It's listenable, to be sure, but it just doesn't feel right.
THE SWEET JOIN TOGETHER SINGLE PROFESSIONAL
Here, the Who are professional musicians and they accordingly sound as faceless as studio musicians, which is especially disconcerting given the familiarity of the voices and songs. Of course, the Stones have augmented their core group with these kinds of auxiliary musicians for years, but they had a better sense of showmanship. We want the information from the Last Name and First Name column to appear together in the same cell, but it would take a long time to type everything by hand. Even worse, the music is bloated with horns, backing vocals, keyboards, and extra guitarists - it sounds like a house band for a talk show, while the Who at its prime sounded like a small army on the rampage. It was a marriage of convenience, and it sounds like it. It's clear that Entwistle and Daltrey yearned for the attention and cash, while Townshend wanted to plug Tommy (which worked, by the way, since the performances on this tour certainly paved the way for the Broadway musical of the early '90s) and his newest work, The Iron Man ("Dig," the Who's contribution to the rock opera, is featured on the second disc). All the elements are in place - there's Pete Townshend's trademark flamenco strums, John Entwistle's galloping bass, Roger Daltrey's strangled yelp, even a complete performance of Tommy - but it doesn't feel like the Who, it feels like a replication. Ranking with Who's Last as an utterly dispensable release, Join Together may be billed to the Who, but it feels like a Who revue. Was the tour really so bad that it could effectively ruin the Who's contemporary reputation? Judging from Join Together, a two-disc live box set released in 1990 to commemorate the tour, it may have been. Of course, the group still had its hardcore fans, and many critics cited their work through 1973's Quadrophenia as classic, but they had lost the mystique that had clung to them even through the Face Dances/ It's Hard era. This isn't a minor thing, either - by 1997, the Who launched an American tour to no hoopla or attention whatsoever, perceived as merely another act on the oldies circuit. No critic took them seriously, and it wasn't only the tour that received poor reviews - revisionist criticism brought into question the worth of their recordings. Yes, it was a success and millions of fans went home happy, but in retrospect, it's clear that the reunion tour - following just seven years after the "farewell tour" - tarnished the reputation of the Who almost irreparably. Now of course its come out as a high quality bootleg CD with lots of other b-sides that weren't available on an album before.From every standpoint outside the financial, the Who's reunion tour in 1989 was a mistake. Roger Waters from Pink Floyd stopped releasing physical copies of his CD singles a few years and had to reverse it because of the complaints of fans. Then somebody actually cornered the market on one of them and now it sells on EBay for a few hundred US dollars a pop. You would have to be an idiot to pay that, but I still like my copy. And its the first that won't also come with a physical release. Just to show that we aren't just a few strange out of touch Sweet fans that think like this, check out the reaction. How about Medusa?ĮDIT: Just as note to this post, I was just on the Kate Bush website (I'm a fan like a number of you here) and she has just released a new single. Would love to hear the band do a live version of something else too. Love the live versions of Into the Night and Everything. Oh, and the original 45 of this is possibly the best sounding single ever. Great lyrics, a catchy chorus and cool harmonica and synth work throughout move this track along. Townshend has cited the song as one of his favorites, telling Melody Maker he thought it was 'incredible' and was surprised the. One of the songs taken from the failed Lifehouse project, 'Join Together' is one of The Who's best tracks in my eyes. Instead, it was released as a single in the summer of 1972. 'Join Together' was recorded for the album, but didn't make the cut. In the case of Join Together, I just skip the first version of the song and thenplay the other three tracks. Many of the songs Townshend wrote for Lifehouse ended up on the 1971 Who's Next album. To be honest, it bores the sh*ts off me when bands do that. Can't understand why people have traditionally stuck two copies of the same song next to each other like that onCD singles.
THE SWEET JOIN TOGETHER SINGLE TV
So why not sell the single at Sweet's shows on CD? I reckon that there a lot of fans that might now be leaving the nth Greatest Hits Collection that would definitely pick up the single.Ĭan I also suggest that the TV edit gets replaced by another song on any reissue. There is a large portion of the fans that still prefer CD's, no doubt about it. Just join 'em together mouse-over to toggle dark/light mode. I have a suggestion re selling the single at shows. Join Together will create and export a single AAC or ALAC audio file from the audio data of tracks dragged from the Music app or iTunes or files dragged from the Finder, leaving the original source tracks and files intact.
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