Odds And Sods Remastered

Odds & Sods is the latest milestone in MCA's successful series of Who reissues in conjunction with the band and it's handpicked group of producers and compilers. This newly expanded edition of the 1974 classic rarities collection contains more than double the number of tracks than the original LP and is completely remixed and re-mastered. This release features 9 (!!!) previously unreleased recordings, plus the ultra-rare studio version of "Young Man Blues." By the mid-'70s, even The Who's leftovers had more interest than most rock best-of albums--"Glow Girl" is a concise blueprint of 1969's "Tommy"; "Naked Eye" and "Pure and Easy" were victims of the doomed Lifehouse project; "I'm the Face" was the band's mod-obsessed first single; and even "Little Billy," an antismoking advertisement, still rocks hard. John Entwistle's faux country "Now I'm a Farmer" was contemptible, but the closing anthem "Long Live Rock" redeemed such missteps. The 1998 CD reissue added studio versions of "Young Man Blues" and "Summertime Blues," among many others, and resequenced the tracks. --Steve Knopper.