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Driving to this song at 4 am headed to work just gets you in the mood to own the day. And whatever life throws at you is fine because you know that you will destroy it.
It’s not often you heard a Who track with Townsend on the vocals, but when he stepped up. You knew he was gonna blow you away. The greatest band to come out of West London. No questions asked, no quarter given.
Fans of this: i fish offshore here in South Florida 2-3 nights/week. I was a teen watching Miami Vice and heard this Season 3, Episode 1. Thought it was Phil Collins, but realized quickly it was another group. Figured it out and it has been the first song of the playlist for 30 years. This version has replaced the old one and gets us in the mood ro settle down and focus on the snapper, grouper, getting the chum right, loosening the beer from the ice, all business, rewind tune/restart, crack a beer open, smoke something and let Entwhistle beat the fish onto our hooks with the exquisite bass play. I feel odd if I dont start ANY adventure without playing this top shelf work of art! TY OP!
It is hard hitting, it is shocking, it is relentless, and it is unstoppable ... and one of the great productions of sound in rock history. You can't just listen, you must EXPERIENCE it.
See that's part of what it means when people say they don't write them like they used to. I mean for a while I think that expression applied mostly to the fact that people weren't even using real instruments anymore. But it actually has a lot to do with the content. I mean some of the stuff I hear coming out of people's cars I can't believe it's actually music. Singing about stuff they should be ashamed to admit to himself in the mirror. Bragging about being disrespectful. This era was it was just so special because everything really meant something and these guys really had something to say that was so relevant that it's still relevant! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
WOW!!! I just love it when i stumble on killer jams like this. I'm going to be 59 next month and Ive been a WHO fan since I was 15. I had the privilege of seeing them 3 times and they always blew me away. Thanks for the jam. Keep em coming.
Brings back memories of living in Tokyo and going out for a late night drive to clear the mind. That drive over the Rainbow Bridge and by the Tokyo Tower always brings a smile. Thanks for the upload!
This one gives me chills , sound builds over a rather slow method of keys , to emerge you into the deep rythem , like a slow swim into a quiet river as it turns to a rapid ride .
I'm getting my japanese driving license soon, when I have one, I will definitely cruise around Tokyo Metropolitan highways listening to this music, kudos to you for bringing this up!
Drums are different than those in the radio edit. That is to say...they sound better. More organic. Definite Miami Vice feel with the night driving footage. Very nice. Thanks OP!
Excellent decision to match this song up with the occasionally, looooooong going, very stressful game and / or chore of having to drive on a freeway. The fact that the footage is obviously from a *_*Japanese freeway_** adds something visually special to it. ...this is a coldly-cool delight of a video for the ears and eyes. この曲を、時折、非常にストレスの多いゲームおよび/または高速道路を運転しなければならない雑用と一致させるための優れた決定。映像が明らかに *_*日本の高速道路_** からのものであるという事実は、それに視覚的に特別な何かを追加します. …これは、耳と目のための冷たくクールなビデオです。
Thank YOU so much!! Was addicted to this song from the very 1st note in Nebraska back in 1982. Killer driving Bass & Funk lines. Became a "theme song" for me & my dancefloors in 6 states & 2 countries. I appreciate your 12 minutes of Heaven! Don
Great song. Anyone else notice the Chevy Astro van in front of the red car for the first few minutes in? It's kind of cool to see an American van over there and looks like a fun city to cruise around too.
a lot of goosebumps to this track, and even more shivers to the 1982 toronto live version of eminence front, you should like it man, check it out and report back
let us make the record companies happy and do not even think of releasing a brilliant track like this, who will buy it? They have a lot to answer for with so many talented artistes who had to obey the rules of the times. The public who actually spend their hard earned money know when a band is hog tied, shame on the companies that did this for many years, frustrating for many bands, whose talent was not allowed to give such joy to us paying fans. Shame on you, but we knew, thank you all the bands that tried so hard to bring all their ideas and talents to us, you were worth our money and we thank you.
cannot spend one day without listening to this track. I was not a fan of The Who, in their early days, but this track got me, menacing, anticipation of what was coming after this long intro, wait was very worthwhile, get in your car, put this on and watch for the cops!
