John Dougan is quite a fan of this album and never fails to tell the reader so. By focusing on the exterior of the album more than the interior, however, the book becomes more than just a simple "making of"-documentary for die-hard-fans only.more That doesn't mean that the book didn't provide sufficient information about the individual songs. Shining a light on the era of pirate radio stations, the stubborn conservatism of the BBC (and why things were like they were) as well as examining the state of British 60s pop art are far more interesing and relevant than which guitar and amp Pete Townshend used on which song. But I think the author does an absolutely marvellous job in painting a picture of the whole cultural (and pop-cultural) aspects that surrounded the album's production and reception. Shining a light on the era of pirate radio stations, the stubborn conservatism of the BBC (and why things were like they were) I've read some reviews by people who were complaining about the book not providing enough information on how the album was recorded and stuff like that. I've read some reviews by people who were complaining about the book not providing enough information on how the album was recorded and stuff like that. From this conflict emerges a pop art masterpiece.more In this sense Sell Out is a reflective work, one that struggles with rock and roll as a cultural expression that aspires to aesthetic permanence while marketed as ephemera. Not the cliched mantra of sex, drugs, and rock and roll but in the ways that commercial advertising fabricates a youth-oriented cultural reality by hawking pimple cream, deodorant, food, musical equipment, etc., and linking it with rock and roll. Sell Out, powerfully and ecstatically, articulates the nexus of pop music and pop culture.Īs much as it is an expression of the band's expanding sonic palette, Sell Out also functions as a critique of the rock and roll lifestyle. In the 36 years since its release, Sell Out, though still not the best selling release in The Who's catalog, has been embraced by a growing number of fans who regard it as the band's best work, one of the few recordings of the late 1960s that best represents the ambitious aesthetic possibilities of the concept album without becoming mired in a bog of smug, self-aggrandizing, high art aspirations.
in January 1968, The Who Sell Out was, according to critic Dave Marsh, a complete backfire-the album sold well, but not spectacularly ultimately a nostalgic in-joke: Who but a pop intellectual could appreciate such a thing? Further rarifying its in-joke status was its unapologetic Englishness 13 tracks stitched together in a mock pirate radio broadcast, without a DJ, with cool, anglocentric commercials to boot.
in January 1968, The Who Sell Out was, according to critic Dave Marsh, a complete backfire-the album sold well, but not spectacularly ultimately a nostalgic in-joke: Who but a pop intellectual could appreciate such a thing? Further rarifying its in-joke status was its unapologetic Englishness 13 tracks stitched together in a mock pirate rad Released in the U.S.
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