What are some good songs from the band The Who?

Question

I like Aerosmith and ACDC but what are some good songs by The Who, or any other classic rock bands. But not hard metal rock or not present rock.

Who ever Fonzie T is wrote way too much, I only want a list no bigger then 25. Who ever that guy is over did.

Answer 1

Baba O'Riley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcLA596zUwc

Answer 2

The Who :~

Behind Blue Eyes ; Bargain ; My Generation ; Substitute ;
I Can See For Miles ; The Real Me ; The Quiet One ;
Won't Get Fooled Again ; Baba O' Reilly ; Magic Bus ;
Love Reign Over Me

Led Zeppelin :~

When the Levee Breaks ; No Quarter ; Kashmir ;
What Is and What Should Never Be ; The Rain Song ;
Dazed and Confused ; Immigrant Song ; Tangerine ;
Black Dog ; Rock and Roll ; many others!

Jethro Tull :~

Love Story ; Dharma for One ; Alive and Well and Living In ;
Teacher ; Thick As A Brick {album} ; Velvet Green ;
A New Day Yesterday ; The Witch's Promise ; No Lullaby ;
Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day ;
The Minstrel in the Gallery ; Locomotive Breath ;
and many more!

Dire Straits :~

Tunnel of Love ; Romeo and Juliet ; Calling Elvis ;
Espresso Love ; Love Over Gold ; Sultans of Swing ;
Down to the Waterline ; The Man's Too Strong ;
So Far Away ; On Every Street ; Private Investigations

Fleetwood Mac :~

Rhiannon ; I'm So Afraid ; Say You Love Me ; Angel ;
Gold Dust Woman ; Go Your Own Way ; Songbird ; Tusk ;
The Chain ; Sisters of the Moon ; Brown Eyes ; Gypsy ;
Everywhere ; Big Love ; Seven Wonders ; Come ;
Thrown Down; many more!

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac :~

Dragonfly ; Oh Well ; Underway ; Rattlesnake Shake ;
The Green Manalishi ; Do You Give A Damn For Me ;
Black Magic Woman ; Stop Messin' Round ; Albatros ;
Long Grey Mare ; Rambling Pony

Jimi Hendrix :~

Voodoo Chile {Slight Return} ; Angel ; Manic Depression ;
Little Wing ; Fire ; Purple Haze ; All along the Watchtower ;
Red House ; Gypsy Eyes ; Burning of the Midnight Lamp

Mike Oldfield :~

Tubular Bells {album} ; Ommadawn {album} ; Family Man ;
Hergest Ridge {album} ; Incantations {album} ; Mistake ;
Platinum {album} ; Moonlight Shadow ; Crime of Passion
Pictures in the Dark ; Tricks of the Light ; Etude

Thin Lizzy :~

Jailbreak ; Still in Love With You ; Waiting for an Alibi ;
Emerald ; The Rocker ; Roisin Dubh {Black Rose} ;
Don't Believe A Word {slow version & fast version} ;
Dancin' in the Moonlight ; Got to Give It Up ;
Whisky in the Jar

Queen :~

Brighton Rock ; Bicycle Race ; A Kind of Magic ; It's Late ;
I Want It All ; You're My Best Friend ; Radio Ga Ga ;
Who Want's To Live Forever ; Keep Yourself Alive ;
Breakthru

Elton John :~

Funeral for A Friend~Love Lies Bleeding ;
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting ;
The Ballad of Danny Bailley ; This Song Has no Title

Blinded by the Light ~ Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Sunny ~ Georgie Fame
In A Broken Dream ~ Python Lee Jackson
Someone to Love ~ Jefferson Airplane
All Right Now ~ Free
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five ~ Wings


Fonzie T is one of the people here most knowledgeable on Classic Rock ~ all his musical advice is worth noting.

Answer 3

Man, it's hard to ask a Who fan like me this question without me giving dozens of songs. So, here's some tracks I feel get across the breadth and potency of their stuff over the course of their entire career:

Magic Bus
Bargain
Baba O'Reilly
Mike Post Theme
The Real Me
5:15
Who Are You
I've Known No War
905
The Quiet One
Slip Kid
Glittering Girl
Sound Round
My Wife
Love Reign O'er Me
Trick of the Light
Boris the Spider
I Can See For Miles
Dreaming Below the Waist

... Oh, and whoever said they prefer the Limp Bizkit version of Behind Blue Eyes should be stripped of their ability to hear!

Answer 4

The Who in the early days of The Who released an album called Live at Leeds it has a double album's worth of stuff that I always consider my favourite music of all... then if you want some pointers on how to be satisfied with your musical ability there's Tommy another double album that puts all the songs therein into a concept so to speak.

But, Who's Next is the best of the Who....

Songs mentioned include:

My Generation
Won't get fooled again
Happy Jack

Then if you're still there after my paltry opinion here's another one for what it's worth... Paul Revere and the Raiders... they look a little corny but they got some hits that keep coming back for more... like... Him or Me...and Good Thing... and Kicks.

