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The Who - Bootlegs - Studio - Page 1 (A to E):
Title/Format/Rating: 25 Alternates '64-'70 - CD - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2015 - n/a - Decca
Comments: Compilation of officially released rarities. It lists "Legal Matter" as an "alternate" - but there was only one take of the song.
Track Listing (as labeled): I'm The Face (1994 remix), Leaving Here (alternate), My Generation (Pete's demo), Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (alternate), Substitute (alternate), A Legal Matter (alternate), Circles (1966 revised version), The Kids Are Alright (Pete's demo), I'm A Boy (alternate), Happy Jack (acoustic version), Pictures Of Lily (BBC), Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand (alternate), Sumertime Blues (studio version), Someone's Coming (uk mono mix), Tattoo (early mix), I Can See For Miles (early mix), Magic Bus (full mono version), Pinball Wizard (Pete's demo), Dogs Part 2 (alternate), Young Man Blues (studio version), Eyesight To The Blind (alternate), We're Not Gonna Take It (alternate), The Seeker (BBC), 1921 (live Hull), Shakin' All Over (BBC)
Title/Format/Rating: Alternate Rarities - CD - A-
Year & Country Issued/Label: 1996 - Japan - XXBCD
Comments: Mostly (if not all) dubs off of good vinyl bootlegs. A good combination of studio rarities, unreleased tracks, Pete Townshend demos and live High Numbers. The speed is a bit slow for "That Motherland Feeling/Rael"...
Track Listing:
Studio Tracks: My Favorite Station, Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (Alt.
Vocal French
"I Can't Explain" EP version), The Kids Are Alright (Demo), It's Not True (Demo), My Generation (Demo),
Substitute (Alternate vocal version), Signal 30 (Unreleased Instrumental), Batman (Unreleased Instrumental),
Don't Look Away (Demo), Run Run Run (Demo), Disguises (Demo), Jingle Bell (BBC), You
Rang? (BBC), Baby Don't You Do It (BBC), Kill My Appetite (Demo), Do The
Strip (Demo), I'm A Boy (Demo), Our Love Was (Mono version), That Motherland Feeling/Rael (Demo)
Live High Numbers '64: Dance To Keep From Crying,
You Really Got Me, Young Man Blues, Here 'Tis Studio: Waltz For A Pig (The Graham Bond
Organization)
Title/Format/Rating: Alternate Tommy - CD - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 1997 - Japan - Element of Crime
Comments: Pete Townshend demos of "Tommy", with the two John Entwistle songs being mono outtakes. Basically the same disc as "The Tommy Demos". However, where as that disc is "bass heavy", this one is a bit "bass light", sounding more like a professional release, vs. a real good bootleg.
Track Listing: Overture, It's A Boy, 1921, Amazing Journey, Sparks, Christmas, Cousin Kevin, The Acid Queen, Underture, Do You Think It's Alright?, Fiddle About, Pinball Wizard, There's A Doctor, Go To The Mirror, Success, Tommy Can You Hear Me?, Smash The Mirror, Sensation, Miracle Cure, Sally Simpson, I'm Free, Welcome, Tommy's Holiday Camp, We're Not Gonna Take It
Title/Format/Rating: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere/Anytime You Want Me - 45 - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 1967 - USA - Decca
Comments: Pirate pressing of 1965 USA promo. Hand written matrix numbers (pirate) vs. machine stamped (official).
Track Listing: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, Anytime You Want Me
Title/Format/Rating: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere/Bald Headed Woman - 45 - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 1967 - USA - Decca
Comments: Pirate pressing of 1965 USA promo. Red, Blue & Green vinyl.
Track Listing: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, Anytime You Want Me
Title/Format/Rating: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere/Daddy Rolling Stone/The Last Time/Under My Thumb - 45 - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 1967 - USA - Brunswick
Comments: Pirate pressing of <then> rare Who tracks. Red vinyl.
Track Listing: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, Daddy Rolling Stone, The Last Time, Under My Thumb
Title/Format/Rating: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere - CD - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2020 - Germany - Brunswick
Comments: Pirate pressing of officially released Who tracks.
Track Listing: I Can't Explain, Lubie (Come Back Home), I'm The Face, Baby Don't You Do It, Motoring, Zoot Suit, Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, Shout And Shimmy, Instant Party Mixture, Anytime You Want Me, Leaving Here, Here 'Tis
Title/Format/Rating: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere - CD - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2021 - France - Brunswick
Comments: Pirate pressing of officially released Who tracks.
