who's next is so great...my 18 year old just got a record player...his first albums he bought were Who's next , Paul mccartney Ram, physical graffiti..
This makes me think of my late husband. We went to see the Who so many times. His favorite song was "Behind Blue Eyes" and mine is "Eminence Front". I miss him and wish he was here everyday. This brings some tears but good ones. Great memories thank you🎼🎶🎸✌️
That "video game" sound blew me away in 1971. It's a Lowrey TBO-1 organ run through an ARP synthesizer/sequencer. How Pete figured that out blows my mind... there were just a handful of people on the planet that knew how to program a synth back then; Pete composes not only a song around it, and sets the gold standard for Classic Rock with it. Pete Townsend used pretty basic chord progressions for most songs, but was pure A+ genius in his music arrangements and creativity.
1930s big band jazz are roght up their too. If they had had the electronics and the qualitative difference those mics and speakers make, more of us would be singing their praises still. They did it all acousticly with great writing, arranging and musicianship.
the who, led zeppelin, jimi hendrix, black sabbath, the doors, cream, traffic, jethro tull, santana,......on and on and on.....no wonder us young in that era are all snobs when it comes to great music!!..this song, entire album EPIC....unbelievable when it came out, like so much from that era......
The video of the Who playing this in front of the NYC first responders after 9/11 moved me to tears. It's still powerful to me two plus decades later. Edit: To see the 28 minute set of The Who live: Just search for ' The Who for the NYC Concert (2001)'
Close to my first experience with this song. 1987, lived in Avenal CA. Mid Spring morning just after sunrise, headed out to the house of a friend of my dad's, who lived out in Warthan Canyon outside of Colinga to help out with something, can't remember exactly what. This song came on the radio of his blue 1985 Ford Ranger while I watched the scenery pass by, rolling green hills and plains.
Every second of this tune is worthwhile. Like Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, there's basically not a wasted syllable. Each part leads perfectly to the next. Masterpiece.
Baba O’Riley 1971, Pete Townsend is lead guitar and does most of the composing. Roger Daltrey is lead vocalist, Keith Moon on drums (1946 - 7 September 1978) RIP, and bassist John Entwistle (9 October 1944 - 27 June 2002), RIP.
Been a subscriber for a while but first time commenter. I’m 70 and you guys are playing my youth. I’m impressed with your knowledge of who the musicians are.
Roger Daltrey, lead vocals, John Entwistle on bass, Pete Townsend, guitar/ song writer , and Keith Moon on drums. You are getting to the sweet spot with the Who’s next album. There’s some great concert footage from the Isle of Wight film, 1970.
Got me laughing pretty hard hearing 'I wanna hear who's playing all these parts' live...basically 4 guys, there is a video of them playing this. Saw them in Pittsburgh, right next to stage, unreal show.
Pete Townshend was an early experimenter and proponent of synths and it added so much to his songs. Great stuff. This song was an outtake from a concept project he was working on that never got completed, one that told a complete story in the songs.
This was my senior class graduation song that was played at my graduation at the end of the ceremony as we threw our hats in the air! That was the class of 1971! Ha! Yes I know, I'm an old guy now (70 years old), but that night we teenagers at that time were all really WASTED! Just like the song says! Those were special times back then!
I consider this one of the classic "monster" rock songs, along with songs like Bohemian Rhapsody, Stairway to Heaven, Another Brick in the Wall P2, Telegraph Road, You Enjoy Myself, Baker Street, American Pie, and Scarlet>Fire, etc. I hope you've heard The Who's Eminence Front.
Gotta watch Kids Are Alright and see how good these guys were. Guitarist Pete wrote so many classics. Rogers voice so so strong. But don’t take your eyes off the rhythm section. John’s bass and Keith’s drums are controlled chaos. Masters of their craft.
This is awesome One of the greats! This album along with Quadraphenia is some of the greatest rock music recorded! Also video games didn’t exist in 1971, that synth riff was programmed by Pete.
My 1st concert at 16, The Who 8/31/1971. Still have the ticket stub. They were touring Who's Next. You can say they made an impact on me. You two rock. ✌
This is such a great album. I used to listen to it over and over again back in the day, Pete Townshend is pure brilliance! You should do the entire Quadrophenia album just like you Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti. This song is from Whos Next.
