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
Another great piece of Pete writing: His Rolling Stone review of Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think I've ever seen a performance like the Rock n Roll circus. I have never tired of watching it
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
You know how in that Circus performance, where Pete hits the chords leading to the "'cello, 'cello" section and the crowd sort of spontaneously goes nuts? From there to the end is everything good and right about rock music.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
You're welcome! Bunch more interviews here.
xp
― And Romney doesn't know what day it is... (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
The R&R Circus version just SLAYS. I heard that long before the studio version, and it was a big letdown.
Listening back to the studio one last night on headphones, i liked it alot! Except the ending, i think the vocals are a bit out of tune on all the post-Ivor stuff. And the "Dang! Dang!" should be much more powerful.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
probably no relation but 'bohemian rhapsody' has always seemed to me to be built on the quick one template - harmony opening to relatively sentimental first section, second section both sinister and goofy, third section ROCKS. enjoy both, prefer quick one - tbh those chords leading into the 'cellocellocello' part alone would've guaranteed it a spot on my ballot.
― balls, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
Too many wonderful moments to mention, but the bit where Keith chucks his floortom over his head, where he's singing along unmiked, Pete's "can't believe that I'm with you a-GAIN!", and dangdang and cellocello
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
"yr all forgiven!"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
xp I was just about to mention Keith in this performance. I've read somewhere Pete saying how much of a fan of the Who Keith was, and it really shows here.
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
Does anyone have a link to Pete's Meaty Beaty RS review? I've been hunting online since clemenza mentioned it yesterday but I cannae find it :(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
4. "Baba O'Riley" (Who's Next, 1971) 23 votes, 587 points, two #1 voteshttp://www.oshobuddhaquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/MEHER-baba-quotes-sayings1.jpghttp://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/462798.jpghttp://youtu.be/5uxR0XIwpHI
― And Romney doesn't know what day it is... (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
and yeah, loving those journals