Do you remember...

[gumbyk]

"Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional"

 

[Airframes]

Yep, and as the saying goes "You're only as old as the woman you feel ...."

 

[bobbysocks]

and its amazing they cant figure out why kids today are so obese??? like all of you TV in the early morning and afternoon sucked...game or talk shows..and soap operas. we were outside playing some sort of ball...kick the can...building cabins in the woods....doing stupid things we now wonder how we ever lived through. i read an interesting article when the cold war was still going on. the author basically talked about troops meeting and asked who would you back in a hand to hand fight....the russian kid who probably was out from dawn to dusk tossing bails of hay or the american kid who spend all day trying beat the high score on space invaders? all these modern devices have made our life better in some ways but made us worse off in others.

 

[Matt308]

To quote Pete Townshend

'Mature? I'm not mature...I'm just derelict'

To quote Pete Townshend... "And I moved... I moved towards him". One of my most favorite bands of all times. Fantanstic artist, but hinky as he got older. It appears that all my rock gods are queens.

 

[buffnut453]

Goddesses?

 

[Matt308]

Yeah. Turns out so. Van Halen, Queen, Styx, Rolling Stones, The Who, David Bowie, Rod Stewart, etc, ... Now that I'm older I don't give a $hit and fully comfortable in my manhood. Wonderful bands everyone!!!

 

[Lucky13]

.......with a female side?

 

[Readie]

To quote Pete Townshend... "And I moved... I moved towards him". One of my most favorite bands of all times. Fantanstic artist, but hinky as he got older. It appears that all my rock gods are queens.

Pete Townshend's writing is complex Matt.
Not sure what 'hinky' is... Chinese Eyes and Empty Glass?
My favourites
'won't get fooled again' , 'baba o'reilly , 'slip kid' and 'my generation'
If you are feeling brave you could suggest to Daltrey that he is a queen....

 

[Readie]

'hope I die before I get old'

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I think the problem is that parents don't invest enough in their childrens time anymore. It is just easier to sit them down in front of a Playstation and let them play all day. They are quiet and not bothering you.

When I was a kid my mom was always taking me to the pool, the zoo, museums, or I would go camping or hiking. I was active in thd boy scouts. When I was not doing such things, I was outside playing soldier or pirates or building a fort with my friends. We could turn a stick into a sword, gun of anything.

Kids today, don't have an imagination, and I blame parents for this.

 

[Matt308]

Pete Townshend's writing is complex Matt.
Not sure what 'hinky' is... Chinese Eyes and Empty Glass?

One of the most beautiful songs Pete ever wrote. But don't kid yourself what it is about.

Pete Townshend - Empty Glass/And I Moved

And I moved
As I saw him looking in through my window
His eyes were silent lies
And I moved
And I saw him standing in the doorway
His figure merely filled the space
And I moved
But I moved toward him

And I moved
And his hands felt like ice exciting
As he laid me back just like an empty dress
And I moved
But a minute after he was weeping
His tears his only truth.
And I moved
But I moved toward him

 

[Readie]

This is better... than the Meher Baba bollocks

Real 'Oo anger.

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again

Change it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fall that's all
But the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie

Do ya?


There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!


Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

Isn't that true eh Matt?

 

[javlin]

I think the problem is that parents don't invest enough in their childrens time anymore. It is just easier to sit them down in front of a Playstation and let them play all day. They are quiet and not bothering you.

When I was a kid my mom was always taking me to the pool, the zoo, museums, or I would go camping or hiking. I was active in thd boy scouts. When I was not doing such things, I was outside playing soldier or pirates or building a fort with my friends. We could turn a stick into a sword, gun of anything.

Kids today, don't have an imagination, and I blame parents for this.

Remember Chris back in the day Mom stayed home a family could survive on one income.I grew up in a family with 3 brothers and 3 sisters and Mom was home every day being tormented thus "go play" and there was really nothing to do inside anyway.We had about 20-30 acres of woods to bike in,build underground forts(washing machine tops became hatches),tree forts(lots),catching snakes/lizards and walking with Susie in the rain(she was 2yrs older thean me) Boys could fight and settle difference and maybe even become friends.Well we know what happens in the PC world of today.I still have the map of the trails in my head and location of certain forts.

