Scoop (album)

Scoop
Compilation album by Pete Townshend
Released April 1983
Recorded 1965-1982
Genre Rock
Length 74:48
Label Atco (US)
Producer Helen Wilkins (as "Spike")
Pete Townshend chronology

All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
(1982)		 Scoop
(1983)		 White City: A Novel
(1985)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone [2]

Scoop is a compilation album by Pete Townshend containing 25 demos of various released and unreleased songs by The Who, as well as demos of entirely new material. The album has liner notes written by Townshend.[3]

History

The album was the first in a series of three Scoop collections: Another Scoop was released in 1987 and Scoop 3 in 2001. All three albums were 2-disc sets, and in 2002 a pared-down compilation of them all was released as Scooped. Remastered versions of the original albums were released in 2006.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Pete Townshend, except where noted.

Disc One
No. Title Length
1. "So Sad About Us/Brrr"   4:44
2. "Squeeze Box"   2:27
3. "Zelda"   2:25
4. "Politician"   3:38
5. "Dirty Water"   2:07
6. "Circles (Instant Party)"   2:10
7. "Piano: Tipperary" (Jack Judge, Harry Williams) 0:59
8. "Unused Piano: Quadrophenia"   2:33
9. "Melancholia"   3:16
10. "Bargain"   4:13
11. "Things Have Changed"   2:25
12. "Popular"   2:28
13. "Behind Blue Eyes"   3:29
Disc Two
No. Title Length
1. "Magic Bus"   4:22
2. "Cache Cache"   3:43
3. "Cookin'"   3:20
4. "You're So Clever"   4:18
5. "Body Language"   1:29
6. "Initial Machine Experiments"   1:54
7. "Mary"   3:20
8. "Recorders"   1:19
9. "Goin' Fishin'"   2:54
10. "To Barney Kessell"   2:00
11. "You Came Back"   4:05
12. "Love, Reign o'er Me"   4:59

References

  1. ↑ Scoop (album) at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Fricke, David (14 April 1983). "Album Reviews: Pete Townshend, Scoop". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on April 2009. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
  3. ↑ http://www.popmatters.com/review/pete-townshend-scoop-another-scoop-scoop-3/