The way Townshend writes...he absolutely pours his guts out in music. I adore him. This band changed my life when I was 12. This band (specifically Pete Townshend) spoke to me in ways I can't even explain.
The first record I ever bought at 14 was My Generation. Pete Townsend guitar playing influenced my own attempts... I've often thought that The Who were the first punk band im some ways... Great band...😊😊👍👍
@@barryfeatherstone1616 Agreed. The raw energy and angry youth. They were the first punk band for sure. Tommy was the first album I bought. It shocked my senses.
Growing up gay in Oklahoma in the 70s, this song was my private, personal theme song, as it expressed so perfectly what it's like to be teenager struggling with being gay and not being able to tell anyone about it. I can only imagine what this song means for others who are moved by it. It's one those universal songs that can mean whatever a listener needs it to mean throughout one's life. What an amazing gift to share by the Who. I cannot express how thankful I am for this (and other songs) by the Who. And thank you for sharing your reaction!
I grew up listening to The Who (and still do of course) but unfortunately I was born to late to actually see them live. How I envy you lucky people who did!!
Yeah there are several tracks out there in UA-came land with his bass isolated, you only THINK you know what he's doing until you hear such a track .... he was a MONSTER BASSIST ua-cam.com/video/80dsyo2Ox-0/v-deo.html
The Who, a band with 4 musicians ,all masters of their instrument, and Pete one of the best songwriters, engineers, producers in all R&R. Polo is fast becoming a Wholigan!
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@@rrowe1961 Same here, I saw them live at Folsom Field on the CU campus in Boulder, CO. It was the 25th Anniversary Tour, and the had a 25 piece band with a pretty good sized horn section. They play for over 2 1/2 hours. Incredible!
I have enjoyed this song for many, many years... and have Listened to quite a few "reactions" of it. Your REACTION of this, is the BEST I have heard. Keep doing what you are doing.
This song, along with the Stones Paint it Black, S&Gs I am a rock, and every Leonard Cohen song, were my dark, sad, teenage angst sound track. I listened to these songs during the dark times that I imagine most young girls go through. Great reaction.
The Who's performance of "A Quick One While He's Away" from The film Rock and Roll Circus. It's seriously worth it just for Keith Moon's performance on the drums. It was a film of a concert that the Rolling Stones put on with all their buddies. Like a showcase. Rumor is that the film was shelved because The Who were so good and upstaged The Rolling Stones so badly that they didn't release it for years. I think the performance is one of the best live musical performances ever on film!
THIS!!!! One of my favorite live performances, really shows off how great they were. Especially Keith's performance. ua-cam.com/video/RJv2-_--EY4/v-deo.html
This was one of my late husband's favorite songs. He would play it on the guitar and sing it for me to hear since when we started dating in the early 70's I knew nothing about the Who😊
Growing up, all this music was just there. Never knew anything different until the 90s came around. Then the great music didn't come out as often. In the 2000s, it's rare for a great song to come out. ☕️☕️🎶🎵🎶
Polo, you could do every WHO song, and it wouldn't hurt my feelings one bit. Gotta love Keith (Moony) Moon. He was a beast on those drums. Ringo and he were best friends. Ringo wanted his son, Zac, to play guitar, but Uncle Keith bought him his first drum kit and there's a pic of Keith giving him lessons. That kid, Zac Starkey, ended up playing drums with the Who, at some point after Keith's death. Entwistle was so funny. He would stand there, almost like stone but his fingers flew on the bass. I always think of the way Luigi's legs would run in the Mario games. Daltry's vocals are well known, but I think his most memorable vocal moment is the "scream heard around the world" in "Won't Get Fooled Again", and Keith killing it on the drums. That scream opened lots of crime dramas. Guitarist Pete Townsend and the "Windmill" move. He was a dynamic performer. They wouldn't be the Who without him. Co-founder, principal songwriter, second lead vocals, deepest thinking and objective member of the band. And I believe he has taken "Tommy" to Broadway, or something close to it. Maybe you could react to "Pinball Wizard".
