The Who Sell Out: The Ballad of Pirate Radio｜Vinyl Monday

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Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my weekly series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. My thoughts on one of THE most unabashedly bonkers albums of the 60s, The Who Sell Out (released 1967.) Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday and vintage fashion!
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Timestamps:
intro/announcement! - 0:00
Sell Out - 2:00
track listing/release - 16:19
my thoughts - 21:00
thanks for watching! - 35:13
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@abigaildevoe Месяц назад

what’s your favorite who song? comment below!

@fernandoluzuriagaacosta5338 Месяц назад

The Real Me.

@kiimawittu_ Месяц назад

Too many to choose from, but I'll go with "5:15"

@nvm9040 Месяц назад

I Can See for Miles and Moony drumming is a highlight as usual Or Pinball Wizard

@davidellis5141 Месяц назад

Love Reign Over Me

@user-mz6lt2pr9s Месяц назад

On this album, I Can See for Miles. Favorite Who song overall, Getting In Tune from WHO’s Next. Peace, love and music.

@markrogers5727 Месяц назад

I adore this album. It's one of the best albums of the 60s, and arguably the Who's greatest. It's both funny and lighthearted and also haunting and sublime. Thank you for reviewing it.

@gregorycarnes3521 Месяц назад

The clip of Syd made me smile.

@johnclarke851 Месяц назад

Oh yeah, Sunrise is amazing

@pauldaniels2019 Месяц назад

I love Tommy and Who’s Next, but Sell Out is my favorite Who album. Sunrise is an underrated gem in their catalog. Great job ( as always) Abby.

@TheHelloWaterface Месяц назад

It's not hyperbole when I say The Who Sell Out is one of a handful of records that genuinely changed my life. I first heard it in 1998, just before I began high school, and I was still developing what became a lifelong practice of songwriting. This album irrevocably opened my eyes to what one could do with a popular song form. It also being an off-the-wall psychedelic record was a big plus for me, as well. It's still one of my favorites they ever did; it's perfect from start to finish. One fun thing to consider: I read a great quote from Dave Marsh a while back, where he posits that they didn't necessarily "abandon" the radio concept halfway through. In fact, it helps to listen to it through an American aural lens: side one is reminiscent of American AM radio in the '60's, full of pop songs and advertisements. Side two was like flipping the dial to FM, which back then was much freer and more experimental. (Or, for the English, "like listening to John Peel on Radio One in an uncharacteristically mellow mood.") That helped me appreciate the album even more than I already did.

@sugarjoe50 Месяц назад

Speakeasy, drink easy, pull easy.

@philmbridges Месяц назад

What a fantastic review! One of my favourite albums and the only one in mono! The later cd releases have the extended tracks which provide ‘more music’ . You did a wonderful job on this . Very well done!

@impalaman9707 Месяц назад

Just the cover of the album alone made me laugh hysterically!🤣🤣🤣🤣

@christopherkeil Месяц назад

"We're four of the nastiest, most vicious bastards you could ever hope to meet in your lifetime- the scum of the earth!" So declared Keith Moon during the Who's December 8, 1971 San Diego Sports Arena concert. I wasn’t there for that show. But The Who lived up to Keith’s assessment in their 1976 Sports Aroma (intentional usage). The walls in the acoustically crippled venue literally rattled. The band held nothing back. Leaving the concert mingled drunk, stoned, and crazed Who fans into throngs of aggressive panhandlers, hookers plying their trade along Rosecrans Blvd, with drunk sailors leaving the strip clubs into a bizarre Sodam and Gomorrah-like atmosphere. My girlfriend (now wife) barely spoke to me for a week for putting her in the middle of that madness. In those days it took guts to go see a major band in San Diego. Still one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. The Who Sell Out is a special album that used the concept album theme and turned it on its head to create a satire of commercialism that no other band would dare touch at the time. Sell Out needs to be examined as a whole, not song by song. It was funny, poignant, and amazingly still relevant today.

@flannigan7956 Месяц назад

Nice lol, "ruddy yobboes, us, right" Well put for history, the ads are the funniest shit in the world but I have s oft spot for proto-Tommy Rael esp with part 2 in the bonus tracks

@derekjtaylor Месяц назад

I recommend Petra Haden’s a capella version of this album. Check it out, Pete loved it!

@alansmith1989 Месяц назад

That UK Mono `Track` copy was my old one. Sent it along with Two Kinks albums and UK `Layla`. Now, Re `Sell Out` the track "Our Love Was" has differing guitar breaks on the Mono and Stereo versions - quite different! Finally, Have posted both Kinks `Arthur` and Beatles `A Hard Days Night` albums to Abby few days ago, and do hope they will reach her soon.

