As far as Who fans go, I'm a total wuss. How else to explain my fascination with the most macho of all the sensitive boy bands, which comes not from the group's legendary adolescent power, but rather from a single Pete Townshend song, replete with orchestral strings? "Brooklyn Kids" is a ballad of loneliness and despair that features one of the finest melodies and the most plaintive lyrics the old geezer ever cooked up. The song comes from Townshend's "nasty vision" of a white girl's rape by a black boy--but even so, it's about as far from cock rock as... More >>>