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The Who - Face Dances (1981)

Track listing:
  1. You Better You Bet 5:37
  2. Don't Let Go the Coat 3:47
  3. Cache Cache 3:56
  4. The Quiet One
  5. Did You Steal My Money 4:16
  6. How Can You Do It Alone 5:26
  7. Daily Records 3:25
  8. You 4:42
  9. Another Tricky Day 4:53
  10. I Like Nightmares 3:11
  11. It's In You 5:01
  12. Somebody Saved Me 5:33
  13. How Can YouDo It Alone (live) 5:29
  14. The Quiet One (live) 4:28

Notes

Without Keith Moon, the Who may have lacked the restless fire power that distinguished their earlier albums, but Face Dances had some of Pete Townshend's best, most incisive compositions since Quadrophenia. "Don't Let Go the Coat" was one of his better odes to Meher Baba, "You Better You Bet" was a driving rocker, as was the rueful "Cache Cache," while "How Can You Do It Alone" was a solid ballad. While Townshend's songs were graceful and introspective, Roger Daltrey delivered them without any subtlety, rendering their power impotent. The new compact disc reissue adds five tracks to the original nine-song lineup, including three tracks that didn't make the album's final cut (Townshend's "I Like Nightmares," "It's In You" and "Somebody Saved Me") and two live tracks, a rough jam of "How Can You Do It Alone" and Entwistle's "The Quiet One," from 1979 and 1982, respectively.