There are 5 posts tagged Whovember (this is page 1 of 1).
Almost totally forgot to do this. Wah-oh. I went through a pretty big Who phase back in the day and definitely consider myself a Who-er on the Who/Zeppelin debate. Not that I ever thought that debate was intelligent. This was fun considering I haven’t really visited my who collection in quite a while.
I know this is completely coincidental, but this week actually turned out to be a pretty good one to do Whovember, since it marked the release of the Quadrophenia Deluxe Edition reissue, so that’s something. Anyways, The Who are probably my favorite band of all time, so doing a list like this certainly wasn’t easy considering how deep The Who’s discography is in terms of quality. So I kind of just tried not to over think it too much.
It seems like Zeptember was just the other day, but here we are, in the midst of another theme week. I don’t understand the Led Zeppelin/Who rivalry, or why battle lines where drawn there, but having done this for both bands, I think Zeppelin wins. Narrowly, because while they have more songs I feel strongly about, The Who put out a lot, and a mean a lot, of songs I really like. Plus, you’ve got to admit, they’re the cooler band.
I was a late bloomer when it came to listening to The Who. I didn’t become truly interested in the band until high school but when it hit me it hit me hard and now I’m doing this list. I’d heard most of Who’s Next but my first copy, which was burned from somewhere was always messed up so I was always too frustrated to finish it. To this day whenever I hear the songs “This Song is Over” and “Getting in Tune” I just keep waiting for the tracks to start skipping. So my education of The Who primarily came from two other places. The first was the 1979 rockumentary The Kids Are Alright and the second was the massive Who box set I got for christmas The Who: 30 Years of Maximum R&B. No doubt an unorthodox introduction to the band but it gave me a great deal of respect for the group’s entire body of work. From that box set I heard dozens of Who b-sides and rarities that most people probably aren’t familiar with, so I like to think I have fairly good knowledge of the group’s music library, let’s begin.
Considering how much fun we had with our Zeppelin themed “Zeptember” week we here at Mildly Pleased have decided to do another rock iinfused, pun-inspired, theme week with “Whovember”. We all love The Who here at the blog at least to some extent, so it’ll be exciting to see why that is. In the same style as “Zeptember” we’ll countdown our personal favorite songs throughout the week.
For the sake of consistency we’ll follow the same order as our last theme week.
– Tuesday: John’s Top Ten Who Songs
– Wednesday: Sean’s Top Ten Who Songs
– Thursday: Colin’s Top Ten Who Songs
– Friday: Nancy’s Top Ten Who Songs
– Saturday: Kevin’s Top Ten Who Songs
Hopefully this will all join together and we’ll be posting up a storm anyway, anyhow, and anywhere, if that makes any sense.