Track Listing: I Can't Explain, Lubie (Come Back Home), I'm The Face, Baby Don't You Do It, Motoring, Zoot Suit, Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, Shout And Shimmy, Instant Party Mixture, Anytime You Want Me, Leaving Here, Here 'Tis
Title/Format/Rating: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere - LP - A (Blue Vinyl, Red Vinyl and Picture Disc Versions)
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2017 - Germany - Reel to Reel
Comments: Pirate pressing of BBC Who tracks. Issued in blue vinyl, red vinyl and as a picture disc.
Track Listing: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, Just You And Me, Leaving Here, Good Lovin', My Generation, The Good's Gone, La La La Lies, Substitute, Many With Money, Dancing In The Street, Disguises, I'm A Boy
Title/Format/Rating: Archives - LP - A-
Year & Country Issued/Label: 1979 - Australia - Tin Can
Comments: This is a great vinyl bootleg. It contains the best demo version of "That Motherland Feeling/Rael", which is recorded exactly between 33 & 45RPM, so make sure your turntable has a wide variance on its pitch control! Some of the tracks are poorer quality (i.e. "I'm A Boy"), but overall, it's a winner.
Track Listing:
Demos: That Motherland Feeling/Rael, Do The Strip, Kill My
Appetite, Disguises, Don't Look Away, I'm A Boy, Glow Girl
Who Studio: Girls Eyes, Top
Gear, Summertime Blues, Radio One, Happy Jack, Radio One, My Generation, Coca
Cola, Signal-30, Batman (Unreleased instrumental version)
Demo: Glittering Girl
Live At Leeds '70: I Can't Explain, Happy
Jack, I'm A Boy
Who Studio: The Seeker
Title/Format/Rating: Archives - CD - C-
Year & Country Issued/Label: 1990 - Unknown - Unknown
Comments: Most of these tracks are from the aborted '89 Box Set. Unfortunately, this particular release suffers from super high frequencies, making it virtually unlistenable without some serious adjustments to your tone controls.
Track Listing:
Aborted '89 Box Set:
I’m The Sea (alt. mix) & The Real Me (1979 remake), I’m
The Face (alternate stereo mix), Zoot Suit (stereo remix), Here, My Generation/Land
Of Hope And Glory/Sodding About, Happy Jack, Coke 2, Early Morning Cold Taxi,
Girls Eyes, Bag O’Nails/Campers/Track Records, Jaguar, Melancholia, Fortune
Teller, Cousin Kevin Model Child, Behind Blue Eyes (alt. Take), Baby Don’t You
Do It (studio), Tommy’s Holiday Camp (live)
Studio Rarities: Substitute (Alternate vocal
version), Anyway,
Anyhow, Anywhere (France "I Can't Explain" EP Alt. vocal version), Pictures Of Lily (alternate take), Young Man
Blues (studio)
BBC Tracks: Just You And Me, A Man With Money, Dancing In The
Street, Summertime Blues, Good Lovin, Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
Title/Format/Rating: A Quick One - LP (Picture Disc) - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2009 - Mexico - Unknown
Comments: A pirate of "A Quick One" on picture disc.
Track Listing: Run Run Run, Boris The Spider, I Need You, Whiskey Man, Heat Wave, Cobwebs And Strange, Don't Look Away, See My Way, So Sad About Us, A Quick One While He's Away
Title/Format/Rating: A Quick One/Who's Next - CD - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2002 - Russia - Unknown
Comments: A pirate of "A Quick One" and "Who's Next" on a single CD. Excellent sound quality - apparently dubbed from German Polydor <remixed version> discs.
Track Listing: Run Run Run, Boris The Spider, I Need You, Whiskey Man, Heat Wave, Cobwebs And Strange, Don't Look Away, See My Way, So Sad About Us, A Quick One While He's Away, Baba O'Riley, Bargain, Love Ain't For Keeping, My Wife, The Song Is Over, Getting In Tune, Going Mobile, Behind Blue Eyes, Won't Get Fooled Again
Title/Format/Rating: Armenia City In The Sky - 12" - n/a
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2013 - Israel - n/a
Comments: n/a
Track Listing: Armenia City In The Sky
Title/Format/Rating: A Stereo Quick One While Pete's Away - CD - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 1998 - Japan - Wholiday
Comments: Excellent quality true stereo "A Quick One" tracks (exceptions noted below).
