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.