Opinion of The Who song "Baba O'Riley"

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KRpRMSu4g

Interesting song. I just heard it for the first time now because of a Family Guy joke.

My opinion is the music and intro are pretty good but the vocals kind of ruin it...still will go with Freedom Song because of how much is instrumental.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

You got to understand that once I turned 16 I started listening to "post-punk indie emotional scenecore" styles of music and close to absolutely nothing else. If it can't be traced back to Revolution Summer in some way, I probably don't have a clue what it is.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Anyway here is where I first heard it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6s3jxO3eMk

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Given the type of music that you listen to, you really don't have any room to criticize vocals lmao.

How on Earth are those vocals better than Guy Picciotto? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge8ucvLYLRc

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Given the type of music that you listen to, you really don't have any room to criticize vocals lmao.

How on Earth are those vocals better than Guy Picciotto? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge8ucvLYLRc

It is hard to compare a rhythmic reading like Picciotto's with melodic singing like Daltry's. Picciotto is reading, but not singing. Rappers generally don't sing either, and I wouldn't compare a rap vocalist to a rock singer either.

That's definitely not equivalent to rap, but regardless, here's other examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPv2zBZ5SK4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVqA1lBunEo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyY7Zq-Cxg8

People think those vocals are worse than sort of screeching in The Who song? Especially with the harmony on the second one.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Guy Piccolo is by no means a bad singer; he doesn't seem obnoxiously screamy like most of BRTD's music, but I would say that Daltrey is more talented.

So what do you think of those three listed above?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I just realized how difficult those first two songs would be to do karaoke too. Even if the second was done as a duet it'd still be almost impossible. Even more difficult than that Regina Spektor song from (500) Days of Summer.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

One rather unique thing about Mineral is that their songs hardly ever had choruses or verses and the lyrics hardly ever repeated. The songs were more like that Chris wrote some single stanza poem and then sang it drawn out in a way that managed to last over three minutes. Perfect example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=badSTlkLSHg

The entire lyrics to this over three minute song:

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[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Is a 23 year old "almost 30"? Is a 13 year old "almost 20"?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I just heard it for the first time now because of a Family Guy joke.

FFS, can you stop being so predictable?

How's that surprising? There's a lot of songs I've only heard of because of Family Guy. That's no doubt true for tons of other people for "Surfin' Bird" for one, but how many people would've heard "Mr. Booze" if not for Family Guy? This is the original. Also that song from The Music Man. Family Guy is actually responsible for lots of people first hearing some songs.