I'm talking the standard mimed video. I'd never seen this rehearsal footage before! I'm going to have to dl all this Youtube Who stuff later.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
harmonies! the best! love love love love this so much
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah Tarfumes that rehearsal video is awesome
Just checked my ballot again. Looks like the Blue Red and Grey won't place either. Lovely recent version on youtube of Pete singing it to his family.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
Lily is an exemplar of the earlier comment about the who being in their own universe: Smutty lyrics, complex chord changes, sweet harmonies and these incredible sounds on the guitar and French horn.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
But that's the genius of Lily -- the lyrics aren't smutty. It's just the interpretation of what that picture actually, whether or not Lily is clothed etc that lets you think it's naughty
they lyrics are totally innocent -- I didn't realize til I was much older that it wasn't anythign like the rude song I thought it was when I was a kid
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
Great harmonies on "She's been dead since 1929"
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^ my favorite part
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
8. "My Generation" (single, 1965) 19 votes, 474 points, three #1 voteshttp://demi.fi/uploads/groupImage/244_who_narrowweb__300x310,0.jpghttp://youtu.be/sTlqm_C8Lv8
― And Romney doesn't know what day it is... (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
^ YouTube link is a very long...and groooOOOOOvy version...from 1970. But the beginning...it's...it's like proto-speed metal.
― And Romney doesn't know what day it is... (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:45 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I guess that's true. It's in that English tradition of comic innuendo, like Max Miller
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
pretty sure my 4yo has absolutely no awareness of any of the innuendo in Pictures Of Lily, which we were listening to in the car the other day
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
Aw, that's awesome Shakey
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
"Our Generation" by Spitting Image is not on youtube :(
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
7. "Won't Get Fooled Again" (Who's Next, 1971) 20 votes, 479 points, three #1 votes (451 points studio, 28 points The Kids Are Alright)http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/images/arp2500.jpghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBlVrqp3wzE&feature=share&list=PLE7BEA56CD4E74E83
― And Romney doesn't know what day it is... (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
hoped this would be higher than Baba. actually, that's why I voted for it.
― gospodin simmel, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
I would call "Won't Get Fooled" undeniable, except that I denied it a place on my ballot. But I like it, or respect it, or whatever the right word is for an admiring awareness of its place in the universe. (Which, really, is how I feel about most of Who's Next.)
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
my #1
"meet the new boss/same as the old boss" is probably my single favorite classic rock lyric
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
Daltrey's YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH is my favorite thing about that song and I hate CSI Miami for trying to make me associate it with David Caruso
Fking great song
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
I was so disappointed when I listened close and learned that Daltrey's YEAHHH was double-tracked :(
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
Some interesting background on this song in Peter Doggett's There's a Riot Going On p.442-443:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=emI9LXJ47KUC&pg=PA442&lpg=PA442&dq=%22won%27t+get+fooled+again%22+farren&source=bl&ots=MRc32U3OBX&sig=WMx-PFRPWYcAeiNJbBD5kkY-i5Q&hl=en#v=onepage&q=%22won%27t%20get%20fooled%20again%22%20farren&f=false
― Get wolves (DL), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
(Still an unfuckwithable yell tho)
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
Townshend in 1987:
It's the dumbest song I've ever written. ...It was dumb to deny the political role of the individual, the political responsibility of the individual. Burning your draft card is a political act. Throwing your vote away is an apolitical act. And "Won't Get Fooled Again" was an apolitical song. Luckily, most people didn't listen to the verses. ["There's nothing in the street/Looks any different to me/And the slogans are all replaced, by the by. . . . "] They just listened to the catch.It was an irresponsible song. It was quite clear during that period that rock musicians had the ear of the people. And people were saying to me then, "Pete, you've got to use the Who. You've got to get this message across." It was like Abbie Hoffman said on the stage of Woodstock that John Sinclair was in jail for one lousy joint, and I kicked him off the stage. I deeply regret that. If I was given the opportunity again, I would stop the show. Because I don't think rock & roll is that important. Then I did. The show had to go on.What made me stop thinking the show had to go on was obviously Cincinnati. It was a terrible lesson to have to learn. For a long time, I couldn't live with that. It was directly responsible for me literally, emotionally falling apart. But it was a valuable lesson for me today, looking back on the political relevance - or irrelevance - of a song like "Won't Get Fooled Again." I greatly regret that it's one of the most powerful songs that I've ever written. The Labour party asked me if they could use it in their election campaign. And I said, "Yeah, but please let me rewrite the verses."
