THE WHO MAXIMUM As & Bs
Following the success of the four 7″ singles box sets from The Who, MAXIMUM As & Bs presents all of the bands A sides, B sides and EPs in one place for the very first time. The 5 CD set features 86 tracks from the Brunswick, Reaction, Track and Polydor labels.
MAXIMUM As & Bs includes classic hits such as “Pictures of Lily,” “I Can See For Miles,” “Magic Bus,” “Pinball Wizard,” “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” “Substitute,” “I Can’t Explain,” “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere,” “My Generation,” “Squeeze Box,” “Who Are You,” “You Better You Bet,” “Real Good-Looking Boy” & the band’s last recorded track to date “Be Lucky.” The set includes rarely heard B sides and EP tracks along with the group’s first single, as the High Numbers – “Zoot Suit” b/w “I’m The Face.”
The box set features five CDs, in separate wallets, housed in a rigid, lift-off-lid style box along with a 48-page booklet, with track-by-track annotation by acclaimed Who writers with period photos & memorabilia. The full track listing for MAXIMUM As & Bs follows at the end of this release.
ALSO COMING!
August 18, 2017, sees the re-issue for the first time in a decade and a half of Pete Townshend’s critically acclaimed demo and outtake collections SCOOP, ANOTHER SCOOP & SCOOP 3. These albums give a unique insight into Townshend’s creative process and feature early versions of future Who classics including “Eminence Front,” “The Real Me,” “Long Live Rock,” “The Magic Bus” as well as many other Who hits. These double-CD and vinyl sets have been newly remastered at Abbey Road with the LPs remastered at half speed and pressed on pink (Scoop), yellow (Another Scoop) and light blue (Scoop 3) vinyl. The full track listings follow at the end of this release.
Also coming exclusively on vinyl on October 27, 2017, are MEATY, BEATY, BIG & BOUNCY and LIVE AT LEEDS, The Who’s first singles collection from 1971 and what the New York Times referred to as “Quite simply, it is the best live rock album ever made” respectively. Both albums have been cut at Abbey Road with half-speed mastering process and will be released on October 27 on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl.
THE WHO MAXIMUM As & Bs |
||
CD 1 |
Dogs |
Success Story |
Zoot Suit |
Call Me Lightning |
Who Are You |
I’m the Face |
Magic Bus |
Had Enough |
I Can’t Explain |
Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde |
Long Live Rock |
Bald Headed Woman |
My Wife (Live) |
|
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere |
CD 3 |
5:15 (Soundtrack Version) |
Daddy Rolling Stone |
Pinball Wizard |
I’m One (Soundtrack |
My Generation |
Dogs Part Two |
Version) |
Shout and Shimmy |
The Seeker |
You Better You Bet |
Circles (AKA ‘Instant Party’) |
Here For More |
The Quiet One |
Instant Party Mixture |
Summertime Blues |
Don’t Let Go The Coat |
A Legal Matter |
Heaven And Hell |
You |
The Kids Are Alright |
See Me Feel Me / Listening |
|
The Ox |
To You |
CD 5 |
La-La-La Lies |
Overture From Tommy |
Athena |
The Good’s Gone |
Christmas |
A Man Is A Man |
I’m Free |
Eminence Front |
|
CD 2 |
Won’t Get Fooled Again |
It’s Your Turn |
Substitute |
Don’t Know Myself |
Twist And Shout (Live) |
Circles |
Let’s See Action |
I Can’t Explain (Live) |
Waltz For A Pig |
When I Was A Boy |
Bony Maronie (Live) |
I’m A Boy |
Join Together |
Join Together (Live) |
In The City |
Baby Don’t You Do It |
I Can See For Miles (Live) |
Disguises |
Relay |
Behind Blue Eyes (Live) |
Batman |
Wasp Man |
Real Good Looking Boy |
Bucket T |
Old Red Wine |
|
Barbara Ann |
CD 4 |
Wire & Glass EP – Side A |
Happy Jack |
5:15 |
(5 x tracks) |
I’ve Been Away |
Water |
Wire & Glass EP – Side B – |
Pictures Of Lily |
Listening To You / See Me |
Mirror Door |
Doctor, Doctor |
Feel Me |
Be Lucky |
The Last Time |
(Soundtrack Version) |
I Can’t Explain (2014 Stereo |
Under My Thumb |
Overture (Soundtrack |
remix) |
I Can See For Miles |
Version) |
|
Someone’s Coming |
Squeeze Box |
|
PETE TOWNSHEND ‘SCOOP’ 2CD |
||
CD 1 |
CD 2 |
|
So Sad About Us/Brrr |
The Magic Bus |
|
Squeeze Box |
