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  • Radio used to play this song all the time (Top 10 on the Album Rock Track Charts in 1981). This is one of the best Who album closing tracks (in fact the last great album closer as I felt "I've Known No War" should have ended It's Hard). Face Dances would have made #1 in the States but fellow R&RHoF inductee Steve Winwood's Arc of a Diver, REO Speedwagon's Hi Infidelity and Styx's masterpiece Paradise Theatre occuiped #'s 3, 2 and 1 respectively (all great albums).

  • Not that Kenny is a bad drummer but something's missing without Moonman. 

  • Pete looks young in this,,,he's ancient now, but still the shit.

  • BadASS bassline. The Ox is missed.

  • The WHO always center me and bring back perspective with this song. Don't sweat the small stuff...just hang on to the band.

  • Great album but not the same without Keith Moon..

  • with the outside exception of geddy lee, john entwhistle was the baddest bass player around. thanks for sharing this video.

  • I much prefer this to "Guitar and Pen".

    Wow I remember watching this video when it first premiered nice trip down memory lane for this 40 year old.

  • I love John

  • I love the way Pete always looks like he's two seconds from picking a fight with his guitar.

    My money's on the schnozz.

  • Limeys know how to write a song.

  • For 3 people, this actually IS a social crisis.

  • just makes me smile thank god i got to see them two weeks ago at Boston U

  • class!

  • i love this song !

  • What's with the scarf Roger?

  • @MisterIanPickering

    Roger was clearly a mod in the 60's, his fashion sense always remained.. this vid was a time when preppie fashion ruled the west....people will look at stuff that you kids wear 20 years from now and scratch their heads too, count on it....

  • maximum bass check

  • @empath06 Yea, most bands wouldn't mix in the bass like that. But most bands were not the who

  • I love this album.

  • @thegorn68 Sure is! Not many bands can loose a key member like Moon and then come right back and make an album like this,this album commercially is'nt one of their better selling ones,But the number of great songs on it are staggering.

  • Just another tricky day.

    For you.

    Fellah.

  • I love the Who as a whole, but man Entwistle is was R.I.P. a monster bass player!

  • They never needed Roger.They should have been a three piece band!

  • @BellumSacrumBellum28 Didn't NEED one of the three best vocalists in rock history??? Puh-leeeeze...

  • @BellumSacrumBellum28 Are you insane? Tommy would have been a flop without Roger.

  • @richiebear1969 and H2O would be very dry without H and my dog couldn't smell shit with out his nose......dumbass

  • @dbohnenkamper Dumbass?..... Even your insults just like your musical opinions are lame.

  • @BellumSacrumBellum28 You must be nuts. Have you heard the notes Roger hits? Have you heard the feeling and emotion which he puts into every song? Go listen to "Love Reign O'er Me" at Live Aid and tell me the band never needed Roger. Get out man. Insane.

  • Roger going w/ the early 80s preppy look, while Pete stays w/ the bad boy look.  LOL

  • This song helps me through the hard times.. Thanks Roger and Pete RIP John and Keith

  • i love song sicne I could rember, love keith & john

  • Great Frickin' Song... UKnowWhoIM

  • Go Kenney. 

  • GREAT BASS!

  • When you think about it, the Who had four "hall of fame" musicians who would be talented enough to make it on their own. Put them all together and you have arguably the greatest rock band of all time.

  • @Sincopare No "arguably" about it, bro.

  • go Johnny!! Play that bass. xoxo Johnny we miss u!

  • deadly tune with wicked cool bass line

  • John Entwistle was a outstanding bassist.. 

  • @partypianoplayer

    I agree - there is a clip of him playing just the bass line - superb.

  • I LOVE THIS SONG, BUT I MIDD KEITH SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH, E DIED WHEN I WAS A BABY. HE IS STILL A GOD TO ME

  • Daltry is the fuckin man..........

  • three people don't know what just another tricky day is, shame.

  • John Entwistle is a bass God!

  • how john plays the bass idk its just so fucking cool

  • Never new why they weren't more sucessful than Zeppelin.

  • You can't always get higher just because you aspire; you could expire even knowing...

