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The Who: Hooligans

Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, January 1982

From a fan's point of view, there is nothing worse than a compilation album put together by either a group, whose nearness to the material can make an intelligent selection impossible, or their recently-departed label, greedily and/or spitefully taking advantage of their legal rights before they expire.

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