Pete Townshend is a song crafter. He has the ability to mix certain sounds with certain words to create certain feelings, and then make it into a hit song. A rare talent.
SO happy to see you two broadcasting and apparently safe. I hope you didn't get much damage. Please keep the songs coming. In keeping with the weather, maybe you could react to The Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again?
"Let My Love Open The Door" is written in the key of C major, which is why it has such a happy tone. It was Pete Townshend's biggest solo hit, peaking at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 16, 1980. He had only one other solo Top 40 hit, called "Face The Face," which featured a brief cameo by his daughter, Emma, and peaked at #26 on January 18, 1986. I highly recommend listening to "Face The Face." It's a fun, uptempo song with some interesting wordplay, a prominent brass section, and a very strange ending that I'm interested in seeing your reactions to. :P
THANK YOU! I was wondering if there was a term for that. I think Dave Grohl has it too. He was on Amanpour & Co recently on PBS and he mentioned that he sees music in blocks and shapes.
"Cute". I think this is the song where he plays every instrument & sings every part. He worked on this for months, at home, in his studio & he hunted down sounds to record & add in later. It is genius level musicianship.
I fell in love with this song A long time ago when I was quite young because it was on in 1989's film look who's talking with Bruce Willis playing the voice of Mikey and then at the very end of the movie is when this song started playing because there was another child on the way so Mikey was going to be a big brother to a sister and that's what kicked off the second part of the series called Look Who's Talking Too and then they're the third one when the children are quite a bit older called Look Who's Talking Now it was all made in British Columbia Canada where I'm from around the different areas of Vancouver as well as a mountain top near Vancouver on the third movie but I did not know that one of the young boys that played Mikey was from Nanaimo where I'm from on Vancouver Island I met him by accident from another friend of mine that introduced me to him and he did look a bit like Mikey as a child but he was of course an adult I met him only in 2012 so now he's quite a bit older again I haven't seen him since and just a little footnote about myself I was in a movie in Vancouver Canada called Rocky 4 and I got to meet all the famous people in that movie I was one of the spectators that was a Russian soldier of course I didn't have the look but they made me look like that from the makeup Department
The key is you have to let his love open the door. He's knocking you have to answer. The lyrics Don't say my love kick open the door to your heart, it says let My Love Open the door To Your Heart. The narrator is telling everyone if you let him his love can do all these great things but you have to allow it.
Pete Townshend, singer, guitarist, writer for the great band The Who. For solo Pete, I'd recommend, the obvious, Rough Boys. But there is a deep cut, a lot of people don't know, called I Want That Thing.
According to Wikipedia, this songs has been in about ten movies, in addition to TV shows and commercials right up to the present. Personally, I remember it as the opening to Look Who's Talking when you lightheartedly see sperm fertilizing an egg, and also in Jersey Girl. If you didn't know, Townsend is the guitar player and mainstay of The Who.
"Let My Love Open the Door" is Pete Townshend's most popular solo song. It charted at #9 on the US Billboard Hot 100. From 1980's 'Empty Glass' LP record.
Pete Townshend is the lead guitarist and primary composer and lyricist for The Who. I always pair this song up in my head with Julian Lennon's "Much Too Late for Goodbye" for some reason. I don't know why. I'm so glad they didn't play this on your loop of horrors at Stone Cold Creamery. I'd hate for you to hate this song.
I have seen Pearl Jam about 6 times....the first of which, they played an outstanding cover of this song. I knew the song vaguely before then (enough to recognize it), but Pearl Jam got me into this Pete Tonshend song more than anybody else.
Simon Philips, one of the greatest, grooviest drummers of his generation. Pete was brilliant in snatching him up. Listen to some of Pete's live stuff for explosive musicianship. I recommend "Give Blood".
This song is great, I remember when came out loved to hear it on radio and it just makes you want to dance , its a feel good song , and catch and you just start singing with it
I was 12 going on 13 when this came out. It reminds me of my first girlfriend, my bar mitzvah, playing tennis with my dad Saturday mornings such a great time in my life was 1980:)
This is Pete talking about his spiritual belief -- a devout follower of Guru Meher Baba (Baba O'Reilly*) -- it's God speaking to him. (Or you, me, us...)