 

[Readie]

Boys could fight and settle difference and maybe even become friends.Well we know what happens in the PC world of today..

You are absolutely right.
Well said
Cheers
John

 

[buffnut453]

Reading this thread gives me hope that I'm not doing too much to screw up my boys. They play outside...a lot. Sword fights, forts, catching critters...the whole shebang. My concern is they won't be able to relate to other kids their age(s)...but, hey, that's their problem! Maybe I am giving them cause to blame me for their future psychiatrist bills!

 

[mikewint]

Well if we're doin songs, MY favorite:
Well a man come on the 6 o'clock news
Said somebody's been shot, somebody's been abused
Somebody blew up a building
Somebody stole a car
Somebody got away
Somebody didn't get too far yeah
They didn't get too far

Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he done
Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street for all the people to see that

(Chorus)
Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we'll sing a victory tune
We'll all meet back at the local saloon
We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses

We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds
We've got too much corruption, too much crime in the streets
It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground
Send 'em all to their maker and he'll settle 'em down
You can bet he'll set 'em down

 

[Matt308]

This is better... than the Meher Baba bollocks

Real 'Oo anger.

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again

Change it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fall that's all
But the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie

Do ya?


There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!


Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

Isn't that true eh Matt?

Surely you do not understand the contrasts. That's like asking me to compare Shakespeare with Snoop Dog:

I hope you know the stakes
I'll put a slug between your shoulder blades
Then ask what light through yonder poser breaks?
I hath been iambic on that ass, ye bastard
My rhymes are classic
Your crap is drafted by a kindergartener high on acid

Ye hoebag
Youre an old white Soulja Boy who has no swag and no gonads
Egads, it's so sad
And to top it off
You're not a doctor
I've never seen a softer author
You crook, you
I bet you wrote The Twilight books too!

 

[Matt308]

I really liked the "ye bastard" part.

 

[Readie]

Matt, I know that Pete Townshend is a rather odd individual and that his music is about where he is at any given given time.
'By Numbers' was a low point for example.
I have meet the 'Oo in 1977...Daltrey is ok underneath the image. Probabily the best adjusted of all of them.

The one thing PT has done that put me off is the 'children images' episode, denied of course, but that has a left a bad taste in even the most diehard 'Oo fans.

Of PT's solo work I like

the best

I'm an English boy
I was brought up right
Hold me down
And I will bite
I know no fear
I serve with joy
I'm proud to be here
An English boy
I feel like a stray dog
Blurred like a movie
You say you've come to arrest me
But you're just trying to test me
I'm bored with your prejudice
Spreading like a fever
Your promises to train me
Are just attempts to restrain me
I'm an English boy
Precisely made
You can pin me down
I am not afraid
I show no fear
I will serve with joy
I'm proud to be here
An English boy
Use me like a headline
Cut pieces to pieces
I'm black on the tube line
Red on the touch-line
Freezing up the future
Stopping every stopwatch
You say we're moving like an oil slick
Thicker than a house brick
I'm an English boy
I was brought up right
If you raise your dress
Then I will bite
My voice is clear
I got perfect poise
Good to be down here
With all the English boys
And I don't know where I am now
Or where I'm gonna go
I just keep going round and round on the circle line
Like some demented kind a commuta
Trying to avoid paying for my ticket
I'm a lost soul
I read about myself in the newspapers
I'm a pig
I'm a thug
I've got nowhere to go but down
Feel like I'm kicking at a dead man
Kicking in the chorus
I'm broken by hatred
While politicians just ignore us
You never gave me any value
You didn't give me any reason
There's no tools and no toys
For any English boys
I'm an English boy
I was brought up right
Hold me down
And I will bite
I know no fear
I will serve with joy
I'm proud to be here
An English boy
I'm an English boy
I'm an English boy
I'm an English boy
No tools, no toys for any English boy
English boy

 

[N4521U]

Now how can I remember, I'm almost 70!!!!!