I would argue Quadrophenia, after this, is even better. The individual songs aren't as great on their own (except a few standouts), but the whole album as a whole flows together perfectly.
What's amazing to me is that in 1971 people said, what's that sound, sounds like the future. And today 50 years later it still sounds like the future and confuses people when they hear that moog synth. That's quite a feat to pull off.
@@donnaldostrom You were way ahead of your time. I was 6 when it came out, and my first rock album was The Doors, Absolutely live when I was 13 for Christmas that year. I wouldn't really discover The Who for years, better late than never.
The title comes from two influences on Pete Townshend, the main writer of the band: Baba Mehar, an Indian mystic and Terry Riley, a jazz and classical composer who also used electronic sounds in some of his music.
@@kencf0618 The Moog had been used by The Beatles, The Monkees, and The Doors by that point. But I think Who's Next had the first recordings of the ARP 2600 and the VCS3.
The Who is the epitome of classic rock! They had so many great songs in the 70s to the early 80. Pete Townshend - the guitarist - has some great solo stuff too!
I would classify The Who as quintessentially English, like OMD, XTC ,David Bowie, Queen. They never recorded the same album twice, weren't afraid to experiment and were excellent lyricists.
Jayy you also should try these other's super hits from them : "Love reign on me", "Won't get fooled Again"(CSI Miami tv series main title), "Who are you"(CSI tv series main title), "Behind blue Eyes", "You better you bet" , "The Real me" & "See me, Feel me"..., trust me you will go crazy and love them all. Ronny
"I can See for Miles." should be on the must-listen list. Maybe "Magic Bus" "You can buy the magic bus for one hundred English pounds. Ninety five. Give me a hundred. Ninety five. I won't make enough."
Great reaction! I was fortunate enough to see the Who in 1980. I have never see a more amped crowd. The Who literally did 5 encores and people were still screaming with lighters in hand 30 minutes later!
Welcome to The Who!!! My youngest daughter in particular was a fan right out of the gate when I was playing this in the car during her gradeschool days! I love how creative they are in the orchestration of sound! A big hit during the Nam days too.
Pete Townsend set up the original sente synthesizer recording and then put it on a loop. He himself was so amazed because it created another instrument that would just play itself. He could then incorporate the other piano parts onto the song. State of the art mastery on Pete's part. Check out the Quardropheia album and movie. The movie and music will blow your mind.
That synth intro - one of the more elusive sounds I've ever heard - initially surprises and then seduces, despite being a totally electronic production... Though of course, it was a very fine and soulful musician who spent dozens of hours programming it. The little variations tell a story before the piano (and the rest) comes in.
More from The Who: My Generation, Pinball Wizard, Won't Get Fooled Again, Who Are You, Behind Blue Eyes, I Can See for Miles, Love Reign O'er Me. There are a zillion they have a massive catalog.
Saw them play this song and album live in Boston September 8th 1971, at the Music Hall. It was two weeks prior to the "Who's Next" album's release. Been to many-many concerts since, but none ever topped this one. Keith Moon stole the whole show and to this day, the best rock drummer ever!
That was the first rock album to seriously use the synthesizer. That may be the sound you were taken by. Thank you so much. Their music was a big part of my personal playlist for a long time and it's been too long since I listened to them.
Lots of comments about the “synthesizer “ sounds on this. While there are synth sounds on this album, that sound on Baba is an old Lowery organ that had a function called Marimba Repeat. When you’re incredibly creative like The Who, you can blow minds for 50 years using instruments my Grandma had! That’s pretty freaking cool!
Best song on the LP, and the entire album is fantastic. I remember when it was released. The lead singer on this tune is Roger Daltrey. The lead guitarist, Peter Townsend wrote many of the band’s songs. Glad you discovered it!
Pete Townsend created Looping and Sampling on this album - he put together that backing 'synth' track before another note was played or sung - then all the other parts were layered on top of it - simply masterful and one of the very best tracks ever recored - though this album is stuffed full of great tracks...
DEFINATELY "Love Reign O'er Me" should be next for the Who. It's powerful and beautiful as hell! Perfect mix of emotion and skill..... BUT..... for a FUN song "Squeeze Box" is a jam! "Pinball Wizard/Tommy", "Won't get Fooled Again", "Who Are You", "You Better, You BetBet" are all worth checking out. Love the appreciation for these classics.....
Good lord, the endless hours I spend lying in a bean bag chair with big KOSS headphones listening to this album ... FORTY YEARS AGO! Still as damn good as ever.
As a person who works outdoors in the great expanses, doing backbreaking work and getting his hands dirty (and proud of it), the first three lines really ring home to me. Fifty years and this song still gives me goosebumps. See, when you avoid the radio like the plague, you don't get sick of these great songs! Pete Townshend turned to the teachings of Meher Baba after a bad acid trip (it was actually STP, a speed-based hallucinogen that gave a lot of people bad trips) in the late '60's, and in this song I heard that Pete did something to the effect of channeling Meher Baba's heartbeat (or mystical aura, whatever) through a synthesizer, and the beginning of this song is what it ended up sounding like. It's hard to explain and I forget where I read it - but I know I did read it somewhere!! You can never go wrong with The Who.
