| "The Ox" | ||||||||||
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| Song by The Who from the album My Generation | ||||||||||
| Released | 3 December 1965 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 12 and 13 October 1965 | |||||||||
| Genre | Hard rock, proto-metal | |||||||||
| Writer | Pete Townshend John Entwistle Keith Moon Nicky Hopkins |
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"The Ox" is an instrumental piece by The Who. It was on their debut album, My Generation. It was improvised by Pete Townshend , John Entwistle , Keith Moon and keyboardist Nicky Hopkins. This track appears as the b-side of "The Kids Are Alright" on the single's UK release. The song was also on the compilation album Thirty Years of Maximum R&B. An unreleased jingle based on this song exists.[1]
The song was very rarely played live by The Who. The band may have played it in 1965 and 1966 while the album was still fresh, though no live recordings of the song are known to exist. The only known live appearance of this song was in a medley of "My Generation" at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Netherlands on September 29, 1969, part of the Tommy tour.
Rolling Stone Magazine's John Swenson described "The Ox" and "My Generation" to be "sonic marvels of the time" due to Townshend's feedback technique on these songs.[2]