And now for something complete different.....


I don't remember how I came about getting this album but whoa, what a trip at the time. Who the hell were these guys and how could they sound so out there and heavy at the same time. This was some dark and crazy sh*t. I mean there'd been progressive music before this (Procol Harum and The Moody Blues mainly) but ITCOTCK tossed those guys under the bus and rewrote the entire prog rock book. And with the debut album!

^I don't rate it at all, but maybe that's because I listened to this album for the first time a couple of months ago.

Honestly that and Aladdin Sane are easily my two favorite albums you've covered in here - ITCOTCK used to be an all-time favorite, but I still really enjoy it, and Aladdin Sane might be better than Ziggy for me.

Imagine what it was like listening to it back in 1970 as a 10 year old!

I'm going to give it another listen next time I come back around to the letter I.

"When I smile, tell me some bad news
Before I laugh and act like a fool"


Nevermind Tommy or Quadraphenia, this is the best album the Who ever recorded IMO. Not many albums contain two classic rock anthems. And even without those the rest of the album is stellar.

My first experience with this was Baba O'riley on the radio. The sequenced synthesizer intro was unlike anything else I'd ever heard before. Love how Townsend holds the guitar back for nearly two minutes before crashing in with those power chords. Great economical solo too.

Was many year later when I read that these lines were Townsend's perspective on Woodstock.

Out here in the fields
Teenage Wasteland
They're all wasted!

Townsend hated the experience of playing at it.

Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I'm better off than dead



Another one courtesy of a friend of my older sister. The initial appeal of this for me was the duel guitars of Hunter and Wagner. Reed's voice and lyrics took a while to get use to but eventually I "got it". Some pretty deep sh*t is buried within these songs. One of the definitive live albums of mid 70s for sure.

Lou Reed has an awful voice, but he's a great singer because he knows how to use it well. I think Nico's best vocal performances are on The VU & Nico because her tracks are juxtaposed to Reed's :D.

Bingo! I feel the same way about Tom Petty and Neil Young.

I always felt that the problem with Who's Next is that it felt like an album that had been chopped out of something else and that thing was the Lifehouse project, but I could listen to "Bargain" all day and I always dug the Tubes' cover of "Baba O'Reilly";) .