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
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(1982)All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes1982
Scoop
(1983)
White City: A Novel
(1985)White City: A Novel1985
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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, and again in 2017.

Track listing

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

Disc One
No.TitleWriter(s)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" 2:10
7."Piano: 'Tipperary'"Jack Judge, Harry Williams0:59
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.TitleLength
1."The 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 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/
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