My Generation: The Very Best of The Who is one of the Who's many greatest hits collections, released by Polydor Records internationally and MCA Records in the United States in 1996. Its release coincided with the release of the remastered original albums (omitting My Generation for contractual reasons) and thus contained the newly remastered versions of the songs, and some also remixed.
Track listing All songs written by Pete Townshend except where noted.
"I Can't Explain" – 2:04 1964 single Producer: Shel Talmy "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" (Townshend/Roger Daltrey) – 2:40 1965 single Producer: Shel Talmy "My Generation" – 3:18 1965 single then on My Generation, 1965 Producer: Shel Talmy "Substitute" – 3:47 1966 single Producer: Pete Townshend "I'm a Boy" – 2:36 1966 single Producer: Kit Lambert "Boris the Spider" (John Entwistle) – 2:27 from A Quick One, 1966 Producer: Kit Lambert "Happy Jack" – 2:11 1966 single then on the U.S. release of A Quick One called Happy Jack, 1966 Producer: Kit Lambert "Pictures of Lily" – 2:45 1967 single Producer: Kit Lambert "I Can See for Miles" – 4:21 1967 single then on The Who Sell Out, 1967 Producer: Kit Lambert "Magic Bus" – 3:15 1968 UK single; from the U.S. compilation Magic Bus: The Who on Tour, 1968 Producer: Kit Lambert "Pinball Wizard" – 3:00 from Tommy, 1969 Producer: Kit Lambert "The Seeker" – 3:22 1970 single Producer: Kit Lambert, The Who "Baba O'Riley" – 5:07 from Who's Next, 1971 Producer: The Who, Glyn Johns "Won't Get Fooled Again" – 8:32 from Who's Next Producer: The Who, Glyn Johns "Let's See Action" – 4:02 1971 single Produced by The Who; Associate Producer: Glyn Johns "5:15" – 4:49 from Quadrophenia, 1973 Producer: The Who, Kit Lambert & Glyn Johns "Join Together" – 4:22 1972 single Produced by The Who, Associate Producer: Glyn Johns "Squeeze Box" – 2:40 from The Who by Numbers, 1975 Producer: Glyn Johns "Who Are You" (Single edit) – 5:02 from Who Are You, 1978 Producer: Glyn Johns & Jon Astley "You Better You Bet" – 5:37 from Face Dances, 1981 Producer: Bill Szymczyk
Sales chart performance +Chart performance for Who's Better, Who's BestChart (1996)Peakposition
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Personnel Roger Daltrey – lead vocals John Entwistle – bass guitar, vocals Kenney Jones – drums, percussion on "You Better You Bet" Keith Moon – Drums, percussion on all except "You Better You Bet" Pete Townshend – guitar, synthesizer, keyboards, vocals
Design Design & Art Direction by Richard Evans
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