My Generation : Deluxe Edition

Q - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Finds the original dozen cuts joined by 18 more, including the group's first 45's....Now we can understand how, in 1965, The Who were suddenly ranked behind the Beatles and the Stones..." Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The Deluxe addition adds more black lighting to the original - torched-Motown covers; more JB; the brisk sass of 'Daddy Rolling Stone' an Otis Blackwell bullet rescued from a '65 B side - and doubles as a thundering monument to the late John Entwistle..." Q - Included in Q Magazine's "The 50 Best Albums of 2002." Uncut - 4 stars out of 5 - "...a distinctive and exciting record in its time, and remains so in this reissued version..." Mojo - Ranked #8 in Mojo's "Best Reissues of 2002" Q - Included in Q Magazine's "The 50 Best Albums of 2002." Uncut - 4 stars out of 5 - "...a distinctive and exciting record in its time, and remains so in this reissued version..." Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The Deluxe addition adds more black lighting to the original - torched-Motown covers; more JB; the brisk sass of 'Daddy Rolling Stone' an Otis Blackwell bullet rescued from a '65 B side - and doubles as a thundering monument to the late John Entwistle..." Q - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Finds the original dozen cuts joined by 18 more, including the group's first 45's....Now we can understand how, in 1965, The Who were suddenly ranked behind the Beatles and the Stones..." Spin - "[T]his remains a seismic album..."

The Who's debut, My Generation, was first released in the U.K. in 1965, and a year later in the U.S. In 2015, the band's guitarist, Pete Townshend, discovered tapes that contained previously unheard demos and three unreleased songs: "As Children We Grew," "My Own Love," and "The Girls I Could Have Had." This release gathers those tracks along with unreleased demos, new masters, unreleased mixes, and stereo mixes of all 79 tracks. ~ Bekki Bemrose|