Cache Cache |
|
Zelda |
Cookin’ |
|
Politician |
You’re So Clever |
|
Dirty Water |
Body Language |
|
Circles |
Initial Machine Experiments |
|
Piano: Tipperary |
Mary |
|
Unused Piano: Quadrophenia |
Recorders |
|
Melancholia |
Goin’ Fishin’ |
|
Bargain |
To Barney Kessell |
|
Popular |
You Came Back |
|
Behind Blue Eyes |
Love Reign O’er Me |
|
Things Have Changed |
||
SCOOP 2LP (PINK VINYL) |
Never Ask Me |
|
Side One |
Ask Yourself |
|
So Sad About Us / Brr |
The Ferryman |
|
Squeeze Box |
The Shout |
|
Zelda |
||
Politician |
||
Dirty Water |
||
Circles (Instant Party) |
||
Piano: Tipperary |
||
Side Two |
||
Unused Piano: Quadrophenia |
ANOTHER SCOOP 2LP (Yellow Vinyl) |
|
Melancholia |
Side One |
|
Bargain |
You Better You Bet |
|
Things Have Changed |
Girl In A Suitcase |
|
Popular |
Brooklyn Kids |
|
Behind Blue Eyes |
Pinball Wizard |
|
Football Fugue |
||
Side Three |
Happy Jack |
|
Magic Bus |
||
Cache Cache |
Side Two |
|
Cookin’ |
Substitute |
|
You’re So Clever |
Long Live Rock |
|
Body Language |
Call Me Lightning |
|
Initial Machine Experiments |
Holly Like Ivy |
|
Begin The Beguine |
||
SIDE FOUR |
Vicious Interlude |
|
Mary |
La La La Lies |
|
Recorders |
Cat Snatch |
|
Side Three |
||
PETE TOWNSHEND ‘ANOTHER |
Prelude #556 |
|
SCOOP’ 2CD |
Baraque Ippanese |
|
CD One |
Praying The Game |
|
You Better You Bet |
Driftin’ Blues |
|
Girl In A Suitcase |
Christmas |
|
Brooklyn Kids |
Pictures Of Lily |
|
Pinball Wizard |
Don’t Let Go The Coat |
|
Football Fugue |
||
Happy Jack |
Side Four |
|
Substitute |
The Kids Are Alright |
|
Long Live Rock |
Prelude, The Right to Write |
|
Call Me Lightning |
Never Ask Me |
|
Holly Like Ivy |
Ask Yourself |
|
Begin The Beguine |
The Ferryman |
|
Vicious Interlude |
The Shout |
|
La La La Lies |
||
Cat Snatch |
||
PETE TOWNSHEND ‘SCOOP 3’ 2CD |
||
CD Two |
CD One |
|
Prelude #556 |
Can you See The Real Me |
|
Baraque Ippanese |
Dirty Water |
|
Praying The Game |
Commonwealth Boys |
|
Driftin’ Blues |
Theme 015 |
|
Christmas |
Marty Robbins |
|
Pictures Of Lily |
I Like It The Way It Is |
|
Don’t Let Go Of The Coat |
Theme 016 |
|
The Kids Are Alright |
No Way Out (However much I booze) |
|
Prelude, The Right to Write |
Collings |
|
Parvardigar (German version) |
Iron Man Recitative |
|
Sea & Sand |
Tough Boys |
|
971104 Arpeggio Piano |
Did You Steal My Money? |
|
Theme 017 |
Can You Really Dance? |
|
I Am Afraid |
||
Maxims For Lunch |
Side Five |
|
Wistful |
Variations On Dirty Jobs |
|
Eminence Front |
All Lovers Are Deranged |
|
Elephants |
||
CD Two |
Wired To The Moon – Pt. 2 |
|
Prelude 970519 |
How Can You Do It Alone |
|
Iron Man Recitative |
Poem Disturbed |
|
Tough Boys |
||
Did You Steal My Money? |
Side Six |
|
Can You Really Dance? |
Squirm Squirm |
|
Variations On Dirty Jobs |
Outlive The Dinosaur |
|
All lovers are deranged (Pete’s version) |
Teresa |
|
Elephants |
Man And Machines |
|
Wired To The Moon (part 2) |
It’s In Ya |
|
How Can You Do It Alone? |
||
Poem Disturbed |
||
Squirm Squirm |
THE WHO ‘MEATY, BEATY, BIG & |
|
Outlive The Dinosaur |
BOUNCY’ |
|
Teresa |
Side One |
|
Man And Machines |
I Can’t Explain * |
|
It’s In Ya |
The Kids Are Alright # |
|
Lonely Words |
Happy Jack # |
|
I Can See For Miles |
||
Pictures Of Lily # |
||
SCOOP 3 3LP (LIGHT BLUE VINYL) |
My Generation # |
|
Side One |
The Seeker |
|
Can You See The Real Me |
||
Dirty Water |
Side Two |
|
Commonwealth Boys |
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere * |
|
Theme 015 |
Pinball Wizard |
|
Marty Robbins |
Legal Matter # |
|
I Like It The Way It Is |
Boris The Spider * |
|
Magic Bus # |
||
Side Two |
Substitute * |
|
Theme 016 |
I’m A Boy # |
|
No Way Out (However Much I Booze) |
* Mono |
|
Collings |
# Electronically enhanced for stereo |
|
Parvardigar |
reproduction |
|
Sea And Sand |
||
971104 Arpeggio Piano |
||
Side Three |
THE WHO ‘LIVE AT LEEDS’ |
|
Theme 017 |
Side One |
|
I Am Afraid |
Young Man |
|
Maxims For Lunch |
Substitute |
|
Wistful |
Summertime Blues |
|
Eminence Front |
Shakin’ All Over |
|
Lonely Words |
||
Side Two |
||
Side Four |
My Generation |
|
Prelude 970519 |
Magic Bus |