If Empty Glass, an album filled with songs that could have been performed by the Who, was a solo album because it was too revealing and personal, All the Best Cowboys Have...
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Another Scoop 1/1/1987, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
Ironically, Pete Townshend's best solo albums to date remain the two Scoop albums. Each contains previously unreleased demo versions of songs performed elsewhere either by...
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Like its predecessor, Another Scoop is a collection of 27 demos Pete Townshend recorded for the Who and, if anything, it surpasses the first volume in terms of quality....
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A solo live set worthy if only for its inclusion of "Barefootin'," and "I Put A Spell On You." Who covers include "Pinball Wizard" and "Behind Blue Eyes."...
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An energetic live album featuring a handful of R&B classics (including "Barefootin'"), a few Who chestnuts, and some of his best solo work, Pete Townshend's Deep End Live!...
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Empty Glass 1/1/1980, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
By far more interesting than the last-gasp Who albums emerging at the same time, this, the most successful solo Townshend set, features both "Rough Boys" and "Let My Love...
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In 1993, Pete Townshend issued his fourth true studio solo album for Atco (not counting a live album, a couple of demo collections, and a collaboration with Ronnie Lane),...
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Ironically, Pete Townshend's best solo albums to date remain the two Scoop albums. Each contains previously unreleased demo versions of songs performed elsewhere either by...
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Pete Townshend's demos had grown legendary among Who collectors well before the official release of the double-album Scoop in 1983. On each demo, Townshend worked out full...
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After the experimental All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, Pete Townshend returned to a more traditional form of concept album with White City. Built around a loose...
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Townshend's first commercial solo album was later reissued with bonus tracks by Rykodisc; both versions catch the artist close to the peak of his career with the Who, and...
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Informally made with former Small Face Ronnie Lane, this unpretentious set is charming in its lack of self-consciousness. Too bad Townshend otherwise felt making grand...
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Rough Mix, Pete Townshend's 1977 collaboration with former Small Faces and Faces songwriter and bass player Ronnie Lane, combines the loose, rollicking folk-rock of Lane's...
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Despite some unnecessary problems, coolwalkingsmoothtalkingstraightsmokingfirestoking: The Best of Pete Townshend is a good sampling of Townshend's biggest solo hits, as...
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In the past, Pete Townshend has let his lyrics tell the story from within the music, and that has allowed much of his work a timeless quality both as individual songs and...
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Lifehouse Elements is a sampler of Pete Townshend's gargantuan six-disc box set The Lifehouse Chronicles, itself the culmination of nearly 30 years of work on his intended...
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Oh well, at least it's for a good cause: The royalties from Who maestro Townshend's new set, recorded in concert last year at the House of Blues in Chicago, benefits...
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Pete Townshend Live: A Benefit for Maryville Academy captures a charity concert Townshend gave at the Chicago House of Blues on August 16, 1998. It was the second in a...
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There's no faulting the music on the 2002 collection Scooped -- after all, it contains 35 highlights from Pete Townshend's Scoops, his superlative series of demos and home...
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