"1971 - The Who release Behind Blues Eyes. The lyrics are based on Pete Townshend's own feeling of angst, that no one knows what it's like to be him, with high expectations and pressure to be someone he's not. A run-in with a groupie was the impetus for this song. He got married in 1968 and was tempted by a groupie after The Who's June 9, 1970 concert in Denver (Mammoth Gardens?). As Townshend explained, he went back to his room alone and wrote a prayer beginning, "If my fist clenches, crack it open..." Pete Townshend originally wrote this song about a character in his Lifehouse project, which was going to be a film similar to The Who's Tommy and Quadrophenia. Townshend never finished Lifehouse, but the songs ended up on the album Who's Next."
When you said "this song was written for me" I got chills. Me too, brown. I think this is many peoples song. Epic song and band. So much nostalgia for me as well. This is a massively deep rabbit hole, like a black hole. I saw them do Quadrophenia live in 2013, Epic. With no less than Zach Starkey on the drums. (Keith and Ringo were good friends and Zach was Keith's god son.) RIP Keith and John.
Perfect song for a western? I love it. One of Townshend's great solo album is All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes. Not western based at all, but another album full of songs where Pete shares his humanity, allowing us to see ourselves in him. His battle with addictions was in full rage. Check out Somebody Saved Me, Stop Hurting People, Slit Skirts... take your pick.☮️❤️🎵
THis group never got the accolades that it should have. Townsend was such a great writer. You are opening up my past to me and I love it. Keep it going
They were up against some stiff competition in their best years. England had 2 other bands that were also quite good inthe mid to late 60's and would soon give birth to another band that would do some amazing things between '69 and '79
I was lucky to be introduced to this album at 10 when it came out, my older brother bought it. I listened to it with old big headphones we had over and over...really left an impression to appreciate good music of all kinds. One of the best albums ever...
The Who was the last show I saw before Covid. They played the Hollywood Bowl in October, if I recall. It was an amazing show. They played all the hits, like this one, and gave everything vocally and on guitar. Roger and Pete were in the elder years, but still needed to rip it up, and totally did!
I am in love with you Polo. These are the songs of my youth and my coming out as a gay man. No one knows what it's like. It is. a tearing and collapsing of identity. It is the tearing of pop culture, the ripping and destruction of culture.......who's culture is this? Where do we begin to end our ideas, they begin and end with love and anger and then love and then love.......and then?
I always thought the Blue eyes was more about sadness the physical eye color. Still one of my favorite The Who songs. Along those lines the Crystal Gayle song "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" goes with that.
The blue eyes is referenced to fighting and the bruising eyes get after a fight. Daltry was a bruiser who was told to clean up his fighting antics or leave the band.
Love it. When needed, we all make little changes to lyrics that apply to us and our personal situations when the music moves us. Like other poetry, interpretation is individual.
Another song on the Who's Next album called "Bargain" has lyrics which are in the same realm as the lyrics to "Behind Blue Eyes". "Bargain" is an absolute banger......with very deep lyrics.
always been a huge fan since the 70s. Absolutelya beautifullywritten and with extreme insite to a suffering soul. But NEVER SAY THAT DRUMMER! HES KEITH MOON. ONE OF THE BEST TO HOLD A STICK, AND MAY BE THE NUTTIEST. THANKS POLO
Look for John Entwistle doing a bass solo on this with the Chieftains and Roger Daltrey (the lead singer of The Who who was doing a tribute concert to the songs of Pete Townshend the guitarist and writer of The Who). It's 41 seconds of him ripping up an acoustic bass and coming up with the riff for Pirates of the Carribean in the process.
The blue eyes is referenced to fighting and the bruising eyes get after a fight. Daltry was a bruiser who was told to clean up his fighting antics or leave the band. Hence the lyrics being aggressive at times.
This song was covered by Limp Bizkit, and was also used aptly as the theme song played over the closing credits of the excellent but unsettling film 'Gothika,' staring Halle Berry.
It is a big build. The Who is my favorite group. I have brown eyes too. LOL! Townsend's songwriting is epic, Roger's voice is epic too. Keith Moon is the drummer and he is a little "insane".
