Awesome! That’s an even tighter schedule than I had when I went to see the Nice’s reunion tour in 2002. I flew out of SFO on Saturday morning, arrived at Heathrow Sunday morning, spent the day poking around London, had a nap at the hotel, saw the show Sunday night, flew out Monday morning, and was back at work on Tuesday.
Legendary perfect album. There may be a couple of albums better than Who’s Next, but there is not a bad song contained therein.
Have to go with the anthem Won’t get fooled again narrowly over Goin’ Mobile.
Definitely “Behind Blue Eyes”
Oh man, this is a really really hard pick. One of my top 5 favorite albums ever (even though it’s nearly tied with Quadrophenia). I went with Getting In Tune mainly because I had a feeling it wouldn’t be getting much else love. But really, ANY song on that album would be a legitimate vote from me.
Too bad they ruined Bargain for me forever because of that Chevy commercial…
That’s my solution…
My favorite album by my favorite group. Feel so 12 years old saying that. It’s awsome.
This was the first rock and roll album I ever bought. Carried it home in the canvas knapsack my aunt made me, riding home on my Schwinn nonespeed… Still have it. (The album that is.)
Sorry, CSI: Miami ruined it. Baba O’Reilly wins it.
Oh man, you’re going to make me choose between Baba O’Riley and Won’t Get Fooled Again? That’s just cold-blooded, man.
I’ll go listen to both.
(time passes)
OK, It’s really hard dissing the greatest scream in Rock music, but I’m gonna go with Baba O’ Riley. Thank god Love Reign O’er Me was not also on this album!
Behind Blue Eyes.
Baba O’Reilly and Won’t Get Fooled Again close behind.
But BBE wins for me.
Wow, that’s a tough choice!
I had to go with Won’t Get Fooled Again on the strength of the scream + lyrics. The damned song has only gotten more relevant over the last 40 years.
Going Mobile has one of the earliest uses of a guitar being played through a synthesizer. It was routed through a wah pedal first.
I think it’s a guitar played through a synth unit set up as an envelope follower, where the ‘wah’ effect tracks the volume of the guitar signal. In the Classic Albums film Roger Daltrey seems to think that it is a synthesiser, and isn’t happy about it 
Great album. Won’t Get Fooled Again is the best song on it by two lengths. It is cynical and I agree with Townsend that it’s message is wrong. But it is still a great song. Place and Show are Baba O’Reilly and Goin Mobile.
ARP created a guitar synthesizer, the Avatar, in the late 70s that Townshend endorsed. It bombed and ARP did not last much longer - they closed in 1981.
“Bargain”, for the Keith Moon’s drum performance alone.
Can’t argue with “cynical” but what is it about the message that you & Peter feel is “wrong”?
If I may offer my own opinion on the subject, I think people can easily take away too much pro-status-quo sentiment from the song. The ending line that the new boss is the same as the old boss suggests that there’s no point in changing things around: there would be upheaval and suffering, after which not much has changed, so why did we bother?
This message is wrong; sometimes things do need to be changed for the better. What we must do is strive to ensure that our new order does not slip back into the old order. We must be cautious to ensure that change that we rise up for actually gets made. It’s very difficult to get that message out of the song.