Who, The - Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere Lyrics

Sugar daddy

Punk Rock 1965.

Bowie pin ups

Here cause of quadrophenia and the fact that this song bangs

NUFFIN GETS IN MAH WAE, NAHT EVEN LACKED DAWS

Whose on sweet piano???!!!

When Decca execs heard this, they sent it back saying there was "something wrong with the recording". It's called feedback, gents. THE sound , the future, which would be Punk. Rock and Roll through and through!!

Name another band that hits you with Mose Allison piano licks at the same time as proto-psych feedback? The Who rock!

Note the web address cunningly snuck onto the top of the oil drum!

it was the first song (in Pop) a drummer made such an impact on a song - from now on the importance of drums got elevated ... in my view Keith is the most important drummer in Rock = the other equal or better players are all coming from Jazz (like Bill, Ginger, Mitch, Robert)

heard this song at like 10 year sold and now at 51 years old can say this song defined me. study those lyrics. Pete was an angry man, such as i am. Love WHO!!!!!

This was the Who's stage act on vinyl..complete with distortion from Pete half way through, which Decca thought was a faulty disc and sent the first pressing back.....

So I started out - for God knows where. Guess I'll know - when I get there.

I can go anyway, way I choose
I can live anyhow, win or lose
I can go anywhere, for something new
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose
I can do anything, right or wrong
I can talk anyhow, and get along
Don't care anyway, I never lose
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose
Nothing gets in my way
Not even locked doors
Don't follow the lines
That been laid before
I get along anyway I dare
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere
I can go anyway, way I choose
I can live anyhow, win or lose
I can do anything, for something new
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose
anyway
(Oooh) Anyway I choose, yeah
(Oooh) Anyway I want to go
(Oooh) I want to go 'n do it myself
Do it myself
Do it myself, yeah
Anyway, way I choose
Anyway I choose
Yeah, yeah
Ain't never gonna lose the way I choose
The way I choose
The way I choose

Feedback sweets at 1:35!!! The Best! and the Piano is audible in this recording!!!

one of my favourite Who songs:)

Destructive art never sounded better, even if Pete was trying to impress the ladies

C Synch Pete was impressing everyone!!

The rest of the world were slow to realize a new order was being established....

Classic

Fuck I can't sleep until get this music off my head, I even didnt know of who it belongs hahahaha crazy!!!!

I L❤VE THE WH♾✍🥁🎸🎙🎸🔝🔝🔝🔝

Check out Marc Maron's interview with Daltrey, and how the record company sent the first pressing of this back because they thought the feedback was in error. http://www.wtfpod.com/

Damn good Who classic....

No wonder the punk bitches generally respected the Who.

Heaviest sound Ever; THE WHO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Roger looks like someone's aunt with that awful hair.

The combination of the distorted synthesizer combined with a bluesy piano and Keith basically being a drunk cat on the drums makes a catchy tune.

No synthesizer; it's all guitar.

Nicky Hopkins on piano

Sums up my youth

Listen to the BBC version. It's amazing too!

I can live anyhow!

OH YEAH! OH VERY YESSSSSSSS!

at 1:33 quitar amp feedback..epic.

Pete *probably* invented that. :)

Ouch... still epic

Arguably the birth of rock music!

What have we got now, rubbish girl bands like Little Mix that sound all as irritating. Where did all go wrong? These guys had talent. Keith Moon R I P really could play.

The Who : So much better than the rest of History ,....

heard this song when i wuz 11. ntot been same since. heard it on a decca meaty, beaty album. then somebody stole it. i wonder how much it be worth today.

Nothing.

At their peak, The Who were a fabulous band. Live, no-one else came close.

Saw them many times in the 60s brilliant

American Rock & Roll!

They are English not American

One of the first instances of guitar feedback in recorded music.

Beatles had feedback on I Feel Fine in 1964

Fuck my entire life this song is great

I think this was the first song on a 45 disc I got back in '63 or '64.

Keith and Pete at their best!

Don't care anyway, I never lose.