I had read the lyrics to this before I heard it because my mother had the "Who's Next" sheet music book on her Dad's piano. But the first time I actually heard it was June 24, 1988 and I remember it like it was yesterday. My life has never been the same.
So many summer road trips in my teens began to this song being played at full volume in my '75 Malibu Classic as we started out from Ottawa on our way to Virginia Beach or further down to Daytona. What a blast.
Ringo Star's son Zack Starkey has been the drummer for the Who since 1996. The violin piece is typically played on the harmonica by Roger Daltry when touring.
I love you! Your singing words at the beginning make me smile! Thanks for starting my day with a smile! Have fun ! I love tons of music from any genre but The Who is my favorite! Peace!
Just sitting here waiting for that ending to drop. 😂 Great reaction. One of my favorite Who songs. Please react to INXS again. I think you would really dig Devil Inside, official video.
I remember being in the car with my mother-in-law and this came on the radio, she then said "I don't understand you're generation's music". I had to let her know that I'm 40 and she's 70, this is her generation's music lol
The Who's album "Quadrophenia" is another amazing set; from that, try either "The Real Me" or "The Punk and the Godfather" for contained explosions of rock.
The Who were the granddaddys of the Rock Opera with the album "Tommy" (yes i was named after the protagonist) they also had another great Rock Opera called "Quadrophenia", These really need to be listened to from start to finish to get the whole story and to see the tracks in context. The album that Baba O'Riley was on (Who's Next) was also going to be another Rock Opera but it was causing the writer (Pete Townsend - guitarist) major depression and the band took as much as was written and produced the "Who's Next" album. About 15 years ago Pete Townsend revisited the Rock Opera and finished of what it should have been, and it's been released as Pete Townsend - Lifehouse and the Opening track is called "Teenage Wasteland" and not "Baba O'Riley.......it has a VERY different feel to it with Pete doing the vocals. ua-cam.com/video/wzrtN0C3YiU/v-deo.html check it out if you want to hear a different version of this track, it's good
Please try "The Real Me", it's one of the best rock/bass songs written. If you pick the version with the into, be aware it's a short preview of the album.
THE GIRL I USED TO LOVE LIVES IN THIS YELLOW HOUSE, THE OTHER DAY SHE PASSED ME BY, SHE DOESN'T WANNA KNOW ME NOW! WOOAAAHHH!!! CAN YOU SEE THE REAL ME MAMA! MAMA!!!CAN YOU SEE THE REAL ME MAMA OOOOOOOHHHH MAMA!!!Fuckin tune love the trumbones as well
@@calumsullivan4620 It's amazing how only "those in the know" know about that song and the album. It's one of the best rock albums ever written and I usually get "What are you talking about?"
Jayy, the "Baba" in the title refers to Pete Townshend's guru Meher Baba. Whom you'd recognize by one of his most famous quotes: "Don't Worry, Be Happy".
Great song and the complete album is as good a rock and roll album gets, Won’t Get Fooled Again, Behind Blue Eyes, an This Song Is Over are legendary songs!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️❤️☮️🎼🎤🎸🎹
Hey Jayyyyyyyy! Love this song - soundtrack from my HS senior year. The Who was one of my first live concert experiences in 1967 (opening act for Herman's Hermits, if you can believe that), during their formative years. Worth checking out: "The Who Sell Out" album, it's fun and experimental, and has the radio hit "I Can See For Miles"
Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, anything less is a waste of time. !!!! Welcome to "My Generation" ya'all, as with others I welcome you and thank you for stepping out and exploring the past. The JAYY SHOW live from ? Just glad you have movement within the realm of music, all music.
Fantastic song. I can see you enjoyed it a lot. You may by now have seen The Who perform this live. If not, please go to ,The Who - Baba O'Riley ( Shepperton Studios/ 1978)
The Who is my all time number one band, second to none. The Who's "Who's Next" came out in 1971. Many of the songs on the album were part of the "Life House" project that never came to be. I remember buying this album back in the day (70s). It's one of my favorite albums ever. Every song/track on the album (the original tracks) are classics. Two tracks to check out are "The Song is Over" and of course "Won't Get Fooled Again."
Townshend played a Lowrey TBO-1 organ at his home studio. He tried to run it through an ARP synthesizer/sequencer, but couldn't get the sound he was looking for. Instead, he used the "marimba repeat" setting on his Lowrey to create the arpeggiated, complex repeating pattern.
