Another Scoop

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

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 075679053923
EAN: 0075679053923
ASIN: B000002JLH

Release Date: 1990-10-25

Another Scoop

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Tracks:

You Better You Bet
Girl In A Suitcase
Brooklyn Kids
Pinball Wizard
Football Fugue
Happy Jack
Substitute
Long Live Rock
Call Me Lightning
Holly Like Ivy
Begin The Beguine
Vicious Interlude
La-La-La-Lies
Cat Snatch

Tracks:

Prelude
Baroque Ippanese
Praying The Game
Driftin' Blues
Christmas
Pictures Of Lily
Don't Let Go The Coat
The Kids Are All Right
Prelude, The Right To Write
Never Ask Me
Ask Yourself
The Ferryman
The Shout

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Customer Reviews:

More Great Demos And Unreleased Songs.......2006-09-16

Pete releases a sequel to his original Scoop volume. More demos and unreleased songs. I could almost end the review there, but I'll explain what makes this album different from the first.

Obviously, there are different demos here than there were on the first. There are a lot more songs from "later" period who, such as "you better you bet" and "don't let go the coat." Once again, these demos illustrate Pete's arrangment genius, and his great multi-instrumnetalism. Pete could, I'm sure, release solo albums consisting of his solo playing.

These demos help give this album a different feel than the first. Somebody earlier said this album was like "fine wine" and I appreciate the metaphor. Pete's more mature songwriting is aptly illustrated throughout.

The unreleased songs here are also much more "mature" sounding than the ones on Scoop. "Football Fugue" follows in the weird experiments with strings pete was doing at that time (such as "street in the city"). There are three songs from the aborted post It's Hard album, and they're illustrative of the style pete would have taken at the time. Given the erratic quality of It's Hard, one can only wonder what he would have created at the time.

Here, it seems like Pete made a concious decision to illustrate his more complex, more mature work instead of his rawer, more basic, exciting work. Oh, don't get me wrong: there is a lot of enjoyment to be found here. This work might not be as thrilling or electric as early who work, but it holds up as great, thoughtful music. This is a problem many people have with Townshend and the fact that, as he grew older, he wanted to expand his songwriting and add newer elements. No doubt, he grew sick of rocking power chords, and strutting around on stage like a 20 year old. No doubt, this is why his later stuff became more sedate, more arranged, more thoughtful, i.e. more mature. His last two albums were similar, only hampered by erratic song writing quality and occasional lapses in arrangment taste. The Who e.p. "Wire And Glass" aptly illustrates, to me, Pete's newfound ability to mix this maturity with his desire to "rock" and his audiences desire to hear him rocking. It seems that Pete has realized he is just as amazing at this rock side as he is the thoughtful mature side. The new Who album can't come too soon.

More Great Who Demos.......2006-01-08

I loved the Who demos on the first Scoop, so went browsing on eBay to find this, the second volume. I got it on vinyl and love it just as much as the first one. The demos on this collection are very interesting. "You Better You Bet," the opening track, has some of the lyrics missing. Pete's vocal impressions on "Pinball Wizard" are entirely different from the way Roger sang it on "Tommy." All in all, this album is very interesting to a Who fan, and is very entertaining as well.

The Insiders Guide to Pete.......2005-01-15

I always had a warm spot in my tape rack, now my CD rack for the Scoop albums. Stripping down classic Who songs to their bare demo form only proves the quality of the songs. That classic rock "anthems" hold up under an entirely different type of arrangement is amazing. One reason his demo tracks are so rich and well developed is that Pete was one of the first (if not the first) artist to build and work in his own home studio. He continues to work heavily in his home studio to this day and I wonder how many nuggets of genius are tucked away in there that we may never get to hear. One other point of note, the "Spike" who is credited as a co-producer on the album is actually Elvis Costello, who revisited that particular pseudonym on his 1989 album of the same name.

If 'Scoop' was soda pop, then this is fine wine!.......2004-08-03

Like 'Scoop,' I also found this record on the $2 vinyl wall at the vintage music store in my college town. It's a shame they're both out of print now. Most of the songs on the first installment are peppy and upbeat, the musical equivalent of soda pop, but the songs on here are by and large more mature, lush, orchestrated, polished, like fine wine. Though on here, the Who demos are closer together instead of being separated by more songs, as was the case on 'Scoop.' Again you can hear the difference between the demos and what they became under Roger's vocal interpretation. Thanks to the version on this album, I received a whole new appreciation of "Don't Let Go the Coat," a song I had formerly not thought highly of. The lyrics here are a bit different from the Who version on FD, but now, lyrical differences or not, I like both versions and no longer want to skip either. There are also three songs (more like musical pieces though) here that had originally been intended for the scrapped Who album 'Siege,' which would have been released in about 1983, after IH--"Cat Snatch," "Ask Yourself," and "Prelude: The Right to Write." It was based on the idea that each of us is a soul in siege.

Side four is my fave, but there are great songs all throughout. My faves are "Brooklyn Kids," "Football Fugue," "Never Ask Me" (it should have been included on WAY!), "Girl in a Suitcase," "Begin the Beguine" (which I only found out rather recently was originally done by Cole Porter), "Prelude #556," "Baroque Ippanese," "Praying the Game," "Prelude: The Right to Write," "The Ferryman" (done in a theatrical production of Hesse's novel 'Siddhartha'; Vasudeva is the name of the Ferryman), and "The Shout." There are a number of beautiful instrumental pieces on here, evoking such an unexplainable mood and feeling, the likes of which can't be conjured up by a song with words. Sometimes words just get in the way, and pure unadultered music does what can't be done by mere words.

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