Let me guess: you have VH1 Classic, doncha? ;)
My tastes are pretty eclectic, but the Who are my absolute favorite!
Keef Moon was a genous drummer...until the booze caught up wth him, thne he was a slow uncoordinated slob...what a loss.
How can people call Rush pretensious and then list Bruce Springsteen as one of their favorites? That guy is in the dictionary as the meaning of pretensious.
see: Springsteen, Bruce.
ANd surely all the new wave and NYC punkers weren't pretensious...now way was Mick Jones of BAD pretensious. The Clash weren't pretensious...not at all, not even when they brough tin Allen Ginsburg to record...they're still one of my favorite bands...