In quadrophonia why does jimmy say to his dad this song is called ready set go

Because Ready Steady Go was the name of the tv programme it was on.

i was twelve my mom took to a boot sale i had a dollar i brought live im 56

Yes, TenHanger. By Pete's own admission, the Who was inspired by the Kinks.

Pete was also inspired by the shadows!

This was the first punk song ever recorded

Nice sentiment, but the Kinks might have some argument against this statment.
You Really Got Me-- early 1964
All Day and All of the Night--- October 1964

This Who classic came afterwards.

@TenHanger Hm, you're right

How would you define 'Punk rock' then? The Kinks started with their nice riffs, that's true, but ' punk rock' is more than that. It's also about having the punky attitude (looking angry and smashing things up) and recalcitrant lyrics like: "I hope I die before I get old." I have never heard a punker singing lyrics like " You really got me" etc. I think therefore The Who were a proto-punk/rock band, because they got the whole 'punk / rock' package while the Kinks were not. But what the Kinks did in my opinion is they made a bridge from Beatlesque songs to more harder edged songs. To me, that's already a milestone.

Kinks were good, but The Who have a certain punch and energy to them.

Reported to have been a highly inspirational song for Syd Barrett! I can hear that! Early Who is the best, anyhow!

best music around

One baby to another....wrong song.

I don't see the resemblance to Nirvana

That's not a diss though, I love that song

Jimmy J. Rustle same

I can go anyway, way I choose
I can live anyhow, win or lose
I can go anywhere, for something new
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose

I can do anything, right or wrong
I can talk anyhow, and get along
Don't care anyway, I never lose
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose

Nothing gets in my way
Not even locked doors
Don't follow the lines
That been laid before
I get along anyway I dare
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere

I can go anyway, way I choose
I can live anyhow, win or lose
I can do anything, for something new
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose

Anyway
Anyway I choose, anyway I choose 
Anyhow
Anyway, anyway I want 
Anyway, anyway 
Anyway I choose, anyway I choose.

ha he y

Your song

Daltrey contributed the lyrics in the middle part of the song on this one.  I think it's the only song him and Townsend wrote together. (Just heard this in the Daltrey interview on the Stern show)

I was going to say *See My Way,* but, checking, I see it was credited to Roger, only.

Pete once ridiculed Roger by saying Roger actually believed he wrote that song by himself.

Possibly the first use of feedback in mainstream pop!

The Beatles I Feel Fine but this one is the first feedback guitar solo so thats influential

Another Who favorite playing in my head I remember from the 1960s when I was in high school.

this is my favourite frank zappe song

frank zapper*

There's a version that was released in France that is a bit longer and has a different vocal track. I put both in my "Who's Beaty.." playlist. Thanks for uploading thsi mix -- sounds great!

Best guitarists of all: Townsend, Hendrix, Ron Asheton, John McGeoch, Captain Sensible, in any particular order. 

+damn rite Townshend is much more than a "bar" chord guitarist.

So far from the truth, he doesn't even play bar chords he only ever plays open 5th chords, it's part of the who's iconic sound. Anyway, it's not all about just playing the blues, he helped invent the British innovations of it with the punkier sound of my generation.

@jellystaf He was probably the most influential guitarist. He was the first to use feedback, and a lot of those Californian punk groups of the mid 60s were trying to emplify him when they put the fuzzbox to use.

TheStampedehero Jimmy page Stevie ray vaung

Tony Iommi?

Wasn't John also blonde and they made him dye it dark so that Roger would stand out more

Yes he stopped dying his hair in the 80s or something

should be the theme of every man

Yes, like when Roger left his wife and kid.

Sludge Good times for all!

:P

classic   mod

This song has got to be the hardest Who song to play, I mean even with me tapping to the song and to everything else theres always a piece wrong lol, This is one the best songs.

Irreverend! Brilliant Mod Classoc! Heavily R N' B influenced. As fresh today as it was back then!

Thanks for this - I've never heard this stereo version before. The instrumentation is as good as the conventional mono, but don't the vocals - both Daltrey and the background - sound rough! Perhaps this is because they are clearer to hear in a stereo mix. Love the panning of Townshend's solo in the instrumental break.

