Ipod Shuffle 03: The Who Trivia Quiz

Answer: Slip Kid

"Slip Kid" is the opening track to "The Who By Numbers", the seventh studio album by the band. In London in 2008, The Who performed the complete song for the first time in thirty-two years.

Answer: Quadrophenia

Vedder saw his first Who concert on June 18, 1980, according to an interview he gave in Rolling Stone (Apr 15, 2004). He said "These guys changed my whole world". Vedder has long said The Who has been among his primary influences, and said the album "Quadrophenia" saved his life. Pearl Jam has frequently covered The Who in their concerts.

Answer: Love, Reign O'er Me

"Who Are You" as an album deals primarily with artistic change and the composing process of music itself. Townshend used some of the songs for his "Lifehouse" project. "New Song" uses "Love, Reign O'er Me" from "Quadrophenia" to prove Townshend's point about how hard it is to write new material without plagiarizing something old, even though it is his own material he is stealing from.

Answer: Little Billy

Townshend wrote "Little Billy" for the American Cancer Society and submitted it a to a record executive. However, the record executive never forwarded the song to the American Cancer Society and so the song sat unreleased until The Who's compilation "Odds & Sodds". The song deals with lung cancer.

Answer: I Can See for Miles

McCartney said he read in the press that The Who had written this really crazy, dirty rock and roll song. McCartney got so inspired by them he decided to write his own hard rock song, resulting in "Helter Skelter" ("Mojo" magazine, October 2008).

Answer: They Are All in Love

Often considered The Who's singer-songwriter album, it is definitely the odd man out in The Who's 1970s work. Rather than focus on concept albums and rock operas, "The Who By Numbers" deals with the problems of fame, lust, alcoholism, middle age, and lack of friends.

Answer: A Quick One, While He's Away

On their legendary "Live at Leeds" album, Townshend said that "A Quick One, While He's Away", the nine-minute medley from their second studio album, was the first real rock opera that he had developed. The song "I'm a Boy" also has art rock leanings. There are six different sections to the "A Quick One".

Source: songfacts.com

Answer: Rael

The song "Rael" is from "The Who Sell Out". Townshend's second exercise in a rock opera, the music in the later part of "Rael" appear as sections in the opening instrumental "Overture" in "Tommy". He also takes the line "It's a girl, Mrs. Walker, it's a girl," with the gender changed to a boy, from "Glow Girl".

Answer: Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere

Strangely enough, "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" is the only song in The Who's long career that was co-written by Townshend and Daltrey. Until 1999, the band had hardly ever played the song in their concerts.

Answer: Eminence Front

At the end of the first chorus on "Eminence Front", Townshend and Daltrey end their lines at slightly different times. When they re-released "It's Hard", the album the song appears on, they corrected the problem. In the original mix, Daltrey's vocals were in the left channel and Townshend's were on the right.