My generation

"Some of the most thrilling music of British rock's golden age is in there, but you do have to plough through some less-thrilling stuff to find it - it feels as if there are a great many more than five versions of Daddy Rolling Stone here. But there is buried treasure: the demos of My Generation show, in one case, that every aspect of the song, right down to the speed-blocked stutter, had been worked out by Townshend; and in another that he could make even that most aggressive of songs sound like an outtake from the Beach Boys's Smile. Incredible, too, is the demo of The Good's Gone that turns it into a foreboding drone. It's not one for the casual fan, but completists will be in heaven".

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"An explosive debut, and the hardest mod pop recorded by anyone. At the time of its release, it also had the most ferociously powerful guitars and drums yet captured on a rock record ... While the execution was sometimes crude, and the songwriting not as sophisticated as it would shortly become, the Who never surpassed the pure energy level of this record".

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