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The bands from the 70s were just exceptional: Zep, Stones, Who, Floyd, Beatles, Genesis, Yes, ELP ... there was never a time like it and will never be again.
Those are bands from the 60s, which was truly the more creative and blossoming decade for rock music. The 70s started well but aproximately in the middle of it everything went down the sink. I'd rather listen to any polka album than one of Kiss excrements or any other AOR crap
This is from 1967's "The Who Sell Out" album. A couple of years ago I took a much deeper dive into The Who. I spent a lot of time listening to this album, as well as "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia." Pete Townshend is a true composer.
The album was absolutely brilliant! But, this song used to come on my a.m. radio through my pillow at night and made me crazy every time I heard it. I used to wait for it to come on and finally I could go to sleep afterwards.
Yes! this IS timeless music, like all of the music you review. Having grown up with the sounds you play now, I love to see your reactions. Excellent review, as always!
Check out "My Generation" and "Summertime Blues"...the Who were part of the classic '60s graduating class that included Beatles, Stones, Who, Yardbirds, Animals, Kinks, Small Faces, Spencer Davis, Zombies...
Yes, this is the one that Townshend thought would be a definite #1 song. When it didn't come close, he was frustrated and decided to create the rock operas.
@@independenceltd. Should of said “In the UK”. A lot of people think that Pinball Wizard was a No:1 for them. But that was Elton John……The Who were just backing.✌🏻
Here's that performance... People were actually horrified by the band's "auto destructive art", after all, it was the "summer of love" and no one expected anything like this... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qjN5uHRIcjM.html
Across the street from LACC in the 1960s was what we called the Casa Ptomaine where we hung out between or after classes. Pretty good hanburgers, coin-op pool table and jukebox. This tune some kids must have liked a lot because it was playing almost constantly -- for years! The daughter of the owner of the place which was family run was seriously hot as I recall...
Keith Moon is a beast on this one. "I Can See For Miles" was The Who's turn towards the psychedelia that was popular that year. It marked a departure from the power pop on their debut album, while pointing towards their work yet to come, like Tommy, Who's Next, and Quadrophenia.
One of the greatest bands ever. Got to check out all of the albums Tommy, Quadrophenia, and Who’s Next. I know time constraints are tough, but going through the whole albums Tommy and Quadrophenia at once is highly recommended. They are rock Opera’s/Plays with amazing stories.
One of my favorite things about your reactions: I learn stuff about songs I have been listening to for 40+ years. Your thoughtful comments are really appreciated.
I remember a story that Paul McCartney set out to write "Helter Skelter" after hearing this song, so the Beatles could show they could still play HARD rock.
KEITH MOON WAS INSANE AND CRAZYYYYY LON AND CHE!!! 😊AND JUST THE WHOLE BAND AND OF COURSE R.I.P. ☹ TO KEITH AND JOHN ENTWISTLE. MOON WAS JUST 1 OF ( NEIL PEART'S ) OF RUSH ISPIRATIONS! YOU WANT MORE EARLYYYY WHO : MY GENERATION, MAGIC BUS, WELL THERE'S A COUPLE
I saw a Townshend interview where he mentioned his frustration with Daltry's early vocals being too reserved. He thought he finally found his voice with Who's Next. You can really hear the difference in comparing this tune to later work.
One of the paradoxes of art is that timeless works are often extremely rooted in their time. "The Who Sell Out" is a tribute/parody of the pirate radio phenomenon that took place in London in the mid-60s. Radio stations (such as the album's Radio London) trying to get around BBC regulations loaded their equipment onto ships and broadcast from international waters. The Who Sell Out is their version of a day in the life of a pirate radio station including PSAs (Radio London reminds you/Go to the church of your choice, ads for baked beans, zit cream, deodorant, and musical instruments, as well as hit singles like "I Can See for Miles," another Townshend ode to wanking, and a love song to the singer's tattoos that may be Pete's best ever. (No joke. I love Tattoo.)
