Scoop (album)

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Scoop
Compilation album by Pete Townshend
Released April 1983
Recorded 1965-1982
Genre Rock
Length 74:48
Label Atco (US)
Producer Unknown
Pete Townshend chronology
All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
(1982)
Scoop
(1983)
White City: A Novel
(1985)

Scoop is a compilation album by Pete Townshend containing 25 demos of various released and unreleased Who songs, as well as demos of entirely new material.

[edit] 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.

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[edit] Track listing

  1. "So Sad About Us/Brrr"
  2. "Squeeze Box"
  3. "Zelda"
  4. "Politician"
  5. "Dirty Water"
  6. "Circles (Instant Party)"
  7. "Piano: Tipperary" (Jack Judge/Harry Williams)
  8. "Unused Piano: Quadrophenia"
  9. "Melancholia"
  10. "Bargain"
  11. "Things Have Changed"
  12. "Popular"
  13. "Behind Blue Eyes"
  14. "Magic Bus"
  15. "Cache Cache"
  16. "Cookin'"
  17. "You're So Clever"
  18. "Body Language"
  19. "Initial Machine Experiments"
  20. "Mary"
  21. "Recorders"
  22. "Goin' Fishin'"
  23. "To Barney Kessell"
  24. "You Came Back"
  25. "Love, Reign o'er Me"
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