The Who - Empty Glass (1981)

 

Side A:
1. Bitter and Twisted - Roger Daltrey
2. Rough Boys - Pete Townshend
3. Try Me - John Entwistle
4. Free Me - Roger Daltrey
5. Jools and Jim - Pete Townshend

Side B:
6. Talk Dirty - John Entwistle
7. My Time is Gonna Come - Roger Daltrey
8. Cat's in the Cupboard - Pete Townshend
9. I'm Coming Back - John Entwistle
10. Gonna Get Ya - Pete Townshend

This is my last in a series of albums where I combine solo albums released by members of The Who. This is the same year they put out their Face Dances album but all the members also feature on Roger Daltrey's album so that could've been a Who album. For this one I'm using Roger Daltrey's album McVicar, Pete Townshend's Empty Glass, and John Entwistle's Too Late the Hero. It was John's first solo album in 6 years but his also his last one. Also being that this is the '80s, the band's music sounds more new wave but heavier than the other solo albums. 

The Who - Rough Mix (1977)

 

Side A:
1. Parade - Roger Daltrey
2. My Baby Gives It Away - Pete Townshend
3. You Can Be So Mean - John Entwistle
4. Avenging Annie - Roger Daltrey
5. Keep Me Turning - Pete Townshend

Side B:
6. Leon - Roger Daltrey
7. Misunderstood - Pete Townshend
8. Drowning - John Entwistle
9. Don't Worry Baby - Keith Moon
10. Say It Ain't So, Joe - Roger Daltrey

This is the second of three albums I'm planning on making by combining tracks from members of the Who's solo albums. All of these albums were released between the years of 1975 and 1977. Keith Moon released his only solo album during this period meaning they all released at least one album so I had at least four albums I could use.

For this I'm using Roger Daltrey's One of the Boys, Pete Townshend's Rough Mix, John Entwistle's Mad Dog, and Keith Moon's Two Sides of the Moon. In our first album in this series, John released two albums around this time, but this time Roger released two albums around this time. I figured both of them would've sounded alike so I just picked One of the Boys. But John's album sounded like '50s rock and roll like his one before it, and Keith's album was marred by drug problems, so I named this album after Pete's album cause it was rough trying to mix it together. 

The Who - Rigor Mortis Sets In (1974)

 

Side A:
1. One Man Band - Roger Daltrey
2. There's a Heartache Following Me - Pete Townshend
3. Apron Strings - John Entwistle
4. Thinking - Roger Daltrey
5. Sheraton Gibson - Pete Townshend

Side B:
6. The Story So Far - Roger Daltrey
7. Content - Pete Townshend
8. I Feel Better - John Entwistle
9. Reasons - Roger Daltrey
10. Who Cares? - John Entwistle

This is the first in a set of three albums that combines tracks from solo albums by members of The Who. Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, and John Entwistle all released albums around 1972-73 at the same time as working on Rock is Dead, Long Live Rock which became Quadrophenia. 

For this I'm using Roger Daltrey's album Daltrey, Pete Townshend's album Who Came First?, and John Entwistle's album Nursery Rymes. John actually released two albums around this time, but his other album Rigor Mortis Sets In was more in the style of '50s rock and roll, though both that album and Pete's included a cover of a song from the '60s as well as songs that would end up on my reconstruction of the Lifehouse album. I found a version of the cover of Rigor Mortis that didn't have an artist name which I could use for my cover. John's albums ended up being the heaviest but I decided to use his other one. Also it would've been more of a collaborative album but maybe they would release this than Odds and Ends. 

The Who - Rock is Dead, Long Live Rock (1972)

 

Side A:
1. Relay
2. Get Inside
3. Riot in the Female Jail
4. Long Live Rock
5. Put the Money Down
6. Can't You See I'm Easy

Side B:
7. Join Together
8. Four Faces
9. We Close Tonight
10. You Came Back
11. Joker James
12. Anymore

This is my take on the unreleased album Rock is Dead, Long Live Rock by The Who which would later become Quadrophenia. There was a tracklist that I found for it online but it only had 9 songs and 2 of them would later be included on Quadrophenia. However the Quadrophenia deluxe edition included two discs of demos that I could use. Some of these songs might've technically been written for Quadrophenia but it's worth noting that all the songs were recorded in 1972. 

The Who - Who's for Tennis? (1968)

 

Side A:
1. Someone's Coming
2. Early Morning Cold Taxi
3. Glittering Girl
4. Girl's Eyes
5. Melancholia
6. Pictures of Lily
7. Doctor, Doctor

Side B:
8. Glow Girl
9. Little Billy
10. Faith in Something Bigger
11. Magic Bus
12. Call Me Lightning
13. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
14. Dogs

After the release of their album A Quick One, The Who's next album was planned to be called Who's Lily? after their recent single Pictures of Lily. However they had an idea to create an album that sounded like a pirate radio station, full of fake commercials and unrelated songs, and from that they developed the Who Sell Out album and the Who's Lily? idea was dropped. I've seen blogs try to recreate Who's Lily? I've also seen blogs try to make a double album version of The Who Sell Out. Both albums seem possible to recreate, but they basically use the same songs so it has to be one or the other. I tried to make a double album version of The Who Sell Out once but felt like I didn't have enough songs to choose. Maybe this idea will fare better.

Who's Lily? seems to be if they took just the songs from The Who Sell Out and combined them with other songs from the era like Pictures of Lily. Though apparently they also had plans to release an album in 1968 that didn't get finished either. I realized that if you combined the non-album songs from 1967 and 1968 together it would be enough for a full album.

One criticism of the Who Sell Out is that the pirate radio idea disappears midway through the second side although the band recorded more jingles that they could've used. Some outtakes included covers like Summertime Blues and In the Hall of the Mountain King as well as instrumentals like Sodding About and... In the Hall of the Mountain King. In fact there were plans around this time to release an instrumental EP but it never got released.

The Who - Jigsaw Puzzle (1966)

 

Side A:
1. I'm a Boy
2. Run Run Run
3. Don't Look Away
4. So Sad About Us
5. I Need You
6. Disguises
7. In the City

Side B:
8. Boris the Spider
9. Whiskey Man
10. See My Way
11. Happy Jack
12. A Quick One, While He's Away

This is an alternate version of The Who's second album A Quick One. I found an initial tracklist online which had 12 tracks though the final version had 10 tracks. It included the covers Heat Wave and Barbara Ann as well as the instrumental Cobwebs and Strange but excluded the song So Sad About Us and the mini-suite A Quick One While He's Away. It also included the song Circles which was released on the American version of their first album which would've came out earlier in the year. But the American version of A Quick One replaced Heat Wave with their song Happy Jack. With all these changes and lots of songs to choose from, I replaced Cobwebs with the song Disguises which came from the same EP as Circles. 

The Who - Introducing the Who (1966)

 

Side A:
1. I'm a Man
2. I'm the Face
3. Here 'Tis
4. Zoot Suit
5. Leaving Here
6. I Can't Explain
7. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
8. Barbara Ann          

Side B:
9. Daddy Rolling Stone
10. Bald Headed Woman
11. Lubie (Come Back Home)
12. Shout and Shimmy
13. Heat Wave
14. Motoring
15. Anytime You Want Me

I originally envisioned this as an alternate version of The Who's first album, but I think there's actually enough songs to make a secondary album. Most of these songs are covers since this is from their "Maximum R&B" period, but it includes tracks like I'm a Man which was left off the American version of their first album and replaced with Circles, and Heat Wave which I left off my take on their second album but was actually an outtake from the first album. Either way this would've been released between their first and second album.