Album: Who's Next (1971)

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• I'm going home
  And when I wanna go home, I'm going mobile
  Well, I'm gonna find a home
  And we'll see how it feels
  Goin' mobile
  Keep me moving
  
  I can pull up by the curb
  I can make it on the road
  Goin' mobile
  I can stop in any street
  Invite in people that we meet
  Goin' mobile
  Keep me moving, mmm
  
  Out in the woods
  Or in the city
  It's all the same to me
  When I'm driving free
  The world's my home
  When I'm mobile
  Hee, woo, beep-beep
  
  Play the tape machine
  Make the toast and tea
  When I'm mobile
  Well, I can lay in bed with only highway ahead
  When I'm mobile
  Keep me moving
  
  Keep me moving
  Over fifty
  Keep me groovin'
  Just a hippie gypsy
  Come on, move now
  Movin'
  Keep me movin', yeah
  
  Keep me movin', movin', movin', yeah
  Movin', yeah
  Mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile, mobile
  
  I don't care about pollution
  I'm an air-conditioned gypsy
  That's my solution
  Watch the police and the tax man miss me
  I'm mobile, ooh yeah, hee-hee
  Mobile, mobile, mobile, yeah, mmm Writer/s: Pete Townshend
  Publisher: Abkco Music Inc., Spirit Music Group
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Comments: 13

• Jesse from Madison, WiThat's heavy, Barry in N.Y., N.C. Tell Keith Emerson that the synth was a novelty. In 1971, the synth was still used as a musical instrument and lead lines and basslines were still PLAYED on the synthesizer. You need to watch Tommy and consider that about 70% of what you hear not only musically but also in the sound effects department was Townshend's ARP 2500 and/or 2600 synthesizer. Townshend took the synthesizer seriously and USED it to GREAT effect. To the contributor who talks of the envelope follower, an envelope follower was built into the ARP 2600 synthesizer and works just as it sounds. It outputs a voltage in direct relation to the signal coming in. So if you play your guitar loudly, it will open the follower more - that is, a higher voltage will be output, and in softer passages, it will output a lower voltage, but always in direct relation to what's played in. How do I know? I own an ARP 2600. And it's really fun to plug a guitar into it! Or a drum machine, or a snare drum, or a microphone...
• Barry from New York, NcThis is the track that prominently features the ARP Synthesizer. Back in 1971 the synthesizer was more of a novelty. It wasn't until the early 80s when the synth was overused and abused by musicians everywhere.
• Wayne from Salem, VaExcellent! A "Who" song sung by Pete. This is one of their songs that I can play over and over and never tire of it. Buy the Classic Album VHS or DVD on the making of "Who's Next". They are talking about this song. And they play Keith's drum track. To Pete's acoustic guitar. Moonie drumming his ass off. Great stuff!
• Oldpink from New Castle, InDefinitely one of the great driving songs.
  This one is so happy that it will bring nearly anyone out of a funk.
  Love Pete's little trick with the guitar, too.
  It sounds not unlike a car engine whirring.
• Shannan from Wilmington, DeI love this song. I also like to ride around and go places and not really know where I'm going. I love Pete Townshend.
• Heather from Los Angeles, CaI've always found this song to be thoughtful and delightful. I don't hear it that often and when I do, I turn it up.
• Josie from Funkytown, NcThis was recorded live with Pete on vocals and acoustic guitar, John on bass, and Keith, of course, on drums. The Daltreyless band performed at The Young Vic Theatre in February 1971 after Lifehouse fell apart.
• Adrian from Duluth, GaI used to work at a radio station in Macon, GA called Q-106. There was an african-american DJ there who had obviously never heard this song, so every time he played it he would say, "Here's the Who with Going Mobul". GOod stuff!
• Stefanie Magura from Rock Hill, ScI love the line 'Watch the police and the tax man miss me.' That line's pretty funny man1
• Elliott from Douglassville, PaYou can make toast and tea in a trailer. I think that was what Pete was talking about - the character in Lifehouse singing this was supposedly going in a trailer or camper or Winnebago or something. Unusually, this was a song that The Who never performed live.
• Tyler from Farmington, Mi.... and C. Townshend sufferd a nervous breakdownscreaming at people about how simplistic it really was
• Brian from Grand Forks, NdThe riding around in car explanation that is given is way too simplistic... It was part of the lifehouse concept... I would need about 30 paragraphs to get into the meaning of this song and I still wouldn't be able to effectively explain it...
• Alex from Sacramento, Califehouse didnt lose funding it fell apart becaus it was a. to big and b. nobody understood what pete was talkin about

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