This was the first The Who song I ever heard, and I was hooked on them, I was about 13yo in the mid 90s, and heard it on a rock anthems compilation. Piano, drums, guitar and screaming lyrics... The essence of rock. "I don't need to fight, to prove I'm right,.I don't need to be forgiven!" Powerful stuff for a impressionable 13yo kid from small town northern England struggling to come to terms with being gay!
Here's the what the what on Baba O'Riley: Background and composition Townshend originally wrote "Baba O'Riley" for his Lifehouse project, a rock opera intended as the follow-up to the Who's 1969 opera, Tommy. In Lifehouse a Scottish farmer named Ray would have sung the song at the beginning as he gathered his wife Sally and his two children to begin their exodus to London. When Lifehouse was scrapped, eight of the songs were salvaged and recorded for the Who's 1971 album Who's Next, with "Baba O'Riley" as the lead-off track. According to Townshend, at the end of the band's gig at the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival the field was covered in rubbish left by fans, which inspired the line "teenage wasteland".[7] In another interview Townshend stated the song was also inspired by "the absolute desolation of teenagers at Woodstock, where audience members were strung out on acid and 20 people had brain damage. The irony was that some listeners took the song to be a teenage celebration: 'Teenage Wasteland, yes! We're all wasted!'"[8] The song's title combines the names of Meher Baba and Terry Riley, two of Townshend's philosophical and musical mentors.[9] The song is often incorrectly referred to as "Teenage Wasteland", due to these oft-repeated words in the song's chorus refrain. "Teenage Wasteland" was in fact a working title for the song in its early incarnations as part of the Lifehouse project, but eventually became the title for a different but related song by Townshend, which is slower and features different lyrics.[10] A demo of "Teenage Wasteland" features in Lifehouse Chronicles, a six-disc set of music related to the Lifehouse project, and in several Townshend compilations and videos. The song uses a I-V-IV chord progression in the key of F major.[11] Nice review Jayy and I like your channel. Was great to see that you really got where it was coming from. You picked up on it in the way many others have not.
The keyboard sound was made with an old Lowery TBO organ using a setting that doubled the number of notes played called ‘Marimba repeat’. They ripped open the back of the organ to slow down the timing of the repeat by tweaking the organs actual electronics. Pete Townshend was a genius - period.
When Townsend was asked, "Why Baba O'Reily?" His response "Why not?". You'll really appreciate this song when you watch it played live with Pete bouncing all over the stage without missing a beat while Roger substitutes harmonica for the violin so well you can almost fail to notice the difference! Who's Next is universally praised as one of the best albums of all time. This is something to be proud of when an album was a unified work, every song needing to fit together, unlike now when an "album" is just a single release or two and a bunch of throw-away filler. Any way you spin it, and in any order, the greatest bands of all time are the Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who.
Anything off the "quadrophenia" album is a must ! X but tops tracks off the album have got to be "Love, Reign o'er Me". ."I've had enough"..."Im one" ..."the real me" x ...and the film quadrophenia is a cult classic that's worth a watch x
I saw them perform this song in concert, the year before last, you know before Corona shut everything down. I went with my mom and her sister. The Who was my mom’s favorite band when she was a teenager, and she got to see them in concert back in the 70’s. They are one of my favorite bands too.
Ok, that's one of my favorites by The Who. The other is "Won't Get Fooled Again." Like Baba O'Riley, Won't Get Fooled has some very unique sounds, but different from this one and the end of that one is special too. Ya gotta do it.
The story behind the song was after the huge success of Tommy, Pete Townsend fiddled around with the idea for another rock opera, this one set in a post-apocalypse world, and this surviving farmer and his family in the north of England, hear rumors that someone, somehow is doing a rock concert in the ruins of London. The rest of the project never jelled and it was abandoned, with this song being the only remnant. It was named "Baba" in honor of Townsend's Guru, Baba Mehar, and "O'Reilly" from the violinist soloist, Terry Reiily, featured in the song.
The Who, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones all started in the music industry in the same year. 1963. All three of them are still going 57-58 years later in one way or another.
You have a beautiful inquisitive eyes as a sixty-two-year-old man you gave me great joy watching you discover the creative process and the results of the Arts
In 72' I purchase this gem and played it at least once a day for years.There isn't a bad song on this album.Just one of many great albums from late 60s through the 70s
Really enjoyed this reaction. I love how you could tell you were feeling all the different instruments in the mix. A lot of people seem to just key in on one or two things and seem to miss out on a lot of what makes these songs great. But you definitely seemed like you were paying attention to the whole mix. Good stuff. Glad you liked it. This is one of the songs that completely changed how I listened to music and what I expected out of a song. True classic.
The "O'Reilly" in the title was the last name, I think, of the gentleman who invented the particular keyboard that Townshend plays on this. For more of this instrument, check out the epic "Won't Get Fooled Again", studio version. Same album. Love your "fiddlestickin" reactions! Check out the band Moody Blues. Think you would like them. Start out with the 9 minute "Have You Heard/The Voyage/Have You Heard(2). Very emotional.
