This one is tough.
I'm going with "Baba O'Riley", although I'm certain there will be countless excellent arguments for "My Generation" and "Won't Get Fooled Again" and maybe more.
Your thoughts and why?
This one is tough.
I'm going with "Baba O'Riley", although I'm certain there will be countless excellent arguments for "My Generation" and "Won't Get Fooled Again" and maybe more.
Your thoughts and why?
Baba O'Riley is the answer. It captures bits of all eras of their sound and feels as epic as the band is meant to feel.
Pinball ****ing Wizard. Honorable Mention to Behind Blue Eyes.
For the good old American lifestyle: For the money, for the glory, and for the fun... mostly for the money.
The Who were the third supergroup to come out of Britain, following The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Despite trailing those two in terms of number of hit songs and album sales, they were a good hardrock act, and had a large, devoted following to go along with a couple of signature live performances (Woodstock, Monterrey). But then they did something that set them apart, something no other rock band had done till then when they recorded Tommy.
For me, their signature song is Magic Bus from the Live at Leeds album.
for me, it's "Pinball Wizard"
there is a strong case for "Teenage Wasteland" though
I'm going with "Baba O'Reilly" as well.
yermom, are you perhaps agreeing with "Baba O'Reilly" and just misnaming it "Teenage Wasteland"? While there is a song by that name in the Who's catalogue, most of the time when people say "Teenage Wasteland" they mean "Baba O'Reilly".
"The choices we discern as having been made in the Constitutional Convention impose burdens on governmental proceses that often seem clumsy, inefficient, even unworkable, but those hard choices were consciously made by men who had lived under a form of government that permitted arbitrary governmental acts to go unchecked." INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983) (Burger, C.J.)
yeah, i'm agreeing with "Baba O'Reilly"
I would go with My Generation for the Who.
"See Me, Feel Me" for its wide-ranging style in one song....my second is "Summertime Blues" for covering yet making it their own unmistakebly "Who" song.
"I'm going to request that you stop posting in this thread." - circa 2008
"Why does there have to be so much immature stuff on here?" - circa 2010
Signature Song: "We won't get fooled again"
Best Song: "Baba O'Reilly"
Best Pete Townshend solo career song: "Brilliant Blues"
Put a lid on it! Kiss it goodbye. We gave it away, and apparently thought it made sense to do so.
I gotta admit, I really like "Eminence Front".
But the answer to this question is "Baba O'Reilly".
Baba.
"Once a country boy's seen the way the steam rises off a man's insides on the sidewalk Tends to change the way he thinks, the way he sees everything when he goes back to where he came from."
POSSE TRANSPORTATION SPECIALIST. "It Fell Off the Back of a Truck."
Originally Posted by Sooner04
I like EF as well. A ray of sunshine in the '80s, and a different sound for The Who.
I notice nobody has offered up "Squeezbox".
baba
Clearly because the Poison version is far superior.I like EF as well. A ray of sunshine in the '80s, and a different sound for The Who.
I notice nobody has offered up "Squeezbox".
"The choices we discern as having been made in the Constitutional Convention impose burdens on governmental proceses that often seem clumsy, inefficient, even unworkable, but those hard choices were consciously made by men who had lived under a form of government that permitted arbitrary governmental acts to go unchecked." INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983) (Burger, C.J.)
Baba by far.
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more than another name for the same song?
i'd go with my generation (because of Moose's bass solo on the live one and the outfits).....but i give you Bargain or Substitute as sleeper picks.
04: if you turn up Eminence Front really loud, they **** up the background vocals on one of the repeats.
“someone's controlling the vibes!"--apache dropout
now that i've thought about it, it's Substitute (working class politics, Moon's drumming, sensibility that defined the Who as a predecessor for the Clash as a tuneful "punk" band) and the solo from Sparks from Tommy.
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“someone's controlling the vibes!"--apache dropout
Dayum, those are incredible...still hard to pick for me.
( I think Pete had a couple of Red Bulls? )
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Gotta go with the one that put them on the map: My Generation
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