best part of "A Quick One While He's Away"

Fantastic idea for a poll.

Crying Town

Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!

cello cello cello cello cello cello cello cello cello cello cello cello cello cello

Also this performance is one of the main reasons I became a musician.

You ever heard the Beatles' version of V. ?

Adamn knows it!!! It's ALL about "cello cello cello cello cello" which was the moment when I knew my vote had been cast, even though this entire clip on You Tube gave me goose bumps.

soon soon soon be home

See, this is one of my all-time fave Who songs, but I never pull it out, because the album it's on is something I don't care about any of the other songs on. So it sits on my shelf. :(

A high watermark for Townshend, to be sure.

You don't?

What about..

Well I'm about to pull out the Kinks in a minute, thanks for reminding me! ;)

Well, I'm about to receive that 10CD "Pye Albums" box set, £30 if you can find one, hray.

Who ate all the Pyes

Precision Records and Tapes did.

http://splicd.com/rF-dFOPuFjc/279/460

when i saw this as a kid, was CONVINCED that moon sang the first lines (as opposed to miming along like a gurning muppet)

for me it's the bit where townshend sings 'it's like a dream to be with you AGAIN' for the second time
but for me the rock and roll circus version is a high watermark of perfection. the whole performance just defies belief.

Oh my god, I didn't know such a Pye box set existed. Oh joy!

Just let me get Something Else on my iPod forthwith and I'll get back to you as soon as I can, cheers!

Also this is embarassing because this is supposed to be a Who thread.

Also happy day-late belated birthday, X O'Skeleton! No one really caught on to your recent birthday, too much.

And I thought that was a terrible shame.

i also love the bit where moon is miming along to 'back in your arms, away from all harm', or tossing his tom tom over his head, or drumming with water spraying up from the kit

the "you are forgiven" coda of cascading voices on live at leeds is like pure redemption, man.

thank you bimble, i wasn't going to mention it but someone brought up the ilm average age thing

I've somehow never heard of this song or the album from which it cometh, despite having long held an appreciation of The Who. Thank you! I definitely need it in my life.

You Are Forgiven has been pounded into my brain by Billy Childish so many times I couldn't not vote for it.

First post on this thread is Exhibit A in the case of "why the Stones didn't release RnRC for years"

they blew them off the stage apparently, although i must admit i've never seen the stones contribution

It's Jagger prancing about like a twat in body paint

And Brian Jones pretending to play guitar (he had a "sprained wrist" or something).

But Dirty Mac is awesome. So is Taj Mahal!

YOU GOT TA DIG IT BAAYBEY

Also has Tony Iommi playing guitar with Jethro Tull? Am I right about that? What's the story behind that?

Remedy!
BTW is the Rock and Roll Circus version everyone's favorite, as it is mine?

Yes!!!

it's a toss-up between that version, or the Live At Leeds version, but it's certainly not the album version.

Who's Next and everything after it sucks ass compared to this.

i wouldn't say Who's Next sucked ass at all, nor Quadrophenia for that matter. I was just listening to The Punk and the Godfather, the bit where's he's looking sadly at the seats in an auditorium 'they all belong to me, you know' and then that explosive riff crashes back in
But this version of Quick One is one of my favourite things. Ever. So anything that came after must be anticlimax in that respect.

Yeah, I like some of Quadrophenia. But I've grown to genuinely hate Who's Next, which just bores me to no end. I definitely prefer the earlier, weirder, artier Who. Sell Out is far and away my favorite album, and all the 60s singles are gold.

The Who Sells Out will always be the ultimate Who moment for me.
At least, the version with Jaguar added on.
A Quick One is a good lead in, though. I bought the cheapo Quick One/Sell Out 2lp package at a used record shop when I was a teen. It was a good buy. "So Sad About Us," "Whiskey Man," "Happy Jack," all classic songs on the Quick One lp.

I repeat Tripmakers last comment without revision.

...except Happy Jack is not on mine. (US Only?)

Yes

Also happy day-late belated birthday, X O'Skeleton! No one really caught on to your recent birthday, too much.

Can I get a happy TWO-days late belated birthday? :)

Me, I love the whole thing, but today I'm gonna vote for "We Have A Remedy." (Byrds do Gilbert & Sullivan)

...except Happy Jack is not on mine. (US Only?)

I meant to include that in the US the album is actually called "A Quick One (Happy Jack)"

Oh, and I'll wish you a happy birthday, Myonga.
I found a cheap used copy of Hard Attack on cd so I retired the scratched cdr copy you mailed me.

has to be You are Forgiven.

my favourite extra on sellout has to be Melancholia. it's better than a lot of stuff on the original album and one of the who's lost treasures

YOU ARE FORGIVEN

"Also has Tony Iommi playing guitar with Jethro Tull? Am I right about that?"

