DON'T CRY,
DON'T RAISE YOUR EYE
IT'S ONLY TEENAGE WASTELAND
Who's Next
is the fifth
studio album
by the
English rock band
The Who,
released on
August,2nd 1971
by Track Records
in the United Kingdom
and
Decca Records
in the United States.
It developed from
the aborted
Lifehouse project,
a multi-media Rock Opera
conceived by the
group's guitarist
Pete Townshend
as a follow-up to
the band's
1969 album
Tommy.
The project was cancelled
owing to its complexity
and to conflicts
with
Kit Lambert,
the band's manager,
but the group salvaged
some of the songs,
without the connecting
story elements,
to release as
their next album.
Eight of the nine songs
on
Who's Next
were from
Lifehouse,
with the lone exception
being the
John Entwistle-penned
"My Wife".
Ultimately,
the remaining
Lifehouse tracks
would all be released
on other albums
throughout the
next decade.
The Who
recorded
Who's Next
with assistance from
recording engineer
Glyn Johns.
After producing the song
"Won't Get Fooled Again"
in the
Rolling Stones Mobile Studio,
they relocated to
Olympic Studios
to record and mix
most of the album's
remaining songs.
They made
prominent use of
synthesizer on the album,
particularly on
"Won't Get Fooled Again"
and
"Baba O'Riley",
which were both
released as singles.
The cover photo
was shot by
Ethan Russell;
it made reference to
the monolith in the
1968 film
2001: A Space Odyssey,
as it featured the band
standing by a
concrete piling
protruding from a
slag heap
in South Yorkshire,
apparently having
urinated against it.
The album was an
immediate critical
and
commercial success
and has since been
viewed by many critics
as the Who's
best album,
as well as one of
the greatest albums
of all time.
It has been reissued
on CD
several times,
often with additional songs
originally intended for
Lifehouse
included as
bonus tracks.
Who's Next
was ranked
number 77
on Rolling Stone's
2020 edition of its
"The 500 Greatest
Albums of All Time" list.
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