The synth track is a tribute to avant garde minimalist composer Terry Riley (check him out) and the song itself is dedicated to Townshend's spiritual guide Meher Baba -- hence "Baba aux Riley" (Baba in the style of Riley) and then Baba O'Riley
I saw them play this song live in Wisconsin back in 2019, and Roger Daltrey still sounds amazing 50+ years later! These guys are timeless and the woman playing the violin at the end of the song during the live show gave me goosebumps. In my opinion, the greatest outro to any song!!
Who’s Next is pure authenticity (nothing else was like it) - built totally of the sonic kinetic energy of the time, it is neither calculated nor contrived, 100% original in its sound. And it's got one of the greatest album covers ever. If you look closely, they've all been talking a leak on the cement block behind them and zipping up. The last of the real wild boys of the British Rock & Roll Invasion.
first album and always thought that about the cover. Add destroying their equipment after a concert and what a reputation they give off to a young dude like me. Badasses of music for a long time
The opening part is recorded on a Lowery electric organ, which was one of the first to feature an arpeggiator function, which Pete Townshend used to perfection on this song.
Just continue to listen to the entire album, you’ve already done a few, you won’t be sorry. One of the best albums ever put to vinyl, The Who do not miss. 🔥
Great reaction. Ms Pacman! 🤣This is on my all time favorites list. In my high school back in 1980ish, they had a smoking area outside the cafeteria and someone spray painted Teenage Wasteland out there. It stayed there the whole school year. I guess the school officials thought it was apropos.
You guys need to hit every song on this album. All top notch musicians with Pete being the mad genius behind it all, he was way ahead of this time in music innovating his butt off.
You both continue to drop fire reactions!!! You must know that so many of us boomers, who grew up with this music, it shaped our lives in many ways, appreciate the youth of today getting to know the music of the 60's, 70's and 80's. Remember we didn't have FM radio, many of the early tunes we listened to on tinny, cheap AM radios. We went thru so MANY 9v batteries. We listened to Casey Kasem and America's Top 40 every Sunday. We called radio stations and waited on hold for 45 minutes just to say "play the Beatles again!" Such a magical time for so many of us, and your reactions help us remember. At the end of your life, you have photographs and memories. Experience as much as you can in life. Peace to you on your musical and life path.
If you want to hear The Who at the height of their creative power, Listen to Quadrophenia. It's a double album rock opera - complete with orchestral elements. Not practical for you to review in one go, but if you listen to the songs in the sequence of the album, you'll get a full story opera showing off Pete Townshend's genius and the virtuosity of the band. A MUST listen musical experience.
Pete is a genius putting it all together and Roger John and crazy man Keith are all great in their own right!The best rock album ever.Every single song is incredible with Won’t Get Fooled Again as Rock’s all time anthem!
There were So many good bands that came out with a lot of good music that a lot of them went unnoticed because of being over shadowed by the next great song. But we did not really take notice because that just the way it was back then.
Heard/Saw/Experienced The Who at Joe Robbie Stadium (now Hard Rock) in the summer of 1990. Best live rock I have ever heard To This Day. Period. Full stop.
Yes, the whole album is fantastic. Roger Daltrey was on lead, but Pete Townsend will also sing lead on some songs, or just the bridge like he does on this one. They’re all amazing. ❤
Yes, there are excellent live versions of this that you absolutely must hear. The drummer is Keith Moon, who you need to get associated with He is probably the best drummer next to bonz and Neil Peirt.
Enjoyed watching you the two of you enjoy a masterpiece by the Who. The song shows every members talents. It was a young persons anthem back in the day. As always fellas great reaction. Much appreciated 🙏 ❤
The Who is the greatest hard rock bands of all time, and their career spanned decades. Their first appearance in the USA was in 1967 at the Monterrey pop festival which also featured Janis Joplin s coming out party, and so many other seminal groups.
This is one of a handful of songs that I return to on a regular basis, to re-charge the batteries, to re-affirm my faith in music, indeed to feel alive! You must watch a live version, it will blow your minds.
The background repeated (Pac Man) sound is a classic Lowrey TBO-1 organ. Pete Townshend used the "marimba repeat" setting on his Lowrey to create the arpeggiated, complex repeating pattern: possibly double-tracked.