@abigaildevoe Месяц назад

i noticed the differences between mono and stereo! couldn’t figure out if they were different takes or if kit in all his infinite wisdom dubbed something right onto the mono track

@alansmith1989 Месяц назад

@@abigaildevoe It would be different take. In the UK in 1967 Mono was still the `prime` mode in Recording. Stereo was done secondary. The UK did not really put stereo first until halfway through 1969. A later new `take` though for stereo version is quite possible. Regarding the pressing of the UK Track mono copy. Abigail, if you check the bar-code in the `run out` space between the grooves and label, if it reads 612002 AV2 side 1 and 612002 BV1 on side 2; then it most certainly `is` a First pressing, as all first pressings on UK Track label carry that 612002 AV2 & BV1code. The first pressings of UK (Track) Stereo copies have a 613002 AV2 and (Side 2) 613002 BV1 bar code. Later pressings in the UK are on the Polydor label who distributed Track product in the U.K. Lastly, the first 5.000 pressings had a sticker on front of album which stated `Free Psychedelic Poster Inside`; and inside was a large fold out poster. The originals are incredibly rare and you need to be careful as reproductions are around. A superb copy of the original album with poster (Original) `and` the sticker still on front of the album will easily cost over £1.000 (About $1.200) Hope this helps!

@michaelshiflett4835 Месяц назад

Wow!! This has been one of my favorite albums for years!! This is so cool, you’ve made my day! 👍🏻

@abigaildevoe Месяц назад

thank you! i hope i could do it justice

@sejnb1 Месяц назад

I agree with Pete regarding Miles. This is my favorite Who album. Fantastic guitars and songwriting and everything else. Like a summer morning.

@PaulSmall422 19 дней назад

I get how you might wonder what we elders thought. I bought Sell Out on the rebound from Who's Next. You have that right, but that was a function of my age. I wasn't old enough to buy records in 1967. I caught it all up after the fact. And one other thing: we now can call up any amount of British content, using any of the streamers, BritBox, Acorn or whatever. In those days, IIRC, PBS was how we got British TV stuff. Remember 'The Prisoner'? CBS showed it once off ,but then PBS put it onF almost constant rotation. Also, they had Masterpiece Theatre, which routinely showed British long-form shows. These taught us about the British. Finally, also you mention Freak Out. A very select group of us got that. most of us were, in fact, freaked out by it. Sell Out was lighter, more conventional. So it landed and got that freaky message across. Just sayin', I guess.

@scott12xu Месяц назад

“The Turtles Present The Battle of the Bands” is another original concept album - The Turtles do 12 songs as 12 different fictional bands of different music genres. It also gave us the singles “Elenore” (the story behind that song is particularly intriguing/hilarious) and “You Showed Me” which I didn’t realize until recently was written by two members of The Byrds!

@axelazaryan Месяц назад

excellent!! your channel is AMAZING!! I remember Petra Haden (daughter of the incredible Charlie Haden) and her complete tribute to The Who Sell Out!! She did it entirely a cappella!! I recommend it to you!!

@kristofftaylovoski60 Месяц назад

Yes, I remember this, the girl that did a Who Sell's Out with just her voice and multitracking

@axelazaryan Месяц назад

@@kristofftaylovoski60 Amazing!!

@josemaria8177 Месяц назад

This album is so great. If I Can See For Miles doesn't get your heart pumping then you you're already dead. Also, The Who and Heinz Baked Beans proved to be a fruitfull colaboration that continued to amazing results in Tommy (1975)

@shelleylyme6402 Месяц назад

Why is it that when I empty a tin of baked beans into a saucepan there's always one recalcitrant bean that stays at the bottom of the can and won't come out? It's immensely irritating 😠

@konowd Месяц назад

Pete is a great songwriter and one of the best rhythm players ever.

@alexshkoditch4593 Месяц назад

Pirate radio flourished in the UK because the BBC would not broadcast the official records released by the artists as the musician's and engineer's unions felt it was robbing them of their livelihood. That is why we have albums like "Beatles at the BBC", Led Zeppelin at the BBC", "Yes at the BBC". The artists had to re-record their songs at BBC studios to satisfy the unions. Pirate radio simply broadcast the records as released by the artists.

@fcukjones6709 Месяц назад

That's very interesting. I would argue that that tradition resulted in some of my favorite recordings in the form of the Peel Sessions. So many early punk/goth/new wave/post-punk bands made their best recordings that way. Check out the early Siouxsie and the Banshees and Killing Joke Peel Sessions for a great example.

