'But we like 1 Direction!' Rock gods The Who fend off teen Twitter hate mob Legendary rockers The Who have announced they have no plans to ask One Direction to withdraw their new track Best Song Ever after a digital mob of rabid teenage girls bombarded them with death threats. The English rock band issued the statement yesterday, weeks after the boy band released their hit song. From the day of its …
I always thought it was odd how the Mods followed The Who, quite a bit different to their usual stuff.
Back in the last revival in the early 80s Mods were everywhere, but the rock fans used to take the piss out of their scooters.
Only thing is the rock fans usually loved NWOBHM and 70s heavy rock, but also liked the heavier Who songs. Common transport for rock fans then were Jap motorcycles.
Baba O'Riley of course owes a clearly acknowledged debt to A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley, whihc is echoed in the opening synthesiser riff, and to Meher Baba, who Pete Townsend was significantly influenced by. It is a deep song, and goes well past "teenage wasteland".
And, I just wasted five minutes of my life I won't get back again, and listened to the new song. The opening is quite clearly Baba O'Riley, it isn't a coincidence, in even has a hint of the Terry Riley atonal synthesiser riff in the background. It is only a few bars, and if anything I would say that it is a homage to The Who more than anything else. Whoever wrote it knew exactly what they were doing. The rest of the song is mostly a ripoff of the 80's big hair band anthemic songs.
What it might do is get a few yoof of today listening to The Who, ones that had never heard them before. That can't be bad thing.
In Germany there's a way to shift legal liability from underage and not prosecutable people to their parents, as to make them personally liable for anything their offspring did, as long as they are not at legal age. Does this exist in the UK also? if so, this may be a nice way to educate parents about parenting on your little island. Then maybe even your Great Pornfirewall of UK may become obsolete!
I have had a little look at and a listen to this ?band? and clearly Simon Cowell is the latest incarnation of Stock Aitkin and Waterman just churning out average plagiaristic bands where-ever the current money is. In other words the POP business as opposed to the music business.
I was waiting for a client in Ibiza airport the other day and noticed a bunch of teen girls and then later a bunch of teen boys with hairstyles that looked remeniscent of a bald guy's scrape-over but on the front of their heads! Wondered what it was about; now I know.
I thought the girls looked weird but boys definitely looked as though they would fit well into the large summer gay community we have here.
Compared to the Who they are nothing, I was at the Charlton concert in '76 Headlined by the Who with supporting bands Alex Harvey, Keef Hartley, Little Feat, etc Now that's what I call music!
The day started with pi.. pouring rain, everything was late but well worth waiting for and I think that concert is still in the record books as one of the loudest ever.
Just found this; http://www.timeout.com/london/music/the-who-break-noise-records-at-the-valley-it-happened-here
It was really depressing to have my daughter show me videos of this dismal nothingness (and a few other even worse ones) on youtube, and expect an impressed reaction. My hopes of bringing up an enlightened new generation that was better than the previous one were dealt a severe blow.
My son is five and still likes stuff like Orbital and Royksopp, so I'm holding out hope I can protect him from pop music. I even got him to listen to a couple of tracks from Coltrane's Stellar Regions, but when I asked him what he thought he just scowled for a moment and said, "Hmm... I don't know...."
My advice would be to play good music as much as possible. It's exposure that matters, and even if she doesn't start -liking- good stuff any time soon, she'll subconsciously start to learn to -understand- it whether she wants to or not. And with that will come hope for the future...
Meanwhile, my daughter at age 6 was in her room dancing/grooving to Jumi Hendrix. And just the other day (at 7 years old), she wanted me to play the YouTube video for "Hey Jude". Didn't even know she knew the song, but she was kind-of singing along with it.
Now, if I could play guitar or keyboards, I'd be teaching her.
What's up with you Brits threatening to rape people all of a sudden? For years nothing, and then WHAM, inside two months I swear I've seen so much news about it that you'd think nobody in the UK was doing anything -but- announcing their intentions for violent sexual assault. Is it because everyone's on holiday? It's all very odd, I must say.
They were babbling on about 1 Erection and some old farts trying to get a song banned because 1 Erection copied it. - Didn't have the details so I quickly switched to discussion on copyright in music (normally do this later in term) and gave local examples - love these teaching moments
Not because i'm from the censorship camp, i have flamed, close to the knuckle, with the best of them back in the day, i hold freedom of speech close to my heart, however any resulting legal action may actually help to focus the mind of the younger generation regarding online abuse, newsround here we come, it may also do the same for the couldn't care less parenting attitude that obviously exists when it comes to the appropriate use of today's technology. It may also help to dismiss the stereotypical view about internet trolls being sad 20-30 something guys in their mums house locked in the bedroom (i'm in my 40's before you start fucktards).
The uproar amongst the teenyboppers (as they were called then) when their idol Rick Astley got an award but wasn't shown receiving it because the show was running late; and their outrage was magnified because some old farts (The Who) got as 'Outstanding contributors' did start playing as he was walking to the stage.
A Poison Pen letter has always been a female crime. Just like hitting blokes has always been a male crime.
And like "stalking", a poison pen letter has always been the crime of a person with too much time on their hands.
Has trolling been a male crime up to now? I know of no particular evidence either way, but certainly the existence of sexist misogynistic content is no evidence: that has always been a characteristic of female-on-female poison pen letters.
but it seems unlikely the 'directioners' idiots would have read this article it probably contains too many loong words, still I will continue.
It is likely that I like the song in question as the name One Direction rings some distant bells in my memory but I can categorically state that to me it isn't 'the best song ever' nor, come to that is the Who's.
Personally I would find it impossible to name what in my opinion might fit that title and I think most intelligent people would find the same problem as myself - too many options in my reasonably long life.
How stupid we can be when young - sad.
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