Goldmine magazine contributor Martin Popoff has listed the 'Top 20 Songs' by the Who with 1982's "Eminence Front" topping the list. Coming in second was the band's 1981 MTV breakthrough hit "You Better You Bet," 1978's "Who Are You" rests at Number Three, with 1982's "It's Hard" coming in at Number Four," and the '81 Face Dances favorite "Daily Records" rounding out the Top Five.
Surprisingly, coming in at Number Six is the 2006 Endless Wire track, "Mike Post Theme." Pete Townshend explained to us why he chose to write a love letter of sorts to the famed TV theme composer: ["There are some TV themes that really, y'know, they sort of touch my heart in a way and I tried to pick the one I love the most and think it was the theme to Hill Street Blues. So, this song is really about Hill Street Blues — for me, anyway."] SOUNDCUE (:11 OC: . . . for me anyway)
Sitting at Number 19 is Roger Daltrey's Quadrophenia tour-de-force "The Dirty Jobs." We asked Daltrey to shed light on the ultimate ode to the working class man: ["It was written for me, I knew exactly where it sat. It was sung with extreme compassion — but also with incredible anger (laughs) — a strange mix. I tried to leave it with a kind of sense of lonely hopefulness. Whether or not I achieved that, I don't know."] SOUNDCUE (:16 OC: . . . I don't know)