The Who Mailing List Digest, V13 #227

[Martin Bailey]

James Sethian <sethian at Math.Berkeley.EDU> said: 

> Speaking of which, on Sirius they have occasionally been playing a version of
> my generation which has only the drums and bass---it's really just startling.
> Does anyone know if Sirius put this together, or whether it is available
> someplace?

(I think someone else answered this exact same question on this list just week, but...)

This sounds like the instrumental version, as included on the 2nd disk of the My Generation Deluxe Edition.  Technically, there's also guitar in there as well, but the drums'n'bass do feature very prominently.


And then James said:

> This issue of going back to relisten to things, especially Scoop, was
> eye-opening for me. Often I remain "loyal" to the first version of something
> I've heard, and it's hard to break loose---for example, The Who's "Let's 
> See Action" has never worked for me, because I heard Townshend solo one
> first. Same with "After the Fire"---Daltrey gets it, not the Who. What's
> interesting to me are the counterexamples: Townshend's Won't Get Fooled
> Again from the secret policeman's ball really took my breath away from the
> original (ultimately, I got my breath back, of course). 


I'm the opposite.  I'm always hungry to hear more variations on the songs I love.  Even the best Who songs in world can get stale if you listen to the same versions to often.  Cou-BBE-ugh!

Having a selection of demos, acoustic versions, live versions, remixes, covers, etc helps to keep the songs fresh, in my mind.  

1st example: already this week I've made up a CD of alternate versions of "Endless Wire" songs (I must recommend this to anyone with an internet connection, a recent Encore CD and CD burner).

2nd example: also this week I've bought the "Radiodread - Easy-Star All Stars cover OK Computer" CD (which I will never recommend to anyone).

-MB


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