- rock, hard rock, classic rock, pop rock
- 37 min
- 10 tracks
- MCA Records
The Who by Numbers is the seventh studio album by the English rock band the Who, released on 3 October 1975 in the United Kingdom through Polydor Records, and on 6 October 1975 in the United States by MCA Records. It was named the tenth-best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll.
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Spare, classical in form, grave and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideB+
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 ★
- MusicHound Rock4/5
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide3/5 ★
- Tom HullB
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Tracks
- 1 1Slip Kid4:31
- 1 2However Much I Booze5:05
- 1 3Squeeze Box2:43
- 1 4Dreaming From the Waist4:10
- 1 5Imagine a Man4:07
- 2 1Success Story3:25
- 2 2They Are All in Love3:03
- 2 3Blue Red and Grey2:51
- 2 4How Many Friends4:09
- 2 5In a Hand or a Face3:25
10 tracks, 37 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Who
- Label
- MCA Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- CA
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