The Who- Endless Wire

Label: Universal Republic Records

Released 2006

Endless Wire often hearkens back to previous Who albums in its themes, structure, and sound. The "Baba O'Reilly" riff pops up in "Fragments," the pummeling triplets of "The Punk Meets the Godfather" resurface in "Mike Post Theme." Like The Who by Numbers, it has its fair share of stark acoustic introspection. Like The Who Sell Out and A Quick One, it closes with a mini-rock opera, this one called "Wire & Glass." This closing suite also shares a lineage with Townshend's 1993 solo album Psychoderelict, a record that's not well loved but one that is connected thematically to Lifehouse Chronicles, his often-muddled yet often-intriguing futuristic rock opera that seemed to suggest portions of a technologically saturated internet age.

Track Listing:

1. Fragments
2. A Man in a Purple Dress
3. Mike Post Theme
4. In the Ether
5. Black Widow's Eyes
6. Two Thousand Years
7. God Speaks to Marty Robbins
8. It's Not Enough
9. You Stand by Me
10. Sound Round
11. Pick up the Peace
12. Unholy Trinity
13. Trilby's Piano
14. Out on the Endless Wire
15. Fragments of Fragments
16. We Got a Hit
17. They Made My Dreams Come True
18. Mirror Door
19. Tea & Theatre
20. We Got a Hit
21. Endless Wire
22. I Can't Explain
23. Behind Blue Eyes
24. Mike Post Theme
25. Baba O'Riley
26. Won't Get Fooled Again