@@bedrosnersesyan6975 this is a great tune all the same though Tommy and Quadrophenia are powerful albums that I can't play just select tunes like their earliest stuff that was more "pop" Who.
Fantastic song. Builds in intensity like a chant against all the systems designed to keep us in chains ⛓️. This should be my main car chase theme. 🚗🚓🚓🚓🎸🎶🎵🎙
Look how clean the concrete barriers are on the side of the road. No Graffiti, No Wreck Marks, No Tire Black Marks. I dare you to find L.A. Barriers that clean.
I dare you to find it anywhere in the western world. I don't think people realise the 80s was the peak this is the slow collapse to nothing. Millennial are the only ones that see it. Boomers and gen x are in denial and gen z can't remember it not being shit in the 1st place.
Been there and done that, as a USAF SSgt stationed at Misawa & Yokota Japan back in the '90s, but sadly, also on 12/3/79 at Riverfront Colliseum, Cincinnati Ohio: may our 11 rockers rest in peace, they are not forgotten. Bittersweet memories, indeed.
prob because NYC (iirc) driving at night - in the mid 90's ... This Giuliani's NYC!!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani also, low resolution video. Yes, I dig it!
Hi from Australia, come & drive the freeways & tollways & tunnels of Sydney or Melbourne with plenty of cameras for accidents or bad driver behavior, these cameras are also used to stop graffiti and litter. Just try to litter or do graffiti & there will be police & security waiting for you in nano seconds.
Robert was hardly being ungrateful, I wondered the same too. It's not edited Robert, and it's absolutely brilliant, I didnt know this was available, I am incredibly grateful to hear this, same as yourself 👍🏼
Not a Who fan, but this song is up there with the best of them. Something about it I can't explain. Also, I like how they are mocking the "coke fans" of the 80s at a time when coke was widely accepted. It's the "devil's dust" and they knew it. It's kind of like telling Slo-Hand he was all wrong.
SOOOO much better than the radio edit... oh the drums... oh yes.... I mean you barely start going into a nice hypnogogic state on the too short radio version when it suddenly ends... it just STOPS! GADS, you feel like you just stepped out of the 'artist's collective' and had no idea the sun was completely up and the night was long gone. I always hated that. .
Dude, same with the Beatles “I want you (she’s so heavy)” talk about stepping out of the artists collective when exiting the trance that is the ending of that song. Talk about a song just stopping!!
I like the chevron indicators ( >>>>>>>>> ) on the concrete walls on the curves. Sometimes drivers need a gentle reminder to turn the steering wheel. California freeway walls have big paint scrapes and vertical tire marks to warn people.
Video spot on! This is a night- song ... Somehow in my vision this song always takes me back in the days of cold war Berlin ..This has the same vibe as Neil Young's song titled .. Berlin.
John endwistle genio en el bajo y la batería de otro mundo de Keith moon otro psicópata un salvaje de los mejores del mundo los dos descansen en paz tremendo hit the Who uno de los inspiradores grupos de rock de todos los tiempos desde Lima perú soy su admirador
And that was Pete's biggest complaint (yes he complained about Moons playing among most other things) that he would never just hold a straight beat. He had to add lots of fills and crashes in his ADHD style. When they finally got the new guy playing a straight beat, they were so pumped they made a track that completely transcended their own sound and style. Most people don't think this is the Who. More like Peter Gabriel, early Robert Palmer or someone from the 80s.
ah someone who is really listening! This is special, todays's youngsters will not understand this, but then I do not understand their musical interests at all, but I am nearly 78, who else is out there who tries to pretend this is not 2021, such musical rubbish, but we have You Tube, thank God!
I heard this years ago and was so surprised it was The Who, sorry but not a band I was into then. Play it every day now or if not suffer terrific depression! Love it!
Excellent road music 🎵🎶😊
Driving to this song at 4 am headed to work just gets you in the mood to own the day. And whatever life throws at you is fine because you know that you will destroy it.
Yesssssssss......
This is actually on my morning playlist.
