{"id":2663,"date":"2010-04-05T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-05T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T11:26:09","slug":"is-the-who-the-most-highly-regarded-band-that-lacks-a-second-great-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/is-the-who-the-most-highly-regarded-band-that-lacks-a-second-great-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The Who the Most Highly Regarded Band That Lacks a Second Great Album?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/tommy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/tommy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As uncool as it now seems for knowledgeable, passionate music lovers like ourselves, I think we can all agree that <strong>The Who<\/strong> produced one masterpiece of an album, <em>Who&#8217;s Next<\/em>. After that, I don&#8217;t know that they produced a second great album. Some of us Who fans will go to the mats for <em>Sell Out<\/em>, but in all fairness it does get bogged down in gimmickry for a so-called great album and contains more delicate Townshend lead vocals than some Who fans prefer to hear on one album. <\/p>\n<p>What else comes close to <em>Who&#8217;s Next<\/em>? I love <em>Quadrophenia<\/em> for its epic celebration of The Power and Glory of Rock, but at this stage in my life can I listen to it more than once every couple of years? No.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re all too <em>in the know<\/em> to claim <em>Tommy<\/em> is a great album. The first two Who albums, which I bought in high school as a twofer, have their obvious high points but they&#8217;ve also got a ton of filler. Then there are long stretches in the band&#8217;s prime years that are devoid of a contender. Someone&#8217;s likely to suggest that <em>Live at Leeds<\/em> is the band&#8217;s second great album, but we&#8217;re not about to reach consensus on that one.<\/p>\n<p><em>Among bands who blossomed during the album era, is The Who the most highly regarded band that lacks a second great album?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As uncool as it now seems for knowledgeable, passionate music lovers like ourselves, I think we can all agree that The Who produced one masterpiece of an album, Who&#8217;s Next. After that, I don&#8217;t know that they produced a second great album. Some of us Who fans will go to the mats for Sell Out, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/is-the-who-the-most-highly-regarded-band-that-lacks-a-second-great-album\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}