The Who were different. This was from their earlier period. Substitute was another great one. They were from West London, just up the road from where I was born.

Keith Moon was second to no other drummer. He was worth the price of a ticket to watch in concert.

The song just stays exciting and dramatic from beginning to end, that is pure Who!

The Best Bassist and Drummer of the day.

It's nice to listen to beautiful music and gaze upon a beautiful woman. You can't go wrong following her

When this song came on the airwaves it really knocked everyone for a loop on both sides of the Atlantic. The only smooth part is Roger Daltrey's singing! Everything else is just wailing and nobody had ever heard things like what Pete Townsend was doing with his guitar!

Bravo, Keith Moon attacking the drums in a way nobody has before or since in a hit single. One of my favorites ever. Thanks for reacting to it.

From the late, great, magical musical year of 1967. Nothing more needs to be said.

John Entwistle, the Who bassist hated playing this song because he was basically playing the same note over and over again.

The song is propelled by sheer raw attitude. There's nothing conventional with the rhythm track. No pulsing bass guitar notes anchoring the listeners sensibilities. And the FU sentiment of the lyrics are as subtle as a sledgehammer. I love your reaction DO R. Fantatic!! Your take is spot on. Take care, RNB

More than 50 years after this song was released, it still is played on the radio today. It is one of my favorite songs by The Who.

They are an iconic band, and part of The British Invasion in 1960's and partially into the 1970's! The ironic thing is a lot of these acts from The UK, including The Beatles, borrowed a lot of elements from The American music scene! Including blues, blue grass, jazz, country, and the list goes on! I guess everything and everyone are connected in some way!

Btw, kudos for having learned about Keith Moon, widely recognized as one of the most accurate drummers of that classic era. John Entwistle was the wicked bass player (R.I.P. to both ❤️🌹🕊️😇), Roger Daltry was lead vocals, and the slayer of strings, Pete Townsend on lead guitar and co-lead vocals. This reminds me, The Who were killer at Woodstock '69. Have great fun 😊😇😁

Pete Townsend bragged at the time that he had just recorded the greatest, and the hardest hard rock song ever with I Can See For Miles. Paul McCartney of The Beatles took issue with that and composed the song Helter Skelter which is really the beginning of what is called "heavy metal" music because he didn't want to feel that The Who had any bragging rights over The Beatles.

One of the most epic bands ever.

Rocking tune as they were becoming stars, got to love the WHO. Try Behind Blue Eyes, it will surprise you! Looking great Angela, hope you are doing well. Enjoy. 🎵

Oh there was definitely bass in there

We owned it 🇬🇧 we gave it all away

Pete Townshend said this is the best song he ever wrote. Although a great song this is the same man who wrote Tommy and Quadrophenia Rock operas, not to mention Who's Next. Imo Love Reign Oer Me is the greatest song ever written in Rock.

I love that you're so open to all this good music. Subbed

Classic early Who song ! Angela you were spot on about this one. Greetings from Ocean Springs, Mississippi

13 with my transistor radio listening to KGB station in San Diego, Cali.

Hi Angela - I loved your reaction as soon as the song started - the song is hypnotic - it grabbed you immediately. I love watching people hearing these classics for the first time. It's priceless!

Another good reaction Angela!!! keep it up

Great classic song! Haven’t heard this in a long time. Thanks Angela!!!

Got to see them with my wife in Buffalo NY a few years back. There is nothing like watching one of the greats preform a 3 hr show with no breaks. Amazing!!!!!