The song was never written as a song, it was a sound check jam. A fantastic sound check jam
This is one of my soundcheck test-tracks. Good frequency spectrum and you get to hear it open up sounds epic
From Comments : "this isn't a song, it's an experience"
Truer words never spoken
this isn't a song, it's an experience
It’s not often you heard a Who track with Townsend on the vocals, but when he stepped up. You knew he was gonna blow you away. The greatest band to come out of West London. No questions asked, no quarter given.
Now I want to know: What's the greatest band to ever come out of East London?
The dust
"no quarter" ....Zeppelin
I'd give 10 London quarters to hear a 24 hour version....
Never known that england used quarters..
Just discovered this video and I love it.
I love this version!
Fans of this: i fish offshore here in South Florida 2-3 nights/week. I was a teen watching Miami Vice and heard this Season 3, Episode 1. Thought it was Phil Collins, but realized quickly it was another group. Figured it out and it has been the first song of the playlist for 30 years. This version has replaced the old one and gets us in the mood ro settle down and focus on the snapper, grouper, getting the chum right, loosening the beer from the ice, all business, rewind tune/restart, crack a beer open, smoke something and let Entwhistle beat the fish onto our hooks with the exquisite bass play. I feel odd if I dont start ANY adventure without playing this top shelf work of art! TY OP!
I like inshore better.... I like 2-3 pound fish.
Both sync up with this music perfectly.
It is hard hitting, it is shocking, it is relentless, and it is unstoppable ... and one of the great productions of sound in rock history. You can't just listen, you must EXPERIENCE it.
The song is over 40 years old and has lost none of its truth. I could listen to the extra long version for hours! good job!
See that's part of what it means when people say they don't write them like they used to. I mean for a while I think that expression applied mostly to the fact that people weren't even using real instruments anymore. But it actually has a lot to do with the content.
I mean some of the stuff I hear coming out of people's cars I can't believe it's actually music. Singing about stuff they should be ashamed to admit to himself in the mirror. Bragging about being disrespectful.
This era was it was just so special because everything really meant something and these guys really had something to say that was so relevant that it's still relevant! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
WOW!!! I just love it when i stumble on killer jams like this. I'm going to be 59 next month and Ive been a WHO fan since I was 15. I had the privilege of seeing them 3 times and they always blew me away. Thanks for the jam. Keep em coming.
Damn! This was surprisingly good version. Great job!
Driving my desk through the office while listening to this.
car would be most rewarding, but even listening on a PC is still exciting!
can I share your desk!
@@pamelapickett4004 how can you stay still listening to this on a PC.. driving through LA early morning that’s just it
ha
I drove through an entire state with this on repeat.
This is THE BEST song by The Who. A cocktail of beautiful sounds. Fusion at its best. 🌼
YESSS 🎬💖💖💖
Def not. Very simple tune ornamented with some rather cool synt sounds. A sell-out for the kids.
@@acajutla You know people have opinions, right?
@@RockinAllDay and i have mine 😇
@@acajutla Yup. It's just that you're able to say "I disagree" rather than "Def not", as if you're cancelling the other's opinion.
The bass is insane
Entwisle dah best
@@JMAC-rs6ey johns the man.rip
YESSS ...MY FAVORITE BASS KNOCKS🎬🔥🔥🔥
@@JMAC-rs6ey saw his last show....and nirvana too. Think I'm cursed. 🤔
“ The OX”
Brings back memories of living in Tokyo and going out for a late night drive to clear the mind. That drive over the Rainbow Bridge and by the Tokyo Tower always brings a smile. Thanks for the upload!
That’s where this is?! I was wondering.
This exactly what you need to do after a hard day at work. A little cruise home with it cranked up and the radar detector on.
Man, this song should be even longer - flew by. 💛 this song !!
This song made GTA San Andreas so memorable.
Was my favorite in a plane because you could just go.
I wish I had played that version.. wow!
Also Sleeping Dogs
@@mattwolf7698man of culture
Saw The Who World Fairwell tour in 82, San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium. awesome, this tune just pounded you, you felt it even after getting home.
Love The Who, Arguably one of greatest rock bands ever. This song is freaking awesome
I demand a 10 hour version.
An end of time version.
That's outrageous really good song but that's pushing it to extremely ridiculous
@@brucegustafson1883 Yeah, 10 is ridiculously little, we need a 24 hrs version.
I could accept that yes! Hahaha
At least!
