One place online has the price listed as £90.99, or about $125. All-in-all, that's a steal for all that content related to one of the great albums of that generation.
Posted on 02/27/2021 7:43:44 AM PST by DoodleBob
Initially released in December 1967 and described latterly by Rolling Stone as "THE WHO's finest album," "The Who Sell Out" reflected a remarkable year in popular culture. As well as being forever immortalized as the moment when the counterculture and the "Love Generation" became a global phenomenon and "pop" began metamorphosing into "rock."
The new Super Deluxe Edition of "The Who Sell Out" features 112 tracks, 46 of which are unreleased, an 80-page, hard-back, full-color book, including rare period photos, memorabilia, track-by-track annotation and new sleeve notes by Pete Townshend with comments from the likes of Pete Drummond (Radio London DJ), Richard Evans (designer) and Roy Flynn (the Speakeasy club manager).
The Super Deluxe package also includes nine posters and inserts, including replicas of 20" x 30" original Adrian George album poster, a gig poster from The City Hall, Newcastle, a Saville Theatre show 8-page program, a business card for the Bag o' Nails club, Kingly Street, a WHO fan club photo of group, a flyer for Bath Pavilion concerts including THE WHO, a crack-back bumper sticker for Wonderful Radio London, Keith Moon's Speakeasy club membership card and a WHO fan club newsletter.
As a taster for the set an EP of Pete Townshend's previously unreleased demos has today been released on all streaming services including "Pictures Of Lily" (new remix, previously unreleased), "Kids! Do You Want Kids?" (a.k.a. "Do You Want Kids, Kids?") (previously unreleased) and "Odorono" (previously unreleased).
"The Who Sell Out" was originally planned by Pete Townshend and the band's managers Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, as a loose concept album including jingles and commercials linking the songs stylized as a pirate radio broadcast. This concept was born out of necessity as their label and management wanted a new album and Townshend felt that he didn't have enough songs.
The groundbreaking original plan for "Sell Out" was to sell advertising space on the album but instead the band opted for writing their own jingles paying tribute to pirate radio stations and to parody an increasingly consumerist society.
The homage to pop-art is evident in both the advertising jingles and the iconic sleeve design created by David King who was the art director at the Sunday Times, and Roger Law who invented the "Spitting Image" TV show. The sleeve features four advertising images, taken by the renowned photographer David Montgomery, of each band member Odorono deodorant (Pete Townshend), Medac spot cream (Keith Moon), Charles Atlas (John Entwistle) and Roger Daltrey and Heinz baked beans. The story goes that Roger Daltrey caught pneumonia from sitting in the cold beans for too long.
"The Who Sell Out" is a bold depiction of the period in which it was made, the tail-end of the "swinging-'60s" meets pop-art mixed with psychedelia and straight-ahead pop. It's a glorious blend of classic powerful WHO instrumentation, melodic harmonies, satirical lyrical imagery crystallized for what was only the group's third album. The album's ambition and scope is unrivalled by THE WHO, or any other act from that period.
Within the bold concept, were a batch of fabulous and diverse songs. "I Can See For Miles", a Top 10 hit at the time, is a WHO classic. "Rael", a Townshend "mini-opera" with musical motifs that reappeared in "Tommy" and the psychedelic blast of "Armenia City In The Sky" and "Relax" are among the very best material anyone wrote during the 1960s
One of the most extraordinary albums of any era, "The Who Sell Out" is THE WHO's last "pop" album. Two years later came "Tommy" — a double concept album about a deaf, dumb and blind kid.
"The Who Sell Out" Super Deluxe Edition
Disc 1 - Original mono mix, mono As & Bs and unreleased mono mixes
Disc 2 - Original stereo mix and stereo bonus tracks
Disc 3 - Studio outtakes, "fly-on-the-wall" versions of early takes of songs from the album sessions, "studio chat" etc.
Disc 4 – "The Road To Tommy" will contain stereo mixes of the studio tracks recorded in 1968 — some previously unreleased — plus 1968 As and Bs mono mixes (all tracks remixed from original 4 and 8-track session tapes in THE WHO vault)
Disc 5 - 14 of Pete Townshend's original demos, previously unreleased and exclusive to this set
Bonus 7" discs:
1. Track U.K. 45 repro "I Can See For Miles" (early mono mix with single-tracked vocal) and "Someone's Coming" (original U.K. track single mix with single-tracked vocal)
2. Decca U.S.A. 45 repro "Magic Bus" (U.S./U.K. mono) and "Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde" (original U.S. Decca single mix)
80-page, hard-back full-color book, including rare period photos, memorabilia and track annotation and new liner notes by Pete Townshend with comments from from Pete Drummond (Radio Caroline DJ), Chris Huston (Talentmasters Studio), Richard Evans (designer), Roy Flynn (Speakeasy Club manager), Arnold Schwartzman (designer) and Andy Neill (WHO biographer)
Memorabilia:
Nine posters and inserts, including replicas of 20" x 30" original Adrian George poster; Gig poster — City Hall, Newcastle: THE WHO, TRAFFIC and THE TREMELOES; Saville Theatre 8-page program; Business card for the Bag o' Nails club, Kingly Street; fan club photo of group; flyer for Bath Pavilion concerts including THE WHO; crack-back bumper sticker for Wonderful Radio London; Keith Moon's Speakeasy club membership card; WHO fan club newsletter.
