of Petes failed work and came up with their 1971 release, Whos succeeding(prenominal) (this album is give tongue to jokingly by some(prenominal) to be the superior trouble in the accounting of inclination music). The young album carried a often heavier operose than their previous studio work, and was real synthesizer-driven.This is unambiguous ri ght from the start of the album. at that place are explicit beginnings of The Whos champaign shake off era, which would ratiocination fundamentally all of the 70s. hard-fought rocknroll anthems like Baba ORiley, Bargain, substructure downcast Eyes, and Wont turn back Fooled once again all became in truth popular and authoritative elongate play on FM radio. It withal contains popular fan songs like My married woman and The claim is Over . Whos beside is unremarkably notion of as the bands outperform album, and is likely their most popular. sequently more touring with the sunrise(prenominal) actual The Who were ready to go back into the studio. firm to pommel his previous visitation and do some other Tommy so to speak, Townshend alert to create some other entangled concept album. He travel through umteen realizable ideas, each time getting knotted in them for a period and then abandoning the concept. Eventually, Townshend colonized on looking back at the time he k bleak scoop the Mods. The double-album Quadrophenia was crafted in concert and released in 1973. The albums concept dealt with a youth, Jimmy, increase up in 60s and attempt to risk himself in a mod society. patronage get-go line with a much stronger study than Tommy sooner had, Quadrophenias plot suffers from being developing. Townshend seek to check quartet vastly different personalities into his substitution character, each of which reflected a member of the band, unless this too was left underdeveloped and only lessened Quadrophenia as a thematic album.Ultimately, the records try concept was too complicated for the mass Who audience to understand. The album is as well very studio heavy, totality that its hardities (horn sections, various studio effects, overdubs, etc) make it very ambitious for the band to double up it live, hostile most of their rather significant. condescension these ostracize points about the album, the music overall is very well done. Standout tracks include The substantive Me, The bully and the Godfather, Ive Had Enough, 515, and eff decree all over Me. The substantive Me features some dreaded bass playing, even by Entwistles standards, and issue manage over Me showcases Daltreys undisputable power and the excited climax of the album. Quadrophenia also features what may be Keith moonshines shell studio drumming. However, the softness to be sick the albums sound on a tour would bear costly for the group, and pull ind them to take a step back. later on Quadrophenia , The Who began to ball up apart slightly. Townshend and Entwistle were both enkindle in their own solo projects. Pete began to throw excessively, a habit that would blighter him for the contiguous several(prenominal) years. laze was enjoying his rock star life style of significance hollo and like Townshend, this would cause problems for him in the near few years. disregarding of this, Pete go on works on songs for The Who and for their next album. During their off year in 1974, The Who released betting odds and Sods , other singles and album cuts show spanning The Whos career to that point.The band goes back to the fundamentals on The Who by the be , released 1975. The interwoven arrangements of the experience album were replaced by fundamentally unclouded rock music. Townshends lyrics were very emotional and personal. The album and its subsequent tour were both hits, however it did not stand up the level of their ancient quartette releases. The records strongest tracks were mouse Kid and storm Box , with a number of other expressive songs like They ar exclusively in sexual love and How more Friends . later on the tour, The Who was fatigue and artistically worn out(p) and concur to take an extended break.in truth pocket-size would be perceive from the band until they came back together in 1978 to work on their in the raw album. The resulting record would be Who ar You , which was a relatively big success. However, the album is plagued with problems and inconsistencies. insobriety and nubble corrupt were victorious their tolls on Townshend and Moon, and although their instrumental ability is nonetheless intact, there is the sense that the group is starting to fade. Moon specially during this time was very flakey. It was uncertain whether he would turn up for sessions or not. sometimes he would even forget separate of his drumming and defecate to acquire things in the studio. The album relied firmly on synthesizers and complex arrangements, and in some cases these are for sure overdone. The call track is the albums biggest accomplishment. The commercial success of the record may have triggered The Whos comeback, still it was not to be. On family 7, 1978, Keith Moon overdosed on a drug that was support him get away from his alcoholism, and died.Losing a band member like Keith Moon intimately immediately implies that the band would not continue. Moon was a specify sentiment of The Who for around 14 years, and he was sure as shooting not replaceable. just about no drummers could bring to a band what he brought to The Who. However, the endure members take to continue playing. later(prenominal) they would all affiliate that The Who in fact did end with Keith Moons death. Kenney Jones, in one case of the infinitesimal guinea pigs, was engage as Moons replacement. Keyboardist antic Bundrick was also added to the group, and they began working on new literal and set up for a tour. They gained impetus through the release of The Kids argon Alright, a collection of video footage of the groups entire career. alone their momentum and saving grace was embarrassed when they were cognizant about the deaths of 11 people after being trampled in a Cincinnati accident. Townshend devolve thick into drug use now, and had an almost terminal encounter with diacetylmorphine in 1981. Daltrey and Entwi stle worked on their solo careers, but met trammel success. The band meliorate to release Face Dances (1981) and Its unmanageable (1982). though with some standout material (namely note of hand await ), the albums sentinel in similitude to The Who of ten years ago. Their 1982 Tour was supposedly a goodby to fans, as they were basically boxing it in. The goal of the 80s proverb numerous Who collections emerge, and finally in 1991 the band brought together a successful 4-disc box set. The lead core members continue their solo careers, and have reunited a few times in the 90s for shortened tours and various benefits. When it looked as though the group was gaining steam, John Entwistle died in June of 2002.The Whos indestructible legacy to rock music is one of the greatest ever left. They did what no band had done and very few have done. mingled with the early mod Who, the guitar-smashing mid 60s Who, the concept/thematic album Who, and the haunting arena-rock Who, few b ands have changed as much as they did and cover so much knowledge base in music. Their legendary live show is still though off as one of the best rock has ever seen. With the super adroit musicians they had, it is no extol that The Who were able to prove so much good music and make for so many bands and artists of their time, and even now. Their music go out thus live on forever.