RE: New Who?

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

>For the record, Pete has said many times that he worked as hard on the 
>songs for FACE DANCES and IT'S HARD as he did for any other Who album. In 
>fact, with IT'S HARD it seems he was sweating bullets trying to come up 
>more appropriate material for the band than FACE DANCES. The result was 
>Roger getting in his face and calling his songs "s***." That Pete has never 
>written for The Who again explains itself. No wonder he's nervous!

All that slaving over the songs is probably what was wrong with the 
production.  Let's try a little quiz here:  Which is the biggest hit from 
IT'S HARD?  Which is the one you still hear most on the radio?  Which is the 
one Pete worked least hard on?

I really hate to pop anybody's bubble here, but I really don't think lyrics 
is Pete's big thing.  Does any of "Baba O'Riley" really make sense?  How 
about "I Can See For Miles?"  "Behind Blue Eyes" maybe?  Not a lick of 
reason in any of them.

Pete does have fits of narrative now and then, and can make very good sense, 
but these aren't the songs everybody really wants to hear.  We all go for 
the murky, incomplete ones that express a flash of feeling, or maybe a 
partially glimpsed concept--the ones that have beautiful music to lift our 
hearts up and make them fly.

Pete, or The Who, or the combination, make beautiful music together.  They 
did it last summer.  Roger's right--it shouldn't be that hard.


keets

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