The whole Empty Glass album is excellent. As an aside I'll always maintain that The Who should have released So Sad About Us as a single. Nailed on hit ruclips.net/video/4E5d-G-hFLo/видео.html
You should give an ear to Pete's song Blue, Red and Grey. The lyrics are simple but beautiful. Not from his solo albums, but off The Who By Numbers LP. My favorite jam from his solo career was Gonna Get Ya. He kicks butt on this track. Shows off what an amazing guitarist he really was, still is. I'm such a Who freak it's sickening. Lol
This song came on after a bunch of friends after a car accident nothing was going on and the next thing we know this song started playing it was GOD talking to us amen!!!!!!!
Pete's song tears in heaven. Very sad point in real life. I dont know if he was home or nearby. They lived in a high rise a good number of floors up. The window was open with a screen that was removable. The baby (toddler) pushed past the screen. He wrote the song soon after.
This is the opening song of the movie Look Who’s Talking…when the sperm are travelling through the vaginal canal, to the egg. And my wife and I showed that scene to our kids, to explain how babies are made. Haha!
The other single from this album was "Rough Boys", which is also of note. The Who were somewhat winding down, with the death of Keith Moon and the tragedy at their concert in Cincinnati, and there was talk that Pete was saving his favorite songs for his solo work. (I think "Slit Skirts", off his 1982 solo album, was better than anything off of the contemporaneous Who album. But then, I spent a lot of 1982 thinking that groups were making very simplistic, by-the-numbers music. I like "Athena" [by the Who] better than "Separate Ways" or "Chain Reaction" [from Journey, at the same time], but you can't convince me that Pete wasn't cranking this out in his sleep, nonetheless.) Oddly, after the Who broke up (following their 1982 tour) for most of the 1980s, Pete did NOT go full on into his solo career. Instead, he released a collection of demos ("Scoop", 1983), a concept album ("White City", 1985), a live album ("Deep End Live", 1986) and another collection ("Another Scoop", 1987) before moving into film scoring and reuniting the Who. Perhaps he didn't feel comfortable doing a full tour without Roger and John.
"let my love open the door..." the "DOOR" to your heart... this song rolls right along side with; Paul Mcartneis song 'let me roll it to ya' ruclips.net/video/xUsRDzGOyNI/видео.html
I love how animated Lex gets, while Brad is more studious. I watch your reaction channel every Friday evening, keep up the good work. Ps, l asked a while back if you could react to 'I am the resurrection' by The Stone roses. Still waiting. 😉
Hey! Loved your reaction. I would suggest and recommend the Eagles «Take it to the limit» live in 1977 where one of music’s most underrated voices Randy Meisner (the bassist) sings. It’s an incredible song and i would love for you to check it out!
Man I thinks y’all content is great I think that y’all should listen to Diamonds and Gasoline by Turnpike Troubadours it’s great song look forward to watching your reactions to the song keep up the great work
"Its not annoying enough ....its like a normal song" If that's the highest praise Brad ever gives a Pete Townshend song, it's enough for me ;) But you absolutely have to do "The Real Me "by the Who coming up....seriously
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Pete Townsend is one of the few rock and roll stars who can legitimately be called a genius
Pete Townshend, guitar player for THE WHO - one of the finest song writers ever! This song is meant to reflect "Gods love"
And 2nd lead singer
Pete Townshend is a song crafter. He has the ability to mix certain sounds with certain words to create certain feelings, and then make it into a hit song. A rare talent.
Аnd he sings this song.
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He called this his "Jesus song". It's supposed to be God speaking to a human rather than a romantic love song.
That makes so much sense to me. I can’t believe that never crossed my mind 😊
I never knew this , now seeing lyrics < I get that and love it
@@MySherry10 I read it in an interview.
That's awesome because I always interpreted the song as that.
Wow, Pete's really cool to begin with but that God speak just blew me away. Didn't know.
I always refer to this as “the song that plays after a happy ending in an 80’s movie.”
First heard it Looks Who's Talking lol.
SO happy to see you two broadcasting and apparently safe. I hope you didn't get much damage. Please keep the songs coming. In keeping with the weather, maybe you could react to The Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again?
I would have thought John Fogerty's "Change In The Weather".
