Kids Are Alright [Original recording remastered] [Soundtrack]

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Having been involved in one of the most painfully overwrought rock films ever produced (Ken Russell's Tommy), it was only just that the Who should also be the subject of one of the best rockumentaries ever--Jeff Stein's The Kids Are Alright. Inveterate Who fan Stein largely eschewed interviews and critical overinterpretation, instead wisely focusing on the band's musical performances as captured on TV appearances and in concert. That sensibility makes this soundtrack a rare showcase of the Who at their performing peak, gathering many previously unreleased live performances ("My Wife," "Young Man Blues," a medley of "Join Together/Roadrunner/My Generation Blues") some key outtakes (the anthem "Long Live Rock"), and especially some great TV turns that could occasionally be literally explosive, à la their incomparable Smother Brothers appearance. Stein's only staged performances, "Baba O'Riley" and the cynically anthemic "Won't Get Fooled Again," turned out to be as historic as they were electric. Filmed just months before Keith Moon's untimely 1978 death, the performances stand as his final public performance. This is the Who at their best; it seldom gets any better. --Jerry McCulley

Album Details
Limited Japanese Version Featuring Lp Style Slipcase. Digitally Remastered --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Tracks:

My Generation
I Can't Explain
Happy Jack
I Can See For Miles
Magic Bus
Long Live Rock
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
Young Man Blues
My Wife
Baba O'Riley
A Quick One, While He's Away
Tommy, Can You Hear Me?
Sparks
Pinball Wizard
See Me, Feel Me
Join Together/Roadrunner/My Generation Blues
Won't Get Fooled Again

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Having been involved in one of the most painfully overwrought rock films ever produced (Ken Russell's Tommy), it was only just that the Who should also be the subject of one of the best rockumentaries ever--Jeff Stein's The Kids Are Alright. Inveterate Who fan Stein largely eschewed interviews and critical overinterpretation, instead wisely focusing on the band's musical performances as captured on TV appearances and in concert. That sensibility makes this soundtrack a rare showcase of the Who at their performing peak, gathering many previously unreleased live performances ("My Wife," "Young Man Blues," a medley of "Join Together/Roadrunner/My Generation Blues") some key outtakes (the anthem "Long Live Rock"), and especially some great TV turns that could occasionally be literally explosive, à la their incomparable Smother Brothers appearance. Stein's only staged performances, "Baba O'Riley" and the cynically anthemic "Won't Get Fooled Again," turned out to be as historic as they were electric. Filmed just months before Keith Moon's untimely 1978 death, the performances stand as his final public performance. This is the Who at their best; it seldom gets any better. --Jerry McCulley

Album Details

Limited Japanese Version Featuring Lp Style Slipcase. Digitally Remastered

Customer Reviews:

The Who - down and dirty, messy, and brilliant.......2007-06-10

This was the first album I ever bought with my own money when I was a kid. The records would come out of the top of the record sleeve rather than the right side, and it was great to look at.

Although CDs will never be as much fun to look at and play with than LPs used to be, it was great to hear this CD again after all these years. There's a rawness in these performances that reminds you just how dangerous the music of The Who once was (and, in many ways, still is).

Highlights include "My Generation" from the SMOTHERS BROTHERS TV show, live versions of "Young Man Blues" and Entwistle's "My Wife," the rollicking version of "A Quick One" from The Rolling Stones' ROCK & ROLL CIRCUS (for a long time, this album and movie was the only place you could see and hear this performance), and the Shepperton Film Studios live performances of "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again."

There's a really messy version of "Join Together" that doesn't sound at all like the studio version of the song - and yet, I remembered everything about it the minute I heard it again after all these years.

One complaint: I will never believe that this album's version of "I Can See for Miles" was recorded live for the SMOTHERS BROTHERS TV show. There's nothing about it that sounds different from the version recorded by The Who in the studio - unlike "My Generation," which sounds very unique and benefits from a great John Entwistle bass solo. But I think the liner notes are lying to us by saying that this version of "I Can See for Miles" was actually recorded for the SMOTHERS BROTHERS TV show. If Pete Townshend can clarify this for me, I'd be grateful.