O'Riley in the title is Terry Riley a musician that inspired the intro , if you ear his "A rainbow in curved air" you can understand it, it's very itneresting music!
You're right that that this is a part tribute to Terry Riley but he did not invent the keyboard featured on Baba O'Reilly. Terry Riley was a pioneer in electronic music and is best known for, as people are saying, A Rainbow in Curved Air, which featured electric organs and electric harpsichords. Pete Townshend was influenced by his work during the recording of Who's Next, and on this track and Won't Get Fooled Again played an ARP synthesiser to create the distinctive looped electronic sounds of both songs.
Glad you like it. As a lifetime Who fan,this is one of my favorites.The band line up was Keith Moon(drums,imo the best ever),Pete Townsend (lead guitar),John Entwistle (bass guitar) and Roger Daltry (vocalist).Of these Keith died from a drug overdose and John passed away not so long ago.
The whole Who's Next album is a masterpiece.
I think most people wonder how Baba O'Reilly relates to the song. 😁👍🎸🤘🎶
To be sure.
It's a bargain.
@@zoniekat Pete's guru Meher Baba and synthesizer programmer Terry O'Riley.
I would argue Quadrophenia, after this, is even better. The individual songs aren't as great on their own (except a few standouts), but the whole album as a whole flows together perfectly.
"Behind Blue Eyes", is WONDERFUL!! Please try that if you could.
I reacted to that song months ago here is the link : ua-cam.com/video/5SATbf2MJIg/v-deo.html
@@THEJAYYSHOW Whoops! Sorry, I guess I should have checked. Thanks for link, and answering!
My theme song.
Yes yes brotha!!
@@THEJAYYSHOW have you reacted to the seeker by the who it’s one of my favourites
your now listening to probably 1 of the top 3 albums ever made rock on girl
“I don’t need to fight, to prove I’m right. I don’t need to be forgiven.” One of the best lines ever written, in any medium.
That line hit me like a freight train when I was on shrooms.
„I‘m here in the fields, I fight for my meals!“ is also a line that blew my mind👍🏽
total agreement
Just think, that song's going on 50 years!
Wow. Didn't think about that.
What's amazing to me is that in 1971 people said, what's that sound, sounds like the future. And today 50 years later it still sounds like the future and confuses people when they hear that moog synth. That's quite a feat to pull off.
Right, I was ten when this came out. One of the first LP's I bought. Paper route money.
I will be 50 next year so it’s gonna suck!!! I hate getting older!! In my mind I’m still a kid! LOL
@@donnaldostrom You were way ahead of your time. I was 6 when it came out, and my first rock album was The Doors, Absolutely live when I was 13 for Christmas that year. I wouldn't really discover The Who for years, better late than never.
The title comes from two influences on Pete Townshend, the main writer of the band: Baba Mehar, an Indian mystic and Terry Riley, a jazz and classical composer who also used electronic sounds in some of his music.
Wow I always thought Baba’s last name was O’Riley!!! Never knew about Terry. Makes sense. Crazy 40 years. Danke Schoen
This was I believe the first usage of the synthesizer in rock -and the thing was a beast! Not as far back as vacuum tubes/valves, but still...
@@kencf0618 The Moog had been used by The Beatles, The Monkees, and The Doors by that point. But I think Who's Next had the first recordings of the ARP 2600 and the VCS3.
The Who is the epitome of classic rock! They had so many great songs in the 70s to the early 80. Pete Townshend - the guitarist - has some great solo stuff too!
I would classify The Who as quintessentially English, like OMD, XTC ,David Bowie, Queen. They never recorded the same album twice, weren't afraid to experiment and were excellent lyricists.
Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane - Rough Mix. Awesome album.
Jayy you also should try these other's super hits from them : "Love reign on me", "Won't get fooled Again"(CSI Miami tv series main title), "Who are you"(CSI tv series main title), "Behind blue Eyes", "You better you bet" , "The Real me" & "See me, Feel me"..., trust me you will go crazy and love them all. Ronny
@@scottlaughlin9897 No it aint it`s Love Reign 0`er Me.
"I can See for Miles." should be on the must-listen list. Maybe "Magic Bus" "You can buy the magic bus for one hundred English pounds. Ninety five. Give me a hundred. Ninety five. I won't make enough."
you left out squeezebox
Great reaction! I was fortunate enough to see the Who in 1980. I have never see a more amped crowd. The Who literally did 5 encores and people were still screaming with lighters in hand 30 minutes later!
Jayy... you would LOVE The Who's "Love Reign O'er Me." So powerful.
Yes i agree and even "See me, feel me"
Jayy this song was used for the tv series CSI New York,
Oh yeah Eddie vedder does a awesome job on it too
@@ronaldcardinali2809, "Tommy"'s a whole trip. "Quadrophenia" too, for that matter.
