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Perhaps their greatest album, Who’s Next, shows all their talents at the maximum and the record produced major hits such as, “Baba O’Riley”, “Bargain”, “My Wife”, “Behind Blue Eyes”, and “Won’t Get Fooled Again”. The first track, “Baba O’Riley”, is one of the greatest songs of rock and roll. ... What makes “Baba O’Riley” such an incredible song, are all in the different instruments used, and the variety of singing tempos. ... It was Townsend who brought the synthesizer into “Baba O’Riley”, and this was just by a previous bust on an album, that made this possible. ... He decided that he would create a sci-fi rock opera song series, for a futuristic film called Lifehouse, which would be a tribute to he teacher, Meher Baba. ... He fooled around for hours with the synthesizer and finally came up with the right sound that would be used for “Baba O’Riley”. ...
Baba O’Riley is about teenage independence, rebellion, and exploring the world on your own, without the help of the older generation. I think Baba O’Riley has polyphony of texture, in that there is only one singer at a time, but there are several instruments being played while the singing takes place. ... ”
The power of his voice has a very strong meaning with these lyrics because he is speaking as a teenager, struggling to make it on his own, much like Daultry and other Who members when they were young. ...
Baba O’Riley has a disjunct melody because the contours of the song jump around a lot between the first verse and the third verse. ...
The song Baba O’Riley, is extremely popular with advertising and is always played at sporting events.
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