I had their rock opera, “Tommy”, and it is a fantastic album, a two-record set. I lost it in one of my moves while in the military and have never replaced it.
As stated "Who's Next" is a complete blast! Maybe the most complete album ever. Try John Entwistle's, "My Wife", you will get a chuckle and the music is great too!
This song was a very personal song written by Pete Townshend. I once read that when he played the demo he had recorded for the group, immediately after it finished Keith Moon jumped to his feet with tears in his eyes and hugged Pete.
most explosive live band ever polo,check out "see me...feel me" woodstock,"heaven and hell" "young man blues" isle of wight,"a quick one while he's away" rock n roll circus
The only thing you didn’t mention was the amazing background vocals and harmony. Townsend is just a great songwriter.
Oh but I was thinking it
The Who are one of the best for sure, incredible group. Tommy is one of their albums, I thought was pretty darn good.
The whole Who’s Next album is a masterpiece.
One of the five albums I’m taking to Heaven with me.
Absolutely agree ❤
So true!!
One of the best bands in the world seen live. Two members out of 4 are deceased. But they STILL play out!
One of my favorite WHO songs🤘🎸🤘
I feel so lucky growing up as a young person with all this great music.
The way Townshend writes...he absolutely pours his guts out in music. I adore him. This band changed my life when I was 12. This band (specifically Pete Townshend) spoke to me in ways I can't even explain.
Me too Robin.
The first record I ever bought at 14 was My Generation. Pete Townsend guitar playing influenced my own attempts... I've often thought that The Who were the first punk band im some ways... Great band...😊😊👍👍
@@barryfeatherstone1616 Agreed. The raw energy and angry youth. They were the first punk band for sure. Tommy was the first album I bought. It shocked my senses.
@@jesuschrist-alphaomegaHis solo stuff sticks a knife right between the ribs.
I was 12 in 1978 and saw them live at the Boston garden .. amazing show
If you haven’t done “Love reign o’er me” or “Baba Oreilly” you are in for some heat!!
Both amazing live as well as studio ❤
Classic Masterpiece!! This song is timeless!!
They have so many great songs, but this one, I've always loved it.
Between this one & “See Me Feel Me” ❤
Growing up gay in Oklahoma in the 70s, this song was my private, personal theme song, as it expressed so perfectly what it's like to be teenager struggling with being gay and not being able to tell anyone about it. I can only imagine what this song means for others who are moved by it. It's one those universal songs that can mean whatever a listener needs it to mean throughout one's life. What an amazing gift to share by the Who. I cannot express how thankful I am for this (and other songs) by the Who. And thank you for sharing your reaction!
You know it’s about a thug, a gangster and villain? Limp biskit turned it to being about angsty teenagers.
Unfortunately this one is probably about Pete being a pedo.
@@SvenTviking art can be about whatever you want it to be
I was lucky enough to see Keith Moon play with The Who he was just amazing!
wow, the one artist I never saw live. Would have been a rush
me too! Best show ever!
I’m envious. lol. That must have been amazing.
I grew up listening to The Who (and still do of course) but unfortunately I was born to late to actually see them live. How I envy you lucky people who did!!
John Entwistle was a wizard on the base.
Yeah there are several tracks out there in UA-came land with his bass isolated, you only THINK you know what he's doing until you hear such a track .... he was a MONSTER BASSIST
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And Keith Moon was a monster on the drums too. Perfect rhythm section.
Legends !!
The Who, a band with 4 musicians ,all masters of their instrument, and Pete one of the best songwriters, engineers, producers in all R&R. Polo is fast becoming a Wholigan!
Mods, rockers, hooligans
Yep, one of the most under rated bands ever! They hardly get a mention most times! So glad you appreciate.
You obviously get it. This is a practically perfect song.
Keith Moon on drums , the man was insane . Really
My teenage brother used to listen to this song over and over after his break-up. I think it helped him get through it.
The Who were the headliner of the 3 most important concerts in history.. woostock, monterrey, and isle of wight
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Thanks Polo. Roger Daltrey said that this was his favourite song they ever did.