Man it's fun watching your reactions guys. I'm a 60 year old white man, a music lover since birth, it's in my soul that Rock and Roll Music, I'd love to see your reaction to a song called This Flight Tonight by Nazareth. It's a Joni Mitchell song but they changed it. They really did a number on that number and injected about 10,000 watts of R&R and made a great song. Nazareth. Great band.
The 1st time I heard this song was live on their 82 "farewell" tour, at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego. 40,000 people screaming "they're all wasted!". It was an epic concert. I was a huge fan, listened to Tommy over and over again when I was around 10. Truly one of the greatest and influential rock bands of all time. They all had a huge influence on Rush, especially Kieth Moon on Neil Peart, but listen to Geddy's base and Alex's power chords, and you hear The Who.
Great reaction guys! I saw this live in Pittsburgh back in the 70s. The lights were down and the beginning notes just echoed around the Civic Arena as they brought the light gradually up. It was a fantastic time. This LP doesn't have a bad song on it!
I love to watch the live version of this one just to see Daltrey rock out and Townsend windmill!! So good!! Moon was an animal on drums and NObody played bass better than Entwistle!
I'm not surprised you're into this, you're talking about one the defining songs in rock music, from one of the defining albums. It has everything - total commitment, invention, passion, great songwriting, incredible performance.
Think of the albums that came out that year. 1971. All legendary. Sticky Fingers, Who's Next, LA Woman, Fragile, Imagine, Tapestry, Aqualung, What's Going On, Master of Reality, Live at The Fillmore East(ABB), Blue(Joni), and don't forget Led Zeppelin 4. Those are just SOME of them. You could go on. That was probably the most successfully productive year in album output of the "Rock Era"
You nailed it. Timeless is the word!! Those guys are all great musicians. The songs would not have been as great without them. But Townshend is the one-a truly genius composer. Not as consistently great as The Beatles or Stones. But the last minute of that song is one of the greatest minutes of music ever created. When that band was hot there was no one quite like them.
Live, shepperton studios, it's on UA-cam, was a made for the "Kids are Alright" movie but demonstrates their versatility. Also "Won't Get Fooled Again" from the same studio "concert" are very typical of their actual road concerts. You will love the energy!
Album-Who's Next. Release date-August 14, 1971. I was a couple of weeks away from my 15th birthday. Baba O’Riley blew me away. Still does today at almost 67.
The Who were one of the fundamental bands of the 20th century. They showed that music could be alot more than most people thought. This album was groundbreaking and lead the way for more innovation. One of the things The Who did best was to break ground. Anyone that has watched the rock opera, "Tommy" would have to admit. Appreciating music from the past leads to a deeper appreciation of todays music.
Song came out in October 1971. The original group was great live. Saw them in 1976 before the death of drummer Keith Moon in '77 or '78. Lead guitarist Pete Townsend also did some vocals on many songs including this one.
Ok guys. Time to learn the names. One of the best if not the best drummer in rock Keith Moon. One of the best if not the best bassist in rock John Entwistle. Great rock lead vocalist Roger Daltrey. Great songwriter and lead guitarist Pete Townsend
LOVE THIS SONG....The WHO IS AWESOME....& THIS SONG IS SO GREAT...THE OX, MOON THE LOON...& the Loudest band I ever saw, & the music was clean. ...I a teenager in the 70's & we were all wasted....Rock on..❤
I am lucky enough to have seen them six times. The last time was a couple of years ago in Tampa Florida. My 27-year-old son and I went and I splurged on tickets… We were on the floor centerstage, 11th row. They are still absolutely fantastic. I’m sure you picked up on the insane violin playing at the end of the song. Their current touring violinist is Katie Jacoby and she plays both acoustic and electric violin and is absolutely phenomenal.
The whole album is a masterpiece. Who's Next.
It is rock ‘n Roll’s all time masterpiece!
Indeed. The soundtrack of my teens!
who's next is so great...my 18 year old just got a record player...his first albums he bought were Who's next , Paul mccartney Ram, physical graffiti..
@beverlymcgrath8441 my 20's 😆
@@michaelfrazia4569 cool!
This makes me think of my late husband. We went to see the Who so many times. His favorite song was "Behind Blue Eyes" and mine is "Eminence Front". I miss him and wish he was here everyday. This brings some tears but good ones. Great memories thank you🎼🎶🎸✌️
Bless you .
