Greatest Hits (The Who album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Greatest Hits

| type = greatest

| artist = The Who

| cover = The Who - Greatest Hits.jpg

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| released = {{start date|2009|12|22|df=yes}}

| recorded = 1964–2006

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| studio =

| genre = Rock

| length = 78:29

| label = Geffen

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| prev_title = Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who

| prev_year = 2008

| next_title = Greatest Hits Live

| next_year = 2010

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{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1692046|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]

| rev2 = AltSounds

| rev2Score = 81%{{Cite web |url=http://hangout.altsounds.com/reviews/115731-the-who-greatest-hits-and-more-album.html |title=link |access-date=9 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100309105621/http://hangout.altsounds.com/reviews/115731-the-who-greatest-hits-and-more-album.html |archive-date=9 March 2010 |url-status=dead }}

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Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by British rock band The Who that was released on 21 December 2009.[http://www.thewho.com/index.php?module=news&news_item_id=365 'The Who Greatest Hits' Out On 21 December In U.S. And Canada], The Who Official Band Website, 2 December 2009 The album was also re-released as Greatest Hits & More several weeks after the initial release, which featured a second disc of live songs culled from Greatest Hits Live.{{cite web|url=http://www.thewho.com/index.php?module=news&news_item_id=389 |title=THE WHO GREATEST HITS & MORE RELEASED |publisher=Thewho.com |date=7 February 2010 |access-date=8 August 2011}}

Track listing

All songs written by Pete Townshend except where noted.

=Disc one=

  1. "I Can't Explain" – 2:05
  2. "My Generation" – 3:17
  3. "The Kids Are Alright" – 3:07
  4. "Substitute" – 3:48
  5. "Happy Jack" – 2:11
  6. "Pictures of Lily" – 2:44
  7. "I Can See for Miles" – 4:08
  8. "Magic Bus" – 3:16
  9. "Pinball Wizard" – 3:02
  10. "Behind Blue Eyes" – 3:43
  11. "Baba O'Riley" – 5:01
  12. "Won't Get Fooled Again" – 8:33
  13. "Love, Reign o'er Me" – 5:54
  14. "Squeeze Box" – 2:42
  15. "Who Are You" (United States single edit) – 3:27
  16. "You Better You Bet" – 5:38
  17. "Eminence Front" – 5:42
  18. "Real Good Looking Boy" (Townshend, Luigi Creatore, Hugo Peretti, George David Weiss) – 5:43
  19. "It's Not Enough" (Townshend, Rachel Fuller) – 4:04

=Disc two=

Source:Only released as part of Greatest Hits & More, not the standard issue of the album.

  1. "I Can't Explain" (San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, 1971) – 2:32
  2. "Substitute" (San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, 1971) – 2:10
  3. "Happy Jack" (City Hall, Hull, England, 1970) – 2:12
  4. "I'm a Boy" (City Hall, Hull, England, 1970) – 2:42
  5. "Behind Blue Eyes" (San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, 1971) – 3:39
  6. "Pinball Wizard" (Vetch Field, Swansea, Wales, 1976) – 2:48
  7. "I'm Free" (Vetch Field, Swansea, Wales, 1976) – 1:44
  8. "Squeeze Box" (Vetch Field, Swansea, Wales, 1976) – 2:51
  9. "Naked Eye/Let's See Action/My Generation (Medley)" (Charlton Athletic Football Club, Charlton, London, England, 1974) – 14:19
  10. "5:15" (Capital Centre, Largo, Maryland, 1973) – 5:53*
  11. "Won't Get Fooled Again" (Capital Centre, Largo, Maryland, 1973) – 8:38*
  12. "Magic Bus" (University of Leeds Refectory, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 1970) – 7:33
  13. "My Generation" (Aeolian Hall, London, England, 1965 – BBC recording) – 3:25
  14. "I Can See for Miles" (Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, 1989) – 3:45
  15. "Who Are You" (Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, 1989) – 6:22
  16. "A Man in a Purple Dress" (Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, 2007) – 4:28

+ 17. bonus track on the Japanese Universal edition only:

"Dancing in the Street" (Spectrum, Philadelphia, 1979) – 3:43

*These 2 tracks from 1973 are mislabelled, the recording comes from a show in Philadelphia.

Credits (Disc 1)

References

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