  • superbowl omg it sooooo aweum

  • the GREATEST band. Thanks so much Pete, Roger and belatedly John and Keith. You guys took me from who I was to WHO I am (in 25 short years!)

  • Im out of breath!

  • No matter how I'm feeling, this song ALWAYS lifts my spirits.

    Thanks guys, for writing and recording this song!

    --a grateful fan.

  • @Bluestatedad ALWays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Bluestatedad i quiet agree with u i feel same as u about the song another one is hiding out from white city and crashing by design peace

  • True masters of thier art and craft !!

    You also have to admire them for doing WHAT EVER THE FUCK THEY WANT !!!!!

    musicly and socialy throughout thier entire lives.

    Many things have changed in this world but, The Who always brings back the same feelings and memories (when I can actualy remember them...) from the time when this music was brand new.

    What a fucking great time to be alive !!

  • @6116merl

    You are so absofuckinglutley right, people in the future will discover them like a fine antique, or wine they are the artists that people will collect.

    But to me they are pricless now.

    Awesome!!!

  • When they periodically mention the top 100 Guitarists- one person they should include in the category and pay tribute to is John Entwistle- the guy was amazing

  • When they periodically mention the top 100 Guitarists- one person they should include in the category and pay tribute to is John Entwistle- the guy was amazing

  • both this album and 'its hard' took the who in a new direction for the 80s,and were good solid albums(you better,you bet-the quiet one-how can you do it alone-dangerous-cry if you want-athena).......they could have done a couple more-what a shame then,they just jacked it in.....

  • YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

  • 126, 000 ODD VIEWS...SAD STATE WE ARE IN NOW...WE'RE SORRY PETE AND MATES...

  • Fella...

  • let this be the last song you hear before starting a new day after spending the previous night trying to piece your messed-up life back together

  • Truly one of the most under-rated The Who albums. As is typical during that time Townsend got no credit for trying something different. The size of Pete Townsend's musical balls would make most songwriters wince and slither off in shame.

    Absolutely, mega balls that man has. Let me not fail to point out the amazing group of musicians performing here.

  • This is.... ROCK n FUCKING ROLL!

  • no music evolution since that !

  • They must've filmed this either right before or after shooting You Better, You Bet.

  • @lurch321 Same album. So your right.

  • Such a great guitar sound on this tune.

  • days almost over d 101

  • This is no social crisis; just another VIKKI day for you! This song so fits the easily irritated Vikki in Spokane hahaha

  • the good ol days.......kool who moment!!!!

  • That Bass is redic!

  • I always thought this song came out in 1977, I remember hearing it then.

  • listen to that bass line WOW

  • The best band of all time,even without Moon.

    Simply the best.

  • the last great who song

  • @Keithmoon32

    not true...that would be "endless wire"(2006)

  • I want to know who the two dimwits were who didn't like this... please go listen to hip-hop.....

  • I think Face Dances is one of their better albums. I play it more than Who Are You, It's Hard, and By Numbers. The lyrics are way better on Face Dances than Who Are You.

    And Jones's drumming is fine. He isn't Keith Moon (and doesn't try to be), but he's still solid.

  • @GoblinGirl ...i agree with everything you just said including playing this album more

  • great song

  • Seen them 3 times...never will be enuff....

  • love this song

  • this is the song I want at my WAKE and engraved on my headstone!

  • best produced who-album and mostly underrated, i'm loving it... and i'm sorry that keith missed this one

  • This was the first who album without Moon .Kenny Jones is the drummer.

  • Man! I haven't heard this song in AGES! Totally enjoying this! Thanks for posting.

  • Keith Moon............... enough said.

  • google mp3iffy to download this song from youtube.

  • @bonzeemer me too

  • This is killer Bass!! What is going on. Why can't music be played like this anymore?

  • patience is priceless......

  • This was a very unhappy time for the band, Pete was upset and considered Face Dances pretty much garbage. Amazing the high standards they set for themselves, I think The Who are at their best here, an overplayed...yet under-rated song.

  • love those power chords and how he breaks them up with open strumming. funny to hear it without him playing though at 2:58 or thereabouts. :D

  • "You can dance while your knowledge is growing"...another great Townshend lyric! I think the album this came from, Face Dances, deserves more credit than it got.

  • Just Gotta get used to it...

  • como se extraña al no verlo para esa epoca  a Keith Moon :¨(

  • Pete and Roger are so different...Roger looks so together and Pete well.....I identify with him.

  • @scodug Hah! Good comment!

  • @scodug high?

  • This just speeks volumes and f'kn barks!!!!!!!!....lv the who.

  • Gosh I Love The Who ..I will never get enough of them ..Great somg

  • Real superb song from The Who. Fantastic harmony vocals. It's Hard is a really underestimated album.

  • its because Keith Moon was dead and when he died the whole outlook of their music changed, i think it went a bit too much towards the industry standard and just became another rock group, who happened to be 3 legends and one guy playing drums.

  • hhhh

  • What always peaks my imagination is that had Moonie lived and played on this and other tracks from Its Hard, and Face Dances what might the songs have sounded like. Its fun to try to imagine his choices and playing. I play drums and can do a pretty good Moonie so sometimes I play along with this and others and try and channel the Moon and see what comes out, weird yes, fun yes, cheap entertainment, yes lol.

  • A heck of a GREAT SONG !

    In fact, like in some of the real great WHO songs, there are several songs within the song, like a couple of stories within a book.

    Just mighty great.

  • Nice video... bad editing, really though.

  • 5starr.....

  • cool piano in the back

  • LONG LIVE THE OX!!!

  • Solid number. FD is one of the Who's albums I don't have but I'll probably get round to buying it at some point. I know the album got panned a bit by critics at the time but at the end of the day it's down to individual taste. Obviously their sound changed a bit after Moons death but Jones is a fine drummer, just not the same style as Moon (but nobody really was).

  • "You Better You Bet" and "Don't Let Go the Coat" are on it too. Definitely underappreciated.

  • Cheers for the reply. I have You Better on Who's Better, Who's Best from '88 and i've heard Don't Let on Tube. Bought FD (remastered) recently off Play for £4.99 so it should be dropping through my letterbox anyday soon!

  • DAMN i love the Ox. makes another song...

    the guy was so badass....it took TWO nicknames to cover him ....

  • @mcul2112  i wanna see YOU --best song on album!!!!!

  • CSI,.. FUCK CSI,

    this is THE WHO, NOT INTENDED TO

    BE THE LOUSEY TITLE TRACK OF A SHITTY

    FILTH-SOAP!

    THIS IS NO SOCIAL CRISIS-JUST ANOTHER TRICKY DAY! FOR ME ONE OF THEIR FINEST ALBUMS, FACE DANCES"""

  • @MoveOverCasanova ... we could have had a "Mike Post Theme" instead.... lol

  • @MoveOverCasanova I concur...

  • @MoveOverCasanova

    correction: lousy

  • @jimmyboy8005

    lousy what??

  • @jimmyboy8005 what!!!!

  • @MoveOverCasanova calm down CSI is a pretty good show, and at least it let's a whole new generation listen to the who, maybe a narrow view of the who, but still better than nothing

  • @freespeech4u2

    can´t agree at all, but it is their own fault letting their music be misused so badly.

  • @MoveOverCasanova CSI really isn't that bad. and just being the opening doesn't irrevocably ruin their music forever

  • @freespeech4u2

    you may have noticed that my comment is half a year old --- i really don´t care that deeply about it, even though i wrote it in capitals ))

    and if you like CSI, no offence, ---

  • @MoveOverCasanova you know how the ice is. . .

  • @allenbroadway

    it´s thin where you´re skating

  • @MoveOverCasanova I also like, "You irritate me, my friend"

  • @MoveOverCasanova Sort of agree with your sentiment - but the fact is - it's turned on a whole new generation to The Who. Don't you remember the first time you heard Who's Next, no doubt on LP, and listened to it from start to finish?? Awesome, and a shit load of Gen Yers will have done this thanks to CSI. Is that really a bad thing??

    Rock on!

  • @SirRoastalot sure -- and it also shows that if you need really good music, that really appeals and lingers in the head, you have to search pretty far back in time,-- sad, but true

  • @MoveOverCasanova Yeah that shit show doesn't deserve to have an amazing song from and amazing band, that show is retarded. (My Opinion.)

