Face Dances

by

The Who

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Some of the people below can complain all they want and slag the band for carrying on without Keith. They can also tell you how dreadful they think this album is because everyone has an opinion, but the truth is they are wrong. If Face Dances doesn't agree with your musical taste, then fine, but the problem doesn't lie in the quality of the songs or musicianship.

As along time Who fan, I'm not going to try and convince anyone that this album is as good or better than Tommy or Who's Next,but it is as good or better than some of their work. Despite what other's may say, all the songs here, both Pete and John's, are great songs. You Better You Bet, Cache Cache, Don't Let Go The Coat, and Another Tricky Day are as catchey and well contructed as anything Pete has done and the Quiet One and You are definitely two of the best songs Entwistle has ever written. The Quiet One and You are also as abrasive and raw as any studio tracks the Who ever did. Those songs come as close to the claasic Who live sound as anything.

I would also like to say that I was as sad as any other true fan when Keith Moon died,but I don't feel the rest of the band betrayed his memmory by carrying on. I also think that trashing Kenny Jones is pretty childish as well. I don't know if any of the other critics below are musicians or not, but I am and I thought Kenny's playing on both Face Dances and It's Hard was very impressive. He may not have had the frenzied , almost out of control style that made Keith so great, but his inventive use of varied rhythms and beats had alot of impact on the songs here.

The bottom line here is, Face Dances may not be the best Who album, but it is a very good one.

I don't have this at the moment - the first copies of this remaster had a faulty track which had been wrongly mastered (It's In You) and although MCA in the US fixed it, Polydar UK don't seem to have bothered! So British Who fans, buy yourself an American copy from Amazon! "Face Dances" was always a hit and miss affair - but it's not half as lousy as "Who Are You" (Moon or no Moon!). Best tracks are Another Tricky Day, You Better You Bet, Daily Records, You and one of the contemporary bonus cuts Somebody Saved Me (which Pete later did as a solo effort) - this CD is well worth it for these songs, but only if you've bought the more essential Who albums already ("Sell Out", "Tommy", "Who's Next", "Quadrophenia", "Odds & Sods", "Who By Numbers" and either the box set or a good singles/best of package like "Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy").