Last Tuesday I was driving poorly along Airport Way toward Uwajimaya to buy geoduck when "5.15" by the Who came on the radio. I'm sure I've heard this song well over 200 times and I remember seeing the 7" sleeve in record stores, but I've never really paid much attention to it. But that day I studied nearly every lyric and man, did I ever get mad. I'm aware that it's part of a rock opera and a piece of a larger picture, but some of the things that Roger Daltrey was singing were so totally insipid. I'm sure my disgust began when he sings "The ushers are sniffing Eau-de-cologning" but it was the part of the chorus where he sings "Out of my brain on a train" that just tossed me right over the edge. I mean, SHUT UP MAN!

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