 Who's Next (1971) [ larger cover art ] |
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Out here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven
Don't cry
Don't raise your eye
It's only teenage wasteland
Sally, take my hand
We'll travel south cross land
Put out the fire and don't look past my shoulder
The exodus is here
The happy ones are near
Let's get together before we get much older
Teenage wasteland
It's only teenage wasteland
Teenage wasteland, oh yeah
Teenage wasteland
They're all wasted
| hayduke2 (Southampton, NY) | Posted: 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 (Paris of the Piedmont) | Posted: 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 (Star Idaho) | Posted: 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 | Posted: 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 (Bethany) | Posted: Jan 27, 2013 - 12:43 Everybody in my church loves this song... |
| kcar | Posted: 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 (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: 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) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: 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 (Past the gravy, far beyond the golden fries) | Posted: 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 (Music Town, Klein, Texas) | Posted: 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 (Mission, BC) | Posted: Aug 23, 2012 - 10:41 love! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: 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 (chicago land) | Posted: 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 | Posted: 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 (Dallas, TX) | Posted: 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 | Posted: Feb 15, 2012 - 13:38 Greatest ever! Replay! |
| subdude (New Zealand) | Posted: 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 (minnesota) | Posted: Feb 15, 2012 - 13:38 Takes me back to high school in the 70's, a carload of friends and no worries. Must |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Feb 15, 2012 - 13:37 The exodus is here The happy ones are near Let's get together Before we get much older |
| hedly (Mount Forest, ON, in the financial district) | Posted: 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 |
| kaybee (Lost in the Wilds of Toronto) | Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 19:13 flatpicker wrote: Awesome? - yes Overplayed? - yes Am I ok with that? - yes Me too! |
| inindian (Sea of joy) | Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 01:30 mirland wrote: My initial rating was 9 but having heard this more than a few times now it occurs to me it´s actually overblown and pretentious and not really rocking at all. That could be mistaken for a Belgian comment  |
| Baum74 (Düsseldorf, Germany) | Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 01:26 no more coffee for the keyboard player |
| Dinges,_the_Dude (under sea-level, N52°22', E4°52') | Posted: Jul 09, 2011 - 13:56 Great great song which was way beyond others those days.  |
| dkwalika (Upper Midwest) | Posted: May 07, 2011 - 07:58 It doesn't get much better. |
| denbear (Denver, Colorado) | Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 21:43 If I've heard it 100 times a year since it's first release, then this very likely makes it my four hundred and first time hearing it. At first, I feel like, Oh God, Not Again!! Then it just doesn't last all that long, so I wait something else comes on. |
| capandjudy (Huntington, WV) | Posted: Jan 01, 2011 - 14:56 calypsus_1 wrote: John Entwistle - "Baba O'riley" (Isolated Bass) Live (1979): |
| FrankMc | Posted: Oct 30, 2010 - 07:12 Saw them at the Gator Bowl when they were touring Who's next. That was one of those life defining experiences.Still incomprehensible just how big their sound was given that it was emerging from a trio with a microphone swinging singer. |
| kestrel (On a wire ...in NC) | Posted: Oct 30, 2010 - 07:09 flatpicker wrote: Awesome? - yes Overplayed? - yes Am I ok with that? - yes exactly...who cares.....play it again sam |
| kestrel (On a wire ...in NC) | Posted: Oct 30, 2010 - 07:08 ooooohh my |
| (former member) | Posted: Aug 27, 2010 - 15:25 ahhhhhhhhhSWEET JANE......... |
| Nerubo (Denver, CO) | Posted: Jul 26, 2010 - 15:17 Quite possibly my favorite Who song. Never get sick of hearing it. I would argue it's that rare song that is both good and played quite a lot on classic rock radio. |
| djake (Guilford, CT) | Posted: Jul 03, 2010 - 18:58 CamLwalk wrote: They were big into the whole crescendo thing. WTH does that mean?! |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: May 06, 2010 - 23:08  The Who by ~JSaurer ©2008-2010 ~JSaurer the smashing band from the 60s! airbrush, water colours, 1996 |
| mirland (Denmark) | Posted: Apr 22, 2010 - 05:04 My initial rating was 9 but having heard this more than a few times now it occurs to me it´s actually overblown and pretentious and not really rocking at all. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Mar 25, 2010 - 18:11 as good as it gets... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Mar 21, 2010 - 14:58 This is one of the best songs of all time... love it... |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Jan 17, 2010 - 14:54 Yo dude, dont bogart that joint..... |
| dedawson (You never know where you're going til you get there) | Posted: Dec 30, 2009 - 11:30 Blue Man's cover with the big stuffed mallet on the grand piano might actually be better. |
| wbeaver | Posted: Dec 30, 2009 - 11:28 Yes - overplayed in the days of commercial radio, but stands the test of time and sounds really good when really loud... |
| nagsheadlocal (North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | Posted: Dec 30, 2009 - 11:27 All respect to Pete & Rog, but it was WAY overplayed back in the day. Don't hate it, but I'll turn it down for a few minutes. |
| azdcryan (Sunny Arizona) | Posted: Dec 30, 2009 - 11:27 CamLwalk wrote: They were big into the whole crescendo thing. hilarious comment... |
| CamLwalk (Albany NY) | Posted: Dec 21, 2009 - 08:37 They were big into the whole crescendo thing. |
| CascadianPDX (Stumptown) | Posted: Dec 21, 2009 - 08:35 I was never a huge fan of the Who when I was a youngster, but I'm appreciating them more these days... I suppose it's the dearth of new stuff + a bit of nostalgia. I heartily recommend Townshend's White City album... MOST EXCELLENT. |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Nov 29, 2009 - 02:49 John Entwistle - "Baba O'riley" (Isolated Bass) Live (1979) |
| frecko (Gothenburg, Sweden, Europe) | Posted: Nov 29, 2009 - 02:34 Pure magic!  |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Nov 24, 2009 - 16:33 Pearl Jam - "Baba O'Riley" - Live in Scheessel, Germany (2007) |
| mfassett (Redwood City, CA) | Posted: Nov 15, 2009 - 19:23 Captn_Pea wrote: It's just overplayed.... how many millions of plays did this get on radio? Absolutely... way overplayed on commercial radio, from my memory. However... I haven't listened to commercial radio in many years... so I'm kinda enjoying it... never much of a who fan, but this is pretty good. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Nov 15, 2009 - 19:21 We just turned the volume wayyyy up... |
| eddief (Los Angeles) | Posted: Oct 28, 2009 - 17:09 romeotuma wrote: This song is good for the ears... Dude, I've read this comment a lot today. I'd say it's time to think of a new one.  |