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The Who — The Real Me
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ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion)
Posted: May 23, 2013 - 08:07
 
It's kick ass, throw the table over and jump time, baby!!! Volume way up and let your hair down!!!

drictor
(Victor, ID, Cultural center of the universe!)
Posted: May 07, 2013 - 15:28
 
Already rated it a 10 -- where's the 11?

fuzzy
(GWN)
Posted: Apr 28, 2013 - 08:50
 
My fave The Who album. {#Drummer}

Gajdzin
(Warsaw, Poland)
Posted: Apr 06, 2013 - 11:32
 
 ziakut wrote:
The bass God has entered. Yeah baby!!!!!
 
I'm a drummer and I play with a VERY good bassist, but whenever I hear John Endwistle I just MELT. Pure genius who for me at least defines what this instrument is all about. Too many bassists are just guitarists playing octaves lower. That's not bass.

Marcin Bruczkowski
www.marcin.bruczkowski.com



kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: Apr 03, 2013 - 09:42
 
Moon's drumming was a precision weapon. Incredible high caliber machine gun power. One of the very greatest rock and roll tunes.  It practically defines rock and roll. 

coloradojohn
(A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver)
Posted: Apr 03, 2013 - 09:39
 
No way to ever forget the impact of THIS one!  I recall how, while still in Engineering School, I had done a stay-over after an all-night rager at The Smith House — three and sometimes four unrelated guys named Smith shared it — the morning after, as we struggled awake and were pleased to find some beer still left in the keg in the ice-tub, Mark S put this on the collective stereo and CRANKED IT...  I'd heard it before, and was even known as "a Who freak" but never on such a superior system at such an incredible volume.  It woke everyone up, for real, and it also inspired another day and night of full-on partying.  Can't easily forget the memory of us shaking our fists and screaming along to this one, and chugging mightily in between, to the phenomenal beat of that Boss-like bass.

ottojschlosser
(Beaverton OR (no, really, that's its name))
Posted: Apr 03, 2013 - 09:39
 
 This is how to give a slow Wednesday a kick-start! Thanks!!!

robotbass
(Boston Area)
Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 13:23
 
John Entwhistle was bass heaven on earth. Now on earth as it is in heaven.

xkolibuul
(Chuckanut sandstone)
Posted: Mar 05, 2013 - 22:03
 
 
subdude wrote:
Boy am I glad you invented the PSD button. I used to like the Who, until you played them to death!
 
Ridiculous hyperbole.  Does no one any good here.

drewd
Posted: Feb 24, 2013 - 20:43
 
 jhorton wrote:
{#Drummer}

 
OK .....it's a ten ... This whole set .. Now quit that drumming ! Some of us are trying to sleep.....
jhorton
(Trailer Park on Cape Cod)
Posted: Feb 02, 2013 - 15:57
 
{#Drummer}

ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion)
Posted: Feb 02, 2013 - 15:54
 
The bass God has entered. Yeah baby!!!!!

MassivRuss
(The Commonwealth of Massachusetts - God Save It!)
Posted: Jan 17, 2013 - 19:34
 
That's an interesting segue from Beck. Only at Bill & Becky's joint.

martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 07:44
 
What bass playing! 10 on that count alone.

steventylersqa
Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 07:43
 
Great back to work song, love the bass line.  The Who at their best...

PhoenixArtDj
(Star Idaho)
Posted: Aug 13, 2012 - 16:53
 
Check out this tributary. Eddy V loves Townsend, so they are pretty faithful. Mike McC channeled his inner Who

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6KdvOIq4SM

Enjoy. 

Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window)
Posted: Jun 24, 2012 - 17:42
 
 subdude wrote:
I used to think the Who were pretty good. Please let a day go by without them. I am now sick of them. They must have been very important for you when you were growing up.
 



You see, right there, that's where you're losing out. Had you accepted The Who's greatness in the first place you could now claim to only "like" them after so many listens. Instead you're "sick of them," which is a sucky position to be in, cause you're probably going to hear a lot more Who for the rest of your life.

ziakut
(Albeit In The Meantime)
Posted: Jun 18, 2012 - 13:04
 
The ultimate ROCK song.

djengs
Posted: Jun 11, 2012 - 14:31
 
 Poacher wrote:
Possibly the best bass performance on a recorded song. . . ever

Possibly the best drum performance on a recorded song. . . ever 

Can I just mention I live a short walk from the Twitten photographed on the cover shot? 