@57bananaman Месяц назад

@alexshkoditch4593 ... that isn't really what happened ... The BBC were strictly limited by an agreement made with The Unions that limited the amount of "Needle Time" that they were allowed, "Needle Time" being time spent playing music off commercially released records. During the '60s heyday of the Pirates ... 1964/7 ... the BBC Light Programme (their "popular music and entertainment station) was allowed only two or three hours of "Needle Time" each day, which had to be eked out over the 18 or so hours that they were on air. If they had recordings made in their own studios by The Beatles, Cliff Richard, The Hollies, Dusty Springfield etc. etc. etc. they could be slipped into the schedules without affecting the available "Needle Time". Programmes like the Sunday afternoon Top-20 Chart rundown did play the commercially available records, using up a huge chunk of the day's "Needle Time" in the process. Otherwise a lot of air-time was filled with The BBC's own orchestras, music played by various "live" bands or comedy shows. Add to this the fact that the BBC Light Programme was never intended to be a "Current Pop" station. The Light Programme would use up its "Needle Time" by playing MOR and Jazz Standards plus tunes from The Stage and Film Soundtracks in with the latest releases from The Byrds, The Supremes or Herman's Hermits. So it was hardly surprising that those who wanted to hear the latest "Pop" records would listen to Caroline, London, Radio City, 270 etc. When the Pirates were forced off the air in 1967/8 the BBC's new "Radio One" was given about double the "Needle Time" that the old Light Programme had in 1964/7 but even this wasn't enough to fill the schedules with something that approximated what Radio London/Caroline etc. had sounded like, and the practice of playing versions of recordings made in their own studios to pad out the schedules continued. Sometimes the BBC versions were very good, but visiting American stars often found themselves recording with musicians who had their own idea about how the music should sound. "Needle Time" allowances were gradually increased throughout the 1970s and '80s, especially with the introduction of Commercial stations (Capital, Piccadilly etc. etc) in the mid '70s and were finally ended at the end of The '80s when specialist music stations like Jazz-FM received licenses to broadcast.

@alexshkoditch4593 Месяц назад

@@57bananaman Obviously you know more about that than I do. Since we had no equivalent of the "needle time" in the U.S., there was no reason for artists to re-record the music they already released. When albums of BBC recordings started appearing on bootleg albums in the U.S. in the late 60's/early 70's, we initially couldn't understand the point of those re-recordings. Since pirate radio was never a thing in the U.S., the "concept" of this album wasn't really understood here.

@57bananaman Месяц назад

@@alexshkoditch4593 "Needle Time" pre-dated the Pirate Radio stations of the mid-60s and those BBC re-recordings were being made prior to, and after, Radio London was forced off air. Radio London (otherwise known as "Big L") operated from December 1964 to August 1967 and was owned by a consortium of Texans linked to KLIF in Dallas, Texas who had heard about the "Pop-Pirates" already operating off the coast of England and decided that there was money to be made by having a US style fast-moving "Top-40" station broadcasting here. The "Pirate Radio" concept had actually started a few years earlier when a ship-based station started operating off the coast of Sweden, with another one based off the coast of Holland appearing a little later. The first British ones appeared in the spring of 1964. In the film "Quadrophenia", for which The Who provided a lot of the music, "Big L" was being played in the background in some of the scenes. There are a number of recordings of "Big L" from 1965-7 that can be heard on YT or on sites like Mixcloud and a number of documentaries about the whole "Pirate Radio" phenomenon. There is also a website .. radiolondon.co.uk .. dedicated to the station, complete with history, charts, etc. etc.

@IozziEric Месяц назад

Funny. Every time I finish watching one of Abi's videos, I HAVE TO listen to the album she talked about. Listening to The Who Sell Out in 3...2...1

@SamAronow 12 дней назад

Re: pirate radio; there were still pirate stations broadcasting for the US market as late as the 1980s by setting up shop just over the Mexican border with enormously tall antennas. A lot of indie music got play through this setup and it acted as a kind of complement to MTV.

@smaz9 Месяц назад

Before recently I didn't really think much of this album, only being familiar with their rock operas, but then I discovered the backstory of how it came about, and I was instantly fascinated, which subsequently led to me realising how genius this album really is. Not only is it a nod to pirate radio, but it also kinda satirises the corporate transformation of British radio itself (Damn it, BBC) Everything from the advertisements between songs, the cover, even the name of the album itself is a dig at the changes to how British music culture worked, three miles away at sea on a boat wasn't enough anymore, it was more cool to be high on the Syd than to be a mod, guitars were sounding heavier than ever before, etc. The Who Sell Out is a snapshot of all that, and much more.

@guidoerfen7944 Месяц назад

To my perception possibly the best Who album ever. A perfect album with a clever, witty concept and a perfect cover art. To my perception, it captures the true spirit of the group and the spirit of its time most. Not enough people were aware of it. It was overshadowed by "Tommy" all the time. Most 1970ies kids know it from a budget double-album-re-pack with "Quick One" (luckily not totally butchering the cover art). I think it perfectly meets the demands of a proper concept album. It is more of a concept album than "Stgt. Pepper" at least. "A Quick One" and "Sell Out" were the Who albums of the most groundbreaking work. "Tommy", "Who's Next" and "Qudrophenia" was harvesting from the seeds sawn years earlier. I hope you don't mind me writing this before I've even seen the episode. 😀 I have a distinctive opinion on this and no one will change it. Will watch after sports.

