go piss on a wall -- a WHO'S NEXT Poll

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