Who Sell Out Songs Ranked
The Who Sell Out is the third studio album by the British rock band the Who. It was released on 15 December 1967 by Track Records in the UK and Decca Records in the US. A concept album, The Who Sell Out is structured as a collection of unrelated songs interspersed with fake commercials and public service announcements, including the second track “Heinz Baked Beans”. The album purports to be a broadcast by pirate radio station Radio London. The reference to “selling out” was an intended irony, as the Who had been making real commercials during that period of their career, some of which are included as bonus tracks on the remastered CD. The Who Sell Out has received widespread acclaim from critics, some of whom viewed it as the Who’s best record. It has also frequently been featured on all-time lists of the best albums, including Rolling Stone magazine’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. However, it was the band’s lowest-charting album on the UK Albums Chart, where it peaked at number 13. Here are all of Who Sell Out songs ranked.
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10. Mary Anne With the Shaky Hand
“Mary Anne with the shaky hands” is a poppy song with a rather soft accompaniment –at least by Who standards- and distinctively juicy lyrics.”
9. Odorono
“Another full length song that actually is meant to be a commercial is “Odorono” with spot-on lyrics depicting the world of the teenagers.”
8. Sunrise
“Sunrise” is Pete Townshend’s most beautiful and tender acoustic song ever and to me is another highlight of the album for those who like to discover the other sides of The Who.”
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7. Tattoo
“Released during a turning point, when mods turned to hippies and the concise pop-single slowly was replaced by longish improvisations and solos, when albums took over the interest of the pop consumer and the simple love lyrics suddenly changed to unintelligible mystic images, peace and drug references, the band was on its way to super stardom and created the ultimate statement for the pop generation of the 1960s. “
6. Silas Stingy
“Much of the music on this is good, but the album is more interesting as an artifact of pop art. It is also one of the softest Who albums. This, like all of their albums up to Leeds, usually has little appeal to the non-rocknerds.”
5. Rael
“Rael” is more of a failure with unclear and ragged lyrics on war and peace and religious sub-texts. The single parts of the song mostly fail to gain greater attention and also don’t fit in very well with the concept and spirit of the rest of the album, leaving the listener suddenly in a completely different mood and a more progressive territory, thus making the song an unsuitable finish to a great album”
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4. I Can’t Reach You
“After the cavalcade of weird characters that Pete Townshend sent forth on “The Who Sell Out”, “I Can’t Reach You” comes almost as light relief with its more conventional lyric and straight-forward pop sensibility.”
3. Armenia City In the Sky
“The psychadelic comes in the form of the opener Armenia City In The Sky, a superb lost Who classic. It’s VERY 1967, with it’s tales of black skies, brown seas and everything being upside down.”
2. Our Love Was
“Pete’s first attempt at a full-length concept album, going for the general feel of a pirate radio station and as such varying the sound considerably between from song to song, is a gigantic leap over the Who’s first two albums and featuring a set of funny commercials in between songs, a significantly better concept record than Tommy, and probably the Who’s third-best studio album”
1. I Can See for Miles
“A massive song from The Who. The intro grumbles like a ticking bomb, with Moon’s sledgehammer drums echoing all over the background, (I doubt there have been more drumbeats in a single pop – rock song than Moon hits here), the backing vocals on the chorus invoke the infinity of the title.”