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Pinball Wizard? Seriously?

Posted on 02/07/2010 5:13:14 PM PST by Minn

I'm trying to understand what it says about the state of American music and culture that, in every Super Bowl half time show since the wardrobe malfunction, a song less than 30 years old hasn't been sung.

I have plenty of fond memories of the Stones, Bruce, and to a far lesser extent, the Who. But what will the NFL do when all these guys are dead?


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Sports
KEYWORDS: aginghippies; halftimeshow; music; thewho
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To: suijuris
and I particularly did not care for Pinball Wizard

I'm with you there. Truly one of the most awful songs ever, on so many levels. The whole "Tommy" thing was abominable. In a perfectly just world, they would just now be finishing serving their time for inflicting it on us.

101 posted on 02/07/2010 5:40:42 PM PST by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: anglian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5YPiBx9MJs

Bring Ashlee Simpson back to Miami...she knows how to rock it. BWHAHAHAHA.


102 posted on 02/07/2010 5:40:48 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: DoctorBulldog

My husband’s suggestion for an updated Who song:

“Bathe Me, Turn Me, Change Me, Feed Me”


103 posted on 02/07/2010 5:40:51 PM PST by Mangia E Statti Zitto
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To: anglian
For those who didn't like the WHO. Please list which band you would have liked.

Kentucky Headhunters

104 posted on 02/07/2010 5:40:55 PM PST by VoiceOfBruck (Was "Hussein" a common American Christian name in Hawaii in 1961? Just askin...)
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To: Hildy
Did you hear Frank Sinatra in his later years

See the previous post. Are we in a parallel universe or something?

105 posted on 02/07/2010 5:41:18 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Red in Blue PA

I agree, listening to songs from years ago brings back lots of memories. These kids that are whining about this will learn in time what it’s like to have memories from 40 years ago. I don’t expect them to undestand right now, they haven’t lived long enough yet.


106 posted on 02/07/2010 5:41:25 PM PST by Amazedbyitall
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To: Hildy
Do you still like your leisure suits too! ;-)
107 posted on 02/07/2010 5:41:32 PM PST by 1776 Reborn
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To: SlightOfTongue
They are old and worn, yes. But what do you expect from 70’s rockers? Actually, the last tune ‘We Won’t Get Fooled Again” is spot on, if you’re looking for a message to or from the voting public!!!!!! Eh?????

The Who's first big hit was in 1965.

108 posted on 02/07/2010 5:41:44 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: anglian

I like the Who..I just wished they had lipped synced like Milli Vanilli...


109 posted on 02/07/2010 5:42:11 PM PST by conservativehusker (Ben Nelson makes me ashamed to be a Nebraskan. (Kinda like Bill Calahan once did))
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To: anglian
For those who didn't like the WHO. Please list which band you would have liked.

I'd rather see Toby Keith.

The Who is just too darned old.

110 posted on 02/07/2010 5:42:26 PM PST by Wissa ("So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause."-Padme Amidala)
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To: Amazedbyitall

ANd they will also live to regret their criticisms when all they get is rap-crap. It’s coming, folks.....only a matter of when. Hope you all enjoy it.


111 posted on 02/07/2010 5:43:07 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: Mangia E Statti Zitto

Haha that’s great!


112 posted on 02/07/2010 5:43:09 PM PST by VoiceOfBruck (Was "Hussein" a common American Christian name in Hawaii in 1961? Just askin...)
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To: conservativehusker

I think we have Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson to thank for this debacle. Ever since the infamous wardrobe malfunction, the NFL has taken great pains to find “entertainment” that won’t create such an uproar.

Unfortunately, having geriatric rock and rollers on the halftime show is pitiful.


113 posted on 02/07/2010 5:43:10 PM PST by iceskater (The "public option" in government run health care means no option at all.)
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To: Mangia E Statti Zitto
“Bathe Me, Turn Me, Change Me, Feed Me”

ROFLMAO!!! Now that was funny!!!
114 posted on 02/07/2010 5:43:19 PM PST by DoctorBulldog
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To: 1776 Reborn

Wrong generation...


115 posted on 02/07/2010 5:43:34 PM PST by Hildy
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To: randita

Tommy James still sounds good!


116 posted on 02/07/2010 5:44:17 PM PST by Cricket24 (Conservatives Only...NO RINO'S!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: conservativehusker

The Who’s music is awesome...but Daltry and Townshend sounded a bit tired vocally. For me... the half time show “as a whole” was better than the last 10 halftime shows. Sound, lights and effects were awesome.

We won’t get fooled again...


117 posted on 02/07/2010 5:44:25 PM PST by nagdt ("speak the truth but leave immediately afterward")
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To: Red in Blue PA
I guess that is why their songs are the ongtracks for so many commercials, movies, and television theme songs.

Their songs are great. They shouldn't be performed by elderly people.

118 posted on 02/07/2010 5:44:45 PM PST by Wissa ("So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause."-Padme Amidala)
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To: iceskater

Who performed last year..I think someone like Daughtry would be great...


119 posted on 02/07/2010 5:46:09 PM PST by Hildy
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To: MrLee

Was that his son??? I kept thinking that drummer is fantastic the whole time.


120 posted on 02/07/2010 5:46:23 PM PST by republicangel
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