@@timgrady4630 thank you
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Blessings to you and your dear ones in His doubtless Guarantee of Everlasting Life (John 3:16) .
He sounds like a good guy, who I likely could've had a lot in common with. God bless.
Music is and can trigger a bunch of emotions. It must feel good to attach a bittersweet memory to one specific song or artist!;
Rock on!!🤘❤😁
The Who are timeless classics...
❤❤❤
That "video game" sound blew me away in 1971. It's a Lowrey TBO-1 organ run through an ARP synthesizer/sequencer. How Pete figured that out blows my mind... there were just a handful of people on the planet that knew how to program a synth back then; Pete composes not only a song around it, and sets the gold standard for Classic Rock with it. Pete Townsend used pretty basic chord progressions for most songs, but was pure A+ genius in his music arrangements and creativity.
I swear the 70's dominated ever genre; Rock, Disco, Funk... No generation can touch the 70's.
I have to agree.
Country too, to tell you the truth.
1930s big band jazz are roght up their too. If they had had the electronics and the qualitative difference those mics and speakers make, more of us would be singing their praises still. They did it all acousticly with great writing, arranging and musicianship.
This album changed EVERYONE"S life.♥🎶🎶
the who, led zeppelin, jimi hendrix, black sabbath, the doors, cream, traffic, jethro tull, santana,......on and on and on.....no wonder us young in that era are all snobs when it comes to great music!!..this song, entire album EPIC....unbelievable when it came out, like so much from that era......
This is so good live. You can’t consider yourself a proper air guitarist without imitating Townsend’s windmills on this song
I like to imitate is flying leap.
The video of the Who playing this in front of the NYC first responders after 9/11 moved me to tears. It's still powerful to me two plus decades later.
Edit: To see the 28 minute set of The Who live: Just search for ' The Who for the NYC Concert (2001)'
Thanks for the prompt. Just watched it and blew me away!
Thanks for the recommendation. Gonna go check it out.
This song has such and open and expansive feel. Like the storm has cleared and Daltrey is singing from the top of a mountain.
Close to my first experience with this song. 1987, lived in Avenal CA. Mid Spring morning just after sunrise, headed out to the house of a friend of my dad's, who lived out in Warthan Canyon outside of Colinga to help out with something, can't remember exactly what. This song came on the radio of his blue 1985 Ford Ranger while I watched the scenery pass by, rolling green hills and plains.
Every second of this tune is worthwhile. Like Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, there's basically not a wasted syllable. Each part leads perfectly to the next. Masterpiece.
Baba O’Riley 1971, Pete Townsend is lead guitar and does most of the composing. Roger Daltrey is lead vocalist, Keith Moon on drums (1946 - 7 September 1978) RIP, and bassist John Entwistle (9 October 1944 - 27 June 2002), RIP.
I can't believe it's been over 20 years since Entwistle died.
Finally....someone who understands the true brilliance of what they are listening to
Moon absolutely driving this bus!! As always men, thank you for reacting & enjoying this classic jam ❤️
Been a subscriber for a while but first time commenter. I’m 70 and you guys are playing my youth. I’m impressed with your knowledge of who the musicians are.
im the same age and have the same opinion, its fun watching young people appreciate the greatness from all those years ago...
@@robertlavorna2968 It sure is.. we were there, man!
1971 - teenage wasteland in my bedroom listening to this over and over. The entire album is genius.
You Fuckin A, brother...
This Album is a "Can't Miss" , gentlemen .
Always room for it on the Top Shelf .
Roger Daltrey, lead vocals, John Entwistle on bass, Pete Townsend, guitar/ song writer , and Keith Moon on drums. You are getting to the sweet spot with the Who’s next album. There’s some great concert footage from the Isle of Wight film, 1970.
bass guitar
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Don't forget that Pete also sings co lead vocals and plays the Lowrey organ and piano on this song.
Keith Moon was one of the best drummers ever.
Got me laughing pretty hard hearing 'I wanna hear who's playing all these parts' live...basically 4 guys, there is a video of them playing this. Saw them in Pittsburgh, right next to stage, unreal show.
They used all Who songs on the CSI Crime Scene TV shows so yeah, 4 or 5 of those were on the air at various times so whoo hoo on that one.
