The Who: The Ultimate Collection
![]() | By The Who Mca, 2002, Audio CD Customer Rating: 210 reviews Recommend |
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The Who's mighty catalog of beautiful, poignant, and often silly pop songs bashed out with Cassius Clay finesse has suffered in the past at the hands of multiple, butcher-shop best-ofs and horrible packaging. But this thrilling band — undeniably one of ye classicke rocke's greatest — gets the career-spanning entry-point compilation it deserves with the double-disc Ultimate Collection. The songs included here are no-brainers, for the most part — if they aren't huge hits like "My Generation," "I Can See for Miles," or "Baba O'Riley," they're long-standing fan favorites such as "Boris the Spider," "Pure and Easy," and "Squeeze Box." And while this reviewer wishes different songs were chosen from Tommy, and more than one tune was gathered from their arguably finest (and definitely silliest) album, The Who Sell Out, this record really isn't for fans (aside from the total trainspotter types) but for newcomers. — Mike McGonigal
Disc 1Disc 2
- I Can't Explain
- Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
- My Generation
- The Kids Are Alright
- A Legal Matter
- Substitute
- I'm A Boy
- Boris The Spider
- Happy Jack
- Pictures Of Lily
- I Can See For Miles
- Call Me Lightning
- Magic Bus
- Pinball Wizard
- I'm Free
- See Me, Feel Me
- The Seeker
- Summertime Blues (Live)
- My Wife
- Baba O'Riley
- Bargain
- Behind Blue Eyes
- Won't Get Fooled Again
- Let's See Action
- Pure & Easy
- Join Together
- Long Live Rock
- The Real Me
- 5:15
- Love Reign O'er Me
- Squeeze Box
- Who Are You
- Sister Disco
- You Better You Bet
- Eminence Front
Title: The Who: The Ultimate Collection
Sales Rank: 232 in Music
Artist: The Who
Label: Mca, 2002-06-11, Audio CD, 2 Discs
Format: Extra tracks, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
Package Dimensions: 5.6 x 5 x 0.4 inches, 0.25 pounds
- A good starter for a compilation
- A good started comp for total years. There are better for certain periods of the Who More reviews
- Okay
- This could have sounded better. Something was "off" with the sound on the cd. I still enjoyed this More reviews
- Marvelous
- Very nice album and very nice to have in the collection
Guy
Zoetermeer, the Netherlands More reviews
- Awesome CD
- The Who were such a great band!!! And this CD is a great collection of their songs. More reviews
- The essence of Who excitement. Essential!
- I've been a fan of theirs since the mid 60's and always felt their earlier recordings to be the most exuberant, spontaneous and whimsically creative. After their peak with Who's Next (1971), they took themselves way too seriously with Quadrophenia and then after that they sounded angry and lost their youthful innocence, which was More reviews

