This is the first song by The Who that I ever heard. Back
in the mid-60s, WFEC (1400 on the AM dial) was the big Top 40 station in
Harrisburg PA, where I grew up, so that’s what all of us kids listened to most
of the time. At some point in the fall of 1965, I discovered that another local
AM station (WKBO 1230) had a one-hour show every Sunday night that featured the
music that was current in England at the time. I listened to that religiously
every week and picked up on a lot of great tracks that were big across the
Atlantic but never made it over here, including “Substitute.”
Somewhat unbelievably, The Who only had one Top 10 hit in the U.S. (This one wasn’t it.)
This one gives me hope that, down the "road," there might some heavy metal on this list
ReplyDeleteAll this talk about "hope" -- are you also a fan of Washington's professional football team? ;-)
DeleteYou might be interested in checking out the countdown of "Greatest Rock Songs" that WXPN ran in 2012(http://xpn.org/music-artist/885-countdown/2012). I did vote in that -- will try to dig that list up and post it at some point.
If I ever do a countdown of Top Song Intros of all time, "Crazy Train" is likely to make it. (The rest of the song fails to live up to the beginning, IMHO.)