Scoop

Pete Townshend - Scoop

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Artist: Pete Townshend
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-08-29
Music Label: Hip-O Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. So Sad About Us/Brr
  2. Squeeze Box
  3. Zelda
  4. Politician
  5. Dirty Water
  6. Circles (Instant Party)
  7. Piano: Tipperary
  8. Unused Piano: Quadrophenia
  9. Melancholia
  10. Bargain
  11. Things Have Changed
  12. Popular
  13. Behind Blue Eyes
Music CD 2
  1. Magic Bus
  2. Cache Cache
  3. Cookin'
  4. You're So Clever
  5. Body Language
  6. Initial Machine Experiments
  7. Mary
  8. Recorders
  9. Goin' Fishin'
  10. To Barney Kessell
  11. You Came Back
  12. Love Reign O'er Me

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Free Music Review: A healthy 'Scoop' of music
Hit: 5 Stars

Currently at this time, there is only a handful of geniuses from the 60s who are still living. At the top of that list I'd have to include Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, and Pete Townshend. The Scoop compilations have been a major inspiration in regards to my own home recording efforts, of course I wouldn't dare to compare myself to Mr. Townshend's work, but this selection of home recordings, and independent projects, captures perfectly the fun and freedom of home recordings, without being a slave to professonal studio production that requires endless retakes, for very finite reasons.

This compliation is an accured taste for those who are used to his recordings with The Who, many recordings lack polish, be forwarned, yet the funkiness makes them compeling and endearing in a way. While the known demos of 'Squeeze Box, Bargain, Behind Blue Eyes, Magic Bus, Cache Cache,' and Love Reign O'er Me' are indeed interesting, it's the more obscure tracks, with their stylistic range, that makes this essential.

Personal favorites would include the motown feel of 'Politician', the fun feel of 'Dirty Water' (an outtake from Face Dances), the strange aptmosphere of 'Melancholia', the fun lark that is 'Cookin'' (a personal favorite), the interesting electro pop of 'You're So Clever', an intended demo for Bette Midler, the excellent 'lifehouse' recording of 'Mary', as well as the real pleasure of the jazz instrumental 'To Barney Kessell' or 'You Came Back'.

I have to strongly disagree with those who state this remastering isn't worth picking up. There's a added depth and crispness to the Jon Astley remasters, , for example, there's a snipet of a count-off beep at the head of 'Cookin' that I don't recall hearing in the Acto CD print, the packaging is better. I also find the complaint about the CD being split into two discs silly, it's comsistant with the original vinyl pressing from 1983.

A goundbreaking compliation that's been imitated by other musicians since it's release, well worth picking up.
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(2-LP set) Pete Townshend's demos had grown legendary among Who collectors well before the official release this double LP in 1983. On each demo, Townshend worked out full arrangements, which the Who would often follow exactly. He also recorded a wealth of songs and instrumental pieces that never made it to record. Over the course of two albums, Scoop features 25 of these demos, including both classic Who songs (So Sad About Us, Bargain, Behind Blue Eyes, Magic Bus, Love Reign O'er Me) and unreleased gems (Politician, Melancholia, To Barney Kessell, Mary). Occasionally, the songs sound better in their demo versions, particularly on latter-day Who songs, which were over-wrought in their official incarnations.

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