Lastly since there may be hope for this question The Rolling Stones used to make some pretty neat records... like Exile on Mainstreet one of their best with some neat songs on it that I'm sure you've heard on the local radio station... and some other ones that's a bit too too like Casino Boogie and Rocks Off....

Any Temptations is nice stuff if you can get it... I Can't Get Next to You and if you insist Ball of Confusion....

Alice Cooper's third and fourth albums are tops though... Love it to Death and Killer they're called... but like I say this is just my opinion for what it's worth and Alice may take some getting used to.

Answer 5

Good songs by The Who are
My Generation
Behind Blue Eyes
Boris the Spider
I Can See For Miles
Can't Explain it
The Kids are Alright
Baba O'Reily

If you aren't familiar with most of the music by The Beatles it's pretty mandatory in classic rock. Other good classic rock bands are Wings, Led Zepplin, Electric Light Orchestra, The Rolling Stones, John Lennon...and countless countless awesome bands.

Answer 6

Most of these:


'Kashmir", "Stairway to Heaven-" Led Zeppelin
Any Beatles
'Maybelline'- Chuck Berry
'Keep a-Knockin', 'Tutti Frutti'- Little Richard
"Good Lovin Gone Bad", "Feel Like Making Love"- Bad Company
'Go Your Own Way', 'Rhiannon', 'Gold Dust Woman'- Fleetwood Mac
"We Are the Champions", "Now I'm Here"- Queen
"Nights in White Satin", Story in Your Eyes"- Moody Blues
"Burn", "Smoke on the Water" (live)- Deep Purple
"Baba O'Riley", "Pinball Wizard", "Squeeze Box", "Naked Eye"- The Who
'Carry on Wayward Son', 'Dust in the wind"- Kansas
'Logical Song', 'Breakfast in America'- Supertramp
'Solid Rock', "Expresso Love'- Dire Straits
'Oh!'- Sleater Kinney
'Black Magic Woman'- Santana
'Peace Train', 'Morning Has Broken'- Cat Stevens
'Come Sail Away'- Styx
'The Boys Are Back in Town', 'Jailbreak'- Thin Lizzy
'Limelight', "The Spirit of Radio', 'New World Man'- Rush
'I've Seen All Good People'- Yes
'Magic Man', 'Crazy on You', 'Barracuda'- Heart
'All Along the Watchtower', "Purple Haze', "Manic Depression"- Jimi Hendrix
'School's Out'- Alice Cooper
'More Than a Feeling', 'Don't Look Back', 'Foreplay/Long Time Gone'- Boston
'Karn Evil 9'- ELP
'Highway to Hell', 'Shook Me All Night Long', 'It's a Long Way to the Top'- AC/DC
'Gimme Shelter', 'Miss You", "Rocks Off'- Rolling Stones
'Little Guitars', 'Unchained'- Van Halen
'Get It On (Bang a gong)'- T-Rex
'Deceptacon'- Le Tigre
'Too Kool to Kalypso', 'Away From Home', 'Don't Care'- Klark Kent
'Blue Morning, Blue Day', 'Cold As Ice'- Foreigner
'Stay With Me', 'Maggie May'- Rod Stewart
'American Girl', 'Breakdown'- Tom Petty
'Queen *****', 'Hang on to Yourself', 'Star'- David Bowie
'Positively 4th Street'- Bob Dylan
'Just What I Needed'- The Cars
'Do Ya', 'Mr. Blue Sky'- ELO
'Pulling Mussels from a Shell', 'Another Nail in My Heart'- Squeeze
'Wish You Were Here', 'Brain Damage/Eclipse'- Pink Floyd
'Draw the Line', 'Back in the Saddle', 'Dream On'- Aerosmith
'Alright Now'- Free
'Surrender', 'I Want You to Want Me (live)- Cheap Trick
'Living in the Past', 'Aqualung'- Jethro Tull
'Reelin In the Years'- Steely Dan
'Hotel California', - The Eagles
;Ace of Spades'- Motorhead
'Layla', 'Mainline Florida', - Eric Clapton
'Carry On', "Wooden Ships'- CSN&Y
'Old Man', 'Heart of Gold'- Neil Young
"King of Pain', 'Roxanne'- The Police

Answer 7

Behind Blue Eyes
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
My Generation

My top three.

Answer 8

"Eminance Front" The WHO
"Baba O Reilly" sometimes mistaken for the chorus teenage wasteland..but Baba O Reilly is the title. THE WHO
"We Don't Get Fooled Again" THE WHO

Answer 9

My Generation and Magic Bus are my favourites. My high school grad class choose My Generation as our grad song and the parents ever freak.

Answer 10

I really like The Real Me.The bass playing in that song is awesome.Boris the Spider is cool to.Old but cool.