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Pete Townshend - VH1 Storytellers (1999)

Track listing:
  1. Nothing Is Everything 1:06
  2. Talks About Pure And Easy 2:35
  3. Pure And Easy 6:19
  4. Talks About Behind Blue Eyes 3:17
  5. Behind Blue Eyes 3:49
  6. Talks About Lifehouse 2:06
  7. Baba O'reilly 5:45
  8. Daltry - Townsend Talks About Fooled Again 4:58
  9. Won't Get Fooled Again 8:58
  10. Talks About Smashing Guitars 2:18
  11. Who Can Say 3:03

Notes

35 plus years after The Who formed in London, revered songwriter Pete Townshend sets a few things straight about classics like "Behind Blue Eyes" and "Won't Get Fooled Again." While most people assume the latter refers to shady politicians and their rhetoric, Townshend says he was actually talking about self-deception and other "vapid" thought processes by which people become trapped in themselves. This was just one of many songs whose original meaning got absorbed by the forceful personalities that made up his band, he notes, but "whenever I sing it it feels like the song I wrote." In an intimate Storytellers setting ("Kinda like playing in my living room," he quips at one point) the legendary rocker and a talented associates give new meaning to the term "classic rock" - without breaking any guitars!