Fantastic song :)

taj mahal! 'sup bro

yes i did it's great :)

Oh I love 1:05-1:45 part.

stone roses is the answer to all your problems, stone roses and the who

I love Pete's "morse code" with the pick-up selector switch (?) and the jagged/shimmering tone from his guitar. Moonie at his best. Likewise for John. Roger calls it righteously. King tone -- STILL one of the best rants -- ever!

Yes, it's the pickup switch, I think he might have been the first to do that. You can only do it on a guitar that has separate volume controls for each pickup, like a Les Paul, but you turn the volume down on the neck pickup, and then when yup flip the switch back and forth, you get the sound cutting in and out. The "shimmering" quality comes from the fact that he's playing an electric 12, almost certainly a Rickenbacker, as seen in the Ready Steady Go clip that was used in The Kids Are Alright film.

"Rock N Roll, will always, ALWAYS, triumph -- eventually." -- Pete Townsend. Happy birthday, Pete (May 19).

I agree and I used to have hair similar to that although more brownish

His hair is so ugly in this picture... lol

wait... why is roger a ginger here?

on the album cover, doesnt rogers hair look orange?

I tried to do another search just before this clip had finished - and Youtube actually wouldn't let me do it - that's how good of a song it is.

YUp! When JImmy was watching tv and then his dad basically said the Who sucked. Im sorry but his dad is so ignorant! LOL

It would have been funny if the actor Michael Elphick had been a mod in the 60's!!!!

im not a huge nirvana fan, but i have insecticide, in utero, nevermind, and unplugged, and i fucking love the who. as a music lover , can u explain how nirvana ripped the who off?

I can´t explain.

I did a bass cover on the live at BBC version of this song I love it!

the end with the on and off of the microphones is like jerking off. i don't know if townshend was looking for that hahaha.

Why do you even bother? You're destroying art of trolling

Nirvana ripped these guys off so much it isn't funny.

JamesTKirkCobain
fuck no

if Keith Moon was a muppet he would be animal ;o)

Nothing out there today can touch this - nothing! This is KING TONE!

@JasonBonitati Don't bother now, it's expired... didn't have £1 domain regs in UK back then

For Rab

I think I see a website url on one of those barrels? Lol

proper mod

This song reminds me alot of the Beatles. Especially from 0:26 to 0:44 .

ahhh,yezzzz-- "controlled chaos" be good stuff indeed !! The Who should be on most folks "100 favorite bands" list by sound, and "10 most reative" by content. Love the mid-60's stuff where Entwhistle plays horn on many tracks, but have a tough find finding it, even on youtube.

@WithTheDmeister fucking goldes words for idiots

The problem today is you have bands out there trying to copy sounds from the 80's 70's and 60's its not working only a few make it be original FFS! This band for me are one of the best bands ever to come out of the UK! they changed music so much and they have their own sound unique to others , im 40 now and have spent most of my life listenin to House music , thank GOD i have found THE WHO!! yeah ive had a blast and am lucky growing up in the 70's/80's/90's the 60's must of been amazing thou

Sadly, not the original version. This was from the My Generation 'deluxe' cd, where most of the original tracks were seriously messed about with for the worse using different vocals, takes or altered instrumentals. Here they keep the original instrumentals, but use a diffrerent and inferior vocal take by Roger where he forgot the words in verse 1. Why?????

Sounds like Nicky Hopkins is playing piano on this one.

the one person who disliked this does not deserve to have ears.

I've heard this so many times and it still sounds revolutionary. Can't imagine what people thought of it in 1965! 1:12 to 1:38 of this song is a perfect example of the early Who and their own brand of "controlled chaos." The Who really were the original punk band in England. Of course here in the USA there was the MC5.

@TheKliffin That was an ignorant comment to make that was uncalled for you unwanted schmuck.

The who at their best!

@TheKliffin
You're an idiot. Please hang yourself, since there's no use for you.

this is just astounding.