Who's Next by The Who — album cover
№ 27 of 100

Who's Next

The Who · 1971 · Rock

Who's Next by The Who (1971), № 27 in The Lead-In’s 100 greatest albums. The synth on the first track was supposed to be a placeholder. They never replaced it. Glyn Johns engineering. Townshend's concept album about a future internet collapsed into the loudest singles record of the seventies.

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