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The Guess Who - My Generation

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"My Generation" is a song by the British rock group The Who, which became a hit and one of their most recognisable songs. The song was named the 11th greatest song by Rolling Stone on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and 13th on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll. It's also part of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll and is inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value. In 2009 it was named the 37th Greatest Hard Rock Song by VH1. The 1967 performance of "My Generation" on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was another defining moment in the television comedy series, as well as one of classic rock's defining moments. "My Generation" was sung live by three of the main stars of the 1980s BBC sitcom The Young Ones (Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer). The line "I hope I die before I get old" was the inspiration for the They Might Be Giants 1985 song "Hope That I Get Old Before I Die", a reaction against the stereotypical values of rock and roll in the 1960s. British pop singer Robbie Williams also released a song in 1997 called "Old Before I Die". The song reached No. 2 in the UK charts. The Who's BBC Radio version is briefly featured in the 1999 film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. MC Lars parodied the line "I hope I die before I get old" in his 2005 single "iGeneration" (also referencing the title "My Generation"), with the line "I hope I die before I get sold". In a 2009 Pepsi commercial used to promote their new logo, with flashes to the 1900s (decade), 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The Disney video game Ultimate Band features a cover of "My Generation" in its tracklist. The video game Rock Band features the Live at Leeds recording of the song, albeit heavily edited, as part of a 12 pack of downloadable tracks from The Who. The Who performed this song as the last song to be played at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony. Psychedelic rock band MGMT rephrased the line "I hope I die before I get old" into "I hope I die before I get sold" in their song Siberian Breaks. "My Generation" has been covered by numerous artists. Some of the most recognised, and celebrated, include Alice Cooper, Count Five, Gorky Park, Iron Maiden, Oasis, Green Day, Phish, Generation X, Soul Asylum and The Sweet. "My Generation" was Patti Smith's standard set-closer from 1974--1978, and a live version appeared on record as the B-side of her 1976 single "Gloria" (with John Cale guesting on bass). This recording has since appeared as a bonus track on some CD re-issues of her album Horses. A live version with Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers playing bass appears on the 2005 30th Anniversary CD release Horses/Horses. "Weird Al" Yankovic covered the first verse as the final song in "Polkas on 45", his first polka medley from his 1984 album "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D. It was covered in French by Chapeaumelon, and appears on the soundtrack to the 2004 film EuroTrip. Oasis released the track as a B-side on their 2002 UK single "Little by Little" / "She is Love" and have closed their live shows with this track for several years, such as on their Don't Believe the Truth Tour. Hilary Duff recorded a cover of "My Generation" as a bonus track on pressings in Japan of her second album, Hilary Duff (2004), and as a B-side on the "Someone's Watching over Me" (2005) CD single. In this version the famous line "I hope I die before I get old" was changed to "I hope I don't die before I get old". Rolling Stone listed the song as one of the worst covers of all time. The Sweet covered the song with Pete Townshend on vocals. The track was released on the Collector's Edition of Desolation Boulevard. Green Day's live cover of the song is included on their live DVD Awesome as Fuck; the group did a studio cover for the extended play Sweet Children in 1990,...