The Who-Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy (1971)


 

Artist: The Who

Title:  Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy

Label: MCA

Format: LP

Cat #: MCA-37001

Year of Release: 1971

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1980  Super Stars At Super Savings series

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 6/27/21

Sell Price: $5.99

Discogs Last Sold: 5/10/21

Low: $3.00

Median: $5.00

Average: $6.46

High: $16.75

Current low price: $1.77 VG+/VG

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 37

Have/Want:2030/51

Where Sold: New Orleans, LA

Time it took to sell: 6 years

Where and When Bought: short lived store in Worcester early 80's on Grove St brand new

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+

Sad To See It Go: No

Essentially this is my favorite compilation album of all time.  It's baseline and great.  So what are my toppermost of the poppermost on this?  "The Kids Are Alright" and "Anyway Anyhow Anywhere."  I never get sick of those two.  The rest are varying degrees of perfect.

I sold a gatefold edition with beat vinyl a few years back, this is a copy I bought brand new in the early 80's at a short lived record store on Grove St. in Worcester.  I also bought The Byrds Greatest Hits used and the Clash Combat Rock, so it was a good day for 11 or 12 year old me.

So cheers to Bill the head case and Boris the Spider I once thought was "Love Is The Spider" as recently as the concert recreation WAAF played after the supposed It's Hard farewell tour I was not able to see.  It was annoying seeing rich preppy kids the next day with It's Hard baseball t-shirts with the kid playing video games.  They would never know of "Love Is The Spider!"  I actually did get to see them later in the 80's in Foxboro when they reformed for money and at Madison Square Garden touring a good album, Endless Wire after Entwistle was gone.  

So Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy was up there with Byrds Greatest Hits, Hot Rocks, The Red & The Blue and Dylan's second for 60's classic rock compiling.  I'm usually one to not listen to "Greatest Hits" versus full albums, but this one is undeniable.

You can't have it!


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