The Who’s Pete Townshend famously sang “Hope I die before I get old”.
If your knowledge of youth culture is that fucking bad that you ascribe the line to Townshend then perhaps you really shouldn’t use da youf culchur as your opening line of a tedious essay.
Townshend wrote it, Daltry sneered it.
19 responses so far ↓
1 Simon Cooke // Dec 24, 2012 at 12:39 pm
Not sure quoting a (admittedly great) song from the 1960s constitutes getting down wiv da yoof! More having a cup of cocoa with fifty-somthings reminiscing about the good old days if you ask me!
2 VftS // Dec 24, 2012 at 1:12 pm
Fifty-somethings? I make that a decade or so out. And it’s more likely to be a glass of something.
3 JamesV // Dec 24, 2012 at 1:34 pm
I hope I’m old before I die. Dats how to get down wiv da yoof, innit?
As an almost-fortysomething I agree Mr Cooke has committed an out-by-one error in his decade.
4 Flat Eric // Dec 24, 2012 at 2:54 pm
“We rebelled in old school yards
Now I do ads for c-c-c-c-credit cards
Talking ’bout humiliation…”
One of Spitting Image’s finest.
5 dearieme // Dec 24, 2012 at 4:08 pm
“rebelled” my arse. The whole thing was largely posing.
6 Ian B // Dec 24, 2012 at 5:46 pm
Posing or not, “Won’t Get Fooled Again” is one of the greatest instances of Western culture.
7 Bernie G. // Dec 24, 2012 at 5:54 pm
Yep, one decade adrift.
8 dearieme // Dec 24, 2012 at 7:52 pm
Ooh, Ian B, you are a tease.
9 BenSix // Dec 24, 2012 at 8:48 pm
And Jim Morrison was telling a friend it was the end, not saying the end was his friend.
This could be seen as pedantry if it was not yet further proof of Mr. James’s apparent indifference to evidentiary standards.
10 MakajazMakako // Dec 24, 2012 at 9:03 pm
@Ben6
“Jim Morrison sang of The End being his only friend”
Man when I was a kid I used to think Bon Jovi was singing about “living on a prairie”, you live and you learn
11 Frederick // Dec 24, 2012 at 9:06 pm
And remember that song by Billy Ocean called “Go and get stuffed”
12 Dennis The Peasant // Dec 24, 2012 at 9:07 pm
Why the fuck would anyone want to get down wiv da yoof in the first place? One of the few joys of advanced middle age is being in the position to be able to ignore the little bastards.
13 Dennis The Peasant // Dec 24, 2012 at 9:10 pm
My Generation
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Anarchy in the UK
Pete did himself proud in writing two of the three greatest rock songs ever written.
14 Dennis The Peasant // Dec 24, 2012 at 9:11 pm
I bet Richard Murphy listens to Abba.
15 Edward Lud // Dec 24, 2012 at 11:31 pm
Dennis the P., I listen to Abba.
16 Dennis The Peasant // Dec 25, 2012 at 2:46 am
Edward -
That’s both unfortunate and something you don’t admit to publicly.
17 Edward Lud // Dec 25, 2012 at 12:39 pm
I also like Neil Diamond and (early) Duran Duran. Sheep and lambs, old boy, sheep and lambs. We all have our guilty pleasures.
Actually I think Duran Duran’s eponymous first album is one of the most accomplished examples of new romantic techno-synth (if that’s the phrase I’m looking for) around, and Rio is still a corker. On the other hand, they sold out somewhere between ’86 and ’88 and have made almost nothing of value since then.
While we’re on the subject, I defy you to listen to Abba’s “Eagle” without being moved by its luscious langour.
But if we’re all going to pretend to be the genuine greasy-haired rock prog-rock schtick, my money is on Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.
Still, I’m comfortable with my choices, ahem…
18 Dennis The Peasant // Dec 25, 2012 at 8:39 pm
*shudder*
19 Matthew L // Dec 26, 2012 at 4:14 am
As long as it’s not Michael Bolton.
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