The Who :  Who's Next

If "Won't Get Fooled Again" was the only good track you'd be on to a winner.  Every second of it's 8'32 is a delight. But the scream at 7'45 is quite simply the finest moment in all of rock's history.  No-one can scream like Roger Daltrey, and that one gains him total amnesty from any crimes against trite (trout?) that may have since been committed.  The scream, and the "Meet the new boss, Just the same as the old boss" couplet that follows it is, in my ever so 'umble opinion, rock's ultimate stanza.  Possibly bettering and almost certainly forecasting the best Strummer and Jones would come up with a few years later (see London Calling).  By the way this song also serves as an excellent example of just how far from the original a MIDI file can be whilst still containing all the right notes.  Think on this before choosing this link!

But "Won't Get Fooled Again"s isn't the only excellent track.  There's also "Baba O'Riley", "Bargain" and "Behind Blue Eyes".  Excellent stuff one and all.  No duff tracks and therefore surely worthy of a place in any "Best of..." chart.  Even against Robbie.

PS: I've only just, after all these years, worked out what's going on on the cover.  How slow am I?