Other "The Who Sell Out" formats:
* 2LP deluxe (stereo) vinyl version, featuring the original album and extras highlights from box set.
* D2C 2LP deluxe (mono) vinyl version featuring the original album and extras highlights from box set pressed on colored vinyl; disc 1 "Odorono" red / disc 2 "Baked Bean" orange.
* 2-CD edition six-panel digi-pak with a 16-page booklet.
Also available in a variety of digital formats
One place online has the price listed as £90.99, or about $125. All-in-all, that's a steal for all that content related to one of the great albums of that generation.
What?
I was once a huge Who fanatic and would have given my left arm for this. I got older and they haven’t appealed to me in decades.
Have the original, and Who’s Next..converted them both to CD and still listen to them.
Yes. But you have to Guess Who if you want The Band.
It’s good but it ain’t Who’s Next on which every single song is a keeper like LZIV or American Beauty or Let it Bleed or Wish You Were Here or Second Helping or Abby Road (almost) or Ziggy Stardust or Aqualung.....and so on
Meaty Big and Bouncy is a compilation kind of but every song is worthwhile
Every Picture Tells a Story and Sgt Pepper
Byrd’s Sweetheart of the Radio
Most perfect big album is a toss up
Exile on Main Street versus Physical Graffiti
It could go on and on....what really made Sells Out is the title and artwork....man I remember well....at capital records downtown Jax Ms or on Ellis Ave ....folks had to see the cover....it was repelling but grabbed u
The Who were four amazingly talented musicians - each one was a Lead Musician in his own right.
Roger Daltry, Lead Vocalist
Pete Townsend, Lead Guitarist
John Entwistle, Lead Bassist
Keith Moon, Lead Drummer
They were an incredibly talented bunch. Only two survivors to date.
My favorite tune from Sell Out is Sunrise.
IMHO, their best album.
Pete wrote it for his mom. Some beautiful acoustic guitar work on that one.
But "Odorono" is my favorite song of all on the album.
For me, music slammed the door on the 60s sensibilities when psychedelia became passé. Sell Out is a 60s album and mildly psychadelic; I Can See For Miles is the apex of Townshend's psychedelic output, and I read some quote of his that was something like "I gave up on psychedelia when I put on my Doc Martens." I would not dream of ranking it near Live At Leeds or Quadrophenia (though it's better than Who Are You).
I was but a wee Deplorable when this album came out but I got it years later as my first Ooo album. As you state, the cover and concept alone may outshine its more-than-decent musical content.
Townshend once said The Who wasn't really popular in the South. Is that true?
They hold up well but not like Stones or Zepplin
Although I still listen probably weekly
I listen to little music made post 2000
Except new outlaw style country
Called Kentucky music or Texas stuff or Oklahoma red dirt
That my friends is where some good stuff can be found
But keep beware of woke country
Apple loves to mix in woke lyrics bullsht into that genre
One minute you’re listening to Sturgill Simpson. Or Tyler Childers
And they throw in Ashley McBryde or Amanda Shires or her husband Jason Isbell all nauseating lefty ...Isbell is former front man Drive by Truckers....a great alt band but he’s mega woke....
Kasey Musgraves is woke too but she’s so deliciously hot I give her a not guilty....I have to
I listen to a lot of these new country genres.....beyond tailgate or bro country
Really good... Childers stands out.....
Unless you want to shoot your dash....never ever listen to uber leftist versions of the Highwaymen called Highwaywomen....
I have no clue why Jimmy Webb helped Shires craft that horseshit
Music Row has been borged by gen x and younger leftists ....mostly women....they took over when Viacom sent down urban taste influencers to run CMT after they bought it 15 years ago or so.....it’s now their baby
Very PC
I don’t know if it was recorded for the “Sell Out” sessions, but probably the best Who song that never made it onto an album is “Melancholia”.
The original WHO album. Like Walter Wart the Freaky Frog, I was always one step ahead of the crowd and had this album before anyone knew "WHO" they were in 1966. A really cool album and the songs are still snappy today.
Probably would have been worth a lot today if my dad had not negligently sold all my cool stuff out from under me. He didn't mean any harm, just wasn't paying attention, Oh well, c'est la vie.
No, what’s on second...
Not to me it’s not....I’d rank them in the Big Five anywhere where folks listen to rock music....
They got same airplay in the 60s as all top tier bands right under Stones and Beatles and Motown singles...
Who’s Next was a pivotal album my HIGH school days ....as popular as Led Zepplin or Lynyrd Skynyrd...
We would travel distance to Dallas or Atlanta to see them
The South lacked population for tickets then unlike now after so many have moved in here
Pete says a lot of things lol
What makes The Who special is their uniqueness
Pete’s eccentric guitar style and great writing and composing
Rogers singing and vitality
Ox’s strong bass...anyone should listen to their STB rendition his bass isolates
And of course Keith Moon another one to listen to isolated tracks of
Quite a band...and Pete threw Abbie Hoffman offstage....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UYNVT4B20I4
It just dawned on me.....you responded first person
Is this your blog?
Are you blabbermouth.....if so watch out for HG
He’ll be here soon like the worms in Dune
Lol
Btw....I don’t fault blogs some are good and you really didn’t excerpt
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