This song is about a political leader and how he feels about the people who put him in power who he leads, And what a thankless job it is
Try " lucky ol' sun" by Jerry Garcia band. ( ray Charles and Jerry Lee made it famous)
Thanks for playing this. They are an awesome band. They are even better live.
Saw them live in 1982, one of the BEST shows of my LIFE
@@rrowe1961 Same here, I saw them live at Folsom Field on the CU campus in Boulder, CO. It was the 25th Anniversary Tour, and the had a 25 piece band with a pretty good sized horn section. They play for over 2 1/2 hours. Incredible!
I have enjoyed this song for many, many years... and have Listened to quite a few "reactions" of it. Your REACTION of this, is the BEST I have heard. Keep doing what you are doing.
The who one of the great all time bands, catching a moment in time, the anger of youth in 60s 70s uk.
This song, along with the Stones Paint it Black, S&Gs I am a rock, and every Leonard Cohen song, were my dark, sad, teenage angst sound track. I listened to these songs during the dark times that I imagine most young girls go through. Great reaction.
I'm forever grateful I was able to see them live twice. They are outstanding live. Thank you for reacting to this.
Drummer Keith Moon was insane in many ways, the stories are legendary, 😂
“This is me!” - Pete’s lyrics are universal, and everyone can find themselves in them, we all relate in some way…
The Who's performance of "A Quick One While He's Away" from The film Rock and Roll Circus. It's seriously worth it just for Keith Moon's performance on the drums. It was a film of a concert that the Rolling Stones put on with all their buddies. Like a showcase. Rumor is that the film was shelved because The Who were so good and upstaged The Rolling Stones so badly that they didn't release it for years. I think the performance is one of the best live musical performances ever on film!
Hell fuckin yes...great taste my friend
THIS!!!! One of my favorite live performances, really shows off how great they were. Especially Keith's performance. ua-cam.com/video/RJv2-_--EY4/v-deo.html
This song sums up my life!.One of the greatest albums in rock history!❤❤
Great reaction rest in peace Keith and John.
Once again Great taste Polo!!!!! Bass line, drums, and writing is top notch!!!!!!!
Easily my favorite Who track - sends shivers down my spine, even now.
This was one of my late husband's favorite songs. He would play it on the guitar and sing it for me to hear since when we started dating in the early 70's I knew nothing about the Who😊
You can think of the "blue eyes" as metaphorical. Think of like "the Blues," as in being sad. So it's behind sad eyes.
Fantastic!!!! The music of my youth! It’s so great that you enjoy this, I love it!
Another Super Group from Britain! Polo, the Talent level of each one of the members of The Who rivals Zeppelin, Sabbath, Floyd and so on....
Great review. Great band. The Who were brilliant live as well.
Quadrophenia and Tommy both masterpieces
Growing up, all this music was just there. Never knew anything different until the 90s came around. Then the great music didn't come out as often. In the 2000s, it's rare for a great song to come out.
☕️☕️🎶🎵🎶
I love this and there was lots of amazing music in the 90’s too
Polo, you could do every WHO song, and it wouldn't hurt my feelings one bit.
Gotta love Keith (Moony) Moon. He was a beast on those drums. Ringo and he were best friends. Ringo wanted his son, Zac, to play guitar, but Uncle Keith bought him his first drum kit and there's a pic of Keith giving him lessons. That kid, Zac Starkey, ended up playing drums with the Who, at some point after Keith's death.
Entwistle was so funny. He would stand there, almost like stone but his fingers flew on the bass. I always think of the way Luigi's legs would run in the Mario games.
Daltry's vocals are well known, but I think his most memorable vocal moment is the "scream heard around the world" in "Won't Get Fooled Again", and Keith killing it on the drums. That scream opened lots of crime dramas.
Guitarist Pete Townsend and the "Windmill" move. He was a dynamic performer. They wouldn't be the Who without him. Co-founder, principal songwriter, second lead vocals, deepest thinking and objective member of the band. And I believe he has taken "Tommy" to Broadway, or something close to it.
Maybe you could react to "Pinball Wizard".
One of the best drummers in rock history! No doubt...