  • @MoveOverCasanova Righto dude. I give this album a 10/10!

  • This song would have been a great intro song for an incarnation of CSI. Another Tricky Day, it doesn't get any more fitting for CSI.

  • another tricky day for the who ,they lost there engine moonie they were lost but still trying but the who always had big balls!

  • Face Dances was IMHO The Who's freshest album since Quadrophenia. Some complained about the production but I think Bill Szymczyk (famed for work with The Eagles and Joe Walsh (whom I think suggested Pete and John use to produce FD)) did a great job. It wasn't until March, 1987 when I first got the cassette at Musicland (along with Pink Floyd's The Final Cut). I managed to wear out FD as the album is flawless IMHO. This track, You Better You Bet, The Quiet One and You all kicked ass.

  • personally (personally here) I LOVE the way Rodger has tied his "neck scarf"...love it. No' like wan o' they fuckin clowns yi see these days that huv been on the fuckin' web tae learn how tae put a "trendy knot in yir fuckin scarf"...you know? They fuckin' wanks...naw....I like this rodger style. Takes me back. Flat caps an' fitba scarfs...fuck off aw you "new neck scarf tying cunts"...HA!

  • john rock steady on the bass

  • the OX

  • thunderfingers rocks!

  • great bassline

  • Goosebumps, man. They really made a huge impact on rock. Wonderful tunes for all time.

  • woah the bass is just.... woah... long live the ox

  • THE WHO

  • sweet Rock and Roll from Masters

    Hello to everyone who know good music

  • this is true

  • love thislyric to this. use to listen to this years ago.

  • Still luv this after all these years, god bless the who

  • The album is Face Dances

  • .PETE

  • He's barely upright. A sad sight in those days.

  • heroin

  • Thought it was booze.

  • it can happen any time

  • You can't expect to never fly...

  • THANK YOU !!!!---- former employees of pay-pal, for building such a wonderful and creative site. I wouldn't even be able to find this song on a n album(CD i mean) if I wanted too. If it was not for this site.

  • Way too fast. The Who didn't record this song this fast. You need to take this song down and re-calibrate.

  • What are you talking about? I had this album(Yes album), this sounds right.

  • I was right, pack05intx. The Who recorded this in the key of C. This video is in C# meaning either the video tape or the VCR itself sped up the song therefore changing the original key entirely. It's not the end of the world but it's always been a pet peeve of mine. I had a VCR and various cassette tape players over the years that did the same thing and it drove me crazy. To non-musicians it makes no difference but I'm sure there are musicians out there that understand what I'm talking about.

  • Hi, mate. Indeed I understand what you meant. However, in my opinion, as for the Who music, sometimes speeding up effect works to make their music more attractive (e.g., some bootlegs of Woodstock 1969).

  • I disagree, fleetwoodmac1982. If the artist wants their music sped up, they would do it themselves. On second thought you do have a point. The original Jumping Jack Flash's key lies somewhere between Bb and B. I don't know if the Stones intended it or it was an accident but it certainly worked and gave the song a darker more intense sound. Actually, I do want to take back what I said about the guy should take the video down. The was a stupid thing to say. I am grateful that's up at all.

  • To me it's a moot point. I just liked hearing it again. I'm not a musician so I'll give you that one. :)

  • @tomthefunky: I'm not a musician, but this does seem sped-up to me. I had the same problem with various turntables, cassette players, and even an eight-track player, at one time. Sometimes, I would let an album keep playing over and over, on one turntable, as I slept, and when I got up in the morning, the thing had seemingly sped up, overnight. I would start with the Who, and end up with something that sounded a little like the Chipmunks.

  • I don't know if this is a lip sync...if it is, then it's definitely sped-up. (faster than normal album/CD speed) When they did this it concert, it sounded even faster.

  • thats funny mate

  • Yeah it is a tad too fast. I just heard the album cut and then I found this video and it is faster.

  • @Adrianrulz and I bet it would would great even faster! I hear the thrash version loud and clear!

  • The Who- The MTV Years

  • B N P

  • Who's idea was it to let a Muslim work on an army base near all those guns and explosives? It's like a fat man working at a McDonalds or perderass working at a daycare.

  • You are aware that not all Muslim's are terrorists, right?