This one gives me chills , sound builds over a rather slow method of keys , to emerge you into the deep rythem , like a slow swim into a quiet river as it turns to a rapid ride .
I laughed when they used this song for a car commerical and and realized The Who still got paid.
I'm getting my japanese driving license soon, when I have one, I will definitely cruise around Tokyo Metropolitan highways listening to this music, kudos to you for bringing this up!
This is so so so so good.
Drums are different than those in the radio edit. That is to say...they sound better. More organic.
Definite Miami Vice feel with the night driving footage. Very nice. Thanks OP!
I wish this was my tinnitus
I hear you. I’ve had it so long F.U.C.K. getting used to it.
This is exactly what runs through my mind when I listen to this song with my eyes closed
Thank you all for 100k, my only wish is that I could have uploaded this in higher quality for you guys! But, the music slaps either way
Hola. Toda la razón, la música te transporta, te lleva, te reinicia. Abrazos.
Glad you enjoy it! Abrazos.
Excellent decision to match this song up with the occasionally, looooooong going, very stressful game and / or chore of having to drive on a freeway. The fact that the footage is obviously from a *_*Japanese freeway_** adds something visually special to it. ...this is a coldly-cool delight of a video for the ears and eyes.
この曲を、時折、非常にストレスの多いゲームおよび/または高速道路を運転しなければならない雑用と一致させるための優れた決定。映像が明らかに *_*日本の高速道路_** からのものであるという事実は、それに視覚的に特別な何かを追加します. …これは、耳と目のための冷たくクールなビデオです。
This is 12 minutes of friggin' enlightenment!
YESSS🤟🏾🔥🔥🤟🏾
Thank YOU so much!! Was addicted to this song from the very 1st note in Nebraska back in 1982. Killer driving Bass & Funk lines. Became a "theme song" for me & my dancefloors in 6 states & 2 countries. I appreciate your 12 minutes of Heaven! Don
One two three foe!💥💥💥💥💯
Thanks for sharing...enjoyed the ride!
Drivin' through Los Santos at night, it's 2005 and you don't have a care in the world.
Perfect night, on a motorcycle in the City. 4am with a full moon, I can feel it, I'm there!
Ookkay?
Got that Miami Vice feel to it! Waiting for Crockett and Tubbs!
Na this def Cali Vibes
@@theone8173 definitely Miami Vice
ua-cam.com/video/JvDXFdRT0Vw/v-deo.htmlsi=1N-VCxeIKsI4sOGn
LOVE IT THANKS!!!!!!
I've never heard this version before, love the drum fills! Thanks for sharing
Great song. Anyone else notice the Chevy Astro van in front of the red car for the first few minutes in? It's kind of cool to see an American van over there and looks like a fun city to cruise around too.
Thank you for this!
At first I didn't believe this was The Who, pity they didn't release more in this style. Shivers to this one. Nice intro/outro, perfect for DJs.
a lot of goosebumps to this track, and even more shivers
to the 1982 toronto live version of eminence front, you should like it man, check it out and report back
let us make the record companies happy and do not even think of releasing a brilliant track like this, who will buy it? They have a lot to answer for with so many talented artistes who had to obey the rules of the times. The public who actually spend their hard earned money know when a band is hog tied, shame on the companies that did this for many years, frustrating for many bands, whose talent was not allowed to give such joy to us paying fans. Shame on you, but we knew, thank you all the bands that tried so hard to bring all their ideas and talents to us, you were worth our money and we thank you.
What?
YESSS👍💖💖
Ronnie ran it at marathons/jackathons...Sadar played it as a skating cut in the 80s/90s as well still a cut on 12" yessuh
What a Groove.! Thank you for this loop. So bad ass.!
One of the BEST Who songs! Diggin' this video! Thanks!
cannot spend one day without listening to this track. I was not a fan of The Who, in their early days, but this track got me, menacing, anticipation of what was coming after this long intro, wait was very worthwhile, get in your car, put this on and watch for the cops!
Yeah you're not an 'Oo fan if this your favorite tune of theirs. I hear that several times though.
@@bedrosnersesyan6975 this is a great tune all the same though Tommy and Quadrophenia are powerful albums that I can't play just select tunes like their earliest stuff that was more "pop" Who.