Unlike a lot of other famous bands in the forefront of the British invasion, the early work of The Who was excellent and well worth a listen. But I think it had some shortcomings, mainly in how the final studio products were mixed, The sound is a bit odd, a bit thin and muffled, and the vocals are too up front in the mix. You are right, the low end is nearly missing. As the band evolved, those problems were fixed and The Who produced one of the most perfect albums in rock history "Who's Next". The main songwriter, lead guitarist Pete Townsend, wrote a lot of intelligent and melodic songs well suited for the "belt it out" style of the lead singer, Roger Daltrey. There is a video of Pete and Roger talkng about altering standard chord structures to counter the tendency of a large audience in a large venue to absorb certain sonic frequencies, and about having The Ox play a bass line that would create harmonics when heard along with the lead guitar line. These guys were students of their craft. They had worldwide fame and success with their rock opera concept album, "Tommy", which was even made into a movie. But I think the real jaw-dropper was the release of their live album "Live at Leeds". It totally blasts you to smithereens. There are YT videos of that era. The Who were a very dynamic band onstage. They wanted to entertain fans up in the second balcony of a 20,000 seat arena. They also played really, really, really LOUD. I couldn't hear properly for three days after seeing them in Detroit back in 1975. Oh, why not. Here a link to an hour long concert film from 1970 when the Who came on at 2:00 a.m. to entertain a the crowd of 600,000 at the Isle of Wight Music Festival. You can't go wrong listening to any of it, but if you don't have an hour, I'd suggest butting in at 9:16 to watch and listen to "Young Man Blues". kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j7ODZ5qonc6limw.html

As might've been said back in the day, a groovy reaction! Three of The Who's songs are the themes for the CSI TV franchise: Who Are You? (original CSI), We Won't Get Fooled Again (CSI Miami), and Baba O'Reilly (CSI NY). All worth a listen.

Wow! Love it! This may be my favorite song from The Who. Musically, lyrically, fantastic early Who vibes. Thanks, sounds as good now as it ever did. Drums just rock on this. I was too young to “get” the meaning of this song when it came out.. but, wow I really get it now. Awesome. Yes, Angela, FU indeed. So good, indeed!!

I love that super high unison bend during the fade out. Unless you have a decent cutaway you have to pull your thumb out from behind the neck. Moon is just killing it!

You looked like the first guitar licks knocked you for a loop, LOL. You should watch their movie, "Tommy," based on their concept album. It will blow you away. 😁

Thanks for the great reaction. This song always picks me up and brightens my mood, and yes is a great F.U. song as well. For the time this was a pretty experimental recording due to many of the things you pointed out, no real dominating bass line, layered guitars providing counter melodies and rhythms with drums. The Who possessed tremendous energy and this was one of their most groundbreaking songs.

Thank you, great taste & review👍 My 1st concert, 1976...The Who, with Keith Moon & their lasers, which they ONLY deployed for this song & My Generation‼️ 🇨🇦

The Who - one of the top rock bands ever - keep going with them!

Thank you Dean for the request, mad props to you, Angela, for the reaction! If you ever decide to do an album reaction, as opposed to just doing songs their Rock Opera called Tommy would be a great place to start! Whichever direction you go, Angela, you can be sure your growing legion of fans will be along to enjoy the ride!! Thank you!!!!

Won't get fooled again is another great song.

You should also check out their songs "Join Together" and the long version of "Magic Bus."

There is bass guitar in there, it's just mixed pretty quietly, so it's kind of buried amidst all the guitar stuff going on, and it's mostly playing just one note repeatedly... until 1:23 in this video, when it starts playing other notes, until 1:40, when it goes back to playing just one note again... It does the same thing between 2:09 - 2:25, then back to the one note thing... At 3:27 it changes to a different note, then between 3:41 - 3:58 it plays different notes.... and again at 4:18 until the end... There was another mix done for the single version, where an additional, louder, slightly different bass line was mixed in: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mLpjhdGIls2thac.html

I recommend *hold tight*. By *Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich*

Watch the who live at the isle of the wight festival from 1970 to blow your mind. incredible live band. Played at 2 am in the morning to 300,000 people all stoned and tired lol.

Militant Hippyism.

All 4 of the CSI TV shows use songs from 'The Who'. This one was used for CSI Cyber which only lasted 1 or 2 years. (2014 - 2015?)