@foursail100 Месяц назад

Among Who fans (including me!) this is considered their best record album. I saw the Who twice in the 1960s. Once at the Fillmore East and then at Westchester County Center in White Plains, NY. I bought the deluxe CD edition that includes many extras and alternate versions of the songs. The first Who LP I bought was A Quick One back in 1967. There is a video of them on YT playing at a hotel ballroom in the U.K. when they were still known as the High Numbers!

@abigaildevoe Месяц назад

i put a photo of the high numbers days in a past video! i think it came from a newspaper?

@foursail100 Месяц назад

@@abigaildevoe Check out The High Numbers at the Railway Hotel 1964. The guys were so young and still had short hair! About 10 minutes worth of high energy music!

@joegallo7162 Месяц назад

You covered Village Green a few weeks ago and now Sell Out... two albums that I started listening to again (after a hiatus of several years). Nice surprise and nice summation...

@derekroberts6654 Месяц назад

I’ve always wondered if the “Tommy” movie wasn’t paying homage to that photo of Roger having Anne Margret roll around in the beans. Hey, if Jimi Hendrix can open for the Monkees then Hermen’s Hermits can tour with the Who…

@ChromeDestiny Месяц назад

It was partially and there's a bit in there with soap suds too which refers to a detergent TV commercial Ken Russell directed when he was just starting out. Pete and Ken must have talked about these things during one of their meetings and then Ken took the idea and ran with it. Another aspect is Ken used ideas for a sequel he had panned for The Devils in his Tommy film that was all to do with worshiping false idols, in this case the false idol of consumerism.

@konowd Месяц назад

Even seeing it as a kid I thought if that too because I remember that from the album cover

@johnclarke851 Месяц назад

Melancholia on the reissue also Odorono. 🇬🇧 💪 The whole thing is fab. Should have used Odorono🤣 You’re funny.

@SubtextMining Месяц назад

Pete's song writing is so catchy, I always wondered if he also wrote commercials. Not surprised he did, note even for Coca-Cola.

@georgemathie8123 Месяц назад

This to me is the start of an amazing run of albums from one of my favorite bands and also the beginning of an awesome burst of creativity from Pete Townshend he would only get better with each successive album going forward

@romelovesdan Месяц назад

Great shout out to "Meloncholia"- Great song! - Using the Box set, and outtakes, I made my own "double album".

@chrismcgovern1647 Месяц назад

The Track Records runout groove--I had no idea for the longest time that this is what was being said because it was so processed and distorted (I think we assumed it was "shut the door"??). I also just had that MCA twofer with Sell Out coupled with A Quick One, and the runout groove was actually a bonus track that eventually faded.

@dennismason3740 Месяц назад

In 1975 Arthur, bass player for the New York Dolls, moved into the building and we'd hang out and smoke. I think his stage name was Killer Kane.

@khyron1144 25 дней назад

I love this album. About twenty years ago, I was very enthusiastic about picking up CD reissues of classic The Who albums with bonus tracks. When I got this one, I kept listening to it over and over. Your review was a delight to listen to.

@dudstep Месяц назад

I wish it had been released as a double album; there were so many good songs left on the cutting room floor like Melancholia, Glittering Girl (which sounds like it could use a guitar overdub or two), Jaguar, and Glow Girl. Little Billy would have fit perfectly too.

@heartoftherose Месяц назад

I visited a friend in a college off-campus group house who had I Can See for Miles playing over and over. He was a drummer and adjusted his equalizer so you could only hear Keith and John - the whole house was just throbbing at 1000 decibels. We loved it.

@richierugs6544 Месяц назад

seeing them live back then was incredible, no slow songs, no slow blues, they sang like angels then they smashed everything--it was like sex-sports-war-alchemy up there, Pete wielded the Who like a weapon--oh, and then he wrote Tommy

@anthonypirera7598 Месяц назад

Thanks Abigail for checking out this great album I love how British radio this album is and it has my favourite Who song on it I can see for miles. You have done a fantastic job on the background story of how this album came to be.

@RaptorStudios Месяц назад

Pete said “I spit on the British record buyer!” when I Can See For Miles ONLY made it to the Top 10 and not #1. He called it “the ultimate song” like nothing could ever be better

@ChromeDestiny Месяц назад

He had the song ready for nearly a year and thought he'd picked the right time for The Who to do it and was very disappointed in the results. I understand his disappointment. UK Psych music had gone in an odd direction, nowadays some people call the UK Psych music of that time Toy Town music.

