The Similarities Engine

Albums similar to Who’s Next

These are the albums most often named alongside The Who - Who’s Next by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to The Who, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.

1. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
2. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
3. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
4. Cream - Disraeli Gears
5. Van Morrison - Moondance
6. Boston - Boston
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
8. Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
9. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
10. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
11. The Beatles - Revolver
12. The Strokes - Is This It
13. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
14. Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
15. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
16. Queen - A Night at the Opera
17. Commander Cody - Lost in the Ozone
18. Died Pretty - Free Dirt
19. Dory Previn - Mythical Kings and Iguanas
20. Elton John - Caribou
21. Emmylou Harris - Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
22. Fischer‐Z - Going Deaf for a Living
23. Flash and the Pan - Lights in the Night
24. George Clinton - Mothership Connection
25. Jim Noir - Jim Noir
26. John Mayall - Laurel Canyon
27. Starsailor - Love Is Here
28. The Adventures - The Sea of Love
29. The Bonzo Dog Band - Tadpoles
30. The Marshall Tucker Band - Carolina Dreams

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