TOP 1968 UK "TRACK" ORIG THE WHO DIRECT HITS KILLER POWER-POP MOD JINGLES
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FANTASTIC POWER-POP-MOD-&-RAW CULT CLASSIC!
= THE WHO =
DIRECT HITS
UK - TRACK Records - 613 006
TOP COPY! ==== Original 1968 BRITISH first pressing which came out in October 1968 and gathered together a collection of early singles, B-sides and cool album tracks in a unique running order which altogether makes this gem an indespensible collectible, here's why:
It is a genuinely strange experience listening to Direct Hits some four decades after it was rushed out by Track Records (the Who's U.K. label) to help fill what would become a 19-month gap between The Who Sell Out (November 1967) and Tommy (May 1969). Then again, it was probably a pretty strange experience listening to it back in November of 1968 -- the album was a urgent effort by the cash-strapped label, made all the more urgent by the fact that the group's last three singles, "I Can See for Miles," "Dogs," and "Magic Bus," had not sold nearly as well as expected in England. The first two were on this, the first-ever attempt to collect the Who's hits (augmented by some EP and LP tracks -- the Who not yet having had quite enough hits, even in England, to fill an LP) in one place, and Direct Hits would be notable on that basis alone. But the fact that it's such a damn weird-ass record, no matter when one hears it, makes the album especially worthwhile four decades on. What kind of a compilation of the Who's hits opens with the John Entwistle-dominated "Bucket T," a cover of a car song that's dominated not by such Who signature sounds as Pete Townshend's guitar or Roger Daltrey's vocals, but by Entwistle's horn? And then jumps to a pair of Townshend-authored plunges into sexuality as subject matter, "I'm a Boy" and "Pictures of Lily," the former about a boy feminized by his oppressive mother and the latter an ode to masturbation? And then switches gears to Entwistle's loopy ode to hypochondria "Doctor Doctor," driven as much by the composer's loping bass figure as Townshend's crunching guitar, while the singer rattles off a comical list of ailments he believes himself to be suffering from? Direct Hits might be considered a joke if the individual songs weren't so good. Instead, it ends up one of the wildest and woolliest rides one can take through the Who's early history. But it is worth owning now, as it was in November of 1968, because there was no place else to look for a Who compilation (on either side of the Atlantic) -- what was here was unique, and it's still worth hearing four decades later. For all of its strangeness (especially on the original LP's first side), Direct Hits does focus on the Who as a killer singles band. Direct Hits even includes a forgotten highlight from their early singles output, the band's manic rendition of the Rolling Stones' "The Last Time," rushed out as an expression of support for the group after Mick Jagger, Keith Richard, and Brian Jones' arrests on drug charges. On this single the Who deconstruct the song and reshape it distinctly in their image, dominated by Townshend's frantic guitar in place of the carefully delineated original Brian Jones/Keith Richard performance; his playing, coupled with Daltrey's edgy vocals, impart an overall tension that leaves the song feeling inches from violence. "I Can See for Miles" is no less frenetic, while "Dogs" is a piece of British mod-ish whimsy that never saw the light of day on this side of the Atlantic, and they're surrounded by such moments of brilliance as "Call Me Lightning." Direct Hits jumps across these three-minute explorations of humor (dark and bright), sexuality, irony, and drama all of which are sharper and punchier than their album output of the period.A:
Bucket "T"
I'm a Boy
Pictures of Lily
Doctor! Doctor!
I Can See for Miles
Substitute
B:
Happy Jack
The Last Time
In the City
Call Me Lightning
Mary Anne With the Shaky Hand (rare accoustic version)
Dogs
CONDITION: The cover: Very fragile yet nicely laminated and well handeled over the past 44 years, it's clean "EX" (excellent) ... no alarming problems...collection keeper!
The vinyl: all clen and clear M- looks and plays fantastic! Has clean TRACK labels
keeper!
A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !
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