Yes, he left Sabbath (then called Earth) for about 2 weeks which coincided with the filming of this. Didn't play on it, becuase Tull's performance is mimed and the guitar parts are played by the previous guitar player. After this, Iommi came to the conclusion that he hated Anderson and missed Ozzy and the boys and went back. He does say he learned how to be a dictator from Anderson during his short time in Tull.

The Who clip posted at top is fucking awesome.

It's hard to imagine Tony Iommi in Jethro Tull. He must have been a celebrity when he got back to Brum!

this song is so fucking awesome, esp. the RnR Circus version. voted "Crying Town" mostly for the ooooo-weeeoooo-weeooooo-oooo-ooos

You Are Forgiven. My fave four power chords ever (4:51-4:59).

Also we should have a poll on the best parts of that Cobwebs and Strange video. I vote the Steve Martin bubbles chokehold.

my favourite extra on sellout has to be Melancholia. it's better than a lot of stuff on the original album and one of the who's lost treasures

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:43 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

The version on Scoop I is also particularly excellent.

I definitely prefer the earlier, weirder, artier Who.

"Baba O'Riley" DEFINES weird and arty.

I've never liked that stupid gypsy violin bit tho

I had a "eureka" moment when I first saw the R&R Circus clip and realized that was the version Wes Anderson used in Rushmore.

That clip perfectly encapsulates everything amazing and jaw-dropping about the Who.

"Baba O'Riley" DEFINES weird and arty.
Maybe when it first came out. Now, "Baba O'Riley" defines bloated, canonical, dull-as-dishwater AOR. I mean, I liked it in high school but that's it.

That clip perfectly encapsulates everything amazing and jaw-dropping about the Who.
Now this I can get behind.

The use of "You Are Forgiven" in Rushmore might be my favorite thing in any movie.

favourite thing Wes Anderson has ever done, that's fer sure!!!!

("my" favourite thing)

(tho putting "Seven and Seven Is" in the beginning of Bottle Rocket was sheer genius...as was the scene in the Royal Tenenbaums with that song from A Charlie Brown Christmas...Those are my three favourite moments in Wes Anderson movies.)

(but Max getting arrested in school destroys all)

It's Jagger prancing about like a twat in body paint
I think Mick is a joke with all that... ah never mind

And Brian Jones pretending to play guitar (he had a "sprained wrist" or something).
I seem to remember poor Brian sitting in the audience with the mentally disadvantaged kids and looking like he fit right in.

Anyway, I can't pick right now, although I'm leaning towards the obvious "Cellos" of VI.

Oh yeah, Happy Birthday, MVB.

Maybe when it first came out. Now, "Baba O'Riley" defines bloated, canonical, dull-as-dishwater AOR.

Yeah, I always thought it was weird that, after it first came out, they removed it from circulation and replaced it with that Grand Funk outtake (hence the "dull-as-dishwater AOR").

It's a shame that every Who thread, even if it's about just one particular song, eventually turns into the same boring '60s Who vs. '70s Who argument.

I know, sorry. I just always liked all Who, and never really saw much of a division (if any) between 60s and 70s Who.

yeah, i wasn't giving you a hard time specifically, you were fighting the good fight.

I think I just listened to Who's Next so much in my younger days that I got sick of it. I didn't dig into the Who's earlier stuff until years later, so it still sounds fairly fresh to me.

Just listened to "Who Are You" the other day and was surprised at how good it was, so I'm not about to write off later Who. For instance whenever I hear "Eminence Front" I enjoy it alot more than I should.

NO ONE can top the raw melodic symphonic punk madness of early Who tho. See "Pictures of Lily".

I remember being 10 or whatever, my dad had this copy of The Kids Are Alright he taped off TV and we watched it over and over again. It gets to that part with Keith Richard wearing an eyepatch saying "And now, ladies and gentlemen, dig the 'Oo" and the whole thing is framed in a tiny box with marquee lights going around it. That shit was magic.

You Are Forgiven. My fave four power chords ever (4:51-4:59).

― Jake Brown, Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:58 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

Hell yes. I like the stuff around 6:55, right after "Come on, baby!!!", right before he goes into all those whirlwinds.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

A Quick One finale = climax
Tommy finale = anticlimax

wtf? poll closed less than 24 hours after initial post???

But it's a Quick One!

lol

a quick one while THE TOWER OF HUMANOID ANTIBODIES!!! (Ioannis)'s away

heheheh