Pete Townshend was an early experimenter and proponent of synths and it added so much to his songs. Great stuff. This song was an outtake from a concept project he was working on that never got completed, one that told a complete story in the songs.
This was my senior class graduation song that was played at my graduation at the end of the ceremony as we threw our hats in the air! That was the class of 1971! Ha! Yes I know, I'm an old guy now (70 years old), but that night we teenagers at that time were all really WASTED! Just like the song says! Those were special times back then!
I consider this one of the classic "monster" rock songs, along with songs like Bohemian Rhapsody, Stairway to Heaven, Another Brick in the Wall P2, Telegraph Road, You Enjoy Myself, Baker Street, American Pie, and Scarlet>Fire, etc.
I hope you've heard The Who's Eminence Front.
Gotta watch Kids Are Alright and see how good these guys were. Guitarist Pete wrote so many classics. Rogers voice so so strong. But don’t take your eyes off the rhythm section. John’s bass and Keith’s drums are controlled chaos. Masters of their craft.
This is awesome
One of the greats! This album along with Quadraphenia is some of the greatest rock music recorded!
Also video games didn’t exist in 1971, that synth riff was programmed by Pete.
My 1st concert at 16, The Who 8/31/1971. Still have the ticket stub. They were touring Who's Next. You can say they made an impact on me.
You two rock. ✌
This is such a great album. I used to listen to it over and over again back in the day, Pete Townshend is pure brilliance! You should do the entire Quadrophenia album just like you Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti. This song is from Whos Next.
One of my favorite drummers 🥁 Keith Moon is wild & I love it
Won’t Get Fooled Again is my absolute favorite Who song.
Love the reaction. This song is like rock-and-roll nirvana -- never get tired of it. But you have to find a live video of them. GREAT live band.
my fav who song of all times like u guys!!!
That whole album is a treasure!
The synth track is a tribute to avant garde minimalist composer Terry Riley (check him out) and the song itself is dedicated to Townshend's spiritual guide Meher Baba -- hence "Baba aux Riley" (Baba in the style of Riley) and then Baba O'Riley
I saw them play this song live in Wisconsin back in 2019, and Roger Daltrey still sounds amazing 50+ years later! These guys are timeless and the woman playing the violin at the end of the song during the live show gave me goosebumps. In my opinion, the greatest outro to any song!!
when this started when i saw them live i could feel it come over me like a flood.
Who’s Next is pure authenticity (nothing else was like it) - built totally of the sonic kinetic energy of the time, it is neither calculated nor contrived, 100% original in its sound. And it's got one of the greatest album covers ever. If you look closely, they've all been talking a leak
on the cement block behind them and zipping up. The last of the real wild boys of the British Rock & Roll Invasion.
first album and always thought that about the cover. Add destroying their equipment after a concert and what a reputation they give off to a young dude like me. Badasses of music for a long time
The live video is hilarious. Pete Townsend going crazy on stage.
The opening part is recorded on a Lowery electric organ, which was one of the first to feature an arpeggiator function, which Pete Townshend used to perfection on this song.
Great song off arguably their best album, Who's Next, you really should hear the whole thing, it is amazing! Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
...there's a youtube vid showing Pete "tinkering " with an "archaic synth" which produced this song's this intro .
Just continue to listen to the entire album, you’ve already done a few, you won’t be sorry. One of the best albums ever put to vinyl, The Who do not miss. 🔥
The song was and is ginormous!
Great reaction. Ms Pacman! 🤣This is on my all time favorites list. In my high school back in 1980ish, they had a smoking area outside the cafeteria and someone spray painted Teenage Wasteland out there. It stayed there the whole school year. I guess the school officials thought it was apropos.
You guys need to hit every song on this album. All top notch musicians with Pete being the mad genius behind it all, he was way ahead of this time in music innovating his butt off.
You both continue to drop fire reactions!!! You must know that so many of us boomers, who grew up with this music, it shaped our lives in many ways, appreciate the youth of today getting to know the music of the 60's, 70's and 80's. Remember we didn't have FM radio, many of the early tunes we listened to on tinny, cheap AM radios. We went thru so MANY 9v batteries. We listened to Casey Kasem and America's Top 40 every Sunday. We called radio stations and waited on hold for 45 minutes just to say "play the Beatles again!" Such a magical time for so many of us, and your reactions help us remember. At the end of your life, you have photographs and memories. Experience as much as you can in life. Peace to you on your musical and life path.