@shelleylyme6402 Месяц назад

I think perhaps the muscular power of the recording as heard by the average punter at the time on a small transistor radio would have been rather lost, and instead it would have come across as linear and somewhat repetitive. Also, artistes are seldom the best judges of their own work. They lack the objectivity. Trust the art and not the artiste. Actually, I consider "Substitute" to be the best Who single of the era - more eccentric and lyrically original. The fact that Pete Townshend himself might not agree does not make it so.

@JimmyLem Месяц назад

In 1981, I was playing this in the car on my boombox and my mom made me turn it off. She yelled that they are singing nothing but I can see for miles and miles and miles. Kids soundtrack.

@richardbaker2613 Месяц назад

He might be right. I love that song.

@sjbang5764 Месяц назад

and it was a most ordinary rock song

@josephyates2481 Месяц назад

Such an awesome listening experience. All time great album! Thank you Miss Abby ❤

@RaptorStudios Месяц назад

Other connections to Tommy (other than Rael and Glow Girl) go back to A Quick One While He’s Away in 1966. The song is about a woman who has an affair while her husband is away and hasn’t come back yet. Sound familiar? Rael is like where the Captain was, while A Quick One (the song) is about Mrs. Walker. The lover in the song, Ivor The Engine Driver, kinda disappears. I guess it turns out in Tommy that the Captain killed him.

@howardhudome3040 2 дня назад

Good that you know so much about music that was made before you were born you cutie pie 😁🌹🤗💕

@miquefan Месяц назад

I love The Who. They are a top 5 all-time bands for me. Hope you get around to Live at Leeds someday.

@dannydontgoin237 Месяц назад

Thanks for the great review and deep dive into this album! You inspired me to listen to it for the first time in a while, and it is so, so fantastic.

@steelypeanut Месяц назад

Excellent new video! “The Seeker” is my favorite Who song but this is my favorite album of theirs. The way the sound of the record spreads to all corners of psychedelia in its own pastiche way always amazed me and Townshend’s knack for writing 2-minute pop mellow dramas was especially on display during this period! I love how clearly you touched on the history of this album, how it was influenced by pirate radio & its place in the Who’s discography as an unintentional interlude to Tommy. The Who are one of my earliest musical influences and I’ve been researching this album since freshman year (which this album played a big part in helping me through) and your video still taught me new tidbits and stories! I had no clue that Roger got cooked AFTER being frozen by those beans! I always look forward to your videos and can’t wait to see what you cover next! I’d love to hear your opinions on The Crazy World of Arthur Brown!

@zorromaskedman8220 Месяц назад

I Love the Who. Very inventive. When they hit their GROOVE in the 70's They got it good. Keith Moon...the HARPO MARX of the music world. Townsend & Daltrey have a good number of solo tracks that show their talent carries on. "And my dreams, they aren't as empty, as my conscience seems to be", KEEP IT UP ABBY.......

@johndrobe3826 Месяц назад

Townshend's finger scabs.....lmao....had this album for 40 yrs and never noticed that detail.

@sugadelicsavagesoul8623 Месяц назад

Same here. I've looked at that cover tons of times and never ever noticed that detail!

@jimalaimo8467 Месяц назад

Your finest video to date!! Your research is impeccable. Great story for a great album!😊

@williamlangan5902 Месяц назад

Your review was fun like the album itself. I reviewed it on Facebook in 2019, let my wife listen with me (she thought it was weird, which I totally understand) and it was a blast hearing it with extra adverts (I’m American, btw, not English). Good luck with your podcast, Abby. I think you and Emma will make a great team. She’s got fashion sense and you’ve got music savvy!

@darrensmith6368 Месяц назад

Another brilliant album from the who from 1967 classic.

@peterjetnikoff Месяц назад

Wow and thanks! My schoolfriend Wayne's sister had the best record collection in town. Wayne was so cavalier with it that, to demonstrate how much Chris Hillman looked like our friend John, he brought part of the cover of Turn Turn Turn torn off to show me (he could have brought the whole cover!). Even at the time, reckless as I could be, I was worried by that (but at least he did look just like John). In the frenzied tape swap black market of the quad, I got a lot of good stuff from that collection, one of which was The Who Sell Out. It was a major plug to my backwards leaning '60s investigations. It didn't make a lot of sense to me. I wanted The Who to be as deafening and brash as the '70s incarnation but the compilation Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy had a lot of jangling guitars and Beach Boys Harmonies. Then, hearing Miles in context let the penny drop and I understood their greater versatility and wit. Side two does deflate. I like individual songs but Rael, while intriguing, feels directionless and if I heard it it was because I left it on rather than having chosen it. The first side, though, is a revelation with great glittering psychedelia and bright guitar pop. I later bought a similar twofer of this and Quick One and in the '90s, the CD re-release (yes, Melancholia should have been on Sell Out) and later still the mono mix with the different solo on Our Love Was. I put it beside Satanic Majesties as a brilliant failure with some outstanding tracks like Tattoo. Thanks again for this celebration :)

@DocBouvette Месяц назад

Abby!!! I subscribed to you fairly recently and I'm so glad I did. I absolutely love your videos! The amount of research you put into your work is really admirable. Your love for music really shows in the videos you make. Keep doing what you do. You've created something really special with this channel. My favourite song from Sell Out is "I Can See For Miles." All-time favourite Who song is "Baba O'Riley."