One of my favorite's! Keith's aggressive style on this one especially, is partly why became obsessed with drums. Plus it's a good `burn` song. Great Reaction as usual!
You are covering so many of the greats, I wonder if you will take a dive into the Kinks? They could make these great pop songs, and then hit you with songs that were almost punk rock in the sound. Great work as always gentlemen!
Fun fact.. Roger Daltry hand't 'found his voice' yet... not until Tommy. Once he did Tommy he was forever changed into the rock star he is today with that powerful voice.
I'm old enough that I can remember the Beatles, the Stones appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show, plus the Dave Clark Five, the Monkees etc. However, the Who were the first band that their sound really caught my attention. Something about their sound I preferred over the other early bands.
You guys ought to check out the very first Who album (from 1965) - 'My Generation' (a.k.a 'The Who Sings My Generation'). Lots of R&B influences, as well as 2 James Brown covers); very different from their subsequent albums but displaying their unique Who sound right from the start. 'The Who Sell Out' is a great album as well (but often overlooked in comparison to their Tommy to Quadrophenia output). And 'Live at Leeds' is an absolute classic, one of the best live rock albums of all time.
Other fun stuff from earlier on is Pinball Wizard, My Generation, Pictures of Lilly, Happy Jack, and Boris the Spider. They are all gems. And there is a later one that always kind of seemed like an outlier to me but I loved it and it used to play on the radio all the time, Squeezebox.
Hey again from N in Spain. This must be an unedited version because the original track just blasts in on that first note and it fades out a lot sooner. Cool to hear the count in and the band fall apart at the end but the original has more punch. Check out how Keith is doing rolls and fills that connect not only with the bass and guitar but mirror Roger's vocal phrases. As a drummer I know this song is like running a marathon in 3 1/2 minutes. Truly unique and impossible to imitate.
Always loved this song. This is how a snare drum should sound. You’re totally right, there music still sounds current and is still relevant today. The Who were one of the most important and influential bands of all time. You should check out their live performance of A Quick One from the 1968 Rolling Stones Circus. Legend has it they upstaged everyone else so Mick Jagger buried the film for years.
When this song came out, Pete Townsend bragged that they had done the Heaviest SONG ever. Not to be outdone, Paul McCartney read this and wrote HELTER SKELTER to try and out do them in Heaviness...
I hear the sixties but only because I'm 70 years old and remember when this song came out. You are correct it's aged well, great music is great music. To me the first hit to music was the electronic era, not because you can't make great music with the instruments of any time. The sixties & seventies used tube amps that could be overdriven (a nasty meaty beastly sound), now it's a electronic series of gates in a effects box, Hammond B3's with their tone wheels and draw bars, Fender Rhodes Electric pianos with the hammer action on a tuning fork, funky clavinets. The limitations of analog instruments just gave a meaty sound and drove techs crazy trying to retune instruments in the new venue, do the show, pack it all up and do it all over again in a new venue. The electronic instruments are much easier to deal with but the sound of old equipment is faked with effects pedals or sampled now. It's not the same. Great music is still being made. The main group of music you haven't covered yet is Jam bands who often either use older equipment or older styles like prog. A jam band tune can cover rock n' roll (dance oriented), rock (prog, hard, heavy metal), jazz (often fusion), classical (sonata, concerto, avant garde), country (country rock, bluegrass, rockabilly), sometimes all in the same tune. My favorites are Umphrey's McGee, Railroad Earth, Government Mule, the list is long. If you do check out Umphrey's McGee "Ocean Billy" Live at Red Rocks would be a good starting point clocking in at under 19 minutes.
In 1967, this song got a ton of AM radio play and my 11 year old hears knew I was hearing something much harder and so energetic and I was hooked. The Who and The Beatles are my desert island musicians.
This had a lot of relevance to the boys in Vietnam getting dear john letters or being told by friends back home what their girlfriends were doing while they were in country.
