My Generation
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My Generation
My Generation is the debut studio album by the English rock band The Who, released on 3 December 1965 by Brunswick Records in the United Kingdom. In the United States, it was released on 25 April 1966 by Decca Records as The Who Sings My Generation, with a different cover and a slightly altered track listing. -Wikipedia
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Classic Rock Review
the album features a raw, hard rock sound and approach
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Ultimate Classic Rock
But they were never as fiercely raw as they were on their first album, My Generation.
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BBC
2002 To someone who joined the ride a decade too late to hear it the first time round, it still sounds like one of the most vital and important reasons to love rock 'n' roll.
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Sputnik Music
2006 The recording was not done the smoothest but makes it sound rawer, which I think is good.
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All Music
While the execution was sometimes crude, and the songwriting not as sophisticated as it would shortly become, the Who never surpassed the pure energy level of this record.
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Goldmine Magazine
“My Generation,” is quite spectacular.
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Louder Sound
2016 Flawed, certainly, but still endlessly fascinating.
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The Guardian
But there is buried treasure: the demos of My Generation show, in one case, that every aspect of the song, right down to the speed-blocked stutter, had been worked out by Townshend
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Rolling Stone
2016 This surge of interest from millennials has come at a surprising time for the group, which has, in recent years, been shining spotlights on particular points in its past.
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Rolling Stone
2002 An electric-soul band. Maximum R&B: That’s what they called the music on that famous Marquee Club poster, and they meant it literally.
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Pop Matters
2013 Probably their freshest sounding, too, probably because the lightness in their step wasn't yet weighed down by any of their (ensuing) (often great) pretensions.
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Pop Matters
2002 They talked the talk and walked the walk the hard way. And that made all the difference.
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Pop Dose
The debut album from The Who is a great first attempt from a young band finding its feet – from R&B/soul covers act to truly original, innovative and forward thinking British rock powerhouse. RECOMMENDED
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Cluas
2002 it was recorded rough n' ready because the record in those days wasn't expected to have a shelf life of more than a month. Today's recording sophistactry has set that right.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
2015 The Who got bigger, brainier, better and generally tougher as they grew. But they were never as fiercely raw as they were on their first album, My Generation.
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The Sound of Vinyl
2017 The album was made immediately after The Who got their first singles on the charts and it was later dismissed by the band as something of a rush job that did not accurately represent their stage performance of the time. On the other hand, critics often rate it as one of the best rock albums of all time.
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Adrian Denning
2009 A more than impressive debut signalling the arrival of a major new talent.
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Musicko
Still, I am giving it a high rating owing to the influence it has exerted (and that will no doubt exert) over musicians far and wide.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
2002 All these years later, the explosive clash of garage-rock R&B and serrated pop from this period that later helped form their identity sounds like a launching point of things to come
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Sputnik Music
2015 The first offering by the Who goes already far beyond its proto-punk fame, marrying successfully distortion with pop melodies.
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