Bad Songs by Good Bands: No. 19

'Who Are You?'
--The Who (1978)

No, a flock of barn owls didn't escape into a recording studio. This title track was evidently hatched when Pete Townshend was double-dared into seeing how many times he can make Roger Daltrey say the band's name in the song's 6 minutes and 16 seconds. Let's just say it reaches triple digits. And those of you who thought you'd get off easy with the single-version "edit" -- that goes on for 5:06.

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Posted by Spinner Staff
Filed under: Songs, The Hit List

Reader Comments(1 of 4)

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Christinaat 5-06-2008

You're kidding right?

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tomemosat 5-08-2008

Wrong.

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AMBat 5-13-2008

shure are you shure your not on pot

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griffmanrat 5-13-2008

Who Are You is a brilliant song!!

The instrumental breaks are phenominal!

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lc21at 5-13-2008

are u kidding me?
the who is a phenominal band, and this song as amazing

how could you diss the who?

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ashat 5-15-2008

That is one of the songs they are known for now (C.S.I.)

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Jeffat 5-15-2008

Thought I was going crazy reading this. Glad to know it was the "writer" of this "article". You can't touch anything the Who have done during the Keith Moon era. Not a song. Now, look at a song like "Athena." That sounds like it was done on a dare.

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Kiraat 5-18-2008

once again, another one of my favouriute songs of all time! WHO R U

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heythereat 5-18-2008

I agree that's a really good song. Just because they have it on a tv show doesn't mean the "hipsters" have to dislike it.

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Daniel Martinezat 6-05-2008

If this song was so bad, why do they use it on CSI?

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Erinat 7-09-2008

Are you kidding me? I love this song, it's great!
I hope you're not just hating on it because it's the theme song for C.S.I. Because that would be really lame and stupid.

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nlkoebelat 7-13-2008

Anyone who would even consider Kiss in any category shared with the Who wouldn't know a good one like this when they see it.

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hairballs10at 7-15-2008

Jeff hit's the nail right on the head. There is NOT ONE bad WHO song with Keith on drums. The doosh (misspelled intentionaly) who wrote this article has no clue.

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latinlizard66at 7-15-2008

Once again, the Spinner Staff are show how CLUELESS they really are when comes to music!!!

When you guys make these lists, do you just pick names out of a hat?!!

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