Yes indeed. And if you've ever watched the muppets...lol if you know you know
This is why The Who were true superstars
SO, SO GOOD!! ONE OF MY FAVORITES by The Who!! LOVE THEM!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
The Who was my first concert. My brother took me, I was 15 and they played Tommy. It was insane! I will never forget it.
"1971 - The Who release Behind Blues Eyes. The lyrics are based on Pete Townshend's own feeling of angst, that no one knows what it's like to be him, with high expectations and pressure to be someone he's not.
A run-in with a groupie was the impetus for this song. He got married in 1968 and was tempted by a groupie after The Who's June 9, 1970 concert in Denver (Mammoth Gardens?). As Townshend explained, he went back to his room alone and wrote a prayer beginning, "If my fist clenches, crack it open..."
Pete Townshend originally wrote this song about a character in his Lifehouse project, which was going to be a film similar to The Who's Tommy and Quadrophenia. Townshend never finished Lifehouse, but the songs ended up on the album Who's Next."
I always thought it was because of his pedophilia. Sticking with my version.
When you said "this song was written for me" I got chills. Me too, brown. I think this is many peoples song. Epic song and band. So much nostalgia for me as well. This is a massively deep rabbit hole, like a black hole. I saw them do Quadrophenia live in 2013, Epic. With no less than Zach Starkey on the drums. (Keith and Ringo were good friends and Zach was Keith's god son.) RIP Keith and John.
Perfect song for a western? I love it. One of Townshend's great solo album is All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes. Not western based at all, but another album full of songs where Pete shares his humanity, allowing us to see ourselves in him. His battle with addictions was in full rage.
Check out Somebody Saved Me, Stop Hurting People, Slit Skirts... take your pick.☮️❤️🎵
Let's not forget the production. Beautifully blended and yet each instruments stands out.
"If my fist clenches & lose control. Crack it open before I use it & lose my cool."🎸😎
The Who is my favorite. Their music just never sounds old & remains relevant.
This song IS for you, POLO. ❤Guitarist Pete Townsend wrote most of their songs.
THis group never got the accolades that it should have. Townsend was such a great writer. You are opening up my past to me and I love it. Keep it going
They were up against some stiff competition in their best years. England had 2 other bands that were also quite good inthe mid to late 60's and would soon give birth to another band that would do some amazing things between '69 and '79
GREAT TUNE🎼🎵🎶✌️💗
I was lucky to be introduced to this album at 10 when it came out, my older brother bought it. I listened to it with old big headphones we had over and over...really left an impression to appreciate good music of all kinds. One of the best albums ever...
Great song by an exceptional band!
This album “Who’s Next” is an all time classic rock album. Bargain and Won’t Get Fooled Again are 2 of the best. Thanks!!
Limp Bizkit did a cover of this track. This is one of the many favorites by The Who. Thanks Polo 😊
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Thanks. It’s played at the end of the movie Gothica. I couldn’t remember who covered it.
There's a solo acoustic version of this by Pete Townshend who wrote it that's incredible. Pete is lead guitarist in The Who
"A QUICK ONE WHILE HE"S AWAY"/........most epic WHO song
Rock N Roll Circus version!!
It reminds me of my hubby & his sky blue eyes. RIH Jim
The drumming is incredible!
One of my favs!! Totally identified with this in my younger years!
Keith Moon on drums !! 🔥 Polo’s a Who fan now 🙂
One of my favorites by them for sure thanks so much for sharing
The Who was the last show I saw before Covid. They played the Hollywood Bowl in October, if I recall. It was an amazing show. They played all the hits, like this one, and gave everything vocally and on guitar. Roger and Pete were in the elder years, but still needed to rip it up, and totally did!
Great song. I also love how Daltry changes his voice during the song to evoke the emotion of the lyrics.
Have you heard ‘Bargain’?
I am in love with you Polo. These are the songs of my youth and my coming out as a gay man. No one knows what it's like. It is. a tearing and collapsing of identity. It is the tearing of pop culture, the ripping and destruction of culture.......who's culture is this? Where do we begin to end our ideas, they begin and end with love and anger and then love and then love.......and then?
