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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Thanks for being a game sportsman. Or woman. One should never presume! :D
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    By the way, I was a walking Who encyclopedia back in the early eighties. They were my favourite band. Then I reached the age of twelve, and grew up.
    Uh, Mr/Ms Encyclopedic Knowledge, you say that Quad produced no singles but I believe you've overlooked "Love, Reign O'er Me" and "Real Me" (released in US and now considered by many to be PJ songs) and "5.15" (released in UK).

    As stated previously I got into The Who at 13 so somehow I never outgrew them. But I can see if you didn't discover them till the 80s how it could happen. :D
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    whoprincess wrote:
    Uh, Mr/Ms Encyclopedic Knowledge, you say that Quad produced no singles but I believe you've overlooked "Love, Reign O'er Me" and "Real Me" (released in US and now considered by many to be PJ songs) and "5.15" (released in UK).

    As stated previously I got into The Who at 13 so somehow I never outgrew them. But I can see if you didn't discover them till the 80s how it could happen. :D

    I was only thinking of UK singles. Billboard counts any old crap.


    Well, I forgot I had the 5:15 single, on Polydor. It's still not a patch on another 1973 single, Relay/Waspman. ;)


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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    And I'm a big hairy bloke.
    How do you do, I'm a grey-haired old woman with a WHO tiara. ;)
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  • TDMize15
    TDMize15 Posts: 166
    whoprincess wrote:
    Uh, Mr/Ms Encyclopedic Knowledge, you say that Quad produced no singles but I believe you've overlooked "Love, Reign O'er Me" and "Real Me" (released in US and now considered by many to be PJ songs) and "5.15" (released in UK).

    As stated previously I got into The Who at 13 so somehow I never outgrew them. But I can see if you didn't discover them till the 80s how it could happen. :D

    I'm actually the one that said that :)

    But I just meant that it didn't produce any really popular singles, not that there weren't any released. Coming off "Who's Next", Quad didn't really have a hit single... although the album did very well... but I digress :)
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Don't Know Myself wrote:
    I'm actually the one that said that :)

    But I just meant that it didn't produce any really popular singles, not that there weren't any released. Coming off "Who's Next", Quad didn't really have a hit single... although the album did very well... but I digress :)
    I know. :) But FinsburyParkCarrots was quoting you and agreeing so as to make his point that Quad was no good, as well as saying that he was a former walking Who encyclopedia, so I just thought I'd point out that the album did have some singles released. But now I'm digressing too. ;)

    The important thing is that Quad is a brilliant album. :D
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  • Fu_Manchu
    Fu_Manchu Posts: 422
    jamie uk wrote:
    I reckon....the one and only reason they get so many fuckin plaudits around here is because Eddie Vedder loves them so much.
    Aint that the truth ? You all know it is.

    This made me laugh, like we are all sheep that like whatever a lead singer of a certain band endorses. I guess The Who were never popular or held in high esteem until Eddie gushed praise on them.
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  • Steve Dunne
    Steve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    Slade is much better than The Who.




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  • Brain Of E
    Brain Of E Posts: 499
    I agree with Don't Know Myself.
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  • iluvcats
    iluvcats Posts: 5,153
    whoprincess wrote:
    How do you do, I'm a grey-haired old woman

    Hi, I'm glad to see there are more of us on here now :)

    do you remember when Roger was on the show "highlander?" I did not really notice roger on there, I liked the main character.
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    jamie uk wrote:
    they were an ok band, thay had some great songs...but they were very patchy, very hit and miss at times, and quite frankly went on far too long...not to mention the numerous changes in style they undertook in order to try sustain some popularity and success. Like I said, they had some great songs, but overall.....not all they're cracked up to be.

    I reckon....the one and only reason they get so many fuckin plaudits around here is because Eddie Vedder loves them so much.
    Aint that the truth ? You all know it is.

