Live at Leeds | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Who
Label: Mca
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  294 reviews
Sales Rank: 1623
Format: Live, Original Recording Remastered, Extra Tracks
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 008811121525
UPC: 008811121525
EAN: 0008811121525
ASIN: B000002OVJ
Release Date: February 28, 1995
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Heaven and Hell - The Who, Entwistle, John | | • | I Can't Explain | | • | Fortune Teller - The Who, Neville, Naomi | | • | Tattoo | | • | Young Man Blues - The Who, Allison, Mose | | • | Substitute | | • | Happy Jack | | • | I'm a Boy | | • | A Quick One, While He's Away | | • | Amazing Journey/Sparks | | • | Summertime Blues - The Who, Cochran, Eddie | | • | Shakin' All Over - The Who, Kidd, Johnny | | • | My Generation | | • | Magic Bus |
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Amazon.com essential recording
Anyone who owned the vinyl copy of Live at Leeds will barely recognize its digitized namesake. While the 1970 record offered a mere six selections, the 1995 CD reissue is fleshed out with a full 14 tracks. Reveling in the augmented Leeds prompts one to wonder why in the name of "Heaven and Hell" they didn't put out a double record in the first place. No matter. This Live at Leeds is actually superior to its revered predecessor. The Who are at their Maximum R&B peak here, bringing an almost proto-metal aggression to supercharged covers of "Young Man Blues," "Summertime Blues," and "Shakin' All Over" (all from the original record) and treating fans to originals familiar ("I Can't Explain," "My Generation," "Magic Bus") and less known ("Heaven and Hell," "Tattoo," "A Quick One"). An improved-upon classic. --Steven Stolder
Amazon.com
Long considered one of the greatest live albums ever recorded, the Who's Live at Leeds was originally edited and packaged to resemble the haphazard state of early-'70s bootlegs, then expanded and sonically upgraded in the mid-1990s. But this deluxe edition finally restores the blistering February 1970 Leeds University concert to its full running length by adding the band's earliest officially available live rendition of the then-fresh Tommy in its entirety. And while it isn't perfect (the Tommy tracks have been moved from their original slot in the show and resequenced to fit onto disc 2 here), this album now takes its place as the best available document of the Who in their truly ferocious prime, trumping the previously available Isle of Wight show (recorded some six months later) in both performance level and sound quality. It also begs a little revisionist pondering: Are these the true godfathers of punk? Pete Townshend's music and chord structures may have often been jazz-based, but they careen with an energy that seems at once feral and superhuman. Roger Daltrey's vocals snarl with palpable grit, while the rhythm section of John Entwistle and Keith Moon thunders menacingly along like an overheated locomotive. The Tommy heard here is still vital and alive, played by a band whose fervent, in-the-moment abandon is a wonder to behold. --Jerry McCulley
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| Customer Reviews:
 Headphones September 8, 2008
Wil Loyd Pas Inc. (kansas United States)
First time I heard this was over FM radio wearing headphones lying in bed, listening. They played the whole thing and they had short interval of somthing weird and then played the next cut, did this for the whole album, it was 1970 somthing.
IF you havent listened to this whole thing with real headphones without distraction, do it, trust me, do it, I would not lie.
Good lesson for guitar players also.
A MUST-HAVE July 25, 2008
Joel C. Knisley (NC....you know, where God's from.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's The Who. Live. At Leeds University. Duh. How come you haven't bought it already? Powerful live set from seminal rock four-piece, blah, blah, sizzling energy, innovative songwriting, blah blah....Keith Moon....buy it. Listen to it. Have mind blown.
The Who Live At Leeds 1970 July 11, 2008
pinkfloyd (annoymus countries)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Amazing live album is all that i have too say for this. The drums are absoutley amazing Keith Moon is probaly one of the greatest rock drummers of all time his peformance is great here. Pete Townshends guitar is great and everybody in this is really doing great on there instruments.
This may just be one of there greatest peformances of all time it has the energy and they sound just really great here i think all the live versions sound great on here
If your a big Who fan like me buy this album today you wont be dissapointed...
 awful June 24, 2008
999LA
0 out of 19 found this review helpful
Really horrible sound quality, and the band must have been totally wasted...Apparently with so many for sale , others thought the same.
 undeniable power June 20, 2008
Woodrow (Brooklyn, NY United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm not a huge fan of The Who but this record is undeniable. The band is on fire and at a creative peak. I actually like the single disc version more than the double (I'm not a fan of the Tommy material, sorry). Everyone needs a copy of this.
If you like high energy R&R like this and MC5, Stooges, Ramones, etc check out Mighty High...In Drug City.
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