@@elysehfm8797 You Got it 👍
Much love and respect. I don’t know why more channel haven’t done this song.
The last bit was a violin solo, completed in the first take, by Dave Arbus of English Folk band East of Eden. And...it's fantastic, xxx
Welcome to The Who!!! My youngest daughter in particular was a fan right out of the gate when I was playing this in the car during her gradeschool days! I love how creative they are in the orchestration of sound! A big hit during the Nam days too.
My favorite intro to an album hands down and always will be. Imagine it being 1971 and hearing this intro to a brand new album. Minds were blown.
This song is fifty years old this year and it's still fire.
So ahead of their Time, using a synthesizer loop for the rhythm in a rock song.
Considering the synthesizer in 1971 takes up half a small room.
And had no method of saving any of it's setting. It all had to be recreated live.
Pete Townsend set up the original sente synthesizer recording and then put it on a loop. He himself was so amazed because it created another instrument that would just play itself. He could then incorporate the other piano parts onto the song. State of the art mastery on Pete's part. Check out the Quardropheia album and movie. The movie and music will blow your mind.
That synth intro - one of the more elusive sounds I've ever heard - initially surprises and then seduces, despite being a totally electronic production... Though of course, it was a very fine and soulful musician who spent dozens of hours programming it. The little variations tell a story before the piano (and the rest) comes in.
More from The Who: My Generation, Pinball Wizard, Won't Get Fooled Again, Who Are You, Behind Blue Eyes, I Can See for Miles, Love Reign O'er Me. There are a zillion they have a massive catalog.
Saw them play this song and album live in Boston September 8th 1971, at the Music Hall. It was two weeks prior to the "Who's Next" album's release. Been to many-many concerts since, but none ever topped this one. Keith Moon stole the whole show and to this day, the best rock drummer ever!
This was the theme song for the hit series CSI: NY. All three of the CSI shows had theme sings by the Who
Apparently they're doing a CSI Biloxi featuring Pinball Wizard starring Gary Busey.
Another show used Won’t Get Fooled Again, and another used Who Are You
@@David_Theisen CSI Cyber used I Can See For Miles as well.
That was the first rock album to seriously use the synthesizer. That may be the sound you were taken by. Thank you so much. Their music was a big part of my personal playlist for a long time and it's been too long since I listened to them.
The original, and perhaps greatest, Rock Anthem!
Lots of comments about the “synthesizer “ sounds on this. While there are synth sounds on this album, that sound on Baba is an old Lowery organ that had a function called Marimba Repeat. When you’re incredibly creative like The Who, you can blow minds for 50 years using instruments my Grandma had! That’s pretty freaking cool!
Composer Terry Riley showed Townsend the tech for this, thus the name of the song..
There's plenty more where that came from, Jayy. No other band sounds like The Who, before or since.
Best song on the LP, and the entire album is fantastic. I remember when it was released.
The lead singer on this tune is Roger Daltrey. The lead guitarist, Peter Townsend wrote many of the band’s songs. Glad you discovered it!
You should listen to their Rock Opera 🎸 Tommy.
Rent the movie!
The live versions of Tommy (any of them, although I am partial to the 1989 shows) are way better than the album.
She definitely should listen to Tommy and watch the film with Tina Turner.
One of the greatest rock songs ever created.
Jayy, your reaction was pure joy...thank you!
Pete Townsend created Looping and Sampling on this album - he put together that backing 'synth' track before another note was played or sung - then all the other parts were layered on top of it - simply masterful and one of the very best tracks ever recored - though this album is stuffed full of great tracks...
MAD RESPECT for how you appreciate this song. Just found your channel. The Who is my all time favorite band.
The Baba comes from Pete Townshend's spiritual guru the Hindu teacher Meher Baba. The O'Reilly comes from Terry O'Reilly a musical mentor.
Iconic song. Nothing else like it. No body plays drums like Keith Moon
DEFINATELY "Love Reign O'er Me" should be next for the Who. It's powerful and beautiful as hell! Perfect mix of emotion and skill..... BUT..... for a FUN song "Squeeze Box" is a jam! "Pinball Wizard/Tommy", "Won't get Fooled Again", "Who Are You", "You Better, You BetBet" are all worth checking out. Love the appreciation for these classics.....
I love that violin solo at the end. I play cello btw. That Tremolo.
This is my favorite song by The Who. Im 16 and i kinda consider this as like the "teenage anthem"
The drummer (the late, great Keith Moon) was the inspiration for Animal from "the Muppet Show". Now you know why! :-)
The Real Me, Love Reign O’er Me. Both are from their Rock Opera (later a movie), Quadrophenia. Based on the personalities of the four band members.
This song has just about everything.
This Lady Gets It , a Blast from the Past ,British Rock at its Best
Good lord, the endless hours I spend lying in a bean bag chair with big KOSS headphones listening to this album ... FORTY YEARS AGO! Still as damn good as ever.