 

Agree. Cool thought to have the guitar be the rhythm for a change, and let the Keith and John play leads.

subdude
(New Zealand)
Posted: May 23, 2012 - 21:29
 
Boy am I glad you invented the PSD button. I used to like the Who, until you played them to death!

Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Feb 05, 2012 - 17:04
 
I agree with you Sub.
With so much new music, why does this play all the time?

 subdude wrote:
I used to think the Who were pretty good. Please let a day go by without them. I am now sick of them. They must have been very important for you when you were growing up.
 



subdude
(New Zealand)
Posted: Jan 11, 2012 - 20:04
 
I used to think the Who were pretty good. Please let a day go by without them. I am now sick of them. They must have been very important for you when you were growing up.

LowPhreak
(United Corporate States of Neo-Feudal Amurika, Inc.)
Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 13:09
 
The 'Oooooo!! 

Rates '9' at least.

Sloggydog
(UK)
Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 13:01
 
My ears aren't quite bleeding yet - think I need louder speakers

feinbell1
(Tarzana)
Posted: Oct 14, 2011 - 23:56
 
Great Friday night Who!!!

TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: Oct 08, 2011 - 20:12
 
One mixed-up youth.
Yes I did have a parka/cagoule/donkey jacket and ride a Lambretta Li 150. Unfortunately for my equilibrium, I preferred the Stones over the Beatles, perhaps because I went to school with Keef, never really knew him though.
Mainly liked Folk and Jazz for live events (cheaper) and classical (free)
The Who, however, were right up my street when it became time to put a 45 on the record player stack..
.Still mixed-up today, but I still like the Who.


gatorade
(Peninsuland)
Posted: Oct 08, 2011 - 19:27
 
Bring IT! Unless you were live...Bose was the second best. The Who brought it.
 

Poacher
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: Sep 16, 2011 - 09:13
 
Possibly the best bass performance on a recorded song. . . ever

Possibly the best drum performance on a recorded song. . . ever 

Can I just mention I live a short walk from the Twitten photographed on the cover shot? 


Dave_Mack
(Ball of Confusion)
Posted: Sep 07, 2011 - 09:26
 
The studio version of Quadrophenia is one of my favorite all-time albums, and this sequence  ("I Am the Sea", "The Real Me", "Quadrophenia") is from that, rather than the Soundtrack as shown here.

coloradojohn
(Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan -- 15 min. west of Shinjuku, center of the freaking Universe)
Posted: Jul 31, 2011 - 04:17
 
Maybe the best stomp-thonkin' bass, the bashin'est crashin'est drums, the rippin'est tweaked-out guitar, and the screamin'est singing ever laid down on tracks...THESE GUYS sure did ask a lot of the Eternal Questions, didn't they?  And in ways that kicked all kinds of rockin' butt! 


neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Jul 15, 2011 - 15:42
 
Dooooood..that bass....bra..those drums..oh god

kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: Jul 06, 2011 - 15:29
 
Have to figure out why I would not rate this a 10. Perhaps I'm getting curmudgeonly. 

Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window)
Posted: Jul 06, 2011 - 15:19
 
ENTWISTLE!

jhorton
Posted: Jun 29, 2011 - 18:27
 
I agree that every aspect of this song just rocks, but c'mon that bass and those drums are just totally SICK!

bluedot
(Long Beach, CA)
Posted: Jun 11, 2011 - 01:09
 
rockin jam...all players @11...


ziakut
(A place with air, water and chocolate.)
Posted: May 13, 2011 - 08:42
 
The bass makes this song stellar! Guitar and vocals a close second....oh and don't forget the animal.....Keith!! Great stuff!

Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Apr 27, 2011 - 13:32
 
This flat out rocks.

Love the dive-bomb bass playing. 

Dave_Mack
(Still hangin' in the Twilight Zone)
Posted: Apr 27, 2011 - 13:29
 
Every aspect of this song is god-like!  Turn it up to 11. Love it.


voodoodaddy
(People Born Round Don't Die Square)
Posted: Apr 08, 2011 - 19:37
 
 Gretchen_+_Music wrote:

I'm with you...nothing short of a "10" on the entire thing.  It's my #1, all-time favorite album of all time.  I caught this after I became a Who fan in early high school, well after its release, in the early 80's when music was so different than this.  Nothing spoke to me like Quadrophenia did, and I know every single note by heart because I've listened to it so many times.  My son, who just turned 18, refuses to give it a listen because it's so different than the punk-influenced stuff he listens to, but I wish he would.

