Empty Glass

Artist: Pete Townshend
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 075678281129
EAN: 0075678281129
ASIN: B000002J6J

Release Date: 1995-11-21

Empty Glass

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Tracks:

Rough Boys
I Am An Animal
And I Moved
Let My Love Open The Door
Jools And Jim
Keep On Working
Cat's In The Cupboard
A Little Is Enough
Empty Glass
Gonna Get Ya

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The Who's avatar was galvanized by the punk movement when he penned the 10 songs for this 1980 outing, his most commercially successful solo release. The album's opening track, "Rough Boys" (dedicated to the Sex Pistols), puts his viewpoint on the safety-pinned insurrectionists on the line: "I want to bite and kiss you," Townshend barks. In "Jools and Jim" he scolds bilious upstarts who "don't give a shit Keith Moon is dead," while the title track finds the "aging" punk godfather (he was 35 when the record came out) dismally admitting that "life is useless." Elsewhere, Townshend returns to the spiritual concerns that dominated his 1972 Who Came First solo debut, notably on "And I Moved" and "Let My Love Open the Door," Empty Glass's hit single. Musically, Townshend resurrects the rhythmic synthesizer patterns he concocted for Who's Next while also drawing on the drive of those punks whose devotion and contempt he so openly pines for. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

Overflowing with Brilliance.......2007-01-03

Pete Townshend has always been one of my favorite songwriters. He never flinches away from saying whatever he feels like, and never fails to impart that notion with exactly the right musical notation. Empty Glass spills over the brim with excellent songs and emotional rantings. It staggers and sways through a room full of musical ideas and brings them into your consciousness with sobering ease. If you were to only buy one Pete Townshend record... find a way to buy more. But if you have to settle, this would certainly be a good place to rest your ears. Not that you'll rest easy. It rocks and rolls and tinkers it's way into sounds in and out of subliminal focus. Rough Boys, Cats in the Cupboard and Gonna Get Yer will shake the very foundations of your soul, while And I Moved, I Am An Animal, Let My Love Open the Door and A Little Is Enough will lift your spirits up into the wild blue yonder, and somewhere between it all floats the ethereal rocking beauty of the title track. Whether you view it as the Greatest Who record that isn't, or simply a great record, it's certainly a recording worth more than you'll probably pay for it. The Mona Lisa at this price is a bargain.

Better with the Who together............2006-03-21

Although this is only one of a few of Pete Townshend's solo works, I personally feel that Pete was a much better songwriter with the Who than without. As a solo artist, there are only a few songs on this CD, "Empty Glass" that caught my attention; namely "Rough Boys", "Let My Love Open The Door", and "Gonna Get Ya". While Pete can still rock on this CD, he doesn't show the bravado as he did on the early Who works, like "Live at Leeds", "Tommy", "Who's Next", and "Quadrophrenia". In my mind, THAT was The Who I want to remember; that had consistently good songs throughout the album that qualified them as mega-rock-stars. Pete can still rock on the few cuts from "Empty Glass" I mentioned, but doesn't do as well elsewhere on the CD. Dang, I miss the old Who....

the same.......2006-02-04

A gold CD edition of the same...unfortunately not much better sounding but more expensive...

Great first "Real" Townshend Album.......2006-01-23

Who Came First and Rough Mix are both great albums, but weren't true "Townshend debuts" due to technical reasons; Who Came First was mostly demos and left overs, Rough Mix a collaborative effort. Here Pete does all the song writing, and devleops his solo personality.

This album also shows that Pete was mostly interested in his solo career, as comparing the two Who albums after Moon's death with this show where the most care and attention was lavished. This album is diverse, energetic, often startling and engaging; the post Moon Who albums, while often being very worthy, are not as good as this. A shame.

Some beauty (And I Moved) mixed with hard rocking (Rough Boys; both songs that are startlingly homo-erotic) pure pop infection (A Little Is Enough, and Let My Love Open The Door, easily his most famous solo song) to strikingly honest self confession (the heart breaking title track, done in a more stripped down arrangement, as opposed to The Who's attempt, but still effective). One of Townshend's best albums.

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