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Won't Get Fooled Again very very overrated. I think my favourite right now is maybe Bargain, but only because Baba is so overplayed.

Even if I've heard it 10,000 times now, the beginning of "Baba" is one of the greatest beginnings of any rock song ever.

yep, but townsend REALLY needs to try to ban film/tv from using it so much.

I won't vote for "Love Ain't For Keeping", "The Song Is Over", or "Getting In Tune". Besides that, I have no idea. I lean toward "Bargain" or "Baba" but good grief "My Wife" is lovely so who knows.

townsend REALLY needs to try to ban film/tv from using it so much

Ban it? He's the one selling it.

"Baba O'Riley" owns this, though I'm tempted to vote for "Love Ain't For Keeping"

as a 14 year old when this came out in 1971,i have to say that lyrically, "behind blue eyes" made quite an impact on me. this is one of those polls that really need an "all of the above" voting option.

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first two are the best two, but baba gets my vote

damn, i missed that geir poll.

Well, your title is better.

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Going for "Bargain", just to spread the vote. And, uh, because it's a great song. Love the Moog in it.

"The Song is Over" for its use in pivotal Freaks & Geeks scene (though Baba O'Reilly was also mentioned.)

Keith Moon's drumming is positively godlike all over this record. It's a full percussion session built into one guy. I really love the freakout drumming on Bargain and his playing is so groovy under neath that autowah solo out on Going Mobile.

Those synth/organ loops on Baba O'Riley and Won't Get Fooled Again are really ahead of the curve for 1971.

Baba O'Riley, narrowly over Won't Get Fooled Again.

voted "going mobile" because i figure the favorites don't need my support. "mobile" is my favorite moon performance on the record, and i like daltrey a lot on that one too. "when i'm mobile -- HEE WOO, beep beep"

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).

"mobile" is my favorite moon performance on the record, and i like daltrey a lot on that one too.

baba, but wanted to vote my wife too.

has the hodgepodge kids are alright s/t been polled?

XP: Doesn't Roger sing on "Going Mobile"? Sounds like him to me.

Nope, Pete's Mobile all the way--they've never done the tune live (as far as I'm aware) for that reason.

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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?

Nope, Pete's Mobile all the way--they've never done the tune live (as far as I'm aware) for that reason.

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"

wtf Won't Get Fooled Again is awesome should've been second place at least

"meet the new boss, same as the old boss" is probably the single greatest line in Townsend's entire catalog

Bloody hell...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5b7eON_L5U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRAvZHjH3tw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jXjcPHMfdg

cool, that bass part has a few surprises in it

Weird results.

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.

I forgot to vote--Getting in Tune is one of my faves....oops.

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.

Going Mobile in particular is so fun to play on drums for a beginner intermediate level.

Sorry intermediate-advanced level.

Basically, "Baba" sucked all the votes (but one) that "Won't" would have got.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Yeah, but that didn't help me and my one side of a C60 cassette

"the best I EVER HAAAAAD"

*My Wife voice* My Wife