Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Armenia City In The Sky - Kit Lambert, The Who
2. Heinz Baked Beans - Kit Lambert, The Who
3. Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand - Kit Lambert, The Who
4. Odorono - Kit Lambert, The Who
5. Tattoo - Kit Lambert, The Who
6. Our Love Was - Kit Lambert, The Who
7. I Can See For Miles - The Who
8. I Can't Reach You - Kit Lambert, The Who
9. Medac - Kit Lambert, The Who
10. Relax - Kit Lambert, The Who
11. Silas Stingy - Kit Lambert, The Who
12. Sunrise - Kit Lambert, The Who
13. Real (1 & 2) - The Who
14. Rael - Naive - The Who
15. Someone's Coming - Kit Lambert, The Who
16. Early Morning Cold Taxi - The Who
17. Jaguar - Kit Lambert, The Who
18. Coke After Coke - The Who
19. Glittering Girl - Kit Lambert, The Who
20. Summertime Blues - The Who
21. John Mason Cars - The Who
22. Girl's Eyes - The Who
23. Sodding About - The Who
24. Premier Drums - The Who
25. Odorono - The Who
26. Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand - Kit Lambert, The Who
27. Things Go Better With Coke - The Who
28. In The Hall Of The Mountain King - The Who
29. Top Gear - The Who
30. Rael (1 & 2) - The Who

Disc 2:

1. Armenia City In The Sky - Kit Lambert, The Who
2. Heinz Baked Beans - Kit Lambert, The Who
3. Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand - The Who
4. Odorono - Kit Lambert, The Who
5. Tattoo - Kit Lambert, The Who
6. Our Love Was - Kit Lambert, The Who
7. I Can See For Miles - The Who
8. I Can't Reach You - Kit Lambert, The Who
9. Medac - Kit Lambert, The Who
10. Relax - Kit Lambert, The Who
11. Silas Stingy - Kit Lambert, The Who
12. Sunrise - Kit Lambert, The Who
13. Rael (1 & 2) - The Who
14. Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand - Kit Lambert, The Who
15. Someone's Coming - Kit Lambert, The Who
16. Relax - Kit Lambert, The Who
17. Jaguar - Kit Lambert, The Who
18. Glittering Girl - Kit Lambert, The Who
19. Tattoo - Kit Lambert, The Who
20. Our Love Was - Kit Lambert, The Who
21. Rotosound Strings - The Who
22. I Can See For Miles - The Who
23. Rael - Kit Lambert, The Who
24. Armenia City In The Sky - Kit Lambert, The Who
25. Great Shakes - The Who

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4047 in Music
• Released on: 2009-03-16
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Box set, Original recording remastered, Extra tracks, Deluxe Edition
• Dimensions: .36 pounds
• Running time: 170 minutes

CD Description
Originally released in December 1967, The Who Sell Out arrived at the tail end of a remarkable year in popular culture. As well as being forever immortalised as the moment when the counterculture and the "Love Generation" went global, 1967 produced tremendous musical upheavals as "pop" metamorphosed to "rock", elevating the likes of Cream, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, Traffic and the West Coast groups to prominence--both on the underground scene and the commercial arena. The homage to pop-art is evident in both the advertising jingles and the iconic sleeve design--created by David King (art director at the Sunday Times) and Roger Law (who invented Spitting Image) producing four giant images for each band member--Odorono deodorant, Medac spot cream, Charles Atlas and Heinz baked beans. This remastered edition of Sell Out features the following:

• Stunning reissue of the classic Who album from 1967, now upgraded to a greatly expanded 2 CD version in the acclaimed Deluxe edition range.

•Remastered from the original stereo and mono masters for the first time.

•The first official re-release of the mono mix (in the US and UK) since 1967

•Eleven previously unreleased songs and/or mixes.

•28-page booklet contains unseen photos and 1960s period advertisements. CD sleeve features out-takes from the original October 1967 album cover photo session by David Montgomery, the esteemed portrait photographer.

•Introductory essay by noted rock writer Dave Marsh and in-depth liner notes by Who biographer Andy Neill.

Customer Reviews

One of the best Deluxe Editions ever!
Universal Music have released many 2-CD sets(by many artists) in their "Deluxe Edition" series, and I have most of them in my collection, but none are more impressive than this set, which gives you the original 1967 stereo & mono mixes of "The Who Sell Out", plus a nearly vault-clearing excavation of 27 bonus tracks.

No matter which mix of the album you prefer, Universal Music offers all of them. Personally, I prefer the more Hifi sound of the 1995 stereo remix(not included here, though easily available on the 1-CD expanded edition). The original stereo mix is murkier & muddier, but this 2-CD set puts it back in print, and offers the mono mix for the first time in the UK(no need to hunt for the deleted Japanese mono CD).

There are actual musical differences between the stereo & mono mixes, including a different guitar solo on "Our Love Was".

For the bonus tracks, the compilers have used original 1967 mixes, except for tracks where no original mix(or no stereo mixes) existed. Original masters & multitracks are used, excepting when the Uk mono single mix of "Someone's Coming" is presented on Disc 2. Apparently, the only tapes that could be found had unsatisfactory sound or did not match exactly with the mix heard on the original Uk single, so American collector Luke Pacholski has supplied a digital dub from his vintage Track Records single. More Hifi conscious listeners can listen to an excellent 1995 stereo remix on Disc One.

