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Baba O'Riley Who's Next (1971) Buy CD Buy MP3 |
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hayduke2 May 01, 2013 - 10:20 | Brings tears to my eyes, as I crank the volume and use my at the moment empty retail space as my mosh pit, exhilarating thank you! |
Proclivities May 01, 2013 - 10:18 | PhoenixArtDj wrote: Anyone who calls this song "teenage wasteland" deserves to be taken out behind a shed and roughed up some. That would have to be an enormous shed, because unfortunately, many people believe that is the name of this tune. |
PhoenixArtDj Feb 27, 2013 - 19:54 | Anyone who calls this song "teenage wasteland" deserves to be taken out behind a shed and roughed up some. |
jt1 Jan 27, 2013 - 12:44 | (former member) wrote: Them there teenagers are all wasted... life is grand for the young... sigh... this whole album is magnificent... think of it in the context of 1971, when the album was released... the album promotes rebellion against authority... "Meet the new boss— the same as the old boss"... oh, the optimism of youth that "we won't get fooled again..." hey— at least the young generation of Baby Boomers ended the draft, got the Civil Rights Act of 1964, created Medicare, gave women the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and created "women's liberation"... etc... in 1971, young people were drafted in the USA to serve in an optional and unnecessary war in Vietnam... the 1960's had gradually fomented the civil unrest that was a conglomerate of reactions to many forms of institutional injustice... the USA had a president who eventually had to resign from office for being a criminal... the cover of the album demonstrates the band's lack of respect for institutional authority... this is a brilliant historical album, and I hope the young folks today get the message— question authority rather than automatically worship it... This has to be the longest post I've seen from RT, and its also a reasonably well structured arguement that I find myself mostly agreeing with. |
Lazarus Jan 27, 2013 - 12:43 | Everybody in my church loves this song... |
kcar Oct 25, 2012 - 11:43 | johnjconn wrote: Wasn't Moon the one who choked on a ham sandwich? You're thinking of Cass Elliot from The Mamas and the Papas...and even that's an urban legend. Cass was on her to a successful solo career after the group broke up. At the end of two weeks of sold-out concerts at the London Palladium in July '74, Cass went back to sleep at No. 12 flat at 9 Curzon Place, and died of a heart attack in her sleep. The police found a half-eaten sandwich at the flat and speculated before an autopsy was done that Cass had choked to death on the sandwich. Not true. The creepy thing is that Keith Moon died in the same flat, four years after Cass died. They were both 32 when they passed. Keith Moon died of an overdose of sedatives called clomethiazole (Heminevrin), which he had to fight alcohol withdrawal syndrome. A doctor prescribed the drug for use at home (NOT recommended with this drug because risks of addiction and accidental death are high) and told Moon not to take more than 3 pills in a day. The police found 32 pills in Moon's system—a dosage of just six would have been enough to kill him. |
oldsaxon Oct 25, 2012 - 11:09 | subdude wrote: Overplayed just like u2. these bands were just not that great. There are plenty of great artists and songs out there, contemporary as well as in musical history. I have never heard Weather Report on your station for example. Two songs from them played here. Birdland was sadly last played in 2010....what's with that, Bill? |
(former member) Aug 23, 2012 - 11:04 | meinthecorner wrote: I'll vote for that, Romeo!! Fist to the sky, man... Cool, man! Love this song, and this whole great album... |
meinthecorner Aug 23, 2012 - 10:45 | romeotuma wrote: Them there teenagers are all wasted... life is grand for the young... sigh... this whole album is magnificent... think of it in the context of 1971, when the album was released... the album promotes rebellion against authority... "Meet the new boss— the same as the old boss"... oh, the optimism of youth that "we won't get fooled again..." hey— at least the young generation of Baby Boomers ended the draft, got the Civil Rights Act of 1964, created Medicare, gave women the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and created "women's liberation"... etc... in 1971, young people were drafted in the USA to serve in an optional and unnecessary war in Vietnam... the 1960's had gradually fomented the civil unrest that was a conglomerate of reactions to many forms of institutional injustice... the USA had a president who eventually had to resign from office for being a criminal... the cover of the album demonstrates the band's lack of respect for institutional authority... this is a brilliant historical album, and I hope the young folks today get the message— question authority rather than automatically worship it... I'll vote for that, Romeo!! Fist to the sky, man... |
jmsmy Aug 23, 2012 - 10:43 | I bought the SACD a couple of months ago. The best sounding Who's Next. Mastered by Jon Astley. Great clean transfer - NO "loudness war" here. |
melissakennedy Aug 23, 2012 - 10:41 | love! |
(former member) Jun 21, 2012 - 13:34 | Them there teenagers are all wasted... life is grand for the young... sigh... this whole album is magnificent... think of it in the context of 1971, when the album was released... the album promotes rebellion against authority... "Meet the new boss— the same as the old boss"... oh, the optimism of youth that "we won't get fooled again..." hey— at least the young generation of Baby Boomers ended the draft, got the Civil Rights Act of 1964, created Medicare, gave women the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and created "women's liberation"... etc... in 1971, young people were drafted in the USA to serve in an optional and unnecessary war in Vietnam... the 1960's had gradually fomented the civil unrest that was a conglomerate of reactions to many forms of institutional injustice... the USA had a president who eventually had to resign from office for being a criminal... the cover of the album demonstrates the band's lack of respect for institutional authority... this is a brilliant historical album, and I hope the young folks today get the message— question authority rather than automatically worship it... |
johnjconn Jun 21, 2012 - 13:31 | teleskialaska wrote: To say the original Who was not a great band is to no understand Rock-N-Roll; however, when Keith Moon died they should have let band goo with him, like Zeppelin John Bohnam. There are many amazing new bands, but the early days with The Who, Zep, Stones, Jimmi, will not and cannot be recreated. Wasn't Moon the one who choked on a ham sandwich? |
teleskialaska May 20, 2012 - 18:17 | To say the original Who was not a great band is to no understand Rock-N-Roll; however, when Keith Moon died they should have let band goo with him, like Zeppelin John Bohnam. There are many amazing new bands, but the early days with The Who, Zep, Stones, Jimmi, will not and cannot be recreated. |
ziggytrix Feb 15, 2012 - 13:40 | Host: And where'd you learn to play the, you know - That's a wild *swings arm in immitation* style of playing you got there, where'd you lear to play like that? Townsend: That was bowling, bowling. Host: Yeah *Audience laughs* Host: Bowling... Yeah I can tell... |
Titschim Feb 15, 2012 - 13:38 | Greatest ever! Replay! |
subdude Feb 15, 2012 - 13:38 | Overplayed just like u2. these bands were just not that great. There are plenty of great artists and songs out there, contemporary as well as in musical history. I have never heard Weather Report on your station for example. |
northern_girl Feb 15, 2012 - 13:38 | Takes me back to high school in the 70's, a carload of friends and no worries. Must |
vandal Feb 15, 2012 - 13:37 | The exodus is here The happy ones are near Let's get together Before we get much older |
hedly Jan 14, 2012 - 19:36 | it was the defining song of that era for me. still brings it all back ya gotta love it large |