It was dumb to deny the political role of the individual, the political responsibility of the individual. Burning your draft card is a political act. Throwing your vote away is an apolitical act. And "Won't Get Fooled Again" was an apolitical song. Luckily, most people didn't listen to the verses. ["There's nothing in the street/Looks any different to me/And the slogans are all replaced, by the by. . . . "] They just listened to the catch.
It was an irresponsible song. It was quite clear during that period that rock musicians had the ear of the people. And people were saying to me then, "Pete, you've got to use the Who. You've got to get this message across." It was like Abbie Hoffman said on the stage of Woodstock that John Sinclair was in jail for one lousy joint, and I kicked him off the stage. I deeply regret that. If I was given the opportunity again, I would stop the show. Because I don't think rock & roll is that important. Then I did. The show had to go on.
What made me stop thinking the show had to go on was obviously Cincinnati. It was a terrible lesson to have to learn. For a long time, I couldn't live with that. It was directly responsible for me literally, emotionally falling apart. But it was a valuable lesson for me today, looking back on the political relevance - or irrelevance - of a song like "Won't Get Fooled Again." I greatly regret that it's one of the most powerful songs that I've ever written. The Labour party asked me if they could use it in their election campaign. And I said, "Yeah, but please let me rewrite the verses."
― And Romney doesn't know what day it is... (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
what is this Cincinnati incident referred to there
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
This
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_The_Who_concert_disaster
― Get wolves (DL), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
Most quotable human in pop music of the last 50 years.
― Irwin Dante's Towering Inferno (WmC), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
oh right that thing. for some reason I thought that had happened at the US Festival.
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
lol "US festival"
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
they were a thing
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
6. "I Can't Explain" (single, 1965) 20 votes, 503 points, one #1 votehttp://noblecountygold.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/hinumbers4.jpghttp://youtu.be/YF3X_z0dhQ0
― And Romney doesn't know what day it is... (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
ahhhh so great
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
too low!
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
that 12-string guitar soloing is practically avant-garde...
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I was hoping top 5
I remember when I first heard it as a teenager being surprised to find out that it was an early Who song; something about the chorus and the solos and the opening guitar blarps made it seem 'newer' to me somehow, at least at the time
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
MVB otm. The choppy chord part in the solo, can't think of anyone else who was doing anything like that at the time.
― And Romney doesn't know what day it is... (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
And the Who's debut was easily the best of any of their contemporaries' (Beatles, Stones, Kinks)...but maybe that's not fair, since the Who started 1-2 years later.
― And Romney doesn't know what day it is... (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
wkrp did an episode about the cincinatti tragedy so i was aware of that way before i'd heard of altamont
― balls, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
― VOTE in the 1980's ROCK POLL PLEASE! (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
I've never read a word of Pete writing or interviews, although I always knew he was an editor at Faber & Faber or someplace tony like that. What's a good place to start reading his words?
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
October 6th, new autobiography :D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
Seriously I'm v excited
I have to say, I'm a little apprehensive about it...I mean, I'm gonna devour it, but I'm sure I'll be yelling at the book, "BUT PETE, YOU SAID THE EXACT OPPOSITE IN AN INTERVIEW FIVE YEARS AGO!" Because that's his (admittedly, kind of endearing) thing.
― And Romney doesn't know what day it is... (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
haha yeah that will be interesting
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
This is as good a place to start as any. In it, he sows the seeds of what would become Lifehouse/Who's Next.
― And Romney doesn't know what day it is... (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
I thought I Can't Explain was a cinch for #1.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
me too :(
― VOTE in the 1980's ROCK POLL PLEASE! (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
5. "A Quick One, While He's Away" (A Quick One, 1966) 18 votes, 511 points (12 votes/348 points studio, 6 votes/168 points R&R Circus; one #1 studio vote, one #1 R&R Circus vote)http://www.thewho.info/images/68R&RCircus-PP-The-Who.jpghttp://youtu.be/glU9-_KZ8FM
― And Romney doesn't know what day it is... (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
Related: how great is the "Quick One" sequence in Rushmore?
― Instagrams of Lily on My Facebook Wall (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
no chance anymore for any of the MG deep cuts (Out In The Street, Much Too Much, La La La Lies)
― gospodin simmel, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
Am now totally engrossed in Pete's journals. Thanx Tarfumes
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link