@RaptorStudios Месяц назад

So excited! One of my favorites, and I think you’ve covered all my favorites from the 60s. I grew up with the Who since before I could speak because they’re my dad’s favorite, so he always played them for me. My favorites are probably Tattoo and Silas Stingy. I’ve got like 3 copies I think, including the Canadian 2LP with A Quick One.

@Mandrake591 Месяц назад

Abigail, you have excellent taste and your show is fantastic! I’m looking forward to hearing your take on The Who’s BEST ALBUM! “ You take away the breath I was leaving for sunrise.” 🎶 💙

@shaunw9270 Месяц назад

I remember listening to my Polydor mid price copy when I bought it in '83 aged 14. Still one of my favourite albums.

@michaelcrawley7597 Месяц назад

I'm surprised you didn't mention Keith driving a Lincoln Continental into the pool at the Holiday Inn in Flint Mi. on his birthday while on tour with Herman's Hermits. Incidentally, I grew up less than ten miles from there.

@porkchopen Месяц назад

this is my favourite who album. wonderful music, concept, and cover. the only problem i have with this album is that the radio jingles strangely stop appearing half-way through the second side, but it’s still such a fantastic album. now maybe the small faces’ “ogden’s nut gone flake?” it could continue the series of episodes of 60s english albums recently being released on the channel

@stayclean777 Месяц назад

Groovy yet again! thanks Abby

@patlampo9288 Месяц назад

😀✨Once again, thanks for the great insight on another one of my favorites ✨🎶🎶😀

@sugadelicsavagesoul8623 Месяц назад

87° in April? Ppffttt... that's a cool walk in the park living here In Las Vegas. Haha! But seriously, I just bought the film PIRATE RADIO on Blu-ray to upgrade from my old DVD copy. Anyone interested in the era with the music and fashion, i highly highly recommend that movie. I absolutely love it! So much fun!!!

@familydogg1234 Месяц назад

Miss Abbey- I commented with an addition without finishing the presentation. Then you mentioned the fact. You are good. Lol the British say " I'm sorry" 100 X a day! Or " Didn't I" lol. But we love their music ❤

@Musicradio77Network Месяц назад

One of the best parts of the album is the PAMS jingles and commercials. If you were a jingles fan, WABC in New York City was a great example of the jingles used on an AM Top 40 station, and so does other stations that did the jingles, and customized jingles. But on this album, it’s on there, and it can be heard in segues of each song.

@robertkise Месяц назад

Great episode!!! I love The Who Sell Out.

@fernandoluzuriagaacosta5338 Месяц назад

Probably the best concept album of all time. It gets it´s point across so well.

@tudormiller887 Месяц назад

I've never really given any of The Who albums a listen, but after watching this video I'll do just that, starting with Sell Out. Thanks Abi.Heinz Baked Beans on toast was my favourite growing up here in 🇬🇧

@user-mz6lt2pr9s Месяц назад

Welcome to the band. Suggest following -up with Tommy and then Who’s Next. If you’re still game for more, Live at Leeds and then Quadrophenia.

@abigaildevoe Месяц назад

enjoy your trip through the who’s catalog, there’s some movies in there too! have not once had beans on toast in my lifetime. but i’m curious

@kevindeforest6489 Месяц назад

Thanks for another great review. Definitely an all-time top 10 fave rock record. The Who were clearly led by an art school student, and this is a truly brilliant concept record that plays with irony and humour alongside Townshend’s pop craftsmanship. And yes, they were definitely a harmony group, sounding like a boy’s choir on many a tune.

@aupadenis Месяц назад

luv luv luv your videos & luv luv luv your music enthuiaim & luv luv luv you!

@juliepigois3330 Месяц назад

"Heinz Baked Beans" is a Keith Moon written follow up to his "Cobwebs & Strange" on "A Quick One" driven by Tin Whistle/Recorder.

@monaural2.988 Месяц назад

Abby, Seriously....you just keep climbing, keep improving with your endeavors on our rich Rock past (and a bit of the present as well). It's time RU-vid considered you for an award! Great presentation.