Track Listing: Run Run Run, Boris The Spider, I Need You, Whiskey Man, Heat Wave, Cobwebs And Strange, Happy Jack (simulated stereo), Don't Look Away, See My Way (simulated stereo), So Sad About Us, A Quick One While He's Away, I'm A Boy (true stereo original version), Substitute (mono alternate vocal version)
Title/Format/Rating: BBC 65 66 / The Genius Of PT - LP - B+
Year & Country Issued/Label: 1976 - USA - Postage Records
Comments: Mostly obsolete due to better quality CD bootlegs.
Track Listing:
BBC:
My Generation, The Kids Are Alright
(demo), Good Lovin ,
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, The Good's Gone
Genius Of: Pure And Easy, Behind Blue Eyes,
Going Mobile, Mary, Time Is Passing, Love Ain't For Keeping, Won't Get Fooled
Again, Song Is Over
Title/Format/Rating: The BBC Files - CD - B+
Year & Country Issued/Label: 1988 - Unknown - Pyramid
Comments: I believe this was the first BBC CD boot. Good in its time, but surpassed by the Hiwatt, "Maximum BBC", which is the BBC CD to have.
Track Listing: Just You And Me, Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, My Generation, Substitute, A Man With Money, Dancing In The Street, Disguises, I'm A Boy, So Sad About Us, Happy Jack, Boris The Spider, See My Way, I Can See For Miles, Summertime Blues
Title/Format/Rating: The Who BBC In Concert - CD - A-
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2022 - Japan - Ailias Evso
Comments: Stereo mixes of the BBC tracks. Excellent quality, but perhaps a little bit too much compression.
Track Listing: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, Leaving Here, Just You And Me, Darling, Good Lovin', The Good's Gone, My Generation, La La La Lies, Man With Money, Substitute, Dancing In The Street, So Sad About Us, Run, Run, Run, Boris The Spider, Happy Jack, See My Way, Pictures Of Lily, A Quick One While He's Away, My Generation (BBC Radio Jingle), My Way, I'm Free, The Seeker, Shakin' All Over/Spoonful, Substitute
Sound Samples:
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere The Good's Gone My Generation La La La Lies So Sad About Us Run, Run, Run Boris The Spider Happy Jack See My Way Pictures Of Lily A Quick One While He's Away The Seeker Shakin' All Over/Spoonful Substitute
Title/Format/Rating: The Who BBC Sessions, 1964 - 1966 - LP - A-
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2022 - Argentina - Madenebe
Comments: Common BBC tracks from various sources mixed in with other period tracks recorded from videos. Good sound quality, but noisy vinyl with some pops.
Track Listing: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, Good Lovin', Just You And Me, Darling, Leaving Here, Shout And Shimmy, I Can't Explain, Daddy Rolling Stone, The Good's Gone, My Generation, La La La Lies, Substitute, Man With Money, Dancing In The Street, Disguises
Sound Samples:
I Can't Explain La La La Lies Disguises
Title/Format/Rating: The Who BBC Sessions, 1967 - 1968 - LP - A-
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2022 - Argentina - Madenebe
Comments: Common BBC tracks from various sources mixed in with other period tracks recorded from videos. Good sound quality, but noisy vinyl with some pops.
Track Listing: I'm A Boy, Run, Run, Run, Happy Jack, See My Way, Boris The Spider, So Sad About Us, Pictures Of Lily, A Quick One While He's Away, I Can See For Miles (New Vocals and Bass Only), Our Love Was, Baby Don't You Do It (Don't Do It)
Sound Samples:
Our Love Was Baby Don't You Do It
Title/Format/Rating: Bucket "T" - 12" - n/a
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2013 - Israel - n/a
Comments: n/a
Track Listing: Bucket "T"
Title/Format/Rating: By Numbers/Who Are You - CD - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2002 - Eastern Europe - Unknown
Comments: A pirate of "The Who By Numbers" and "Who Are You" on a single CD. Excellent sound quality - apparently dubbed from German Polydor <remixed version> discs.
