My Wife is great!! So's Tatoo.

Smogg, yet again adding to the suggestions, the 30 Years Of Maximum R&B box set is quite comprehensive.

I was lucky to get it as a gift a couple years ago and it hooked me on Who. I don't know how pricey it may be but it has a lot of neat live stuff, classics and what not.

How funny is "Life with the Moons?"

Not obscure, but 'The Real Me' is some of Keiths finest work, IMO! Quadrophenia is the dope.

There are so many bands of that era that I don't know a lot about.  Sure, Hendrix, Zeppelin, Cream, Beatles, Doors...but it took me a while to really dig into the back catalogs of both the Stones and The Who.

Sure, I'd heard "Who's Next" and thought (and still think) that it was one of the finest rock albums ever made.  But I'd never really listened to anything but the stuff on classic rock radio.  In the mid '90s I started reading mentions in interviews from a lot of the power pop bands like The Posies and Redd Kross singing the praises of "The Who Sells Out" so I picked up a copy.  I couldn't believe how heavy yet melodic this album was, from the sludgy psychedelia of "Armenia City In the City" through the sparkling pop of "Our Love Was" and "I Can't Reach You" and the tongue-in-cheek humor of "tattoo" and "Odorono."  I went from there.  

Roger Daltrey is certainly the embodiment of the Oversexed Blue-Eyed Soul Singer.  While I love Zeppelin, Plant seemed to me to be a stylist compared to Daltrey.  The dearly departed Entwhistle also one of the finest to pick up the bass guitar and certainly underrated as a vocalist and songwriter (I love "Heaven and Hell" and "My Wife.")  And of course novels could be written about the talent of Pete Townsend as a songwriter and a guitarist.  I have several great Who bootlegs from '69 and you don't really get the full effect of the careening nature of the band in the studio.  What a band.

I highly recommend the deluxe edition reissues on My Generation, Tommy, Live At Leeds and Who's Next (still my personal fav.)

I only recently sat down with Quadrophenia.  There's a lot of information to absorb since a lot of that album hasn't been overplayed on the radio.  But I'm really enjoying this album too.

I'm also coming around to the genius of Keith Moon.  As a kid I couldn't understand the hoopla around Moonie's playing.  His hands didn't seem that fast and he always sounded out-of-control.  Of course now I understand that was the beauty of his playing.