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View Poll Results: How good are the Who?
Greatest Ever! 15 13.27%
One of the Best Ever! 64 56.64%
Pretty Good. 20 17.70%
Ok. 11 9.73%
Terrible. 3 2.65%
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Old 08-27-2005, 10:09 AM   #11 (permalink)
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my favor is Magic Bus live at leeds this live version is very unique and my all time favos = whos next is the who best album . but the song that really brings back far back memories is = i can see for miles = a big hit in 1966 or 67 im not sure exact date.
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Old 08-30-2005, 04:47 PM   #12 (permalink)
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i can see for miles is great.

the harmonies in it are really complicated
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Old 08-31-2005, 05:11 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Maybe the best rock band of all time. I'm glad to see a thread here about them. I had to make one in another forum I go to. Imagine that.
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Old 08-31-2005, 05:20 PM   #14 (permalink)
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but the song that really brings back far back memories is = i can see for miles = a big hit in 1966 or 67 im not sure exact date.
I can see for miles was considered a flop when it came out.It`s failure in the charts came as a dissapointment for Townsend because at the time he considered it the best song he`d ever written.Which spawned his famous ' I spit on the British record buying public' comment.
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Old 08-31-2005, 08:02 PM   #15 (permalink)
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yeah - i dont know how it could have been a flop, its so damn good!

i love the who sell out, on which i can see for miles appears - at that time, townshend was writing some great songs e.g. " 'miles" and "mary anne with the shaky hand" and "our love was" etc. and so was entwistle with "silas stingy"and "someones coming"

musically, the who sell out is very linked to tommy, the middle chord progression in "Rael" became the basis of "its a boy", "sparks", "underture" and appears in many other songs on tommy.
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Old 08-31-2005, 08:20 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Hmmm, I think they're pretty over rated in my opinion. I mean don't get me wrong, they're great and I love them. But people that I call "posers" say they like The Who, just so they can fit in with other kids in my school. It's just another one of those radio hit bands to me. But I do like Pinball Wizard(with Elton John) and Teenage Wasteland.
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Old 08-31-2005, 08:23 PM   #17 (permalink)
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i recently got the Live At The Isle Of Wight dvd and it was awesome.
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Old 08-31-2005, 09:47 PM   #18 (permalink)
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the song called Teenage Wasteland is actually called Baba O'riley after Pete's avater, Meher Baba and American minimalist composer, Terry Riley - still its a great song.

the Who songs you hear on the radio are just the hits, to really appreciate the Who, you have to listen carefully to some of their albums, particularly Tommy, Who's Next and Quadrophenia
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Old 09-01-2005, 10:28 AM   #19 (permalink)
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i started listening to the who a couple months ago bc i found my dad's my generation cd. My favorite songs are pinball wizard, join together, i can see for miles, i can't explain, and baba o'riley of course.
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there all great!
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