Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V10 #343

["FrankO" <skorejr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What about Time is Passing?

-----> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:25:23 -0500
> From: "Jim M" <petenotped@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Best On, Worst On
>
> - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Schrade, Scott"
>
> > > Worst: breaks my heart, but "Getting In Tune".
> >
> > I can see that.  I could also see someone choosing "Song Is Over."
>
> And, I just did.  Way too long and slow developing.  Not powerful enough
to
> be the finale of Lifehouse.  Seems like Pete was going for a "Listening To
> You" type of repeating ending with "I sing my song to..."   It doesn't
work,
> for me.  Getting In Tune is one of my favorite songs at the moment.
Simple,
> sure, but meaningful.  "I can't pretend there's any meaning hidden in the
> things I'm saying."  There's meaning in that!  That the meaning of music
can
> be in the notes, not the words.  No way is it the worst song on the album.
> NO WAY!
>
> As an aside, I've long wanted to put together a kind of
> what-Lifehouse-should-have-been CD, with as many of the related songs, in
as
> cohesive an order as I could.  My constraints are one 80 minute CD and
> commercially available songs performed be the whole band (i.e., no Pete
solo
> stuff, so that it at least sounds like it could have been a real album).
> Here's what I came up with based mostly on Pete's Lifehouse box set track
> listings:
>
> Baba O'Riley
> Going Mobile (I think Pete had this first, but you can't not open with the
> Baba synth)
> Love Ain't For Keeping (My next version of this CD will use the Record
Plant
> version of this and...)
> Behind Blue Eyes (Originally went after Too Much, but I'd keep the Record
> Plant songs together)
> Bargain
> Too Much of Anything
> I Don't Even Know Myself
> Put the Money Down (I could lose this, if anyone had suggestions to
replace
> it)
> Pure and Easy
> Gettin' in Tune
> Let's See Action
> Relay
> Join Together (And, now, my dillema...)
> Won't Get Fooled Again
> Song is Over
>
> How can WGFA not be the climax?  How can SIO follow it?  If it doesn't,
> where else does it go?  HELP!!!!!!!!!
>
> Oh yeah, the best song?  I'll throw in another vote for Baba.  Audacious.
I
> listend to it a few weeks ago trying to just concentrate on the synth
track.
> The way it goes right through the entire song, tying in with everything
> they're doing, is just exquisite.
>
> By the way, Scott.  "I could also see someone choosing..."  and "It was
> between BO'R and WGFA"?  You're laying down rules ("No lists of three
> favorites & two least favorites.") and then finding transparent ways
around
> them, man.  No fair!  I know, no one was playing the game...but we've got
> lives, you know.  Give us a chance!
>
> Jim M