“Gettin' In Tune” by The Who

"Gettin' In Tune" is Pete Townshend's song about the power of music, written for his abandoned Lifehouse project and rescued for Who's Next, the Who's fifth studio album. It opens with the singer shrugging that he has nothing much to say and is only singing notes that fit his chords, then turns on its own emptiness and resolves to get himself straight.

That tension, a spiritual seeker stuck inside a rock star's persona, was Townshend's own at the time, and Robert Christgau heard the line about the straight and narrow as the true theme of the whole album. The music keeps shifting tempo, and critics have singled out its command of dynamics.

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