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 | | Who cares now, beyond a few record collector nuts?" Which is why whenever you catch a record company actually doing right by an artist, as is the case with MCA's recent exhaustive rehaul of the Who's back catalog, you have to wonder if that was Satan you just saw purchasing parkas down at J.C. Penney. |
 | | Were you to compare, say, the recent issue of The Who By Numbers with its mid-Eighties, budget-line CD counterpart, the contest is non-existent. |
 | | You see, the Who was the nastiest, most aggressive rock and roll band to date, prototypically punk in their violence and swagger, and one that made bombast and power essential via their pioneering overamplification and the extrovert, play-everything-but-the-beat drum genius of Keith Moon. |
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