Hi Angela 🤗 Now that you've met The Who, I implore you to consider reacting to their rock opera "Tommy". In particular, I think you'd enjoy greatly the opening track "Overture/It's A Boy". This is an instrumental masterpiece on a mind blowing scale. Try for the studio version if you can, the film soundtrack and live versions are not quite the same. You won't be disappointed.. 😁☮️🕊️🌹😁

The Who were telling us where they were going with this song and for me it was right to the top.

You are so cute. I love all your liitle expressions your beautiful.

60s Who is some of the best music ever recorded. I can tell you really loved it…then you have to do more Who from their early years

Entwistle's role in The Who was as a bass GUITAR player.

Entwistle's bass is there alright, but it's more like another melody in a lower register. He wasn't strictly rhythm section.

Glad you enjoyed it - it used to be one of my favourites, it seems to have dropped out of my tastes as time goes on.

You would probably like "I Misunderstood" by Dinosaur Jr.; similar theme sort of an anti-lovesong

I saw The Who in my city in 1982 and 1989. Sadly, I never saw them when Keith Moon was alive. That would have been epic 😎

la mejor canción de los Who. Y la batería de Keith Moon.... sin comentarios

Finally someone reacts to The Who's best song!!! Well, so it is Faith In Something Bigger too

See Me Feel Me / Listening To You.

What else are you listening to that you have a 3rd earphone in your ear? You should try listening to the whole song.

Check out "A Quick One (While He's Away)"

An FU love song that always mildly shocks me is the Beatles ”Run for Your Life”.

The Who are spot on. You'll likely recognise Who Are You from TV while if you're doing another Halloween special this year, consider Boris The Spider by The Who.

Ah yes! The complete Pete!

You should look up Petra Haden's acapella version (actually she does the entire The Who Sell Out album). She does all the voices and instruments by overdubbing her voice. There's also a live version of Petra doing this song with a group of other singers live on stage. It's quite a thing.

There is certainly a bass line to it.

I can see for miles...what a perfect anthem for our flat earth.

The Who wrote and recorded 3 songs that are beyond great in rock history. You may have already reacted to one of them but here are the names: Won't Get Fooled Again "Baba O'Riley Love Rain O'er Me BTW, Pete Townshend, guitar player, wrote their songs. He is gay.

I recommend *Hold tight* by *Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich*

The beginning of rock -hard rock , the Beatles response with Helter Skelter dosen''t come close .

You should listen to Sanford and Townsend "Smoke from a distant fire"

Fucking genious

Listen to Magic Bus off their Live Leeds album. Jim

Keith Moon Great.

Im in my 60s, I've seen most of these classic Rock bands live in their primes. If you like I can fill your entire phone with music in under an hour! Lmao. I love your channel and like your reactions. You have so so much more music to discover!!!! Enjoy.

cant go wrong with a bit of the who {:-) PAV uk

I have one for ya: Sammy Johns Chevy Van

Try Won’t Get Fooled Again by The Who

Your right, this is a great FU love song. They really did ratchet things up with this, their 3rd album (The Who Sells Out) in late '67. If you want to hear another one of the greaest FU songs written, react to Harry Nilsson's "Your Breaking My Heart". You'll love it! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJObnbiIyNiblGg.html

Next is Squeeze Box

Hi Angela

pleeeeease. Now react to "I can't reach you" , also from the Who. Claro, if you want....

please react to "Water" and "Young Man's Blues" and "Magic Bus" from 1971 by the Who...all live versions

The Who have so many hits you really should check out more of their stuff! Love Reign O'er Me is an amazing ballad. But they have many more.

This is one of my favorites from the Who.

Let me recommend another track from the same album, if I may. "Odorono"

I think when you say bass you mean kick drum and yes there is none. Keith Moon could not keep time or play a straight beat, but it’s what made him so unique and different

Has Miles lost the ability to see?

You need to watch this, Brilliant and funny. The Who - Who Are You (Promo Video)

Not the who's best but it's good. You looked a little bored at times. Review Behind Blue Eyes.

You have to listen to Love Reign O'er Me - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b7aei9eklbTNaH0.html

i can smell a rat 1000 drainpipes away ......still didnt stop me , lol