Mega64 Record Club Ep. 90 -The Who - Who's Next(#77)
Added 2024-12-12 14:00:14 +0000 UTCAfter last week's episode where Shawn and Rocco took some jabs at The Who, fate decided to intervene. Rocco selected Who's Next, the iconic follow-up to Tommy. Did the album change Shawn's tune? Has he been converted into the world's biggest The Who fan? Tune in to find out!
Comments
I really like Quadrophenia by The Who but the rest doesn’t do too much for me. I also like you playing the music in the background but I’m afraid that one day it’ll be set too loud and we won’t be able to hear you and then you’ll have to scrap the whole episode lol. 2.5/5 for me
Pearstrike
2025-01-07 21:17:30 +0000 UTCI grew up in a classic rock family, so I love old stuff like the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Pink Floyd, etc. But I also feel like I've been waiting for the Who to click with me. They got good songs, but not enough good songs. I find that with a lot of classic rock bands they would only have a few good songs on their albums and that they were more likely to shine when you put all their best songs together on a greatest hits album. But to me in later years bands got better at making albums where 80% of the songs were great songs rather than 20%. I love the Beatles and they are one of my favorite bands, but they don't have an album where I love every song on it. Help might come the closests. They just made so many albums with a few great songs, that collectively it adds up.
Jake Songstad
2024-12-26 14:33:41 +0000 UTCHaven’t really listened to much of The Who, but I do love the song “Baba O’Riley”, which I think is a quintessential classic rock song, definitely a 5/5. With that said I think this album is okay. It’s not bad, it’s just there. Like you said, “It’s a song”, and thats how I felt about a lot of the songs. The 2nd best song is definitely “Won’t Get Fooled Again”. It’s the song that comes the closest to achieving the energy of “Baba O’Riley”, but I don’t love it. The 3rd best is “Behind Blue Eyes”. That is a song I like and have heard before, but like you, I didn’t realize it was by the Who. One thing that I learned when I first got serious about trying to find new music 15 years ago, was that I had to listen to 9 okay/bad albums to find 1 great one. And finding that one great one was always worth it. That lesson has stuck with me. Finding new music that you love can take work. Okay songs that I probably won’t listen to again: Bargain My Wife Getting in Tune Like I said “Baba O’Riley is a masterpiece, and they’ve got two other massive radio hits on the album, but the rest is unmemorable. The drummer definitely has the best parts. I give the album a 2.5/5. I also thought Roadrunner by the Modern Lovers was just an okay song, but I do respect that it helped start the punk genre. The tone is definitely there.
Jake Songstad
2024-12-26 14:21:29 +0000 UTCBaba O’reily does kind of give Springsteen vibes now that you mention it. I think it’s the singing and the piano. I know Springsteen was a Beatles fan. I can see him probably being influenced by other English rock acts of that time too. I like you playing the album the whole time too. I think it fits the music review well. And I do like getting your interpretations of songs and albums overall. You should keep doing it. It really helps to fully appreciate an album and create discussion with us. Same as looking up facts about the album. I also agree that Behind Blue Eyes is the best song on here, that intro is damn good. Baba O’Riley is a close second though. And I think your statement about it being boomer music is accurate for a lot of people. A lot of rock music from this time was very groundbreaking when it came out. If you were around when stuff like this was dropping it probably was much more impressive and impactful. The thing is old rock bands/albums have influenced so many bands and artists over the years. Stuff like this was foundational, but people have taken it and expanded upon it. And then more people expanded on that and so on and so forth. Rock music has evolved over decades and become much more interesting compared to where it started. Also due to the help of more advanced technology and production capabilities. If you're used to hearing newer rock music, older bands like The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, etc. might not impress you. And I think that’s a big thing with classic albums and GOAT lists. It’s not just the quality of the albums themselves, but how much they've influenced music as a whole. I think lists like this tend to focus on the latter more than the former a lot of the time. Which is why Roadrunner is so high on the Top Songs list too. Context usually plays a big part, but the timeless quality of certain bands and albums still shines today for sure. Personally I like and appreciate music from this time, but The Who is one I’m still waiting to fully click. I’ve heard this album and Tommy and appreciate them for sure though. Love Station to Station! The song and the album. Probably my favorite album of Bowies, followed by Scary Monsters. Interested to see what you think though. It’s a very long song lol Keep up the great work Shawn!
