Re: Underture and ICSFM

["Helen" <elbo@xxxxxxxxx>]

my first who song was "My Generation"... played by Green Day. It was around
the time when i bought the Tommy cd, but I didn`t know My generation was a
who song until a friend gave me his Who-collection tapes. What ignorance
huh? And one of my college students told me that Substitute was his
favorite... Sex Pistols song!!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anna Mormack" <carrieanne79@yahoo.com>
To: <TheWho@igtc.com>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:37 AM
Subject: Re: Underture and ICSFM


> <<
> From: "Helen" <elbo@hotbox.ru>
> Subject: Re: Underture
>
> To me, "Tommy" has no weak points. It`s the first work
> of the Who I ever heard, and the whole thing had a
> lasting effect on me. I played it over and over again.
> I enjoyed every sound. I was into listening to it, I
> didn`t know the story, so listening, I tried to make
> up my own (what I knew was only that Tommy was "blind
> deaf and dumb").>>
>
> 'Tommy' was also my first Who album.  I got it on 7
> September 2000, played the first few songs the next
> night, but didn't get to hear it all of the way
> through till the 9th, so that day is the one I
> consider my anniversary of Tommy.  I was determined to
> stop chickening out and just get a Who album, and that
> one was the only Who album they had on CD at the
> vintage music store I went into, and it was only
> $8.50, so I got it.  It's the original CD remastering,
> not the one from '96 or '97 with an expanded booklet
> and liner notes, so I too didn't know the whole story
> right at once and had no idea what was going on in
> certain songs.
>
> As for "ICSFM," that was the first Who song I ever
> heard, sometime in the fall of '93, so it has a
> special place in my heart, in addition to being my
> favourite song of theirs.  For a time I actually
> wasn't sure if that was the first song of theirs I'd
> heard, thinking it might have been "MG" or even "MB,"
> so I was beyond relieved when I was rereading my old
> journal Cecilia (I name all of my journals) and one
> entry, written when the event was still in recent
> memory, said that it was "ICSFM," and I was so
> relieved, I liken it to how on a talkshow when a girl
> or woman is unsure who fathered her baby and is so
> happy it turns out to be the guy she was hoping and
> praying for it to be.
>
> =====
> Anna U. Mormack
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