Song · W.A.S.P.
“The Real Me” by W.A.S.P.
From the album The Headless Children (1989)
“The Real Me” by W.A.S.P. appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1989 on the album The Headless Children. Its best result is #392 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,401 hard rock song of all time.
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W.A.S.P. reached back to Pete Townshend's catalog for "The Real Me", the song he wrote for the Who's 1973 rock opera Quadrophenia, and put their own version on The Headless Children in 1989, with Blackie Lawless producing and Duane Baron and Alex Woltman engineering.
Townshend built the song around Jimmy, the young English Mod at the heart of Quadrophenia, a kid split into four distinct personalities who rounds furiously on a psychiatrist, his mother and a preacher while trying to work out who he really is. Townshend wrote every word and note of it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 392 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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