Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V6 #307

[James Sethian <sethian@math.berkeley.edu>]

Okay, now *this* requires a poll! For me, I think I was 19, but yes, the house
was yellow (worse yet, it was the exact year quadrophenia came out), and 
yes, "she don't wanna know me now".....

>>>>The Real Me
>>>>Why.......
>>>>Best "rock" song on Quadrophenia.  Its like a train out of control.  The
>>>>next song to make me get into the Who even more.  I heard it when i was 18
>>>>and it just was my anthem for an entire year of confusion as i left high
>>>>school and wanted to show my real self rather than what I had been told i
>>>>should be like.   Funny thing I actually was going out with a beautiful 
>>>>girl
>>>>who lived in a "Yellow house" at the time,, and she had broken up with me
>>>>about the time i left for college. and She  wanted nothing to do with me
>>>>Because of my association with a certain crowd.  This song proved to be a
>>>>potent therapy for me to say the least.


>>>God that's really weird.  There's something about women that you date at 18 
>>>that live in yellow houses that decide they don't want anything to do with 
>>>you.

>>>I had the EXACT same situation.

>>>Nick



James Sethian