 
Don't give up on him. My son, 17, was stuck on rap and hip-hop. Nothing else. I didn't push him, or complain about his musical tastes. I just kept playing the music that I love (where he could hear it). He's finally listening, and beginning to appreciate, the multi-colored musical mountain that his mother and I love. From Vivaldi, to Judas Priest (a guilty pleasure), from Yardbird to Stevie Ray Vaughn, he's listening. And, from his 17 year old mouth, occasionally, a kind word leaps out before he can check it and cover it with teenager sarcasm.
Just like I used to do when I was his age. {#Roflol}
    Peace. Voodoodaddy


toterola
(Further)
Posted: Apr 02, 2011 - 18:34
 
 Beclipsed wrote:
I went back to my mother
I said, "I'm crazy ma, help me."
She said, "I know how it feels son,
'Cause it runs in the family."

I love this.
Movie and Soundtrack 10.
 
Amen, amen, and amen! {#Wave}

Beclipsed
(Pfalz,Germany)
Posted: Mar 11, 2011 - 07:05
 
I went back to my mother
I said, "I'm crazy ma, help me."
She said, "I know how it feels son,
'Cause it runs in the family."

I love this.
Movie and Soundtrack 10.

Gretchen_+_Music
Posted: Mar 08, 2011 - 08:00
 
 akousa wrote:
There's nothing on this track that isn't perfect. Arguments can be made for other records, but for my money, this album, Quadrophenia, is the best work the Who ever did.

 
I'm with you...nothing short of a "10" on the entire thing.  It's my #1, all-time favorite album of all time.  I caught this after I became a Who fan in early high school, well after its release, in the early 80's when music was so different than this.  Nothing spoke to me like Quadrophenia did, and I know every single note by heart because I've listened to it so many times.  My son, who just turned 18, refuses to give it a listen because it's so different than the punk-influenced stuff he listens to, but I wish he would.


akousa
(North Coast, USA)
Posted: Feb 23, 2011 - 12:26
 
There's nothing on this track that isn't perfect. Arguments can be made for other records, but for my money, this album, Quadrophenia, is the best work the Who ever did.


LPCity
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
Posted: Jan 07, 2011 - 15:10
 
Love this song, and this whole album will always be a 10 in my book.

Love the Bass also.

ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Jan 07, 2011 - 15:01
 
 fredriley wrote:

For a hater hater, you do an awful lot of flaming and hating yourself.

 
It's right there in the name.  Certainly not false advertising.

Do misanthropes not hate themselves as well?
But enough of that, JUST LISTEN TO THOSE DRUMS!


On_The_Beach
(Vancouver BC, Bud)
Posted: Jan 07, 2011 - 15:00
 
 lemmoth wrote:
Is there another band that had a "lead" bass and "lead" drummer, leaving the guitarist and singer to establish the rythm.
 
Always loved Entwistle's playing. He dances up and down the frets like no one before or since.


RedGuitar
(Iowa, USA)
Posted: Oct 27, 2010 - 08:09
 
 lemmoth wrote:


Is there another band that had a "lead" bass and "lead" drummer, leaving the guitarist and singer to establish the rythm.
 
Cream could be that way, but then sometimes they were all "soloing."


lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Oct 27, 2010 - 07:59
 
 ziakut wrote:
Energy! Yeah baby!!! Entwistle is greatly missed.

 

Is there another band that had a "lead" bass and "lead" drummer, leaving the guitarist and singer to establish the rythm.

treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: Oct 20, 2010 - 11:38
 


Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Oct 20, 2010 - 11:36
 
 Zep wrote:

Sure, happens all the time. The Who, however, came to my attention as a hard-rocking English band courtesy Tommy and Quadrophenia. That's how I came to know and love them. Then "Squeeze Box" came out, and sure, it's fun, but it's no "Love Reign O'er Me", is it? 
 
 
"Squeeze Box" didn't do much for me either...now this song is quite another thing. {#Cheers}