I think this is a POLL of shit while John Sinclair rots in prison: THE WHO RESULTS THREAD (ilm artist poll #25)

9. "Pictures Of Lily" (single, 1967) 21 votes, 466 points
http://www.whocollection.com/2FloorToms.jpg
http://youtu.be/oCCO5q8eV1w

KILLER RIFF! French Horn solo!

love this song. swooping horn part is so weird

Also, i love watching Moon play drums, arms up high, like he's driving a stagecoach.

That's on fire.

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.

harmonies! the best! love love love love this so much

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.

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.

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

Great harmonies on "She's been dead since 1929"

^^^^ my favorite part

8. "My Generation" (single, 1965) 19 votes, 474 points, three #1 votes
http://demi.fi/uploads/groupImage/244_who_narrowweb__300x310,0.jpg
http://youtu.be/sTlqm_C8Lv8

^ YouTube link is a very long...and groooOOOOOvy version...from 1970. But the beginning...it's...it's like proto-speed metal.

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 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

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

Aw, that's awesome Shakey

"Our Generation" by Spitting Image is not on youtube :(

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.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBlVrqp3wzE&feature=share&list=PLE7BEA56CD4E74E83

hoped this would be higher than Baba. actually, that's why I voted for it.

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.)

my #1

"meet the new boss/same as the old boss" is probably my single favorite classic rock lyric

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

I was so disappointed when I listened close and learned that Daltrey's YEAHHH was double-tracked :(

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

(Still an unfuckwithable yell tho)

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."

what is this Cincinnati incident referred to there

This

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_The_Who_concert_disaster

Most quotable human in pop music of the last 50 years.

oh right that thing. for some reason I thought that had happened at the US Festival.

lol "US festival"

they were a thing

6. "I Can't Explain" (single, 1965) 20 votes, 503 points, one #1 vote
http://noblecountygold.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/hinumbers4.jpg
http://youtu.be/YF3X_z0dhQ0

ahhhh so great

too low!

that 12-string guitar soloing is practically avant-garde...

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

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 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.

wkrp did an episode about the cincinatti tragedy so i was aware of that way before i'd heard of altamont

my #1

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?

October 6th, new autobiography :D

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.

haha yeah that will be interesting

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?

This is as good a place to start as any. In it, he sows the seeds of what would become Lifehouse/Who's Next.

I thought I Can't Explain was a cinch for #1.