Face Dances

This article is about the album by The Who. For the caste in Frank Herbert's Dune universe, see Face Dancer.

Face Dances
Studio album by
the Who
Released16 March 1981 (1981-03-16)
RecordedJuly–December 1980
StudioOdyssey (London)
GenreRock
Length38:53
Label
ProducerBill Szymczyk
The Who chronology
Quadrophenia
(1979) 		Face Dances
(1981) 		Phases
(1981)
Singles from Face Dances
  1. "You Better You Bet" / "The Quiet One"
    Released: March 1981[1]
  2. "Don't Let Go the Coat" / "You"
    Released: May 1981
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
MusicHound[4]
Record Mirror[5]
Robert ChristgauB+[6]
Rolling Stone[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[8]

Face Dances is the ninth studio album by English rock band the Who.[9] It was released in 1981 by Warner Bros. in the United States (the band's first release on that label) and on Polydor in the United Kingdom. It is one of two Who studio albums with drummer Kenney Jones, who joined the band after Keith Moon's death three years earlier.

Despite mixed reviews from Rolling Stone and other critics,[7] the album peaked at No. 4[10] on the US Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart and No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart.

  1. ^ "Billboard".
  2. ^ Erlewine, Thomas Stephen. "The Who Face Dances". Allmusic.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  4. ^ Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel, eds. (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 1227. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
  5. ^ Nicholls, Mike (21 March 1981). The Who Face Dances. Record Mirror. p. 18.
  6. ^ "The Who: Face Dances". Robert Christgau.
  7. ^ a b Carson, Tom (14 May 1981). "Face Dances". Rolling Stone.
  8. ^ "The Who: Album Guide". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 6 February 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  9. ^ The Who: Face Dances. Warner Bros. Records. March 1981.
  10. ^ The Hypertext Who › Liner Notes › Face Dances Archived 19 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine