Punk And the Godfather

The Punk and the Godfather is a song of the British rock group The Who, published in 1973 on the Opéra-rock Quadrophenia . On the American version of the album, this song was named The Punk Meets the Godfather .

Characteristics

At the poetic level, this song presents a dialog between two characters, the Punk one and the Godfather ( godfather ). The first exposes its anger in front of the acts of the second. However, the Godfather seems not to hear these reproaches. One can suppose that the Punk one is Jimmy, the main character of the album. The words are rather enigmatic. The author, Pete Townshend, translates them into these terms:

The hero goes to a concert of rock'n'roll. He makes the tail, pays his place, and decides to go to see the high-speed motorboats slides about it whereas they leave the scene. And one of them arrives and says: " Foutez me the camp! " And it carries out suddenly that nothing really arrives in the rock' roll. It is right another cross on its liste.

One can also say, again, that this song is autoreferential. At the time of the station-wagons , one hears a voice electronically modified to sing m-m-my G-G-generation, re-examining with the song éponyme group.

From the musical point of view, this song is one of most aggressive of the album. Townshend mixed electric and acoustic textures to look after its parts of guitar. John Entwistle created a basic part in counterpoint of that of guitar, creating the harmonic depth common to the recordings of the Who of this period. Roger Daltrey sings the dialog between the Punk one and the Godfather. Townshend sings a a little separate melody of the remainder of the song, before the return to the dialog.

One hears on the end of the acclamations, which supports the interpretation of Townshend, which specifies that the action occurs at the time of a concert of rock'n'roll.

Remarks

It is one of the first occurrences where the word Punk intervenes in a song of rock'n'roll.
the principal front of this song resembles curiously the refrain of Acid Queen of the same group.

External sources and bonds

Notes on the album
Words
Agreements for guitar
Site of reference on the album

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