Not sure what the point of putting 2 versions of certain songs on, just put the better, longer in the case of the title track on it. Seems confused.

I didn't mind it.

I also didn't quite get the point of it.

Knowing PT, it meant and/or was intended to express complex and profound emotions and philosophical concepts.

It was however a fairly prosaic set of songs featuring Daltrey's still powerful vocals, decent musicianship and PT's understandably poor vocals.

Townshend never was a great vocalist of course, but it was an essential element of peak plateau-era Who and worked perfectly as a fragile, heartfelt, soulful and effectively 'in tune' with the underlying concept, in counterpoint to Daltrey's bombastic primal roar.

Unfortunately, unlike some other singers, he's clearly not maintained or adapted his vocals and it was a conspicuous on this.

I mean, I guess he was never a recognised singer, although (after the earlier mod years) he probably sung (or song on) 1/3 of the band's songs, so unfortunately newer stuff exposes his vocal limitations fairly badly.

Have you just run that through a Tom Waits AI filter?

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:

Nightjar wrote:

Daltrey's vocals have probably held up better over the years than any other living singer.

Isn't Percy Plant alright these days?

Mind you he's got some help with the high notes.

Nightjar wrote:

What's the underpinning narrative BTW?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Heard_Music


It's no Quadrophenia. Probably.