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Feb 2, 2024 · Keith Moon (The Who) Explosive Drumming, 1967. The Who's greatest hits and best songs from the albums Tommy, Who's Next, Quadrophenia, Who Are You, My Generation and more. Includes Baba...
262K views • 11 tracks • 46 minutes The Who's greatest hits and best songs from the albums Tommy, Who's Next, Quadrophenia, Who Are You, My Generation and more. Includes Baba O'riley,...
The table contains songs recorded by the Who from 1964 to 2019.
SongWriter (s)Lead Vocal (s)Original Release"1921"TownshendTownshendRoger Daltrey Townshend"905"EntwistleTownshendTownshend- “I Can’T Explain”
- “The Real Me”
- “Slip Kid”
- “The Seeker”
- “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere”
- “Squeeze Box”
- “Behind Blue Eyes”
- “Substitute”
- “Won’T Get Fooled Again”
- “I’m Free”
This would be the last time The Who would record something quite so straightforward and frills free. It’s as if producer Shel Talmy insisted that the quartet restrain themselves from their feats of instrumental wonderment and Townshend from his lyrical filigrees. But to hear Townshend himself tell it, the real roots of the song come from a moment o...
Nothing is more underrated than a bass-centric song, and “The Real Me” is just that. Flowing right in from the stormy opening track “I Am The Sea,” the second track from The Who’s rock opera Quadrophenia is about the protagonist Jimmy’s struggle between his four personalities. The song follows his journey to get insight from different people like a...
Initially written for Lifehouse but shelved for a few years, “Slip Kid” was given a second chance on The Who by Numbers in 1975—and thank goodness for that. It’s a song drenched in a hundred contexts, perhaps most definitively as a warning of the dangers of the music industry. Townshend himself even classified the song as “parental in its assured w...
In many ways, “The Seeker” exists as a response to Tommy. The band’s first single following that album’s release, the track offers a snapshot of a group reckoning with both their past and their future, tossing the present aside and searching for where they can go. When Daltrey sings, we hear the urgency with which he searches for answers, answers t...
Rumor has it that when the master tapes for this single made its way across the pond, the American arm of the Who’s label rejected them due to the abundance of guitar feedback and other sonic clamor within this recording. Hilarious, if true. I like to imagine that after they heard the song, their hopes of having another “Can’t Explain” were dashed ...
There’s that scene in Freaks & Geeks where Mr. and Mrs. Weir are listening to “Squeeze Box” and trying to decipher whether it’s a sexual innuendo or a song about an accordion. Mr. Weir is convinced that it’s vile and suggestive, while Mrs. Weir can’t help but make motions with her arms like she’s playing an accordion. It’s such a hilarious scene in...
From the scraps of a follow-up rock opera to Tommy, the anthemic “Behind Blue Eyes” triumphed. The soft plucks of an acoustic guitar accompany the darkly introspective lyrics, “But my dreams they aren’t as empty / As my conscience seems to be.” The concept of the song follows a villain named Jumbo, who is lamenting about the power of temptation and...
Though not released on any of the band’s major studio albums, this 1966 single became a mainstay of their live sets, and somewhat of a hit nonetheless, reaching number five on UK charts, and later being included on Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy, their 1971 compilation album. The premise of “Substitute” is simple: Daltrey sings his lamentations of not ...
The Who were a band that couldn’t be constrained by radio. Sure, they’ll offer up the 3:36 single edit of “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” but they need eight-and-a-half minutes to let this cynical anthem stretch—for Keith Moon to cut loose and Townsend to bring Who’s Next‘s loose story to close. It’s the bookend to “Baba O’Riley,” with the same Lowery or...
Townshend opens the track with a punchy riff to signal this newfound confidence and power Tommy has acquired. The song follows some gospel music conventions with vibrant keys and the swelling glory of the chorus repeating the joyful cry of freedom. Daltrey’s vocal is as light and airy as Tommy’s revelation once he regained his sight, voice, and hea...
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- Pictures of Lily. The Who - Pictures of Lily (1967) As we've already said, despite being well-known for their classic albums (be they conceptual like Tommy, or just packed with hits like My Generation and Who's Next), The Who also put out loads of great standalone singles, too.
- Happy Jack. The Who - Happy Jack. A number three hit in the UK and the band's first US top 40 single, 'Happy Jack' is a bouncing, music hall-esque mod romp that saw bassist John Entwistle and guitarist Pete Townshend helping out Roger Daltrey on lead vocals.
- Magic Bus. The Who - Magic Bus - Live At Leeds HQ. Written in 1965, recorded in 1968, 'Magic Bus' was another standalone Who single. It charted in the mid-20s on both sides of the Atlantic and was a tour staple in the band's early years.
- The Kids Are Alright. The Who - The Kids Are Alright. "When I wrote this song I was nothing but a kid, trying to work out right and wrong through all the things I did," said Pete Townshend at the Royal Albert Hall.
The discography of the English rock band the Who consists of 12 studio albums, 16 live albums, 27 compilation albums, four soundtrack albums, four extended plays, 58 singles and 23 video albums . The Who have been with several labels over the years.
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