Faith In Something Bigger - The Who

Odds & Sods is an album that consists of studio outtakes and rarities by British rock band The Who released by Track Records in the United Kingdom and Track/MCA in the United States in 1974.
It reached #10 in UK Album Charts.

[@nuada931]

Best rock band of all times

[@Joshygaming902]

A brilliant Who album full of gems!

[@angelocapra9756]

Listening this masterpiece I remember my childhood! 🙏👍

[@barbaraburkepowell]

This is the first grownup record I ever bought with my own money. I was about twelve years old. I worshiped The Who back then. I'm now fifty-five. For some reason this song recently came into my head and haunted me until I listened to it here. It's as beautiful as I remembered.

[@stephend2879]

Yeah, for me this was the first rock album I ever bought in the 70's...still one of my favorites.

[@catherinechurko4041]

This beautiful, lovely song with it's aching for transcendence. The melody, the harmonizing! Beautiful lyrics. The line "we bow to weaker men" always meant to me about being compassionate, empathetic in action for people in various difficult situations. Which as a poster said earlier is so relevant for our times.

[@bedrosnersesyan6975]

I like your angle on this..and your previous comment here above. 🤗

[@texreb66]

This is the good shit I would be playing , if I was a DJ. Long Live Rock and Baba O'Reilly got burnt out so many years ago. So much good stuff that never gets played, especially on this unknown album. Unknown except to us diehard Who fanatics

[@kevincorcoran6493]

Five years later I completely agree! The unknown Who tracks are far superior to the well known ones.

[@stevethompson344]

I can't imagine a world without The Who.

[@chrisevans9553]

It would suck.

[@disillusionedanglophile7680]

First time hearing this in almost 50 years. Remember every word. My fevered (adolescent) brow!

[@lindawhalen1325]

This song makes me melt like a snowwoman. It's seriously pretty.

[@magneto7930]

Always loved this song! The harmonies are so perfect!

[@bigpoppa3020]

I never have been spiritual but if Pete Townshend encourages it maybe I should take another look.

[@ericbeaulieu4843]

This is one of their best 'early songs .The lyrics do encourage a bigger and better look at spirituality .God bless everyone-Eric xxxxx

[@smokinjz]

It may be warm but the snow is going to fall, Enough to cover us all. We've gotta be strong men and follow a path again. We've got to have faith in something bigger, Faith in something bigger, Faith in something big inside yourself. It might be cold but the heat of our love will melt, The snow we never felt. We're young and hardy again, we bow to weaker men. We've got to have faith in something bigger, Faith in something bigger, Faith in something big inside yourself. The more we learn, the less we believe to be true. The more we prove, the more remains to be proved. We've gotta be strong men and follow a path again. We've got to have faith in something bigger, Faith in something bigger, Faith in something big inside yourself, inside yourself. Faith in something bigger (x 8)

[@slimshine953]

johnny zell ~ Correction: the line is... faith in something big inside "ourselves". It wouldn't make sense to say we've got to have faith in something big inside yourself.

[@ambermccormack4109]

A gift from a pensive and spiritual Peter Townsend.

[@Luileadolfo]

This is a song, from another unreleased Who album. How can a song as good as this one, remain known only within us, who fans ? It has all the best elements of a Who single. The hit single that never was.....beautiful.

[@randypowers3874]

The song was on a released album with b-sides and outtakes, I wonder sometimes it's just because they had so many good songs and so many hits, couldn't have every song be a hit.

[@catherinechurko4041]

Always loved this deeply sweet, aching looking for transcendence song. The middle "the more we know ..." is just so lovely.

[@SuperSuzyg]

Was this song supposed to have been on the never completed Lighthouse project album? I know some songs on here were to be part of it.

[@Luileadolfo]

@@SuperSuzyg No. It's from their 1968 never released "Sell.Out" follow up album.

[@javier86050]

This and SO SAD 'BOUT US are the best songs of The Who, in my modesta opinión

[@718ant5]

Tiene raZon hermano. Saludos.

[@Puppenspieler100]

Super Track! Super CD! Habe ich sogar noch auf LP!

[@tommypwood672]

Ich auch seit viele jahr lang her

[@BigJiggety]

Of course, it should have reached No. 1!

[@timmckeone624]

Such a beautiful song!

[@alejandrobuenahora4114]

GENIUS......GREAT MUSICIANS

[@robatkin7580]

Pete Townshend is the greatest composer of modern times.

[@Jerry_Westerby]

YES and Long Live the Who !!!

[@jimmullane3498]

Resonates in the time of pandemic

[@thomaspolese7658]

all hail the kings of loud !!!

[@ShaKimono]

The Masterful Keith Moon in all his Majestic Glory

[@stevethompson344]

Brian Jones on drums

[@watts111]

@@stevethompson344 Drugs, not drums.

[@pussycat6469]

not bad for a four peice do you agree

[@richbailey8174]

I always loved this song...but there is something missing to make it really work and I can't think of it.....

[@danilosanferr]

simple the best

[@Rochfordessex2]

I like this. Dunno what year, but guess end 67? Lots of pre-Tommy promise and sounds. Cool.

[@emanuelarocco3391]

I am the 100th thumbs upper!!!

[@evanbickerstaffe2512]

I've read that Pete was personally embarrassed by the sentiment expressed in this song. I don't know why he should be.

[@stardayz88]

Because Pete and Roger often struggled with their self-esteem and always questioned everything they did, maybe.

[@slimshine953]

Evan Bickerstaffe ~ Don't know where you read it, but it was likely misinformation. Look at it this way. Would you write, record, and release a song that embarrassed you?

[@magneto7930]

If anything, perhaps it was because they were considered a very heavy and hard hitting band. In contrast, this is a very beautiful song indeed!

[@robertbartholomew7183]

Per an article years ago he didn't like his lead guitar solo in the middle of the song. In the interview he also said he truly loved the lyrics and harmony.

[@MondoTheAlien]

well remastered

[@HeartoftheDragonColo]

This was a really good album-I played it a lot back in "the day." Was it Gordon's? I don't know. I'm pretty sure it wasn't mine.

[@hardrockindaddy]

Awesome song that pointed me to Yehushuwah/Jesus Christ. Don't need a church to be dumb downed or indoctrinated, we are the holy temple of Yehuwah/I AM. We don't have to be perfect, just have a heart for him and His Word. we crawl, walk, then run the good race. This is a real song, with real meaning, not garbage these so called"christian" artists pump out. Ugh...they're all sell outs too. Long Live The Who

[@mattyc.9332]

Umm..ok? Lol.

[@shuroom57]

I agree. It's the CENTRAL message that matters; believers and disbelievers alike get bogged down with the stupid morals clauses of each religion.

[@mjazzguitar]

All that Yehushuwah stuff is a new modern thing. I don't know who decided to make that up, because we never had that before.

[@drummer78]

@@mattyc.9332You don’t get it

[@miguelteixido3157]

It's stupid the reedition in CD 1998.23 songs with no sense breaking the real album in is time.an historic crime...the future editions must to contain the original album and after the bonus tracks.

[@SuperSuzyg]

But Odds And Sods is just that--a bunch of songs that were never previously released, that never made it onto any album for whatever reason. So there's not suppossed to be any coherence.