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Thirty Years of Maximum R&B | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Who
Label: Mca
Category: Music
List Price: $59.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 7831
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 6.2 x 1.6
MPN: 11020
UPC: 008811102029
EAN: 0008811102029
ASIN: B000002ORU
Release Date: July 5, 1994
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: mars on disc. Plays great. Great find. Great shipping!!!!!!!
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Disc 1
| • | I'm the Face - The Who, Meaden, Pete | | • | Here 'Tis - The Who, Diddley, Bo | | • | Zoot Suit - The Who, Meaden, Pete | | • | Leaving Here - The Who, Dozier, Lamont | | • | I Can't Explain | | • | Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere - The Who, Daltrey, Roger | | • | Daddy Rollin' Stone - The Who, Blackwell, Otis | | • | My Generation | | • | The Kids Are Alright | | • | The Ox - The Who, Entwistle, John | | • | A Legal Matter | | • | Pete Dialogue - The Who, | | • | Substitute | | • | I'm a Boy | | • | Disguises | | • | Happy Jack Jingle | | • | Happy Jack | | • | Boris the Spider - The Who, Entwistle, John | | • | So Sad About Us | | • | A Quick One, While He's Away | | • | Pictures of Lily | | • | Early Morning Cold Taxi - The Who, Daltrey, Roger | | • | Coke 2 - The Who, | | • | Last Time - The Who, Jagger, Mick | | • | I Can't Reach You | | • | Girl's Eyes - The Who, Moon, Keith [1] | | • | Call Me Lightning |
Disc 2
| • | Rotosound Strings - The Who, | | • | I Can See for Miles | | • | Mary Anne With the Shaky Hand | | • | Armenia City in the Sky - The Who, Keen, John "Speedy" | | • | Tattoo | | • | Our Love Was | | • | Rael 1 | | • | Rael 2 | | • | Track Records/Premier Drums - The Who, | | • | Sunrise | | • | Russell Harty Dialogue - The Who, | | • | Jaguar | | • | Melancholia | | • | Fortune Teller - The Who, Neville, Naomi | | • | Magic Bus | | • | Little Billy | | • | Dogs | | • | Overture | | • | The Acid Queen | | • | Underture | | • | Pinball Wizard | | • | I'm Free | | • | See Me, Feel Me | | • | Heaven and Hell - The Who, Entwistle, John | | • | Pete Dialogue | | • | Young Man Blues - The Who, Allison, Mose | | • | Summertime Blues - The Who, Capehart, Jerry |
Disc 3
| • | Shakin' All Over - The Who, Kidd, Johnny | | • | Baba O'Riley | | • | Bargain | | • | Pure and Easy | | • | The Song Is Over | | • | Studio Dialogue - The Who, | | • | Behind Blue Eyes | | • | Won't Get Fooled Again | | • | The Seeker | | • | Bony Maronie - The Who, Williams, Larry | | • | Let's See Action (Nothing Is Everything) | | • | Join Together | | • | The Relay | | • | The Real Me | | • | 5:15 | | • | Bell Boy | | • | Love Reign O'Er Me |
Disc 4
| • | Long Live Rock | | • | Life With the Moons - The Who, | | • | Naked Eye | | • | Slip Kid | | • | Poetry Cornered - The Who, | | • | Dreaming from the Waist | | • | Blue, Red and Grey | | • | Life With the Moons, No. 2 - The Who, | | • | Squeeze Box | | • | My Wife - The Who, Entwistle, John | | • | Who Are You | | • | Music Must Change | | • | Sister Disco | | • | Guitar and Pen | | • | You Better You Bet | | • | Eminence Front | | • | Twist and Shout - The Who, Medley, Phil | | • | I'm a Man - The Who, McDaniel, Elias | | • | Pete Dialogue - The Who, | | • | Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting - The Who, John, Elton |
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Amazon.com
This exemplary four-disc box takes the high road, attempting nothing less than an honest reconstruction of the Who's stormy, adventurous, uneven pilgrimage. While offering an evenhanded cross-section of single hits and classic album tracks, 30 Years garnishes the expected high points with B-sides, alternate and live versions of familiar tracks, and the quartet's earliest singles as the High Numbers. Reinforcing the package's documentary agenda are interview and stage-patter sound bites. What emerges is a fascinating chronicle of how the Shepherd's Bush mods journeyed from the giddy, explosive concision of their January 1965 debut single, "I Can't Explain," to the discursive, knotty sweep of creative architect Pete Townshend's "rock operas," Tommy, Quadrophenia, and