I'm pretty sure they already reacted to Here Comes The Rain. They also did Sweet Dreams, and Would I Lie to You?
Love Pete's solo stuff.
I believe I was one of the 10 people who actually bought Empty Glass when it came out on vinyl
"Let My Love Open The Door" is written in the key of C major, which is why it has such a happy tone. It was Pete Townshend's biggest solo hit, peaking at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 16, 1980. He had only one other solo Top 40 hit, called "Face The Face," which featured a brief cameo by his daughter, Emma, and peaked at #26 on January 18, 1986. I highly recommend listening to "Face The Face." It's a fun, uptempo song with some interesting wordplay, a prominent brass section, and a very strange ending that I'm interested in seeing your reactions to. :P
Always loved this song. So simple and straightforward, but so true.
Lex has synesthesia where you see sounds. Yellow for her, sky blue for me. Love the song and the whole album.
THANK YOU! I was wondering if there was a term for that. I think Dave Grohl has it too. He was on Amanpour & Co recently on PBS and he mentioned that he sees music in blocks and shapes.
"Cute". I think this is the song where he plays every instrument & sings every part. He worked on this for months, at home, in his studio & he hunted down sounds to record & add in later. It is genius level musicianship.
This song will always remind me of that scene from Dan In Real Life with Steve Carell and Dane Cook.
I fell in love with this song A long time ago when I was quite young because it was on in 1989's film look who's talking with Bruce Willis playing the voice of Mikey and then at the very end of the movie is when this song started playing because there was another child on the way so Mikey was going to be a big brother to a sister and that's what kicked off the second part of the series called Look Who's Talking Too and then they're the third one when the children are quite a bit older called Look Who's Talking Now it was all made in British Columbia Canada where I'm from around the different areas of Vancouver as well as a mountain top near Vancouver on the third movie but I did not know that one of the young boys that played Mikey was from Nanaimo where I'm from on Vancouver Island I met him by accident from another friend of mine that introduced me to him and he did look a bit like Mikey as a child but he was of course an adult I met him only in 2012 so now he's quite a bit older again I haven't seen him since and just a little footnote about myself I was in a movie in Vancouver Canada called Rocky 4 and I got to meet all the famous people in that movie I was one of the spectators that was a Russian soldier of course I didn't have the look but they made me look like that from the makeup Department
High School Sophomore Year! This song was everywhere in 1980!
The key is you have to let his love open the door.
He's knocking you have to answer.
The lyrics Don't say my love kick open the door to your heart, it says let My Love Open the door To Your Heart.
The narrator is telling everyone if you let him his love can do all these great things but you have to allow it.
This was the song for the movie look who's talking. That is where you might have heard it from.
Brad & Lex, you'll love his "Rough Boys" and "Slit Skirts!!
"Rough Boys" for sure! It has a cool video also.
Slit Skirts is a banger
I heard they were categories for the files on the kiddie diddle pictures he had ......
"Rough Boys" is so freaking cool, off this same album (Empty Glass).
Slit Skirts is so great. It’s my second fave solo Pete track. The “Mary” demo off Scoop just destroys my soul.
This one was one of my favorites back in the day. It is unique with a great tune. So much comes back to me every time this song pops up. Just awesome!
Rough Boys, Give Blood, Slit Skirts, Gonna Get Ya, My Baby Gives It Away, Keep On Working, Face Dances Part 2, all great solo Pete songs.
Pete Townshend, singer, guitarist, writer for the great band The Who. For solo Pete, I'd recommend, the obvious, Rough Boys. But there is a deep cut, a lot of people don't know, called I Want That Thing.
I think of Steve Carell singing this in Dan In Real Life every time I hear it. Such a touching moment in that movie.
Absolutely
This hit was in the film Look Who's Talking (1989) with John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, and the voice of Bruce Willis as Mikey. Pete is a good musician.
Anyone who has seen "Look Who's Talking" has heard this one! LOL
There is a downtempo remix of this song that my spouse and i danced to at our wedding atbthe end of the last century.
Love this song so much.
The eCola remix? IMO, it's superior to the original.
