Carl’s Rock Songbook #42: The Who, “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere”

by Carl Scott

Its lyrics are fairly interesting (in a nutshell, relativistic autonomy gets declared in a “manly” mod key) and music-wise it features the ground-breaking and still tasty-sounding feedback break. But my discussion will focus on the relation between The Who’s trademark . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Mar 2012

Carl’s Rock Songbook #12: The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again” and “My Generation”

by Carl Scott

I accept the saying that The Who were one of the “thinking man’s rock bands,” but this Songbook entry is more music-focused than idea-focused. Instead of considering the fairly interesting and very zeitgeist-representative lyrical content of these two songs, I’m contrasting them . . . . Continue Reading »

27 Jul 2011