@notation254 Месяц назад

LOL I JUST listened to this album yesterday and immediately wondered if you ever did a video on it!

@rustyrobinson8027 Месяц назад

Thanks Abby you're awesome 😍🇺🇸

@zsatsfm Месяц назад

Great review Abby. After Who's Next, this is my second favourite Who album, with Tommy a close third. My favourite tracks are Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand, Odorono, Tattoo and Our Love Was. The double CD bonus tracks make this an essential Who album. Thanks

@robgronotte1 Месяц назад

Looks like John got the best cover ad by far - just stand there with a pretty lady!

@juliepigois3330 Месяц назад

"Armenia City in the Sky" wasn't even a Who song. it was a Demo Pete wrote for Speedy Keene. It was more or less a parody over the top Psychedelic number. Essentially, The Who doing the Dukes of Statosphear IN 1967! They were a track shy for the new album and "Sell Out" more psychedelia. Roger just doubles the Lead. Bingo! First track. GENIUS!

@FeelingShred Месяц назад

That scene always cracks me up. Keith drums explode causing a flash and Roger's head turning so fast to look at it like if he's saying WTF Dude Are U Nuts 😂😂😂😂😂 hearing loss is a danger though... Prick 😂😂

@hotrodjones74 Месяц назад

5:15 is my favorite Who song I think. It's a hard choice. I was obsessed with their music when I was in highschool. I'm jamming out to Oasis and Shed Seven these days. What can I say? I'm a sucker for guitar-driven British rock. I love your energy.

@mattrobbins2268 Месяц назад

Marvelous appraisal of an album some of us out here on the perimeter consider one of the greatest of all time. Thank you!

@williamhewes5941 Месяц назад

I have often felt that someone should tell this story and I don’t think anyone could do a better job than you just did. Kudos to you for your depth of research and comprehension of this album and the time period represented. This has been one of my favorite albums by The Who for as long as I can remember. If you sit and listen to it all the way through it transports you to another time and place. Even with the Lo-Fi and uneven production, I see it as a magnificent time machine. Maybe the first reason that it appealed to me had to do with their sense of humor throughout. (…btw, I heard that Roger got pneumonia from sitting in the ice cold tub of beans!)

@murdockreviews Месяц назад

Great episode. Quirky, lovely album.

@ThiagodMoraes Месяц назад

There is no way talking about rock bands without mentioning The Who. Discovered them watching the movie Woodstock. Instantly became a fan, never looked back!!

@troubadour723 Месяц назад

"Wonderful Radio London -- whoopee!" I prefer to hear the opening track's title as Harmonia City in the Sky -- because it has that psychedelic love vibe. ☮

@Townshend90125 Месяц назад

I’m glad your covering my all time favorite album

@nvm9040 Месяц назад

Congrats to the New Podcast Abbey 🎉🎈 The Who Sell Out is a great album of '67 and it’s a very good concept album which is probably better than Sgt Pepper as a concept album. 🫘🥫 The Sell Out album leads to a three album run of Tommy,Who's Next,and Quadrophenia

@DonaldGibson-dy4wv Месяц назад

Wow that guys tripin man. Great show. Peter Townsend is the most prolific rock artist in the history of rock. Roger Daultry the catalyst, and perfect friend to help Peter Townsand express his ideas. Thier ideas. I saw them in 1975. They had Bob Marley, And The Wailers with them; on that tour also. Nobody knew who Bob Marley was yet. I guess my favorite old songs by them are: Magic Bus, Pictures Of Lily, i Can See For Miles, and Faith In Something Bigger. I listen to Quadraphinia about once per month; usually durring a long drive. Of all time. This is the most amazing Rock Band ever. I recently listened to Peter Townsend 's autobiography on audio. Tommy was his story. Most people knew that was probably the case. His story is amazing. He also is very passionate about the worlds oceons. I heard that Roger Daultry just announced that he is retiring. I hope that the two of them continue to collaborate on future projects. Peter Townsand is also an illustrator. Maybe more cartoons. Thats a nice daydream. A New Heavy Metal science fiction Cartoon produced by them.