    They're his favourite band, not ours....
    ...
    I'll disagree... here's why.
    I grew up in that period... late 60s/early 70s (1969-1973)... and there was a lot of great music back then. The Who contributed greatly to that period with 'Tommy', 'Who's Next' and 'Quadrophenia'. So did Zeppelin with 'I' through 'IV' and 'Houses Of The Holy'... Floyd with 'Meddle' and 'Dark Side of The Moon'. Think of different colors that make up a great painting... that's what it was like.
    But, as a 'Rock Concert'... The Who was the greatest band I ever saw. Granted, i never saw the Stone in that period, so for me... it was hands down, The Who that was everything a rock concert should be.
    Zeppelin had those really long guitar, drum and (ugh) bass solos and Floyd was a great theatrical show... but The Who was pure, basic rock.
    I have yet to see a band that can hold a candle to the Who's live shows in that period.
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  • MattyJoe
    MattyJoe Posts: 1,424
    ii44 wrote:
    This is such an ignorant statement I don't even know where to begin.

    Do you mean ignorant in the sense that I've never listened to any Who albums?

    Because you'd be wrong.

    Do you mean ignorant in that I don't realize that The Who MUST (in your opinion) be considered an album band because they did "rock operas" and "concept albums"?

    I realize they did that. But, honestly, many of the songs on The Who Sell Out, Tommy, and Quadrophenia stink. They're only good at writing individual songs that are good, not whole albums. There's no Who album that I can say I love every song from it, the way I do about Vs., for example.

    And I have nothing against a good concept album. Animals by Pink Floyd is an EXCELLENT album, one of my favorite albums ever.
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  • partyofone
    partyofone Posts: 44
    Meh, The Who are just alright for me. I tried getting into them a lot through different albums, but in the end, it was just a some songs that stuck out for me, not whole albums. They are a solid rock band though, but I prefer other bands from that era.
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    iluvcats wrote:
    Hi, I'm glad to see there are more of us on here now :)

    do you remember when Roger was on the show "highlander?" I did not really notice roger on there, I liked the main character.
    I caught him on a rerun of it once or I don't think I would have realized he was on that show.

    I don't usually watch CSI but after hearing so many people talk about the episode that Roger was in I had to watch just so I could see him play a black woman! :eek: :rolleyes:
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  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    jamie uk wrote:
    I reckon....the one and only reason they get so many fuckin plaudits around here is because Eddie Vedder loves them so much.
    Aint that the truth ? You all know it is.

    They're his favourite band, not ours....

    Sorry pal, but The Who is my favorite band, has been for 31 years. So don't think you know what the hell you're talking about.
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  • augustwest
    augustwest Posts: 739
    the main dude in the who is pete. if you don't know pete's work then it's hard to give full credit to the who, especially without knowing what pete is really all about. the word genius, comes to my mind...


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    even if you don't credit the who you just simply can't ignore pete....as a singer, songwriter, guitar player, he is in the top five.
  • Jack_C_Gregory
    Jack_C_Gregory Posts: 540
    whoprincess wrote:
    I caught him on a rerun of it once or I don't think I would have realized he was on that show.

    I don't usually watch CSI but after hearing so many people talk about the episode that Roger was in I had to watch just so I could see him play a black woman! :eek: :rolleyes:


    I remember seeing him in an episode of Tales from the Crypt.
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    PureandEasy wrote:
    Sorry pal, but The Who is my favorite band, has been for 31 years. So don't think you know what the hell you're talking about.


    Well, good on you. They're lots of folks favourite band I'm sure, I was hinting that here (pj message pit) even though they get lots of plaudits, I wonder how many folks only know the covers that pj do?

    Of course all the big Who fans are coming to defend themselves, why wouldn't you? Doesn't mean my point is wrong, or not valid.

    What I am getting is that lots of you are in the US, maybe that's it, because here they aint all that big a deal really.
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    jamie uk wrote:
    Well, good on you. They're lots of folks favourite band I'm sure, I was hinting that here (pj message pit) even though they get lots of plaudits, I wonder how many folks only know the covers that pj do?

    Of course all the big Who fans are coming to defend themselves, why wouldn't you? Doesn't mean my point is wrong, or not valid.

    What I am getting is that lots of you are in the US, maybe that's it, because here they aint all that big a deal really.

    My dad loves em and he's English... so there!

    Just kidding.

    You're right. I mean it's not likely we're going to get miriads of casual Who fans come into the thread and prove you right (they'd be too embarrassed) or wrong (they wouldn't have the knowledge about The Who to do so).

    The only long-time fans of The Who on the Pit, are probably on this thread. Even then they'd be a small minority.
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,108
    one of the best live rock and roll bands ever.

    the records are hit or miss, but pete is one if the all time greats.

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