i think that i voted for "baba o'riley" -- i've been obsessed with this record for the past few weeks (after not playing it intentionally for, like, 20 years).
― NOTTHEBEESNOTTHEBEESNOTTHEBEESAAAAAAAAAAAARGH (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 06:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"mobile" is my favorite moon performance on the record, and i like daltrey a lot on that one too.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 06:55 (fourteen years ago) link
baba, but wanted to vote my wife too.
has the hodgepodge kids are alright s/t been polled?
― mad people slept on this one (stevie), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 10:26 (fourteen years ago) link
XP: Doesn't Roger sing on "Going Mobile"? Sounds like him to me.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Nope, Pete's Mobile all the way--they've never done the tune live (as far as I'm aware) for that reason.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 31 December 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I approve of this, but I actually am rather shocked to see "Won't Get Fooled Again" with only one vote. Has it really fallen into the overrated pit so badly?
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 31 December 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I recall reading somewhere that Daltry was doing a couple Pete-sung songs on his last solo tour - including "Goin Mobile" and "Blue Red And Grey"
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 31 December 2009 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf Won't Get Fooled Again is awesome should've been second place at least
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 31 December 2009 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"meet the new boss, same as the old boss" is probably the single greatest line in Townsend's entire catalog
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 31 December 2009 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Bloody hell...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5b7eON_L5U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRAvZHjH3tw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jXjcPHMfdg
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 31 December 2009 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
cool, that bass part has a few surprises in it
― America's Next Most Disabled Ballerina (WmC), Thursday, 31 December 2009 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Weird results.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 31 December 2009 01:46 (fourteen years ago) link
indeed -- i'm more than a little shocked that "won't get fooled again" is so low. is it CSI and/or classic rock overload?!? the latter of which, of course, would not explain why "baba o'riley" so thoroughly stomped over every other song in this poll.
― NOTTHEBEESNOTTHEBEESNOTTHEBEESAAAAAAAAAAAARGH (Eisbaer), Thursday, 31 December 2009 06:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I forgot to vote--Getting in Tune is one of my faves....oops.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 31 December 2009 06:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Baba O Riley “feels” like the important song in here but it’s Won’t Get Fooled Again and Going Mobile the songs from this album I keep coming back to.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 05:57 (three years ago) link
Going Mobile in particular is so fun to play on drums for a beginner intermediate level.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 05:59 (three years ago) link
Sorry intermediate-advanced level.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 06:00 (three years ago) link
Basically, "Baba" sucked all the votes (but one) that "Won't" would have got.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 06:01 (three years ago) link
I love Going Mobile, underrated jam. I've always found Baba a disappointment because I grew up with my dad playing the version from the Kids Are Alright on constant rotation, and it's a messier, livelier, Keith-ier version, and the studio take is pretty muted by comparison.
― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 07:50 (three years ago) link
One out of 55 votes for "Won't Get Fooled Again" feels like an overreaction to a great-but-overplayed song. Wouldn't be my vote, and I'm glad it didn't win, but 1 surprises me, even in an all-or-nothing click poll.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
Probably, as measured over the duration, my favourite album in high school. (After which, except for a short reacquaintance in my 30s, I never played it again.) Today I'd probably go, in order, "Bargain," "My Wife," then the winner.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
Funny, for an all time classic, the first time I heard it was when I found a 7" of it in a jumble sale. And for quite a long time after, that was the only way I'd hear it - They didn't do it on that TV "Live at Charlton" gig I taped off the telly in the old fashioned way (mic near the speaker).
The 7" version is fine. Some hate it, but I don't hear anything that isn't there from the long version - It's "more of the same" which is completely fine by me.
I guess because I didn't grow up with "Rock Radio", I didn't get to hear a lot of these "classics" at the time. If it wasn't daytime radio 1, or Luxembourg at late, or (eventually) John Peel post 1977, etc.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 08:18 (three years ago) link
I haven't listened to it for years but my impression was always that the 7-inch sounded punchier (or fatter, or something like that) than the album version. I bought the 7-inch first and when I bought the album (vinyl) I remember finding the LP version slightly disappointing. But that was based on my perception of the two vinyl records. Presumably, the single was mastered slightly differently with more compression and/or different EQ. I don't know if the 7-inch has been reissued on some CD and if so whether it has been remastered or it retains the processing applied to it for the original vinyl release.
― dubmill, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 08:44 (three years ago) link
They didn't do it on that TV "Live at Charlton" gig I taped off the telly in the old fashioned way (mic near the speaker).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 11:54 (three years ago) link
Yeah, but that didn't help me and my one side of a C60 cassette
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
"the best I EVER HAAAAAD"
― calstars, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
*My Wife voice* My Wife
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link