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Re: It's Hard To Write New Songs



IN RESPONSE TO
Does anyone know anything about the possible new Who album being talked
about
> > at Christmas time? Has this been abandoned?
>
>
> An album of *new studio* material has been abandoned in favor of live
tracks
> from some of the shows at the end of 1999.  Which reminds me of Daltrey's
> comment back then concerning a possible new studio album.  Paraphrasing:
> "If the new songs we're writing are crap, we won't release them."
Hmmm.....
> END QUOTE

Now I also heard Roger say that a POSSIBILITY  that they would prefer to
play the new songs LIVE and Record them, to incorporate the live feel they
always have had trouble putting into the studio recordings.  So that they
may create the new material while on the road.
"The who's sound is bigger than any of us individually , and i feel we've
never ever captured it properly on record ,[and}  on the stage always
accomodated [it}. , RD

andrew w


----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Schrade <schrade@akrobiz.com>
To: THE WHO <TheWho@igtc.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: It's Hard To Write New Songs


>
> > On the It's Hard debate, after all I'd heard on this list I really
didn't want
> > to like it, but I have to admit that I think it is their best post-Quad
album.
> > WBN and WAY have their moments but suffer from very weak songs
>
>
> Honestly, you "IT'S HARD proponents" who like that better than WHO BY
> NUMBERS or WHO ARE YOU amaze me !  Truthfully, I don't understand
> how anyone could like IT'S HARD better than those other two albums.
> But apparently, many of you do.  I cannot argue with that.  The facts are
> there: you *like* IT'S HARD !  You *really* like it !  :-)
>
> I see the last four studio WHO albums as a slow slide down a hill towards
> mediocrity ("You're sliding down the hill like me...").  Each is less
enjoy-
> able than the previous one.
>
> Mind you, in my early days of WHO collecting, I hardly ever listened to
WHO
> BY NUMBERS or WHO ARE YOU.  I didn't *hate* them, I just thought there
> was other WHO material more deserving of my time.  But once I turned 30,
> those albums came sharply into focus.  Now I play them all the time !
>
> Just to be fair & opened minded, I'll listen to IT'S HARD today & see if
it's
> any more "focused" for me.  Maybe I'll learn to like it !  Besides, anyone
> can do anything if they hold the right cards.......OK, OK, sorry about
that !
>
>
> > Does anyone know anything about the possible new Who album being talked
about
> > at Christmas time? Has this been abandoned?
>
>
> An album of *new studio* material has been abandoned in favor of live
tracks
> from some of the shows at the end of 1999.  Which reminds me of Daltrey's
> comment back then concerning a possible new studio album.  Paraphrasing:
> "If the new songs we're writing are crap, we won't release them."
Hmmm.....
>
>
> - SCHRADE in Akron
>
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>
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
> >
> > PS. In my cd player is Sandinista by The Clash, the best of Faith No
More and
> > Who's Next.
>
>
>