Me too, bean bag, koss phones, and Who's Next. Awesome. Made without a computer in sight.
Man I love Keith Moons drumming on this song, just killing it. He was so damn great.
Moon also played the violins on the studio version.
Huh? Dave Arbus played the violin on this song.
@@andrewburch1671 He didn't play them! He's credited on the record sleeve as having *produced* the violins on this song.
Brilliant guy. Crazy as a soup sandwich, but a master on those drums!
As a person who works outdoors in the great expanses, doing backbreaking work and getting his hands dirty (and proud of it), the first three lines really ring home to me. Fifty years and this song still gives me goosebumps. See, when you avoid the radio like the plague, you don't get sick of these great songs!
Pete Townshend turned to the teachings of Meher Baba after a bad acid trip (it was actually STP, a speed-based hallucinogen that gave a lot of people bad trips) in the late '60's, and in this song I heard that Pete did something to the effect of channeling Meher Baba's heartbeat (or mystical aura, whatever) through a synthesizer, and the beginning of this song is what it ended up sounding like. It's hard to explain and I forget where I read it - but I know I did read it somewhere!! You can never go wrong with The Who.
I had read the lyrics to this before I heard it because my mother had the "Who's Next" sheet music book on her Dad's piano. But the first time I actually heard it was June 24, 1988 and I remember it like it was yesterday. My life has never been the same.
Thanks JAYY. The whole album is....all that and more. Much more.
So many summer road trips in my teens began to this song being played at full volume in my '75 Malibu Classic as we started out from Ottawa on our way to Virginia Beach or further down to Daytona. What a blast.
You have absolutely got the most beautiful backdrop for yourself, in all of youtube.
BTW, The Who blows everyone's minds.
If you were a college kid in the 80’s in my dormitory, The Who were played endlessly. Awesome 🙌🙌
Check out The Who's "Love Reign O'er Me." You won't regret it.
This is their greatest song.
This. Actually, all of Quadrophenia.
Love reign o'er me is so powerful
This song gives me goose pimples still to this day. On a loud stereo oh ya.
Ringo Star's son Zack Starkey has been the drummer for the Who since 1996. The violin piece is typically played on the harmonica by Roger Daltry when touring.
I love you! Your singing words at the beginning make me smile! Thanks for starting my day with a smile! Have fun ! I love tons of music from any genre but The Who is my favorite! Peace!
Please consider checking out 'Love, Reign O'er Me' sometime from this awesome band!
This is the anthem of my generation. And you should listen to "My Generation" as well!
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"Another Tricky Day", is a great song by The Who. I love the bass playing in that song.
John Entwistle , was such a great bass player.
Live at Leeds is the best live rock album ever
Amen to that!
If you watched any of the CSI TV series, they all have a who song, as their theme song. This one is CSI New York.
Just sitting here waiting for that ending to drop. 😂
Great reaction. One of my favorite Who songs. Please react to INXS again. I think you would really dig Devil Inside, official video.
I remember being in the car with my mother-in-law and this came on the radio, she then said "I don't understand you're generation's music". I had to let her know that I'm 40 and she's 70, this is her generation's music lol
The Who's album "Quadrophenia" is another amazing set; from that, try either "The Real Me" or "The Punk and the Godfather" for contained explosions of rock.
Love your reactions!!! Really love that you’re into the who as well. Gotta try the guess who eventually....great Canadian band 🇨🇦🖖🏻🥰💥
Yes,whoever said boring Canadian musicians was an uneducated dick!
THE WHO, "BABA O'RILEY", EXCELLENT TAKE ON THIS. BUT YEAH, THIS ALBUM, WHO'S NEXT A GEM... ANOTHER "WE DON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN"
One of my favourite bands growing up over here in the UK. Great to see you enjoy their music so much😊😊👍
The Who were the granddaddys of the Rock Opera with the album "Tommy" (yes i was named after the protagonist) they also had another great Rock Opera called "Quadrophenia", These really need to be listened to from start to finish to get the whole story and to see the tracks in context.
The album that Baba O'Riley was on (Who's Next) was also going to be another Rock Opera but it was causing the writer (Pete Townsend - guitarist) major depression and the band took as much as was written and produced the "Who's Next" album.
About 15 years ago Pete Townsend revisited the Rock Opera and finished of what it should have been, and it's been released as Pete Townsend - Lifehouse and the Opening track is called "Teenage Wasteland" and not "Baba O'Riley.......it has a VERY different feel to it with Pete doing the vocals.
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check it out if you want to hear a different version of this track, it's good
Kind of annoyed I have "Bellboy" running through my head for the last half hour.
But, STING, though!
@@elysehfm8797 Yeah i know, but only in the 1979 film. The 1973 Album still stands as a Masterpiece
@@tommy5675, of course! Still weird to think about it. He was such a young pup.