Track Listing: Slip Kid, However Much I Booze, Squeeze Box, Dreaming From The Waist, Imagine A Man, Success Story, They Are All In Love, Blue Red And Grey, How Many Friends, In Hand Or Face, New Song, Had Enough, 905, Sister Disco, Music Must Change, Trick Of The Light, Guitar And Pen, Love Is Coming Down, Who Are You
Title/Format/Rating: Children Of The Grave Rarities - LP - A-
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2019 - Spain - Trademark Of Quality
Comments: All tracks previously released on official albums
Track Listing: Here 'Tis, Leavin' Here, Love Is Like A Heatwave, Motoring, Baby Don't You Do It, Instant Party Mixture, My Generation / Land Of Hope And Glory, Money Man [Man With Money], Run Run Run, Glittering Girl, Early Morning Cold Taxi, Summertime Blues, Girl's Eyes, Jaguar, My Way, Melancholy [Melancholia]
Sound Samples:
Instant Party Mixture
Glittering Girl
Title/Format/Rating: Chinese City - CD - A-
Year & Country Issued/Label: n/a - USA - Mr. Zero
Comments: A combination of demos, b-sides and other rarities.
Track Listing:
Dance It Away (Demo), What Is Love? (Demo), Teresa (Demo),
You Got It In Ya (Demo), Face Dances Part II (Mono Promo version), Dance It Away
(B-side), Man Watching (B-side), Ascension II, Somebody Saved Me (Face Dances
bonus track), Slit Skirts (Video version), Give Blood (Video version), Second
Hand Love (Video version), Night School (Video version), Face The Face (Single
version), Give Blood (Single version), Life To Life (Playing For Keeps
Soundtrack), Face The Face (12" version)
Sound Samples:
Dance It Away (Demo)
What Is Love? (Demo)
Title/Format/Rating: Classified - LP - B+
Year & Country Issued/Label: 1971 - USA - Cat n Dog
Comments: A very misleading bootleg... The cover indicates all kinds of rarities for its day. However, the plain labeled, LP, contains nothing more than "The Genius Of Pete Townshend".
Track Listing: Pure And Easy, Behind Blue Eyes, Going Mobile, Mary, Time Is Passing, Love Ain't For Keeping, Won't Get Fooled Again, The Song Is Over
Title/Format/Rating: Collection The Who - CD - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2011 - Germany - Dad Records
Comments: Pirate CD from various CD sources.
Track Listing: You Better You Bet, Who Are You, Squeeze Box, Join Together,5:15, Let's See Action, Won't Get Fooled Again, Baba O'Riley, The Seeker, Pinball Wizard, Magic Bus, I Can See For Miles, Pictures of Lily, Happy Jack, Boris The Spider, I'm A Boy, Substitute, My Generation, Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, I Can't Explain, I'm Free
Title/Format/Rating: The Collector's Who Sell Out - CD - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2000 - USA - Five Dollar Records
Comments: The only "collector's" thing about this CD, is that certain collectors got stuck with it! Great sound quality, but sort of pointless. The source is the original mix German CD, the "30 Years of Maximum R&B" box set and a few Pete Townshend demos stuck on the end.
Track Listing: Armenia City In The Sky, Heinz Baked Beans, Mary Anne With The Shaky Hands, Odorono, Tattoo, Our Love Was, I Can See For Miles, I Can't Reach You, Medac, Relax, Silas Stingy, Sunrise, Rael (parts 1&2) Early Morning Cold Taxi, Coca Cola, Girls Eyes, Bag O Nails, Jaguar, Melancholia, John Mason, Cousin Kevin Model Child, Tattoo, Little Billy, Relax, That Motherland Feeling, Hot Coffee
Title/Format/Rating: The Collector's Who's Next - CD - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 1999 - USA - Tendollar
Comments: The back cover states, "From the German Polydor master tapes, the only true stereo version of the original mixes that exists!" However, all they did was dub the inferior, original mix German Polydor CD and slap on some common bonus tracks. Another rip-off !
Track Listing: Baba O'Riley, Bargain, Love Ain't For Keeping, My Wife, Song Is Over, Getting In Tune, Going Mobile, Behind Blue Eyes, Won't Get Fooled Again, The Seeker, Let's See Action, Join Together, The Relay, Pure And Easy, Love Ain't For Keeping, Behind Blue Eyes, Getting In Tune
Title/Format/Rating: Daltrey - 8-Track - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 1975 - USA - n/a
Comments: Pirate 8-Track of the official album.
Track Listing: One Man Band, Way Of The World, You Are Yourself, Thinking, You & Me, It's A Hard Life, Giving It All Away, Story So Far, When The Music Stops, Reasons, One Man Band (Reprise)
Title/Format/Rating: Dancing In The Street - LP - B+
Year & Country Issued/Label: 1983 - USA - Savage
Comments: A combination of demos & BBC tracks, all obsolete compared to some of the CD releases of the same material.
