364. I'm A Boy by The Who 1966

The first time I heard the Who out of their popular context. Growing up in the late suxties and early seventies my idea of The Who was a loud bombastic band who released heavy records like Who's Next and  Live At Leeds. Except for My Generation and maybe Substitute I wasn't aware of their mid sixties Mod origins. I didn't buy their records. I liked stuff like Baba Riley and Won't Get Fooled Again but as a band they didn't appeal to me.
Fortunately my mate's brother Phil was a few years older than me and he loved making mixtapes which included great sixties songs I wasn't aware of. When he played me this song it was my first inkling that there was more to The Who than I first thought. At the time this was so out there for me that Pete Townshend was writing this kind of stuff in the mid sixties. That there was so much more I hadn't heard was incredibly exciting. I began my search for all those songs I hadn't heard from bands I didn't know. I became obsessed by sixties tunes and then sixties art and fashion. Because I had started travelling to the city on my own in the early seventies to visit record shops.  And with the little money I earned from part time jobs plus how cheap second hand records were I was able to gather a very groovy collection. These records would serve me well for the next decade or so and really come into their own when I started DJing at Rubber Soul in the 80s.