You have to listen to this song live (shepperton studios) captures the power of the who in a live setting
Please try "The Real Me", it's one of the best rock/bass songs written. If you pick the version with the into, be aware it's a short preview of the album.
Agree!
@@ugadawgs1990 "I'm crazy ma help me, I know how you feel son, cause it runs in the family".
THE GIRL I USED TO LOVE LIVES IN THIS YELLOW HOUSE, THE OTHER DAY SHE PASSED ME BY, SHE DOESN'T WANNA KNOW ME NOW! WOOAAAHHH!!! CAN YOU SEE THE REAL ME MAMA! MAMA!!!CAN YOU SEE THE REAL ME MAMA OOOOOOOHHHH MAMA!!!Fuckin tune love the trumbones as well
@@calumsullivan4620 It's amazing how only "those in the know" know about that song and the album. It's one of the best rock albums ever written and I usually get "What are you talking about?"
@@janstan8407 yeh my dad introduced me to quadrephenia album, great stuff. As well as Northern soul and the Madchester tunes
Jayy, the "Baba" in the title refers to Pete Townshend's guru Meher Baba. Whom you'd recognize by one of his most famous quotes: "Don't Worry, Be Happy".
Great song and the complete album is as good a rock and roll album gets, Won’t Get Fooled Again, Behind Blue Eyes, an This Song Is Over are legendary songs!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️❤️☮️🎼🎤🎸🎹
Love watching your expressions, they're so cute.
Hey Jayyyyyyyy! Love this song - soundtrack from my HS senior year. The Who was one of my first live concert experiences in 1967 (opening act for Herman's Hermits, if you can believe that), during their formative years. Worth checking out: "The Who Sell Out" album, it's fun and experimental, and has the radio hit "I Can See For Miles"
the Who have many terrific songs, this is my fav
won’t get fooled again my 2nd fav
Vinyl, Vinyl, Vinyl, anything less is a waste of time. !!!! Welcome to "My Generation" ya'all, as with others I welcome you and thank you for stepping out and exploring the past. The JAYY SHOW live from ? Just glad you have movement within the realm of music, all music.
Fantastic song. I can see you enjoyed it a lot. You may by now have seen The Who perform this live. If not, please go to ,The Who - Baba O'Riley ( Shepperton Studios/ 1978)
The Who is my all time number one band, second to none. The Who's "Who's Next" came out in 1971. Many of the songs on the album were part of the "Life House" project that never came to be. I remember buying this album back in the day (70s). It's one of my favorite albums ever. Every song/track on the album (the original tracks) are classics. Two tracks to check out are "The Song is Over" and of course "Won't Get Fooled Again."
Townshend played a Lowrey TBO-1 organ at his home studio. He tried to run it through an ARP synthesizer/sequencer, but couldn't get the sound he was looking for. Instead, he used the "marimba repeat" setting on his Lowrey to create the arpeggiated, complex repeating pattern.
This was the first The Who song I ever heard, and I was hooked on them, I was about 13yo in the mid 90s, and heard it on a rock anthems compilation.
Piano, drums, guitar and screaming lyrics... The essence of rock.
"I don't need to fight, to prove I'm right,.I don't need to be forgiven!"
Powerful stuff for a impressionable 13yo kid from small town northern England struggling to come to terms with being gay!
If I am driving and I hear this I will be speeding immensely speeding...ticket bait... And this is my favorite song by The Who.
I saw The Who live at Shea Stadium with The Clash in 1981. One of the best shows I have ever seen.
Here's the what the what on Baba O'Riley:
Background and composition
Townshend originally wrote "Baba O'Riley" for his Lifehouse project, a rock opera intended as the follow-up to the Who's 1969 opera, Tommy. In Lifehouse a Scottish farmer named Ray would have sung the song at the beginning as he gathered his wife Sally and his two children to begin their exodus to London. When Lifehouse was scrapped, eight of the songs were salvaged and recorded for the Who's 1971 album Who's Next, with "Baba O'Riley" as the lead-off track.
According to Townshend, at the end of the band's gig at the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival the field was covered in rubbish left by fans, which inspired the line "teenage wasteland".[7] In another interview Townshend stated the song was also inspired by "the absolute desolation of teenagers at Woodstock, where audience members were strung out on acid and 20 people had brain damage. The irony was that some listeners took the song to be a teenage celebration: 'Teenage Wasteland, yes! We're all wasted!'"[8]
The song's title combines the names of Meher Baba and Terry Riley, two of Townshend's philosophical and musical mentors.[9] The song is often incorrectly referred to as "Teenage Wasteland", due to these oft-repeated words in the song's chorus refrain. "Teenage Wasteland" was in fact a working title for the song in its early incarnations as part of the Lifehouse project, but eventually became the title for a different but related song by Townshend, which is slower and features different lyrics.[10] A demo of "Teenage Wasteland" features in Lifehouse Chronicles, a six-disc set of music related to the Lifehouse project, and in several Townshend compilations and videos.