Track Listing: The Kids Are Alright, It's Not True, Good Lovin, Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, The Good's Gone, My Generation, Substitute, Dancing In The Street, I'm A Boy, I Can't Reach You, I Can See For Miles, Pictures Of Lily, Summertime Blues
Title/Format/Rating: The Demo Tapes - LP - A-
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2020 - UK - n/a
Comments: Pete Townshend demos taken from other <mostly> common boot sources. Bonus track of "I Saw Her Standing There" (outtake from "The Kids Are Alright")
Track Listing: My Generation, Do The Strip, I'm A Boy, Rael, Motherland Feeling, To Kill My Appetite, Electronic Wizardry, Waltz For A Pig (b side of "Substitute", not performed by The Who), Behind Blue Eyes (alternate demo version), Ladies In The Female Jail, Can't You See I'm Easy, Keep Me Turning, I Saw Her Standing There
Sound Sample:
Behind Blue Eyes
Title/Format/Rating: Disguises - 12" - n/a
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2013 - Israel - n/a
Comments: n/a
Track Listing: Disguises
Title/Format/Rating: Dogs - 12" - n/a
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2013 - Israel - n/a
Comments: n/a
Track Listing: Dogs
Title/Format/Rating: Exciting The Who - CD - B
Year & Country Issued/Label: 1996 - Japan - Midas Touch
Comments: Nothing really exciting about this CD, other than the cover and "Time Is Passing". Interestingly enough, the undamaged channel from this song is just the opposite as the undamaged channel on the tape used for the official remix of "Odds & Sods". When "slapped" back together, you can create your own true stereo version of the song.
Track Listing: Won't Get Fooled Again, Too Much Of Anything, I Don't Even Know Myself, Time Is Passing, Bargain, My Generation Medley
Title/Format/Rating: Exciting The Who - CD (Box Set) - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2005 - Japan - Unknown
Comments: High quality box set and faithful recreation of the 1st 4, original Japan Who LPs and inserts. The sound quality seems to be created from using professional equipment to dub right off of clean copies of the vinyl LPs, with a minimum of crackles to clearly represent what those 4 original albums sounded like (unfortunately, the sound quality on the original "My Generation" wasn't too good to begin with).
Track Listing:
My Generation: My Generation, Please,
Please, Please, It's Not True, The Ox, The Kids Are Alright, Instant Party, A
Legal Matter, Out In The Street, The Good's Gone, La La La Lies, Much Too Much
I'm A Boy:
I'm A Boy,
Run, Run, Run, Heatwave, Boris The Spider, I Need You, Circles, Whiskey Man, In
The City, Don't Look Away, See My Way, Cobwebs And Strange, Disguises
The Who Sell Out:
Armenia City In The Sky, Heinz Baked Beans, Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand,
Odorono, Tattoo, Our Love Was, I Can See For Miles, Can't Reach You, Medac,
Relax, Silas Stingy, Sunrise, Rael-1, Rael-2
Exciting The Who:
Happy Jack, Pictures Of Lily, Substitute, I've Been Away, Doctor, Doctor, Waltz
For A Pig, The Last Time, Under My Thumb, So Sad About Us, A Quick One, While
He's Away
Title/Format/Rating: Exciting The Who - LP - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 2013 - UK - Polyboy
Comments: Excellent reproduction artwork of the 1968 Japan LP. Contents seem to be lifted from the 2009 "The Who Sell Out" Deluxe Edition
Track Listing: I Can See For Miles (unused early mono mix), My Way (demo 19 03 67), Summertime Blues (demo May 67), Sodding About (instrumental April 67), Things Go Better With Coke (demo April 67), In The Hall Of The Mountain King (April 67), Real 1 + 2 (October 67 different version), Real 3 (July 67), Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand (different version), Relax (demo August 67), Glittering Girl (early version), Summertime Blues (June 67)
Title/Format/Rating: Excerpts From Tommy - (4) 45(s) (Box Set) - A
Year & Country Issued/Label: 1969 - USA - Unknown
Comments: Pirated copy of official USA Radio Station promo box. Includes insert and 4 singles. See: http://www.thewho.info/WhoSingles8.htm for official version. Paper quality on pirate version is shinier than official version and numbers on the vinyl (next to the label) are hand written vs. machine stamped.
Track Listing: 1) Amazing Journey/Acid Queen, 2) Go To The Mirror Boy/Tommy Can You Hear Me?, 3) Smash The Mirror/Sensation. 4) Sally Simpson/I'm Free
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