"La-La-La-Lies" is the fourth track on the Who's debut studio album My Generation. It was written by lead guitarist Pete Townshend.
"La-La-La-Lies" is the fourth track on the Who's debut studio album My Generation. It was written by lead guitarist Pete Townshend.
==Background== Townshend wrote the song during the summer of 1965, and the band recorded it consistently with his home demos. According to Townshend, the song "wasn't as good as this before I did it with Keith [Moon]. It's not my favourite one on the LP. It reminds me a bit of Sandie Shaw." Music journalist, Chris Charlesworth calls the melody "attractive". Charlesworth particularly highlights Moon's unusual drumming, in which Moon uses only his tom-toms during the verses and refrain and incorporates cymbals only for the bridge and the solo. Allmusic critic Richie Unterberger calls it one of the "highlights" of My Generation. But Steve Grantley and Alan G. Parker describe the song as being "so-so" and "pretty conventional". But they too acknowledge the power of Moon's "intermittent controlled" drum patterns and remark that it contains a preview of some elements of later Who songs, such as Townshend's "tentative crash chords". Who biographer John Atkins concurs that the song is rather conventional and describes it as a "straight pop song".
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