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Apparently this song is popular now with the teenagers.

I just got back from a cruise to the Bahamas, and there was a group of high schoolers from Lakeview High School (I have no idea where this is and the only reason I know this is because they kept chanting that they were #1!!!) singing karaoke. Two guys (I'm assuming they were football players) got up to sing The Who's "Pinball Wizard." When the song first started playing, I was impressed that they even KNEW that song. I started singing along and groovin' to the horrible singing...and then what I saw next surprised me. The cheerleaders got up and did a dance routine to it!

I did this ------>

It was an interesting experience. I was proud of them for knowing such a great song and that they probably blast this song at their high school football games...and I applauded them when they were finished. (And I was drinking, which is the only way I could tolerate them as long as I did...)

So you people with teenagers....are the kids nowadays starting to listen to REAL music? I can only hope!

Patsy Stone wrote:Apparently this song is popular now with the teenagers.

I just got back from a cruise to the Bahamas, and there was a group of high schoolers from Lakeview High School (I have no idea where this is and the only reason I know this is because they kept chanting that they were #1!!!) singing karaoke. Two guys (I'm assuming they were football players) got up to sing The Who's "Pinball Wizard." When the song first started playing, I was impressed that they even KNEW that song. I started singing along and groovin' to the horrible singing...and then what I saw next surprised me. The cheerleaders got up and did a dance routine to it!

I did this ------>

It was an interesting experience. I was proud of them for knowing such a great song and that they probably blast this song at their high school football games...and I applauded them when they were finished. (And I was drinking, which is the only way I could tolerate them as long as I did...)

So you people with teenagers....are the kids nowadays starting to listen to REAL music? I can only hope!

Elton John butchered that song.

tell dem kids that they need to get the original version,as done by The Who-accept no freaking subsituites.

scritti wrote:tell dem kids that they need to get the original version,as done by The Who-accept no freaking subsituites.

They WERE singing the original version! That's what brought a tear to my eye! ;)

I didn't know Elton John butchered it. Was it as bad as Fred Durst butchering "Behind Blue Eyes?"

oh,but Dame Elton wrecked it(avoid that soundtrack-btw)

go get the remastered 2 disc set live at leeds. it pisses off the purists with some overdubs but it's a sonic beast and the tommy disc rules.....it's worth it.



if yer a who fan.

there was a few years ago there was a VU revival among the college students--i saw a lot of t-shirts. it was interesting. seems they are interested in the smiths, pixies, and stooges (i think one of the cuts from raw power was on a movie soundtrack) these days. some of em.

youth of today listening to pixies?


search and destroy was on Life Aquatic.

on the subject of thematic covers....some of the greatest crimes on planet earth are on the Bee Gees sgt. Peppers. though, i do confess Aerosmith (who i truly hate what they have become--put out an album that's really a soundbite for a commercial) does a convincing job with come together (the B side of that 45 was pretty good too, Kings and Queens) and steve martin gets a little love for maxwell's silver hammer.

Bizzarofelice wrote:youth of today listening to pixies?


search and destroy was on Life Aquatic.

yeah, that's it. S&D. what else? Where's Penetration or your pretty face is going to hell?

dude, when i saw the pixies last september i thought it was gonna be a bunch of aging indie rockers like me--i wasnt too sure about that. there were some, pitiful in their bad ponytails, docmartin boots, and surfer rosa tees. but, by far, the vast majority of the crowd was people under 25. i was shocked.

and it made me feel good in a way.

Local music fest last year, some teeny punk-ass bastard that looked like he had just stepped off the stage with Lincoln Park or one of those lame fucks propped me on a Ian Curtis tee I was sporting.

It confused me. So did the ensuing Al Green show.

scritti wrote:tell dem kids that they need to get the original version,as done by The Who-accept no freaking subsituites.

And, tell 'em there's more to it than the riff-snippet on that Saab commercial. :roll:

Sure they listen to Pinball Wizard but I bet most of those kids think Baba O'Reilly is really called Teenage Wasteland.

Shoalzie wrote:Sure they listen to Pinball Wizard but I bet most of those kids think Baba O'Reilly is really called Teenage Wasteland.

So what? That's what I thought the song was called until I went and bought Who's Next.

It always puzzles me when you 30 sumthins find it so hard to believe that a kid in the current generation has actually heard, and just might even know and like a song by a band that was once prevelant in the so-called "classic rock era". In any decent sized market you'll have at least two classic rock stations which abuse songs like Pinball Wizard to death, not to mention they're used commercially maybe even more than your standard stuff being released today (because you're the bigger target), as well as when you walk into stores, go to restaurants, yada, etc. You act as if these pieces of music were stored away in a mysterious vault somewhere only to be washed up on shore and discovered by a bushman in western Africa. Your kid knows "More than a Feeling", ok, he didn't discover the dead sea scrolls. This shit has been beaten into the dome of every human being not in a coma for 30+ years. It's really not that surprising. If you're sittin' in front of the campfire and Johnny fires up the acoustic guitar and breaks out his best Woodie Guthrie with lyrical and vocal precision then that's something to come post about.

Shoalzie wrote:Baba O'Reilly

Your spelling is incorrect.

Sincerely,
Charles Nelson Riley

:P

he ain't the only one.