If you want to hear The Who at the height of their creative power, Listen to Quadrophenia. It's a double album rock opera - complete with orchestral elements. Not practical for you to review in one go, but if you listen to the songs in the sequence of the album, you'll get a full story opera showing off Pete Townshend's genius and the virtuosity of the band. A MUST listen musical experience.
Pete is a genius putting it all together and Roger John and crazy man Keith are all great in their own right!The best rock album ever.Every single song is incredible with Won’t Get Fooled Again as Rock’s all time anthem!
There were So many good bands that came out with a lot of good music that a lot of them went unnoticed because of being over shadowed by the next great song. But we did not really take notice because that just the way it was back then.
Heard/Saw/Experienced The Who at Joe Robbie Stadium (now Hard Rock) in the summer of 1990. Best live rock I have ever heard To This Day. Period. Full stop.
Do every song on Who’s Next! Each one is excellent. Every one was a hit.
I love to see young people embracing the old school music . This is what i would listen to when i was about your age . Classic .
This has been my personal anthem ever since it first came out in 1971 ... *PERIOD.*
As an Official Olde Pharte, I’d like to say that the “video game sound” predates video games by years 😂
Yes, the whole album is fantastic. Roger Daltrey was on lead, but Pete Townsend will also sing lead on some songs, or just the bridge like he does on this one. They’re all amazing. ❤
Yes, there are excellent live versions of this that you absolutely must hear. The drummer is Keith Moon, who you need to get associated with He is probably the best drummer next to bonz and Neil Peirt.
Steve Gadd is # 1
Enjoyed watching you the two of you enjoy a masterpiece by the Who. The song shows every members talents. It was a young persons anthem back in the day. As always fellas great reaction. Much appreciated 🙏 ❤
The Who is the greatest hard rock bands of all time, and their career spanned decades. Their first appearance in the USA was in 1967 at the Monterrey pop festival which also featured Janis Joplin s coming out party, and so many other seminal groups.
When I Hear this Song it Reminds Me of all The Brothers We Lost in Vietnam !!!!
This is one of a handful of songs that I return to on a regular basis, to re-charge the batteries, to re-affirm my faith in music, indeed to feel alive! You must watch a live version, it will blow your minds.
The background repeated (Pac Man) sound is a classic Lowrey TBO-1 organ. Pete Townshend used the "marimba repeat" setting on his Lowrey to create the arpeggiated, complex repeating pattern: possibly double-tracked.
Man it's fun watching your reactions guys. I'm a 60 year old white man, a music lover since birth, it's in my soul that Rock and Roll Music, I'd love to see your reaction to a song called This Flight Tonight by Nazareth. It's a Joni Mitchell song but they changed it. They really did a number on that number and injected about 10,000 watts of R&R and made a great song. Nazareth. Great band.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you finish a song.
The live version uses a backing track for the synth/keyboard part, and instead of violin at the end, Daltrey plays a mean harmonica.
Glad to see someone reacting to this great band. They often are overlooked, in favor of other British rock bands, but they were HUGE. Thank you.
Good morning guys!
I saw the Who 6 times! Four of them with Kieth Moon.
One of my favourite live acts of all time!
Peace - loving your vids!
Lucky you! I saw them 3 times, but all after Keith. First time 1978.
The 1st time I heard this song was live on their 82 "farewell" tour, at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego.
40,000 people screaming "they're all wasted!". It was an epic concert.
I was a huge fan, listened to Tommy over and over again when I was around 10.
Truly one of the greatest and influential rock bands of all time.
They all had a huge influence on Rush, especially Kieth Moon on Neil Peart, but listen to Geddy's base and Alex's power chords, and you hear The Who.
John Enwhistle the bassist is my favorite rock bassist.
Bless you both, for you have found the heart of what shaped a generation and I can see you know you have discovered a new land.
Great reaction guys! I saw this live in Pittsburgh back in the 70s. The lights were down and the beginning notes just echoed around the Civic Arena as they brought the light gradually up. It was a fantastic time. This LP doesn't have a bad song on it!
Behind Blue Eyes is one of the best written songs in my opinion...of all time.