Otherwise, a "smashing" good album (yes, you can hear them destroy their instruments). Buy the movie, too, and you can "see" them destroy them too.

An Inconsisten But Solid Sampling Of The Who In Concert........2006-12-26

This soundtrack to The Who's 1978 biopic / concert movie is not quite up to snuff with relases like "Live At The Leeds", "Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970", the performance at The Old Vic on the deluxe edition of "Who's Next" or even the 2000 Royal Albert Hall Show. The performances are somewhat flat at times, and the sound quality is ocassionally dull.

That being said, this is generally a good sampling The Who in concert. You get the hits ("My Generation", "Pinball Wizard" and a sizzlling "Won't Get Fooled Again") as well as some rarities ("A Quick One, While He's Away"). For the most part, the songs are good, though the studio recording "Long Live Rock", while a great tune, seems a bit out of place.

Overall, this isn't exactly a must have (though the movie most definitely is), but it's anice addition to your collection.

The Who - 'The Kids Are Alright' (MCA).......2006-10-31

I remember catching this when it first hit the movie theaters in 1978. This was BEFORE my concert-going days had begun. After seeing the major motion picture release of 'The Kids Are Alright,I knew I had to start attending live shows as soon as I could. This CD serves the purpose of having the flick's most vital music at your fingertips. Total of prime 17 Who classics,with a duration of 70 minutes. Tunes that you'll likely find yourself replaying over and over (like I did) would probably be "I Can't Explain",the semi-mystical "I Can See For Miles","Young Man Blues",bassist John Entwistle's penned "My Wife","A Quick One" and of course those two UNFORGETABLE live snippets of "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again". What more can I say? Would make a great gift for a Who fan.

5 stars may be somewhat too much, but...........2006-10-20

This is the new edition CD for the soundrtrack of the film on the Who's history. For those who have seen the film, as I have many times now, it is as uneven as the film itself. There are some really great moments both historically and musically, but the use of too many sources is very very distracting. There is stuff that is not in the movie (the great version of My Wife) and vice versa (Who are you and Barbara Ann) which means that even as a soundtrack it does fail, like many of the Who's projects, because by trying way too hard it loses focus. however this is much stronger material than any other group has. There are passages from Woodstock, there are bits from the Smother's Brothers shows. Which other group can provide that? The best part is of course the fantastic version of Won't Get Fooled Again that is even an improvement on the recorded version and of which I have heard no better recorded live version. As some have written the sound quality is also too varied since the sources range from live appearances to TV stuff to studio versions. Great but somewhat overwhelming still.

MCA finally gets it right, sort-of.......2006-10-08

This was my first Who album and I long resisted purchasing the CD version of this because MCA had butchered the original album in order to make it a single CD and (in theory, at least)keep the price down. So they dropped the magnificent inner sleeve booklet and all the little bits of artwork the LP included (like the LP label that resembled a film reel and gradually got smaller as you played each side of the album)as well as their medley of Join Together/Roadrunner/My Generation Blues.

Now the Kids album is re-released along with improved editions of their back catalog and MCA finally got it right. The deleted songs are restored, the booklet (with additional liner notes) is at least partially restored as well.