Nice message in this song too.
@@davidr1676 - yes and even better road trip song!
me, too!
a bit of midnight Tokyo run while listening to this :D
Yup.. been there done that
Pump up the energy
That was awesome. Thank you.
Love the music of the Who ♥️♥️🎤🎸♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️🌟♥️🌟⭐️💫
Favorite version by far. I love the length because I can listen when working out.
😎
10 hour version coming soon. May be a little long for working out though
This is the ultimate driving song!
Try Don Henley's Boys of Summer - great night driving song
Fantastic song. Builds in intensity like a chant against all the systems designed to keep us in chains ⛓️. This should be my main car chase theme. 🚗🚓🚓🚓🎸🎶🎵🎙
Look how clean the concrete barriers are on the side of the road.
No Graffiti, No Wreck Marks, No Tire Black Marks.
I dare you to find L.A. Barriers that clean.
I dare you to find it anywhere in the western world. I don't think people realise the 80s was the peak this is the slow collapse to nothing.
Millennial are the only ones that see it. Boomers and gen x are in denial and gen z can't remember it not being shit in the 1st place.
Been there and done that, as a USAF SSgt stationed at Misawa & Yokota Japan back in the '90s, but sadly, also on 12/3/79 at Riverfront Colliseum, Cincinnati Ohio: may our 11 rockers rest in peace, they are not forgotten. Bittersweet memories, indeed.
Not one piece of litter, spec of dirt or one drop of graffiti paint on & along that road!! Outstanding! Havent seen a drive this clean since Austria.
prob because NYC (iirc) driving at night - in the mid 90's ...
This Giuliani's NYC!!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani
also, low resolution video.
Yes, I dig it!
@@drx1xym154 The video was taken in Japan, I’m pretty sure of that.
@@yatta4059 Or Hong Kong
And only one slight bump.... They are a proud people, civilization is for the civilized, Love the long edition of Eminence, thanks for posting.
Hi from Australia, come & drive the freeways & tollways & tunnels of Sydney or Melbourne with plenty of cameras for accidents or bad driver behavior, these cameras are also used to stop graffiti and litter. Just try to litter or do graffiti & there will be police & security waiting for you in nano seconds.
Thank you for this ride man.
My favorite Who song..!
Hypnotic….😌
never seen so many polite drivers and people obeying the traffic laws like that before
Thank you for uploading this! I was searching for this version for a while
This song screams MUSIC!!!
Perfect video for this Epic song👏👏
i wish my life was as smooth as that toll booth
This version ROCKS!!! Don't know if its edited sounds too fluent to be. If it is, GREAT WORK!!!!
stop getting techie, thank your lucky stars we have this version!
SO agree! What he said!
Robert was hardly being ungrateful, I wondered the same too. It's not edited Robert, and it's absolutely brilliant, I didnt know this was available, I am incredibly grateful to hear this, same as yourself 👍🏼
STRAIGHT UP MASTERPIECE 🎬🔥🔥🔥🔥
Not sure what to make of it. It's definitely not the final studio/album version - much less polished. Almost sounds like a practice or demo track.
I drive my 1988 Audi Quattro while listening to this and other 80's classics 🔥
I worked at Audi dealerships back in the late 70s, 80s, 90s. Quattros were awesome
Awesome. I'm restoring my 1983 Toyota Supra right. Can't wait to blast this driving down the highway at night.
I love you from Italy 🇮🇹 for doing this.
The " TANGERINE DREAM" keyboards demand an 11 minute version.
The first time I heard this song I pictured in my mind driving through a city at night. Fuckin crazy.
Tangerine Dream thoughts.
Without doubt my fave Who song, and such an underrated song at that. Thanks for the upload: reminds me of Tokyo!
Not a Who fan, but this song is up there with the best of them. Something about it I can't explain. Also, I like how they are mocking the "coke fans" of the 80s at a time when coke was widely accepted. It's the "devil's dust" and they knew it. It's kind of like telling Slo-Hand he was all wrong.
SOOOO much better than the radio edit... oh the drums... oh yes.... I mean you barely start going into a nice hypnogogic state on the too short radio version when it suddenly ends... it just STOPS! GADS, you feel like you just stepped out of the 'artist's collective' and had no idea the sun was completely up and the night was long gone. I always hated that. .