According to Wikipedia, this songs has been in about ten movies, in addition to TV shows and commercials right up to the present. Personally, I remember it as the opening to Look Who's Talking when you lightheartedly see sperm fertilizing an egg, and also in Jersey Girl. If you didn't know, Townsend is the guitar player and mainstay of The Who.
I think that's the ending and or the 2nd beginning, because the first wasn't happy beginning lol
It's in the closing credits too iirc
"Let My Love Open the Door" is Pete Townshend's most popular solo song. It charted at #9 on the US Billboard Hot 100. From 1980's 'Empty Glass' LP record.
Pete Townshend is the lead guitarist and primary composer and lyricist for The Who. I always pair this song up in my head with Julian Lennon's "Much Too Late for Goodbye" for some reason. I don't know why.
I'm so glad they didn't play this on your loop of horrors at Stone Cold Creamery. I'd hate for you to hate this song.
Great song , glad you 2 seem safe and in good spirits :)
I have seen Pearl Jam about 6 times....the first of which, they played an outstanding cover of this song. I knew the song vaguely before then (enough to recognize it), but Pearl Jam got me into this Pete Tonshend song more than anybody else.
Killer song. Great reaction, guys!
Beautiful play, I love it!!🎶🤩🥰✨
Face the Face is brilliant, you should react to that one, the live version will really blow you away!
Keeping that rock steady beat, in Face The Face, for the entirety of the song, without any deviation, is a lot harder then it sounds.
The White City album is great from start to finish.
1st again...i got no life lol..love this song, great reaction...happy you guys are safe...a hui hou
Brad is so lucky to have Lex. What an awesome couple.
From the album Empty Glass, a fantastic album! I would recommend Gonna Get Ya from this one. More Who-ish and definitely a rocker! ✌️
One of if not The Best composer of the last 50 years
Perhaps the most important songwriter of his or even, any generation
Simon Philips, one of the greatest, grooviest drummers of his generation. Pete was brilliant in snatching him up. Listen to some of Pete's live stuff for explosive musicianship. I recommend "Give Blood".
Yes the live video of Give Blood with Pete Townshend, David Gilmour and Simon Phillips. 👍
This song encapsulates the 80s vibe
Eddie Vedder has covered this song live. It’s an awesome rendition.
One of my favorite composers: A Little is Enough, is another gem!
Reaction aside, I'm glad you two weathered the storm and are safe
This song is great, I remember when came out loved to hear it on radio and it just makes you want to dance , its a feel good song , and catch and you just start singing with it
#2, it's on!! LoL!!
Hey, a down to earth reaction ! I want more of that ! Thanks !
I was 12 going on 13 when this came out. It reminds me of my first girlfriend, my bar mitzvah, playing tennis with my dad Saturday mornings such a great time in my life was 1980:)
This is Pete talking about his spiritual belief -- a devout follower of Guru Meher Baba (Baba O'Reilly*) -- it's God speaking to him. (Or you, me, us...)
Thank you for the background, that's interesting.
A good song from Pete. from 1980 when music was changing from Disco to New Wave.
Kick tune. Love the who and Pete Townshend.
The only other song I can think of that "rocks" this hard is ... Having My Baby by The Johnny Mann Singers.
The whole Empty Glass album is excellent. As an aside I'll always maintain that The Who should have released So Sad About Us as a single. Nailed on hit ruclips.net/video/4E5d-G-hFLo/видео.html
You should give an ear to Pete's song Blue, Red and Grey. The lyrics are simple but beautiful. Not from his solo albums, but off The Who By Numbers LP. My favorite jam from his solo career was Gonna Get Ya. He kicks butt on this track. Shows off what an amazing guitarist he really was, still is. I'm such a Who freak it's sickening. Lol
Awesome song, a great artist!
God singing to a despairing believer.
fun song. great reaction! That whole album is a gem.
This song came on after a bunch of friends after a car accident nothing was going on and the next thing we know this song started playing it was GOD talking to us amen!!!!!!!
Haven't heard this in a while! Fucking love Pete
Pete Townsend, Guitarist and Songwriter from the Who!
So killer.. loved it on the radio 👌🏻❤️
One thing I always looked for is who in great bands could have solo careers and still write good songs. Townsend was the only one of The Who.
