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Pete Townshend – Scoop (VG/VG) – 2xLP, US 1983
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Scoop is an LP by Pete Townshend from 1983 released on the ATCO Records label.
About this album
Scoop is a revealing Pete Townshend archive that reframes The Who’s catalogue through demos, home recordings and unused ideas. Issued in 1983, the album gathers material from across Townshend’s solo and band years, giving a clearer view of how songs were written, tested and reshaped before reaching The Who. Hearing early versions of pieces linked to classics such as Behind Blue Eyes, Bargain and Squeeze Box makes the record especially valuable as a document of process rather than a standard studio album. Its mix of unfinished fragments and fully formed songs underlines Townshend’s gift for melody, structure and restless experimentation.
Genre: Pop & Rock
Review
AllMusic rating:AllMusic users:Artist: Pete TownshendLabel: ATCO Records – 7 90063-1-FFormat: LP, Compilation, StereoUnits: 2Country: USReleased: 1983Genre: Pop & RockStyle: Rock & RollA1 So Sad About Us / Brrr
A2 Squeezebox
A3 Zelda
A4 Politician
A5 Dirty Water
A6 Circles
A7 Piano: 'Tipperary'
B1 Unused Piano: 'Quadrophenia'
B2 Melancholia
B3 Bargain
B4 Things Have Changed
B5 Popular
B6 Behind Blue Eyes
C1 The Magic Bus
C2 Cache, Cache
C3 Cookin'
C4 You'Re So Clever
C5 Body Language
C6 Initial Machine Experiments
D1 Mary
D2 Recorders
D3 Goin' Fishin'
D4 To Barney Kessell
D5 You Came Back
D6 Love Reign O'Er Me