#929 The Who - Live at Leeds (1970 version)

The original version's 6 tracks are a knotted fist of rock with a pipe in the middle. There's none of the fey opratics of Quadraphenia or Tommy here, this is just the world's greatest garage band ripping through four blistering short ones and a pair of sprawling, erratic rockers, teetering on the edge of destruction and coming back black and singed. Proto-punk in its directness and fury, this is bracing, inspiring stuff 4.5/5