I love to watch the live version of this one just to see Daltrey rock out and Townsend windmill!! So good!! Moon was an animal on drums and NObody played bass better than Entwistle!
The Who is in the conversation with Zeppelin and Stones!
your The Who trip won't be complete without giving Eminence Front a listen .
I'm not surprised you're into this, you're talking about one the defining songs in rock music, from one of the defining albums. It has everything - total commitment, invention, passion, great songwriting, incredible performance.
The who and Pete townshend one of the bands that represent UK in the 60s and 70s, legends for as long as music is listened to 🇬🇧✌️
Think of the albums that came out that year. 1971. All legendary.
Sticky Fingers, Who's Next, LA Woman, Fragile, Imagine, Tapestry, Aqualung, What's Going On, Master of Reality, Live at The Fillmore East(ABB), Blue(Joni), and don't forget Led Zeppelin 4.
Those are just SOME of them. You could go on. That was probably the most successfully productive year in album output of the "Rock Era"
I saw The Who about 6 years ago and they are still amazing. The fact that they were able to make a recording like this in 1971 is mind blowing.
the synthesizers on this song were really new to the Who's sound at the time, it has gone on to become one of their most popular songs.
You nailed it. Timeless is the word!! Those guys are all great musicians. The songs would not have been as great without them. But Townshend is the one-a truly genius composer. Not as consistently great as The Beatles or Stones. But the last minute of that song is one of the greatest minutes of music ever created. When that band was hot there was no one quite like them.
Live, shepperton studios, it's on UA-cam, was a made for the "Kids are Alright" movie but demonstrates their versatility. Also "Won't Get Fooled Again" from the same studio "concert" are very typical of their actual road concerts. You will love the energy!
This when I starting loving you guys!!! Pure honesty, funny, and appreciate all genres of music!!
Saw them tour this album, breaking up guitars and all. My ears were still ringing the next day. Great concert!
Who's Next is one of the greatest rock albums of all time. And this song led it off.
This song always gave me an apocalyptic vibe and at the end with the violin sounds like some time of jubilant celebration!
Definitely one of my top 7 albums of all time!!
Memories of this song filling the room on huge speakers. Wow, incredible.
Iconic song, iconic album, iconic band. One of our HS anthems.
Album-Who's Next. Release date-August 14, 1971. I was a couple of weeks away from my 15th birthday. Baba O’Riley blew me away. Still does today at almost 67.
The Who were one of the fundamental bands of the 20th century. They showed that music could be alot more than most people thought. This album was groundbreaking and lead the way for more innovation. One of the things The Who did best was to break ground. Anyone that has watched the rock opera, "Tommy" would have to admit. Appreciating music from the past leads to a deeper appreciation of todays music.
'69-'73 was a crazy spike in music creativity... unreal how many classics came from that era alone
Song came out in October 1971. The original group was great live. Saw them in 1976 before the death of drummer Keith Moon in '77 or '78. Lead guitarist Pete Townsend also did some vocals on many songs including this one.
During the Tampa Bay - Kansas City Super Bowl CBS played this song to end the first quarter when they went to commercial. That's timeless!
Who's Next is an incredible album that came out in 1971. Classic Masterpiece of music and production.
Ok guys. Time to learn the names. One of the best if not the best drummer in rock Keith Moon. One of the best if not the best bassist in rock John Entwistle. Great rock lead vocalist Roger Daltrey. Great songwriter and lead guitarist Pete Townsend
I know Keith for sure.
Song and entire album a Rock MASTERPIECE.
This is a masterpiece, pure and simple.
LOVE THIS SONG....The WHO IS AWESOME....& THIS SONG IS SO GREAT...THE OX, MOON THE LOON...& the Loudest band I ever saw, & the music was clean. ...I a teenager in the 70's & we were all wasted....Rock on..❤
I am lucky enough to have seen them six times. The last time was a couple of years ago in Tampa Florida. My 27-year-old son and I went and I splurged on tickets… We were on the floor centerstage, 11th row. They are still absolutely fantastic. I’m sure you picked up on the insane violin playing at the end of the song. Their current touring violinist is Katie Jacoby and she plays both acoustic and electric violin and is absolutely phenomenal.
I like watching you guys. You’re so appreciative. Just fans of what talented people provide us. I should be this humble. Salute !