It's Not Enough

Infobox Single
Name = It's Not Enough


Artist = The Who
from Album = Endless Wire
B-side =
Released = October 30 2006 (UK) October 31 2006 (U.S.)
Format =
Recorded = Pete Townshend's home studio and Eel Pie Oceanic Studios, autumn 2002 – summer 2006
Genre = Rock
Length = 4:02
Label = Polydor
Writer = Pete Townshend
Rachel Fuller
Producer = Pete Townshend Bob Pridden and Billy Nicholls
Certification =
Chart position = * #37 (U.S. Mainstream Rock)
Last single = "It's Hard"
(1982)
This single = "It's Not Enough"
(2006)
Next single =
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Endless Wire
Type = studio
prev_track = "God Speaks of Marty Robbins"
prev_no = 7
this_track = "It's Not Enough"
track_no = 8
next_track = "You Stand By Me"
next_no = 9 "It's Not Enough" is a song recorded by The Who, written by Pete Townshend and his partner Rachel Fuller, and featured on The Who's 2006 album "Endless Wire". The song also appears on a re-issue of The Who's compilation album "Then and Now" and in Pete Townshend's rock musical The Boy Who Heard Music. The song hit #37 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks, their first single to chart in the United States since 1982's "It's Hard".

History

The song originally started life with music and lyrics by Rachel Fuller, but Townshend liked the music and wrote different lyrics to use for the song that appears on "Endless Wire". He later explained the origins of the song: "Watching Le Mepris, the ‘60s film by Jean Luc Godard starring Brigitte Bardot, I found myself wondering why it is that we choose people to partner who we feel aren’t quite right. Bardot asks her lover, ‘Do you adore my legs?’ He nods. ‘My breasts?’ He nods. ‘My arms?’ He nods. She goes over her entire body. He nods every time. When she’s finished she gets up and tells him, ‘It’s not enough". Bardott and the film 'Mepris' are mentioned specifically in the song.

Townshend explained on one of his and Fuller's "In The Attic" video podcasts that he was worried some people may criticize the song because it was co-written, but he goes on to say that it sounds more like The Who than anything else on the album.

Personnel

*Roger Daltrey - Lead Vocals
*Pete Townshend - Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals
*Jolyon Dixon - Acoustic Guitar
*Stuart Ross - Bass
*Rachel Fuller - Keyboards
*Peter Huntington - Drums

ingle chart position

The song reached #37 in the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks.