The Who | The Dirty Jobs & Helpless Dancer | Reaction

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[@brxee]

The song clip at the end of Helpless Dancer was indeed the who sampling their earlier (60s) selves. You can go and listen to the whole song, Kids Are Alright.

[@scottderechinsky9896]

The Kids Are Alright Is the song you hear at the end. A 1965 hit for The WHO.

[@jeffmartin1026]

Helpless Dancer: He is being beaten down by the reality of life (the dirty jobs). He is thinking back to his earlier life (The Kids Are Allright" - an early Who song which places that part of the song/his life in '65/66) and wondering how he ended up here. IF you give in to/accept the computers/receipts/social mores/class distinctions and class structure instead of fighting/keeping who you are, "you stop dancing". Is he still a teen rocker, just another face with an underclass dirty job? Can he hold onto his youthful dreams? In the early days of British Rock the groups were looked down upon/dismissed by the upper classes of society, until the bands became rich and were lifting the British economy. There was a backlash when the Queen gave The Beatles the MBE award for their service to the country. Lennon, notoriously, gave his back for not wanting to be associated with the military.

[@jeanphilippebaye1713]

"I don't mind ... " The Who 1965 title : "the kids are alright"

[@MrMassivefavour]

Pete walked around with a mobile recording device and made various samples for quadrophenia, including the zoo and the militarily band playing "The Thunderer" by Sousa

[@Alan_CFA]

@11:05 “I don’t mind, other guys dancing with my girl” is from the Who song, “The Kids Are Alright”

[@izzonj]

Remember, Jimmy has 4 distinct personalities, each one of them is getting disillusioned over dilfferent things in life. this is a new personality you haven't heard before, one who realized that the menial jobs that he and his friends can only seem to get, really suck. Menial workers like him are percieved and treated as badly as black people and gays. At the end he goes to a party where someone is playing a song by his favorite bands, the Who. You hear a snippet of one of their first big hits: "The Kids are All Right".

[@dannymaguire879]

Just to help you out a bit with parts of this album. Historically speaking, after WWII England was basically recovering, after the bombing which decimated cities, particularly London. This is the era that the band members grew up in, a country being put back together. Life wasn't quite back to the way it was before the war, values and society were changing. Pete was born in 1945 and grew up just outside London. Pete has actually mentioned that he remembered playing in bombed out buildings as a child. I would venture to guess, that the upheaval and a changing society to boot had a dramatic effect on all the band members. England wasn't the same.

[@spankywzl]

I wish I was listening to this album for the first time, as it is The Who's greatest work, IMO. I saw them perform Quadrophenia in its entirety in 1998 at Madison Square Garden NYC. It was the best concert I ever attended. They even had Phil Daniels, the actor that played Jimmy in the film adaptation come out and do soliloquies before each act of the concept album. The actor still looked like a teenager, even though he was in his late 30s at the time. I remember it like it was yesterday, and I wore a custom made t shirt that read "Sadly Ecstatic" to the venue. I never got to see The Who perform with Keith Moon, but Kenny Jones or Zach Starkey was on the kit that night and the 3 remaining Who members were absolutely stellar. This band had its finger on the teen angst pulse well before any rock band had broached such subjects, and is why I consider Townsend to be a master songwriter.

[@artis1969]

This is the most complete "heart on our sleeve" document from the biggest "heart on our sleeve" band. Cases can be made for other records, most likely "Who's Next" for many people. But this holds the top spot for me. They conveyed the reality of so many different struggles in the modern day on this album.

[@bostonwhofan]

"My karma tells me: You've been SCREWED again" one of the greatest lines Pete Townshend ever wrote.

[@MrMassivefavour]

Abso f'in lutely

[@blitztim6416]

Jimmy was a Mod and The Who were considered a Mod band. He’s a fan of the band. That was a bit of an early Who song. It doesn’t all make sense but it does all flow together well as a continual listen.

[@daseguin]

You'll simply have to watch the movie afterward to fully understand and have even more appreciation for the lyrics.

[@cyclops60]

Good to see you working your way through this. It would probably help you to read the sleeve notes as they tell Jimmy's story. He got a job as a dustman/trashman 'Dirty job' and lasted two days! The first outro for 'Dirty jobs' was football/soccer fans chanting for Brentford, the team that Jimmy supports. It's mentioned in the sleeve notes when Jimmy talks about his psychiatrist appointments. Not sure what the circus noises mean though! Someone else's lyrics are seldom easy to interpret, but they get you thinking and sometimes it's just the sound of certain phrases that that strike a chord with the listener. It's great re-visiting this album after a long break!

[@VX_XI]

Its so odd how well Helpless Dancer has aged. It is still relevant in our times. Especially that line "You fight computers and reciepts". Ai is only getting stronger...

[@michaelwebster8389]

So, a bit from the "Kids are alright" a song by the who there, from 1965. Great song.

[@stevel2504]

Quadrophinia, probably the best double album ever, a complete masterpiece.

[@joedouglas9217]

Helpless Dancer - Also about de-industrialization and its consequences. Remember this is the 1970s. The same trends that inspired punk.

[@BillyLeeGoodman]

Your face tells all, and I love it!

[@MrGb1965]

In case someone didn’t say already, the end of The Dirty Jobs goes right into Helpless Dancer. Peace

[@jpirard]

as far as the music at the end it is the actual WHO and it is supposed to be Jimmy going to a show.

[@danielnusser8604]

Its the feeling of a working man turn of the century

[@bryanhale5254]

Yeah it's from tat era ....The Kids Are Alright is the song

[@johntarnowski9086]

Dirty jobs talking about Jimmy and his 4 personalities. Hence Quadrophenia

[@johntarnowski9086]

Quadrophenia is Townshends masterpiece

[@jpirard]

getting the sack means getting fired.

[@thomassanchez-oo6sb]

Dr Jimmy is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 can’t wait for u to hear it!!!! Powerful 💥💥💥❤️✌🏼

[@danielnusser8604]

He is being beaten down by his employer

[@bostonwhofan]

Hopefully you'll react to the entire Tommy album. It's very different than Quadrophenia, but in a very good way. And after Tommy, you really, really need to react to The Who Live At Leeds. As great as The Who are in the studio, it is live onstage where Who Heaven exists. Live At Leeds is one of the greatest live albums of all time. Their 15 minute version of "My Generation" on the Leeds album will blow your mind from the savage awesomeness of The Who live! They are firing on all cylinders on the entire Live At Leeds album.

[@rantandroll7583]

The 70's were a turbulent, economically stressed time for the UK. The album is very much about the class struggles of the time.Watching the movie would put it all in context.

[@highschoolbigshot]

The movie takes place in the mid-sixties though

[@rantandroll7583]

@@highschoolbigshotPoint noted. The 60's we're not any better and part of why the 70's were so bad.

[@jeanphilippebaye1713]

the lyrics of "Quadrophenia" are difficult to understand. The film, released in 1979, helps to understand the conflicting history between mods and rockers as well as the quadruple personality of Jimmy.

[@johntarnowski9086]

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