DoflamingoSnailPhone
2024-12-15 07:48:28 +0000 UTCSince you asked for feedback on this, I figured I'd say that I'd rather hear your interpretations than what someone else/the artist says the song is about. I watch the show because I enjoy hearing your (and your guests) perspective, so I'm considerably more interested in hearing that.
floridalonghair
2024-12-15 01:57:27 +0000 UTChave you seen Joe Pera
Anna Fröhling
2024-12-14 08:05:36 +0000 UTCDamn have the vinyl for this and now I can’t unsee them pissing on the cover of
cornman
2024-12-13 23:16:12 +0000 UTC2nd that
LumpyNehar
2024-12-13 20:13:22 +0000 UTCHonestly I rolled my eyes when Rocco pulled this album but honestly it was a good time.
LumpyNehar
2024-12-13 20:12:14 +0000 UTCGlad you gave this album a shot! I really like this album
Sleepycap
2024-12-12 23:08:15 +0000 UTCAs a child of a boomer and lover of Guitar Hero/Rock Band, I do have a soft spot for the Who. Odds & Sods is a compilation album from 1974 that I personally like, different sound than this album for sure.
Oteka
2024-12-12 19:51:20 +0000 UTCBaba O'Riley is the one Who song that I've always loved. The rest of this album was surprisingly not shit. I don't know why I was surprised, but yeah I thought I'd hate this a lot more. Maybe 2.5 pieces of vinyl overall? This has been such an insanely hard year, so much loss. I can't believe Mega64 was almost part of that, I genuinely think you guys are the only thing I've got left, sad as that may seem lmao. NO PRESSURE.
Garrett Vacation 🔪💖🩸
2024-12-12 18:47:09 +0000 UTCI definitely like hearing your specific thoughts and commentary, it’s why I watch the show :). So keep injecting whatever you feel about the songs please. We have a lot of overlap in our music tastes but I like to hear/see when we differ. Unfortunately for the who I had about the same feelings on this as you did. It’s like…I like so much music from that era but for some reason the who always come off as middle of the road kinda bland to me. I’d give the album a 3 personally. Only recently this year listened to modern lovers for the first time and really dig that self titled, I too hear so much influence on the 2000s era garage rock and other earlier punk music I’m really into from them. The song you were thinking of from the white stripes is St. Andrew (This battle is in the air), it’s got a bagpipe droning the whole song pretty much and is super similar to the who song.
Billy B
2024-12-12 18:15:15 +0000 UTCShawn, I love your commentary espically coming from a lay person outside of the music industry. I think it's insightful and it's cool to see you come up with your review after a week of assigning us an album. I usually catch myself nodding and agreeing or even having the exact same thoughts to some of your comments about the albums during Record Club.
Cesar Vera
2024-12-12 15:18:35 +0000 UTCWhen I was younger I always got Television and the Modern Lovers mixed up - they’re not super similar but the vocals kinda sound alike. Jonathan Richman is in a lot of Farrelly Brothers movies, which is kind of a fun fact. Who’s Next is what I expected to hear from the Who - I know Baba O’Riley is super overplayed but it still gets me hype every time. I loved the horns in My Wife, that was a huge standout moment. Going Mobile, Bargain and Behind Blue Eyes are the rest of my top songs. Behind Blue Eyes is a little uh… tainted in taking it seriously, personally, due to the Limp Bizkit cover being my first exposure. Pete Townshend is an odd duck, to say the least. His attempts at getting Lifehouse to work reminds me of the Smile and Brian Wilson thing.
Mary and Steve
2024-12-12 14:59:53 +0000 UTC