Pete's song tears in heaven. Very sad point in real life. I dont know if he was home or nearby. They lived in a high rise a good number of floors up. The window was open with a screen that was removable. The baby (toddler) pushed past the screen. He wrote the song soon after.
That's Eric Clapton
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This is the opening song of the movie Look Who’s Talking…when the sperm are travelling through the vaginal canal, to the egg.
And my wife and I showed that scene to our kids, to explain how babies are made.
Haha!
The song is cute like Pete Townshend likes his children. Makes you wonder what the song is about.
Glad you survived the hurricane.
Hes from the who. hes the gutair player and this is his solo work.
Pete said he wrote this song from God's point of view.
The other single from this album was "Rough Boys", which is also of note. The Who were somewhat winding down, with the death of Keith Moon and the tragedy at their concert in Cincinnati, and there was talk that Pete was saving his favorite songs for his solo work.
(I think "Slit Skirts", off his 1982 solo album, was better than anything off of the contemporaneous Who album. But then, I spent a lot of 1982 thinking that groups were making very simplistic, by-the-numbers music. I like "Athena" [by the Who] better than "Separate Ways" or "Chain Reaction" [from Journey, at the same time], but you can't convince me that Pete wasn't cranking this out in his sleep, nonetheless.)
Oddly, after the Who broke up (following their 1982 tour) for most of the 1980s, Pete did NOT go full on into his solo career. Instead, he released a collection of demos ("Scoop", 1983), a concept album ("White City", 1985), a live album ("Deep End Live", 1986) and another collection ("Another Scoop", 1987) before moving into film scoring and reuniting the Who. Perhaps he didn't feel comfortable doing a full tour without Roger and John.
A band called Luminate does an amazing cover of this song. Has a little more "oomph" to it.
I should check out Give Blood. It's a good one.
Brad needs to watch the movie “High Fidelity”, then he will gain a new respect for “Walkin’ on Sunshine”. I know I did!
Give Blood and White City Fighting are a great songs featuring David Gilmour and the incompatible Simon Phillips on drums
You may want to hear "Do it again" by the Kinks.
Any love is good love.
I really enjoy your reactions. You have the best sound out there. I would love a reaction to Animal by Neon Trees or Lo/Hi by Black Keys.
"let my love open the door..." the "DOOR" to your heart... this song rolls right along side with; Paul Mcartneis song 'let me roll it to ya' ruclips.net/video/xUsRDzGOyNI/видео.html
I agree with Brad on this one, lol!
I love how animated Lex gets, while Brad is more studious. I watch your reaction channel every Friday evening, keep up the good work. Ps, l asked a while back if you could react to 'I am the resurrection' by The Stone roses. Still waiting. 😉
I don't think they read these comments anymore. I think they just go with whatever wins the polls on the livestream then move on to the next one.
When I heard this song in movies as a kid I thought it was saying “Milo run from the law”.
i love this song!
I like his White City album.
From the Adam Sandler movie 'Mr Deeds'
So good
Hey! Loved your reaction. I would suggest and recommend the Eagles «Take it to the limit» live in 1977 where one of music’s most underrated voices Randy Meisner (the bassist) sings. It’s an incredible song and i would love for you to check it out!
Townsend was a synthesizer pioneer, but as with all the instruments he played he was self-taught.
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Man I thinks y’all content is great I think that y’all should listen to Diamonds and Gasoline by Turnpike Troubadours it’s great song look forward to watching your reactions to the song keep up the great work
"Its not annoying enough ....its like a normal song"
If that's the highest praise Brad ever gives a Pete Townshend song, it's enough for me ;)
But you absolutely have to do "The Real Me "by the Who coming up....seriously
Really loved this song, never knew it was about Jesus
Hmmm, I always thought this could be interpreted as a dog singing this to it's human. 🤔😂 Maybe I just always associate dogs with love.
You should listen to the Luminate cover over of this song.
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I can't stand Townshend as a person but damn this was a banger.
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Pete Townsend 's solo effort away from "The Who."
stay safe!
Naturally, the next Pete Townshend song they should react to is the great "Face Dances": ruclips.net/video/BGjv8bYJtDI/видео.html
i had this record in highschool lol i used to think of this girl i had a crush on when i was in school i think her name was kim lol
Pete Townsend is a genius.... and not even a lil bit.....