What would make this even better is if ALL the music heard in the movie was on the album such as;

Barbara Ann with Keith Moon on vocals
Shout and Shimmy-probably from 1965
Cobwebs and Strange-Wild instrumental with typically understated drumming
Underture-from Woodstock, although this was on their 30 Years box set
Who Are You-Probably made for a music video but it's different from the album version

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Hey - where's our Rick Danko???
Gets better with ageý mine, that is!
The Kids Are Alright
The Kids are Alright??? Maybe??
Nigel Tufnel, eat your heart out

The Kids Are Alright
The Who
Manufacturer: Mca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

My Generation
I Can't Explain
Happy Jack
I Can See For Miles
Magic Bus
Long Live Rock
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
Young Man (Blues)
My Wife
Baba O'Riley
A Quick One
Tommy, Can You Hear Me?
Sparks
Pinball Wizard
See Me, Feel Me
Won't Get Fooled Again

Customer Reviews:

Hey - where's our Rick Danko???.......2004-05-21

I loved the film - and would have given it 5 stars if Rick Danko had been in it, as advertised!

Gets better with ageý mine, that is!.......2004-01-24

As a second-generation Who freak, I latched on to this incendiary group right around the year Keith Moon uncharacteristically faded away in his sleep. Soon after, I saw the original "The Kids Are Alright" in the theater and bought an early Embassy VHS tape. Now that the DVD version is out, I think that technical comparisons between 1978 and 2003 will pale against the real story: The Who was the greatest live band and one of the greatest rock groups ever.

The film begins and ends, in a way, with their trademark smash-up finale. The Who, once they began playing, were like a runaway locomotive: imagine Keith Moon as the pistons, John Entwistle as the deep coal fire, Roger Daltrey as the howling whistle, and Peter Townshend as the engineer pushing the knobs and pulling levers. The whole thing veers out of control, and yet, it never becomes a wreck until the last song (according to the era), when by force of smashed guitars and bludgeoned drum kits, the incredible sound is strangled and mashed to a pulp, leaving only feedback and smoke bombs. As Townshend says in one of the film's interviews, he's not himself onstage, and probably close to hurting someone who gets in his way (remember Abbie Hoffman at Woodstock?).

The funny thing is, The Who's shows are a conjurer's trick of sound and sight. These smash-up performances began as a corny gimmick that took on a life of their own: Townshend, in a 1964 London gig, accidentally rammed his guitar into the club's ceiling while trying to spin it theatrically in the air. He was told afterwards to use the same move again, and the rest is glorious history. The spontaneous combustion in The Who's music gets full airing in this film by an amateur director. It captures nearly all of the group's distinct periods: early club days, Mod incarnations, Monterey Pop festival, the "Tommy" and Woodstock era, and the mega-70s appearances. Interviews as a group, or as individuals, span nearly their whole career (while Moon was alive and kicking), and at the end of it all, you get the sense that, as unpolished and ragged as they come across to our modern eyes, The Who defined that overused musical term, honest. Ironically, there's a contradiction when Townshend - who comes across as an unwilling but committed leader - laments to an interviewer that the band is often chained by its history, and yet, no one is willing to break the bonds of ritual between The Who and its fans. In the two performances that director Stein staged in May 1978, the group crash through "Baba O'Reilly" and "Won't Get Fooled Again," and it's clear even to Who freaks that Moon was in sad shape, physically, and gamely keeping up, musically. Townshend parodies himself with arm-swinging and acrobatic leaps; it's almost The Who by the numbers. But when the last note sounds, the ecstatic response from the audience is proof of how much people love The Who and how the music wound its way into so many churned-up teenage souls. There have been bands since who've trashed their sets and gone to the edge, but there's really only one Who.

The Kids Are Alright.......2003-07-05

This is my favorite movie! The best preformance by The Who is in this film. There best preformance was playing A Quick One While He's Away at the Rolling Stone's Rock And Roll Circus. The thing that pisses me off is that they only used a small section of the song and cut out Keith Richard's Introduction. If you love Keith Moon (Like I Do) get 200 Motels. Though I'll warn you it's kinda hard to find but if you do find it it'll be between 25.00 and 75.00.

The Kids are Alright??? Maybe??.......2003-06-25

Does anybody know if the DVD version is chopped up/edited like the VHS????????? A Quick One is one of the highlights of the film, I can't believe it was atrociously tampered with. :(

Nigel Tufnel, eat your heart out.......2002-11-25

Absolutely essential for Who fans, and nearly so for everybody else. I like to think of it as the non-fiction version of "Spinal Tap." Just as funny but with better music.

