The Who - New Box Set for 2015?

Nice looking set, although I have no interest in anything after the last ~75% of disc 4.

 

Looks nice & I'll probably pick it up at some point, but like many others here I have most of these tracks a gazillion times over, so I'm in no hurry.

 

I'll buy it.
Why not?
I'm old.
Not sure how many more years I have left to piss away coin on Who stuff.

You know, the wife's gonna go crazy and ask "why do you buy the same songs over and over again?"

 

I like that the box itself shares its design with the Studio Albums vinyl box set. But yeah, there's no real reason to buy it if you already own the various deluxe editions, Who's Missing/Two's Missing and any Greatest Hits compilation.

 

Why am I not the least bit surprised? Oh well, the needledrops I made years ago of "Dancing" and "Bony Maronie" from the 12-inch single still sound fine to me. I don't own any of the singles box sets, but if any of the tracks on this newest box are an upgrade from what I already have, I look forward to buying them as individual (lossless) files from 7 digital. I don't expect it will set me back much.

 

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Thanks for posting the picture and track listing.

It's an inexpensive boxset, so I pre-ordered from Amazon UK.

 

And what about if you already own all of the vinyl single boxsets which this basically replicates?

 

I'd say the chances that the CD box set does NOT have the exact same content as the vinyl single box sets are minimal.

 

The CDs would be easier to play in the car....

 

Is there only one officially released version of The Seeker live?

 

There are a number of live versions from 2006 and 2007 from the Encore Series concert releases, plus there was one on the recent Hyde Park release from 2015.

 

I should have also stated, "outside of official bootlegs." I've hard so many horrid reviews of Hyde Park, I don't even want to consider that version. I'm just shocked they haven't released an earlier version.

 

The band was far from its prime in 2015, but I don't think Hyde Park is horrid. Hyde Park's "Relay" is generally well performed and arranged, with only Daltrey's somewhat odd vocal approach to the high vocals on the word "high" being a bit jarring.

 

Having heard a lot of 2015 shows, I believe that while Hyde Park can be enjoyable, its potentially my least favorite show of that tour.

Tampa 2015 could've been pretty good with a spit shine - you get both Slip Kid and A Quick One, and that odd complacency hadn't set in yet.

 

That I cannot speak to. It certainly would not be the first time a band captured a concert for a live project from a less-desirable part of tour and I would not be surprised if there were superior 2015 concerts. I remember when Hyde Park was released; I had zero interest in it and never considered acquiring it. Then I saw a portion of it in passing on TV and was very surprised and impressed at the overall quality of the performance (the same thing happened with the Quadrophenia-Live In London DVD performance; came across it on TV). I suppose I should not have doubted The Who; even as they head towards retirement, they still can deliver a very good show.

 

Hyde Park was released because it was a high profile gig and management thought it would sell. Roger, as we found out after the fact. Was suffering from viral meningitus, which affected his performance. IMO, Who management should not have released Hyde Park. As noted above, its near the bottom of the 2015 shows. On the other hand, I believe they were aware of the negative reaction many fans had to this release. Thus , Townshend vowed that he and Roger would be back in 2016 and they'ed put on a show everyone would remember. And sure enough, Townshend kept his word. They returned in 2016 and from all accounts , the reports on this forum and around the web have been mostly very positive.

 

Finally finished this thread, and think I deserve a medal!

As this is now a general Who thread (no bad thing IMO) does anyone know which mix/master has Jimmy Page's solo on Bald Headed Woman the loudest? So far I've checked a few and the mono seems louder than the stereo on the Super Deluxe...

It's a great solo and it'd be great to hear it more prominent in the mix

 

So, did this 2015 box set become the 5 CD Maximum A & B box?

 

I don't *think* so, but with the Who, who the hell knows? (<-- see what I did there?)

 

Well the box set as originally envisaged had live stuff by the High Numbers so I would guess not.

 

The 2015 box set appears to have been simply aborted. The band subsequently released the My Generation box and Maximum A&B boxes, but those appear to be different projects entirely, not replacements. IIRC, the rumored content for the 2015 box was going to be a mixture of masters and rarities. Any rarities the band accumulated for the 2015 box remain unreleased.

 

According to Whitefangy, there were going to be several “holy ****” reactions when we would get our first look at the track listing for that 2015 box set. I wonder what in the hell happened?

 

Someone realized the “stereo” Substitute is bogus?

 

Oh my! Not according to his YouTube video on his “stereo” Substitute! lol!

 

Where is he posting these days?