the uncompleted, unreleased Lifehouse. The Who's swift evolution into rock visionaries is traced chronologically, meaning the band's original immersion in "maximum R&B," which forged their earliest club dates, doesn't surface on record until midway through the sequence, on key tracks from their thundering Live at Leeds album. Fans may quibble over the relative weight given specific albums, but the shape of the Who's career and their passionate identification with their audience are rendered faithfully. So, too, is Townshend's skill at mingling issues of faith and identity with generational manifestoes and sly broadsides. And there's ample evidence of the quartet's outsize musical power; the sheer volume and violence that earned them notoriety early on is matched by a lyricism that deepens by mid career. Given the candor of the presentation, it's not surprising that 30 Years reaches its zenith midway through the set or that the last song (a reunion of the surviving trio covering Elton John) can't help seeming anticlimactic. --Sam Sutherland
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| Customer Reviews: Read 51 more reviews...
 The Best May 8, 2008
if you could fit all the best of the Who into a smaller box set, this is it. They changed music as we know it and are one of the best bands of all time. Great set for someone not looking for the entire collection, but you will be surprised with all the great music here!
THE WHO : MAXIMUM R & B March 12, 2008
i already had a respectable WHO collection but this is like icing on the cake..
The Who are #1 July 30, 2007
Since the first time I listened to the album Live at Leeds, the Who have been my favorite band. This collection of who material lives up to my expectations ranging from the "modish" high numbers to Townshend's interest in rock operas. It's all good.
THE WHO "THIRTY YEARS OF MAXIUM R&B" (SOME BITTER DISAPPOINMENTS) REALLY A WHO BIOGRAPHY...NOT JUST A GREATEST HITS COMPILATION February 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Some reviewers look at this Who box set as a bitter disappoinment. I agree if you think this box set is mainly a greatest hits compilation. All "Thirty Years of Maximum R&B" is, is a biography of the Whos ledgendary career. Yes, their are five edited songs and some annoying Keith Moon stints and alternate takes of songs, some previously unreleased tracks, along with some Pete Townshend interviews. Yes, I agree with the bitterly disappointed Who Fans about these annoyances on this Who box set. I look at this set as a Who biography that you should listen to all four cds straight through to appreciate this cd box set as just a time travel through The Whos early years as the High Numbers to their mega magnum opuses like "Tommy","Who's Next" and "Quadrophenia" to "Who Are You" and to their lowlights "Saturday Nights Allright For Fighting" with Sir Elton John. I realize there are some bitter disappoinments on "Thirty Years of Maximum R&B" even the sound does'nt sound remastered. I believe MCA did a fine remastering job with this box set as most of the older 1960s Who tunes were recorded in mono. The thick booklet accompanying this Who box set is very informative and engaging literature to any Who fan or rock fan in general. You could go out and spend a ton of money on The Who Japanese import box set, I believe includes 16 or 19 Who studio Albums. I was going to save my money and do that, but I decided to buy most of The Who remastered Cds with the awesome literature booklets accompanying each cd. "Thirty Years of Maximum R&B" is not worth the list price by no means. I only own it because I found it for a great price on Amazon. If you could find "Thirty Years of Maximum R&B" for a cheap price it would be a nice addition to your Who cd collection. "Thirty Years of Maximum R&B" is a nice well thought out Who Biography with some bitter disappoinments but worth owning for the right price..........
 possumsmcbikeritems January 10, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are other single 'Who' Cd's I'd buy before this one collection.
It is good but mainly because it has some rare and unobtainable music etc on it, good but not great.
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