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Since everyone knows that the Who are the greatest band ever to be a band, let us decide which is their best song. In a civilzied manner.

"Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Who Are You" are tops on my list, but The Who never did a song I didn't like.

Best Who Album: Sell Out.

Pinball wizard was terrible.

"Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Who Are You" are tops on my list, but The Who never did a song I didn't like.

Best Who Album: Sell Out.

yes sell out is great but my favorite song is "everything from Tommy" but from the movie not the studio album...Tina Turner and Eric Clapton are great but Ann Margret with "Champagne" is the highlight

I also really like Happy Jack - which happens to be playing on my iPod right now.

yes sell out is great but my favorite song is "everything from Tommy" but from the movie not the studio album...Tina Turner and Eric Clapton are great but Ann Margret with "Champagne" is the highlight

Not to mention Jack Nicholson, who turns out to have a great singing voice. :D

Love that movie.

I Can See For Miles.
(Won't Get Fooled Again isn't bad either. Why aren't these on the poll?)

Not to mention Jack Nicholson, who turns out to have a great singing voice. :D

Love that movie.
I love the doctor ...

Since everyone knows that the Who are the greatest band ever to be a band, let us decide which is their best song. In a civilzied manner.

Your definition of greatest confuses me.

I'm glad you weren't a jerk and gave us multiple choices. :)

Behind Blue Eyes.

I Can See For Miles.
This would be one of my choices as well.

Anything you can't hear Roger Daltry's voice in.

5:15 from Quadrophenia.

See me, Feel me is pretty good

"Baba O'Reilly" -- it was the first Who song I ever heard and still remains my favorite. There's something so empowering and revolutionary about it, it just kicks complete ass.

"Baba O'Reilly" -- it was the first Who song I ever heard and still remains my favorite. There's something so empowering and revolutionary about it, it just kicks complete ass.
As opposed to kicking incomplete ass? :eek:

I voted for Behind Blue eyes and other because there are just so many great Who songs that I can't choose just one favourite. Other favourites would be Who Are You, Won't Get Fooled Again and Happy Jack (plus many more)

eh... Bab'a O'Riley (sp?) is a good song, but it has the potential to become nauseatingly repetitive. I'll vote 'My Generation,' then...

Who...as a whole....is terrible:sniper:

Who...as a whole....is terrible:sniper:

Complete with a sniper smilie!? I'm sold!

I Can See For Miles.
(Won't Get Fooled Again isn't bad either. Why aren't these on the poll?)
Only 10 poll options. I figured WGFA would be too obvious of choice, also.

Anything you can't hear Roger Daltry's voice in.
That would leave... what? Boris the Spider? Maybe one or two more?

Well, Sparks is one of my favourite instrumentals ever.

Definately "My Generation". But that's just my opinion, of course.

Patti Smith's cover of "My Generation" or Nirvana's cover of "Baba O'Riley".

I must say Boris the spider has always been a firm favourite <G>

Cant pick just one.

But I will narrow it down to one album.


Live at Leeds.

Best live album ever recorded.

Who...as a whole....is terrible:sniper:


Im so easily baited....

Ok..yer an idiot..

Even if you dont like their music, how you could say that about ANY of the members of that band, simply shows that you probably are in fact, retarded.

Keith FUCKING Moon for fuck sake?

Backwoods, I agree with you but watch it; that's the kind of things [albeit in worse degrees] that I've been instructed to warn people for. Disagreeing with him is fine [and in this case, right :p] but calling him names on account isn't.

Now, for my piece:

I'm a gigantic Who fan; I think they are, taken as a whole, the most talented band in rock history. This doesn't necessarily mean they're the best [since that's up to you], but no other band in Rock history [save for the Jimi Hendrix Eperience and the Rolling Stones] has put so much talent on the stage. Moon and Entwistle were, in my opinion, an utterly unbeatable rhythm section, for what the Who were trying to accomplish. The only possible complaint, then, lies with Townshend and Daltrey, who were definately not slouches either, but suffered from the fact that they weren't actually the best at their roles, objectively speaking. One could make a case for Roy Orbison, Freddie Mercury, or perhaps one or two others at being better rock vocalists than Daltrey, and Townshend did in all honesty have a number of guitar players who were superior to him, as a general rule. However, Townshend had the largest chord vocabulary of any artist I've ever seen, and Daltrey is clearly top 5 material as well.

That said, while these are all great songs [bearing in mind that Townshend single handedly competed with songwriting teams like Jagger/Richards and Lennon/McCartney--something which few people give him credit for], I can't for the life of me understand why "The Seeker" would be listed in the poll while "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Who Are You" get left out. The list you give here, in my opinion, rather heavily favors their earlier work.I like their early stuff, but I think the Who peaked in the early to mid '70s, and not so much with their 60's releases, save for Tommy, which stood as their best album until Who's Next was released in 1971.