“the echo of a distant time/ comes willowing across the sand/ and everything is green and submarine”

[larryhammer]

Short shameful confession: TIL that “Baba O’Riley” is the real title of “Teenage Wasteland” and not a separate song I’d never bothered to look up.

---L.

Subject quote from Echoes, Pink Floyd.

Comments

[gwynnega]

At least you never thought it was titled "Teenage Wasted" (as I have also heard it called)!

[larryhammer]

Small consolation, but I’ll take it.

[moon_custafer]

The episode of Joe Pera Tells You Things, "Joe Pera Reads You the Church Announcements" explains that.

[larryhammer]

Joe Pera Tells You Things has looked like the sort of show I'd like, but I've never gotten around to tracking it down.

[moon_custafer]

I've mostly just watched that episode, and mostly the sequence where he initially hears the song on the radio and calls up the station to ask the dj what it's called and if he can play it again.

Although I'm also fond of the intro scene/framing narrative, where Joe is, in fact, reading the church announcement on Sunday, only to break off in the middle and ask the congregation if they've heard of the Who: "They rock! I heard one of their songs last Thursday and I haven't slept since!"