Amongst the unreleased goodies included are the instrumental "Sodding About", a different studio version of "Summertime Blues"(different from the version on the expanded "Odds & Sods"), an early mix of "I Can See For Miles" with different vocals, a superior re-make of "Glittering Girl" and an inferior but interesting IBC Studios remake of Rael"(the group opted to use the original Talentmasters Studios version instead), and the original 1960's mono mix of "Jaguar" which had been a WHO bootleg vinyl staple throughout the 1970's.

The originally stereo & mono mixes of Rael have a clumsy edit in the first verse to omit a lyric line(the 1995 stereo remix restores the missing line), but this 2-CD set concludes with a previously unreleased 1967 mono mix with the missing line. But wait, there's more. Two "hidden" bonus tracks. One is the backwards guitar tracks (a la carte) from "Armenia City in The Sky" followed by an example of The Who selling out for real: an advertising jingle for an American milkshake manufacturer.

This 2-CD set is being issued only in Britain & Japan, due to America's harsh per song/per disc song publishing royalties system(there would be 53 separate royalties in America). We have Britain's fixed per disc publishing royalties system to thank for music banquets such as this. In Britain, it doesn't matter if there are 10 songs or 30 songs on a CD. The pubishing royalties"pie" gets divided into smaller pieces.

Hold onto your 1995 1-disc expanded edition(for its' Hifi remix), but grab this 2-CD release too. With both releases, you've got everything(well,excepting the single mix of "I Can See For Miles". The compilers thought that 3 mixes of the song on this 2-CD set was enough).

Because the UK & Japan releases of this set must supply WHO fans worldwide, we now have a (hopefully temporary) product shortage. I'm expecting that Universal will press more, so that "The Who Sell Out" doesn't sell out......permanently.

The real sound of 1967
The Who's classic 1967 album is finally given the Deluxe treatment. The Product Description provided by Amazon gives you a pretty good idea of what extras you get with this Deluxe Edition reissue so I won't repeat all those details again. For those who are unfamiliar with the original release I'll just say that The Who Sell Out is very loosely a concept album which combines some of Pete Townshend's most catchy pop and rock songs linked together by commercials and jingles. It is both a tribute to Britain's mid sixties commercial radio stations and a superb collection of The Who's music.

Radio London was the UK's most popular and successful commercial radio station in the mid sixties and several of their original radio jingles are used here. Also featured are some fake and amusing radio style advertisements for genuine products produced by the band. Pete Townshend could probably have had a very successful alternative career as an advertising copyrighter! Radio London had sadly closed down four months before the album's release in December 1967. The jingles and commercials made it difficult for the BBC to play at the time!

This new release's stereo version is a different mastering from the mid 90s release but is not a different mix - so it doesn't sound startlingly different, perhaps just a little bit brighter - but this time it is actually taken from the original master tapes. The mono mix does sound quite different to the stereo mix and would have been regarded as the definitive version at the time of the original release in 1967. It has a lot of power and John Entwistle's bass sounds formidable! This release doesn't include all of the bonus material that was featured on the earlier mid 90s version, but is crammed to bursting with its own features - jingles, commercials and tracks - many of which are previously unreleased.

This whole package is well up to the standard of previous releases in the Deluxe Edition series and will delight fans of The Who. The sticker on Roger Daltry's section of the cover says Free Psychedelic Poster Inside and there was one included with the original vinyl release; this poster, by Osiris Visions, is reproduced in the initial run of this release so don't hang about ordering if you want one! The booklet is informative and nicely produced and the whole package has the feel of a labour of love!

Listening to the earth-moving intro to I Can See For Miles, straight after the RotoSound Strings ad, still brings me out in goose bumps today - an absolute classic! Even if you have the mid 90s release you will find enough new stuff here to make it worth seriously considering adding this one to your collection as well. An unreserved five stars for what may well be my favourite album by The Who!

Buy it before Amazon 'sell out'!
I am going to review this as a reissue - that is, I will take it as read that 'The Who Sell Out' as an album is an excellent album which should be owned by all lovers of 1960s pop music and of rock music in general. I will therefore concentrate on how the album has been presented for this so-called 'deluxe edition'.

Firstly, and most importantly, this album features both original 1967 mixes of this album. Someone else states that the stereo version here is a remaster of the 2006 remix but this is wrong. It is a remaster of the original and superior 1967 stereo mix. Easiest way to tell: the original mix of 'Rael' (included here) does not feature the lines beginning 'The country of my fathers' - the remixed version does. Also, the stereo placement (and, in some places, the actual instrumental parts used) differs from the later mix.

The mono mix has never been issued on CD officially before and some of it is a real revelation - particularly 'Our Love Was', with an entirely different guitar solo. Many of the other songs also 'breathe' in a whole different way to the stereo mix.

The bonus tracks are a mixture of the familiar and unfamiliar - different mixes of songs and outtakes from the sessions which have never seen the light of day before (such as the great jam 'Sodding About' and an alternate version of 'Glittering Girl'), sit alongside b-side material such as 'Someone's Coming'.

Sonically, Jon Astley has done a great job simply remastering this - a far better job than he did at remixing The Who's back catalogue (and I think he did that pretty well). Visually it is nice, too - lots of photos and also a reproduction of the original album poster, plus two essays (one from the 1995 reissue).

The only minor grouse is the strange absence of the contemporaneous number 'Melancholia' (included on the 1995 reissue) and the long, organ-drenched version of 'I'm a Boy' originally issued on the 'Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy' compilation. Oh, and the two Stones numbers The Who issued as singles back then (although they were pretty ropey). Then again, the whole package runs for 154 minutes, so I shouldn't complain!

Buy it!