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"My Generation" is a song by the English rock band the Who, written by guitarist and primary songwriter Pete Townshend. One of the band's most recognizable songs, it was placed number 11 by Rolling Stone on its list of the “ 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ” in 2004 and 2010, re-ranked number 232 in the 2021 edition.
Like "905", "Had Enough" was planned to feature on a rock opera in the process of being written by John Entwistle, but was never finished. It was written a long time before work was started on the Who's album Who Are You. The lyrics describe the main character of the failed rock opera, 905, finally snapping under the pressure and stress of his ...
"My Generation" is a song by the American rap rock band Limp Bizkit from their third studio album, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000). It was released as the second and third single simultaneously, along with " Rollin' ", [ 3 ] on September 5, 2000.
My Generation is the debut studio album by English rock band the Who, released on 3 December 1965 by Brunswick Records in the United Kingdom, and Festival Records in Australia. In the United States, it was released on 25 April 1966 by Decca Records as The Who Sings My Generation , with a different cover and a slightly altered track listing. [ 5 ]
This song is referenced in the title of the song "The Kids Aren't Alright" by the Offspring, the unrelated Fall Out Boy song of the same title, "The Kids are Alt-Right" by Bad Religion, "The Kids Are Insane" by Urge Overkill, "The Kids Are All Wrong" by Lagwagon, "All the Kids Are Right" by Local H, Awolnation's "THISKIDSNOTALRIGHT" and "The Kids" by The Parlor Mob, in which the main chorus ...
The lyrics of "New Song" are about FM radio's demand for bands to clone their previous hits. [1] Pete Townshend, the author of the song, once said, "This is a diatribe against the requirements of FM radio (at the time) for every band of the day to produce 'clones' of their earlier successful airplay hits. This was my signal to everyone that I ...
"My Wife" is a song by the English rock band the Who, written and sung by bass guitarist John Entwistle. It was originally released in 1971 [ 2 ] on Who's Next and later as the B-side of the single " Baba O'Riley " on 6 November 1971 in Europe by Polydor Records .
In November 1966, the song was released in Britain as the fourth single from the My Generation album without the permission of the Who. [5] [2] This was done by the song's producer Shel Talmy, who owned the rights to the song, in the midst of his legal dispute with the band, in order to compete with the singles the band wanted to release.