![]() On one hand, The Who is very much a vehicle for an auteur, Pete Townshend, to flex his ambitions, express his deepest neuroses, and embody everything he loves and despises about rock ‘n’ roll. Let’s start with the contradiction at the heart of this band. It’s only a list of songs by one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands of all time! Along the way, I’ll try to answer the question about why this band has such strong hold on the people who love them.ĭon’t cry. This month is the 50th anniversary of Who’s Next, the band’s most successful studio LP, responsible for spawning radio classics like “Baba O’Riley,” “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” and “Behind Blue Eyes.” In recognition of this landmark, I am ranking my 50 favorite Who songs. But why? Together, we are going to try to figure this out. I fell in love with The Who when I was 13, and I still love them now. “The Who don’t necessarily captivate the whole teenage generation - as each batch comes up every year - but we certainly hit a percentage of them, and we hold them.”Įven now, 41 years later, these words ring true. People who get into The Who when they’re 13, 14, 15, 16, never stop being fans,” The Who’s Pete Townshend once rhapsodized to the critic Greil Marcus in 1980. ![]() “But always, always, there is a very, very strong grab - a deep, instant grab - which lasts… forever. ![]()
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