LET'S SEE ACTION / WHEN I WAS A BOY

Let's See Action (9.5/15P.) is a decent Pete Townshend number - a bit poppy in the beginning in a 'protest song' kind of way, but in the middle Townshend brings in some interesting turns from time to time, eventually ending the piece in a quasi-hypnotic way singing nothing is everything, everything is nothing.

More exciting is the fairly unknown John Entwhistle song When I Was A Boy (12/15P.), an energetic glam-rock-like song with some absolutely great singing by a snarling John Entwhistle and a motivated Keith Moon playing a tight groove underneath. From time to time Entwhistle plays a self-penned three or four part brass part into the song with some fairly baroque phrases which remind a bit of some horn or trumpet parts of Bach's Brandenburgische Konzerte. This whole mixture, including what feels like at least seven different ideas packed together in about three minutes, makes an excellent art rock song and one of the finest Entwhistle ever wrote (together with Heaven And Hell and Whiskey Man).

I don't mind the rating of singles a lot, so I'm gonna give the standard single rating (3 stars) to that one - nonetheless pointing out that there's some good stuff hidden on that record!

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