Song of the Day 7/7: The Who, “Boris the Spider”
Despite what Pete Townsend says in the introduction, it’s not a very strange song — it was just decades ahead of its time when it debuted on “A Quick One” in 1966. Yeah, sure, it’s supposedly about a spider. He couldn’t very well have called it Boris the Johnson, now, could he? That would have been strange.
He’s come to a sticky end
Don’t think he will ever mend
We can only hope.
I consider this the first Spinal Tap song.
BTW – Boris the Johnson was out so quickly I never heard what the last straw was.