@discoverydolan5134 Месяц назад

I’m from the uk this album is one of my favourite albums by the who my favourite who album though is Quadrophenia this video is great the way it is presented is really good my fav tracks are Armenia city in the sky odorono I can see for miles and rael fav jingle ( heinz baked beans ) cheers for posting this 👍👍👍👍

@markzutkoff1800 Месяц назад

"You get what you get, and you don't get upset." Words of wisdom, Abigail! I had that same twofer of A Quick One and Sell Out, though mine was an American copy. And like you, I listened to Tommy years before I heard Rael, so the re-use of the Underture music came as a surprise. (One wonders what British listeners, or even Americans paying attention, who heard the albums in release order, thought about the re-use at the time. I rarely see it referenced in reviews.) I like Rael more than you do, though, because it's one of those songs that make you think about its story, incomprehensible though it may be. While I completely agree with you about the Rock & Roll Circus version of "A Quick One", I think the original "Live at Leeds" release had the definitive "Young Man Blues", better than the Isle of Wight version. Thank you for revealing the true meaning of the title "Armenia City In The Sky". I never knew that before! And I did a quick listen; the giveaway is that Speedy Keen is definitely singing "sitting" with an end 'g'. BTW, this is not the only 60s rock album to open with a completely unexpected lead vocalist; Steppenwolf the Second opens with "Faster Than The Speed Of Life", sung by drummer Jerry Edmonton, where we'd always expect to hear a John Kay vocal. Finally, I don't want to rag on name mispronunciations, but Ronan O'Rahilly's last name is usually pronounced o-RA-hill-ee, emphasis on the RA. You could almost pronounce it "O'Reilly", but the "h" is not silent, so it has to be added in. No hints for EITHER Friday's Modern Classic or next Monday's album? I'll be going through withdrawal! Hope the album gets there in time!

@caged-melody Месяц назад

I bought this album when I was 14 in 93. I bought the Vinyl second hand for two dollars at vinyl graveyard on Highland and Yacca St. The CD at the time was $17.99 at the warehouse and music plus. My favorite song on The Who Sale Out is Sunrise. Listening to Pete play and sing on his own, sounds as if i was there in the room watching him perform the tune. The way they capture the acoustic is magic. Sunrise also reminds me of Elliot Smith a lot. Lastly Tony Blackburn is on Radio 2 Friday nights 10pm pst. The sounds of the 60s. The show has those cool jingles! And rotosound strings are the best sounding strings.

@user-mz6lt2pr9s Месяц назад

Thanks for the video. My favorite band. Awesome in the studio and live. The most explosive live band (ask the Smothers Brothers).

@abigaildevoe Месяц назад

that host looked equal parts bewildered, impressed, and scared for his job LOL

@johnlorinc2081 Месяц назад

I really like and respect the Who, although I find myself liking a lot of their songs a lot more than their albums. Who's Next is by far their best, and most important, album. In my opinion, Sell Out is in the runner up slot. Yes, better than Tommy and Quadrophenia. Great video once again!

@suesupino5872 Месяц назад

My fave band of all time (well, today at least!). Best album is a tough one. For all the glories of the later albums, my mod sensibilities lead me to the raw kick in the bollocks RnB of My Generation, the Freakbeat of A Quick One and the Popsike Proto-Concept of this one? Nope, can’t choose between my children! Best single, I Can’t Explain.

@leegoodison Месяц назад

The hole album flows effetely. hard to think of many bands than have world class musicianship, stage present that connects to there audience. plus insightful lyrics like The Who.

@johncollier9280 Месяц назад

Thanks fer lettin' us in on yer tattoo Abigail...Will we ever see it?

@KamenSentaiMetalHero Месяц назад

28:33 I think Rael works as a effective closing track, particularily in how it's a lead-in to Tommy. Also, I hope you cover their first two records and of course their later ones sometime down the road.

@abigaildevoe Месяц назад

tommy is badly in need of a redux (and film review) and has been since i first covered it. who’s next is on my radar as well. would need to somehow fashion an ironic union jack outfit for my generation

@KamenSentaiMetalHero Месяц назад

@@abigaildevoe I also agree that Melancholia is fantastic.

@robertkise Месяц назад

I got the 1,000th ‘Like’ for this video & for the 1st time, saw the number change from 999 to 1k.

@GrizrazRex Месяц назад

Melancholia does indeed rip. I had a band in LA playing it in the mid-80's, and our demo recording of it was deliberately produced to sound like the Who had done it.

@robertroddy Месяц назад

Great album great job young lady

@bobforrest8683 Месяц назад

Thank you Abby for covering The Who's greatest album. I listened to this record hundreds of times back when it was current. My buddy drew a picture of me sitting in a tub of Heinz Baked Beans and I put it next to my picture in my Senior Yearbook.

@MarsHottentot Месяц назад

Great episode about my fave Who record! The CD is my preferred version as it has all the stuff that could have been on the proper LP. TOMMY was a constant in Ma Hottentot's house back in the early 70s, too. "Helter Skelter" was also MY first fave Beatles track - and when I was hungering for something approaching that aesthetic in the mid/late 80s, Sonic Youth came and saved the day. I have a feeling you made the same connection?

@josephyates2481 Месяц назад

Update: My "version " of Sell Out was actually disc 3 of the 4 disc "Maximum Rock & Roll" release. It had a number of outtakes such as "Dogs" an "Rael 2". Far more impactful listen.