Behavior in children is caused by a number of factors. Won’t Get Fooled Again is a version of the single, improved and lengthened by an electronic organ, shuddering through the music like a repeated sine curve.The behavior of children/teenager has changed dramatically in the past ten years. Film Fun fame, starts with synthesised harpsichord like Pergolesi at 78 rpm who introduces Pete’s familiar confident crash of rhythm and drums, and immaculate buildup and release of tension. The two tracks with Pete’s stamp on them are Baba O’Riley the first track, and Won’t Get Fooled Again, the last, Baba O’Riley, a combination of Meher Baba and Old Mother Riley.
In particular, Roger Daltrey’s imitation of Led Zeppelin’s singer Robert Plant is depressing and stupid. Working over old styles is normally so alien to Pete that I can only assume that the rest of the band won’t accept his leadership in the way they did. Getting in Tune is pretty near to A Quick One, Love Ain’t For Keepin’ is too close to mid-period Stones, Bargain doesn’t progress from The Who’s recent single The Seeker and several tracks copy the slurred, tense rhythm line characteristic of Tommy, without making any new use of it. My Wife borrows from the Beatles in their Paperback Writer and Ticket to Ride period. The body of the album sounds either like Pete’s rejects, or else like his abdicating in favour of the slight composing talent of the rest of the band. I only hope the comparison doesn’t prove too accurate. I guess, after Tommy, it may be construed as the equivalent of the Beatles Abbey Road, marking time pleasantly.
But it proves insubstantial, with the exception of two tracks, and is The Who’s weakest album. At a casual listening, Who’s Next (track NOS 1021) the new album, sounds exciting Pete’s music never bores.
0 kommentar(er)
