From this weekend's NY Times:
?I don?t particularly like the world technology has created. Has anything really gotten better with the computer, or are you just doing more and more of less and less? ... I think the Internet is just an advertising device of very dubious returns."
No, not Jared Leto. Those are the words of Roger Daltry from Alan Light's article on the Who's first new studio album in 24 years.
So, Roger hates the Web? What more ironic way to advertise celebrate Endless Wire than a Stereogum sweepstakes?! One of you Internet readers is gonna win a complete Who CD catalog. Long live rock (blogs).
Grand Prize Winner gets these 15 albums:
A Quick One BBC Sessions The Who By Numbers Faces Dances It?s Hard The Kids Are Alright Live At Leeds [Deluxe Edition] Odds And Sods Quadrophenia The Who Sings My Generation [Deluxe Edition] The Who Sell Out Tommy [Deluxe Edition] Who Are You Who?s Next [Deluxe Edition] Endless Wire [Deluxe Edition]
Half of the new album is a mini-opera (are you surprised?). But, says Pete Townshend, "This is not the old Who. We never said it would be. It is something else." Here are two streams.
The Who - "It's Not Enough" WIN MEDIA | REAL
The Who - "Tea And Theatre" WIN MEDIA | REAL
OK, ready to complete your Who collection? ENTER HERE by Monday, November 13 @ 6 PM EST. We will pick a winner at random and notify him or her that week.
The New Who are currently on tour; here's what the setlist looked like at Proms across the pond the other night. We hear they're still kick ass in concert, even if Pete himself says save your money. We will, however, pay $10 to see Mike Myers as Keith Moon. That's gonna be awesome or totally suck.
Let's end with a bang. The legendary Smothers Brothers performance in which Keith destroys Pete's hearing:
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Here's that contest link again. Good luck!
And for the peanut gallery: Best Who album? Go...