One of my favorite songs of all times. I have to turn the volume up to max every time.
This is their best song, along with Who Are You and Baba O'Reilly
I always thought the Blue eyes was more about sadness the physical eye color. Still one of my favorite The Who songs.
Along those lines the Crystal Gayle song "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" goes with that.
Yeah not about eye colour but the sadness you show in your eyes.
i agree. since i dont think either daltry or towsend have blue colored eyes in the first place.
@@ripvanwinkle2002
They both have very blue eyes.
The blue eyes is referenced to fighting and the bruising eyes get after a fight. Daltry was a bruiser who was told to clean up his fighting antics or leave the band.
One of the best songs ever.
Love it. When needed, we all make little changes to lyrics that apply to us and our personal situations when the music moves us. Like other poetry, interpretation is individual.
Another song on the Who's Next album called "Bargain" has lyrics which are in the same realm as the lyrics to "Behind Blue Eyes". "Bargain" is an absolute banger......with very deep lyrics.
One of their best 👍😎
always been a huge fan since the 70s. Absolutelya beautifullywritten and with extreme insite to a suffering soul. But NEVER SAY THAT DRUMMER! HES KEITH MOON. ONE OF THE BEST TO HOLD A STICK, AND MAY BE THE NUTTIEST. THANKS POLO
I’m so glad you’ve discovered this track. Their talent is amazing.
You do really great reactions man. Thank you.
One of my favorites!
Dude! If you liked this song, whooowheee, this WHOLE album is FIRE!!!!!! Arguably pinnacle WHO!!!!
Look for John Entwistle doing a bass solo on this with the Chieftains and Roger Daltrey (the lead singer of The Who who was doing a tribute concert to the songs of Pete Townshend the guitarist and writer of The Who). It's 41 seconds of him ripping up an acoustic bass and coming up with the riff for Pirates of the Carribean in the process.
This was best friends songs back in high school in the 90’s, his parents had an epic CD collection.
The WHO & Traffic’s Low Spark of High Heeled Boys….good stuff my friend
The great Angry Young Man Rock Band !!! Worked for we who were angry Young Women too. 👏👏👏
John Entwisle R.I.P., is considered one of, if not the best, basist of all time.
When Im Mobile" is a Great Feel Good Song! So is Squeeze Box"!
There are songs you like, but have parts you kinda wanna skip over. This one doesn't have a single wasted second. Perfect.
Love this song. I play it when feel sorry for myself.
The blue eyes is referenced to fighting and the bruising eyes get after a fight. Daltry was a bruiser who was told to clean up his fighting antics or leave the band. Hence the lyrics being aggressive at times.
You've just made this up, haven't you. Utter nonsense.
This song was covered by Limp Bizkit, and was also used aptly as the theme song played over the closing credits of the excellent but unsettling film 'Gothika,' staring Halle Berry.
The lyrics during the break are some of my favorite in all of Rock Music.
It is a big build. The Who is my favorite group. I have brown eyes too. LOL! Townsend's songwriting is epic, Roger's voice is epic too. Keith Moon is the drummer and he is a little "insane".
I had their rock opera, “Tommy”, and it is a fantastic album, a two-record set. I lost it in one of my moves while in the military and have never replaced it.
All four were talented and unique artists.
As stated "Who's Next" is a complete blast! Maybe the most complete album ever. Try John Entwistle's, "My Wife", you will get a chuckle and the music is great too!
Behind Brown Eyes - I can get behind that!!
My favorite Who song! My theme song!
You talked about suffering and a Chevy commercial came on! Bwahahaha!
Thanks.
a true classic
Excellent
This song was a very personal song written by Pete Townshend. I once read that when he played the demo he had recorded for the group, immediately after it finished Keith Moon jumped to his feet with tears in his eyes and hugged Pete.
The WHO are incredible.
Roger sings like an Angel with 3 balls.
most explosive live band ever polo,check out "see me...feel me" woodstock,"heaven and hell" "young man blues" isle of wight,"a quick one while he's away" rock n roll circus
I’m 50. When I was 15 I saw The Who in Raleigh NC. Great memory for me.