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The Who's Weirdest Songs #10
11:39 AM GMT 23/02/2009
10. God Speaks Of Marty Robbins
(Endless Wire, 2006)
A real off-the-wall double-whammy. First Pete Townshend imagines that he's God. Then he imagines God creating the world in order to hear music, specifically and inexplicably the anodyne C&W of Marty Robbins. Originally, Townshend had thought that Hank Williams or Jim Reeves would have made better candidates for his bonkers eulogy before judging them both to be "too extreme" and plumping for Robbins, one of the artists he'd listened to in his youth. Tellingly, Daltrey did not ask to sing the song, leaving Townshend to lend his own vocals gracing this sparse and gentle curio. [PA]
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Posted by Ross_Bennett at 11:39 AM GMT 23/02/2009
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