Good Point. The " TANGERINE DREAMS" keyboards warrant an 11 min. Version.
Better? Yikes
Dude, same with the Beatles “I want you (she’s so heavy)” talk about stepping out of the artists collective when exiting the trance that is the ending of that song. Talk about a song just stopping!!
Over analyze much?
I agree 👍 100%!!!
I love it! Reminds me of prosperity. I'm an American. I remember what it was like.
Pixel Martyr ah! Bittersweet xoxo
is this because they drove in Giuliani's NYC??
Not the DeBlasio Disaster Set of NYC.
@@drx1xym154 Bruh, this is Tokyo 😂
I like the chevron indicators ( >>>>>>>>> ) on the concrete walls on the curves. Sometimes drivers need a gentle reminder to turn the steering wheel. California freeway walls have big paint scrapes and vertical tire marks to warn people.
Video spot on! This is a night- song ... Somehow in my vision this song always takes me back in the days of cold war Berlin ..This has the same vibe as Neil Young's song titled .. Berlin.
Men this amazing, i love nightdrives so much i feel alive 🔥 truly alive.
John endwistle genio en el bajo y la batería de otro mundo de Keith moon otro psicópata un salvaje de los mejores del mundo los dos descansen en paz tremendo hit the Who uno de los inspiradores grupos de rock de todos los tiempos desde Lima perú soy su admirador
Never heard this long version before. The way it builds, more raw than the studio version, just.... Awesome!!
Perfect song for driving at night
In the CITY
I was doing 125mph while sitting still at my computer. Awesome 👌
My ears are working! ✌️
That exactly how he came in love at first sight. All the rest of the band was there. He came in last like the boss that he is. I will never forget
At the Gym people!! BAD ASS TUNE......CRUSHING IT..........
Feels so 80's
don't know if Keith would have been be able --or willing--to keep that hypnotic beat going.
And that was Pete's biggest complaint (yes he complained about Moons playing among most other things) that he would never just hold a straight beat. He had to add lots of fills and crashes in his ADHD style. When they finally got the new guy playing a straight beat, they were so pumped they made a track that completely transcended their own sound and style. Most people don't think this is the Who. More like Peter Gabriel, early Robert Palmer or someone from the 80s.
Just know where the truck is going and follow it it.
Loving it, thunder fingers was a hero and to have the 11 minute version is sweet. Come and join the party dressed to kill.
I TOTALLY 👍 AGREE
🤟🏾💖💖🤟🏾
I've been here awhile- good to see you, my man.
Loving the HwYs!!!
I listened to this song driving on highway,it is so fitting 🙃
Yeaah?
@@pedrocampos1787 hell ya it’s a put on that is the truth
My favorite WHO song!!! Now it's, what 3 times better. :)
My favorite Who song!!
YESSS YOU'RE THE GOAT FOR THIS
Más de 50 años escuchando a los favoritos
This is the best music video of all time.
I love listening to this song while playing Euro or American Truck Simulator 😊
Driving through Miami listening to this song 😎👌🏽
Drove across the Great Salt Lake to this song in '88.
you should be so lucky listening to this masterpiece and be in Miami!
Driving through Las Venturas
and texting?
best Version....long Intro....great...
I love it, I heard it on the movie Risky Business
This is THE BEST version I've ever heard. Thanks!
ah someone who is really listening! This is special, todays's youngsters will not understand this, but then I do not understand their musical interests at all, but I am nearly 78, who else is out there who tries to pretend this is not 2021, such musical rubbish, but we have You Tube, thank God!
I heard this years ago and was so surprised it was The Who, sorry but not a band I was into then. Play it every day now or if not suffer terrific depression! Love it!
Sorry, this is great, but my favorite version is live in Toronto in 1982. Pete Townshend at his best!
The 20 minute version ain't bad either
I love the video
The steady Groove !! ❤
Enjoyed the ride, most amazing.
LOVE TO DRIVE TO THIS!!!
I have to admit I really like this. I mean I have loved this song from way back, always been a WHO fan ~ the video is great with the song.
Cool?