The song uses a I-V-IV chord progression in the key of F major.[11]
Nice review Jayy and I like your channel. Was great to see that you really got where it was coming from. You picked up on it in the way many others have not.
I think you would love their song "Love Reign O'er Me", it's pretty amazing
The keyboard sound was made with an old Lowery TBO organ using a setting that doubled the number of notes played called ‘Marimba repeat’. They ripped open the back of the organ to slow down the timing of the repeat by tweaking the organs actual electronics. Pete Townshend was a genius - period.
Perfect Reaction to a Masterpiece
When Townsend was asked, "Why Baba O'Reily?" His response "Why not?".
You'll really appreciate this song when you watch it played live with Pete bouncing all over the stage without missing a beat while Roger substitutes harmonica for the violin so well you can almost fail to notice the difference!
Who's Next is universally praised as one of the best albums of all time. This is something to be proud of when an album was a unified work, every song needing to fit together, unlike now when an "album" is just a single release or two and a bunch of throw-away filler. Any way you spin it, and in any order, the greatest bands of all time are the Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who.
Anything off the "quadrophenia" album is a must ! X but tops tracks off the album have got to be "Love, Reign o'er Me". ."I've had enough"..."Im one" ..."the real me" x ...and the film quadrophenia is a cult classic that's worth a watch x
Extraordinary musicianship!
I saw them perform this song in concert, the year before last, you know before Corona shut everything down. I went with my mom and her sister. The Who was my mom’s favorite band when she was a teenager, and she got to see them in concert back in the 70’s. They are one of my favorite bands too.
Ok, that's one of my favorites by The Who. The other is "Won't Get Fooled Again." Like Baba O'Riley, Won't Get Fooled has some very unique sounds, but different from this one and the end of that one is special too. Ya gotta do it.
The Who is my all-time favorite classic rock band. Great song choice!
The story behind the song was after the huge success of Tommy, Pete Townsend fiddled around with the idea for another rock opera, this one set in a post-apocalypse world, and this surviving farmer and his family in the north of England, hear rumors that someone, somehow is doing a rock concert in the ruins of London. The rest of the project never jelled and it was abandoned, with this song being the only remnant. It was named "Baba" in honor of Townsend's Guru, Baba Mehar, and "O'Reilly" from the violinist soloist, Terry Reiily, featured in the song.
The Who, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones all started in the music industry in the same year. 1963. All three of them are still going 57-58 years later in one way or another.
You have a beautiful inquisitive eyes as a sixty-two-year-old man you gave me great joy watching you discover the creative process and the results of the Arts
Saw the Who in concert about 40 years ago! AMAZING
This is the first or one of the first songs where a synthesizer was used so intelligently.
In 72' I purchase this gem and played it at least once a day for years.There isn't a bad song on this album.Just one of many great albums from late 60s through the 70s
Thank u the who for keeping us on the path.
One of my favorite all-time songs, and I love your interpretation :-)
Really enjoyed this reaction. I love how you could tell you were feeling all the different instruments in the mix. A lot of people seem to just key in on one or two things and seem to miss out on a lot of what makes these songs great. But you definitely seemed like you were paying attention to the whole mix. Good stuff. Glad you liked it. This is one of the songs that completely changed how I listened to music and what I expected out of a song. True classic.
The "O'Reilly" in the title was the last name, I think, of the gentleman who invented the particular keyboard that Townshend plays on this. For more of this instrument, check out the epic "Won't Get Fooled Again", studio version. Same album. Love your "fiddlestickin" reactions! Check out the band Moody Blues. Think you would like them. Start out with the 9 minute "Have You Heard/The Voyage/Have You Heard(2). Very emotional.
It was after Tery Riley an innovative keyboard player and I believe a friend of Townshend. Check out Riley's Rainbow In Curved Air.
O'Riley in the title is Terry Riley a musician that inspired the intro , if you ear his "A rainbow in curved air" you can understand it, it's very itneresting music!
You're right that that this is a part tribute to Terry Riley but he did not invent the keyboard featured on Baba O'Reilly. Terry Riley was a pioneer in electronic music and is best known for, as people are saying, A Rainbow in Curved Air, which featured electric organs and electric harpsichords. Pete Townshend was influenced by his work during the recording of Who's Next, and on this track and Won't Get Fooled Again played an ARP synthesiser to create the distinctive looped electronic sounds of both songs.
I love this song so much. I use a portion of this as a ringtone
Great reaction and song choice. Behind blues by the who is a must
Glad you like it. As a lifetime Who fan,this is one of my favorites.The band line up was Keith Moon(drums,imo the best ever),Pete Townsend (lead guitar),John Entwistle (bass guitar) and Roger Daltry (vocalist).Of these Keith died from a drug overdose and John passed away not so long ago.