"pictures of lily"

speaking of the 'oo, here's vid of them in the studio, recording one of those great '66-'68 superpop singles (best heard on meaty beaty big and bouncy, the first and still champeen who compilation because it ends in 1970) from their post-r&b, pre-tommy, beach boys-influenced phase that found its fullest fruition in the who sell out. stumbling on them when i was 12, what they were singing about (masturbation and adolescent revenge fantasies) seemed a whole lot more _relevant_ than what, say, the beatles (love) and the stones (being the devil) had to offer. and then live at leeds arrived.