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Seducing the 60's
Joe Goldmark
Manufacturer: Lo-Ball Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Helpless
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Here Comes My Baby
Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
I Feel Fine
Ring Of Fire
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Dirty Work
The Kids Are Alright
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Album Description

Joe Goldmark takes some of his favorite 60's rock tunes and lovingly tinges them with a soulful country sound. Vocals are provided by new Amoeba Records artist Brandi Shearer, the versatile Bart Davenport, and "the real deal" Gary Claxton. Special guest guitarist is the wonderful John McFee (Doobies, Elvis Costello, Clover).

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Kids Are Alright
Rip-Off Artist
Manufacturer: Quartermass/Forced Exposure
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005B3UQ
Release Date: 2001-05-07

Tracks:

Cake Time
Mungosphere
Gizmo
Specify: Mambo
Something Strange
Cream
Bubbles
Tater Tot
Silly
Push An Animal
Real Scary Story

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If you like Green Day or The Clash, you will like Link!!!!

The Kids Are Alright
Link
Manufacturer: Adeline Records
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Release Date: 2003-11-18

Tracks:

Our Sensation
20th Century
Sunday Morning
Reality Says to Me
Lavender Girl
Pains
Freedom Style
Changes
Ring Me Up
Earthsick
Gunfighter
Beyond the Burned Sky

Customer Reviews:

If you like Green Day or The Clash, you will like Link!!!!.......2005-02-17

I got this CD from my sister, and did not know much about them. But as soon as I listened to them, I immidiately liked their music. Very Catchy. Has good melody and a drum. They are from Japan, but sing majority of them in English.

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Kids Are Alright
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006M17AY
Release Date: 2005-01-17

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Vol.

Manufacturer: Shame Club
ProductGroup: Music
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Release Date: 2004-07-13

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Are ya all right?

Kids Are Alright
Hi-Standard
Manufacturer: Japanese Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000564AD
Release Date: 2003-01-28

Tracks:

The Kids Are Alright
Close To Me
My Heart Feels So Free

Customer Reviews:

Are ya all right?.......2000-12-06

HI-STANDARD is one of the famous Japanese bands, and in this import album, you can feel their songs with Japanese recording style, the vocal line is louder than the drums. They sing very GENKI( cheerful) and up-tempo, so you can enjoy this CD in your party with friends.

Average customer rating:

Fantastic!

Kids Are Alright

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ASIN: B00005N84V
Release Date: 2001-07-24

Tracks:

Cake Time
Mungosphere
Gizmo
Specify: Mambo
Something Strange
Cream
Bubbles
Tater Tot
Silly
Push An Animal
Real Scary Story

Customer Reviews:

Fantastic!.......2001-10-26

The Rip-Off Artist induces delight like no other! It is most definatly lunacy, but it's a very smooth and crisp sort of lunacy the is rare with these kind of artists. The samples are unbelievable! Complete auditory ecstasy!

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The Who - down and dirty, messy, and brilliant
An Inconsisten But Solid Sampling Of The Who In Concert.
The Who - 'The Kids Are Alright' (MCA)
5 stars may be somewhat too much, but....
MCA finally gets it right, sort-of

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My Generation
I Can't Explain
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Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
Young Man Blues
My Wife
Baba O'Riley [Live at Shepperton Film Studios]
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Album Details

Limited Japanese Version Featuring Lp Style Slipcase. Digitally Remastered

Customer Reviews:

The Who - down and dirty, messy, and brilliant.......2007-06-10

An Inconsisten But Solid Sampling Of The Who In Concert........2006-12-26

The Who - 'The Kids Are Alright' (MCA).......2006-10-31

5 stars may be somewhat too much, but...........2006-10-20

MCA finally gets it right, sort-of.......2006-10-08

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