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I will not be objective: my father had bought the disc out and my CM2 was the frenetic rhythm by listening to this album, almost my first rock record, probably one of the ones I have most of my listening life.
Last real album by The Who (charitably forget the 2006 dispensable back with Townshend and Daltrey only) and second album with excellent quoiqu'académique Faces drummer Kenney Jones, friend and successor of Keith Moon, that 'It's hard' benefits a totally unjustified bad reputation. What? The sound of the album would be excessively dated 1980 and the omnipresent synths? As if any of the Who trademarks had not been for over ten years the clever use of synths ... And do not do we find here the magic of low Entwistle, that we never heard as accurately? Daltrey and he never sang better than on the album, which is admirably suited to its register? The truth is that the private foutraque typing Moon as introspective excesses of Townshend, the band finds here its deepest foundations and delivers a beautifully square and solid rock. Objectively, one can be bristling with two titles that flirt with sound Hard FM of the time ('Dangerous' and 'It's your turn' especially) but how not to appreciate this album when we liked the previous adventures of Londoners? Take the excellent 'Dangerous' composed by Entwistle: while the verses are punctuated by a synth no Van Halenien too but admire the power of introduction, subtle bridges, the serene power of all .. . Finally Take 'I've Known No war': but why this wonderful song she is not better known? One of the biggest songs of The Who, never released as a single, never played in concert. An incomprehensible oversight, such as the one suffers this excellent album.
PS: On this CD, four live bonus tracks, from the excellent tour that followed (and that easily finds Streaming: Toronto, 1982)